The main goal of this mod is to gather the most interesting ideas from the development of the Ravenholm chapter and bring them to a quality state.

After spending many hours studying map sources and sketches from 2002-2003, Alfeos have found that the old town had a well-designed infrastructure with a railroad, power plant, a mining cave system with digging machine, material transportation system, warehouse, a residential neighborhood with a large church and more. The player's path was much more interesting, more traps were planned.

Much of this has been radically simplified or removed in the release. These ideas were separate fragments among the many unfinished prototypes and test maps.

The author if this mod put these disparate ideas together, refined and polished them to make a complete chapter with its own unique gameplay and mechanics.

Features
-About an hour of playing time
-Numerous fixes on all maps
-Restored and finalized almost all of the intended scenes and traps
-Restored the player's originally intended path, including a descent into the mines, a digger ride, cart ride and more.
-A working digger that deals damage to enemies and objects
-Additional detail on all maps, expanded geometry where appropriate
-Fully restored and finalized the residential part of the city from the 2002 period
-Added secrets with extra items
-Spawn and balance on all maps redesigned
-Reworked soundscapes


IMPORTANT
Be careful with traps (especially catapults)
Look for extra hidden equipment on maps
Do not use Molotovs in d1_town_04 (beta feature)
Be patient with zombies dancing on barrels (best beta feature:)
The ichthyosaur in the lake is waiting for help from VXP

Installation:
You will need HL2 Beta patched with Mega Patch and LeakNet.
Copy the 'town_mod' folder into root folder of HL2 Beta and launch the mod with LeakNet's Mod Launcher.

Author - Alfeos
Testing, ideas - Psyoliz, Витой, OddDoc, 2R1Zt
Help with digger model and textures - 2R1Zt, T-braze

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