Half Life: World War Classified

NOTE: This is an idea and hasn't been COMPLETELY thought through yet. There will be many flaws with the idea still.

Half Life: World War Classified​

(Need a better name)​

This is a new idea for a clockwork schema. But I will need help from lua coders, since I am only a beginner myself. Due to my love of wars during the 40's, along with my love of Half Life 2 and Clockwork, I have decided to combine them all. A clockwork schema, involving a secret resonance cascade during the cold war (1953). This just came to me recently, so I haven't thought of the whole lore of it yet. That's why I need help from developers and coder, and just normal players to help me create this idea.

Lore (So Far)​

The American government funds and grants the authorization of construction and establishment of the Black Mesa Research Facility in New Mexico, to work on military weaponry and technology that would help the Americans in battle. Along with theoretical physics, experimental propulsion, robotics (ect.), the US government contracts the Black mesa facility to start working on classified technology, including teleportation and extra-dimensional travel. The is followed by the study of a new planet "Xen". After research, Black mesa creates a portal to Xen, and takes many extra-terrestrial beings into custody. Unknown to the US military, the aliens powers are too powerful for the military to keep the aliens custody, and many break out into the world. Many military outputs report attacks from these beings, and towns and cities report sightings and attacks by them. Attempting to keep the research classified, the military must find ways to capture or kill the escaped beings. During this time, Black mesa still researches the portals to Xen, and some portals open up without scientists even knowing about it, causing more creatures from Xen to enter Earth.

Note that the Combine has not yet invaded Xen, so the combine is out of the gamemode.

How It Would Be Played​

Players could roleplay either as Military, Civilian or creatures from Xen. Military would use their ranks, and my idea is that the Xen creates create their own hideout/outpost somewhere hidden, and form their own military and ranks. (Give feedback on that idea). Civilians of course would live a normal life, but would deal with occasional extra-terrestrial sightings.

Military Roleplay​

This would be the same as any other military roleplay server, the ones that are out there at least. Players would have their own ranks, and can be promoted. There are also specializations, such as medic, machine-gunner, ect. They would stay in the outpost or patrol, and deal with the civilians, who may have spotted creatures from Xen.

Civilian Roleplay​

This is played as a simple citizen in a small town of the country. They must react to the military's actions, along with actions of other civilians and aliens. Civilian roleplay is mainly passive roleplay, but when coming in contact with a creature from Xen, it can get spicy.

Alien Roleplay​

This is where it gets tricky. I haven't thought this through yet. I need help from YOU to get this going. I assume there would be certain levels of command and organization, and they would sometimes send out recon or patrols. Sometimes they would raid military outposts as well. The problem is, how will the ranking system work, what weapons would they use? This is the even trickier part. I need someone who can make addons to garry's mod, and make addons for the alien weapons/items. This will take the most work.




Please give all the feedback and suggestions you can. I'd really like to try this and see how it goes, I personally feel it would be an interesting form of roleplay.

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[color=blue][b]                                                                            -Zerard[/b][/color]

 

I doubt anybody is going to help if they aren't getting paid, especially since you barely know any Lua.

That just shows they'll be doing all the work. Beginner Lua coders can't make schemas.

 

Aliens, as in the zen?

 

Yes, as in Xen. And I'm looking for a way to pay the coders, but I'm not going to worry about that until I have it all figured out. The coders will be payed, since all I can do myself is make factions and simple items...

 

The xen Mainly consisted of voriguants and headcrabs, along with a few others I can't name, There is such thing as a vortigaunt beam swep, and you can also use parakeets pill pack for it, to, but That probably won't work.

 

Yeah vort sweps would work fine, but I'm talking about the other type of aliens I'm thinking of that would be used in a Xen military, such as Grunts, and other creatures cut from the origional Half Life game such as Archers, Fast Walkers, Kingpins, ect all would have to be created for this. A lot of extra reading would have to be done on these creatures as well, but it can all be found on the half life wiki I believe.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creatures_in_the_Half-Life_series#Creatures_from_Xen

 

You could always be creative and make your own types of xen yourself. It would add stuff to the canon.

 

Not a bad idea. I'll consider it, but that would still require even more work involving addons and such.

 

The more work the better.

 

6/10

You're basically making Half-Life Blue shift, and adding a few additional things to it. (ie. you aren't in BM but you've still got the same roleplay, and lore as if you were.)

As Mitch said, there is a lot of different types of classifications, so trying to organize the Alien roleplay would be practically impossible.

 

Seems like average citizen characters would just be background props for the people with special whitelists, leading to pretty boring RP outside of the Xen/Military factions.

 

I was thinking of letting players start as recruits as military. They wouldn't have access to anything yet to prevent mingery.

 

DUDE. This idea was made in OCTOBER. Seriously, just necro posts.