On Tuesday, October 27th, HL2RP v2.5 will be released with an event at 8:30 PM UTC / 3:30 PM CDT. This is one of our largest updates to date, introducing a full Medical system with Unconsciousness & Revives, Character Nationalities & Languages, a Commerce & Properties system for Commercial Workers, an expanded Cooking system with Item Rarity, and new Salvaging & Scrapping benches. It also reworks Rations, Crafting, the Inventory, Stats, and UI, alongside a large number of fixes and new systems. RP groups have been overhauled with tiers, group storage, group banks, and more!
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Content Pack
Medical System
Whether you're navigating the city under Combine rule or braving the harsh Outlands, survival is now far more immersive and engaging.We’ve rebuilt our health mechanics from scratch to move away from simple health bars to a tactical medical system.
From stray bullets and freezing temperatures to toxic environments, every hazard now needs care, specialized supplies, and deliberate planning.
- ADDED A medical system with limb damage, broken legs, bleeding, wound fever, sickness, hypothermia, and drowning, each shown as a status card on your HUD.
- ADDED The Medical Menu (/medicalmenu) for checking and treating individual limbs on yourself or other players.
- ADDED Painkillers, Morphine Shots, and Disinfectant.
- ADDED Warmth, where getting cold slows you down and adds a faint cold tint to your screen.
- ADDED Xen spore areas, where exposure can turn into a staged Xen infection unless you wear a gas mask.
- ADDED A stamina system that affects sprinting.
- ADDED Healing notifications when you are treated.
- ADDED Limbs, Condition, Warmth, Sanity, and armor resistance sections to the Stats tab.
- ADDED Biosignal readouts for warmth, infection, and sanity to the Combine HUD.
- ADDED Medical Supply Boxes that are lockpickable and have Biogel Stims, Booster Stims, and more.
- ADDED Crafting for bandages.
- ADDED Insanity system, sanity level, and medication. "They put something in [the water] to make you forget. I don't even remember how I got here."
- CHANGED Bandages, splints, antibiotics, health vials, and health kits now each treat specific conditions.
- CHANGED Health chargers can now treat limb damage even when you are at full health.
Unconscious System
Gunfights and brutal beatdowns no longer result in instant death.Taking critical damage will knock your character out cold, leaving your fate hanging in the balance.
Whether you're clinging to life waiting for a field medic, calling out in agony, or being forcibly detained by Civil Protection, falling in combat now creates intense new roleplay moments.
- ADDED An unconscious system: damage now knocks you unconscious.
- ADDED A bleed-out timer, with Call for Help and Give Up options while unconscious.
- ADDED Reviving unconscious players before they bleed out.
- ADDED Groaning and help voice lines for unconscious players.
- ADDED A short damage grace period after going unconscious.
- ADDED Restraining unconscious and fallen-over players through their ragdoll.
- ADDED A Force Up quick action for the Combine to get fallen-over players back on their feet.
Properties & Commerce System
Running a business is no longer just about owning a door, it’s now a full city-integrated experience. Commercial Workers can easily acquire official properties, grant tenant access, and order inventory using bank funds. With stock availability tied to the city's Industrial Capacity and parcel pickups at Pickup Terminals, managing your storefront is engaging, intuitive, and rewarding.
- ADDED Properties that Commercial Workers can buy from a Property Terminal, then name, describe, and give tenants access to.
- ADDED Stock ordering with bank money, determined by the city's Industrial Capacity.
- ADDED The Shop Display Cooler, where items can be stocked, displayed, and sold to other players.
- ADDED Shipment deliveries: ordered stock is collected as a parcel from a Pickup Terminal and delivered to the property.
- ADDED Refunds for uncollected stock when a property's ownership ends.
- ADDED Property names when looking at a property's doors.
- ADDED /sellapartment, /sellproperty, and /sellallproperties.
- CHANGED Properties are now sold automatically if their owner stops being a Commercial Worker.
- CHANGED Apartment and property doors are no longer sold with /sellalldoors and have their own commands instead.
Crafting, Scrapping, & Salvaging
Master the art of resourcefulness with all-new scrapping and salvaging benches! Break down spare items into essential materials using a redesigned interface, complete with search capabilities and live previews.
- ADDED Salvaging and scrapping benches for breaking down weapons and items into scrap metal, metal plates, cloth, electronics, plastic and wood.
- ADDED New Crafting, Buyable, Salvaging, & Scrapping Menus, with a search, hover previews, categories, and more.
- CHANGED Salvage and scrap recipes have been rebalanced, each needing a skill level matching its tier.
- CHANGED You can no longer switch characters or teams while crafting.
Cooking & Food Quality
We’ve revamped cooking to reward skilled chefs! Higher cooking skills now yield better food that restores more and lasts longer, with new stove benches, cooking utensils, fresh ingredients, and a variety of recipes.
- ADDED An improved stove and cooking utensils: kettle, pot, large pot, pan, and water filter.
- ADDED New fruits, vegetables, meats, and ingredients.
- ADDED New recipes, including Antlion Stew, Antlion Omelette, Chilli Meat, Fruit Compote, Vegetable Stew, Fruit Juice, Coffee, and Tea.
- ADDED Food quality: cooked food can be Common, Fine or Exquisite, and higher rarity food restores more and stays fresh longer.
- ADDED Food spoiling: certain crafted meals go off over time, and eating spoiled food can make you sick.
- CHANGED Recipes now accept boiled or purified water as water, and any fruit where fruit is required.
- CHANGED Food and drinks are now split into Fruits, Vegetables, Ingredients, Raw Meat, Meals, Packaged, Rations, and Drinks.
Skillbooks
We’ve introduced Cooking and Weaponsmithing skillbooks to help players accelerate their progression and master their craft. Each book grants experience when read, provided you meet its specific skill level requirement, making them a valuable resource to seek out or trade as you level up.
- ADDED Cooking and Weaponsmithing skillbooks (I–V) that grant experience when read.
- ADDED Skill level requirements, so each book is only useful within its level range.
Lockpicking
We’ve overhauled lockpicking by replacing the old loading bar with a fun, engaging interface and minigame.
- ADDED A new lockpicking interface for locked doors.
- CHANGED The Lockpick is now the Lockpicking Kit.
- CHANGED Your lockpicking skill now makes picking locks easier and wears picks down less.
Character Nationality & Language System
We’ve expanded character depth with a new nationality and language system, allowing players to choose their origin upon character creation.
- ADDED Nationality selection when creating a character; existing characters are asked to pick one when selected.
- ADDED Languages based on nationality: speak, yell or whisper in your native language (e.g. /fr, /yfr, /wfr), and only players who know it will understand you.
- ADDED Language commands for actions like /me: /mec, /mef, /itc, and /itf
Items & Economy
We’ve refined the economy and item interaction, giving additional utility such as adding stamina restoration to drinks, and introducing more multi-use consumables. Vending machines have also received a new look, now stocking additional items and will occasionally break down, creating repair work for Industrial Workers.
- ADDED The ability to transfer RP group ownership for tokens.
- ADDED Empty Cigarette Box for after all cigarettes have been used.
- CHANGED Cigarette boxes now hold multiple cigarettes and leave an empty box once finished.
- CHANGED Alcohol can now be drunk multiple times per bottle.
- CHANGED Drinks now restore stamina.
- CHANGED Vending machines have a new model, sell sparkling water instead of Pepsi, and can break down until repaired by an Industrial Worker.
Combine & Workforce
Industrial capacity now scales directly with CWU productivity to unlock hourly rations faster, while Civil Protection officers ranked Rank Leader or above can now directly suspend ration distribution from their PDA or a terminal.
- ADDED Combine Voice Radios with channels: Civil Authority, Overwatch, Combine, Leadership, & Command.
- Change bindings to your liking in the settings menu. Default:
- H: Use Combine Radio
- N: Change Combine Radio Channel
- Change bindings to your liking in the settings menu. Default:
- ADDED The ration window now opens every hour, or early once CWU production quotas are met, and each character can claim one ration per cycle.
- ADDED Live BSL/recent unit loss readout to the Combine Overlay.
- ADDED City code time to the Combine Overlay.
- ADDED The Packaging Station, where CWU bundle packaged goods into Product Crates for delivery.
- ADDED A Combine lock pickup quick action.
- ADDED Airwatch/Scanners can now right-click to point out things to Combine players in visible range.
- ADDED Airwatch/Scanner ping waypoints.
- ADDED Combine Terminals and Broadcasting Stations now have a glow effect.
- ADDED CP RL+ can now suspend rations from the PDA or an Overwatch terminal.
- ADDED Scene Markers, Fingerprint Kits, and Combine Locks to the quick actions menu.
- CHANGED Combine protection suits rebalanced from balancing team feedback.
- The balancing team is a community team made up of representatives from each faction. Apply here if interested.
- CHANGED Combine Supply Chests can now be used during Civil instead of only Marginal.
- CHANGED The map's Judgement Waiver and Autonomous Judgement effects now stay in sync better with the city code, including when going from AJ straight back to Civil or Unrest.
- CHANGED Factory workers are now paid per delivered Supply Crate.
- CHANGED Raids are now announced when a Combine chest is successfully looted.
- CHANGED Small Combine resupply boxes no longer have placement restrictions.
- CHANGED Pain voice lines now match your voice type.
- CHANGED Cremator loot is now less enticing since it's a non-combat-oriented class with directives not to attack.
- CHANGED Combine Supply Chests and Terminals can only be raided when at least a few Combine players are online.
- CHANGED Combine rappel cords to be animated more smoothly and easier to use.
- FIXED Improved workshift Rewards menu, Laundry and Dryer pay, Fabricator access, and Breaker code lockout.
- FIXED Squad objectives persisting after switching faction or being expired in some cases.
City Administrator
- ADDED Voicelines for City Administrators.
- ADDED Acts menu (F2) support for City Administrators.
Interface
Experience a cleaner, more intuitive way to play with a sleek overhaul of our user interface! Enjoy a redesigned main menu, character creator, and character menu with search and custom faction ordering, a fully resizable chat panel, grid-style inventory, streamlined settings search, and polished HUD status tracking.
- ADDED New main menu with easy character selection/search, city details, a live in-game changelog, live world character previews, and more.
- ADDED Being able to reorganize the factions listed in the character listing. For example, can move OTA or CCA above Citizen and it will save.
- ADDED Overhaul of the UI, including a new character menu, dialogues, buttons, and many other elements of the interface.
- ADDED Overhaul of the inventory, introducing a new grid system that allows players to organize items to their liking. Includes a sort button.
- ADDED Container views now display in the inventory view and support the new grid system.
- ADDED Can now reorder the factions display order in the characters listing by dragging them.
- ADDED Search for characters in the characters listing.
- ADDED Can now move the chat around and resize it. Position and size settings are remembered between sessions.
- ADDED A Settings Search for easily searching all settings.
- ADDED A Reload Settings button to the settings menu.
- ADDED A Commands Menu also accessible with /commands that details each command and has a search.
- ADDED Hunger and thirst icons to the HUD status cards.
- CHANGED Quick actions menu to support clicking in the areas outside the wheel to conveniently select an option.
- CHANGED Notifications are now color-coded by type, such as error, success, and warning with icons.
- CHANGED Client settings are now saved more reliably, and your existing settings carry over automatically. Now stored in your data folder, allowing you to backup and move your in-game settings between computers.
- CHANGED Fonts and spacing have been polished across the HUD and menus.
- FIXED Scoreboard portraits sometimes not rendering fully or appearing as a black box.
- FIXED The talking indicator overlapping HUD status cards.
- FIXED Menus sometimes staying stuck on screen.
- FIXED Scrolling in the inventory and stats panels.
- FIXED Skill progress showing incorrectly for skills with a max level below 10.
- FIXED Issue where weight label in container inventory views could shift between two positions.
RP Groups Overhaul
Roleplay groups have received a large update, including a variety of new features such as group storage, group bank, group tiers, group logos, logs, and more. We plan to continue updating, improving, and adding more features to the RP group system, it's a very important aspect.- ADDED Group Storage, shared between group members and opened from any storage locker.
- ADDED A Group Bank, where members can deposit money and permitted members can withdraw it.
- ADDED Group tiers in the Upgrades tab, paid from the group bank to raise the member, rank, storage and bank limits.
- ADDED A rank hierarchy to groups, where ranks can be reordered and members can only manage ranks and members below their own.
- ADDED A Log tab to the group menu showing recent group activity for members with access.
- ADDED Group logos, set by the group owner from an image link (requires review).
- ADDED Ability to transfer ownership of an RP Group for tokens.
- ADDED Renaming a group once for a fee from the group menu's Admin tab.
- ADDED An Inactive Members list to the group menu's Admin tab.
- ADDED The group name, rank, and logo of group colleagues to the scoreboard and their look-at info.
- ADDED Group ping for those who can see what a player is pointing to (does not go through walls), use middle-mouse or /gping to point something out to other group members.
- ADDED 13 new group achievements, such as Founding Father and Legendary.
- CHANGED The group menu to the new interface style, with Overview, Info, Ranks, Log and Admin tabs.
- CHANGED Groups to require an empty bank and storage before they can be closed.
- CHANGED A group's bank balance to be paid into its owner's bank account when staff remove the group.
- CHANGED Group ownership to pass to the next highest-ranked living member when the owner's character permanently dies.
- FIXED The groups page not fitting inside the inventory menu at some resolutions.
Event Manager & Scene Improvements
Creating events just got faster and easier than ever thanks to our newly modernized Event Manager workflow!Ever wanted to step behind the curtain and craft unforgettable roleplay moments for the community? We’re recruiting!
- No experience needed: We provide full training and support from day one.
- Collaborative & Flexible: Worried about lore details? Don't be! We believe in working together to brainstorm, tweak, and shape your proposals so your creative vision fits right into the world.
- Creative freedom: Bring your unique stories, concepts, and memorable scenes to life.
- Great team: Work alongside a supportive group of passionate event creators.
- ADDED Cinematic event scenes that resolve area portal, particle effect, and other rendering issues. Actors can now be heard and their text can be seen by viewers.
- ADDED Scene actor system, for event staff or players who can stay in the world, act in scenes from their view, and watch the scene in the corner.
- ADDED Scrolling text, fading images, typewriter text, and in-world images and text to events.
- ADDED Event particle effects, fires, and flares with lifespans.
- ADDED /stopscenes command.
- CHANGED Clearing event entities and NPCs now also removes leftover debris, fires, and headcrabs.
- CHANGED The Event Manager window to be resizable.
- CHANGED The Event Manager to remember its position, size, selected tab, and scroll position after closing.
- ADDED Drag and drop to rearrange events, replacing the move up/down arrows.
- ADDED Drag and drop to rearrange open sequences by their header.
- ADDED Support for using the chat while having the Event Manager open.
- ADDED Property edit view dark theme with better readable text.
- ADDED removeworldent event action to remove allowed map entities, such as doors, with an optional explosion, dust, or fade out effect.
- ADDED Sticky sequence headers that stay in view while scrolling, keeping Add event, Save, Push and Close within reach.
- ADDED Automatic UIDs for new events, which can still be changed.
- ADDED Sorting by last used or last modified in the Load sequence menu.
- ADDED An event name column to the Load sequence menu, which can also be searched.
- ADDED Deleting sequences by right-clicking them in the Load sequence menu.
- ADDED A warning when closing sequences with unsaved changes, with the option to save them first.
- ADDED Ability to keep the Event Manager on screen by fading it with the new fade button or by running /eventmanager (or /em) while it is open. Running the command again will make it unfade.
- ADDED Event actions spawnbench, crate creation, and vendor selection instead of manual input.
- FIXED The Event Manager scrolling back to the top when adding or editing events, now stays in the same position.
- FIXED Sequences in subfolders not showing in the Load sequence menu or its search. Can still use a folder named disabled if you do not want them to appear or want to maintain an archive.
- FIXED Sequences loaded from a subfolder saving to a new copy instead of their original file.
- FIXED Certain window backgrounds showing behind other open windows or not filling resized windows.
Faction Tools
- ADDED New Faction Whitelist interface with /whitelists. View, lookup, and manage whitelists for online or offline players.
- ADDED New Faction Activity interface with /factionactivity. View and lookup faction member activity and playtime. Individual players can use /playtime to see their playtime and faction activity.
- ADDED New Voicelines menu with /voicelines.
- ADDED New Faction Taglines interface with /taglines. View, lookup, and manage taglines for online or offline players.
Staff Tools
- ADDED New Logs System and Interface, with enhanced searching, historic data, and more advanced category filtering.
- ADDED New Character Manager Interface, replacing the inventory viewer. Allows for force name changing offline and moderating characters with actions logged. Inventory snapshots can be restored by staff. Use /charmanager or /charactermanager.
- ADDED More detailed logging of items and sources.
- ADDED Item spawner search and an inventory debug tool.
- ADDED In-game editors for apartments, properties, and Xen spore zones.
- CHANGED The door editor is now a selection-based tool.
- CHANGED /bodygroups and /skin are now /setbodygroups and /setskin.
Development Process Improvements
- We have overhauled many of our development, testing, and deployment processes, streamlining and improving both the quality and speed of update releases.
- New content is already in the works and being tested for the update after this one, including Wallhammer, Grunts, Raidable Rations, Advanced Chat Formatting/Styling, Combine Engineer updates, Loyalist update, and more. Stay tuned in the #showcase for previews.
- A new Design Team has been created, which works on designing and creating new updates & content.
General
Across the gamemode, we’ve packed in performance optimizations, bug fixes, and core improvements to ensure a more seamless experience.- ADDED Overhauled character and inventory saving systems to enhance saving and ensure items are saved in inventories and storage. Includes a new automatic inventory snapshot system, where staff can view and restore historic records of the inventory.
- ADDED Setting for hiding dead characters in the selection menu.
- ADDED Automatic cleanup of dead characters older than a couple weeks.
- ADDED New Playtime Interface showing your daily playtime by faction, accessible with /playtime.
- ADDED Rain and weather effects that are optimized and automatically reduce if FPS is impacted.
- CHANGED Performance improvements across the gamemode.
- CHANGED Animation system to be more optimized.
- FIXED Case where dead players could respawn at their death location in some cases.
- FIXED Forced and paid name changes reverting in some cases.
- FIXED Uncuffed players not getting their normal movement speed back in some cases.
- FIXED Error that could happen when using a camera while sitting in a chair or vehicle.
- FIXED Issue where using the Cremator's Combine Immolator could cause a hit registration kick from the game after some time.
- FIXED Issue where moving against another player that is stationary could cause choppy animations.
- FIXED Issue where the prop counter going above 255 could cause it to appear lower.
- ADDED Chat command autocomplete, clicking tab while typing a command will autocomplete to the top result.
- ADDED New item/weapon selector setting for quick changing.
- ADDED New item/weapon selector setting for showing slot numbers, e.g., [2] USP.
Feedback
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