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Hard-Life Fan Made Trailer

Hard-Life Fan Made Trailer

Thanks to our fans who made this game reach so many individuals & Wonderful work on this video, Thanks to @Turboman69 on our discord. Glad we get to share with everyone else.

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Reminder to Join our Discord

Reminder to Join our Discord

Hey All,

Seeing as most of you have not connected to your benefits I would like to post how to access these benefits. You are available to discuss in our #exclusivity channels of your experience with Hard-Life & The latest branches. Any issues you may have and new features that will be ...

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March Patreon Branch Update!

Good morning everyone,
We have a new branch that fixes the bogus message error &

- Laser Detector now works for Miniturret & Big Turret
- Info_Player_Start in custom maps will automatically delete nearby trigger_changelevels to provide smooth gameplay (Multiplayer Only)
- B...

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Second Feb Release

Hello All, 

Thank you so much for sticking with us, We released a new version on Feb 1'st almost for "Jan" but we're sticking with another release to make up for lost time.

The Code that was posted previously for this month is still valid for this releas...

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New Patreon Version!

Well thank you all for being very patient . We've actually just recently placed a simple AI Director to push enemies / help the player (when needed) on the "Harder" Difficulty.

Now this is the beginning stages of what will go on in the future of Hard-Life. This is not a Left 4 Dead style AI...

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Dedicated Servers Patreon

Dedicated Servers Patreon

Patrons!

I have some slightly exciting news, some not so great but 100%.

I'm moving my office to a new spot , This will cause some slight delays due to getting rid of items/furniture & so on. I still have pushed a new update for Patreon which if you have access to this picture ple...

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November Patreon Password

Hello all,

Forgot to mention there is also a new 357 model in the game as well as these changes below.

- Hard_1a3A fixes
- Hard_1a3B fixes
- Hard_1a4g fixes
- Hard_2a  1/2a/2e fixes
- Barney now holster's his gun when not in use and idle
- Barney pulls out h...

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Trigger_remove abilities

Trigger_remove abilities

Filtering is possible with this new entity, it will be able to remove certain classnames from moving to certain area's with a created filter. So for instance we can utilize this brush to save on ent cap's (512) on hard_1a0e. 

TLDR in BOLD

- Patreon map w...

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Patreon October / November

Patreon October / November

As promised we're pushing the October branch potentially tonight and will still provide a mid November update as well.

These changes include the weapon_heal (medkit) that can be utilized for the singleplayer/multiplayer aspect. (Still a WIP - Please Experiment)

The cu...

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Happy Halloween - PATREON Update on Halloween?

Hello - We are pushing update for the 30th for everyone - Patreon users will have an included techdemo map and medkit weapon (explained in changelog)  we are creating and will continue updates on a monthly basis for Patreon users only . Other users will have...

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Hard-Life October Clip

Hard-Life October Clip

Small sneak peek of just one simple feature that will be sure to make this season very scary.

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Hard-Life Interview Part 1

Hard-Life Interview Part 1

Halfway through we had a couple of audio issues but here is part 1 of the hour long interview we had with some friends.

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Hard-Life September Patreon Password

Hard-Life September Patreon Password

Hey Patreon members! 

I've added a little intro to the Hard-Life launcher. Hopefully works for all of you. If you have any bugs on your end please let me know. I feel it's a bit of a nostalgic touch. Interview Part 1 should be out soon since there was a lot of audio issues I've been at...

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Patreon August Release is here!

Hello all,

I know you've been waiting for some fresh content. We've pushed over a whole lot of fixes and new maps. This means your old saves won't work anymore (sorry) I know... Its rough getting to the end of Hard-Life .

We have everything connected from hard_1a4k to...

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Audio's , Lots of Audio's

Hello Hard-Life Patrons,  Small list of fixes below & the ability to add more atmospheric audio support is now implemented into Hard-Life for the August Release.

We will also be including a beta version of hard_2a1 "Power Up" (unfinished)

  • fixed houndeyes eyes not closin...

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Replacements of Certain assets in Power Up

Replacements of Certain assets in Power Up

Added a couple of Gifs to show differences in layout and potential ideas we may stick with in power-up (Will upload more soon) . We also have multiple texture issues especially with the track textures not lining up correctly - each must be adjusted individually & having to completely remake s...

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Patreon Branch Updated

Patreon Branch Updated

Hello Patrons, 

If you've opted into the patreon branch you may see this guy running around now. His activities are still being worked on so if you do run into issues, we are aware. We will be fully implementing this grunt into the game in some sections. Depending on how well we can ma...

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Patreon Edition (Password Included)

As promised I'm including a password (in the #exclusivity channel on discord) 

Here currently (I am working having Patreon  users have a direct menu button and all)


Here ...

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Hard_1a4B/F progress & material

Hard_1a4B/F progress & material

We will soon be including some test maps that are not available to anyone else for patreon users only. I will be sending each of you a message through patreon with the development branch password. This branch is optional but only patreon users will have them.


Above screens will b...

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Steamworks Status on "PlayTest"

Steamworks Status on "PlayTest"

Seems like we may grab some attention from Valve Employees for making these moves. 

Still waiting on our end & just adjusting to this early night time schedule.

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Hard-Life Discord Server Banner

Hello,


If anyone is interested in sending a 960x540 image for the Hard-Life Banner on discord 


Please send in discord "#exclusivity" chat.

This will be added to our pool of what we change it from. Month-to-Month


Any non-patreon-users w...

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Where are we right now?

Valve has approved our Playtest demo.

BUT... it's not out yet...


Turns out we are the first mod to use playtest features that valve has provided.
Now valve is having a rough time trying to allow us to continue our "playtest" feature.

Since we were ahead of the cu...

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Future of Monster_ and Veteran STEAM_ID_ Tiers

Hello,


It has been a very long time since we've posted on patreon but we've had our main focus on our development and I'm sure as you've seen our #closed-beta channel has been consistently moving.

We are going to be moving forward with an exclusive development branch of Har...

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GlowStick Testing

GlowStick Testing

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Random Roaming Monster AI

Random Roaming Monster AI

This is a new testing phase of our Monster Roaming AI Idle code.

We have also included new aiming systems for Monsters (Not too Accurate & Not always at the head) - In a future video release.

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Lots of updates.

Lots of updates.

Experimental OpenGL screenspace raytrace shader[9:41 PM]I've been tuning it for awhile, the goal being something similar to the early HL concept art where images were composites between 3D, pre-rendered, and hand painted  View Post

New random outfit

New random outfit

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FatBoy

FatBoy

Sourcemodding Fatboy snippet applied to randomize size of npc's by minor adjustments.

Snarks also are updated with a "+3" modifier on each bite. 

Uploading video soon

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Vimeo Video

Vimeo Video

Should i keep it?

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Office Complex

Office Complex

Progress video

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