FREEMAN'S MIND 2: EPISODE 19

[Ross Scott]

New Freeman's Mind!  This one had a lot of delays mostly due to coordination with sound issues.  It's still not fully cleared up, but at least it's out now.  Also, since I imagine people will think otherwise, this episode had no modding of enemy spawning, it's 100% authentic as you see it in the video (though I'm still using the same build of HL2 when I started FM2).  What happened in the vanilla game surprised me on that front.

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[Kaczmarcyck]

Loving it, and a long episode too! Lots of spirals were run around (lol). 

[smoken tomato]

Cant wait to watch it 

( I'm on episode 38 )

[RocketDude]

Love the reaction to Freeman falling off of the building, though I'm surprised one of the medkits wasn't grabbed for that reason.

[Swamp]

I loved this episode, what the game did to you was awesome and you handled it great.

 

At the start of Ravenholm I was expecting to see Freeman more freaked out but I enjoyed the ride anyway, and in this episode there is a moment where he freaks out, like really scared, when a zombie catches him off guard. It's like he manages to hide his fear behind his constant thinking,

 

One of my favorites right here. I love the "classic" ending. Thank you Ross.

Edited October 11, 2023 by Swamp (see edit history)

[danielsangeo]

Subs up!

[Th3Dark0ccult]

Not saying the other episodes were getting stale, but this one, I feel, was especially good. Worth the wait.

[Wiissoppii7]

I'm glad Freeman reacted to the jank zombie spawns.  I always thought it was odd too.

[Mira]

Freeman already being on a first name basis with Greg makes me wonder if most of the other people he's mentioned (Harry, Jesse, etc.) were also just random crazy guys he happened to run into once.

[aitap]

This. This is the kind of Freeman's Mind I remember downloading via the local DirectConnect hub. Freeman wandering around, getting towards the end of the level almost by mistake, getting in an occasional (one-sided) firefight with zombies, remembering yet another acquaintance of his that is even crazier than him. A very solid episode.

[Piggo]

Good episode, particularly liked that he got stuck within the infinite spawner area rather than bypassed it.

[Amoeboid]

https://www.moddb.com/mods/half-life-2-alternis
This mod has kind of the spirit of freeman's mind and maybe Ross should look into it when it releases. As he said in videochats the episodes that weren't following the standard walkthrough were more fun to make since he ultimately wants to make original weird comedy I guess

[Cargo Commando]

damn, the gap between this and the next freeman's mind is surpassing the machinima exodus and the great mold apocalypse (both of which were about 9 months without an episode) making this current stretch the 2nd biggest gap between episodes after the 2015-2017 hiatus between hl1 and hl2. I wonder if we will make it the full year without an episode... it's less than 3 weeks away