Ever get the feeling when you thought something would never happen but then it does? No? Now you got it: v3 is finally here!


Be honest: after all of our previous posts you thought this day would never come. The release of Action Half-Life 2 version 3. Now the day has finally come and the Ministry of Action is almost as surprised as you are.

Let us take a stroll down memory lane together, all the way to 13 September 2011. This marks the day we asked you to post suggestions for v3 features and changes in the comments and on our forums. In the same post we also told you, that we did not want to keep v3 in development for another two years (the time it took us to follow up the initial release with v2). Later on, we published a post on 6 November 2011 announcing that v3 was now officially in production.

We had to walk quite a stretch on memory lane, so let us take the hyperloop pod back to today, 3 February 2017. The day AHL2v3 finally gets released. First of all, we should note that we definitely met our goal set in September 2011. We did not keep v3 in development for another 2 years. No, we kept it in development for 5 years and three months. And you say we never keep our promises. During all those years we have not been lazy, most of the time that is. The changelog included with the release is actually the one we kept internally and features 190 items. You can browse through the complete list any time you want, for this post the highlights will do:

- Goal modes make a return
- New stunt: walldive
- New weapons: Colt SAA and Colt SAA Akimbo
- Catch thrown knives with Kung Fu
- 23 maps in the release, classics and new ones
- Sound improvements
- New player models
- New animations
- Balance tweaks
- Linux client

The last five years have not only seen much development work, but also many, many hours of playtesting the game. To us, this game is pure fun – for newcomers and veterans alike – and we feel that v3 brings out the best in Action Half-Life to date.

Watch the trailer here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AuIQr00gL_M

Download the game from here:
Windows installer: http://ahl2.com/files/AHL2v3.exe
Linux/Windows .zip package: http://ahl2.com/files/ahl2.zip

Enjoy!

Go to http://www.ministryofaction.net/ and check out what we have to share about being less quiet than you thought we were and our new HUD.

Hey people!

I'm not sure wether anyone still reads this, but if you have facebook, check this out:
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For those who dont have facebook: there's another dutch lan coming up, this time somewhere in december. If you're interested and can't respond on facebook, mail me at martenfeenstra@gmail.com! :D

Greetz,

[DAMN]Hawky

It has taken us a little longer than last time but the Ministry of Action is proud to release patch 2 for Action Half-Life 2 v2 today. This patch was primarily meant to fix the frequent server crashes and we were finally able to reproduce and fix them. We also verified several times that this patch really fixes the problem. Since it took us quite long to do so we also had time to work on other aspects of the game. This makes the changelog a little lenghty, but read for yourself:

Fixes:
- Fixed frequent server crashes (for real this time)
- Fixed weapons staying hidden after some actions
- Fixed knife and grenade duping bugs
- Fixed mp_limitteams not working
- Fixed wallclimb not working where it should (maps still have to account for the wallclimb system)
- Fixed teamspawn grids not working when they should (mappers have to make sure there's enough room around a spawn point for the grid to be created)
- Fixed players spawning in the middle of the opposite team
- Fixed several uniques being overpowered
- Fixed bump map on the sniper rifle body
- Fixed player wingstun not playing the male scream when falling from great heights
- Fixed the scream looping when falling into shallow water
- Fixed revolver world model texture
- Fixed issues with the junction between left hand and left hand thumb on the hands view model
- Fixed clipping issues with knife throw idle animation
- Fixed several clipping issues on the desert eagle idle animations
- Fixed head bobbed to the right on player animations
- Fixed mipmap issues on player models
- Fixed secondary attack on the sawnoff not showing the correct animation and muzzle particle on the view model
- Fixed weapons being extremely shiny (except on doombank, that's just not possible)

Updates, additions and miscellaneous changes:
- Updated death icons
- Updated revovler and sidearms ammo pickups
- Optimized and changed particle effects
- Heavy edits on the bandage model and animation
- Edits to the reload animation of non-emptied akimbo weapons
- Added Italian translation by Joghi
- Added lag compensation for kungfu swing and kick as well as knife swing attacks
- Added dynamic footstep sound volume back in
- Added auto team balance feature for both teambased game modes
- Updated spanish translation
- Added separate crosshairs for the weapons (some of them being shared)
- Added sniper zoomed crosshair
- New world model for the stealth slippers
- Edited and optimized several player model textures
- Optimized assault rifle barrel texture
- Updated silencer texture
- Tweaked snper rifle scope texture
- Optimized revolver world model
- Optimized shotgun world model
- Added new sawnoff muzzle flash particle
- New shotgun pickup icon
- Updated the shotgun ammo icon
- Optimized grenade textures
- Added five fingered hands for players minky, jersey, johnson and powertrip
- Changed player wingtsun's suit color to white
- Updated the possible team list so it'll also be easy to tell who's who
- Changed walljump: mappers can now place func_wall entities if they don't want players to be able to walljump off a specific wall

For those of you who like to keep score: there are 46 items on the list. That's enough reading for you, here are the download links. As always there is an installer and a .zip file which also includes the update .so binary for Linux. Both include the changes from patch 1, so they work on both the AHL2v2 release version and the patch 1 version.

The length of this message is exhausted, head on over to http://www.ministryofaction.net/ for the download links.

We've been notified about the crashes still existing in the updated version. It's the kind of stuff you don't want to happen, but it does. Next up is digging deeper into the problem to fix it once and for all. So please bear with the crashes for some additional days and try joining our server "AHL2 - Crash Test Dummies" which will be used to collect debug information.
We're sorry about the release being so crashy and are doing our very best to solve the problem.