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Breencast Reverb

Adds reverb effects to the jumbotron monitor sequences in both HL2 and EP1 inspired by (but not a replication of) the OG Xbox version of HL2. This mod includes less dramatic reverb and much less muffled audio aiming to compliment the original audio while providing reverb effects.

This mod requires additional installation steps as seen below.

Certain Workshop files aren't allowed to override base HL2 files. You have to manually move a couple files from this addon into your "hl2/custom/" directory.

1. Go to the Steam library where you installed the game.
   
2. Navigate to
   \steamapps\workshop\content\220\3366771296
3. Rename the files from "workshop_000.vpk" and "workshop_dir.vpk" and replace "workshop" with whatever such as "BreenReverb_000.vpk", "BreenReverb_dir.vpk"
   
4. Move those files to where your game is installed in the folder
   \steamapps\common\Half-Life 2\hl2\custom

(create the folder if it isn't there already)

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To test the effect for your own comparison, type in console "dsp_speaker 50" to revert to original audio and "dsp_speaker 51" to use mod's audio.
Only do this to toggle the effect for testing. The game will switch effects automatically and using this command can break that.

This mod includes files that could potentially become compatibility issues for other mods. I will try my best to maintain compatibility patches in unlisted uploads below.
The files that are impacted include:

• scripts/dsppresets.txt
  ---Entity map patches---
  
• background01
  
• d1_trainstation_01
  
• d1_trainstation_02
  
• d3_c17_03
  
• d3_citadel_04
  
• ep1_background02
  
• ep1_c17_01
  
• ep1_c17_01a
  
• ep1_c17_02b
  
• ep1_c17_05

Due to a bug in the sound effects system, the Breencast dialogue will have dramatically less volume with a stereo sound configuration compared to a surround sound configuration.

This mod also implements a fix/addition to the first background map so that citizens spawn and scanners don't flashbang you. The last map "d3_breen_01" is affected by the reverb too with Breen's monologue to Eli but there should have been a reverb effect here anyway and it sounds good so I kept it.

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