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A WIP subtitle system being developed for Half-Life Decay: Solo Mission. Incredibly proud of my programmer, Admer, for designing this!

I've been dreaming a mod like this for hl1 having a subtitles that support any mods would be a great mods. Anyways, great job on solo mission! It was pretty cool to see an Easter eggs in hazard course when the demo first come out.

I hope he makes it modular so it can be shipped in a standalone DLL and loaded like how we load bots back in the day, or on AMX. That way the community can reuse the system to backport the feature to *all* the mods without touching their code, especially mods with custom dlls released so very long ago without source code.

The people who made HL Subs mod missed the mark by a wide margin by not doing it as I described. The concept of a dll-in-the-middle intercepting the engine calls aren't new; as I described, it was pioneered by botman almost 20 years ago, and his seminal work opened up the community to bots in multiplayer goldsrc.

p.s. There appears to be a caption mod for metahooksv, which does the same thing, but unfortunately only for svencoop.

Wow that's awesome!