Fully Voiced Half-Life 2 Alyx Mod V3 Released!
The brainchild of Gagnetar. The Krystal viral sensation of 2022. The return of Estelle Ellis to video games. It's here! The Half Life 2 Krystal Alyx Mod Version 3!
It features all of Alyx's lines rerecorded by Estelle Ellis, reprising her role as Krystal. That's 3265 painstakingly recorded lines. As you saw in some of the trailers, the dialog itself was adjusted slightly for Krystal's inclusion in the story. That's certainly the headline of the mod, but there's a bunch more to it than that:
- Four different, fully functional weapons from Krystal's armory
- Blaster
- Sniper Rifle
- Gatling Gun
- Krystal's Magic Staff
- Both the 2018 and 2020 version of WarfareMachine's Krystal rig (a huge fan request fulfilled)
- The WarfareMachine 2020 version has outfits for Assault, Adventures, and four different Alyx-style outfit combinations:
- Star Fox Shirt
- Black Mesa Shirt
- Alyx Hair
- Krystal-standard Hair
- The 2018 version of the rig has two new outfits:
- Mercenary
- Casual
- Some additional lighting and texture fixes in the 2018 rig
- Replacements for the Episode 2 G-Man scene
- Fixed Krystal teleport issue in Episode 1 Intro
- And a special Star Fox themed surprise you won't be able to miss once you encounter it
So with all the different rig and clothing variations, you will have a grand total of 120 possible looks for Krystal. That's 48 combinations of the 2018 rig and 72 combos for the 2020 rig!
Check out the feature trailer above if you haven't. It's got some fully animated segments! You can download the mod here (or download via Google Drive or download via MEGA). This version of the mod is a lot bigger than Version 2: now at a staggering 5GB. We've managed to compress it down to a 7zip file that's only 607MB.
Rose was nice enough to make these sweet Krystal Box Artworks for each of the games. Very professional. The uncompressed versions of these posters are available in the mod download.
You can follow Gagnetar's ongoing work at his twitter account. Estelle Ellis is very active on her twitter account, posting Krystal fanart and talking to fans. Go stop by and tell them thanks for their hard work! Plus all the others who helped make this possible. What a great thing to see for the 20th Anniversary of Star Fox Adventures. #StarFoxAdventures20th
Comments
Hey. I have a slight problem. I followed the instructions to the letter and Krystal’s model ended up untextured. Am I not supposed to copy the entire “Textures (2020)” or “Textures (2018)” folder into the “Krystal Alyx V3” folder in MMod_HL2/custom?
I absolutely love this mod! This is cool for me as this is my first real exposure to the character of Krystal. I found out about the second version of this mod, and this website, from searching for Alyx mods a few years ago. Estelle has a beautiful voice, it’s so cool to experience one of my favorite games in such a new way. 12/10 would barrel roll again.
Does anyone know if this mod is compatible with Half Life 2 Update?
I appear to be having the same issue as Seth. The voice and model are there, but Krystal remains untextured. Do you need both episode one and two installed for the mod to work?
If you value your ears, for the love of god delete \sound\vehicles\junker folder from the mod. You will thank me. Might have to do it on base, ep1 and ep2 since it finds the audio somehow.
It’s a cute change but unplayable with that audio.
To those having technical problems, it might be a better idea to contact Gagnetar directly, either via Twitter (@VixenVotaries), or maybe via a comment on the YouTube video.