The Hidden is a Half-Life 2 MP TC in which one player is virtually invisible and plays against everyone else. The Hidden is only equipped with a knife and pipe bomb, but he can also leap large distances, run really fast, throw heavy objects, and hang on to walls and ceilings. Everyone else in the game gets to choose from a few automatic guns, a couple of pistols, and some extras. The game can be pretty creepy, especially if the Hidden is good (they can carry around bodies and hang them up). The play is typically a bit slower than other MP mods, but the change is refreshing. I hadn't seen anyone mention the mod here before, and they recently came out with a nice new beta. Just a heads up!

I have heard of this but never looked into it. Thanks! I'll give it a try.

I tried it a few months ago, it was pretty cool. It has a neat horror-movie type atmosphere.

You should make an event on steamspace. If it's next weekend I'll do my best to try and come play.

Christ almighty those face models are disgusting.

That actually sounds like a fun concept, I just wish I had HL2 to play it.

(Ah, the FN Five-Seven, what a wonderful handgun.)

I played it back when HL2 was relatively new. I just ended up wandering around seeing nothing and suddenly getting killed or someone else would kill the Hidden. :[

I always felt like when I was the hidden, everyone could see me way better than I could see the hidden when I was a hunter.

This mod got old for me fast.

It's damn fun to play with friends. Haven't played it for months, but it's quite a rush to play as the hidden and go on a killing spree, freak people out, etc.

It's only worth playing if the pigsticker is enabled... otherwise it's not much of a challenge for the IRIS to take down the hidden.

I wish my laptop graphic card (chip?) could run Source-games without crashing.

I heard Fortress Forever is out.

This is exactly like the Juggernaut gametypes in Halo. Only in them, the invisible player (Juggernaut) changes every time the Juggernaut is killed. Don't remember if you can stick it to one player the whole game or not. I likes me a good game of Juggernaut, I just rarely have enough people to get a decent game going.

It's the same way here.

And the game kind of sucks unless you've got a good server with good maps. The gigantic maps suck, and if you die it turns into one of the most boring games of cat and mouse... ever.

And it's really really hard to be the hidden.

I've heard that there's a game mode where you turn into a hidden once you get killed. That way all the new people can get some practice being a hidden. Unfortunately not many servers seem to run it.

Yeah, that's called Overrun. It's ridiculously hard for the I.R.I.S. to win. And kind of way too easy for the Hidden to win.

If they made some kind of lesser hidden, or even just a decoy hidden "ghost" it'd be better. Watching people puts about for 20 minutes isn't fun.

Really, you people need to get some better servers. Whenever I play it's usually games that are over in about 4 or 5 minutes max. And it's not that hard to be the hidden, you just have to make good use of the shift button and the ability to see through stuff.

...And the hidden does change every time they're killed. It either goes to the bloke that killed the hidden, or it's a random choice.

CS has plenty of waiting if you get killed, but I find the waiting in The Hidden to be a lot more fun since you can watch the rest of the hunt.