Freeman Skyrim

Play Skyrim as Gordon Freeman. You keep Skyrim's world, people and music, and you play it with Half-Life 2's guns, movement, HUD and physics gun. Everything from Half-Life 2 is read from your own Half-Life 2 install while the game runs; no Valve files are included.

What you get

• The arsenal from the start: crowbar, gravity gun, pistol, SMG with grenade launcher, shotgun, crossbow and the laser-guided rocket launcher, with HL2's fire rates, spread, recoil, reloads, animations and sounds.
• HL2 movement: run and sprint speeds, friction, jump and crouch-jump, HL2's rigid first-person camera and fall damage.
• The HL2 HUD: health, suit armour, ammo, crosshair and weapon selection in HL2's own font and layout.
• HL2 combat against Skyrim's people: headshots and SMG grenades kill outright; hits draw HL2 blood and a short flinch.
• The gravity gun: pick things up or pull them in from a distance, carry them, and throw them hard enough to hurt or kill. Heavier objects hit harder.
• The HEV suit: armour soaks up most damage while it lasts.
• HL2's buggy: press F8 to summon it, E to get in, and drive it with HL2's handling, engine sounds and cockpit. It runs people over, blocks arrows and loose objects, and the gravity gun can punt it, tip it over or right it.

Controls: left/right mouse fire and alt-fire, R reload, 1-5 weapon slots (click to confirm), Q last weapon, Shift sprint, F6 refill ammo, F8 summon the buggy, E get in/out, F7 switches between HL2 mode and normal Skyrim.

Needs: Skyrim Special Edition / Anniversary Edition 1.6.1170 or later, and Half-Life 2 installed through Steam. Single player.

Known limitations: the gravity gun's glow and beams are still being tuned; the buggy has no tau cannon or headlights yet, explosions don't push it, and it isn't saved (summon it again after loading).

Credits: CommonLibSSE-NG (alandtse and contributors), SafetyHook (cursey), spdlog, {fmt}, Xbyak, stb, DirectXMath/DirectXTK, SkyCraft (chasmlol), PBCharacterMovement (Project Borealis), Address Library for SKSE Plugins (meh321), Ultimate ASI Loader (ThirteenAG). Half-Life 2 (c) Valve; Skyrim (c) Bethesda. The source code (GPL-3.0) is included as an extra download with each release.