I’ll Do Anything
Restores additional dialog that was removed from the Advisor ambush/"Pietà" sequence in the final Half-Life 2: Episode Two chapter T-Minus One, using leftover content present in Half-Life: Alyx’s finale. Also includes an animation timing fix for Dog.
As is the case with my other line restoration mod "There He Is Again!", this mod makes use of a custom Binary VCD datafile (scenes.image) that overrides the base game’s pre-existing choreography. Specifically, it changes the ending scene (scenesOuttrohangar.vcd) to add additional dialog that was removed some time before Episode Two’s release. Please prioritize it at the very top of your mod load list.
This will not conflict with any pre-existing BSP (lump) replacements you make against T-Minus One (mapsep2_outland_12a.bsp). It will, however, conflict with any other choreography mod that overrides scenes.image in any way, in ways that could potentially break HL2 and its episodes (including Lost Coast), and more importantly it is NOT compatible with custom campaigns that use custom choreography, like Rock 17. Avoid using this mod outside of the main Episode Two campaign or in custom campaigns, or you will risk breaking map logic. For compatibility purposes, this mod includes all Half-Life 2 and episodic (+ Lost Coast) scenes baked in by default.
A supplementary add-on that makes use of an alternate take present in the Half-Life: Alyx game files is available here.
Due to a technical limitation in the Workshop content mounting system[github.com], the provided closed-captions datafile in this mod will not be loaded by the engine. You will have to manually extract the following resources into a custom mod directory from the following locations:
