As you all know, Valve had released a big update for Half-Life last year in honor of game's 25th anniversary. If you ask me, it's amazing of them not forgetting their golden title and giving it much deserved treatment.
I was especially excited for an unexpected return of original iconic menu from WON (World Opponent Network) era, but the problem is that Counter-Strike: Condition Zero Deleted Scenes was officialy released on Steam in 2004 and, therefore, didn't have a WON-styled menu.
However, its menu still was changed due to the game being a mod for Half-Life, so I've decided to improve it and make more similar and authentic to Half-Life's original WON menu.
At first, in April this year, I did it entirely for myself as a little hobby project, but recently I've thought that it would be good to share with everyone, so Counter-Strike: Condition Zero Deleted Scenes fans and WON era/style connoisseurs could also have an opportunity to enjoy it.

In my version I've changed fonts, colors and effects to match original Half-Life's WON menu, added themed descriptions for each menu option, improved visibility and scaling on certain resolutions and other little things, which I won't remember, because I did it 6 months ago.

Here is a couple of screenshots, which will show you what I was able to achieve:

1. My remade version for low resolutions (click on it to open a full image) — optimized for 800x600 and lower resolutions, original screenshot resolution is 640x480


























2. My remade version for high resolutions (click on it to open a full image) — optimized for 1024x768 and ANY higher resolution (even 4K, all the elements will scale, except for background), original screenshot resolution is 1280x720

You can download it from my Google Drive[drive.google.com]and Mediafire[t.ly]
If you, for some reason, don't want to use short URL or it will stop working, then you can copy a direct link to download page on Mediafire (remove the space before "com"): mediafire. com/file/nme2kf1yclnklyb/WON_menu_for_Counter-Strike_Condition_Zero_Deleted_Scenes.rar

Note: If you're worried about VAC ban - there's no point for that, because this modification includes only edited text files and images, which don't even replace original files, you can check it by yourself for more reassurance.

Installation is very easy:

1. Open your Half-Life directory, which is located in "Steam\steamapps\common", or go to your Steam library, press Right Mouse Button on Half-Life or Counter-Strike: Condition Zero Deleted Scenes, hover your cursor on "Manage" and click on "Browse local files".

2. Open the downloaded archive. Now, if you're playing with resolution 1024x768 and higher - open the folder called "High Resolution", and if you're playing with lower resolution, then open the folder called "Low Resolution". After that drag the folder called "czeror_addon" into your Half-Life directory.

3. When the process of copying files will be finished, launch the game, click on "Options", go to the tab "Content" and check the option which says "Allow custom addon content", as it is shown in the screenshot below. Then press "Apply" and the game will restart automatically.


























That's it, you've successfully installed the modification.

1. Why hints are not perfectly lined up with menu options in the version for low resolutions?

Answer: I don't know the exact reason behind this issue, but it is also present in the original menu, which was recreated by Valve for 25th anniversary. The lower resolution, the smaller font size and gap between menu options are - the more visible and obvious it is. If you will look close enough, you will be able to see the same issue in the version for high resolutions as well, but not as obvious, because of higher resolution, larger font size and bigger gaps (better scaling in general). Also current recreated menu by Valve isn't really optimized for very low resolutions, that's why I've created two versions, even though majority of the people nowadays are using higher resolutions.

For instance, it wasn't like that in the original version of the game, but it had different GUI (Graphical User Interface). My assumption is that developers, who were responsible for this update, didn't have much time to polish their implementation of this idea with an old WON menu, because they needed to recreate everything from scratch and they had other tasks at hand related to other games and projects, so, it is what it is.

2. Why glowing effect is not perfectly the same as in original Half-Life's WON menu?

Answer: As I've said, current implemented menu by Valve and its capabilities are not copied directly from the original version of the game, but recreated from scratch in completely different fashion in terms of its implementation. For example, WON menu literally is using BMP images for its functioning and design, while in Steam version of the game VGUI (Valve's Graphical User Interface) is responsible for that.
For this and other aforementioned reasons, this "glowing effect" and other things are working much differently, which creates quite strict limitations. In this case, if you increase value of this effect, it will add more blur and increase its range, but glowing density will be decreased and it will become more transparent, which, in my opinion, looks worse and far different from the original WON menu than current result.

If you have any other questions - leave them in the comments and I will try my best to explain.

If this guide was helpful and you are satisfied with the results of my work, then I would appreciate if you give it a like and add to favorites, so it will be higher in the list of all guides and, therefore, easier for others to find.
If you have any issues, questions or suggestions - share them in the comments and I will try my best to assist you.

Also, I've recreated original WON menus for other Valve's games (because they didn't do it), so I highly recommend you to check this out:

https://test-steamproxy.haloskins.io/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3354562601
https://test-steamproxy.haloskins.io/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3359467114
https://test-steamproxy.haloskins.io/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3350686658
https://test-steamproxy.haloskins.io/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3350824002
https://test-steamproxy.haloskins.io/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3350880061
https://test-steamproxy.haloskins.io/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3351316035
https://test-steamproxy.haloskins.io/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3354313731
https://test-steamproxy.haloskins.io/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3354062454
https://test-steamproxy.haloskins.io/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3354540497
https://test-steamproxy.haloskins.io/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3354527171
Have a good day.