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Garry's mod 8.3b review
_{Post #17 - Written by jobz in 2025/05/09}

After the version that was Garry's Mod 7, i'm gonna talk about something that is perfect, Garry's Mod 8. Please note that i'm reviewing the 8.3b version of G-Mod 8. I'm not reviewing release, 8.2, 8.3 and 8.3a

Garry's Mod version Eight is the 8th version of Garry's mod. The version i'm using, 8.3b, which was released on 1st of August, 2005 and is the 3rd iteration of version 8 under the B marking. This has a new main menu with a different new-game dialogue. It allows you to select any map that's available compared to 8.0 which uses the original Half-Life 2 chapter selection, there's also have something that's new in the far bottom, but i'll get to it a tiny bit later

The new main menu of Garry's Mod 8.3b.

Upon loading in you can see that there is a new version of gm_construct, the one that is also gonna be used in Garry's Mod 9, this makes the scenery much more populated with buildings and trees in the skybox, you can walk around the part where there are trees, by the way, but wit the problem being you able to see the bottom of the skybox and also through walls.

Beautiful.

Oops.

The new spawn menu gives you more options on what you can do in the mod, as well as grouping all the unneccesary tools into one, bringing back the shotgun and the RPG, we don't have the prop launcher, so thats the only thing that I will miss.

Thankfully, alongside the tool grouping, we got a major overhaul of the tool gun, we can see tips at the bottom ofthe screen all the time now and not disappear after a few seconds. We can see the original rooms from the version 7 like the light room, the black room and the dark room, however, no HL2 Chapter selection room, all that space have been given to the Garage. We still have the usual pond and grass scenery to mess around in. In this version, we unfortunately have broken HUD elements for weapons, but it's probably due to me using a newer version of the engine that still works with this. This is from 2005, after all. I want to mention that we finally have a Mod Manager! This allows us to create custom mods for this mod(modception 0_o) and use it ingame! However, LUA support will not come until Garry's Mod v8.4 Beta release which would be later turned into Garry's Mod v9

Finally, something that's nice. Scary...

Honestly? This is a great version of Garry's Mod 8, it's the most stable and also feature-rich version of all the previous versions. If I was given Half-Life 2, Garry's Mod 8.3b and Garry's Mod 12, I would choose this one, not because it's old, but because the limits make me want to try out things that i never did before in the most ridiculously complex way possible

_{A scene I made using this version of the mod. Still great!}

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