Black Mesa Source Release Announced

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Re: Black Mesa Source Release Announced

Postby Spas12 on Sun Sep 02, 2012 4:27 pm

About time. looking forward to it. :smt023
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Re: Black Mesa Source Release Announced

Postby joe_rogers_11155 on Sun Sep 02, 2012 5:28 pm

i have a feeling that xen will definitely be much larger and different from what we saw in the original game. i am sure there will be the iconic areas, such as the gonarch battle, the platformer-style jumping puzzles, etc. but there is certainly some room for aggressive expansion of the concept of a "border world", ie "the space between realities".

and not to get off topic, but the new iphone will be just about as thin as the current ipod touch - ie REALLY thin. but i am more excited for iOS 6 and all of its cool features. I might just get the iphone because of it. but i will be going through virgin mobile instead of a contract.

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Black Mesa Source Release Announced

Postby Blink on Sun Sep 02, 2012 5:45 pm

After being tantalised with screenshots and trailers for longer than I can remember, it seems we might finally be able to play a portion of the the delicious Black Mesa: Source on September 14th:

On September 14th you will see the first release of Black Mesa! This will include our re-envisioning of Half-Life all the way up to Lambda Core. We believe this is a great way to provide a complete-feeling 8-10 hour experience with a solid ending, make our fans happy and help us make the best overall game possible.

We are still working hard on Xen and BMDM, but instead of making you wait we are giving you Black Mesa as soon as it's ready! We're doing our best to help bring the immense vision of this project into reality, and we are very excited for what the future brings!


An new iPhone and Black Mesa: Source all in one month? Mother of god!

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Re: Black Mesa Source Release Announced

Postby SotaPoika on Sun Sep 02, 2012 6:13 pm

What's "new iPhone"? Apple is actually creating something new? Pfft.. who cares about what that company spits out anyway.

Black Mesa coming this month? Damn.. I hope it's happening for real this time. Even though Xen is left out, I'm sure it'll be a blast to play that mod finally! :)
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Re: Black Mesa Source Release Announced

Postby Major Banter on Sun Sep 02, 2012 6:19 pm

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Re: Black Mesa Source Release Announced

Postby Hollow on Sun Sep 02, 2012 6:29 pm

This thread is drunk, not the people THE THREAD ITSELF.

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Re: Black Mesa Source Release Announced

Postby Blink on Sun Sep 02, 2012 7:18 pm

Hollow wrote:This thread is drunk, not the people THE THREAD ITSELF.

Simon you broke the post ordering erhmagherd.


Well it wasn't, unless another mod merged some posts in here :/
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Re: Black Mesa Source Release Announced

Postby zombie@computer on Sun Sep 02, 2012 8:02 pm

its an odd choice to leave xen out in this release. With the arrival of displacements one would assume Xen isn't that hard to recreate and improve (unless they are going for a completely different approach). An additional two or three months to finish the entire game at once would probably be a better choice, imho.

Anyway, can't wait to see what they've made, even if some of it is years old :)
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Re: Black Mesa Source Release Announced

Postby Chrille on Sun Sep 02, 2012 8:23 pm

zombie@computer wrote:its an odd choice to leave xen out in this release. With the arrival of displacements one would assume Xen isn't that hard to recreate and improve (unless they are going for a completely different approach). An additional two or three months to finish the entire game at once would probably be a better choice, imho.

Anyway, can't wait to see what they've made, even if some of it is years old :)


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Re: Black Mesa Source Release Announced

Postby Epifire on Sun Sep 02, 2012 9:07 pm

I am extatic about this, I really am. Glad I get back from my trip before it comes out. I am using a cruddy computer right now that almost makes me cry after taking five minuets to boot up, so I will be looking forward to getting back and playing it on my nice PC.
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Re: Black Mesa Source Release Announced

Postby Mr. Happy on Sun Sep 02, 2012 10:49 pm

Ya that's really weird, but awesome! Can't wait!

SotaPoika wrote:What's "new iPhone"? Apple is actually creating something new? Pfft.. who cares about what that company spits out anyway.


Apple's trying to do a model year style thing with the iPhone. Since they can't do anything new or original they aren't going to come out with any new products or upgrades, just updates.
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Re: Black Mesa Source Release Announced

Postby Armageddon on Sun Sep 02, 2012 11:46 pm

I'm excited for it to be released, but I also have a fear that it will be awful after all this time.
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Re: Black Mesa Source Release Announced

Postby nub on Mon Sep 03, 2012 9:49 pm

I can still go back and play the first Half Life and enjoy it a lot. I doubt this mod is going to be bad at all.
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Re: Black Mesa Source Release Announced

Postby Guessmyname on Mon Sep 03, 2012 11:02 pm

Holy crap, this even got an article on the BBC...
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Re: Black Mesa Source Release Announced

Postby Major Banter on Tue Sep 04, 2012 10:10 am

Guessmyname wrote:Holy crap, this even got an article on the BBC...

Beat me to it.
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