Black Mesa (The Sequal Thread)

[Barrowsx]

[url]www.blackmesasource.com[/url]

This mod is essentially half life recreated using the full potential of the source engine.

Black Mesa:Source will be released sometime November/December This Year or Sometime 2010

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lul60ixy_40[/media]

The official trailer and if you pause the trailer at 1:38 you will see a building out in the distance

Area 51 Anyone?

Please note The team is not only recreating the half life game but they are also creating the multi-player maps

About

Black Mesa (formerly Black Mesa: Source) is a Half-Life 2 total conversion remaking VALVe Software's award-winning PC game, Half-Life. Utilizing the Source engine, Black Mesa will reintroduce the player as Doctor Gordon Freeman, along with the original cast of memorable characters and environments seen in Half-Life. Black Mesa was built and founded on the basis that Half-Life: Source was inadequate as the Source engine port of Half-Life, regardless of the intentions of VALVe Software. As such, Black Mesa was founded to fully reconstruct the Half-Life universe utilizing Source to its fullest potential in terms of art detail, level sizes and code features. This total conversion will not require Half-Life: Source to play - only a copy of any Source Engine game installed on Steam.

The Environment

Black Mesa is set in and around the Black Mesa Research Facility as depicted in the original Half-Life game. The research facility is a former Cold War missile complex based in New Mexico, and features a diverse array of locations ranging from abandoned rocket testing silos to modern administrative offices, from underground physics laboratories to a full-scale hydroelectric dam. The game continues beyond, into an inter-dimensional border world known as Xen. What will set Black Mesa apart from other Source engine modifications in development is the attention to environment detail. Levels will be faithful to the original Half-Life concept and built from scratch, yet will feature higher-resolution textures, detailed world models, and a higher quality of audio ambience courtesy of the Source engines soundscape system. The end goal of such attention to detail is an immersive single-player environment, which will engross the player in a story that is yet to be matched by any other first-person shooter.

Features

Black Mesa:Source has many features, several of which are still in planning or being tested. Below are a few of the larger and more distinctive features of Black Mesa:

Detailed and interactive environments based on the original Half-Life game, including reconstructed multiplayer maps;
Single-player, co-operative and deathmatch modes planned;
Original music score by Joel Nielsen;
Artificial intelligence that will dynamically think, react and interact with and about their environment;
Normal, specular and parallax mapping utilized on world surfaces and models where applicable;
A priority on gameplay and immersion factors such as ambience, logical functionality and interactivity.

Gamemodes

Black Mesa will feature three game modes designed to provide a high replayability factor.

Single-player

Assuming the role of Dr. Gordon Freeman you will experience an immersive, story-driven mode of play. A world where around every corner a new threat or situation presents itself, provoking thought and interaction between you and your world. Relying on more than just combat to survive, your wits and intelligence will become strong allies in your fight for survival. Environments will be interactive, rich with detail, fully ambient and NPC characters will react to these environments and your actions therein. A world driven by story, locations conquered by wit, enemies matched with firepower. Welcome to Black Mesa. Run, think, shoot, live, Source.

Co-op

Black Mesa co-op will allow players to not only recruit the assistance of security guards and scientists, but also that of your friends! Share the single-player experience by battling through Black Mesa together. Players will be able to wage battles, travel corridors and emerge victorious over the enemies and escape the confines of the Black Mesa Research Facility.

Deathmatch

The adrenaline pumping, bullet dodging, rockets-flying, big-red-button riddled deathmatch is back in classic Half-Life style, featuring graphically enhanced multiplayer maps and the full lineup of weapons. You'll find yourself having more fun blowing away your friends than, well, anything.

Images: (All images are from the Black Mesa website)

[img]http://blackmesasource.com/media/utow_release11_002.jpg[/img]

[img]http://blackmesasource.com/media/subtr_release11_003.jpg[/img]

[img]http://blackmesasource.com/media/rcore_release12_001.jpg[/img]

[img]http://blackmesasource.com/media/gasworks_01.jpg[/img]

[img]http://blackmesasource.com/media/bounce_release12_001.jpg[/img]

[img]http://blackmesasource.com/media/mr7_crossfire1.jpg[/img]

[img]http://blackmesasource.com/media/turret_beauty.jpg[/img]

[img]http://blackmesasource.com/media/sentry_beauty.jpg[/img]

[img]http://blackmesasource.com/media/50cal_beauty.jpg[/img]

[img]http://blackmesasource.com/media/tau_beauty.jpg[/img]

[img]http://blackmesasource.com/media/satchel_beauty.jpg[/img]

[img]http://blackmesasource.com/media/tripmine_beauty.jpg[/img]

[img]http://blackmesasource.com/media/grenade_beauty.jpg[/img]

[img]http://blackmesasource.com/media/rpg_beauty.jpg[/img]

[img]http://blackmesasource.com/media/crossbow_beauty.jpg[/img]

[img]http://blackmesasource.com/media/shotgun_beauty.jpg[/img]

[img]http://blackmesasource.com/media/MP5_beauty.jpg[/img]

[img]http://blackmesasource.com/media/glock_beauty.jpg[/img]

[img]http://blackmesasource.com/media/magnum_beauty.jpg[/img]

[img]http://blackmesasource.com/media/crowbar_beauty.jpg[/img]

[img]http://blackmesasource.com/media/M4_beauty.jpg[/img]

[Deleted359224]

This is gonna be kickass.

[gta-man12345]

[QUOTE=Livewire2440;16739318]This is gonna be kickass.[/QUOTE]

but dude, you will be dead when it comes out....

[_Underlined_]

Oh and OP I recommend something to be added to the first post: "Stop asking when it's going to be released. It will be released sometime THIS year." and a link to their steam community group: [url]http://steamcommunity.com/gid/103582791429535324[/url]

This should be a great mod. I hope it's not exactly like Half-Life 1 though, because some of Half-Life 1 is pretty boring and hard to figure out what to do.

[smurfy]

*sequel

[Spiderface]

lol, this mods gonna be kickass once it comes out

[Teh_Cheese]

[QUOTE=Barrowsx;16739272][url]www.blackmesasource.com[/url]

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lul60ixy_40[/media]

The official trailer and if you pause the trailer at 1:38 you will see a building out in the distance

Area 51 Anyone?

[/QUOTE]

Area 51 is in Nevada, not New Mexico :downs:

[Case-Sensitive]

I hope Garry will make this work with gmod.

[Cidem]

Those models are sexeh

[BlackRainbow]

Cant wait

[bepassley]

:| every time I see the trailer it makes me want it even more.

[Karmah]

Have a clock, there are several threads on this.

[Levithan II]

Someday I'll play this.

[Luxo]

I can't wait!

[Num Lock]

[QUOTE=Case-Sensitive;16741245]I hope Garry will make this work with gmod.[/QUOTE]

He won't, however all you have to do is copy the Models, materials and Maps folder into Gmod and it will work.

[Hunterbrute]

Do you think they will make a sequel after this?

[angrytoadnoises]

[QUOTE=Num Lock;16749145]He won't, however all you have to do is copy the Models, materials and Maps folder into Gmod and it will work.[/QUOTE]

Nope.
It wont.
These ragdolls dont work like normal source engine ragdolls. While the models will, the ragdolls will fuck up.

[Num Lock]

Oh yes, of course. Because of the new flex system they use.

[tarkio]

[QUOTE=Barrowsx;16739272]Please note The team is not only recreating the half life game but they are also creating the multi-player maps[/QUOTE]

Oh yes, they better do Crossfire right.

[angrytoadnoises]

[QUOTE=tarkio;16749599]Oh yes, they better do Crossfire right.[/QUOTE]

I played Crossfire in the BMS leak. Seemed right.

[Bran]

Looking forward to this, but I'm not wetting my pants over it. I already have hl1 and hl1:source so I won't expect much more except flashy graphics and AI.

:smug:

[_Underlined_]

[QUOTE=Willerin;16749670]I played Crossfire in the BMS leak. Seemed right.[/QUOTE]The Dev's have promised a week longer wait everyone downloads a BMS leak. It's counting too. They monitor torrent downloads and file site downloads...seriously, just wait, its unfinished, and they dont want you playing it.

[angrytoadnoises]

[QUOTE=_Underlined_;16750106]The Dev's have promised a week longer wait everyone downloads a BMS leak. It's counting too. They monitor torrent downloads and file site downloads...seriously, just wait, its unfinished, and they dont want you playing it.[/QUOTE]

Er. Thats funny, because every single torrent for it was taken down, so unless they monitor one site and one site only, without bothering to take the torrent down from that, Im pretty sure that wont happen.
Also, they never promised that. I go on the forums regularly.

[Evil_Toaster]

I hope they mess around with Half-Life's gameplay and make it not suck. However that could be done.

[_Underlined_]

[QUOTE=Willerin;16750142]Er. Thats funny, because every single torrent for it was taken down, so unless they monitor one site and one site only, without bothering to take the torrent down from that, Im pretty sure that wont happen.
Also, they never promised that. I go on the forums regularly.[/QUOTE]Nope, there is still multiple torrents up. Also, do you go to their steam group chat everyday? :)

[angrytoadnoises]

[QUOTE=_Underlined_;16750337]Nope, there is still multiple torrents up. Also, do you go to their steam group chat everyday? :)[/QUOTE]

Yes, I do :)

Believe me, there isnt really anything they do. And if they do some how mange to make us wait a week extra, there will always be other ways.

[_Underlined_]

[QUOTE=Willerin;16750351]Yes, I do :)

Believe me, there isnt really anything they do. And if they do some how mange to make us wait a week extra, there will always be other ways.[/QUOTE]Mmmm...ok. I still can't wait for it though.

[Nicklan]

Don't they have a release date on their forums?

[dcalde78]

The Tau Cannon looks amazing in that render. I hope that they include an option for choosing between the M4 and the MP5.

[Tk1138]

[QUOTE=dcalde78;16751872]I hope that they include an option for choosing between the M4 and the MP5.[/QUOTE]

They won't they've already stated they decided not to on the forums. I don't remember exactly why, its there though.

But most likely within a few weeks after release someone will release a M4 model to replace the MP5. Or they may decide to release theirs. originally it was going to be a console command to switch between the two.

You should add this to the OP

[url]http://www.youtube.com/user/BlackMesaSourceMedia[/url]

There are some old test videos on there. It is their official youtube page.