• Black Mesa V7 - 'Where the fuck is Xen' Edition
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I think mr friendly could've worked if he wasn't so visible (or had much better animation at least) The gargantua elevator scare was cool because I genuinely didn't see it coming, and there was no terrible animation you saw beforehand Just a giant cargo container coming at you
https://twitter.com/LambdaGen/status/1121413478865080320
Robocop Barney?
Makes me kinda wish for Azure Sheep and Point of View remakes.
https://www.moddb.com/mods/black-mesa-azure-sheep/
Did we ever even get that hazard course? I remember waiting for it for so long, now I hear nothing about it.
pretty sure a community one was made long ago. But I don't think CC ever implied they would either add it or make one themselves.
I've been struggling through it. It's okay. The maps are pretty great and the production value is nice and high, but the puzzles are pretty dang awful. I've had to reference a walkthrough multiple times, and most of the time the things I were stuck on would have *never* come to me no matter how long I had struggled before looking it up. Also the puzzles rely on item hunting way more than any Half-Life game ever should. Lose the one critical prop? Sucks to be you, game over basically.
CC said they would not be adding one in favor of HL2 style tooltips that show up at the beginning of the game and throughout when doing new things. Also, as far as I know, that Hazard Course mod is broken and the team that made is fell apart.
Yeah, HC mod has stopped working. I was trying a while back and had no luck. I had the same issue with a few different mods.
What I really want is a Half-quake remake.
and then people be like "waa its not like the original"
May news update! Black Mesa
I'm still surprised that this is all on the source engine
Look at these textures and props that are a mix of biomass and technological stuff!! I loved these textures in HL1 so once this gets out I gonna be staring at these for hours!
incredible
The fire burning away that web is beautiful
an environment like that is tailor made for 4k monitors with accurate colours, the beauty would be unmatched
I already got a 1080, now you people are making me get a nice monitor! Damn you glorious bastards for making me enjoy your content!
Colour accurate 1440p monitor would also be pretty good
That's a no on the May release then, I'm guessing (I realize it was never official). This is how we plan to release in the coming months Well, at this point I don't think it matters that much, it'll be great to see it finished
We have a completely overhauled UI slated to be released with Xen. I'm loathe to say it will definitely be in as this particular project (the UI) has been massively cursed, but it should be in either way. It will offer proper controller support, nicer options menus than we have currently, and support for all resolutions including 4k.
Anything on engine improvements? There are news about other developers getting their hand on new brach of source with features from CSGO and etc. Did you get anything like that or you're improving engine on your own?
I was surprised how my gfs cheesegrill handled all the facility levels, however I'm wondering how Xen will run..
Does this mean that custom singleplayer maps can be selected outright instead of via console? Another thing I am curious about is if the server browser/create MP game menu is overhauled as well?
Those Xen consoles are an interesting choice. We never saw anything that human's would identify as a computer. Wonder if the factory Interloper levels are going to be aiming for some kind of xeno-industrial look.
The only thing I can think of is how jarring this is going the Xen stuff is going to be too the rest of the of Game, quality wise. Same with human models.
The only thing that feels outdated is the surface chapters and that alone is from play-doh looking displacements and in one map, don't have the same colour as the skybox' displacements. To me, indoor areas age much better than outside stuff.
Really? I mean the cliff at least still looks good and Surface Tension is passable. But yeah I see what you're going. https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/536271140848096830/4AA5ED8B5CFCDE69A332BC5A080B9D818D2B8B73/
Source/GoldSrc/idTech2 has always been an indoor kind of engine. You can even see this in Episode Two, as pretty much every single space is a glorified hallway despite touting the larger play spaces.
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