• Black Mesa V7 - 'Where the fuck is Xen' Edition
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The skybox looks good but if you look at the playable area you'll notice that the textures doesn't match the skybox at all. Completely different colours.
For the god sake black mesa is not completed yet before xen realease just finish black mesa. Why black mesa have only music. Why dont have some diferents sounds . HALF-LIFE have not only music but and other creepy sounds. When i play black mesa it feel like a mod, but in half life when i play its never bored i can play 100 times again.And i can tell why is never bored becouse when i play half life in every diferent maps you can listen diferens sound not only music but other creepy sounds. And why black mesa new version only on steam it realy suck and the same thing hapen on xen. It could be beter to realease final version no steam. Only exist 2012 and 2015 no steam. So i have no choice. But if xen realease no steam and steam i could choice no steam becouse i can install on black mesa 2012 becouse i love original.
The only place that'll happen is in your dreams
I can play black mesa 2012 and play with improved xen 0.5 no steam so why dev team canot do the same thing with xen ? Its ridiculous. Absolute absurd
They've made it clear why when they announced xen would not be coming to the mod version. If you don't want to buy the game to play the official Xen release, then you can stay on the deprecated mod version and play whatever xen you've been playing so far.
Are you okay?
I think this is the "English not being first language" syndrome. Wasn't too cryptic to understand what he is getting at. They focused all the effort on the Steam-Black Mesa instead of the Mod-Black Mesa because they now have access to the internals of the Source engine. They quite literally modified the engine Black Mesa runs on and are able to deliver on a better vision of the Xen levels, something that was impossible with Mod-Black Mesa. Going back to making Xen levels for a very outdated Mod-Black Mesa just isn't worth it, not for them and not for those waiting for the Xen levels to be playable. You can either buy Black Mesa (I would wait for a sale, I bet they will have it discounted once Xen is released or one can wait for just a general Steam Sale) or you have to make due another way. We aren't entitled to get anything for free from the Crowbar Collective devs.
I vaguely remember the mod release. Weapons had their own non-HL1 functions and grunts were pretty challenging. Glock could fire as fast as you click and the RPG was a nuke launcher with crossbow bolt speed.
I wouldn't mind the super fast RPG projectile being a function for the laser being turned off, since it's no longer directing thrust to where ever you're aiming at and is just going in a straight trajectory.
I think they made all guns work like HL1 on purpose to accomodate BM multiplayer.
i won't miss the grunts in the mod, that's for sure
I dont even remember them
The current HECU IIRC are voiced by one of the VA's from Insurgency
That was actually an uncommon voice labeled hgrunt_young (it was used only for medics), but the format was the same so it was easy to replace the hgrunt voice with, and I think a lot of people did. This was the main Hgrunt voice, I hated it, it sounded too try-hardy, the scripted sequences were downright comical, like a cartoon villain (also one of them was about rape, because they didn't sound 'bad-guy' enough). The thing that bothered me the most aside from that was probably hearing DOOO IIIIT multiple every time you entered an HECU controlled area. When they spawned they literally just stood around saying DOOO IIIT and it annoyed the shit out of me. I ended up replacing all their voices with the Replica Soldier voices and releasing that online so others could use it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVPAzthlE-Y
OP4 HECU had the best voices, iirc it was done by the same dude that VA'd Duke Nukem?
Oh my God the HECUs are also Big the cat!?
"Forget About Froggy"
Does anyone even know where the original HECU voices came from? I've never found a name credited to it.
When will the OG VA reprise his role with brand new voicelines as a community mod
Honestly whoever did Military VOX could have pulled off the Hgrunts, but then they'd have to make someone else do Military VOX because it'd be weird for them to have the same voice.
??? hl1 grunts had no charm or personality. Their limitations were certainly cute, however BM isn't a quake tier game. It's time to grow up and move on. if anything, BM gave them charm and personality. take dem goggles off man.
The original grunt VA had charm, not so much the current ones. I liked that try hardy edgy voice
I feel like he had narm rather than charm. You could tell he was trying rather hard to pull off the voice he was doing. Ontop of the actual voice, the direction itself was just awful, some of the chat lines were said in a smooth and sinister voice that felt like a cartoon villain rather than a Half-Life villain.
Let's get Duke Nukem's VA to do the voicelines, afterall he did the OP4 grunts and they're my favorite
Was that HL1 HD explosion effect ever uploaded somewhere, I recall seeing it in one of the BMS threads where someone found the original sprite sheet.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=609679571 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txKGh4gcYYM This one?
Thats the spice, I wonder if we'll ever find more sprite sheets or textures that have been used by valve in HL1 and 2 at their original res
Black Mesa is the kind of game I'll make my grandkids play in the future. Maybe they'll be lucky enough to see a Xen release.
Welp, you ask for it. Here we are.
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