Black Mesa Source V5 - "They're still working on Xen?" - Games

[quote]Just to dispel a large rumor (and I know I'll be viewed as the grinch that stole christmas): We are [b]NOT[/b] on Source 2. It wouldn't make sense for a company to license tech they haven't proven yet with a released title to a mod team. Our visial however, WILL be improved. Don't get me wrong though, we'd love a Source 2 license but our fans would be waiting another 9 years if we had to port again. [/quote] [url]http://forums.blackmesasource.com/showpost.php?p=564289&postcount=174[/url]

I don't see why anyone would actually think valve would give them source 2 access in the first place.

[QUOTE=Yogkog;42931673]I just hope the HECU don't have 100% accurate aimbot in the new version[/QUOTE] Fun fact, the Player MP5 is actually a ton more accurate than the Soldier's MP5. It just doesn't seem that way because the player expects to always kill the NPC with ease, expects them to have shit accuracy, and faces more than one at a time.

Mowing down a shitton of low-tier enemies is fun as fuck though.

[QUOTE=Smug Bastard;42933512]Mowing down a shitton of low-tier enemies is fun as fuck though.[/QUOTE] And this is part of where BM went wrong, imo, and I wouldn't mind if it were changed. The HECU are supposed to be high-level enemies, like Alien Grunts. In Half-Life, they were very difficult, but it worked because there was a pattern in how they acted and a method to fighting them. They moved fast and shot accurately, but they needed to crouch to shoot and only shot in bursts. Black Mesa's just turn toward you instantly and hold down the trigger, it literally does feel like fighting a computer. This, plus Black Mesa sprinkled HECU Soldiers almost everywhere. [editline]21st November 2013[/editline] The HECU AI is actually so inconsistent it's ridiculous. I've seen 1 Soldier kill 4 Vortigaunts, but I've also seen 1 Zombie kill 2 Soldiers because they were backed against the wall and their AI broke, so they stopped shooting. Their AI also breaks when fighting Alien Grunts, and they just run back and forth presumably trying to 'dodge' the bees.

The HECU dudes have always given me lots of trouble, in both HL and BM.

In other news [video=youtube;2RdX-9H6KR0]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2RdX-9H6KR0[/video]

They should make the MP5 actually automatic instead of whatever the fuck it is. Also I may be wrong, but didn't they say at one point they would include the option to choose between the MP5 and the M4?

[QUOTE=ColossalSoft;42943002] Also I may be wrong, but didn't they say at one point they would include the option to choose between the MP5 and the M4?[/QUOTE] Then a shit poster occurred. [QUOTE]Because we said so. We are the developers. We decide what the final product will entitle. Some of you will while the grown ups will move on to provide insightful ideas on other aspects of the mod. [/QUOTE] [URL="http://forums.blackmesasource.com/showpost.php?p=159569&postcount=3756"] link[/URL]

[QUOTE=ColossalSoft;42943002] Also I may be wrong, but didn't they say at one point they would include the option to choose between the MP5 and the M4?[/QUOTE] They did a long time ago when the team had more optimism than they did competence rather than the other way around.

[QUOTE=Sally;42943187]Then a shit poster occurred. [URL="http://forums.blackmesasource.com/showpost.php?p=159569&postcount=3756"] link[/URL][/QUOTE] Actually I was genuinely asking. Don't be a butt.

[QUOTE=ColossalSoft;42943632]Actually I was genuinely asking. Don't be a butt.[/QUOTE] He means that the developer response was the shit poster.

Woops, snipped for lateness I liked the original MP5 model he planned to use a little better, still a lot better than the fat looking M4 with the age-long draw animation though

[QUOTE=MacD11;42322712]Half of it is.[/QUOTE] Half-Mesa: Source

Don't you guys think you should post the AI tweak someone posted from the last thread? The one that made the Marines less responsive than the ridiculously accurate and psychic skills now?

Not sure what it was exactly but this is what's in mine [QUOTE]ai_readiness_decay "10" ai_reaction_delay_alert "0.5" ai_reaction_delay_idle "0.6" ai_shot_bias "6" ai_shot_bias_max "7" ai_shot_bias_min "5" ai_LOS_mode "0"[/QUOTE] I also decreased the npc damage for the mp5 a bit to allow running and gunning a bit more

This is probably nothing, but there is a new usergroup on the BM forums named 'Scientists' and all the members joined on the 14th-15th [url]http://forums.blackmesasource.com/showgroups.php[/url] Scientists usually 'Test Things' some maybe they're beta testers? They all have unique coloured names as well. Only two have posts and you can't view them. News from BM has been slow since the HL1 Birthday Announcement.

[U][I]I posted part one of my Black Mesa creepypasta on the BM forums, and I'm posting it here to see if you all like it. :D[/I][/U] [U][I]Sorry if it's bad, I'm not a good writer.[/I][/U] <It all started on 11/19/13. I had been browsing the internet, and one of the sites I frequently go to is the Black Mesa forums. When seeing the developer's update post about Xen and such, I was ecstatic! Finally, contact with devs and assurance that development isn't at a halt. What striked me as odd however, was the fact that it took me 2 minutes to post my reply. I wasn't too concerned, thinking that it was just a server hitch due to the droves of people flooding in to see the wonderful news. After I had posted my reply, maybe... two minutes afterward, my browser, Mozilla Firefox, closed, and I was presented with my desktop. Slightly infuriated, I check my Task Manager, and it said my browser was still running. Due to the many occurrences I have of programs lingering in the Task Manager after having closed them, I thought nothing of it and waited. A minute passed by. "God! Just close, you piece of shit browser," I said in my moment of rage. Moments later, and still in my angry stupor, I notice that Firefox was taking up 500 MB of my memory. It sat idle like that for seconds. How could my browser be taking up this much memory? Without even running? I only had 1 tab opened before it abruptly closed, so it had no reason to do that. Just after I realize that, my browser's memory usage continued to climb... 750k... 900k... Soon after reaching 1 GB, my monitor's screen flickered. It wasn't a continuous strobe, it was just two quick flickers, something I probably wouldn't have noticed if I wasn't paying attention. Instantly after, I felt an awkward feeling in the pit of my stomach. Was it anger, or was it dread? It honestly felt like a mix between the two. I was angry that this was happening, [I]however scared to find out what would happen next[/I]. Briefly after the two flickers, I move my mouse across the desktop, and navigate to the Firefox icon. My stomach drops, and my heart pounds in my chest as I feel the blood gushing to my head and making me warmer. Right next to the Mozilla icon was a Black Mesa Shortcut. This made no sense, I had uninstalled Black Mesa a months ago, because I wasn't in the mood to replay it. It was just taking up harddrive space at that point. Just by looking at the shortcut, I knew that it wasn't normal. The Black Mesa logo was some weird type of invert. One half had a black outline and white inside, and the other half had a white outline and black inside. That wasn't the creepiest part, however. The part that chilled me to the bone, that made me almost [I]shut off my computer[/I], was what the shortcut's name said: [B]"DON'T CLICK"[/B] Chills ran down my spine. I started to panic, and immediately checked my directories to find anything abnormal. I navigate my way to my Steam mods install directory, trying to waste as little time as possible. I double clicked the folder expecting something to be there. Nothing. In my panicked stupor, I needed a faster method of searching, instead of double clicking folders to no avail. I tried searching "black mesa" in the search bar, to see if something would come up. Of course, Nothing. I took drastic measures and did a system restore. There was only one date, November 18th, 2013. I selected the restore point, then waited for my computer to reboot. After my computer had rebooted, I typed in my password as fast as I could, anxious to see if that damned shortcut was gone. Once my computer was logged in, I looked at the area of my desktop where the shortcut would be. My heart immediately started pounding, as I felt the blood gushing through my temples. It was still there. That damn shortcut was still there, exact same name, exact same icon. I knew what I had to do. [I]I had[/I] to click it. I had to get to the bottom of this, and get some type of explanation of what was going on to me. Why me? Why would this happen to me in the first place? A wave of anxiety crashed through me as I proceeded to move my cursor under the shortcut's icon. I clicked it. At that point, I expected something terrible to happen to my machine, like some unstoppable virus that I couldn't remove, and I would have to format and re-install Windows. However, I was surprised, as nothing happened. Black Mesa had launched. I found it odd how effortlessly it took to launch. There was no window from Steam indicating that it was launching, which was made even more apparent due to there being no mod in my Steam directories at all. Steam wasn't even open either. When I got to the main menu, I browsed through the options, developer console, anything just to see just what was so different on this version that I had reluctantly clicked on. Nothing. Same starting background, menu layout, everything. I expected nothing to change when I carelessly clicked on the New Game button. I paused for several seconds, making a face that you all would probably laugh at. I only saw one chapter in the new game window, where all of the other chapters would of been. That chapter was called: [I][B]'Xen'[/B][/I] My rational mind tried desperately to conjure up a reasonable thought. Perhaps I accidentally got my hands on a developer branch of the game? No, it couldn't be... Maybe it was just the Half-Life Source version of Xen? It was hard to comprehend what was in front of me. I anxiously clicked on the big Xen thumbnail, expecting the worst, as usual. The thumbnail icon looked exactly like the Xen thumbnail from Half-Life: Source The game took minutes to load, but that wouldn't stop me from knowing what I had got my hands onto. I could wait forever for this. Just as the loading bar was on it's last bar to load, I got confronted with a black screen, then I heard a fast stutter, and the game crashed. This all happened very fast. I was actually disappointed, to say the least. After pretty much being seconds away from playing Xen, (if it even was Xen) it only took mere seconds to take it away from me. Presented with my desktop, I tried to find the shortcut to launch it again. In it's exact place was a .txt document. It's name was 'README'. In all caps. I quickly opened it, and there were only 3 words inside of it. [B][I]"should have listened"[/I][/B] I didn't know what to think at this point. After my joy rush had worn off from almost getting to Xen, I felt that half-anger half-dread feeling again. I ignored the feeling and clicked on the Firefox icon, hoping that it would open the browser, instead of fucking up on me like last time. I quickly go to forums.blackmesasource.com, then to the developer/news section to tell everyone about my ordeal. I make my post, and wait for some replies or explanations. Not even about a couple of minutes later, I refreshed the page. I get a notice that I was banned from the forums. What? Why? I didn't have any outstanding posts, I never started a flame war, or trolled anyone. I could legitimately say I was angry at that point. Still frustrated, I open Steam to tell my friends about what had happened, the whole entire story up to now, until I quickly notice an update in the top-right corner of my Steam window. It was an invite. Unamused, I click on it, expecting it to be more group invite spam. Surprisingly, it was an actual steam user, his name was called 'cman2k'. If I recall, he's the lead developer of Black Mesa. Before I click accept, I needed to see if it was actually him. I click on his profile, and to my surprise, it was actually him. Why would someone like him add me, the average-joe Steam user? I click accept. I didn't know what to expect at that point. What would I say? "Why did you add me?" I guess I could've said that. About 15 seconds later, I see a chat window. The steam message sound startled me, much more than usual, probably because of the stress and anxiety racking my nerves. I click on the chat window, and begin to read the chat message. His message reads as follows: [B][I]"youve just made a very big mistake"[/I][/B]>

Quick, someone show it to Cman.

Part 2 coming soon! (7 year delay included of course)

[QUOTE=Minelayer;43206210]Part 2 coming soon! (7 year delay included of course)[/QUOTE] And now on Steam for $10

Hubi (their Web Designer) posted the Black Mesa Steam ID [url]http://forums.blackmesasource.com/showpost.php?p=567297&postcount=966[/url] Which we already knew from the Steam Avatar Page I think steamdb should change the Comment from Formerly Black Mesa to Black Mesa because it seems it isn't 'Formerly' anymore. [url]http://steamdb.info/app/221140/#section_history[/url] It was also updated on Christmas

I can't wait for this game. I'm going to put some money away to buy the steam version. These guys [B]deserve[/B] money.

Well, its not exactly Xen, but it will do.

[QUOTE=Falkok15;43337305]Well, its not exactly Xen, but it will do.[/QUOTE] They won't show Xen. Xen is a secret, a surprise.

A surprise if it actually get's done I suppose.

Not digging the boards put all over everything. Sure the map flows better, but jumping from box to box in the original gave it so much character.

why do items need to be hovering in mp? i'm genuinely curious more polished? players can't find them?

Actually they seem to have some kind of projector below the floating items.

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