• Black Mesa mod first release announced

    Discussion in 'News' started by ríomhaire, Sep 2, 2012.

    The long awaited Source engine remake of Half-Life is finally due to see its first released on the 14th of September. The Black Mesa website has been replaced with a simple countdown timer with twelve days left on the clock. Clicking a fold at the top right of the page takes one to a copy of Gordon's conformation of employment letter from the original Half-Life manual, but with the signature altered from "LM" to "tb".
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    Vortigaunts, AKA "alien slaves", make their return as enemies.

    The team leader, Carlos Montero, clarified on the forums that the team are still working hard on Xen and the multiplayer portion of the mod and that this release will be an approximately ten hour campaign spanning Gordon's Black Mesa commute all the way to the Lambda Core.

    The full soundtrack has been put up for download to whet your appetite for the mod and other than listen to it on a loop until the 14th there's not much you can do but wait until the first release becomes available for download.
    ríomhaire, Sep 2, 2012
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Discussion in 'News' started by ríomhaire, Sep 2, 2012.

  1. Stylo
    After all the foaming about the game footage release, that soundtrack is sounding freaking epic.
    Stylo, Sep 2, 2012
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  2. Danny_ZQ
    what do you wanna bet that valvetime is gonna crash any moment now?
    Danny_ZQ, Sep 2, 2012
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  3. _-_-SELAS-_-_
    Awesome!! Can't wait! Have been waiting on and off since 2004. :D
    _-_-SELAS-_-_, Sep 2, 2012
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  4. Omnomnick
    Why would it? This isn't an announcement by us or anything of that caliber.
    Omnomnick, Sep 2, 2012
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  5. Tense
    YES, is all I have to say. I haven't been following this Mod as long as some people, but I'm still happy to see the long wait is over. Hopefully it was worth it. ;)
    Tense, Sep 2, 2012
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  6. Medevila
    About time
    Medevila, Sep 2, 2012
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  7. Russian Mafia
    It will be great to finally play this!
    Russian Mafia, Sep 2, 2012
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  8. Damic
    Damic, Sep 2, 2012
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  9. Solver
    Nice!

    I've been following this ever since they begun development. I know this site has some naysayers of the mod, but I believed and still believe that taking HL and putting it on a modern engine with slightly modernized level design would result in a great mod. From what footage I've seen, it appears that the Black Mesa team has done a good job at staying faithful to HL while bringing it into the current generation. I hope that is indeed so. HL, as good as it was, was in the very infancy of story-driven FPS games, and in a few places the level design was still closer to early 90s. As for the soundtrack, beating Minerva will be pretty difficult.
    Solver, Sep 2, 2012
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  10. Zephos
    I don't understand, we are nine posts in and it's all for the positive. Where's the standard (rather tired) vitriol from the Valvetime.net anti-Black Mesa squadron?
    Zephos, Sep 3, 2012
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  11. Damic
    we have put them in a test chamber with no exit:rofl:
    Damic, Sep 3, 2012
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  12. deer
    omg omg omg ...
    deer, Sep 3, 2012
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  13. ríomhaire
    ríomhaire, Sep 3, 2012
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  14. Russian Mafia
    They are all in THIS thread.
    Russian Mafia, Sep 3, 2012
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  15. Damic
    @riomhaire: doh was to exited to just check the website and forgot to read further here :(

    BM Website has changed again: vote them up on Green light
    Damic, Sep 5, 2012
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  16. TheWiktor2
    I thought they are releasing the whole mod, but this is awesome as well :D
    TheWiktor2, Sep 5, 2012
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  17. thegeekykid7
    This is probably the closest thing to ep3 we'll get until valve actually releases said game lolz.
    thegeekykid7, Sep 5, 2012
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  18. ríomhaire
    How is this in any way like Episode 3?
    ríomhaire, Sep 6, 2012
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  19. Petran
    They are doing exceptionally well in the GreenLight votes! It's great to see that the interest and enthusiasm for this mod is so strong that surpasses everything else currently there.
    Petran, Sep 6, 2012
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  20. Texter
    Yeah but they still need all the votes they can get... And now the Steam Community is back up again I'll supply a to the Black Mesa Greenlight PAGE
    Texter, Sep 6, 2012
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  21. Eejit
    Colour me unsurprised, the high hype level for BM:S is not astonishing.
    Eejit, Sep 6, 2012
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  22. Schru
    Modifications do not belong on Steam Greenlight; I think Valve are still considering what to do with them, as obviously the community is interested in them. However, I think there are too many issues associated with opening Steam to mods for it to happen now and by such means.

    In regards to Black Mesa specifically, it is sad that it is garnering this much attention in comparison to other entries. It is based on Valve's creative work and popularity it accumulated.
    Schru, Sep 6, 2012
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  23. ríomhaire
    Valve have yet to take down the mods that have been posted (and they've taken down plenty of stuff, Seduce Me seems to be the most controversial so far) so they seem to be ok with them for the moment. As for it not reaching the votes yet, nothing has. Valve intentionally made the initial number of required votes to get into the pending section insanely high because they didn't know how much traffic they were going to get from this. This seeing what the spread of votes projects get is like and will be adjusting the threshold downwards based on that.
    ríomhaire, Sep 6, 2012
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  24. Schru
    I realize that no modifications were taken down, hence I wrote that Valve are still probably considering what to do with them. I also know that Greenlight is in a beta stage, and so the behaviour of ratings percentage is subject to change.

    I just think that the reasons behind popularity of Black Mesa are shallow, and that it is a shame that it places so high relatively to other projects.
    Schru, Sep 6, 2012
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  25. Texter
    It wouldn't surprise me if Slender: Source is such a success (top ranked at 31%) because it's the 'next game in queue' for EVERYONE. So basically its success is caused by a -deliberate- glitch in the system. Unless everyone really thinks it's fricking awesome of course...
    Texter, Sep 6, 2012
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  26. ríomhaire
    The queue is programmed to give you a couple of high-ranked games and a couple of recently added games. The top games showing up on everyone's queue is not a glitch, it's working as intended. From the news post: "This view is a mix of popular games and new games to Greenlight."
    ríomhaire, Sep 6, 2012
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  27. TheWiktor2
    What the hell?! Black Mesa had 32% on Greenlight, and suddenly it came down to 14%!
    It's either a glitch or Valve wants to censor it (although the first option is more likely to be true, the second may be possible as well :/)
    TheWiktor2, Sep 7, 2012
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  28. Pi Mu Rho
    Or it's that they're adjusting the overall voting percentages, you know, like they said they were going to.

    If Valve wanted to "censor" Black Mesa, they could and would have done so via a simple letter, much like they got them to drop the "Source" part of the name. There's no conspiracy here, climb down off the cross.
    Pi Mu Rho, Sep 7, 2012
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  29. Russian Mafia
    Says they are at 33% for me.
    Russian Mafia, Sep 7, 2012
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  30. Stigmata
    This is pretty much the case. They had to drop the "Source" suffix because it gave the impression that Valve was involved with the development and release. As far as I know this is the only applied limitation, Valve has otherwise condoned Black Mesa.
    Stigmata, Sep 8, 2012
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  31. ríomhaire
    They also asked them to use all original assets. No sounds or textures from Half-Life 1 or 2.
    ríomhaire, Sep 8, 2012
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  32. Barnz
    There's models from Half-Life 2 (and Counter-Strike: Source) in Black Mesa.
    Barnz, Sep 8, 2012
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  33. Pi Mu Rho
    Which is fine as long as they're mounted from GCFs, and not included with the mod itself.
    Pi Mu Rho, Sep 8, 2012
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  34. Tollbooth Willie
    hi yes this mod is great lmao


    I'l dl it and see how it really is myself. Soundtrack is still complete shit.

    You're an idiot. Go to hell.
    Tollbooth Willie, Sep 8, 2012
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  35. Warped Dan
    love the soundtrack, for free its a great deal.
    Warped Dan, Sep 9, 2012
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  36. ríomhaire
    They're saying all you need is Source SDK Base 2007 so anything that comes in that is fine. Don't have a clue what's in there though.
    ríomhaire, Sep 9, 2012
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  37. Cleric12
    Yay.

    As if this mod doesn't deserve praise just because it's re-imagining an existing game.
    Cleric12, Sep 11, 2012
    #38
  38. Eejit
    It deserves some, but much less than if it was actually original.
    Eejit, Sep 11, 2012
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  39. ramsfan
    Black Mesa Source has officially been greenlighted by steam. Looks like it will be on steam after all.
    ramsfan, Sep 11, 2012
    #40