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Black Mesa Source = 5 years of waiting

Commander Molander

Commander Molander

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I don't know about you but I love the old school quake/half life shooters where you blast many rounds into your friends on crazy levels that fling you the fuck around and when you die your body gets gibed into a thousand pieces. 5 years ago I saw the trailer for black Mesa source the free to play re-make of the original 1998 game of the year. Me and a fellow class mate got pumped as we played opposing force 1v1s so a new look for an old game would be great! little did we know we would be waiting 5 Facking years when the trailer promised to released in 2009. I would check up on the site once every 7 months or so just out of curiosity and would read the same thing "we don't really like to guess when the game will be done"

The day has finally come when the people in charge of the mod have set the release date only a few more days!
http://www.blackmesasource.com/
 
Damn this has been irritating! So, I see that the executable has been offered up for dl. Grab the file in short order and download it. Run the executable and it extracts itself and starts the Black Mesa install. It takes a bit to install and than downloads two SDK, 2006 and 2007 I believe. After that nothing.. No Black Mesa in steam games, no Black Mesa can be searched through Steam at all.. WTH? Isn't this based on the HL2 engine? Or do I need to reinstall Half Life? Any help would be appreciated.


Fasttrak
 
Fasttrak said:
Damn this has been irritating! So, I see that the executable has been offered up for dl. Grab the file in short order and download it. Run the executable and it extracts itself and starts the Black Mesa install. It takes a bit to install and than downloads two SDK, 2006 and 2007 I believe. After that nothing.. No Black Mesa in steam games, no Black Mesa can be searched through Steam at all.. WTH? Isn't this based on the HL2 engine? Or do I need to reinstall Half Life? Any help would be appreciated.


Fasttrak
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Usually you have to restart steam to get a mod to show up in your games list. I didn't have any issues getting installed personally, and the game looks awesome so far.
 
BARDLER said:
Usually you have to restart steam to get a mod to show up in your games list. I didn't have any issues getting installed personally, and the game looks awesome so far.
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I had tried everything, eventually I downloaded from another source and the install went perfectly. Previously nothing showed up in games list, this time it showed up and started properly. Some odd glitch and the game looks gorgeous!


Fasttrak
 
I love this game.

I've always enjoyed the Half-life series. I have many fond memories playing Half-life 1 and its expansions.

The team behind Black Mesa did a very, very good job. The game looks absolutely beautiful, they really put the Source engine to good use. I eagerly await the Black Mesa team to release the Xen levels sometime in the future. I won't mind if it takes another long period of time, because Black Mesa was definitely worth the wait.

And as for gibbing, it's still there! Though there is notably less and you can't cause corpses to burst into gibs (at least by crow-barring them).

Vortigaunts -> Can be gibbed if killed by explosive weapons (torso and limbs).
Soldiers -> Can blow off limbs
Barnacles -> When you kill them they drop various human gib pieces (eyeballs, skull, etc).
 
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