Black Mesa Source mod coming late this year

News Reader · Post by **News Reader** » February 17th, 2009, 17:00

Black Mesa Source mod coming late this year
The modding group behind the massively anticipated Black Mesa Mod has put a new date on its release; later this year.

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Publish Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2009 13:40:42 +0000
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Pete edit - that fucking broken image link is still there.

buzzmong · Post by **buzzmong** » February 17th, 2009, 17:08

Not even employed by Valve yet are also running under ValveTime.

Baliame · Post by **Baliame** » February 17th, 2009, 18:06

Doesn't really matter, I guess they're getting hired anyway soon as it's out.

Post by **HereComesPete** » February 18th, 2009, 0:31

I loved the game play through half life. Even though it was at some points baffling to me as to where the mallard I should go next. Valve time promises great things!

mrbobbins · Post by **mrbobbins** » February 18th, 2009, 8:52

Who needs this when I have Half Life: Source!

______@__

Post by **TezzRexx** » February 18th, 2009, 9:44

I've forgotten when I first heard about this but I've wanted hard for a long time.

Fear · Post by **Fear** » February 18th, 2009, 11:38

TezzRexx wrote:I've wanted hard for a long time.

There are little blue pills that can help with this.

Well, so I heard.

Post by **TezzRexx** » February 18th, 2009, 11:42

Post by **HereComesPete** » February 18th, 2009, 15:20

You might want a paternity test if that problems been going for a while tezz.

Sheriff Fatman · Post by **Sheriff Fatman** » February 18th, 2009, 16:24

Sorry, I don't see the point. Half Life was an OK game at best. Why people are getting excited about a re-make of a game almost everyone has played already, I'll never understand.

spoodie · Post by **spoodie** » February 18th, 2009, 16:31

Sheriff Fatman wrote:Sorry, I don't see the point. Half Life was an OK game at best. Why people are getting excited about a re-make of a game almost everyone has played already, I'll never understand.

You're missing the point because your opinion of Half-life is wrong.

Personally I loved HL1 back in the day and played through it multiple times, it was amazing then. But how it's going to hold-up now, with the graphical update, remains to be seen.

buzzmong · Post by **buzzmong** » February 18th, 2009, 16:50

Remember, this isn't an straight update of it.

They've tweaked the story, added "cut" items, monsters and levels, as well as adding their own stuff to it. They've been through and improved the flow of levels and events.

The attention to detail is staggering as well, they completely reegineered lots of it, such as the cockroach entity, so instead of having only a handful availble due processing constraints, they can now have *loads* of them in places.

Think of it more as a 1.5 version then a straight port, hence the reason why it's taking a long time. It's going to be the same but different, rather then just more pretty.

I'm looking forward to it, as the HL:S version was a poor port, considering it was meant to be "reengineered and reimagined" for the source engine, yet simply turned out to be imported (and retextured) maps which took advantage of the prettier particle effects and graphical environmental effects (the water).

Post by **ProfHawking** » February 18th, 2009, 23:35

i cant wait for thisss

mnnnnnn

spoodie · Post by **spoodie** » February 18th, 2009, 23:44

This does sound even better than I was expecting

Baliame · Post by **Baliame** » February 19th, 2009, 14:16

YES THIS IS GOING TO BLOW YOUR MIND.

I learned from Spore, if I have to pay for this, try first, buy later.

Stoat · Post by **Stoat** » February 19th, 2009, 14:29

Baliame wrote:I learned from Spore, if I have to pay for this, try first, buy later.

It always pays to keep rabid excitement in check. As for feedom, they've said it will definitely be free unless Valve come along at the last moment and start throwing their weight around (Not a direct quote, but similar ot what was said in the audio podcast thing I linked to a while back).