Shack PSA: Black Mesa now live
Black Mesa, a long-in-the-making fan mod that recreates the original Half-Life using the Source Engine, has finally launched today.
Grab your crowbars and spectacles, everyone. The Source engine fan remake of the original Half-Life is now available. It went live at 8:47 AM Mountain Time, which should sound awfully familiar to fans. The labor of love has taken eight years and has added a few notable tweaks to the classic, with at least one more revision on the way post-launch.
The Source mod has added some new bits of dialogue, and plans to make revisions to the Xen portion of the game sometime in the future. It opted to remove that part completely from the initial release. Other than those changes, it will be a much prettier version of Half-Life. The excitement was enough to garner a spot in the first batch of Steam's Greenlight program, and chances are we have more than a few Half-Life enthusiasts in the Shacknews audience.
You can grab the file from the official site. Also available is the full soundtrack for your listening pleasure. Download it from us.
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Black Mesa, a long-in-the-making fan mod that recreates the original Half-Life using the Source Engine, has finally launched today.-
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But if there's no Xen, it breaks the plot. Being as it is that it's the Borderworld where these random alien species are trapped, and also the jumping off point for the Combine to invade our dimension.
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And we wonder why Hollywood keeps remaking old movies.
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lol
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What the fuck?
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Sure they were (kinda). You have to click on the 'Black Mesa' tag to see everything tagged with it, and then toggle over to images.
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Found a place for the .torrent: http://www.mediafire.com/?khmzyygg4vetko0
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I do hope so...it's been a long time in anticipation
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Having the same issue - near the red lasers and no crowbar to break through the door after.
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I hear by give up my gamer card on Sept 15th, 2012 for being unable to crouch through a broken glass door from a game I've played before in the past.
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Apostrophes are not for pluralizing.
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lol, tell that to Valve.
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Multiplayer and Xen are coming later.
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zero
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Yes, with a few new bits of dialogue to go with it.
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If you're even slightly a shooter fan, grab this game. It will floor you and you will never forget where it takes you. It's 1998 all over again, in a 2012 graphically induced format.
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You try the torrent?
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If you're still having trouble, use this link instead - http://cf.shacknews.com/files/32999/BlackMesa.zip
That will not time out.
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After you install it, it says to restart steam and it will show up in your games library... I can attest that it does upon restart.
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Do I need HL1 to play thiS?
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No, just install Source SDK Base 2007 in your Steam library, which you can find under the "tools" submenu.
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This is fantastic so far. Minor bugs, of course, just like any other first release... but hats off to the Black Mesa team. Great job.
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