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Steam Early Access Black Mesa out
A teaser countdown on a website related to Half-Life fan remake Black Mesa has come to an end, and it's revealed a Steam Early Access version of the project that's now available. $20 gets you the Early Access version of Black Mesa, which contains roughly 85 percent of the single-player campaign.
This represents an estimated 10 hours of gameplay right now--everything up to the Lambda Core chapter. That means the Xen chunks of Half-Life still aren't here; they were also missing from the free, unfinished version of the game released in 2012. This Early Access release also offers multiplayer, with deathmatch and team deathmatch modes on six "completely reimagined" maps from the original Half-Life currently available.
Black Mesa is a re-envisioning of Valve Software's seminal classic Half-Life. Gordon Freeman and his unforgettable journey through the Black Mesa Research Facility have been lovingly re-created to capture the full spirit of the original game, without 1998’s graphical limitations. This is Half-Life the way it was meant to be played!
Expect tremendously detailed environments, old-school tough-as-nails combat, and a gripping story with memorable characters. The all-new soundtrack, voice acting, choreography and dialogue create a more expansive and immersive experience than ever before. Nostalgia has never felt so fresh!
The Steam release of Black Mesa includes various fixes, upgrades, and new features since Black Mesa’s mod release.
Heavily updated single player experience – The Black Mesa single player experience has greatly improved from the mod release; new visuals, new voice over, updated gameplay encounters, stability changes and more. Xen is not part of the Steam release of Black Mesa, but will included as a free update when it is ready.
Black Mesa Multiplayer – Fight with or against your friends, in two game modes across six iconic maps from the Half-Life Deathmatch universe: Bounce, Gasworks, Lambdabunker, Stalkyard, Subtransit and Undertow.
Custom Modding Tools – Use the same tools the developers used to create your own mods, modes and maps for Black Mesa and Black Mesa Multiplayer …
Fully integrated Workshop – … and then share your work on the fully integrated workshop!
Complete Steam Integration – Collect trading cards, backgrounds, emoticons, achievements, and everything else you would expect out of a Steam integrated game
More info here.
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#5064567 Posted on: 05/06/2015 08:52 PM
Too little, waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too late. And not for that price in early access, for crissakes.
Too little, waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too late. And not for that price in early access, for crissakes.
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#5064572 Posted on: 05/06/2015 08:59 PM
Bought for the MP, if you want to bitch go bitch about those Metro remakes.
Bought for the MP, if you want to bitch go bitch about those Metro remakes.
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#5064639 Posted on: 05/06/2015 10:16 PM
Why do people call it a mod? It's not a mod of anything. It's a remake. From scratch. Using the Source engine.
If this is a mod, then Half Life 2 is a mod. How many people call Half Life 2 a mod?
I called it a MOD because I was under the impression it used to require the Source engine to use (i.e not entirely stand alone). No need to get all flustered about it to be honest. Counter Strike was a mod, Day of Defeat was, Team fortress was and I assumed this was too. It maybe stand alone now but since it's a remake of a Valve game using the Valve engine that wasn't licensed I saw it as a mod since typically you can't distribute game engines for free.
Why do people call it a mod? It's not a mod of anything. It's a remake. From scratch. Using the Source engine.
If this is a mod, then Half Life 2 is a mod. How many people call Half Life 2 a mod?
I called it a MOD because I was under the impression it used to require the Source engine to use (i.e not entirely stand alone). No need to get all flustered about it to be honest. Counter Strike was a mod, Day of Defeat was, Team fortress was and I assumed this was too. It maybe stand alone now but since it's a remake of a Valve game using the Valve engine that wasn't licensed I saw it as a mod since typically you can't distribute game engines for free.
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#5064645 Posted on: 05/06/2015 10:21 PM
Half Life 1, 2, episodes, best FPS adventure games ever made. Black Mesa as remake with better graphics will fall in that category.
The game is exactly the same as original Half Life, except it uses more modern Source engine, therefore, far better graphics. You will probably enjoy it quite a bit, I can only recommend Half Life series (any game, episodes etc.), because it is worth.
While I don't or wont disagree that the HL series were fantastic on release I'm not sure how "epic" they'd be in today's world for someone who won't have any nostalgia at all. I mean I just see it like films, where on release it was magical and like nothing before then after a few years someone who's never seen it watches it and is like "it's alright" since there's lots of others that have used the ideas and expanded upon them. HL2 gave us physics like never before, now a game without physics would be laughed at.
Half Life 1, 2, episodes, best FPS adventure games ever made. Black Mesa as remake with better graphics will fall in that category.
The game is exactly the same as original Half Life, except it uses more modern Source engine, therefore, far better graphics. You will probably enjoy it quite a bit, I can only recommend Half Life series (any game, episodes etc.), because it is worth.
While I don't or wont disagree that the HL series were fantastic on release I'm not sure how "epic" they'd be in today's world for someone who won't have any nostalgia at all. I mean I just see it like films, where on release it was magical and like nothing before then after a few years someone who's never seen it watches it and is like "it's alright" since there's lots of others that have used the ideas and expanded upon them. HL2 gave us physics like never before, now a game without physics would be laughed at.
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Half Life 1, 2, episodes, best FPS adventure games ever made. Black Mesa as remake with better graphics will fall in that category.
The game is exactly the same as original Half Life, except it uses more modern Source engine, therefore, far better graphics. You will probably enjoy it quite a bit, I can only recommend Half Life series (any game, episodes etc.), because it is worth.