Gonna download it tonight. I've been watching this project crawl along for years. I'm thrilled it's finally out!
So... Black Mesa
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This is really great! Totally worth the wait.
They've improved so much more than I expected. I always thought of it as a graphical overhaul of Half-Life 1 but they've remade pretty much everything and it still feels like Half-Life. The best part is the soundtrack, I love it. I wouldn't mind at all paying for this mod.
I'm really eager to see now what they're going to do with Xen. I can understand if they need more time to make it not suck.
They've improved so much more than I expected. I always thought of it as a graphical overhaul of Half-Life 1 but they've remade pretty much everything and it still feels like Half-Life. The best part is the soundtrack, I love it. I wouldn't mind at all paying for this mod.
I'm really eager to see now what they're going to do with Xen. I can understand if they need more time to make it not suck.
Played a bit, love the updated visuals and voice acting. Was slightly confused by the new layouts but the new set pieces are great. Well worth the wait.
You don't know the worst of it i'm located less than one km from a one gigabit hub the problem is i'm not eligible which means I am currently sitting a 50kb/s 20 hours left for BM:S yayToastiestZombie said:
As someone who replays the original Half-Life at least once a year I was at first really thrown by the layout changes and when you get certain weapons, but after a few more hours it was nice as even though this is a game i have played many, many times, there where still surprises there for me.
Love this Mod and All hail the amazing men and women who made it.
Love this Mod and All hail the amazing men and women who made it.
Anyone know what the go is with it being greenlighted on Steam?
I was thinking of waiting until the Steam release so that I don't have to download it twice, but if I can download it now and easily and add it to steam later without having to re-download it, I may justgrab it now.
I was thinking of waiting until the Steam release so that I don't have to download it twice, but if I can download it now and easily and add it to steam later without having to re-download it, I may justgrab it now.
I've just moved out to the US, and my flatmate has a pretty hefty connection. I should have this downloaded in about 2 hours 
I'll leave it to seed overnight. Good luck to all our friends in broadband-limited regions. It sounds like it'll be worth the wait
-Nick
I'll leave it to seed overnight. Good luck to all our friends in broadband-limited regions. It sounds like it'll be worth the wait -Nick
The torrent file is probably the best way to go until it gets onto Steam GL, the other download mechanisms are getting hammered by requests.
What on earth are your specs? Steam is one of the lightest programs.Tanis said:
K1CKER said:lol your speeds are funny
here`s mine:
I was actually thinking of replaying the old Half Life, good thing this came out before I did.
I envy you and you download speeds at my highest speed I push around 900kbs and you trippled looking forward to this my first half life game yay
You know the game defaults to easy right? Did you check the difficulty before you started?Kopikatsu said:
I have to agree. The military will shoot your head off if you stand around for one second. Then again, turning Always Run on kind of helps since you'll need to do alot of dodging.matrix3509 said:
Damn, it's so good...
It's obvious they've been working on something here for 8 years, and not something they've slapped together in 6 months. Immense amount of detail to models and layout, voice acting and characters are also great. Barney sounds like Barney, but each Barney looks different. Kleiner looks and sounds like kleiner, and the rest of the scientists are just as great. My only complaints would be some of the female scientists' voice work didn't seem s convincing, and Eli looks like Eli, but his voice doesn't have that same warm and fuzzy feeling to it.
Other than that my only minor game-play oriented complaint would be that jumping is a little bit too short, or the obstacles a re little bit too high. You really have to time your crouch-jumps a lot in sections where you'd usually just jump over it and be done with it. In Black Mesa though it feels like I have to try 1-3 times before I can actually get on top of something.
Also only had 1 crash so far.
Music is great, better than the original.
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It's obvious they've been working on something here for 8 years, and not something they've slapped together in 6 months. Immense amount of detail to models and layout, voice acting and characters are also great. Barney sounds like Barney, but each Barney looks different. Kleiner looks and sounds like kleiner, and the rest of the scientists are just as great. My only complaints would be some of the female scientists' voice work didn't seem s convincing, and Eli looks like Eli, but his voice doesn't have that same warm and fuzzy feeling to it.
Other than that my only minor game-play oriented complaint would be that jumping is a little bit too short, or the obstacles a re little bit too high. You really have to time your crouch-jumps a lot in sections where you'd usually just jump over it and be done with it. In Black Mesa though it feels like I have to try 1-3 times before I can actually get on top of something.
Also only had 1 crash so far.
Music is great, better than the original.
EDIT: More