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Home News Black Mesa Starts Countdown, Only Days From Ending Its 8-Year Development Cycle

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Black Mesa Starts Countdown, Only Days From Ending Its 8-Year Development Cycle

Posted on Sunday, September 2 @ 11:44:34 Eastern by Jonathan_Leack

Did you actually think Black Mesa was vaporware? Think again.

BlackMesaSource.com now has a countdown available which appears to coincide with the mod's release. Several signs—including this letter—point toward it including the first 14 chapters while excluding Xen, a section that many don't have happy memories of. The countdown ends on September 14th at 8:47am MST which also happens to be the time stated during the introduction of Half-Life.

Black Mesa is a volunteer project that aims to recreate the enthralling world of Half-Life within the much more capable Source engine. Although a Half-Life: Source was released in 2004, it made no visual improvements to what was already considered a dated game at the time, and thus Black Mesa was born. You can expect to see ragdoll physics, improved textures and character models, as well as more believable facial animations.

Since its announcement almost a decade ago Black Mesa has gone through some revisions, mostly by incorporating new versions of the Source engine. This is quite possibly the most ambitious gaming mod of all time, and that alone should earn your attention if its price tag of zero wasn't enough. I'm hoping it'll be downloadable through Steam, and since it will attract attention to Valve's Half-Life universe it's likely, but no confirmation has been made.
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  • Sourdeez
    Sourdeez
    Joined: Feb 2012
    Posted: Sep 2nd, 2012 at 12:21 pm
    Half Life 2 for the IOS. Im calling it.
    0 1
  • Sourdeez
    Sourdeez
    Joined: Feb 2012
    Posted: Sep 2nd, 2012 at 12:21 pm
    I also dont know **** :P
    0 0
  • Ivory_Soul
    Ivory_Soul
    Joined: Nov 2005
    Posted: Sep 2nd, 2012 at 12:42 pm
    WE JUST WANT HL2 EPISODE 3!! IS IT REALLY TOO MUCH TO ASK?!?!?! I swear Valve has completely canned the series and will never make it.
    0 3
  • cyberjim2000
    cyberjim2000
    Joined: Feb 2010
    Posted: Sep 2nd, 2012 at 2:35 pm
    Blackmesa is not being made by Valve. But yeah HL EP 3 would would be nice.
    0 0
  • Sammo
    Sammo
    Joined: Oct 2005
    Posted: Sep 2nd, 2012 at 5:10 pm
    I still have my fingers crossec
    0 0
  • TheJx4
    TheJx4
    Joined: Jun 2011
    Posted: Sep 2nd, 2012 at 4:25 pm
    Can't really see what the point of this was...

    They'll probably get hired though, so there's that.
    0 0
  • Jonathan_Leack
    Jonathan_Leack
    Joined: Jan 2012
    Posted: Sep 3rd, 2012 at 8:39 am
    Have you ever been a huge fan of something?

    Oh, and it looks great on a resume.
    0 0
  • TheJx4
    TheJx4
    Joined: Jun 2011
    Posted: Sep 4th, 2012 at 1:39 pm
    Not enough to dedicate that much effort into it. I think your time would be better spent doing something original...which is why I no longer work on Halo: OWaW.
    0 0
  • Chunibrow
    Chunibrow
    Joined: Mar 2010
    Posted: Sep 2nd, 2012 at 5:46 pm
    Half life is still one of my all time favourite games so this should be awesome
    0 0
  • MasterRabbi
    MasterRabbi
    Joined: May 2007
    Posted: Sep 4th, 2012 at 6:35 am
    Never finished the first HL, hoping now I can.
    0 0

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