black mesa is coming

T-Bag · September 06, 2012, 10:52:59 AM

Quote from: RizZy;357937There's so many games over the years I've started & couldn't be arsed to finish, steam sales don't help, half the games on there I've hardly touched :/

For every 10 games I buy I play about 5 and complete about 1 typically. Steam bundles often come with extras I don't want, and if two games hit at the same time sometimes I forget I bought the second one.

GhostMjr · September 15, 2012, 11:20:29 AM

Finally out!

http://release.blackmesasource.com/pages/download_manager.html

Simply download and install then restart steam and it should show within it.

All you will need is SDK BAse 2007 to run it: [ATTACH=CONFIG]1482[/ATTACH]

T-Bag · September 15, 2012, 11:39:16 AM

Played a bit last night. A few little tweaks that make quite a difference. Its a very professionally done mod with loads of skins, textures and voice acting (it's been so long since I played the original but I'm sure there's plenty of new bits).
Well worth picking up for free. I'm sure everyone here has the Source engine needed to play it.

Tutonic · September 15, 2012, 12:11:03 PM

It's terrific, and confirms (to me anyway) that Half-Life is still the best game ever made.

sulky_uk · September 15, 2012, 01:13:48 PM

dont bother downloading the 2 part rars as its a pain to get them working. filefront site is the way forward, just waiting on the install now

Doorman · September 15, 2012, 06:54:21 PM

I'm doing something very wrong, I must be. I've downloaded and installed HF2, Black Mesa and for reasons I know not, SDK 2007. I can run Black Mesa immediately after install (run BM now check box is ticked) but I'm damned if I can find the .exe for it. I have a HF2 shortcut and that simply starts...er, HF2. I have an SDK2007 shortcut and just starts a graphics stress test and config. So interest is fading fast.

EDIT: Found it.

Blunt · September 15, 2012, 08:07:06 PM

Ron close and reopen Steam and it'll be in your games list

Doorman · September 15, 2012, 10:21:07 PM

Yeah, that what the EDIT meant.

TE_owner · September 17, 2012, 12:50:33 AM

Just finished it... Loved it, I really prefer health kits over regenerating health, it really shows how Game mechanics have evolved over the last decade... not necessarily for the better either.

DuVeL · September 17, 2012, 10:15:09 AM

Quote from: Carr0t;175208They're going with the good old "When It's Done", and good on 'em for it too. I'd rather wait 3 years for this and have it awesome from the get-go than have it come out in 6 months and be full of bugs.

I think that happend haha. Although the game did crash for me allready once while closing down...

Doorman · September 17, 2012, 12:51:07 PM

It's like walking down Memory lane. See a crate, smash it up. Marvellous!

OldBloke · September 17, 2012, 06:42:44 PM

Am I the only one who meticulously made sure I rounded up and kept safe all the guards and scientists (4+2 in my case) only to find they couldn't climb a bloody ladder :doh:

Loving it ... although I've got lost more than once.

Blunt · September 17, 2012, 06:52:52 PM

I spent an hour last night battling my way out of a doorway and across the launch pad,
only to discover, on my sweep for goodies, a machine gun nest I could've used...doh!

Great fun!

Snokio · September 17, 2012, 07:26:09 PM

where is the best place to download this from? I tried one download, took hours and found it was corrupt

T-Bag · September 17, 2012, 09:50:45 PM

Quote from: Snokio;358482where is the best place to download this from? I tried one download, took hours and found it was corrupt

The official torrent worked well for me. Though took a while to get above 100kb/s but it finished in about an hour and that was right when it launched. I imagine many more seeds than leechers now.