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Same foot steps (Minus the ‘Source’-ey ones), same voice actors, gun noises etc. In both Half-Life and Half-Life: Source, the original audio was pretty much left alone. I’d assume that whilst this’d create some different methods to play the game, some easier, some harder, the overall experience would be similar to that of Half-Life/Half-Life: Source. This means an overall fresher experience than previously seen, and probably less cross-engine bugs. Everything you see on Black Mesa has been created from scratch using SDK (Source Development Kit). This means that, unlike the Half-Life: Source version of the game, the entire game is built using the amazing Source engine. Black Mesa has rebuilt the entire game off Source.
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However, that update as I said, was mainly a physics update. If you look, the main changes between the original ‘goldsrc’ version of Half-Life and the updated Source version are textures (including water) and physics. Boxes would sway from side to side when hanging from the ceiling, items and people would float more realistically etc. Whilst we’ve already seen Half-Life on the Source engine, that was only a ‘physics’ update. Now, the biggest change in the way the game plays out would be the engine. Now obviously it’d help if I had played the actual game that I’m talking about, but seeing as despite trying for countless hours it just wouldn’t work, I’m going to have to do my best to convey to you the overall game-play mechanics of the game. Obviously, all these add-ons do not change the game-play. I don’t know about you guys but I sure can’t wait for that reveal when you finally reach the surface, by the mountain side out the vent? Man, that’ll be awesome!Įven further than just weapons and terrain, there are even map changes! All maps have been, as expected, up-res’d to look far better than their original counterparts, but some maps have had objects, sounds, NPC’s, effects and a whole host of other shenanigans in. Then the higher resolution version that was brought in with the HD Texture update, and now finally the Black Mesa update has finely tuned the back drops to make them look even more astounding. There was the old block, pixelated backing phase of Half-Life. Yet again, this is the third ‘phase’ of the terrain. Either way, it looks and even sounds amazing. Now, it looks like it’s returned to it’s routes and become a truly bad ass looking MP5. It looked like an MP5 variant with a mounted grenade launcher, then with the HD Texture update, it turned into a more M16 variant with a mounted grenade launcher. When the game first came out, the SMG was an SMG. Now, Half-Life’s weapons have already gone through two ‘weapon-phases’.
I don’t know if they have any sort of contract with Valve, but as far as I’m aware they’re entirely independent.
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There are two known builds of Black Mesa available.The graphics on this game look absolutely outstanding! They bring the original game of Half-Life up to par with today’s games, and besides, it’s a completely free mod created by an independent team that doesn’t get paid for this. The retail game was planned to include everything else that the mod was missing, such as the entire Xen portion of the game and multiplayer deathmatch. The project was also given the opportunity by Valve to be listed on Steam as a commercial retail game.
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In 2013, the project leader of the source mod was approached by Valve due to the growing popularity of the source mod and asked them to considering obtaining a license from them to port the game to the newly released Source Engine 2013, which would allow the team to utilize new graphical effects as well as porting the game to MacOS and Linux. The game was in development for a few years with no release until finally in September 14, 2012, the game was released as a downloadable source mod using Source Engine SDK Base 2007. Valve Software, however, did not like the idea of the project due to it including the name Source which implies the game is officially endorsed by Valve. At the time, the game was originally using the Counter-Strike: Source game for its base.
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Black Mesa originally started as most other popular source mods do: as a listing on ModDB.īlack Mesa's development began when two seperate projects ( Leakfree and Half-Life: Source Overhaul Project) decided to merge and call itself Black Mesa: Source.