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Black Mesa Source

posted 16 years ago by internets-1
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Any estimates about the release date?

[–] zZenoXx 16 years ago

What is Black Mesa Source?

=P
Seriously I've never heard of it...

''TECHNOLOGY IS A LIE, SENT BY LIBERALS TO KILL US!''
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[–] ManlyStump 16 years ago

Well chrille_pille92 clearly isn't going to help you, but I'm afraid there's no release date planned. I can tell you that they've been working on it since late 2004 and they're probably not even half way through working on it yet.

Another note, Valve asked them to remove the Source from their title so as to avoid confusion between official and third-party games, so it's just known as Black Mesa now.

[–] jamiemcgrory 16 years ago

He may not be of any assistance but it seems you could have taken 10 seconds to explain this game to him.
I do not know of it either, please enlighten me.

I eat Lions

[–] mjaxtell-1 16 years ago

Black Mesa Source is a ground-up re-building of Half-Life 1 using the Source engine, not to be confused with HL1 Source. Having never really played HL1 (I got to it a bit late and can't get past the graphics, I know, graphics snob...), i'm looking forward to it. Its frustrating because its been in the works for years, somebody took a disliking to the website and hacked it god-knows how many times, and they seem to think that their time is better spent writing devblogs than actually getting on with the game. But the graphics look unbe-bloody-lievable. When it's finally done, were in for a treat.

[–] ManlyStump 16 years ago

Gotta agree with you there mjaxtell-1, the graphics on BM are jaw-dropping. For those of you unfamiliar with it should check out these level design shots:

http://blackmesasource.com/media_levels.php

[–] zZenoXx 16 years ago

You know... the graphics was one of the main reasons I couldn't get into HL1.
So this will be something fun to try.
=)

''TECHNOLOGY IS A LIE, SENT BY LIBERALS TO KILL US!''
- GTA IV, WKTT Talk Radio

[–] internets-1 16 years ago

I know the release date for the dev team has always been "when it's done", but I was just wondering what other people thought the release date might be or if the project will just go belly up like most highly ambitious mods do.

[–] jamiemcgrory 16 years ago

That looks really good, I only got about a quarter of the way into HL1 before I got a bit sidetracked by CS, is it going to be coming out on 360 by any chance?

I eat Lions

[–] internets-1 16 years ago

No chance at all, PC mods never get direct ports to consoles. As far as I know cs is the only pc mod that ever made it to consoles and it was just a crappy spinoff, not cs 1.6

[–] hl_world 16 years ago

As soon as this comes out, I can use the black mesa textures for mapping.

[–] ManlyStump 16 years ago

As soon as this comes out, I can use the black mesa textures for mapping.

Only with their permission, I'm afraid.

[–] hl_world 16 years ago

Not true. Compiled maps reference VMT and material & VTF texture files which can be extracted and edited or even converted, in VTFs case, back to TGAs. Believe me, I know this stuff.

[–] ManlyStump 16 years ago

That just means you can technically get hold of their texture files. Doesn't mean you have legal rights to!