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Originally requiring Source SDK 2007, Black Mesa is now considered standalone and now available at Steam. The original release date for the project was set for 2009, but was delayed for 3 years. On the 1st of September, 2012, the project leader Carlos Montero (cman2k) had announced that Black Mesa will be released in 12 days [1] and posted a countdown on the official website. [3]
The multiplayer and early access was made available on the 5th of May 2015. Throughout 2019, each part of the Xen chapters were released, with the final "Nihilanth" being released before the year was out. On March 6th, 2020, the game was fully released, 15 years after it originally started development.
Black Mesa, whose development began in November 2004, was born of the discontent fans experienced when playing Half-Life: Source; when considering the living environment Valve created with Half-Life 2 using the Source engine, the original game fell far short of what many players thought could be done with the software, basically being a straight port, except for improved water and lighting effects along with the inclusion of ragdoll physics. According to the developers, "Black Mesa: Source was built and founded on the principle that Half-Life: Source did not do the original title enough credit... [Black Mesa] set out to reconstruct the original title, giving it new environments, models, and abilities."
Black Mesa features original textures, models, sounds, voice acting, and music (composed and produced by the mod's sound designer, Joel Nielsen)[4] designed specifically for the mod. However the developers intend to preserve all of the gameplay elements from the original game, without adding entirely new enemies, weapons, or levels. Some Half-Life 2 models were used with custom textures, such as the crowbar, the Headcrab, the Barnacle, and the crow.
Since development began, the team has released many images, including in-game screenshots of most chapters and multiplayer maps, model renders, concept art, as well as several gameplay videos and trailers, and excerpts from the soundtrack.
Most likely due to the amount of publicity given to an unofficial third-party mod, Valve Corporation privately asked the producers of the mod to remove the "Source" part from the title to avoid confusion on whether it is an official Valve product or not.
The developers released a teaser trailer in early 2007, and a full-length preview trailer in late 2008. They have also released images, videos, and concept art during the project's development. Black Mesa was given an official release date of "late 2009" in the spring of 2009, but this date has since been changed to "when it's done", after the development team was unable to fulfill this date.
After almost 8 years of development, the mod was released on September 14, 2012, although it is only playable up to the Lambda Core. Xen and the later chapters were excluded due to being unfinished at the time and slated for a release at some point in the future. As of September 11th, 2012, Black Mesa was accepted into the Steam Greenlight service with the next release to include the missing Xen chapters and possibly also the Deathmatch multiplayer segment. The developers stated this version of the game would be a paid-for version but that the free version would still be available.
In May 2015, Black Mesa was released as a Steam Early Access, however it still did not include the Xen chapters but did include Deathmatch multiplayer mode. The old 2012 version however won't be updated anymore due to technical and time constraints.
In November 2018, an update containing Xen was announced on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of Half-Life, given an official release date of 2019.[5] The first part of the chapter Xen was released on June 25th, 2019 as part of a technical beta.[6] The rest of the chapter Xen, along with Gonarch's Lair, became available on August 2nd,[7] and the first part of Interloper was released on October 1st.[8] The final chapters of the storyline were eventually released on December 7th.[9]
The four Xen chapters (Xen, Gonarch's Lair, Interloper, and Nihilanth) were all completely overhauled, greatly expanded, and improved in comparison to those in the original game, which at the time were considered the weakest part of the game. Gonarch's Lair is now a full chapter rather than just a boss fight, whereas Nihilanth remains strictly a boss fight.
Other minor characters seen in Half-Life 2 are possibly also seen. For example, the headcrab that Kleiner inspects could be Lamarr. Dr. Arne Magnusson is indirectly referenced if the player interacts with the microwave in the break room in "Anomalous Materials".
Other voiced roles include the Black Mesa Announcement System, both under civilian control (Victoria Teunissen, including the tram ride) and military control (Cris Mertens), the HEV Suit (Kevin Sisk), most male scientists (Mike Hillard), female scientists (Lurana Hillard), and The Stanley Parable narrator Kevan Brighting in a cameo guest role as one of the scientists who speaks to Gordon before he enters the room with the Anti-Mass Spectrometer.
Like the original Half-Life, the game includes groups of scientists and security guards that Gordon comes across during his path, although all the models have more varieties. Some of the scientists and guards have names of their own revealed through dialogue. HECU Marines appear again, including medics (which were mentioned in Half-Life but did not make their proper introduction until Opposing Force); the latter will heal wounded Marines as long as Gordon is at some distance away from them, and now they wield the same primary weapons (MP5/SPAS-12) as the regular soldiers. In the retail release, the medical personnel are more appropriately referred to as corpsmen, seeing as real-life Marines receive treatment by Navy hospital corpsmen as opposed to medics. Some HECU soldiers occasionally use RPGs, likely substituting the mounted M202A1 FLASH that is absent from Black Mesa. In some instances, soldiers also use mounted Browning M2 heavy machine guns.
In the mod version, HECU Marines were always heard communicating with loud voices via radio, like in Half-Life. However, the Steam Early Access release has replaced their chatter with more suitable voice lines performed by a new voice actor (Michael Tsarouhas). This resulted in the soldiers sounding much more human than before, especially that they ended up speaking with an unfiltered voice during normal circumstances, similarly to Opposing Force. This has been altered in the full 1.0 release, where gas-mask soldiers exclusively use radio-filtered voice lines, which are edited versions of the lines from the Early Access release.
Black Ops assassins (voiced by Janet Oliver Wilson) also return, now wearing what appear to be black Advanced Knee Replacements or Long Fall Boots from the Portal series. They also wield dual Glock 17 pistols (as opposed to a single one like the original game), and while they don't have visible suppressors, the sound effects indicate otherwise. Unlike in Half-Life, where security guards only carry Glock 17s, some guards are equipped with the Colt Python and SPAS-12 shotgun, which boost their effectiveness somewhat (although shotgun-equipped guards are immobile while firing).
The battle with the Gonarch is now much longer and much more brutal. The creature can now rapidly launch pieces of rubble at the player; its charge can go through scenery, and is impossible to avoid without long jumping. It launches the player backward a huge distance, and it has to be outrun in certain sections. It still has the Headcrab launch and explosive toxin attacks, but now it also has the ability to fire green globs of acid that explode after a few seconds. Additionally, it is possible to spawn three Gonarchs during the Nihilanth fight at the end. This can be done by pressing the "use" key on three specific plants present in the chamber; the Gonarchs will appear as soon as the player destroys the Nihilanth's three healing crystals.
During the chapter "Interloper", all Vortigaunts are docile towards Gordon. This behavior, understandably a rebellion against the Nihilanth, was carried over from the original game, where this was only the case at one instance; it helps provide context for the Vortigaunts' reverential behavior towards Gordon in Half-Life 2. Early in the chapter, an Alien Grunt is seen beating up a Vortigaunt while another Grunt keeps an eye on the other frightened Vortigaunts, until Gordon intervenes. While they do not assist Freeman in direct combat, the Vortigaunts will help him in a few tasks, such as disabling some force fields that were blocking his path. However, Alien Controllers will sometimes appear, and will force them to attack Gordon. Unlike in the original, the Vortigaunts will immediately resume their passive behavior when the Alien Controllers are killed.
It should be noted that Alien Grunts are more agile in Xen than they were on Earth, being able to strafe faster and jump towards elevated surfaces. It is also made explicit in this section that Alien Grunts are biomechanically altered Vortigaunts. The Vortigaunts are forced to perform the process of transmutation upon themselves on their brethren in factories within the Nihilanth's tower.
Finally, the Nihilanth is far more challenging than his original counterpart, and has various types of attacks and moves to try and kill Gordon Freeman. Unlike the original version, this one doesn't teleport the player to separate parts of the map, but will occasionally teleport some large objects from Earth and throw them at Gordon.
The same handheld weapons from Half-Life appear, remodeled, although the behavior of some of them has been modified in single-player. For example, the MP5 has a realistic 30-round magazine and less reserve ammunition than before, but deals higher damage, is more accurate, and fires M203 grenades faster. Another example is that the Crossbow deals extremely high damage (being capable of killing an Alien Grunt with one hit in the unarmored part of the torso, even in Hard mode), at the expense of a very low fire rate and much less bolts in reserve. Weapons with magazines also take more time to reload if the magazine is empty. Two mounted weapons are usable: the Browning M2 machine gun, and the BGM-71 TOW missile launcher (which replaces the M198 Howitzer from the original game).
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