New Black Mesa trailer is out

[cbre88x]

Source (at this point) has a competent HDR implementation and supports any kind of DX9 shaders you would want to do.  You don't tend to see a lot of super bumpmapped and shit characters, but I think that's for the best, as that generally looks pretty stupid to me.  I think it's mostly lacking in dynamic lighting and shadows and it's old mapping tech though.  The lack of being able to stream maps together makes HL2 and it episodes feel really dated when you hit those damn loading screens between areas.  That shit really has to go if they plan to make a lengthy single player game after the HL2 Episodes (I mean, it'd be nice if it was sooner, but I doubt it).  It doesn't really have much in the way of terrain/foiliage generators either, but most of the games that do have some of that shit outsourced to Speedtree or something anyways.  On the plus side, it's facial animation system hasn't really seen anything better come along since, though the characters in L4D (especially Louis) tend to look a little bugeyed and weird a lot of the time (probably the models fault mostly).
As for mods, most of that is simply the fact that this isn't the days of friggin' HL1, and coming up with artists to do work for free that is of the quality expected nowadays just isn't that easy.

Dayum. +1 Good sir.

[at0m]

This is now the unofficial Black Mesa thread.

News:

[Eschatos]

Congratulations, you just pushed the release back another four years.

[at0m]

Congratulations, you just pushed the release back another four years.

It is a pretty epic necro, but it was the only thread that had black mesa in the subject line.

[at0m]

Also, it's out now. http://release.blackmesasource.com/pages...nager.html

[A. Crow]

also, website is fucked.  I thought this shit was supposed to be out on steam because of greenlight?

[at0m]

I thought so too. Maybe they're doing an independent torrent to get it distributed then you can install it into steam?

Direct link to the torrent site: http://www.gameupdates.org/details.php?id=5152&dllist=1 which is also down, looks like

Also if you actually do get the torrent file, add this tracker as the primary tracker, because the GameUpdates one is melting: udp://tracker.publicbt.com:80

[A. Crow]

yeah, every single one of the mirrors is fucked. 

I'm going to lunch. 

[K2]

http://www.mediafire.com/?khmzyygg4vetko0

Here's the torrent with more trackers.

Also it only got Greenlit a few days ago, so I'm not surprised you can't get it directly through Steam yet.

EDIT: Got it downloaded and installed. It's really good so far.

[A. Crow]

this installing is taking an exceedingly long time to unpack. 

also, I'm being good and seeding. 

[Reevesith]

hmm got out of the test chamber  & in to the area after poop hits the on switch for the poop storm. decided to lower the setting a bit. the fire & smoke lags me down quite a bit. But by doing so it crashed the game. looks great so far

[K2]

A few hours in, and so far it's fucking fantastic. If any of you haven't played HL1 before, you are required to play this. Failure to do so will result in immediate termination.

[Chief]

having a crappy computer makes me feel as if im missing out on the awesome as fuck graphics going on

still pretty good though, seems like a triple a game for it being a mod

[A. Crow]

My favorite discovery so far is that while window are breakable, venetian blinds are the single most indestructible material on earth.

Clearly these modders never owned cats.  

also, anyone notice the vortigaunts really fucking hurt now?

[[fr31ns]Karrde]

Yeah the vorts are actually a threat now XD  And alas, not even BM could save On a Rail.  That chapter is just universally bad.  On a rail shoulda been a 10 foot go kart ride before the rocket area.

[at0m]

no spoilers about anything plzkthnx, shit just came out, let me enjoy it

[CaffeinePowered]

no spoilers about anything plzkthnx, shit just came out, let me enjoy it

Its HL1, but with better graphics (like really really really brick by brick reconstruction)

<Spoiled>

[backfire]

So I had a thing happen.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNd6d_grW7c#ws

[at0m]

[quote author=at0m link=topic=1880.msg253834#msg253834 date=1347681047]
no spoilers about anything plzkthnx, shit just came out, let me enjoy it

Its HL1, but with better graphics (like really really really brick by brick reconstruction)

<Spoiled>
[/quote]Except that. Everyone knows that.

[Versus]

So I had a thing happen.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNd6d_grW7c#ws

i did this with an office chair just after you get the glock