Wakey wakey folks!!

Wakey wakey folks!!

Re: Wakey wakey folks!! Posted by haymaker on Sat Sep 8th 2012 at 3:36pm
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http://forums.blackmesasource.com/showthread.php?t=12295

I'm thinking, it's not April 1, and I've been drug free for a few years now, so it must the real thing
Re: Wakey wakey folks!! Posted by Niborius on Sat Sep 8th 2012 at 4:19pm
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Thanks for sharing! I'm not as excited as I used to be, but I'll definitely get it on its release date.
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Re: Wakey wakey folks!! Posted by Niborius on Fri Sep 14th 2012 at 3:45pm
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Re: Wakey wakey folks!! Posted by Crono on Fri Sep 14th 2012 at 9:34pm
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Aw shit, son!

Oh wow, 3.8GB, this'll take me like a whole hour to download D:
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Re: Wakey wakey folks!! Posted by Niborius on Fri Sep 14th 2012 at 9:56pm
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Yea the torrent worked best for me, as all of the other mirrors are either broken or very slow.

I think it took about 40 minutes to an hour to download. I've played it for a bit now and it's looking great so far!
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Re: Wakey wakey folks!! Posted by Crono on Tue Sep 18th 2012 at 4:16am
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Yeah so ... this thing is phenomenal. Lots of new types of gameplay. A complete revamp of how HL1 appeared and acted as well as a retroactive filling in of the gaps so HL1 actually fits with HL2.

This really has the potential to replace HL1 as sort of the go-to Half-Life 1 story experience.
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Re: Wakey wakey folks!! Posted by haymaker on Tue Sep 18th 2012 at 11:55pm
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Crono said:
Yeah so ... this thing is phenomenal. Lots of new types of gameplay. A complete revamp of how HL1 appeared and acted as well as a retroactive filling in of the gaps so HL1 actually fits with HL2.

This really has the potential to replace HL 3 as sort of the go-to Half-Life story experience.
Altered to suit my impressions so far! Apologies for the liberty taken, couldn't resist.

And yeah phenomenal is an apt term to use. Along with many other gushing adjectives...

A1
Re: Wakey wakey folks!! Posted by omegaslayer on Thu Sep 20th 2012 at 2:12am
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This really has the potential to replace HL 3 as sort of the go-to Half-Life story experience.
In what would would that make sense? HL3=redo of HL1? You're kidding me... Personally I thought HL2 did a better job of conveying the story experience to the player. BMS does a MUCH better job then HL1 certainly did with regards to the story experience.

Overall the game is A+. My only critique is that they kinda broke the jump mechanic with the addition of sprint - I always considered myself a great jumper in HL1 - this one I keep falling down pits. The release of bms was kinda bad too - The installer didn't add the mod to my steam games list, I had to do some forum diving to find the info I needed to make it appear - maybe steam can be blamed for that, but then again how difficult is it to make sure the current release of steam can load the game from the stand alone installer...
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Re: Wakey wakey folks!! Posted by Crono on Thu Sep 20th 2012 at 3:22am
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Yeah not being able to jump over railings and junk feels ... odd.
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Re: Wakey wakey folks!! Posted by haymaker on Fri Sep 21st 2012 at 5:06am
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omegaslayer said:
This really has the potential to replace HL 3 as sort of the go-to Half-Life story experience.
In what would would that make sense? HL3=redo of HL1? You're kidding me...
Yeah that was meant as a backhanded swipe at Valve and vaporware in general...

As far as jumping goes, I've missed a few times and some collisions are awkward, but sprint-jump-crouch/strafe works like I expected it to. Railings and junk have not posed problems for me somehow. What is starting to bother me is the clumsy weapon switching, the firefights are so intense I really miss the multiplayer-style 1-key press selection.

The more I encounter the HECUs, the dumber they appear, although still lethal. More than a few times I've been staring at the back of one's head 20 feet away, like they've forgot what they're doing. It's also sadly easy to 'corner-snipe' them, i dunno what all the fuss is about over at the official forum.
Re: Wakey wakey folks!! Posted by Crono on Fri Sep 21st 2012 at 7:29am
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Except, Half-Life 3 has never been announced. So, calling it vaporware is a stretch.
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Re: Wakey wakey folks!! Posted by Orpheus on Mon Oct 1st 2012 at 3:43pm
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I know that its gotta be me but I cannot find a single functioning link. I cannot find it on steam. I cannot seem to obtain this by any method.
I really must be losing my touch.

Does anyone know where I can get this?

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Re: Wakey wakey folks!! Posted by Niborius on Mon Oct 1st 2012 at 7:07pm
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I totally know what you mean, it took me a very long time before I was finally able to find a working download as well. I think it was even impossible on its release because of the massive download amount.

Anyway, I think I used a torrent to download black mesa. I believe you can find the torrent on the main site

Edit: There's 2 download links over here, Part 1 and Part 2, and there's also the torrent file: http://www.moddb.com/mods/black-mesa/downloads
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