Black Mesa Source

[R5GTT]

Waited 8 years for this and I'm so happy right now!. Still a scary thought to think I was only 14 when the original came out. It's still one of the best FPS for its day, story wise and for just being different imho.

I'm playing it in 3D and it looks great so far. They've done a fantastic job on the music too,

 

[David_VI]

Its a mixed team I believe, people have come and gone through the years, I do know one of the main guys is Australian and another is from The States. Must be some Brits in there though

 

[Absomalutely]

I've heard that they're reskinning nihilanth to look like SuBo.

 

[SoAdCrAzY]

I've heard that they're reskinning nihilanth to look like SuBo.

Zing!

[EDIT] Does the Itchyosaur (sp?) make an appearance yet?

 

[David_VI]

Zing!

[EDIT] Does the Itchyosaur (sp?) make an appearance yet?

I saw the model of it on the wiki and I had horrible flashbacks, I think I fear that bit on BM the most :'(

 

[PinkFloyd]

Been playing this a bit today, loving it so far. Never really managed to get far with the original as I couldn't get into it with it looking so dated (shame on me?! )

Got up to the point where you start seeing the laser trip wires and so on, really enjoying it. Quite probably the best single player experience I've had in a long while!

 

[Radiation]

Great mod, the quality seems just right but whatever happened to that old Einstein looking scientist? either they changed him or he never appeared again in hl2 and this mod, shame as he was the most comical.

 

[deuse]

I'm playing it in 3D and it looks great so far. They've done a fantastic job on the music too,

Same here the mod and in 3D(passive) is awesome and I get 80fps with an old GTX 295

It puts a lot of these so called great games to shame.

 

[trickycurve]

Downloading from Shacknews at max bandwidth, so I should be able to actually play this thing in a about 15-20 minutes. Makes a change from the 100KB/s I was getting yesterday evening.

 

[i-bert]

Sorry but only just seen this thread, but do I need to install HL2 to play this?

 

[grant666uk]

Same here the mod and in 3D(passive) is awesome and I get 80fps with an old GTX 295

How did you get it to run in 3d mate ? Could not see the option for that.

 

[trickycurve]

Sorry but only just seen this thread, but do I need to install HL2 to play this?

You have to view Tools from the Steam library and download Source SDK 2007, which is free.

 

[i-bert]

You have to view Tools from the Steam library and download Source SDK 2007, which is free.

Thanks dude

 

[deuse]

How did you get it to run in 3d mate ? Could not see the option for that.

I use a LG 3D passive with Tridef , setup page is here http://www.tridef.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=2493

 

[R5GTT]

I'm using nvidia vision for 3D. Still get on average 100+fps only dropping to 60-80 in some areas with a lot of smoke. That's with everything cranked up on a 680GTX. Without 3D it's hitting the 300fps limiter in the office levels and staying close to 200 everywhere else

 

[dmcg]

this is why sdk's are good , looking at you console studios

 

[Dave85]

This mod is EPIC !

 

[DEL 707]

Everywhere I tried to download from either gave me crap speeds, or the 1's that did download were corrupted

In the end I used the torrent which did work.

Only played an hour so far, but it's easy to tell a lot of love has gone into this game

 

[V_R]

This is great. One issue though....

Is that something i've done or a known bug?

 

[barmyllama]

Anyone know how to reduce or remove the mid level loading?

Surely having 6GB of RAM and 1GB of VRAM is enough to play a whole level without any loading?