Black Mesa Source

Just completed it, great game epic run up to the portal jump loved the reactor stuff very good puzzles there.

forgot just how good hl1 is and this nice little bit off polish and HD have done it justice.
I hope Valve gets them to do something bc they deserve it.
 
Taziir said:
I'm in no particular hurry to play, the mod was in development for almost forever (tm) so I can wait longer. And yes, if it takes them finishing Xen to release on Steam, then I'm happy with that. I'm probably in the minority that didn't hate Xen and the Nihilanth encounter too !

Just call it personal preference, I want to play with achievements, any presumable kinks having been ironed out and if the story is complete then all the better.
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I thought I was the only one who liked Xen, it really felt otherworldly and eerie.
 
misterPK said:
Finally got chance to complete it last night. Brilliant game! :D

Has anybody in here got the Hidden Hat achievement yet?

I've found it, but I can't get through the portals up the reactor core with it. I can't seem to pick it up on the rare occasion I get it to safely land on the rotor.

In the end I just gave up and left it behind. I've got a save with it so I can go back and try again later.
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Are you sure that you've got the right hat? You need the one from the last encounter with the Assassins.

When you are entering the portals, make sure you enter them sideways when carrying the hat. Normally you'll either be left holding it or it will drop on the platform
 
I get a crash any time I try to start the fan by the jet engine to kill the three headed pit monster. Quite early on :(.

And the perceived internet fix seems to be "destroy all the boxes and the zombie in the area".
 
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platypus said:
I get a crash any time I try to start the fan by the jet engine to kill the three headed pit monster. Quite early on :(.

And the perceived internet fix seems to be "destroy all the boxes and the zombie in the area".
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I had the same bug, you have to throw all the boxes into the pit, just breaking them up doesn't help.
Or you can use console commands to delete all the destructible stuff maybe.
 
I've just got to the bit where you get out of the pipes and can see the whole Canyon, sneak around on the rocky ledges and the difficulty seems to have jumped up by a 100 times! I'm getting cut up by the soldiers in a couple of shots and they seem to have ridiculous aim.

I've just done the helicopter battle and it took like 10-12 rockets, is this right on normal difficulty?
 
Just completed this today and i've got to say i've not had this much anticipation waiting for the full thing since Halo 2 years ago on the XBox. Jumped through the portal and it ended there, I sat at my PC with my mouth open feeling gutted that it was over! :(

If anyone hasn't played this yet then stop what you're doing and play it! Makes such a nice change from all these aim-down-sigh, modern FPS shooters that it's like a fresh breath of air.

Posted some screenshots in the screenshot thread if anyone is interested.

Again, amazing 'mod' if you even want to call it that, has Valve said anything about this?
 
Well finally got round to finishing it, fantastic conversion of a great game. Would be interesting to get a perspective from new/younger players who never played the original to see how they think this stacks up against current games.
 
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