Whether that will come to pass remains to be seen, but the team, which has expanded a lot over the years of the remake’s development, seems confident that it will do.Īlthough this latest announcement isn’t something that fans of Black Mesa wanted to hear, alongside the other detail reveals, the team has shown off a new type of lighting they are now adding to the rest of the game. It’s larger, more detailed and said to be more in line with the rest of the game in terms of “mechanics, cohesion, and expression.” The wait should be worth it though, as beyond just looking much more contemporary, with advanced lighting and particle effects made possible with modern renditions of the Source Engine, Xen is far more expansive a place to explore in Black Mesa. While those levels are now nearing completion and looking far prettier than anything in the original Half-Life, they still aren’t quite ready for prime time. Neither was entirely complete though, lacking the final Xen levels from the original Half-Life. However, a near-complete version was released in 2012 and a follow-up Steam Early Access edition hit in 2015. The Black Mesa remastering of the 1998 classic, Half-Life, has been in development in one guise or another since 2004 and its eventual release was questioned many times over the years. We now have to wait until December 2017 for its final release, though we’re told that the developers consider this as a “do-or-die” deadline. The bad news is that the game’s release has been pushed back again. The good news is that we have our first look at what the Xen levels will look like. When it comes to the Black Mesa HD recreation of the original Half-Life, we have some good and some bad news.
#BLACK MESA XEN PC#
Now when you headshot a zombie using the crossbow, they will no longer spawn a live headcrab. Fixed zombie headshots with the crossbow.
#BLACK MESA XEN FULL#
Fixed full screen blur when using dynamic light godrays.Fixed CSM not working on some AMD cards.Fixed most dynamic lights flickering on lower quality levels Nvidia GPUs (and some AMD GPUs).Fixed most dynamic shadows flickering and improved the overall quality and performance.Fixed screen freezes / crashes on Radeon RX 3XX 4XX 5xx cards!.
#BLACK MESA XEN UPDATE#
Here's the Xen Engine update change list: While we still don't have an exact Xen release date, that should give you a chance to enjoy the Earth-based levels before the alien content arrives. To generate buzz for the upcoming Xen release, Crowbar is offering a 66% discount on Black Mesa for the next 45 hours. "We want the Xen release to be as close to a simple content release as possible!"
"We will probably do one more 'Engine' release just before we drop Xen, in order to make sure that everything is running smoothly on everyone's machines," Crowbar wrote on a Steam Community update. While this content doesn't include the Xen maps themselves, it does feature the lighting and animation fixes that will be part of the final Xen launch. Thankfully, that may be about to change.Īfter last year's delay of Xen content, Crowbar decided to publicly release its "Xen Engine" update first. That said, Black Mesa's early access edition is still missing one major feature: The alien border world, Xen. This early access project is already superior to Valve's own Half-Life Source, updating maps to provide a smoother gameplay experience while adding modern visual effects that weren't available at Half-Life's launch. Black Mesa's Xen Engine update is all about preparing for incoming Xen content.įor almost a decade now, Crowbar Collective has been developing a fantastic remaster of Half-Life, Black Mesa.
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