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Posted September 14, 2012
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Navagon: I have been pretty critical of the project in the past and I am happy to admit that I was wrong.
Yeah, I'm ... Kind of starting to get what took them so long. Level design is pretty much flawless, and polishing something so huge really does take time.
Posted September 14, 2012
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Wishbone: Generally, the higher the traffic, the faster the torrent ;-)
Yeah. I'm glad they weren't stupid about it, I was worried whether there would be a torrent or not. It downloaded lightning fast and I had it up and running in two hours. Torrents are awesome. I think mondo84 is just trying to avoid playing it. :P

Unfortunately, Black Mesa runs pretty shit even on my new laptop (My desktop is seriously outdated, and a friend has been letting me borrow their vastly superior laptop that they never really used until I can get a gaming rig of my own), so I'm going to be playing this their computer.

Unfortunately, he's playing X-COM: UFO Defense at the moment. It's fortunate that he's playing such a great classic, but it's unfortunate in that it means I don't know when I'm going to get my chance to play Black Mesa. ;_;


It ran choppy as all hell, and I gave up shortly after getting off the rail, but man, it's extremely impressive. My expectations were low, but it's very professional. They even put some fun achievements in there. I've been disappointed by more than my fair share of mods, even many critically acclaimed ones (God, I hated Azure Sheep. "What Blue Shift should've been" my ass. And Sven Co-op was a broken mess.) but if the rest of this game is as beautiful and lovingly crafted as the introduction I just played (slogged through at an unstable framerate of about 10-15 fps, and about 15-25 fps at ugliest settings), I think it'll have been worth the wait.
Posted September 14, 2012
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Fenixp: Yeah, I'm ... Kind of starting to get what took them so long. Level design is pretty much flawless, and polishing something so huge really does take time.
They've remade an epic game to a far higher standard. Even in spite of the fact that they didn't really need to spend much time creating anything from scratch and had a very solid foundation to work from, it's still a very impressive effort. It's not surprising that Valve took a personal interest in this one, even if we still don't really know if there was anything that came of that.
Posted September 14, 2012
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Navagon: Seems great from what I've played so far. Faithful in every way I'd have wanted. Improved in every way I could have hoped. Apart from a clipping glitch or two it's pretty faultless and beyond what I was expecting.

I have been pretty critical of the project in the past and I am happy to admit that I was wrong.

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Wishbone: Generally, the higher the traffic, the faster the torrent ;-)
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Navagon: Yeah, whoever said that doesn't understand torrents at all.
I understand torrents quite well. In the early hours of release there are only so many seeders for many more downloaders. That constricts bandwidth until more people have the torrent and can seed. I'm in no rush and have other things to do today. So I'll download it tomorrow.
Posted September 14, 2012
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mondo84: I understand torrents quite well.
I meant the person you were quoting from. Fair point about the bottlenecking early on. That's not something I've seen before, but then this was really, really popular. Hence the fact there's 28,000 seeds now, So no need to wait.
Posted September 14, 2012
i hate you all so much. going to work for 10 hours in fifteen minutes and i also work tomorrow morning. so i won't be able to play till sunday evening!!

glad i hear positives!
Posted September 14, 2012
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Skunk: And Sven Co-op was a broken mess.
No way. Sven coop was awesome.


I think there is no need to use a torrent. The Gamefront mirror ir going really fast for me, i'm downloading at 1 mb/s which is the maximum for my connection.
Post edited September 14, 2012 by Neobr10
Posted September 14, 2012
Ok, if anyone is on the fence about this: if you liked Half-Life, you simply MUST play this.

It feels so incredibly polished and is so detailed that it could be a commercial game made by Valve themselves.
Posted September 14, 2012
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Nergal01: Ok, if anyone is on the fence about this: if you liked Half-Life, you simply MUST play this.

It feels so incredibly polished and is so detailed that it could be a commercial game made by Valve themselves.
Is it a stand alone game that works without needing anything else, or is it just a half life 2 mod?
Posted September 14, 2012
Can't wait to finish downloading. Although I wished I payed more attention and downloaded SDK source in advance.
Post edited September 14, 2012 by Kabuto
Posted September 14, 2012
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gameon: Is it a stand alone game that works without needing anything else, or is it just a half life 2 mod?
What you need:
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the Source SDK 2007 which you can download for free from Steam (under Tools)

If you have that, all you need to do is download the mod and install it. You can then launch the game from your games library.
Posted September 14, 2012
Will probably be downloaded and ready to play by tomorrow. But I just wanted to say that I adore the theme music.
Posted September 14, 2012
Grrrrrr I can't decide either buy Half-Life 2 now and get this Mod or wait till it becomes a stand-alone game
Posted September 14, 2012
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Elmofongo: Grrrrrr I can't decide either buy Half-Life 2 now and get this Mod or wait till it becomes a stand-alone game
Isn't the Source SDK free even if you don't have a Source game?
Posted September 14, 2012
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Elmofongo: Grrrrrr I can't decide either buy Half-Life 2 now and get this Mod or wait till it becomes a stand-alone game
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Gazoinks: Isn't the Source SDK free even if you don't have a Source game?
I already got Left 4 Dead 2 and CS:GO so I already got Source SDK?
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