The Black Mesa team has announced the Xen release has been delayed yet again. Although there is no new ETA on when it will hit Steam, the team released some new screenshots that you can view below.
As the team noted, and while it worked like crazy, it’s still not ready for a release. This is the second delay for Black Mesa Xen. Back in June, the team announced that the Black Mesa Xen release would be delayed until December 2017.
It’s worth noting that in December, the team will release a brand new update for Black Mesa. This update will pack all the new features that the team has developed for Xen. As the team claimed, by enabling the new tech on the Earthbound section of the game, it can get the engine/code fully stabilized on Steam before it drops the final chapters.
One of the new features of Black Mesa Xen is a new deferred rendering system that supports fully dynamic light. This new rendering system will most likely be available in the December update for the base game.
The Black Mesa team will share more details about the release date of Xen as it gets closer to that date. Until then, enjoy the following screenshots and stay tuned for more!
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It will be relased right after H-L 3.
Anyway Xen levels are worst part of the game. Not much worth waiting for it.
That’s why they’re completely redesigning the Xen levels, not just recreating them from the original game.
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Because, they didn’t already finish and then further refine the first half of the game?
Yes, it’s taking them longer (a lot longer) than expected, but so did the first half.
If you can’t accept that, that’s your problem.
This article isn’t about the first half of the game, it’s about the second half and it accurately matches the term vaporware.
Yeah, and they used to say that about the first half as well, so if you insist on humiliating yourself even when confronted with actual evidence to the contrary, that’s your problem.
It really is amazing how often I have to spell things out for people…..
Xen has been in development for 5 years, all this time their release windows have been vague and now even non existent.
I want it to come out as much as anyone else but at this point i have to see it to believe it.
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>If you insist on humiliating yourself even when confronted .
Don’t say this just because you disagree with someone it makes you sound like a spoiled toddler that doesn’t get what it wants.
>with actual evidence
What evidence.
And I repeat myself; people used to say the first half was vapourware, they were proven wrong. Now they’ve moved on to saying it about the second half, even though there’s no reason to even remotely assume that any more.
Xen has been in development on-and-off for the last five years, yes, and? It’s not as if they haven’t done squat in the last five years. Yes, their release dates are vague, and missed, and bla bla bla. And so it was with the first half, as well, prompting people to scream about how it’s “VAPOURWARE!”
Evidence; the first half came out and it’s still being updated & they’re releasing screenshots of Xen. Yes, screenshots aren’t definitive proof of anything, but hey, unless you really want to shine that tinfoil hat further by talking about how they obviously created a bunch of fake screenshots just to show off a non-existent second half of the game…..
Yeah, evidence.
Vaporware is vaporware until it isn’t, like Duke Nukem Forever.
I also can’t say that i’m very impressed with these screenshots, #1 ,2, 3 and 5 looks like they have been pulled directly from part 1 and had some fancy post-processing applied to them.
If this is all they have to show at this time then that really makes me question how far in development they really are and the fact that they don’t want to give us a release date at all now kinda backs that up.
There’s a reason why half of the people in this comment section compare it to Half-Life 3.
I’ll believe it when i see it.
“Vaporware is vaporware until it isn’t”
Thank you, Confucius.
Thank you my child.
Now go forth and prosper.
“Vaporware is vaporware until it isn’t”
By that logic, the definition of “vapourware” is completely arbitrary. I mean, what constitutes vapourware when “vapourware is vapourware until it isn’t”? How much does something need to be delayed by, or, how many times does something need to be delayed until it’s considered to be “vapourware until it isn’t”?
“I also can’t say that i’m very impressed with these screenshots [….] and had some fancy post-processing applied to them.”
Okay? Honestly, I’m not even sure what it is you’re expecting, here. Part 2 isn’t a completely different game, it’s the continuation of Black Mesa Part 1, so yeah, obviously the game is going to look like it’s a continuation of Part 1…..
>”By that logic, the definition of “vapourware” is completely arbitrary.”
Is it though? i gave you Duke Nukem Forever as an example, that title was called out imany times during it’s development for being a piece of vaporware until it actually got released and stopped being exactly that.
>”How much does something need to be delayed by, or, how many times does something need to be delayed until it’s considered to be “vapourware until it isn’t”?
Various people comparing it to Half-Life 3 sounds like a fair way to decide on that.
>”Okay? Honestly, I’m not even sure what it is you’re expecting, here.”
After all the time that it has been in development? Something better obviously.
“Better” how? Better looking? Okay, why would you figure that? Have they said a word about giving Black Mesa another facelift that I’m not aware of? Well, then, why? This is a remake of a game that’s almost two decades old, it’s not going to look like Crysis, so why is anyone expecting it to?
And how many times was Duke Nukem Forever delayed, across how many years, before most people actually started calling it vapourware? Because with Black Mesa, you’re setting the bar rather low, by comparison.
I can count the amount of comments in this thread comparing its release date to Half-Life 3 on one hand. Yeah, that’s definitely sounds like “various” to me. Absolutely.
Corn-fed negroe. Why don’t you go and eat some more corn bread and stop this f*cking madness?
What the f*ck? Can’t tell if hacked, or serious. Either way, feel free to f*ck off.
You know I respect you.
Oh good, so it was a weird joke 😛
No, it was just weird.
2nd part of the game delayed 2 times, called it Vaporware, kids this days…
I think everyone is just really keen to play this, so they delays are really painful. But I would take a well rounded product that took a little longer over a bug filled mess every day.
We got the cliff-notes for HF2:e3’s story. I wouldn’t be surprised if talented fans weren’t fleshing it out.
the multiplayer is a total desert.
Really? People still play the OG HL multiplayer.
Ah damn, that’s disappointing. Oh well, these guys have been working on this for almost 15 years now so I can wait a little longer.