The Black Mesa team has announced that Black Mesa: Xen will release in Q2 2019. In order to celebrate this announcement, as well as Half-Life’s 20th anniversary, the team has also released a new trailer that you can find below.
As the team noted, the months until the game’s release will allow it to finish Xen to a place where the entire product is stable, smooth and fun. Almost everything is design locked and functioning as intended right now and the Xen part will last around 6 hours (longer for those that want to explore everything).
Furthermore, the levels and design for Xen are largely original work (with cues taken from Half-Life), rather than just simply a remake of Xen. In other words, there will be some level differences between these Xen levels and the original found in Half-Life. Also, the team has added new levels in order to extend its length.
Enjoy!
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Unbelievable, this much for such a small portion of the game…
It’s looks a bit “too much” yes, but still looks interesting and lore friendly, anyway, let’s wait and try this out, overall BM is an awesome remake, it has flaws but still a way too good for a fanmade remake
wasn’t black mesa a fan made early access standalone for half life 1 on steam? what is this one then?
It’s the same thing, the current early access build doesn’t have Xen levels, the final game will, and they teased only that missing portion of the game
Hooray!! Finally, I actually cannot wait!
Excellent, let’s hope there are no more delays. Even if there are, I’d prefer that to Bethesda level quality control.
Lord Gaben will be proud…
Nice. Only took what…. 10 years to finish this fan project? One that went on to actually charge money for?
Now someone will have to remake the remake, since it’s already hilariously obsolete. Well done.
“Black Mesa was given an official release date of “late 2009” in the spring of 2009, but this date was changed to “when it’s done” after the development team was unable to fulfill this date.”
Haha, the incompetence here is colossal.
Fortnite and PUBG await you… just go in peace.
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This was not done by a team of 400 people working 5 days, 8 hours per week at all times. This was done by various people working when they had time for a passion project. That is of really high productions values and that pushes Source to the max, on the same level or maybe even more so than Titanfall 2 (aside from some PBR shenanigans Titanfall 2 managed to pull)
“Nice. Only took what…. 10 years to finish this fan project? One that went on to actually charge money for?”
They did it for free, and if you are concerned that they are charging money, just pirate it
Damn, the edge on that lad
This is some crazy stuff, the game looks insane and also they said:
” Xen will take roughly 6 hours to complete; longer for those who like to explore.”
Can’t wait and hope no more delays.
And then I’ll wait another 2 years to make extra sure everything was fully polished and all the patches were issued for the game and theeeen: I’ll have the perfect, most polished Black Mesa experience.
That looks seriously legit! They’ve really modernized the alien world well…and the lighting looks great as well!
I still gotta play Black Mesa…bought it an year ago but haven’t played it yet
At last this mod will be complete after years.
Yay! I love how they say morning mister freeman you’re running late at the end haha