AG2 v1.0 Released

Today is a great day as AG2 is officially available. You can download the full installer and/or zip file in the download.
AG2 includes some very advanced features. It matches not only the players who wish to play a fast paced game but also all the players who do enjoy the Regular version from VALVe.

This mod does include both regular and a fast paced mode for the sake of everyone’s pleasure.  AG2 is bug free which also means that the bugs that are in the original regular HL2DM from VALVe have all been fixed.  As you all know, AG2 also brings a lot of advanced features for managing matches as well as servers and also includes many game mods.
Well, we count on you

The anticipation for this mod is approaching boiling point.  Here is a selection of the new media to wet our appetites.

The Steam Holiday Sale is on now through Sunday, January 3, 2010. This year’s sale has begun earlier than years past so gamers can save big on last-minute shopping via Steam’s Gifting functionality. Gamers can save up to 80% on select titles, with daily and week-long specials running during the promotion.

Hello Black Mesa fans!

We come to you once again with an update. It’s now the end of 2009, and we know many of you have literally counted the days down until this fateful month. We are floored by the level of support you have given us and are very excited we’re so close to reaching our goal.

Unfortunately, to our great disappointment, Black Mesa will not make a 2009 release.

Cynics may now rejoice, bets may be collected, and I think a mod team member has to eat his shoe, but we hope our loyal fans will forgive us and realize that the delay will translate into a better final product that’s (hopefully) more easily available to everyone.

Once again we apologize for what has to be very disappointing news. We placed a 2009 deadline on ourselves to motivate us and bring this 6 year project to a close. And while we didn’t quite make it, we have come very close, and you can expect a complete, polished game to hit your hard drives in the near future. We’ll be sure and update if anything changes. Until then, hang tight, it’s coming!

The Black Mesa Wiki has also been released.

Gluon development

The Gluon was a tough weapon to get right, and has gone through many iterations.
Shown here are most of them from beginning to end, except for the final version,
Disclaimer: This is still a work in progress, not final.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqXmXzLfdZ0

Some statistics:

• Regarded as one of the greatest games of all time.
• The Half Life universe has sold well over 20 million units.
• Half Life 1 sold 9.3 million copies as of 2008
• A collated average score of 96% on review collection website Metacritic
• Half Life won over 50 PC Game of the Year awards.

I have had most of the original Half Life series games since the won.net days, but now seems the perfect opportunity to gift some of my more stubborn un-Half Life playing friends.

]]> http://www.binarygamer.com/steam/66-off-the-half-life-universe/feed/ 0 http://www.binarygamer.com/steam/new-black-mesa-dev-vids/ http://www.binarygamer.com/steam/new-black-mesa-dev-vids/#comments Mon, 13 Jul 2009 13:17:22 +0000 Fuzzy http://www.binarygamer.com/?p=1194 Black Mesa have gone Twitting and added some new dev videos to its Youtube Channel.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hn6Tky7nK3A

www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9-JyLNBw_E

www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgtyBqnR2uc

www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNCo_8023H4

Changes/Fixes

• Fixed Delayed Gravity Gun fire
• Fixed Crossbow first person effects
• Fixed Issue with Impulse 101 not giving crossbow Ammo
• Changed Combine movement sounds to rebel movement sounds,cause In competitions the loud noises would give away your position and cause a huge disadvantage
• Improved Movement to act more like regular hl2dm
• Windows dedicated server files Available for download,Also thanks to [KBH]Keeper for the Linux version

Visit the web site to download

http://www.blackmesasource.com

Dear Black Mesa Supporters:

Our website shall be down for a unknown amount of time as we have just suffered from total hard drive failure, which also includes our backups. At this time the Black Mesa website and forums are unreachable. We have our old drive in a USB enclosure, trying to at least retrieving some data such as the community forums SQL database.

We are breaking night and day, drinking stockpiles of Redbull to get the lights on (website that is!). Please bare with us.

FAQ:

Will this effect the release of the mod?
Answer: No.

Does this mean the forums are gone? Including my posts, topics, ect.
Answer: At this time, it does not look so good.

We wish them all the best getting the site up and running.  Good luck lads.

Edit 3-5-09

The forum is backup but the old stuff may have been lost.

Unfortunately, we haven’t been able to recover any of the previous databases or backups. We’re still actively searching for anything we can rescue, but it’s looking unlikely that we’ll be able to recover anything from the old forum.