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[IbizaPocholo]

Black Mesa: Blue Shift aims to fully remake Barney's solo adventures

The developers hope to announce a demo 'soon.'

www.pcgamer.com

Now a new group calling itself HECU Collective has begun work on a similar overhaul for the Gearbox-developed Half-Life expansion Blue Shift. Called Black Mesa: Blue Shift, it will make use of Black Mesa resources and be developed in the same style, and like Black Mesa will be released in chapters. It's not clear how far along development is at this point, but the team shared some screens and said that it hopes to announce a demo soon. And it does have some experience in the field, having previously released the Black Mesa mods Black Ops and Azure Sheep.

You can also take a listen to the first track from the Black Mesa: Blue Life soundtrack, by composer Aslan Akhmetov, below.

 

[fatmarco]

Why not remake the good expansion tho?

 

[IbizaPocholo]

Why not remake the good expansion tho?

(And for those wondering why the team opted to remake Blue Shift and not the more well-regarded Opposing Force expansion, someone is already on that job: Operation Black Mesa, which was also announced in 2013, is still in development.)

 

[Soodanim]

This is really cool and makes perfect sense, but I’ve never thought of it. The expansions didn’t get Source ports, so it will be nice to see them brought into the present.

 

[D.Final]

Black Mesa: Blue Shift aims to fully remake Barney's solo adventures

The developers hope to announce a demo 'soon.'

www.pcgamer.com

Now a new group calling itself HECU Collective has begun work on a similar overhaul for the Gearbox-developed Half-Life expansion Blue Shift. Called Black Mesa: Blue Shift, it will make use of Black Mesa resources and be developed in the same style, and like Black Mesa will be released in chapters. It's not clear how far along development is at this point, but the team shared some screens and said that it hopes to announce a demo soon. And it does have some experience in the field, having previously released the Black Mesa mods Black Ops and Azure Sheep.

You can also take a listen to the first track from the Black Mesa: Blue Life soundtrack, by composer Aslan Akhmetov, below.

Intriguing idea

 

[IbizaPocholo]

Half-Life Fan Remake DLC Gets New Screenshots

Black Mesa, the Half-Life fan remake, will be getting a full release of the Blue Shift DLC at some point, and some new images are doing the rounds.

gamerant.com

Recently, some images and teaser footage for Blue Shift have been unveiled. The screenshots show the environments from the Half-Life expansion, while the short video aims to demonstrate some of the game's atmospheric sounds. Currently, episodes one, two, and three are available to download, with these latest screenshots and video representing the next episode. There's no release date for the fourth installment just yet, but it's apparently 70% ready and due this summer.

Black Mesa's new campaign screenshots were shown off last December. Referred to as Operation: Black Mesa, this new DLC aims to bring remakes of both the Opposing Force and Blue Shift expansions that were originally released in 1999 and 2001, respectively. These new campaigns essentially told the story of the disaster at Black Mesa from different perspectives, with the former placing the player in the role of one of the marines, while the latter had them running around the facility as a security guard.

 

[IYAOYAS2019]

Been playing through the 1st 4 chapters of this remake and found it to be damn good.

But...

This happens every single time during the initial loading screen.

 

[AeonGaidenRaiden]

Ill be excited when they start using Alyx engine.

 

[STARSBarry]

Been playing through the 1st 4 chapters of this remake and found it to be damn good.

But...

This happens every single time during the initial loading screen.

This looks like what's happening with Nvidia cards with chromium apps since a driver update like 3 months back (and they still haven't fixed)

Wonder if the menu being animated is using something chromium to do it.

 

[Pakoe]

This will probably have the same release date as Half Life 3.

 

[IYAOYAS2019]

This looks like what's happening with Nvidia cards with chromium apps since a driver update like 3 months back (and they still haven't fixed)

Wonder if the menu being animated is using something chromium to do it.

I just recently noticed that when using the Brave Browser.

 

[IbizaPocholo]

Black Mesa: Blue Shift will recieve Focal Point update including chapter 5 and various improvements over all 4 previous chapters coming soon!

Black Mesa: Blue Shift is being developed by HECU Collective

 

[AeonGaidenRaiden]

Errr after Black Mesa I dont trust them with those levels anymore. yes visually it looks way better but the fucking length they went overboard with it. I couldnt bare to finish it, something that was already a chore for most players they made it twice as long.

 

[FireFly]

Errr after Black Mesa I dont trust them with those levels anymore. yes visually it looks way better but the fucking length they went overboard with it. I couldnt bare to finish it, something that was already a chore for most players they made it twice as long.

This isn't being made by the Black Mesa developers, but by the mod team HECU Collective. Also Xen only takes up one chapter in Blue Shift.