Gonarch's Lair beta is up. Also entire OST out.
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Joseph Gutierrez
>Trees and ferns
It seems the BM team wisely recruited the genius behind the critically acclaimed Cinematic Mod.
Aiden Cruz
Can't wait to see the Nihilanth in a few years
Aiden Price
Looks like they completely missed the point of Xen.
Nathaniel Thompson
Oh wow that looks fucking wrong
Christopher Gutierrez
WHY the FUCK did they include all that greenery and shit? Did they even fucking read the lore of Half Life? Xen is supposed to be an uninhabitable swampy shit-rock, what the fuck is this?
Adrian Jenkins
nice halo mod
Eli Cook
it looks great but it doesn't look like xen at all
David Adams
Eh. I'm fine with it. This is obviously from a "wild" section of Xen. It's probably been scooping up little bits of all sorts of species from all sorts of worlds for millennia.
Andrew Jones
More screenshots
Juan Miller
They fucked up on the art so hard I'm glad I lost interest years before.
Hunter White
>Made the game worse with awful balance decision
>Xen was already shit so thought it couldn't get worse
>Ruin the one neat think about Xen by adding terrestrial looking plants and foliage
I respect the effort but why bother when they don't know what the fuck they're doing.
Zachary Reyes
Even the alien portions just take after Doom 2016's Hell dimension cause that was the hot thing at the time. I don't know if the people at Valve are hacks but their lead here seem to be.
Anthony Ramirez
and here's the thing, it's familiar terrestrial fauna on plain rock. The thing about Xen was that the majority of the environments were living things.
Fleshy skeleton walls and meat caves, outside of the factory levels which were tech base.
Jaxon Perry
>c4a1b
Now show c2 or c3
Gavin Scott
It looks retarded and is badly designed. Everything is scattered at random - note the tentacle Xen plant living in harmony with the terrestrial plants. IRL plants wage war on each other, blotting out sunlight, strangling each other's roots etc That's why garden flowers can't survive in the wild.
Why couldn't they have featured more weird fungal blooms and other unpleasant-looking growths? Probably because flowers and trees are easier.
Dominic Morris
Here is concept art of the flora in the Hawaii levels of Hotline Miami 2.
A game that takes place in Hawaii and has a top down perspective and thus it's likely you will never notice shit like this has more alien looking plants then a game meant to takes place in a different dimension.
Why?
Kayden Harris
>completely change the level to be an Avatar ripoff
This is why fan projects are always shit and the definition of soulless
Luke Jenkins
What does this have to do with valve?
Bentley Stewart
It screams fantasy, not alien.
Blake King
FULLY
Joseph Perez
Xen was the best part of Half-Life and people only hated it because they wanted more bland science center
Carson Smith
kek, it really does give off Avatar vibes
Camden Reyes
Am i the only one that unironically liked the barren design of Xen in HL1? This looks like that Halo mission.
Christopher Gutierrez
I wanted Xen not Tallon Overworld.
Oliver Young
Xen (original) had a perfectly fine design.
What was hated was the map layout and sudden difficulty spike.
Carter Ross
Oh yeah, now I think of it it does look like some ungodly recreation in the Source engine.
Nintendo - hire this man!
Justin Jones
That's not Xen, this is Xen.
Carson Martin
Said nobody but you...
Jackson Brown
Personally the only terrible level was the one right after gonarch that required to to shoot yourself out of flesh tubes onto flying ships and god fucking damn no engine can handle that bs
Ryder Ross
How did they do it? How did they avoid all of the modding bullshit melodrama and become an independent company?
Michael Clark
Looks like futuristic Skull Island. I'd never guess it was Xen unless you told me beforehand desu.
Connor Wood
black mesa is such a zoomer game holy shit fuck off there's nothing wrong with the original half life
Landon Murphy
Wish valve had never given these hack faggots the go ahead.
Robert Mitchell
I'm still on the first xen chapter which is apparently 18 maps long. It's starting to get interesting.
forest section felt kinda uneeded though, but i like that there was research stuff there.
Julian Gomez
why did this take so long
Jordan Jackson
That looks a hell of a lot better actually.
I'm still keeping my expectations low since the vast majority of changes Black Mesa has made has been for the worse.
Joshua James
I mean it doesn't always look great but i'm liking this area so far.
Kevin Lee
Xen in the original is universally agreed to be shit you posing zoomer.
Connor Murphy
silohuette looks cool at least
Jose Lopez
that's funny cuz it sure as hell didn't look like it
Tyler Taylor
haha goddamn.
how many years of their lives have these people spent recreated someone elses' game?
Eli Davis
the OST fucking sucks
Jose King
>how many years of their lives have these people spent recreated someone elses' game?
not as many as you spent not having sex
Aiden Cox
I thought i saw they finished Xen, but does that mean they've only done the first few levels IN Xen? What on earth is taking so long?
Aiden Scott
xen wasn't built in a day
Nicholas Clark
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this fucking music. What were they thinking?
Christopher Cox
So much seething itt.
Kevin Cox
I'm still on the Xen chapter and it's been like 2 hours.
I like it well enough.
Blake Gonzalez
can you imagine working on one project, your life's work, being an inferior recreation of an FPS? a game which would only take competent devs a couple years?
it's like carving a shittier Mount Rushmore with a spoon.
Colton Sullivan
have sex.
Brayden Watson
screenshots
Eli Fisher
Daniel Turner
Personally I like the new visuals but hope they change them up some more in the later levels. What really herniates my balls is the terrible level directioning. Like how tf are you supposed to know some red glowing plant behing a bunch of leaves is what you're supposed to shoot or slot of the other plant puzzles? Could add some demonstration of interactible objects in the beginning or the scientists info on them.
Aiden Scott
People tend to shoot the glowing red things. While I generally agree, you first course of action should always be to shoot it.
Grayson Rivera
Gonarch.
Can't say I'm a fan of the method they use to force you to watch the cutscenes but movement wise it looks good. It shits out a ton of babies.
Sebastian Butler
What the actual fuck.
I remember playing black mesa for free, see this thread and look for it again. It is now 20 dollars and "released" in 2015. Can someone give me a rundown of the jewshit that is going on?
Charles Brown
Iktf
Matthew Lewis
It's an improved (and soon complete) version of the free mod. You can still get the free release if you wish.
Carter Sanchez
Game went a little bit... beyooooond expectations, and decided to release on steam at a price of course.
Tyler Lewis
You can still get the original for free. Though it was originally going to be free, they were able to get Valve to let them put it on steam so they could fund Xen.
Take that as you will.
Luke Baker
What the FUCK is its problem?
Brody Nguyen
REEEEEEEEEE
Chase Howard
crowbar collective isnt valve. you are actually implying that valve cares about the half life franchise.
Cameron Miller
Watching DeSinc stream and be utterly bewildered by the puzzles
Easton Foster
Beat gonarch section. Basically the entire gonarch chapter is of you pursuing the gonarch through out a large array of caves and the gonarch sometimes chasing you.
It's actually really cool.
I hope they get the bugs ironed out. It'll be way more engaging if I'm not chugging frames every other second.
Dominic Russell
is he trolling?