Any HalfLife fans here?

dw300

Black Mesa Source

It's the original HalfLife game, updated to the Source engine .. where's my crowbar?!

t.m.h.n.e.t

Downloading!

napoleond

Bugger. My laptop won't be fast enough

B.M.R.

I was sitting at my computer as the countdown clicked to zero on the site. I've been waiting for this mod for years.
Finally downloaded it last night and played through to the resonance cascade - it's fricking awesome. Familiar but also new and shiny. They could have charged money for this, it's so polished, but instead its a free download.

majormantra

Well excited - I loved the original and the sequels. Now where the hell is HL2 Episode 3?

Daz555

They have fouled up the release day a bit - the mirrors are groaning under the strain and the torrents don't seem to be working either....

edit, ahh found a working link on a German mirror. 2MB/s. Got to love German efficiency!

Daz555

NapoleonD wrote:

Bugger. My laptop won't be fast enough

Source is a very old engine. What is your laptop spec?

dw300

Downloaded last night, and just installed. Now about to start what could likely be a 12 hour session!

B.M.R.

I actually used bittorrent to download my copy. It's quite handy because not only was the download reasonably quick, but there's also the knowledge that if you have to interupt the download you don't have to start again.
Plus on the BM:S website the makers were begging people to seed to increase the availability to everyone, which I duly obliged.
Who would have thought Bitorrent had its legit uses? Something people forget sometimes and think that it's torrenting itself which is a bad thing, when its actually what you torrent that depends whether you are a darstardly pirate or not.

shockedsoshocked

Jizzed in my pants to be honest. Why wasn't I aware of this? All I need now is Deus Ex and Morrowind to be updated.

dodgy

Used to be a fan, a massive fan, I even call my phone 'Gordon Freeman' in bluetooth settings :oops:

Anyway, on launching it again today under its new Mesa guise, I realise it's just lots of traipsing around corridors. Can't even find the crowbar, even if I did, that wouldn't be that exciting.

I guess you should never go back, it leads to disappointment :roll:

napoleond

Daz555 wrote:

NapoleonD wrote:

Bugger. My laptop won't be fast enough

Source is a very old engine. What is your laptop spec?

Clockwork...
I'll give it a go, it's free!

dw300

I'm stuck, after the bit you meet the security guard who gives you the magnum (and who's partner you shoot as he's been face hugged). Not sure where to go ..

napoleond

I'm stuck! Can't download the fecker.

napoleond

:shock:

dw300

If you can't manage to download it, the puzzles in the game might be a bit hard for you too. :P

napoleond

dw300 wrote:

If you can't manage to download it, the puzzles in the game might be a bit hard for you too. :P

Got it, just struggling with dl speed, played it a bit. It's ace!!!

I got to the final baddy first time round but kept running out of ammo and gave up...

jim453

dw300 wrote:

If you can't manage to download it, the puzzles in the game might be a bit hard for you too. :P

I freakin love this game and all it's sequels. However, I used the walkthrough for each one pretty much from the beginning. Perhaps I'm lazy or strange but I don't feel I lost any of the enjoyment or sense of achievement because of it. I hate fannying around not knowing what to do.

I came to the game late after many years away from games in general. I was blown away by how things had moved on. There's a bit where gordon is making his way down some pipe or tube or something which is extremely high in the air and open at the end. As he is moving down it you suddenly see some kind of fighter jet fly past the opening. I realised at that point that this was an extraordinary experience. And massive too.

Great game.

dw300

Yeh, it's more like a movie that you can advance the storyline in your own time. I just use a walkthrough if I get stuck for more than about an hour.

Do you guys play CounterStrike?

shockedsoshocked

Haha just found someone put a Chuckle Brothers mug in there!!

Dmak

I'm more of a COD player. Helps the cycling believe it or not.

dw300

Dmak wrote:

I'm more of a COD player. Helps the cycling believe it or not.

How so?

ShockedSoShocked wrote:

Haha just found someone put a Chuckle Brothers mug in there!!

Noticed that! There are 'Ramblers' crisps in the vending machines too. I believe the work on the game was spread far and wide .. obviously a few Brits helping out.

I've got to where the marines have arrived ..

Yellow Peril

er...what's it all about? I guess it's a computer game, what is the general plot?

dw300

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Half-Life_(video_game)

In the November 1999, October 2001, and April 2005 issues of PC Gamer, Half-Life was named "Best Game of All Time"/"Best PC Game Ever".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Half-Life_2

Maximum PC awarded Half-Life 2 an unprecedented 11 on their rating scale which normally peaks at 10, and named it the "best game ever made".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counter-Strike:_Source

cgraley77

dw300 wrote:

Yeh, it's more like a movie that you can advance the storyline in your own time. I just use a walkthrough if I get stuck for more than about an hour.

Do you guys play CounterStrike?

Used to play CS:S far too much in my GCSE days (5 years ago now)...is it still popular? Great game to pass the time

t.m.h.n.e.t

cgraley77 wrote:

dw300 wrote:

Yeh, it's more like a movie that you can advance the storyline in your own time. I just use a walkthrough if I get stuck for more than about an hour.

Do you guys play CounterStrike?

Used to play CS:S far too much in my GCSE days (5 years ago now)...is it still popular? Great game to pass the time

It's as popular as ever. I still play after all these years

dw300

It's an enormously good laugh if you're playing with mates and use even a few tactics, rather than run round like headless chickens.

I was briefly in a clan in the CS1.5 days .. I sucked mind you, but the practices were fun. Then we'd hit up a public server and try out the tactics and generally pwn.

wE w0z 1337!!1one

cgraley77

dw300 wrote:

It's an enormously good laugh if you're playing with mates and use even a few tactics, rather than run round like headless chickens.

I was briefly in a clan in the CS1.5 days .. I sucked mind you, but the practices were fun. Then we'd hit up a public server and try out the tactics and generally pwn.

wE w0z 1337!!1one

Yeah, me and a few school mates used to have a 'clan' and regularly play Team Deathmatch on dust_2...great fun. One friend was an obscenely good shot with a sniper, made the rest of us look better than we really were.

Dmak

dw300 wrote:

Dmak wrote:

I'm more of a COD player. Helps the cycling believe it or not.

How so?

Helps to keep reaction times in check, could be life saving on a bike.

Also, it's something I can win at when I fail in Strava!

B.M.R.

Was heavily invested in CS:S for a couple of years, and just recently rediscovered this bug thanks to CS:GO.

Now trying to reaquire my twitch reflexes which after a couple of years of neglect are sorely lacking. Can't wait until the servers are allowed to start modding stuff properly, like removing AWPs and the AutoSnipe. ATM every game I play degenerates into an AWP-fest. BOOM BOOM BOOM.

BOOM! HEADSHOT! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsQFYceNZS8

t.m.h.n.e.t

B.M.R. wrote:

Was heavily invested in CS:S for a couple of years, and just recently rediscovered this bug thanks to CS:GO.

Now trying to reaquire my twitch reflexes which after a couple of years of neglect are sorely lacking. Can't wait until the servers are allowed to start modding stuff properly, like removing AWPs and the AutoSnipe. ATM every game I play degenerates into an AWP-fest. BOOM BOOM BOOM.

BOOM! HEADSHOT! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsQFYceNZS8

My own diminished reflexea were well noted shooting headcrabs in BM lol.

Has been so long since I actively played an fps properly (scrims/matches/tac nades)