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Black Mesa’s Xen chapters now in full beta

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2019/08/02 05:46:42 (permalink)
https://www.kitguru.net/gaming/matthew-wilson/black-mesas-xen-chapters-now-in-full-beta/
 
Back in June we learned that Black Mesa, a remake of Half-Life 1, was going to be getting a public beta for the Xen section of the game very soon. A limited beta has been available for a few weeks now but today, the full Xen Chapters have been pushed out into public beta, giving access to the complete version of Black Mesa.
 
The first technical beta contained the first three maps of the Xen chapter, continuing the story from the cliffhanger ending at the Lambda Core. The full Xen campaign is now available in public beta, complete with all nine maps. After this beta, additional content will be added, including Interloper, Ninilanth and Endgame, which will bring the total map count up to 18.
 
The Xen chapters should exit beta and be implemented into the release version of Black Mesa in a few months time.
 
 

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    Re: Black Mesa’s Xen chapters now in full beta 2019/08/02 06:00:12 (permalink)
    more public beta testing .. the new normal for games ?

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    Re: Black Mesa’s Xen chapters now in full beta 2019/08/02 07:31:45 (permalink)
    I am looking forward to this since it’s the best way to experience Half Life today. It’s just taking a long time to fully make the game as the original levels came out in like late 2015.
     
    As for this having public beta testing I can see why. If I remember right this was a group of fans remaking it then Valve almost shut them down but after community outcry they decided to hire the team to finish the game. I don't think however that Valve gave them more staff. In a way I don't think Valve is interested in making games anymore and just wants to promote the Steam platform was great a few years ago but now every publisher seems to want to push a platform for downloading games.
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    Re: Black Mesa’s Xen chapters now in full beta 2019/08/02 12:03:45 (permalink)
    I finished Black Mesa...perhaps this is a good reason to re-install it and play the new parts...

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    Re: Black Mesa’s Xen chapters now in full beta 2019/08/10 07:35:38 (permalink)
    Cool GTX
    more public beta testing .. the new normal for games ?




    They were quite clear about the state of Black Mesa that half of it hadn't even been converted yet. The Xen portion couldn't be easily updated and converted, and so they were going to have to build and make Xen from scratch. I heard since they to go that far they figured what the heck and were going to tweak too. Glad to hear it's finally in beta testing, building anything from scratch will undoubtedly need it. 


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    Re: Black Mesa’s Xen chapters now in full beta 2019/08/16 04:06:04 (permalink)
    They've done such a wonderful job with Black Mesa I can only assume the Xen portion will be the same. Still slowly wading my way toward the end of BM. Brings back so many great late night PC gaming memories of my youth.

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    Re: Black Mesa’s Xen chapters now in full beta 2019/08/21 09:18:05 (permalink)
    Is there any way to just jump to the Xen beta?  I re-installed and they want me to start new.

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    Re: Black Mesa’s Xen chapters now in full beta 2019/08/30 06:20:48 (permalink)
    gutcheck
    Is there any way to just jump to the Xen beta?  I re-installed and they want me to start new.




    Yes, see https://steamcommunity.com/games/362890/announcements/detail/1613893608676653038


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    Re: Black Mesa’s Xen chapters now in full beta 2019/08/30 12:54:26 (permalink)
    kougar
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    Is there any way to just jump to the Xen beta?  I re-installed and they want me to start new.




    Yes, see https://steamcommunity.com/games/362890/announcements/detail/1613893608676653038




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