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It's like the Raspberry Pi launch, or the HP Touchpad frenzy all over again...
my pc isn't powerful enough to run it (still have the original though 😉
tell us how you find it when you finally download it 🙂
Just give me like 15 more minutes to get home... ####excited!!!
how big is the download btw?
i think it's between 3-4 gb unzips to over 8gb (from what i saw on the site earlier/now it's down).
Proper excited about this.
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! HALLO GORDON 😀 .. loved HL and HL2.
http://blackmesasource.com/ it's a reworking of the original half life,using half life 2 source engine (i think?) anyway i cannot run it on my ancient pc 🙁
Still nothing. Trying and trying....
Forgot I am on a Mac now 🙁 *weeps
just the noises on the website are wafting back to my youth... 8)
meh, yeah someone needs to throw a switch...
No joy here, no download notification and the click here link takes me to the frontpage of a games website or to a forbidden link. 🙁
here maybe?
[url= http://www.shacknews.com/file/32999/black-mesa-source-10-windows-free-game ]http://www.shacknews.com/file/32999/black-mesa-source-10-windows-free-game[/url]
well [url= http://www.torrenthound.com/hash/a222d1a416320d59f5f088010fad4a8b3f7885cb/torrent-info/Black-Mesa ]this[/url] claims to be the torrent for download... but runs too slow, not enough seeds yet...
scrap that fingerbike Wins!
needs more hamsters!!!
The torrent seems to be a live one....lets hope its not a fake one!
torrent was dreadful slow for me, is it going for you? possible my ISP's traffic policy has kicked in... #give me a break lord#
Sitting about 559kbps at present, 9 seeds and 91 peers.
1hr to go at ~700kbps, this is on a torrent.
http://www.mediafire.com/?khmzyygg4vetko0
I switched to that one, seems a lot faster, will pick up most of your original download so you won't be starting again. 1.5MBps... 7 minutes to go 😀
splitting my time between BM and ToB, but as I commute to work I must say it all looks lovely...
One disappointment is that when deciding how to rework the game they obviously -
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LOADING
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-didn't think to have it not do that every 100yards or so, which is a pity, but it does look lovely.
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Better go, apparently I'm needed in the test chamber...
Don't worry. The nice scientist told me there's only a very very tiny chance of it all going horribly horribly wrong. Well within acceptable limits...
i shall be watching this thread with great interest.
Ah. That's fine then.
Something about this guy...looks familiar....
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Fits like it was made for me!
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awwwww no. You'll never guess what's happened...
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My original HL experience, on the playstation:
1) Stand on train forever
2) wander around for a while
3) Activate plot mcguffin
4) Smash up a load of crates with me crowbar
5) Uh oh. Looks like I needed those to climb up there, to get into the next section
6) **** it, I'm not standing on the train forever again.
But I think now I will.
there's a Chuckle Brothers mug in it for you if you do...
Stop posting screenies you gits. Torrent @ 3.3 kb/s, 1w 6 days to go 🙁
schnor, I'll start sending you bits by pigeon if you like
Schnor, are you using the second torrent I posted? That was flying for me. Or the direct download posted by fingerbike [url= http://www.shacknews.com/downloadpop?file_id=32999 ]here[/url]
that's at 2hrs for me now, think the pressure has lifted a bit (torrent was faster though)
Thanks unklehomered (and Northwind!), the direct link is much faster than the torrent, should be done in a few hours now 🙂
Amazing, this is the only PC game I ever played! (aside from Rollercoaster Tycoon ;))
You need the Steam engine thingy to run this yes?
you need any source engine game HL2/L4D etc
about 3000 seeds waiting until tonight to take the brakes off some hopefully playing this week (at night with the lights off)
Having tried the PS2 version it was soooooo slow with most of the time spent loading. The PC version was better hoping to stop it early by telling them not to put the thing in the chamber then go have a cup of tea.
It says the source stuff is available for free download, does aanyone have any guides for getting the source & steam stuff installed without buying a game?
see if you can find the source developement kit? (SDK) that might do it... Or you could try downloading a HL2 demo... or treat yourself to portal.
cheapest HL2 game seems to be HL2 deathmatch at 2.99 , none of the other games are that much tbh.
Hl2dm and tf2 are both f2p.
I think a new gfx card is in order as I would like to play in 1920x1080 but I think my gfx card is a bit underpowered as I very rarely play pc games.
I've got an onboard Geforce 8200 on my pc with an Athlon x4 635 processor, are there any good deals out there on new PCI-E cards? I used to keep up with this sort of stuff but I don't even know whose better between AMD and nVidia these days.
tbh for this, it wouldn't need to be awesome. You could pick up a 8500 and run it hybrid SLI and get the equivilent of of a 8600 out of it. I did that for a while it was ok. But I was running a 1080 and a 990 monitor. That would be pretty cheepy to give a go. Given your mobo I'd go Nvidia, you can use the hybrid power and switch it off when you're not gaming etc.
Right, just got home... best links please ???? Ta.
Oooh forgot about this think I'll set it away now.
NO worries lads.. torrents are loaded with it. Got it already. Going to be long old night.
HL was me favourite game ever.
They've changed things, which I quite like, and they brought some funny too... Bit glitchy getting on and off ladders, but so much fuuuunnnn!
Just going through the Blast Pit, and is it just me or is this not very good? I don't know whether it's true to the original or not, but... It's basically a rail shooter, except it's a rail shooter where you can get confusingly lost because sometimes the one direction you're allowed to go in, isn't signposted at all. That's OK in open world things but not in a linear corridor shooter, and especially not when all the corridors look the same.
Gameplay seems to be all about "go here, push button" and "quicksave then reload"- it just threw a bit at me where you have to <spoiler> and if you don't do it in the time allowed (and there's no way to know that you either have a thing to do, or that you're on a timer) then you get dropped in a load of radioactive stuff and you die. Oh you got mashed by a tentacle? Reload.
And there's hardly any different baddies so far, and the only time they're any bother is when it does that crappy spawn-behind-you trick.
Oh and Gordon's protective suit doesn't have an air supply? Seriously?
Soooooo... Is this just what Halflife games are like? IE, sort of like quake one, except with less satisfying shooting and shinier graphics?
dunno yet, unzipping now. I've no idea what you like in a game but the original halflife for me was astounding. A bit edge but scary to the core. The face huggers would have me shivering in a corner.
They're waiting for you Gordon ... in the motion-sickness chamberrrr.
Its been about 12 months since I've played any FPS, 1 hour later and I need to lie down in a dark room for a week or so
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Downloaded it in about an hour on Friday night.
The steam SDK took longer to get. Not had chance to get on the home computer since though and it doesn't run on a MAC.
Oh. Well that was a little frustrating.
Did the train journey, get my suit on, went down in the first lift and now I'm stuck in the lift. Doors won't open, lift won't move. If I kill myself through falling I end up back in the lift.
And it's complete
Time to get the achievements now