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Forums - PC Discussion - Half-Life Fan Remaster Black Mesa Launches on Steam Early Access

The long-awaited and Valve sanctioned Half-Life 1 re-envisioning Black Mesa has been released on Steam Early Access for £14.99.

It's not quite finished, as I suppose the Early Access badge had you guess. Around 85 per cent of the single-player campaign is done, the final 15 per cent still needing "considerable time" - "putting a time estimate on it would be a total guess," the Black Mesa Steam page explains.

As it stands, Black Mesa offers a SP campaign with "over 10 hours" of play, plus multiplayer deathmatch and team deathmatch modes, on six "completely re-imagined" HL1 maps.

The full game will have a full campaign, pus the addition of the Xen chapters, as well as more multiplayer maps and more multiplayer modes.

Developer Crowbar explained that it opted for Early Access to both bring in the community for feedback as well as the resources needed to finish Black Mesa to the standard fans expect.

Black Mesa recreates Half-Life in the Source engine, but also adds new choreography, new voice acting, and a new soundtrack. It also supports Steam Workshop.

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2015-05-05-half-life-1-remake-black-mesa-out-on-steam-early-access




       

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The remake is certainly nice from what i have heard about it but i will wait till it comes out fully before deciding to buy it or not



                  

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Been so excited about this.



Neat.
I'll probably wait a few weeks though, make sure nothing hugely buggy about it.



I'll add it to my wishlist, but I won't buy it until it's complete.



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It was released like 2 years ago as freeware........... so it's not free anymore?



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zero129 said:
Thats what i dont understand they have already released this for free, so since they didnt add the xen chapters (something i thought they would of done after such a long time) i dont see why they are now charging for this, unless something has been added in the paid version thats not in the free one??

At a guess, they probably need the money to pay for extra devs to help finish the work. The Xen chapters are quite artistically different from the rest of the game so they're probably struggling... or maybe they've decided to extend the Xen chapters a lot further than the original.