#Black mesa co op mod#

Development was officially announced on January 1, 2005. set out to reconstruct the original title, giving it new environments, models, and abilities.'. According to the developers, ' Black Mesa: Source was built and founded on the principle that Half-Life: Source did not do the original title enough credit. After discussions between the two project leads, the two development teams merged, resulting in a team of 13 members by the end of December 2005. Neither team knew of the otherвЂ™s existence until LeakfreeвЂ™s lead Jon Dominski began publicising in the, now forums.

#Black mesa co op mod#

Black Mesa was born out of two separate mod teams: 'LeakFree', formed in September 2004, and ' Half-Life: Source Overhaul Project', formed in October 2004 and led by Jimmy Headdon. Characters Дevelopment screenshot of the Anti-Mass Spectrometer.Д«lack Mesa was born of the discontent fans experienced when playing Half-Life: Source when considering the living environment Valve created with Half-Life 2 using the Source engine, the original game fell far short of what many players thought could be done with the software, basically being a straight port, except for improved water and lighting effects along with the inclusion of ragdoll physics. The exception being the Xen chapters, which now consist mostly of original work, with cues taken from the original Half-Life. However, the developers intended to preserve all of the gameplay elements from the original game, without adding entirely new enemies, weapons, or levels. Black Mesa features original textures, models, sounds, voice acting, and music (composed and produced by the game's sound designer, Joel Nielsen fully available here) designed specifically for the game. The ultimate goal of the game is to recreate the original Half-Life from the ground up, using the advanced capabilities of the Source engine to create a new and more engrossing in-game world with more varied, complex environments and more challenging, realistic gameplay. Ultimately, Gordon uses the cooperation of surviving scientists and security officers to work his way to the mysterious Lambda Complex, where a team of scientists teleport him to the alien world Xen, where he must destroy the Nihilanth, the creature keeping Xen's side of the dimensional rift open. Throughout the game, a mysterious figure known as the G-Man regularly appears, apparently monitoring Freeman's progress. The game is set during May 200- in a remote area of New Mexico, USA at the Black Mesa Research Facility a fictional complex that bears many similarities to both the Los Alamos National Laboratory and Area 51.ДЄs Freeman tries to make his way out of the ruined facility to find help for the injured, he soon discovers he is caught between two sides: the hostile aliens, and the Hazardous Environment Combat Unit, a military force dispatched to cover up the incident - including eliminating Freeman and the rest of the Black Mesa Science Team.

After an experiment that goes horribly awry when an unexpected Resonance Cascade (an apparently completely fictitious occurrence) rips dimensional seams that devastate the facility, Gordon must fight to escape the now alien-infested facility as creatures from another world - known as Xen - subsequently enter through these dimensional seams.

Gordon Freeman, a recent MIT graduate in theoretical physics, and also a recent employee at the titular Black Mesa Research Facility. As in Half-Life, players assume the role of the protagonist, Dr.