The sooner that’s locked down the better. Black Mesa the game is called that because they weren’t allowed to use Half-Life in the title, so I hope he uses a few of his Patreon posts spitballing a new title. I don’t imagine Valve will have a problem with anything but the name. I'm sure the words 'Tau Cannon' are underlined on the development whiteboard.

It’s a gif you can hear, and it bodes well for the rest of the Half-Life armoury. It was this demonstration of the Gluon Gun that caught my attention in the first place. The Black Mesa monitoring program is designed to monitor long-term effects on the groundwater resources of the mesa as a result of withdrawals from the aquifer by the strip-mining operation of Peabody Coal Company. He showed off zombie companions in one Patreon update. The N aquifer is an important source of water in the 5,400 sq-mi Black Mesa area on the Navajo and Hopi Indian Reservations. I think he’s managing to capture the feeling of the OG GoldSrc game well enough, and it’ll be interesting to see if the top-down perspective can take Half-Life into places it’s never been before. The footage is pretty low-key: swiping zombies, leaping headcrabs, and in the middle of it all the Freeman thwacks away. He’d already passed the test!ĭeveloper Daniel Almenara’s top-down tribute is a series of rooms that’ll provide Gordon with fights, puzzles and platforms to pass. No wonder he was so handy with a crowbar. It locks Gordon Freeman into a series of challenges to prove to the G-Man he’s the right man for the job, using the classic Half-Life enemies and crates to craft an endless, violent job interview. Escape the Gargantua’s Lair without taking any damage from Gargantuas.

The probably soon-to-be-renamed Half-Life: Loop is an unofficial HL twin-stick shooter set in Black Mesa. Complete Interloper without taking any laser damage.

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