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Tell you what spud! This game! Is the best Half Life based game out of all of them. I started from a doom game on floppy disk' From a proper DJ. from the UK.
The Next chapter uses part of Chapter 4, but had their own content. It would be the real final chapter, since the 7 and 8 are very short ones that reuses the precípua chapter (the final escape using the portal device on Earth).
@@dauzlee2827 Last chapter might not be teleport out to entrance but a battle after battle with exchange bulley against HECU that block your way. Which is what I looking forward.
You know I like at the ending of focal point. You can hear Rosenberg saying don't shut it down. because he's still waiting and he still has hope for Barney to make it back because it shows that he's a guy who genuinely wants to get people out as well as himself
Black Mesa and Black Mesa: Blue Shift finally got their remake-treatments done right. To complete the Remake Trilogy and we just gotta need Operation: Black Mesa, the remake of Half Life: Opposing Force.
@@estebanquito1237 7:48 awww he did wave! I remember going past the door-banging guard in HL1. But I don't remember if they did that reverse thing in the original Blue Shift. I just went "Oh I'm THIS guy" when they landed you in front of that door.
Right? Almost as if people have no passion for things they are doing. Pretty funny, considering all those large corporstions started from humble beginnings as well. Gaming's biggest downfall was becoming mainstream. Profit this, profit that. Who cares? Why make a whole industry out of something rather simple?
@@gkbrickworks7924 I've done a bit of modding myself. I used to do bot code for counterstrike (hobby) I was one of the best DJ's in the UK. I love remixing. I had a passion for all those things. But. It's where your heart is.
Seeing Calhoun survive the Houndeye’s shockwave blast that could fatally damage human internal organs and eardrums in very close proximity and fall 25 feet away from sky and still didn’t break his back makes me think that he able to survive because his vest and helmet or his luck
3:11:58 i'm not sure if anyone thought of that, but i'll say it here: those last few beeps sound like a specific part of the charging organ theme you hear in Baseball
I gotta say, thank you for being so dedicated to all these walkthrough videos! You're one of the most passionate and high-quality walthrough youtubers I've watched
I must have seen the intro levels a dozen times already and I'm still amazed at the amount of detail and the sheer beauty of the architecture/construction and lighting of those levels. A pure gem.
I really like how they represented Xen's disgusting and dirty side in this chapter considering some people didn't like that Xen wasn't a dirty dimension in Black Mesa.
Xen in black mesa was like : subnautica -pandora-ori and the blind forest mixture ...... Xen that had to travel Calhoun : EVIL Cristals ,evil clouds ,evil mantas,evil existance . Relatively Gordon got lucky and apart wild Life he got the hostile part of xen Just because he wanted to sabotage and destroy nihilant and his army .
Black Mesa's Xen does get dirty as you get closer to the Factory. It's only the outer areas that look pristine and clear. Barney however seems to have directly teleported to an area that's dirty-fied by the Xen creatures right off the bat just like Interloper in BM.
Barney: so then there were these giant fireball-spitting bullsquids, a giant purple crystal that constantly power surged, I took a twenty minute ride on one of those flying manta rays and had to shoot down these giant orange pillars with a cannon, then I had to solve all these puzzles with the glowing leaf thingies before getting finally getting to the focal point where i had to figure out what the code to the generator was and when I powered it up all these grunts and flying brain things started attacking me, then I fell down into some kind of factory and that was just to get the teleporter aligned. Rosenberg: well I'm afraid the next step will be a bit more complicated. You see, Murdoch and Ronnie went down to charge up another power cell, and never came back. Barney: fffffffffffffffff
Murdoch and Ellie will probably die in the battery room from the vortigaunts like the original blue shift. Otis will be separated from the group either by the HECU or the aliens and from there he will head to the place where we find him in opposing force And about Ronny I have 3 endings for him 1: he also dies in the battery room 2: he is killed by the hecu since at the end of blue shift they enter the laboratory 3: In his desperation to escape, he jumps into the portal without being fully prepared and either dies or is teleported to Xen or some random place without any care. Or maybe hecu collective will surprise us and allow us to save everyone in some way considering that they have taken the liberty of changing many things from the original blue shift
Well, we got 2-3 chapters left now. Power Struggle and Leap of Faith are like 10 minutes put together (and all you do there is flip the power back on so you can teleport out, which you do) so I can see HECU combining both chapters into one final chapter, ending with the escape cutscene that is Deliverance.
This remake elevates Barney to a new level, not to the semi god one of Gordon Freeman, but after focal point i can now fully see why he is one of the resistance leaders, focal point is a work of art
Well they are drinking buddies, it wouldnt be right to see your friend stuck trying to open a door while you zoom by on your monorail and not acknowledge him.
Chapter 5 is wonderfully executed, don’t get me wrong. Still, there’s a part of me that feels an opportunity was missed to fix the slightly ridiculous idea of just sending Barney across in his guard uniform, while everyone else had an HEV suit on. Since the facility being used was so old, it would only make sense to put him in one of the pea-soup colored suits and call it a “Mark 2”, for example. They could have even added the old-style crouch jump, and introduced the whole thing using a wild-haired scientist named Ivan. Ah, it’s nice to dream…
3:11:55 That Death Theme! 😂😂🤣🤣BTW Did anyone Notice that is the H.E.V. Suit For Ivan The Space Biker. A Zombie Biker? 3:35:04 Oh Hey, An Archer! Man, These Guys Really know how to bring back the Lost Alpha. All we need left is a Kingpin, a Mr. Friendly, A Robot Grunt, A Snap Bug, a Sphere, A Charger, And A Flocking Floater. (i can tell i forgot some stuff) 3:57:08 Half Life Alyx Reference, Nice.
Half Life scientist in 1998: "The administrator is very concerned that we get a conclusive analysis of today's sample. I gather they went to some length to get it." Me, playing through Focal Point in 2024: "Ah yes, they did indeed go to some lengths"
Black Mesa truly is incredible HECU Collective are just the best for not only sticking by the original project for as long as they did continuing to work on the original Half Life but to improve it post release n now this I hope they continue to OP & maybe even Decay gos forbid some possible way to get some Co-oP lay or even MP like Sven $ Deathmatch but who knows I'm just happy we got this much as is
Hecu collective be like : remember power struggle ? Barney had to charge some batteries and stuff.... Well in our remake he will have to fight an epic battle of 5 hous of gameplay against a giant empty battery with super powers. The battery is also a metal clone of Rosemberg but evil . At the end of this chapter Barney will be so powerful that will fist fight gman himself before the plot of half life 2 but valve never said that.
Power Struggler Will must probably add more exploration lore to the old portal facilities, and find a Path around the derilicted instalations. It is expected a full hour episode, or two. Leap of Faith is more probably to be as short like the original, unless the battle between the HECU and the portal Room escalares further. (But once chapter 6 is done, the 7th are also made).
@@vascomanteigas9433 and Goku and nihilant Will insult calhoun's mother so he Will defeat doomguy and take the BFG but shephard with the displacer cannon Will try tò avenge his Brother alone side shephard from Mass effect in an Epic Battle.....for One charged battery
And along 20 years. The Main building was made after 1981 and had several improvements until 1998, as seen on Meeting Room, including a railway and several satelittes buildings. The Nihilanth civilization also build several basements. The evidence points that G-Man made contact with the aliens to avoid major confronctation with Black Mesa, but around 2003, when the Resonance Cascade happens (must be some black agreement between G-Man and the Combine), the Nihilanth army made an assault on Xen basements from Black Mesa and on Earth.
Wouldn't hold your breath. After half the dev team quit a few years ago (some drama around the project lead posting transpobic comments and facing no punishment) the project has been in limbo, they recently posted a winterfest gameplay snippet/update (first time since the drama) and it's still unfinished as shit. I wouldn't expect to get your hands on even a single chapter of the game for at least a few more years.
What's crazy is that last night I was watching the release date for focal point wondering for when it would come out and looks like they were watching me. Now, I'm just waiting for power struggle any time soon.
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I'll be honest, I loved chapter 5, lots of references, new creature variants. they even added the Chumptoad's lair (3:34:20 It is located right in that flooded area), all is beautiful. However, I think they went overboard in adding too many puzzles and complicating many areas, sometimes even being a little stressful because of the confusing level design and too many big-headed aliens spoiling our party, but all this is only a subjective opinion. I can't wait to see the next chapter :D
CC and HECU devs really overdo their xen sections with overly busy maps. BM could have cut an hour out of interloper and even xen. BMBS should have cut half an hour from Focal Point. It's also a lot more unbelievable than OG BS where Barney was already becoming as OP as Freeman without an HEV suit
12:23 I'm Imagining This guy climbing down the ladder, asking the guys to test the camera, then poses for a photo.(if the player doesn't Flash him Immediately) For the Power Up Chapter I'm Imagining a Cutscene where a HeadCrab falls into Coolant and Freezes to show the player just how deadly the stuff is.
Absolutely love Black Mesa Blue Shift! HECU Collective have done such amazing work! A truly outstanding remake. One of my favorite moments is when reuniting with Ronny he and Murdoch mention a guy named Copeland. I always wondered who he was. Now in the newest update we get the chance to meet the famous Copeland!
The detail of two HEV mark 4 suited Black Mesa staff at the relay station is a cool detail- it probably is a reference to the fact the survey team Xen-side tried to evacuate back to Earth before the reasonance cascade devastated the facility's receiving installations and stranded them on Xen- obviously failing in various ways due to Xen life ambush, terrain mishaps and direct attacks on the outpost sites as seen in Black Mesa Imagine the dread of having no choice but to flee to the abandoned places you previously considered too dangerous to go to but have no option and nowhere else to go while literally not in the same dimension as the rest of humanity- who may be worse off than you
What I like this game is the beginning because the area around in black mesa feels so alive it the people feels alive too and I like the background since most stuff happens there
Yep. It's when Gina and Colette calibrated the beacon that was going to be launched with the Black Mesa missile. After that, a resonance cascade happens (maybe I'm wrong) followed by them starting to jump in portals in one of them Gina or Colette crosses paths with Barney in that shower of portals
@@Dud17It's the green light that passes quickly on the right. If you read about the lore you can understand that At least once each person involved in Black Mesa crossed paths but had no direct
I don’t know if it’s intentional, or just because the developers feel more empowered / momentum-packed, but if you look at this playthrough chapters 1-4 are successively twice as long as the previous chapter and then 5 is slightly longer than 4
Gotta say, this looks amazing. I played the original Black Mesa (and the OG Half Life) and enjoyed it but this looks way more refined. Once I upgrade to a better PC I'll check this out for sure.
I like a lot of the little changes in the beginning compared to the original Blue Shift. The tone and lines of the scientists and guards sounds more like coworkers trying to get through a hectic day instead of the scientists looking down on the guards. Being at low health after the elevator crash because obviously you would be badly hurt if you even survived it. Even the elevator having safety doors that kept Barney from being eaten by houndeyes as compared to the completely open hole in the OG elevator.
Damn, These Black Mesa Games Are Something To Admire. Taking Half Life, A Revolutionary Series, And making it Even More Revolutionary, and not as we have narrowly defined ourselves, but as something greater than we could ever imagine. Something we can only now begin to glimpse. This Calls It, We Need a Black Mesa Opposing Force, And A Black Mesa Decay(Because we obviously see Dr. Cross in this game)
At this point Tripmine Studios has the great challenge of matching the Xen of BM blue shift with its Xen of Guard duty, surpassing it seems quite complicated to me. The H.E.C.U team has improved Xen a lot with what we saw in Black Mesa.
Can someone explain to me if this is what I understood about this scene? 3:15:47 Xen was discovered around 1980 and in 1981 they sent their first expedition to this site. By 1983 they had already established the foundations of their main scientific research bases at the site. Am I correct?:
Just finished it, incredible level and environmental scale. Game design is something you dont even see in AAA games. The liberal use of Manta Rays was a real treat too!
I loved Focal Point. The cutscenes were epic, especially when Barney hold on to the falling Manta Ray. Some people have been complaining about the chapter length and unnecessary puzzles, but compared to original how underwhelming and rushed Xen felt I think the remake did justice to it.
In my honest opinion i think focal point would be better if it was shorter and if the part when you destroy the jammer have more ammo for the other guns instead of rockets and satchels for some reason. After the fight should be at least some ammunition for other guns and some healing because having almost no ammo trying to escape the xen factory is really not fun. Made me use cheats such as impulse 101 and god mode just to complete the final parts. Otherwise its an okay chapter
@@matejtrupina1244 Yeah ammo and healing was scarce at times. You could however obtain plenty from the transparent tubes Xen uses and the green healing bubbles. There was some HEV suit ammo crates at the escape part too.
@@matejtrupina1244 I dont think "lenghts" is the problem here there are many games that are long but when people enjoy it usually they want more. They def need to polish some sections to keep player entertained so the feeling comes up that it drags on to much
One of Black Mesa's biggest weak points are the enemies are annoying to fight and the combat generally feels unsatisfying compared to HL2 and HL1. They are better map designers than gameplay designers imo
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Tell you what spud! This game! Is the best Half Life based game out of all of them. I started from a doom game on floppy disk' From a proper DJ. from the UK.
Guys, sell it. People will buy! Use RTX remix and the continuation.
Do you have a PO box? I can send money order. i dont do banks.
Я хочу чтобы она продавалась в Steam, и ещё чтобы сделали DLC Opposing Force и тоже продавался.
Just donated 50$
@@eradicatorbloxXIIX ❤
Two more chapter remaining for the conclusion of this remake. It is such a wonderful shift.
Faltam 3 capítulos
The last chapter should be easy to make since they were already based on previous early chapter
The Next chapter uses part of Chapter 4, but had their own content.
It would be the real final chapter, since the 7 and 8 are very short ones that reuses the precípua chapter (the final escape using the portal device on Earth).
@@dauzlee2827 Last chapter might not be teleport out to entrance but a battle after battle with exchange bulley against HECU that block your way. Which is what I looking forward.
they said that they plan to release the last 3 chapters into one. keyword plan
You know I like at the ending of focal point. You can hear Rosenberg saying don't shut it down. because he's still waiting and he still has hope for Barney to make it back because it shows that he's a guy who genuinely wants to get people out as well as himself
Black Mesa and Black Mesa: Blue Shift finally got their remake-treatments done right. To complete the Remake Trilogy and we just gotta need Operation: Black Mesa, the remake of Half Life: Opposing Force.
Decay needs a remake as well
IT'S NOT TRILOGY, IT'S QUADRILOGY
@@GDSK09
Agreed
@@GDSK09 Peers Review is one of it.
Tripmine studio is very quiet on operation Black mesa hope its not death
Gordan Freemen actually waving at Barney is quite nice.
That at the beginning of the game, in the tram system?? Or at the end ???
At the beginning of the game.
@@PatricioSotoFuentes-my1gz well, damn...I missed it
He didn't wave he just stands there.. MENACINGLY
@@estebanquito1237 7:48 awww he did wave! I remember going past the door-banging guard in HL1. But I don't remember if they did that reverse thing in the original Blue Shift. I just went "Oh I'm THIS guy" when they landed you in front of that door.
jesus christ it has better production values and better immersion and level design than every game out there right now.
Not exactly a high hurdle. They put Concord on GOTY, after all.
That goes without saying. as it is written we must refrain from worldly things. The kingdom of heaven is at hand. All glory to the king
Right? Almost as if people have no passion for things they are doing. Pretty funny, considering all those large corporstions started from humble beginnings as well. Gaming's biggest downfall was becoming mainstream. Profit this, profit that. Who cares? Why make a whole industry out of something rather simple?
@servantofthealmighty77 lol like your too scared to leave your own house to "preach" what a clown.
@@gkbrickworks7924 I've done a bit of modding myself. I used to do bot code for counterstrike (hobby) I was one of the best DJ's in the UK. I love remixing. I had a passion for all those things. But. It's where your heart is.
Indies and Modders are the true future of gaming.
GTA and HL community confirms that.
Truth.
Always have been 😉
2:49:32 I liked that detail* without H.E.V suit you get damaged.
And then Calhoun gets teleported in a cave with no light ,a big houndeye throw him over a Cliff ROLL CREDITS
Seeing Calhoun survive the Houndeye’s shockwave blast that could fatally damage human internal organs and eardrums in very close proximity and fall 25 feet away from sky and still didn’t break his back makes me think that he able to survive because his vest and helmet or his luck
The helmet is a pathway to many powers , some of them considered... unnatural.
the knockback houndeye can't deal damage, just push.
Bro's wearing literal plot armor.
I Heard that black mesa has a PLOT ARMOR department since 1981 ,they produce level 4 armor for military , enforcement and VIDEOGAMES
Gordon owes him a beer and he's damn sure going to collect.
seeing a alyx asset used is a nice thing. the squishy gernades.
actually realizing that the vortigaunts in the earlier chapters are throwing xen grenades themselves. it's their new attack.
3:11:58 i'm not sure if anyone thought of that, but i'll say it here: those last few beeps sound like a specific part of the charging organ theme you hear in Baseball
Exactly, morbid
@@ChefPrownlos yeah!
I noticed it right away while playing. It was a cool little touch
I gotta say, thank you for being so dedicated to all these walkthrough videos! You're one of the most passionate and high-quality walthrough youtubers I've watched
Wow, thank you!
I must have seen the intro levels a dozen times already and I'm still amazed at the amount of detail and the sheer beauty of the architecture/construction and lighting of those levels. A pure gem.
I really like how they represented Xen's disgusting and dirty side in this chapter considering some people didn't like that Xen wasn't a dirty dimension in Black Mesa.
Xen in black mesa was like : subnautica -pandora-ori and the blind forest mixture ...... Xen that had to travel Calhoun : EVIL Cristals ,evil clouds ,evil mantas,evil existance . Relatively Gordon got lucky and apart wild Life he got the hostile part of xen Just because he wanted to sabotage and destroy nihilant and his army .
Xen is canonically supposed to be a fungal biomass teeming with mold spores and horrific parasites that have evolved under extreme conditions
It felt like they took a lot of inspiration from Half Life Alyx's sections with the infection aspect. At least we didn't meet Jeff...
Dark and gritty moment they did
Black Mesa's Xen does get dirty as you get closer to the Factory. It's only the outer areas that look pristine and clear.
Barney however seems to have directly teleported to an area that's dirty-fied by the Xen creatures right off the bat just like Interloper in BM.
Barney: so then there were these giant fireball-spitting bullsquids, a giant purple crystal that constantly power surged, I took a twenty minute ride on one of those flying manta rays and had to shoot down these giant orange pillars with a cannon, then I had to solve all these puzzles with the glowing leaf thingies before getting finally getting to the focal point where i had to figure out what the code to the generator was and when I powered it up all these grunts and flying brain things started attacking me, then I fell down into some kind of factory and that was just to get the teleporter aligned.
Rosenberg: well I'm afraid the next step will be a bit more complicated. You see, Murdoch and Ronnie went down to charge up another power cell, and never came back.
Barney: fffffffffffffffff
I'm pretty sure Ronny would die like a coward, meanwhile Murdoch and Otis would help Calhoun fight the aliens during the final battle.
Barney can beat Gordon like how he survived Xen in just his uniform and sidearm instead of an HEV suit and long jumping module.
Murdoch and Ellie will probably die in the battery room from the vortigaunts like the original blue shift.
Otis will be separated from the group either by the HECU or the aliens and from there he will head to the place where we find him in opposing force
And about Ronny I have 3 endings for him
1: he also dies in the battery room
2: he is killed by the hecu since at the end of blue shift they enter the laboratory
3: In his desperation to escape, he jumps into the portal without being fully prepared and either dies or is teleported to Xen or some random place without any care.
Or maybe hecu collective will surprise us and allow us to save everyone in some way considering that they have taken the liberty of changing many things from the original blue shift
@@alejandrolombardo1190 It depends - do you have candy for Otis? Otis can take on the world with enough candy.
So long as Otis survives this will all be worth it.
The only thing left is Opposing Forces Remake Now. Great Playthrough Bolloxed❤❤❤
And Decay.
Absolutely @@tabarebruch6257
And half life 3
Well, we got 2-3 chapters left now. Power Struggle and Leap of Faith are like 10 minutes put together (and all you do there is flip the power back on so you can teleport out, which you do) so I can see HECU combining both chapters into one final chapter, ending with the escape cutscene that is Deliverance.
I think that when Gabe and the team saw Xen in Black Mesa they were like, we have to make Half-Life 3, absoulutely astonishing.
Theyve been working on xen since 2010, that's why they needed to polish Source 2
He's now more busy with Valkyrie LMH and GTP project than Half Life 3 unfortunately
This remake elevates Barney to a new level, not to the semi god one of Gordon Freeman, but after focal point i can now fully see why he is one of the resistance leaders, focal point is a work of art
And Barney doesn't have a power suit. Would've loved to put one on
7:45 The hi from Gordon is cute
Well they are drinking buddies, it wouldnt be right to see your friend stuck trying to open a door while you zoom by on your monorail and not acknowledge him.
As a blue shift fan this remake makes me happy and thanks for playing it!
A lot of care and passion has gone in to this, you can just tell. Superb.
Chapter 5 is wonderfully executed, don’t get me wrong. Still, there’s a part of me that feels an opportunity was missed to fix the slightly ridiculous idea of just sending Barney across in his guard uniform, while everyone else had an HEV suit on.
Since the facility being used was so old, it would only make sense to put him in one of the pea-soup colored suits and call it a “Mark 2”, for example. They could have even added the old-style crouch jump, and introduced the whole thing using a wild-haired scientist named Ivan.
Ah, it’s nice to dream…
With the gameplay does'nt make me worry about that too much. took me awhile to get people believe that portal and Dal systems where part of the lore.
SOUND-DESIGN IS AWFUL
Rosemberg : Just get there and push a Botton .....yeah .
@@ГОСПОДИННBro what? This game got amazing sound design. Better than Black Mesa I’d say
It looks like ur a failure fellow Balkan@@ГОСПОДИНН
The Half life franchise will never die
Never ever I grew up with it
3:11:55 That Death Theme! 😂😂🤣🤣BTW Did anyone Notice that is the H.E.V. Suit For Ivan The Space Biker. A Zombie Biker?
3:35:04 Oh Hey, An Archer! Man, These Guys Really know how to bring back the Lost Alpha. All we need left is a Kingpin, a Mr. Friendly, A Robot Grunt, A Snap Bug, a Sphere, A Charger, And A Flocking Floater. (i can tell i forgot some stuff)
3:57:08 Half Life Alyx Reference, Nice.
14:50 So incredible how they tinted your vision and muffled the gunshots for this part
Half Life scientist in 1998: "The administrator is very concerned that we get a conclusive analysis of today's sample. I gather they went to some length to get it."
Me, playing through Focal Point in 2024: "Ah yes, they did indeed go to some lengths"
Black Mesa truly is incredible HECU Collective are just the best for not only sticking by the original project for as long as they did continuing to work on the original Half Life but to improve it post release n now this I hope they continue to OP & maybe even Decay gos forbid some possible way to get some Co-oP lay or even MP like Sven $ Deathmatch but who knows I'm just happy we got this much as is
Crowbar Collective made OG Black Mesa, their logo is literally the first thing you see when you start the game
Hecu collective be like : remember power struggle ? Barney had to charge some batteries and stuff.... Well in our remake he will have to fight an epic battle of 5 hous of gameplay against a giant empty battery with super powers. The battery is also a metal clone of Rosemberg but evil . At the end of this chapter Barney will be so powerful that will fist fight gman himself before the plot of half life 2 but valve never said that.
Power Struggler Will must probably add more exploration lore to the old portal facilities, and find a Path around the derilicted instalations.
It is expected a full hour episode, or two.
Leap of Faith is more probably to be as short like the original, unless the battle between the HECU and the portal Room escalares further. (But once chapter 6 is done, the 7th are also made).
@vascomanteigas9433 probably idk hahha
@@vascomanteigas9433 and Goku and nihilant Will insult calhoun's mother so he Will defeat doomguy and take the BFG but shephard with the displacer cannon Will try tò avenge his Brother alone side shephard from Mass effect in an Epic Battle.....for One charged battery
Funny, but exaggerated. Love the comment anyway haha.
Rosenberg somehow got GLaDOS blueprints and built his own version?
This has been a long time coming
Absolutely amazing ost too, captures the black mesa style and part of half life 2's ambience perfectly
Holy sheeze!, Not only he posted 10mins ago but All of us still couldn't reaching the download site!
10:47 plot twist: Barney Calhoun is a vampire.
You can tell from his pale face in HL1
"Hey catch me later, I'll buy you a sangria."
This point is even more supported because there’s not a single peice of garlic in the entire game
Masterpiece. Deserves an award for the dialogues already!
This looks amazing
7:32 10:34 14:17 14:48 15:12 30:26 36:55 1:39:53 2:09:28 2:25:07 2:27:01 2:27:20 2:43:46 2:49:56 3:45:51
I can't wait to see this game coming into a full release.
37:43 WTF was that? Bolloxed was checking out a doctor xD.
He always does that
It’s surprising how Black Mesa survey teams managed to set up entire bases right in the middle of hostile territory
And along 20 years. The Main building was made after 1981 and had several improvements until 1998, as seen on Meeting Room, including a railway and several satelittes buildings. The Nihilanth civilization also build several basements.
The evidence points that G-Man made contact with the aliens to avoid major confronctation with Black Mesa, but around 2003, when the Resonance Cascade happens (must be some black agreement between G-Man and the Combine), the Nihilanth army made an assault on Xen basements from Black Mesa and on Earth.
15:26 the subtle silent nod to "...owing Freeman a beer lol"
WE GET FULL BLUE SHIFT REMAKE BEFORE GTA VI. what a time to be alive.
Still 2 chapters needed
@@ChefPrownlos 3 techincally speaking.
Don't get me wrong, NOBODY CARES ABOUT SHIT, FOR GTA-VI, ITS VERY ANNOYING, WHEN GTA COMES OUT, IT WILL COME OUT
Great playthrough! One thing that never gets old, is the force which the gibs fly through the air when you blow em up, kaboooom ^^
ООООО!!! РЕМЕЙК БЛЮ ШИФТА НАКОНЕЦ-ТО ВЫШЕЛ!!! ААААААА!!!!!
Ох, MechanicVoice, теперь и к новому блю шифту жду дубляж
Теперь бы ремейк opposing force дождаться))
Ага, дождаться бы, @@Гоги-з8б, а затем и его дубляж
@@Гоги-з8б
Не дождёшься
А нету дубляжа? Вообще или только у 5 эпизода?
@@Gutsss-m7rвообще
The only reason i'm still alive is to wait for the Opposing Force remake.
Wouldn't hold your breath. After half the dev team quit a few years ago (some drama around the project lead posting transpobic comments and facing no punishment) the project has been in limbo, they recently posted a winterfest gameplay snippet/update (first time since the drama) and it's still unfinished as shit. I wouldn't expect to get your hands on even a single chapter of the game for at least a few more years.
3:41:32 Welcome to Xen Air. Fasten to your seat belt,,
Mod keeps delivering a banger every chapter
Shout outs to this obvious labor of love by Hecu Collective
Black Mesa. Remake of Half Life 1
Blue shift in black mesa remake.
Next remake. Opposing Forces
gotta say, they did an AMAZING job with this. The love shows
This looks great, can’t wait to play
What's crazy is that last night I was watching the release date for focal point wondering for when it would come out and looks like they were watching me. Now, I'm just waiting for power struggle any time soon.
7:45 "SUUUUUUCCCCKKKEEEEERRRRRR!" - Freeman's Mind (2007)
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I'll be honest, I loved chapter 5, lots of references, new creature variants. they even added the Chumptoad's lair (3:34:20 It is located right in that flooded area), all is beautiful. However, I think they went overboard in adding too many puzzles and complicating many areas, sometimes even being a little stressful because of the confusing level design and too many big-headed aliens spoiling our party, but all this is only a subjective opinion.
I can't wait to see the next chapter :D
CC and HECU devs really overdo their xen sections with overly busy maps. BM could have cut an hour out of interloper and even xen. BMBS should have cut half an hour from Focal Point. It's also a lot more unbelievable than OG BS where Barney was already becoming as OP as Freeman without an HEV suit
12:23 I'm Imagining This guy climbing down the ladder, asking the guys to test the camera, then poses for a photo.(if the player doesn't Flash him Immediately)
For the Power Up Chapter I'm Imagining a Cutscene where a HeadCrab falls into Coolant and Freezes to show the player just how deadly the stuff is.
Now all we need are the "pre Desaster" Edition for the Blue Shift Story too! So like nothing goes wrong and we just help with the Elevator.
Pre-Disaster version of Xen Survey Camp
@@kirill9064 Yes!! A fully intact set of Xen survey stations would be awesome to see.
Great work as always
This is amazing, installing it now!!
At last!!! Nice job Bolloxed 👍
Well played, Bro you are professional.
Absolutely love Black Mesa Blue Shift! HECU Collective have done such amazing work! A truly outstanding remake. One of my favorite moments is when reuniting with Ronny he and Murdoch mention a guy named Copeland. I always wondered who he was. Now in the newest update we get the chance to meet the famous Copeland!
I think he is the edgy security guard you could meet at the insecurity chapter, he says that hes going to quit the job or something
@@Avturbocor That's him! Jesse Reinfeld Copeland III. He's stopping for nobody.....NOBODY
All I can say is Barney Calhoun is one tough hombre... HEV? We don nee no es-steenkin' HEV.
"Power armor is for PUSSIES!"
The detail of two HEV mark 4 suited Black Mesa staff at the relay station is a cool detail- it probably is a reference to the fact the survey team Xen-side tried to evacuate back to Earth before the reasonance cascade devastated the facility's receiving installations and stranded them on Xen- obviously failing in various ways due to Xen life ambush, terrain mishaps and direct attacks on the outpost sites as seen in Black Mesa
Imagine the dread of having no choice but to flee to the abandoned places you previously considered too dangerous to go to but have no option and nowhere else to go while literally not in the same dimension as the rest of humanity- who may be worse off than you
It looks beautiful! By the way, happy anniversary!🎉
Wooow that's really incredible I just finished it's 5:36 pm after I started watching at almost 2pm
What I like this game is the beginning because the area around in black mesa feels so alive it the people feels alive too and I like the background since most stuff happens there
4:50:22 Gina Cross & Colette Green????
Probably
Where??
Yep. It's when Gina and Colette calibrated the beacon that was going to be launched with the Black Mesa missile. After that, a resonance cascade happens (maybe I'm wrong) followed by them starting to jump in portals in one of them Gina or Colette crosses paths with Barney in that shower of portals
@@Dud17It's the green light that passes quickly on the right. If you read about the lore you can understand that At least once each person involved in Black Mesa crossed paths but had no direct
The elevator sequence is too epic to not be talked about. The sudden tension of the music made it better, makes you realize that hell broke loose
Better than most games out there !!!
The graphics it's very good I can't believe this❤
You can see pixels still and remeber this is source 1 game and looks more hl2
I don’t know if it’s intentional, or just because the developers feel more empowered / momentum-packed, but if you look at this playthrough chapters 1-4 are successively twice as long as the previous chapter and then 5 is slightly longer than 4
27:15 Unforeseen consequences on the letter soup XD...
Damn that's amazing 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Murphy law of guns in games: you change to any gun to counter ambush properly, but also somehow the gun is empty
Gotta say, this looks amazing. I played the original Black Mesa (and the OG Half Life) and enjoyed it but this looks way more refined. Once I upgrade to a better PC I'll check this out for sure.
this is awesome 💯💯💯
The xen chapter in black mesa always feel like an underwater gameplay 😅 but it's beautiful btw!
YESS ITS OUT!!
(I’m a bit late but that’s because i thought it comes out in nov 25 for some reason)
Amazing job but those puzzles man...I was smashing my keyboard in frustration trying to solve them
Glad I could help!
I like a lot of the little changes in the beginning compared to the original Blue Shift. The tone and lines of the scientists and guards sounds more like coworkers trying to get through a hectic day instead of the scientists looking down on the guards. Being at low health after the elevator crash because obviously you would be badly hurt if you even survived it. Even the elevator having safety doors that kept Barney from being eaten by houndeyes as compared to the completely open hole in the OG elevator.
Damn, These Black Mesa Games Are Something To Admire. Taking Half Life, A Revolutionary Series, And making it Even More Revolutionary, and not as we have narrowly defined ourselves, but as something greater than we could ever imagine. Something we can only now begin to glimpse. This Calls It, We Need a Black Mesa Opposing Force, And A Black Mesa Decay(Because we obviously see Dr. Cross in this game)
thank you so much for this!
At this point Tripmine Studios has the great challenge of matching the Xen of BM blue shift with its Xen of Guard duty, surpassing it seems quite complicated to me. The H.E.C.U team has improved Xen a lot with what we saw in Black Mesa.
Ok. All due respect, Focal Point was an awesome chapter, but holy shit it overstays its welcome.
Now this is what you call a REMAKE, making it even longer, more detailed and overall awesome game 10/10
2:57:45 Timestamp
Can someone explain to me if this is what I understood about this scene? 3:15:47
Xen was discovered around 1980 and in 1981 they sent their first expedition to this site. By 1983 they had already established the foundations of their main scientific research bases at the site. Am I correct?:
4:20:38 - 4:21:08 that melody is perfect
Just finished it, incredible level and environmental scale. Game design is something you dont even see in AAA games. The liberal use of Manta Rays was a real treat too!
I like that on that abandoned station has like older versions of first aid stations and skeletons wearing very much older H.E.V versions, nice details
Such BREATHTAKING journey!!!🔥🔥🔥
i always loved how barney survived as he is the only one not haveing gman following him around
Oh man, either Focal Point needs a rebalance run or it needs to be trimmed down. It goes on forever and I was scrapping for ammo. Too many headcrabs.
Захватывающее зрелище! Сумели создать шедевр! Спасибо за игру!
Holy shit!!! It's Incredible!!! Half Life love forever!!!
Focal Point!! Great ambient ❤
2:28:00 funny dialogue beetween the marines 😂😂
2:28:12 "it's all nothing but metal"
famous last words 😂😂
I loved Focal Point. The cutscenes were epic, especially when Barney hold on to the falling Manta Ray. Some people have been complaining about the chapter length and unnecessary puzzles, but compared to original how underwhelming and rushed Xen felt I think the remake did justice to it.
In my honest opinion i think focal point would be better if it was shorter and if the part when you destroy the jammer have more ammo for the other guns instead of rockets and satchels for some reason. After the fight should be at least some ammunition for other guns and some healing because having almost no ammo trying to escape the xen factory is really not fun. Made me use cheats such as impulse 101 and god mode just to complete the final parts. Otherwise its an okay chapter
@@matejtrupina1244 Yeah ammo and healing was scarce at times. You could however obtain plenty from the transparent tubes Xen uses and the green healing bubbles. There was some HEV suit ammo crates at the escape part too.
@@matejtrupina1244 I dont think "lenghts" is the problem here there are many games that are long but when people enjoy it usually they want more. They def need to polish some sections to keep player entertained so the feeling comes up that it drags on to much
Focal point was fine in 2001. The remake goes a little overboard, and most of the black mesa enemies are just not fun to fight after a while
One of Black Mesa's biggest weak points are the enemies are annoying to fight and the combat generally feels unsatisfying compared to HL2 and HL1. They are better map designers than gameplay designers imo
Man.. can't wait for the next Chapters.
They have done an amazing job. It would be nice to have chapter 5 as a separate download.
15:49 INTENSE ELEVAOR MONTAGE
03:05:16 Music is awesome - Reminds of the atmosphere: that's the proof a lot of scientists dream about.