Community20 Mar 20265 years of Black Mesa: Blue Shift & Upcoming Update!Congrats to HECU Collective! 🎊🎉 It’s been 5 years since HECU Collective released the first chapter of their Black Mesa: Blue Shift mod. Watching their project (and team) grow over that time has been genuinely awesome, and the passion they’ve poured into bringing Barney Calhoun’s story to life continues to blow us away. They’re celebrating the anniversary with two new videos, and you should ab…
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💥 Should you Play Half-Life or Black Mesa? The age old question of what game to start with to get into the franchise, is finally ANSWERED! Check out Adam’s latest video for a deep dive into the differences—graphics, gameplay, and the full experience. It’s a must-watch for both new players and longtime fans! 😎 Moros Protocol x Black Mesa Bundle still going! Treat yourself this holiday season,…
❄ Black Mesa is 75% OFF It's the most wonderful time to save on Black Mesa, during the Steam Winter Sale (Dec 18–Jan 5)! If you’ve been waiting, now’s your chance to grab the fan remake of Half-Life at a great discount. But in case that's not enough savings for you... 🎄 Moros Protocol x Black Mesa Bundle: Double your savings! We teamed up with Pixel Reign, developers of Moros Protocol, to bund…
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1. Black Mesa: Blue Shift – “Caretaking Update” by HECU Collective 👮 Our friends over at HECU Collective have dropped a big “Caretaking Update” for their Black Mesa: Blue Shift mod, and it’s absolutely worth your time if you haven’t checked it out yet. Some of the standout improvements in this update include: · A new scene at the end of Focal Point that smoothly transitions into Power Struggle…
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Hello Scientists! We've deployed a hotfix surrounding issues recently reported to improve your experience around the facility. Changelist: · Resolved a rare issue that prevented the game from launching and triggered a 'Failed to load the Launcher DLL' error in specific scenarios.
Hello Scientists! We've deployed a hotfix surrounding issues recently reported to improve your experience around the facility. Changelist: · Replaced old bone separation logic for ragdolls with a trace-based solver that resolves occluded or embedded bones: · Ensures hierarchy-correct traversal by sorting bones by tree depth before applying fixes. · Uses trace normals and parent-to-child constra…
Hello Scientists! We've deployed a hotfix surrounding issues recently reported to improve your experience around the facility. Changelist: · Resolved IVP related crashes in the "Office Complex" chapter when resuming from a save file. This fix potentially safeguards other chapters from having similar crashes. · Potentially fixed cases of Alt+Tab related crashes.
Shift into Something Blue-tiful😎 👮🏻♂️HECU Collective Update! The HECU Collective is hard at work on new chapters for Black Mesa: Blue Shift. While you wait, their latest update shares their current progress, screenshots, behind the scenes animations and audio. Want to know more about what's coming? Check out the full details on ModDB 🔴LIVE TODAY - SALEM TECHSPERTS PLAYS BLUE SHIFT! The Gre…
Black Mesa- Resonance Decade: Celebrating 10 Years on Steam 🎉 We continue to celebrate our Steam Anniversary, by sharing our biggest discount on Black Mesa ever, along with a major update! BIGGEST SALE EVER - 90% OFF! To celebrate a decade of unforeseen consequences on Steam, we're offering Black Mesa at its most significant discount ever! Don't miss this historic opportunity to experience the…
In celebration of our ten year anniversary on Steam, we’ve pushed our longstanding public beta to mainline. This update includes substantial improvements including: · Fixes to startup related crashes · Fixes to physics engine related crashes · Steam Deck Improvements · Linux Improvements Full patch notes: · Relaxed triangle vertex validation in ToGL to accept structurally valid input even when…
BLACK MESA 10TH ANNIVERSARY ON STEAM CELEBRATION! Today marks an incredible milestone - 10 years of Black Mesa on Steam! To celebrate this achievement, we're hosting a month-long celebration filled with special events, streams, and activities for our amazing community. SCHEDULED EVENTS WEEK 1 May 5 - LIVE STREAM: Brad plays Black Mesa @ 8:30pm EST on Twitch May 8-11 - PAX EAST: Updates from the…
Hello again, Scientist! You’re just in time! We’ve released a new build to the public-beta branch on Steam, and we couldn’t be more thrilled to share the results of our ongoing research and field observations with you. Since our update last April, the team has been laser-focused on refining stability, improving user-facing systems, and streamlining the experience for both new recruits and retur…
🌼Spring has breached the Black Mesa perimeter... and brought savings! Black Mesa Spring Sale - 50% OFF! The perfect time has arrived to experience (or share) the acclaimed Half-Life remake that started it all. Black Mesa is now 50% OFF during Steam's Spring Sale ! Already own Black Mesa? Gift the experience to friends! Let them explore the facility, then settle your scientific disputes in deat…
UNFORESEEN SALE A Sale, Dr. Freeman? Is it really that time again? Black Mesa is now 75% OFF from February 24th through March 3rd If you've been waiting to hop in on the re-imagined journey of Gordon Freeman, now's the time! Public Beta Updates We've pushed several improvements to the Public Beta branch, and we need your help in testing the changes: • Fixed several commonly reported customer is…
Things are off to a quick start at Crowbar Collective in 2025! Here is what we've been up to: Second Wind Podcast/Plays Black Mesa 🎮 Tune in to see our friends at Second Wind play some Black Mesa! Crowbar Collective Lead, Adam Engels, will be joining Yahtzee, JM8, and Mikee as they play through a few of their favorite levels. 🔴LIVE on Friday, Jan 25, 2025 @ 1pm EST ICYMI: Black Mesa x Black M…
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About that Xen I owe ya.. We're excited to share the news that HECU Collective have released Focal Point , the next chapter in their Black Mesa: Blue Shift mod! Along with a bunch of fixes and feature updates, players will be excited to finally visit Xen through the eyes of Barney Calhoun. HECU Collective says this chapter is now their LARGEST yet! ICYMI, here's their epic trailer for Focal Poi…
Updates, Anniversaries, and Sales (Oh My!) Lots of great things coming down the line for Half-Life Fans. Black Mesa Sale and Update Previously we released a Fall '24 Update as a Public Beta. With good feedback and insight from the community, we are making some necessary changes, and hope to push the update out to the mainline branch in the coming weeks. Stay tuned for an announcement on that. Y…
We are incredibly excited to share with the community what we've been working on... Rogue Point Our new game will be a rogue-lite tactical co-op shooter that offers a strategic approach to high-octane combat. But that's not all... Crowbar Collective x Team17 We've partnered with Team17 as our publisher, to bring you Rogue Point! Over the last couple of years, our team has been working on this t…
Barney Calhoun's adventure continues! HECU Collective have shared a new recording from Xen and it contains... the Focal Point chapter release date! No more Xen When™ for this mod too! If you're interested, watch the announcement video now! Along with the fifth chapter, their new release will also include a lot of great improvements and content for previous chapters as well! Here's the short lis…
Hello everyone, Welcome to Fall, and a Black Mesa beta patch post! We have pushed a build to public-beta that includes a bunch of fixes to some lingering issues, and WAY better Linux/Steam Deck support. ___________________________________________________________________ Highlights · Improved game start up for a smother first time launch and improved stability · Fixed an issue that caused the ga…
What an August! Black Mesa is now on sale for a limited time—it's the perfect chance to dive into Gordon Freeman’s epic journey. Whether you’re a new player or revisiting the chaos of the Black Mesa Research Facility, now’s the time to join the fight! SALE is live from August 24-29 Focal Point Trailer! But that's not all! The amazing HECU Collective team have just dropped a BRAND-NEW TRAILER fo…
Happy Summer, fellow scientists! Hope the axial tilt is finding you well. Black Mesa is discounted for the Steam Summer Sale, so tell all your friends! We also wanted to give a quick update on what we are up to. AMD Water Crash There is a known crash with certain AMD cards when you reach the water in UC. We are going to deploy a beta so we can get proper crash reporting and then fix the crash.…
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