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Black MesaNewsHECU's Blue Shift: Focal Point Release Date
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HECU's Blue Shift: Focal Point Release Date

Black Mesa · published 6 Nov 2024, 19:01 UTC

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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!

https://youtu.be/8V4qo3GuhWg

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 list of fixes and added features:

  • New and improved scenes for Living Quarters Outbound and Insecurity chapters;
  • Improved skybox textures, lighting and Post Processing in all earthbound surface maps;
  • Added responsive surface sounds to some environments that will be played with nearby explosions;
  • Improved all explosions SFX and added distance attenuation to them;
  • Added completely new surface properties for certain props with unique physics sounds. (E.g. barrels, tarps, monitors, crates);
  • Updated many BM and BM:BS textures/materials;
  • Various other visual improvements.


The updated mod will be available for download on Steam Workshop here: (https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2424633574)

and will also be available to download ModDB

We can't wait until **November 17th**!

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