A Few Questions About Black Mesa !

[Alex_Wolfenstein97]

Hey Everyone ! , I’m new on the forums … i’ve downloaded BM a few days ago and i played around for a bit … and i have to say that YOU GUYS ROCK ! , THIS MOD IS JUST AWESOME ! … But i have a few questions …

Before I Begin :

-i apologize in advance if any of the questions below have been answered somewhere els

-i’m kind of new to first person shooters (AKA all i’ve played so far is Wolfenstein 3D , DOOM , DUKE3D & HL1)

-Please ignore any spelling mistakes as english isn’t my native language

-To make things easier for everyone , Don’t use quotes … instead use the number / number + letter in front of the question …

-keep in mind that i’ve also played the original Half-Life (NOT THE SOURCE VERSION) So some questions will be related to that …

now let’s start

1.a.) i’ve noticed that the load times are like real huge on my end … like 40 seconds or so … is there any way to speed these up a bit ?

1.b.) speaking of load times , in the original half-life the music would still play even during loading screens … is there a way to make that happen in BM or is it impossible do to source engine limitations ?

2.a.) Is it just me ? or you can’t jump as high as you would in HL1 ? … i don’t mean like crouch jumping and stuff i mean like … basic jumping … in HL1 you would jump a bit higher then you do in BM … not like it really matters but … still … is there a way to make it the same as in HL1 ?

2.b.) No BHOP ? … really ? … why not ? … how can i get that ?

3.a.) i’ve noticed that in BM enemies take more shots to kill … specificly when it comes to body shots … like leg shots and stuff … is there a way to make that like it originally was in HL1 ?

3.b.) in the BM options menu there is an option for “iron sights” is there a way to bind that to a key or something ? (so that i can still keep my altfire) ?

4.) i’m not the kind of technical dude … and i’m kind of new to FPS games … and i don’t get what most of the options in the BM tab are for … can someone explain what each one does in game ?

5.) is there a way to run BM in offline mode or even without steam ? … i don’t get this … as of right now BM is single player only so why the hell does it even need an internet connection ? (i mean … i’m usually connected all the time but …) ?

6.) is there really no way to get DirectX 10 Going on ? No injectors ? no nothing ?

7.) when i start a new game my previously unlocked chapters are still there … how can i reset those back to just the first chapter ?

Any replies are highly appreciated …

“Thank You , And Have A Very Safe , And Productive Day”

[Matt_the_Czar]

1a-this is because of the games large amount of entities, brushes, etc. on each map

1b-this is most likely source

2a- this is changed in black mesa. If you want the original jumps, go to skill.cfg and set the vertical setting on a regular jump to around 250

2b- sadly, no bunny hop

3a- go back to skill.cfg and change the health if you want

3b- if this is the magnum, there is no alt fire apart from ironsights

4- I can’t get to my game now, but train fail safe means when you get off the tram it shuts off. Check the BMS wiki.

5- yes. Find the go offline button in the steam dropdown menu

6- I do not know about this problem.

7- there is, but the chapters being unlocked has no effect on the game.

[Maxey]

I will only answer a few questions, as the gameplay related ones were already answered by the previous post.

1a - It has a lot of stuff that loads all at once but installing the mod on a solid state drive will help quite a bit.
2b - Bunnyhop doesn’t belong on a well paced single-player campaign and I don’t care about speedruns.
4 - https://wiki.blackmesasource.com/Main_Menu
6 - The version of the engine used by the mod is directx 9 only. Why do you want Directx 10 anyway? It was trash. If anything you’d want DX11.
7 - How is this a problem?

[Crypt]

I’ll pitch in a little as well.

1a: You could also drop your video settings.

2b: Bhopping is still possible-ish, but it’s very difficult and the speed boost isn’t so great.

3b: It says Enable Iron Sights, but it’s only for the .357. The option exists solely because purists complained about that addition on that single weapon.

5: Because it runs on Source which is almost exclusively a Steam thing, and therefore requires Steam to run (like all Steam games). Run Steam in Offline mode.

7: This has no bearing on anything whatsoever, but if you really find it an issue, use the console command “sv_unlockedchapters 1”

[Alex_Wolfenstein97]

Thanks For the Replies Guys … i’ve looked around the BM WIKI and i found some more stuff … Thanks again

@Maxey

6 - The version of the engine used by the mod is directx 9 only. Why do you want Directx 10 anyway? It was trash. If anything you’d want DX11.
7 - How is this a problem?

6 - DX11 would be nice but i only have a DX10 capable GPU … i tought it would hve some more optimisations and maybe it would of made BM ever better or something … but maybe it’s just crap … who knows … actually i don’t know if my laptop supports DX11 … but even if it would … if SRC has no way of running it … then …

7 - That’s not really a problem … UNLESS you have a few friends who like BM and they have a pore pc … so they wanna play it on your computer … and they’ll most likelly go to the last unlocked chapter and they’ll be like "oh fuck i don’t have any weapons … and then they are like "um … how can i cheat or something ? and so on … this way if the only the first one is there thy will be forced to play the game as it was meant to be played

4 - Thanks for that … see ya

[Matt_the_Czar]

The chapter system automatically gives you weapons.

Though I can see the problem if they wipe over your saves…

[Deathmonkey7]

1b- to add to this, the BM devs looked into this heavily and did find a solution at one point but found that it caused problems elsewhere in the game so they had to scrap it.