Black Mesa World Record Speedrun!

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#21

Come on, you gotta leave some bugs in for dem speedrunners.

#22

you made the BM facebook

#23

Oh wow! Thank you to whoever posted the run!! I can’t wait to see what I can do on the steam version :smiley: !

EDIT:
I also wanted to add that this run is obviously not the best it can be and I’ll be doing some routing/practice either today or over the weekend. I’ve got a few tricks up my sleeve but like many Black Mesa strats, they are kinda hard.

#24

'Grats on the run.

Do you plan on re-doing one in the future with the community made extensions? That is provided your system can handle it.

https://forums.blackmesasource.com/showthread.php?t=15065

https://forums.blackmesasource.com/showthread.php?t=15754

#25

I don’t currently have plans but I’ll consider it. My main goal as of now is to cut down the run to 1:24:XX or 1:23:XX. I can save about 30 seconds just by not crashing although I’m not too sure how to fix that.

#26

It’s worth taking a look at, even if it’s not in your current plans.

I wish you luck with cutting down your time, good sir.

#27

I just hope everyone on the dev team keeps the phrase “you are not your work” in mind when seeing videos like this - it might be an instance of physics engine (or - gasp - even map) abuse, but considering 95% of the game playing population don’t care that much about pulling off “l33t stratz”, it might be seen as spiteful to deliberately try and prevent it (“oh, so you want to grenade jump over across half of my beautiful, beautiful level? BAM - invisible wall, sucka!”)

#28

You are not your job, you’re not how much money you have in the bank. You are not the car you drive. You’re not the contents of your wallet. You are not your fucking khakis. You are the all singing, all dancing crap of the world.

#29

Yeah, and I’m Gordon Freeman’s colon. Your point?

#30

It was a great movie

#31

Im streaming right now for anyone interested! here

EDIT:
Just finished streaming, I got a new world record but I made lots of silly mistakes. Only one new strat in this run and you’ll have to watch in order to find out what it is! (hint: office complex)

New time: 1:24:53.12

(please dont post this to facebook, it really sucks ;- :wink:

#32

If you’re really dedicated, you could do a segmented run. (multiple snippets/parts glued together.) That could cut times down, probably about 5 minutes or more, because you can just keep practicing that one segment until you get it perfectly. I find it impressive that you did this all single-segment though. That requires skill.

#33

What’s the crash you keep getting?

#34

Crashes usually occur between loads in Questionable Ethics or during the load into Apprehension. The error varies, usually its just “hl2.exe has stopped working” but other times it mentions something about being unable to load a lump or something like that, when I get the error message again i’ll screen cap it.

#35

If the HL2.exe stops working again, open up the reason why and take an ss as well.

#36

@OP, could this please be uploaded to youtube? Thanks.

#37

So looks like twitch messed up. The VOD wont load anymore and this is because the first 30 minutes of the video is missing, I am able to download the other 3 30 minute segments however the first seems to be missing/broken :frowning: … Sorry guys, looks like I’ll have to beat my PB but it’ll take a while…

EDIT:
If anyone has the first part of the VOD in FLV format please PM me a download link and ill splice together the other 3 parts and upload it to youtube.

#38

Yes, that’s the reason why I asked for a reupload in the first place.

#39

Shows you shouldn’t trust Twitch to keep a recording of your streams. You better use some software locally which also saves a copy on your harddisk. I know FFSplit and Dxtory can do this.

#40

If you played the paid version of Black Mesa you would get your Steam Account banned immediately. Speedrunning Black Mesa is forbidden. Especially bhopping because it breaks the immersion. retardmode off

Edit: Now when I look at these speedruns… I notice that Black Mesa looks really shaky compared to HL1. This leads me to ask the following questions about the steam version of BM:

  1. Will it be possible to disable bob (viewmodel bob and viewshake while walking/running)?
  2. Will it be possible to disable viewmodels?
    In my opinion there should be as few viewshake as possible. For me it’s just annoying and it doesn’t really add much to the game.
    I’d also suggest to change footstep-sounds… Especially the drop-sound. At the moment it sounds like gordon has 3 legs.

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