Edit the scrolling speed of the credits?

Personally, I love Joel Nielsen’s music in Black Mesa… However, there’s one song I despise strongly… and that’s end credit song #1. Maybe, I hate this song because when I beat Half-Life for the first time in 2003 - and after playing through the entire epic game… the cliff-hanger that you were left with at the end was one of the most epic cliff-hangers I’ve ever seen (including movies).

So when the amazing end credits music by Kelly Bailey started playing… I got chills down my spine. The perfect song, for the perfect ending to the game. I sat there in awe as the credits scrolled across the screen… amazed by the fact that it felt so epic. Half-Life was the first game I ever played that made me feel like I was the main character, and that I had, personally, beaten nihilanth, and that I had personally survived the resonance cascade at Black Mesa.

To honor that original feeling - I edited the credits song of BM to the original Kelly Bailey song, and mixed it with Joel Nielsen’s end credits part 2 song. There’s only one problem… The music is cut off (around) 10 seconds before it’s supposed to end. And therefore… that kind of ruins the experience… :frowning:

So can anyone tell me which files I should edit to make it so the credits scroll a little slower? Thanks everyone!

P.S I also edited in the original alarm (instead of the school bell type ring) to the original ‘Alien-like’ siren. I also put the original Fire Door closing warning sound beep back in, but other than that - everything else is perfect :wink:

At the moment - I’m also attempting to mix the original HEV charge and Med-Charge ‘initiate’ sounds with the new sounds. If I can get that done and change the above - I’d post that for other who want to do the same :slight_smile:

What a ridiculous thing to complain about. I don’t think you’re going to be able to do that. When part 2 is released there’ll be a whole new ending and whole new set of credits anyway.

My understanding of the entire point of Black Mesa is to relive the Half-Life experience. That’s all I’m trying to do. Relive a part of my childhood.

You could try adding some escape characters to the end of the credits before the final line of text. I don’t know if that will change the speed or just make everything go a bit faster, though. Worth a try.
The file is scripts/credits.txt, there should also be some additional parameters you can try modifying.

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