Not gonna lie, I’m actually refraining from playing the beta. I wanna play through the entire thing when it’s out as a finished product.
I made a bit of a mistake when I played the beta releases of Subnautica, because I knew everything that was gonna happen before the full release, so the ending wasn’t as enjoyable. I want Black Mesa to be different for me.
lol! ok now I see what you meant there. :appropriate chuckle:
I know a lot of upcoming things with Interloper, Nihilanth, and Endgame from snooping in the files for months, is there a way to spoiler tag a post?
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Well, there’s a LOT here, and I won’t be able to cover all of it, but a large majority of it, Also some of my info may be wrong, before the rest of xen and Gonarchs Lair came out I found that about 5% of what I found was cut beta content.
Interloper will start with a Vortigaunt village (or a Garg Chase), And while you’re in this village, you will find peaceful vorts, though soon Controllers will arrive and Mind Control those Vorts to Attack you (As the music file for this song is named “xen_VortVill” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-uF6uHgMYw )
Here are some models that are found in the files for the Vortigaunt Village https://gyazo.com/a3fdd7a7e04222491624586dca6fb3ca.gif
After this, you will be chased by SEVERAL gargantuas, and the song “Shadows of Death” will play.
There will most likely be a few puzzles between these sections and in generally throughout Interloper.
Next… The TOWER, Gordon isnt going to have a fun time entering this tower… as he will have to go through the…ahem… bowels of it. Soundscape notes say this: https://gyazo.com/5f29ebbb829dce6b9f6a2c18634dad91
The Tower actually has many Organs in it, though the only organs I can confirm that are in it by models in the files, are the Badder and the Brain, Here is the concept art for the Bladder
And here is the model for the device that will hold the Brain
https://gyazo.com/35a6b8ef54abe81f89c3daf9beab98fc.jpg
Inside Interloper there will be many Slave Vorigaunts, all coughing and wheezing their weak words out, we have some new voice files for the Vorts, here is one
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/437355994771882024/610337309455548447/vort_laboured_coughidle02.wav
Thousands of Models for Agrunt Pods, Conveyor Belts, Machinery, Alien Vents, and Organic material including giant ribs and cysts are in the files as well, here are a few of them
https://gyazo.com/4fd856b288f8914fea00371d37cf9cdd.gif
I have a feeling Gordon will kill the tower by the end of Interloper
A developer stated in the Public Discord that Interloper “It’s quite creepy, dark, and atmospheric, but there’s a lot of puzzles and action. It’s quite action packed in places”
Also It appears that an elevator ride may be in interloper as well, similar to something like the Citadel though Im sure you’ll be free to move and shoot enemies, but thats just my speculation.
I also suspect that The vorts will be doing more than creating Soldiers, but perhaps making the nihilanth’s technology or doing something the keep him alive, because Nihilanth’s Chamber will have quite a bit of Xenian tech within in, but again, thats speculation.
For Endgame, Kevin Sisk confirmed with me that GMan will get up close and personal again, Like with Half life 2 Though I do believe we will still see him from Gordon’s Point of view standing in front of him as well, so a mix of both
There are some old Gman Speech animations in the files, though these could be old and outdated
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKii1osNJ2s&list=PLNUwxIAnO3tzmWihkjsczF2Ux7LLsc7XF
And incoming a bit of a mega spoiler
you have been warned
The Interloper Tower will explode during Endgame: https://gyazo.com/0f1b48173685fe8102333d6094b38b2b
And Gman will warp the world, forming the Tram around you,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OyWbU5FkjQc&list=LLHBLLAtt3WBf58v5bwrGQ5A&index=71&t=0s
It should be quite the spectacle.
Anywho, those should be all of the important bits, if I forgot anything, I’ll make another post, scroll up on the thread if you would like to see the leaked Nihilanth stuff.
ALSO The Dev Chon, shared some Early Beta Interloper and Xen screenshots with me.
Interloper
Xen
We are not ready for this. I’m so excited.
I hope the Marines get a buff, I’ve noticed the Alien grunts tend to win the fights against them in the later chapters of Surface Tension, not only are they faster but their hornets seem to do more damage then their bullets. And if the devs wish to switch the earth bound Xeniens with their Xen counter-parts the Marine’s need an upper-hand. As well as allow Commanders to use their mp5 grenades, please add this back.
Marines are supposed to lose fights in ST.
Based in dev’s view, breaking point is during On the Rail chapter where aliens start to win fights and marines act more defensive.
Well what I was trying to get at is, the Marine’s should feel threatening not because they have the numbers but because they can attack in various ways, MMOD for Half Life 2 extends Combine soldiers with the ability to use the MP7 Grenade launcher, and allowing more than just the elites to use the Energy Orb secondary fire on the AR2, and it feels like they throw grenades more often to flush out the player. I just wish the Marines could do more than just act like stock combine soldiers.
The interloper stuff so far sounds impressive and extensive to say the least. If all of this is truly final, I am definitely hoping that I won’t empathize too much with friendly vortigaunts, then be forced to murder them if they end up turning on me.
It truly is another whole game! Naysayers will have to eat their shorts!
I need this fucking game
Would they buff Gargantua or make a xen version of him?
Seems Garg is slow compare to our longjump now.
Also Garg is weak and dull compare to Gonarch.
I hope someone could add his stomp attack back.
I am expecting interloper and Nihilanth now.
They said Interloper and Nihilanth is way longer than Xen and Gonarch’s lair.
Well the gargs wont majorly be changed at all that we know of, the only thing we know is that we’ll be chased by SEVERAL of them at once
That’s too easy.
If they don’t do anything on Garg. (Like increasing Garg’s speed/Add a charge attack for Garg)
We have longjump now.