I think they will release “Xen Open Beta” at the end of Q2, to keep the promise. After that, I suppose it could take additional 1-2 months for “Public release”.
I’m looking forward to finding out more about The Pizza Code Mystery!
I think those consoles do pretty much look like human consoles, albeit a bit “aliened up”. The rectangular screen and those buttons do look pretty earthly, imho. There might be some lore behind it , though, who knows. I am definitely curious to find out!
I love the Floaters, cant wait to see them in HD
Floaters were cut enemies from HL, and the team have stated that they´re not adding cut enemies to Xen. Perhaps you mean the protozoan, the floating blue stuff?
Yes, that jellyfish-thing is the protozoan.
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Am I the only one who scrolled down as quickly as possible, in order to not look at those preview gifs and not be spoiled?
yeah and if you need to do more than one skybox incorporate the Stargate Source Mod code otherwise it is only one skybox per map in Source by default.
Looking Good I think Gonarchs lair is perhaps the best looking as it is a bit mysterious and cavernous.
Well done!
I believe that the Technical Beta should release somewhere from May 6th to June 1st
June 1st is my birthday, that’d be cool
Found some videos on cut enemies.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEh6YIuYTYo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juB5ljoyBi0
Really makes me wish they would have some cut stuff, even if it is passive.
Also the chum toad isn’t officially cut content, If we don’t see one I will be sad.
I remember they said they won’t do any cut enemies, but it was over one year ago and maybe they have change their mind now.
I really agree with you, as many things existing in the current version are actually not included in the original Half-Life, I think it’s not a bad idea to add some cut content, and they have decided to remake the cut scenes (such as the Xen swamp) since “Black Mesa is not a simple remake of HL but a re-imagination thereof” as shown in the game store , so why not add more?
The cut enemies are set as Easter Eggs as you are exploring the Xen space, while adding some relative achievement to them, that’s what I wish to see in the final release.
Well, there is still room to add non-hostile aliens. Devs only excluded hostile ones 
We got more info in the forum of a GIF
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This must be the beginning of Xen chapters, as seen in the trailer.
Not removed look closer. they are lowered.