General Xen Chit-Chat Thread

Before the Gonarch became an Error model, I actually do spawn a Gonarch. Complete with everything, but particles, sounds and textures. It can charge, spit acids like Bullsquids, spit a high-damage blob. Instead of spawning a single Baby Headcrab, it spawns multiple Baby Headcrabs (no textures and sounds too).

Then there’s the Xentacle with a complete entity, but it seems buggy. Hitting it with explosives will send it moving SO FAST AWAY!! It functions like normal Tentacles from Half-Life 1 albeit you need to avoid them instead of killing it. Shooting it will make them come down to the pit, and ascend for a second later like in the original. They do not hit targets with beak; possibly that their code is still incomplete. They only sing.

You can spawn Fast Headcrabs and Poison Headcrabs from Half-Life 2! However, they do not have any sounds.

Then on the skybox game files, there are 6 Xen skies I saw. Xen_Sky_3 will most likely be used during the Resonance Cascade (when you get to see Bullsquids for the first time). Xen_Sky_4 has two suns (equally the same as the skybox, alien1 from Half-Life). Xen_Sky_12 and Xen_Sky_5 have a black sky as the background with green nebulae. 12 seems to be “away” from Xen, and it seems Xen itself is below on that swirly hole.

Could someone make a list of the console commands to spawn the new npcs? I want to try this out for myself.

npc_create npc_houndeye_suicide
npc_create npc_houndeye_knockback
npc_create npc_gonarch
npc_create npc_bebcrab

all spawn errors that do nothing now though, they have patched them out.

from twitter look at the background

Thought it said Hype at first.

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actually it says “HALP”

nice find! Look closely and you’ll see Gonarch lurking around the corner!

https://www.redbubble.com/people/the-strynx/works/16575636-half-life-hope
And
https://www.redbubble.com/people/the-strynx/works/16575636-half-life-hope?p=mug&style=standard&utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=g.pla+notset&country_code=US&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI7-vJ6tvS2AIVlIN-Ch33OAVrEAkYASABEgJGxfD_BwE

https://twitter.com/BlackMesaDevs/status/958721471811018752

The individual frames of the GIF (which is actually an MP4) in that tweet converted to PNGs (using ffmpeg), in case anyone wants to analyze them in more detail.
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looks like the underside of one of the xen islands, wonder how long till some one clears everything up and puts things together.

We provide only the best shitty restorations of Xen images.

So, could this picture imply anything? Well, I think i’m thinking too much :rolleyes:

I know nothing of the ARG, but I wonder if it has something to do with the ARG?

I guess we can assume that Xen will be released cryptically like the Mod and Steam releases were.

https://twitter.com/BlackMesaDevs/status/964205452480339968

Purest sample? It looks like amorphous glass-type rocks, such as obsidian, without any crystallized structure.

Any news?

A simple 4 line update like that picture we got would be great.

XEN - Artwork Completed
Gonarch’s Lair -
Interloper
Gray Newell - Completed

Race X will have in the new Black Mesa XEN?

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