will this steam vesion gonna be using source sdk 2013 ?
The updated free version will use SDK 2013 and the Steam version will use the latest commercial version of Source.
time of release ? Still Unknown ?
It’s known, we all just signed a contract to not tell you specifically, sorry.
But no, no ETA yet.
im thinking this will come out in early 2014 or mid 2014
nah theyr’e gonna pull a duke nukem forever and release it 14 years late jk i love you guys
All the best guys! This mod rocks and can’t wait to play it when it’s released!
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It all started on 11/19/13. The day that the developers made an update post. I had been browsing the internet, and one of the sites I frequently go to is these forums. When seeing the update post, I was ecstatic! Finally, contact with devs and assurance that development isn’t at a halt. What striked me as odd however, was the fact that it took me 2 minutes to post my reply. I wasn’t too concerned, thinking that it was just a server hitch due to the droves of people flooding in to see the wonderful news. After I had posted my reply, maybe… two minutes afterward, my browser, Mozilla Firefox, closed, and I was presented with my desktop. Slightly infuriated, I check my Task Manager, and it said my browser was still running. Due to the many occurrences I have of programs lingering in the Task Manager after having closed them, I thought nothing of it and waited.
A minute passed by.
“God! Just close, you piece of shit browser,” I said in my moment of rage. Moments later, and still in my angry stupor, I notice that Firefox was taking up 500 MB of my memory. It sat idle like that for seconds. How could my browser be taking up this much memory? Without even running? I only had 1 tab opened before it abruptly closed, so it had no reason to do that.
Just after I realize that, my browser’s memory usage continued to climb… 750k… 900k… Soon after reaching 1 GB, my screen flickered. It wasn’t a strobe, it was just two quick flickers. Instantly after, I felt an awkward feeling in the pit of my stomach. Was it anger, or was it dread? It honestly felt like a mix between the two. Angry that this was happening, however, scared to find out what happens next. Briefly after the two flickers. I move my mouse across the desktop, and navigate to the Firefox icon. My stomach drops, and my heart pounds in my chest. Right next to the Mozilla icon was a Black Mesa Shortcut. I was creeped out by this. I had uninstalled Black Mesa after replaying it about 5 or 10 times in September 2012. Just by looking at the shortcut, I knew that this wasn’t normal. The Black Mesa logo was some weird type of invert. One half had a black outline and white inside, and the other half had a white outline and black inside. Perhaps the most creepiest part about whatever this was, is what the shortcut’s name said.
“DON’T CLICK”
Why would I not click on this? All of a sudden, something installs on my machine without my authority, and the shortcut has a gal to tell me to not click it? I’m fucking clicking it. I didn’t really have much to lose in the first place. My computer was bloated with useless programs at the time, so I didn’t mind risking an entire infection on my computer, because I can just re-install Windows from scratch. I clicked it, and and expected something terrible to happen to my machine. How anti-climactic, nothing happened. Black Mesa launched. I found it weird how effortlessly it took to launch. There was no window from Steam indicating that it was launching, in fact, Steam was completely closed.
When I got to the main menu, I browsed through the options, developer console, anything just to see just what was so different on this version that I had reluctantly clicked on. Nothing. Same starting background, menu layout, everything. I expected nothing to change when I carelessly clicked on the New Game button. I paused for several seconds, making a face that you all would probably laugh at. I only saw one chapter there, where all of the other chapters would of been, and that chapter was called
‘Xen’[/SIZE]
My rational mind tried desperately to conjure up a reasonable thought.
Perhaps I managed to get my hands on a development branch of the game? No. Maybe the menu was bugged, and Xen was somehow still in the menu, but not actually used? Maybe it was just the Half-Life Source version of Xen? It was hard to comprehend what was in front of me. I eagerly clicked on the big Xen thumbnail, which looked like Xen from Half-Life.
The game took minutes to load, but that wouldn’t stop me from knowing what I had randomly got my hands onto. I could wait forever for this.
Just as the loading bar was on it’s last bar to load, I got confronted with a black screen, then I heard a fast stutter, then the game crashed. This all happened very fast. I was disappointed to say the least. After pretty much being seconds away from playing Xen, it only took mere seconds to take it away from me. When I got presented with my desktop, I tried to find the shortcut to launch it again. In it’s exact place was a .txt document. It’s name was ‘README’. In all caps. I quickly opened it, and there were only 3 words inside of it.
“should have listened”
This couldn’t have been a prank. After my joy had worn off from almost getting to Xen, I felt that half-anger half-dread feeling again. I ignored it and clicked on the Firefox icon, hoping that it would open the browser, after my previous problem with it. I quickly go to forums.blackmesasource.com, then to the developer/news section to tell everyone about my ordeal. I make my post, and wait for some replies or explanations. Not even 30 seconds later after I refreshed the page, I get a notice that I was banned from the forums. Why? Were the developers trying to hide something? I open Steam to tell my friends about what had happened, the whole entire story up to now, until I quickly notice an update in the top-right corner of my Steam window. It was an invite. Unamused, I click on it, expecting it to be more group invite spam. Surprisingly, it was an actual steam user, his name was called ‘cman2k’. If I recall, he’s the lead dev of Black Mesa. Before I click accept, I needed to see if it was actually him. I click on his profile, and to my surprise, it was actually him. Why would someone like him add me, the average joe Steam user? It’s probably because of my small incident with Black Mesa. I couldn’t think anything else why. I click accept.
About 15 seconds later, I see a chat window. He’s trying to chat with me. How did I know that this would happen?
His message reads as follows: “you just made a very big mistake”
Hope you like my story, I’m a shitty writer, so if anyone likes this I’ll continue it. 
Haha, forum fanfiction. I actually found that to be a fairly entertaining read!
Yes! Keep this going!
Throw something about the ARG in there and you’re golden!
Keep it coming sourcegamer101 ! Your a we-some
Well this is better than the Sonic fanfiction for sure.
Speaking of fanfiction, I’m writing another HL fanfic, telling the story of Half-Life from Eli Vance’s perspective. 
nice, I hope it’s better than that “bm mapper application” written by a 12 year old that was trying to tell the same story
How about you let me know?
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0ByFalrGSTXzuMEx4WTUyVXo5OFU/edit?usp=sharing
It’s still very rough and “skeletal” (I need to flesh things out a lot but the framework is there) and it’s very unfinished. I hope to go through the events of Half-Life 1, through the aftermath of Gordon’s forays into Xen, the Seven Hour War, and up until he finds out from Kleiner that Gordon has suddenly appeared in Kleiner’s lab in HL2.
It’s going to be a long story. 
thats was a good read, your actua;y quite a good writer
I miss terribly your-name-here’s presence in this topic.
I hope he’ll be back with us soon.
Stormseeker’s posts are often also extremely interesting!
I rather have their time spent by working on the game instead of chatting with us.
I’m still thinking of ideas to the next part of my creepypasta. In the meantime, enjoy a revised version of the first part:
It all started on 11/19/13. The day that the developers made an update post. I had been browsing the internet, and one of the sites I frequently go to is these forums. When seeing the update post, I was ecstatic! Finally, contact with devs and assurance that development isn’t at a halt. What striked me as odd however, was the fact that it took me 2 minutes to post my reply. I wasn’t too concerned, thinking that it was just a server hitch due to the droves of people flooding in to see the wonderful news. After I had posted my reply, maybe… two minutes afterward, my browser, Mozilla Firefox, closed, and I was presented with my desktop. Slightly infuriated, I check my Task Manager, and it said my browser was still running. Due to the many occurrences I have of programs lingering in the Task Manager after having closed them, I thought nothing of it and waited.
A minute passed by.
“God! Just close, you piece of shit browser,” I said in my moment of rage. Moments later, and still in my angry stupor, I notice that Firefox was taking up 500 MB of my memory. It sat idle like that for seconds. How could my browser be taking up this much memory? Without even running? I only had 1 tab opened before it abruptly closed, so it had no reason to do that.
Just after I realize that, my browser’s memory usage continued to climb… 750k… 900k… Soon after reaching 1 GB, my screen flickered. It wasn’t a strobe, it was just two quick flickers. Instantly after, I felt an awkward feeling in the pit of my stomach. Was it anger, or was it dread? It honestly felt like a mix between the two. I was angry that this was happening, however scared to find out what would happen next. Briefly after the two flickers, I move my mouse across the desktop, and navigate to the Firefox icon. My stomach drops, and my heart pounds in my chest as I feel the blood gushing to my head and making me warmer. Right next to the Mozilla icon was a Black Mesa Shortcut. This made no sense, I remember playing Black Mesa 5 or 10 times in September of last year, then I uninstalled it. Just by looking at the shortcut, I knew that this wasn’t normal. The Black Mesa logo was some weird type of invert. One half had a black outline and white inside, and the other half had a white outline and black inside. That wasn’t the creepiest part, however. The part that chilled me to the bone, that made me almost shut off my computer, was what the shortcut’s name said:
“DON’T CLICK”
Chills ran down my spine. I started to panic, and immediately checked my directories to find anything abnormal. I navigate my way to my Steam mods install directory, trying to waste as little time as possible. I double clicked the folder expecting something to be there. Nothing. In my panicked stupor, I needed a faster method of searching, instead of double clicking folders to no avail. I tried searching “black mesa” in the search bar, to see if something would come up. Of course, Nothing. I took drastic measures and did a system restore. There was only one date. November 18th, 2013. I selected the restore point, then waited for my computer to reboot.
After my computer had rebooted, I type in my password as fast as I could, anxious to see if that damned shortcut was gone. My heart immediately started pounding, as I felt blood to gushing through my temples. It was still there. That damn shortcut was still there, exact same name, exact same icon. I knew what I had to do. I had to click it. I had to get to the bottom of this, and get some type of explanation of what was going on to me. Why me? Why would this happen to me? A wave of anxiety crashed through me as I proceeded to click it. I expected something terrible to happen to my machine at this point, like some unstoppable virus that I couldn’t remove, and I would have to format and re-install Windows. I was surprised, as nothing happened. Black Mesa had launched. I found it odd how effortlessly it took to launch. There was no window from Steam indicating that it was launching, which was made even more apparent due to there being no mod in my Steam directories at all. Steam wasn’t even open either.
When I got to the main menu, I browsed through the options, developer console, anything just to see just what was so different on this version that I had reluctantly clicked on. Nothing. Same starting background, menu layout, everything. I expected nothing to change when I carelessly clicked on the New Game button. I paused for several seconds, making a face that you all would probably laugh at. I only saw one chapter in the new game window, where all of the other chapters would of been. That chapter was called:
‘Xen’[/SIZE]
My rational mind tried desperately to conjure up a reasonable thought.
Perhaps I accidentally got my hands on a developer branch of the game? No, it couldn’t be… Maybe it was just the Half-Life Source version of Xen? It was hard to comprehend what was in front of me. I anxiously clicked on the big Xen thumbnail, expecting the worst, as usual. The thumbnail icon looked exactly like the Xen thumbnail from Half-Life: Source
The game took minutes to load, but that wouldn’t stop me from knowing what I had got my hands onto. I could wait forever for this.
Just as the loading bar was on it’s last bar to load, I got confronted with a black screen, then I heard a fast stutter, and the game crashed. This all happened very fast. I was actually disappointed, to say the least. After pretty much being seconds away from playing Xen, (if it even was Xen) it only took mere seconds to take it away from me. Presented with my desktop, I tried to find the shortcut to launch it again. In it’s exact place was a .txt document. It’s name was ‘README’. In all caps. I quickly opened it, and there were only 3 words inside of it.
“should have listened”
I didn’t know what to think at this point. After my joy rush had worn off from almost getting to Xen, I felt that half-anger half-dread feeling again. I ignored the feeling and clicked on the Firefox icon, hoping that it would open the browser, instead of fucking up on me like last time. I quickly go to forums.blackmesasource.com, then to the developer/news section to tell everyone about my ordeal. I make my post, and wait for some replies or explanations. Not even about a couple of minutes later, I refreshed the page.
I get a notice that I was banned from the forums. What? Why? I didn’t have any outstanding posts, I never started a flame war, or trolled anyone. I could legitimately say I was angry at that point. Still frustrated, I open Steam to tell my friends about what had happened, the whole entire story up to now, until I quickly notice an update in the top-right corner of my Steam window. It was an invite. Unamused, I click on it, expecting it to be more group invite spam. Surprisingly, it was an actual steam user, his name was called ‘cman2k’. If I recall, he’s the lead developer of Black Mesa. Before I click accept, I needed to see if it was actually him. I click on his profile, and to my surprise, it was actually him. Why would someone like him add me, the average-joe Steam user? I click accept. I didn’t know what to expect at that point. What would I say? “Why did you add me?” I guess I could’ve said that.
About 15 seconds later, I see a chat window. The steam message sound startled me, much more than usual, probably because of the stress and anxiety racking my nerves.
I click on the chat window, and begin to read the chat message.
His message reads as follows: “you just made a very big mistake”