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[nighttarga]

im defenitly going to restrain myself from going to the wiki and spoil everything.
to the devs, DONT EVEN RELEASE XEN MEDIA. force the player to go throught the game if he wants to see it

[Dillxn]

It’s not the developers that you’ll have to worry about.

[Mr_Someguy]

@nighttarga

force the player to go throught the game if he wants to see it

Or open the console and type “map” then scroll down the list 'till you see the ones labeled “Xen”.

[Lord_Grievous]

That and the fact that you get teleported there early in the game

[Hammich]

A 5-minute gameplay video of any given chapter would be nice.
But the problem about that is… it would be nice.
BM’s devs are too busy being awesome and working on the mod to be nice… right guys?

oh and with the internet being this whole great-big crazy mess of informative information that informs… If you don’t want Xen spoiled then resist the temptation to look at images… infact… when the mod is released you should probably avoid the bm forums which will explode with a wave of newcomers having their HL-gasms all over the boards posting screenies and going “hau allsum rite gaiz?”… till you get up to there yourself =)

My current mental picture of the BM Xen is a highly unlikely level structure reminiscent of those vertical mazes in Super Mario Smash Bros.

[ultrasvin]

About Raw-bean´s suggestion of creating a summary of developers’ posts in the Forum,
what about a modification in the “Developer Interviews & Press” part of the Wiki?

By changing, for example, the above name to “Developer Interviews, Press & Forum Trivia (comments, information or updates?)”

So that, in each year, the developer comments are presented with a list of titles referring to the link of the respective relevant post.

Originally Posted by raw_bean
I’ve been thinking for a long while about the merits of a thread summarising recent mod-related posts by the devs who contribute to the forums, whether that be in a separate thread, in here, or on a wiki page. I think even those of us who do keep up with the forums regularly would be surprised to see how much Ram and James and the others do actually say about the mod (for example in answers in the Got a Question thread) when it’s all gathered in one place.

It wouldn’t be that hard to do, just by going dev by dev through their recent posting history for relevant posts and maybe a quick hop into the originating thread if the original context isn’t clear. The question is what would be the best way to present it? In here, in another thread, on the wiki, some combination? “Recent Forum Updates from the devs”?

EDIT: How about this, I’ll create a closed sticky and a wiki page with all the interesting dev posts I can find for the last few months, then update them both once a month. At the same time, I’ll stick the same info in a post in here for discussion, and a new post in here with the new info once a month for further discussion. Good idea?

Further EDIT: I think doing this would also help feed me or anyone else who wants to help out with ideas for FAQ updates, both on the wiki and the forums.

Final EDIT: And in an effort to please everyone (despite my earlier assertion about it being impossible) when I post up the dev postings and each time I update them after that, I could push to get a dev with twitter access to tweet a link. I should have plenty of time this week so I think I’ve talked myself into doing it like this, unless anyone has any alternative suggestions or comments.

https://forums.blackmesasource.com/showthread.php?t=898&page=90

[bur]

@Hammich

oh and with the internet being this whole great-big crazy mess of informative information that informs… If you don’t want Xen spoiled then resist the temptation to look at images… infact… when the mod is released you should probably avoid the bm forums which will explode with a wave of newcomers having their HL-gasms all over the boards posting screenies and going “hau allsum rite gaiz?”… till you get up to there yourself =)

Which gives me an idea… since the forums will be flooded with noobs upon release of the mod, it might be a good idea to at least create a new subforum, that is only accessible to members who have been registered since before release (with a special usergroup, or something), so long-time members can have some peace and quiet.

[Deathmonkey7]

I support this idea.

[Hammich]

I totally loosened the lid on that jar of awesomeidea you just opened.

[awsgames]

Then I came into the jar.

[Lord_Grievous]

@awsgames

Then I came into the jar.

:hmph:

[Spycrabz]

I’m a newfag and I take everything you say with at least 3 wheelbarrows of salt.

[Lord_Grievous]

General rule of thumb, take everything Ram says as a lie until proven otherwise

[Omega_Absolute]

Just like that sentence.

[Hammich]

so that sentence in addition to the customary salt…whenever Ram says something… take a salt lake, test drive some vehicles on it. Then eat some deep fried seafood. well seasoned.

[Deutscher_Scharfschu]

@Raminator

You’ve been here long enough to know that you should take everything I say with several handfuls of salt. I am disappoint.

Theres not enough salt on this planet to compensate for even half of your statements.

[Spycrabz]

That should compensate.

[TheRatMan]

:fffuuu:

And i think that a section in the wiki with the devs posts is a great idea…

…

:retard:

[CatzEyes93]

great “back on topic” save!

[FireTime]

hm…

…IDEA! We can call it the “Dev Sez” page and it has a small picCOLOR=‘DimGray’ of the developer, blurb of what they said, and a time stamp of when. Make it kinda look like iChat but not lame looking.