That defeats the point of watching the countdown go 3…2…1 and taken to the release website.
I would love to record the last 10 hours of countdown…
If this gets Greenlit in enough time, will you give Valve the code early so they can release at the same time, or do you expect a delay?
that’s if 
You know. for Black Mesa JUST being a (Mod), It has impacted alot of people. I remember, back in… 2006? sending an E-mail for wanting to be one of the Level Designers, at the time they told me they were more focused on Xen at the time, I had my offer denied. From that point on I went on to improve my skills on Hammer. I then later got accepted into a mod that is sadly now dead Operation Lamda. Now back again I anticipate this mod like I patiently have been doing the past 7 years for myself.
Through the years I have been waiting, I have Graduated High School, Moved to Japan, got into Scuba Diving, work at a Scuba shop, fell in love, have a baby on the way, worked somewhat on college. Through out all of that had “When is Black Mesa releasing!!!”
So I thank you for the memories of all the crazy forum posts, as well as the motivation to excel in Hammer!
With the torrent set up. Will you use the advantage of a seedbox? Many companys offer a seed box with shared uppload with 1 gbit (plenty of speed for 1 seeder in start) for like 7 euros.
Or is that part already fixed?
One week to go guys, woo!
Sorry if this has been addressed already but, is source sdk base 2007 installed automatically with some valve games?
Games like TF2, yeah. And it can also be installed by itself.
It’s not “installed” but a lot of it’s contents are shared through most Valve Source games.
So when you go to install it, the progress might read 97% or something done.
It’s done? for real this time? cuz I still have nightmares about that trailer…
I just realized that I’ll be away from September 14th to September 16th. Oh well.
For those that are worried about a steam release greenlight delaying the launch… forget about it.
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they will be releasing it regardless of steam and
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I don’t understand why people are worried it would be difficult for steam to stick it up on the service. With their developers/programmers it would take a day at most, and then distributing it to their data centers would be also nothing it all…
Good guy Gabe won’t let you down!
So usually on momentous occasions such as these, a launch party is usually happening in a chat room somewhere. This is probably a noob question, but in experience with these things, long-term projects’ IRC channels are usually dead…
So Is there an IRC channel (or other such chat room somewhere) where everyone will be screaming/spamming ‘ZOMGGG 5 MINUTES!!’ as the countdown reaches it’s finale?
Where will YOU be when BM goes live?
[COLOR=‘Black’]Incompetent forum mods.
Probably refreshing the Black Mesa homepage waiting for the download links to come on. Might pop into the Steam group chat room, we’ll see.
There is an IRC chan, #bms on GameSurge
It’s been around (and mostly dead) for years.
Have any of you considered the possibility that the mod has gotten enough votes on Greenlight, but Steam is helping the team build up to the release?
As far as I know, Gaben is supportive of the mod. For something this big that has gotten as much publicity as it has, it is in Steam and Valve’s best interest for Black Mesa to be a success.
Along with that, people who work for Valve and Steam are nerds. Nobody gets into video game development who isn’t a nerd. They geek out on this stuff. I think there is a real possibility that there are FAR more than enough votes so far, and Steam is artificially slowing the progress down. Again, I’m not saying they are doing it to be detrimental. On the contrary, I’m hoping they’re being super supportive and helping build suspense up until the release.
That’s how things work in my little world anyway. I can dream right?
[edit:] I’m not saying the devs would necessarily know about this. I just think it’d be cool if the folks over at Steam were Good Guy Gregs just helping out because they can.
I think Valve could start a stress test on the day BM is released.
I think the folks at Valve have better things to do than to tamper with votes.
I will be at work for starters. Honestly, I will wait for things to level off- complaints of bugs and probable patches (for free, I can’t honestly expect more, especially when AAA titles have the same issues). I can be patient a little longer.