Operation Black Mesa - 1st May Media Release

[Rubes]

I am from the team

[ManlyStump]

@xalener

And even that’s slowed to a stop

Really? Yesterday… really?

[joker]

@RabidMonkey

The models look solid, but there’s a pretty big contrast between the vehicles and weapons (it looks like the vehicles/NPCs are screengrabs from a realtime viewport shader while the models are renders) - as such you can really get a feel for the normal/spec detail on the vehicles, while some of the weapons look like they have painted highlights instead of a true specular map. It’s difficult to get a feel for how anything looks until it is in-game, though.

Some of the levels look interesting, the biodome shot has to be my favorite aside from the bridge to nowhere, but the screenshots look like they were run through a sharpen filter (D . I’d love to provide additional feedback if there’s anyone from the team here, I think with a little more polish and thought the environments could be pretty awesome.

Levels that are shown aren’t fully finalised.Models aren’t all compiled to source/finalised, so we can’t provide ingame screenshots. I cant tell anything more, i dont want to tell too much

[wafflewarrior7]

I’ve never seen any fo that, This looks great!

[ultama121]

Yo, RabidMonkey, we’d really appreciate the further crits if possible. Just PM them either my, joker’s, or Rubes’ way. We can forward the crits to authors of the respective pieces.

[brokenfridgehinge]

Yeah, some of the sharpened textures look quite ugly, but nothing’s final yet of course. Female zombies would be a nice change for something to shoot, since BM won’t have them.

[ultama121]

TBH, the textures don’t look like that ingame. The screenshots themselves were sharpened. Guess we’re not doing that next time. :3

[brokenfridgehinge]

Are you guys using the MP5 or the M4?

[ultama121]

Currently, its going to be a choice between both.

[brokenfridgehinge]

That sounds kind of familiar…

[AI13]

Well, imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, and while it might not be original, its still a great idea. (I apologize if the OBM team thought of having choice first, I just couldn’t be bothered to do the research.)

Still, LOOKS GOOD!

[brokenfridgehinge]

Maybe BM can donate their M4 to the OBM team since they’re not using it?

[Bono_estente]

@RabidMonkey

The models look solid, but there’s a pretty big contrast between the vehicles and weapons (it looks like the vehicles/NPCs are screengrabs from a realtime viewport shader while the models are renders) - as such you can really get a feel for the normal/spec detail on the vehicles, while some of the weapons look like they have painted highlights instead of a true specular map. It’s difficult to get a feel for how anything looks until it is in-game, though.

Some of the levels look interesting, the biodome shot has to be my favorite aside from the bridge to nowhere, but the screenshots look like they were run through a sharpen filter (D . I’d love to provide additional feedback if there’s anyone from the team here, I think with a little more polish and thought the environments could be pretty awesome.

It’d be an honour to have feedback from you, RabidMonkey. Feel free to contact me or other obm team members or let me know when you have the time to discuss things. Very much appreciated and big thanks!

[Wasad]

Ok … i didn’t know there is a opossing force remake! I really didnt get it after all the time. Im really suprised.

Great Homepage and a very nice media release! I Like the concept art of the Intro. Would be nice to see how much military invaded Black Mesa and how the war against the XEN-aliens began. Also the Voltigore is simply perfect. Cant wait to see it shooting. Would be cool if it would have a same distortion effect like the striders secondary attack in HL2.

There is so much space for awesomness

[ZitaX]

@AI13

Well, imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, and while it might not be original, its still a great idea. (I apologize if the OBM team thought of having choice first, I just couldn’t be bothered to do the research.)

Still, LOOKS GOOD!

What, is it something wrong if OBM wants to use both? And as far as i know, BMS won’t even use the M4, so i don’t see were the “imitation” would come from …

Anyway! It’s really a magnificent update! And it seems like most people think the same! :3

[Tonix]

WhEn will it be out!!?! it so long already:3

[_amp_955_dam]

When it’s…

Oh wait, I don’t know.

[Shepard]

Wow, just watched the entire media release couple times. Well, the OBM devs team did the very bloody well job back there and i really think that they’re going in right way with a mod-style idea(I like a Black Hawk Down stylization in teaser). And i only wish, that maybe some day, our lovely BMS team will do a little team-up with OBM team to share to each other with some models, maps and stuff. You know, to make this both games more synchronized.

[Ibanez]

dat biodome :jizz:

[Coolm4n]

Amazing work you got there, guys! I love the glock and the Voltigore. Keep up the good work, I’m looking forward to playing this.