about the design - what exactly inspired you?was it something speciffic?
3 months left guys, can’t wait!
That they are the ones we’ve already seen, that’s ok… They’re new!
But what made my laugh a lot was that when you click on the moddb link they linked… It shows my fucking mod on the frontpage 
“Sequel released!” “Now with beer!” Probably gonna fool someone…
So we’re finally there! Less than 100 days for the release! Can’t fucking wait! It’s gonna be awesome OMG OMG OMFFFFFFFFGGG
So that magazine with the Black Mesa story is released on November? 50 days from now?
Why are you counting the days to something that has no set date
I’m still more hyped for the engine update than I am for Xen itself- can’t wait to start re-assembling those new giant Surface Tension maps, which won’t even compile on the current release engine!
So December 31st is the do-or-die deadline? So it turns out that there IS a date.
But you’re right, they said December they didn’t say what year…
Though they didn’t say anything about a detail date, but a lot of people believe that Christmas 2017 will be the best.
I hope they don’t do a “holiday” release. That’s the absolute worst time to release anything. Everyone goes on vacation, by that I mean the devs, and there is no one around in the forums for 7 to 10 days to fix the bugs that crop up. And that in turn delays development of a patch for the update, if needed.
They released a CU two days before Christmas a couple of years ago and it was not pretty.
Everything from broken mods causing multiple issues (to be expected) to old saves not working (AI Disable glitch) which we now know is also to be expected. Plus Windows 10 was newish at the time and the game would not launch w/out additional files from Microsoft.
Luckily developer Fr0z3nR was around to test issue, recommend fixes and give out good advice.
Might as well wait till the middle of January if they are not ready to release by mid December or before, imho.
Edit:
On second thought, maybe the devs should release it and go on Holiday to celebrate their accomplishment and blow of steam (not Steam) . That way they’d be refreshed and ready to tackle any issues that slipped past QA
So, three months after the announcement, is the project still on time to the internal schedule?
You are right, actually I also hope that Xen can be released at the beginning of December, preferably before December, the sooner the better.
Because I’ve seen many people in the Steam forum talking about a possibility of a “holiday” release, so I guess they want Xen as a Christmas gift, which is consistent with the wishes of the people. But for developers, it’s not a good thing, indeed.
When the mod version was released I really enjoyed watching the livestreams by some of the developers playing while talking about development or just speed running. Usually when I play games what keeps me coming back to them and maintaining interest is being able to somehow invest time even when not playing myself and I would say having a good community of people on twitch is the superior way to do this. This almost always leads to me playing the game more. Here’s to hoping we get some good streams around the time of this release as well.
Also closer to release it would be nice if “News and Developer Updates” became a section where it was actually only dev posts. Maybe have a discussion section elsewhere for updates because it’s sort of a pain to see this section lit up only to find no news or updates and I’m guessing other people have been turned off from checking for updates by this as well.
I’ll be realistic and say that they really really mean to finish it in December this year.
But there’s a hunch in my mind that there will be something in the way, and it will
probably come later.
To be honest i don’t care that much. I’m now in a faze where waiting for the game to be complete is a normal thing.
Is it this December? Or the year after that? Doesn’t matter, still gonna be good when it comes.
62 days or something above 2 months.
Will we get another update (Engine Update) before the XEN Update? How is work going so far? Any clue about the number of new achievements?
Yes, the entire game has been ported to the Gamebryo engine. It now barely functions
You heard it here first folks!
Really? I heard that they’ve ported it on an engine called “GoldSrc” and changed the name to “Half-Life” :o
wasn’t that their first April first joke?
On topic, I hope we get some news soon, the suspense is killing me. and I have anxiety so that might be a literal statement. though every time we have gotten news it has been bad news with some delay info.
I’m still curious about what the timeline on the engine update is (as opposed to the Xen update itself, which has a relatively well-defined deployment window).
Isn’t it time for a Fall Update? Not a Steam Game Update, but a forum update with a few words on how things are shaping out.
No need for screenshots, just if you still have the XEN Update planned for 2017.
and here’s the weekly bump!