Surface Tension Uncut - Re-Adding Cut Areas/Scenes (Expansion Project)

Very, very nice. I have to admit, this is some of the best work I’ve seen in Source, and it’s made all the more impressive by the fact that it was done in just a few months by one man with help from a really small community.

I don’t know if this has been posted, buy holy shit:

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2013/01/09/mod-a-mod-surface-tension-uncut-beefs-up-black-mesa/

Congrats mate!

Definitely congrats!

Nice to get some recognition!

That is really awesome. I really hope they’ll include these maps in the official release.

…and your name in the credits. :smiley:

Looks like your hard work paid off in more ways than one. lol Congrats.

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I also wanted to say: Thank you thousand times and CONGRATULATIONS!

i’ve played the new maps and its several iterations during development at least six times… very very nice… i highly recommend! although i’m sad at certain gasworks changes… but thank you!!

Got a pretty nice thread on Reddit going on here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/16dkyi/halflife_mod_black_mesa_receives_restored_surface/

A question to OP.
I may be mistaken, but your maps require/come along with a new scenes.image file.
Question is - do you have the choreo files so I can recompile them with my HECU chatter pack?

Face Poser> Rebuild scenes.image

You’d be better off PMing him, ODB, he tends to avoid this thread in most cases as far as I’m aware.

No shit, I still need the choreo tweak he made for his the maps.

Cheers, shoulda thought of that myself.

i though i was done for now with black mesa since i already finished it
but it will worth replay the whole game just for this
you rock

I just gave up waiting to play this, and so far I have to say, excellent job!

There is one thing that no-one seems to have noticed though: savepoints. Maybe it’s just me, but there don’t seem to be enough savepoints.

Anyway, thanks! I look forward to continuing :stuck_out_tongue:

Text even made it to Black Mesa’s wikipedia page.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surface_Tension_Uncut
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Mesa_(video_game)#Third-party_expansion

The hell 0_0 it’s quite commercial.

Yeah, very fascinating, considering that any shit-for-brains can edit those pages

Hi, im first timer :slight_smile:
I checked and played your mod, It’s awesome. Excelent work !
I watched your commentary video also. The map nearly perfect as i can say because of the last part of the map. The Gargantua chase ! I think you need a fix because something is missing ! (solutions here!) Some parts needs little more work i think.
Here’s my opinions and suggestions for ‘making it way more better map then any other maps’ list:

1 - The part that alien grunt throws the soldier to the wall, that grunt mostly sits there and doing nothing. If he smash the wall after that and attacks you, that could make it more interesting and we can lose a little hp rather than doing ‘surprise’ thing.

2 - At the start of the gargantua chase, smashing tank is awesome BUT, throwing the tank at you (sliding and rolling on the middle and it’s hatch turns you, not like a ball kicking) and killing the soldiers along the way is make it brutally kill ! MORE brutally and awesome is, when a surprised tank crew tries to escape from the tank and at that phase, if gargantua smashes the tank is way more brutally awesome ! It makes it flashy and cool so you can also feel an escape thing like modern warfare games.

3 - I have 2 ideas about this thing:
First; At the near end of the map, after you airstrike the tower, and move in, gargantua breaks the metal door. So when player opens the inner and outer double doors and enters inside, use gargantua’s roar animation and start your airstrike thing that you make, and gargantua deserves a good ending, also we can be able to see your airstrike work.
Second; if gargantua chases you all the way to the start of the ‘forget about freeman’ episode, let him enters the last door where the cave in is starts. I know black mesa cave in is not good like the original half life thing (that place gived me hard times when i first played the game), but you can make a whole ceiling collapses to gargantua and smashes. A deserved ending for a bossy thing is required like the other ones and that makes it look like the original one.

Well these are the 3 missing feeling parts that i found about the map.

And about this map; i also found this missing: It’s for the Developers: At the first meeting with snipers, we seeing a dying security officer on the floor. After he’s saying ‘Im dying out here’ voices ending. Where is the most heart whelming, breaking and shocking epic line of him ? 'Please help meee… (with dying last breath) last voice line in the original one ! My favourite line in the whole game :slight_smile:

And im not talking about the HEW suit voice after the taking suit.

Anyway, i hope you notice and reply my post TextFAMGUY1. I’m looking forward to your epic On a Rail Uncut map. And if the team also reading this, don’t miss a talented one like him and add this maps to the final version package of the game and list his name on the credits. Thank you for reading this long post to the all of the readers. And sorry for my crappy engish. :slight_smile:

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