Unbeknownst to us, this is actually all of Xen. We jump across that platform, and the portal to the Nihilanth is right there.
They’ve truly innovated Xen by removing all those unnecessary, boring chapters!
I don’t think they took out all of the chapters. They could’ve combined a few but I doubt that they were all removed.
A question I’d like to ask is even though it is slated for the Summer of 2017, is there going to be a specific date?
Ofc they took out all the chapters. It was the only logical thing to do. And I heard they made Nihilanth into a quick time event since everyone just loves those.
Tru dat. You go through the portal in Lambda Core, quickly hop through this cave, and then Nihilanth. It’s our most “streamlined” set of chapters to date!
Fear not, however, in a year or two’s time I’ll be putting together a “Xen Uncut” paid mod for you all. It will only cost $99.99; what a steal!
Here’s ma man, gettin’ capitalism damn right…HELL YEAH!
At that price it’s a steal. Do you know if it will ever go On Sale.
It has probably been said by A LOT already, but I love the detail and work that has gone into the creation of this inner cave.
Not only from the water present with ascending fog but also the wild type of the crystals, as for the presence of human accomodation.
Something we defenatly missed in the early Half-Life. But bringing all of these aspects up in this singular environment, is certainly something amazing!
Just the kind of thing you would expect from scientists at Black Mesa, to some-sort construct their Field Lab within The Border World, making it accessible and allowing
transport of samples (such as crystals, organisms, rocks, sedement, etc.).
It just makes you hungry for more to be released on a soon/early notice ^^
Really guys, the waiting we’re all doing is becoming worth for 
I’m kinda late but I like this screenshot.It is great to see more “human” Xen like it was in Blue Shift that was considered the greatest Xen version rather than HL1 one.
OT: I always had the plan to play from Black Mesa through Half-Life 2: Episode 2 when Xen would have been released and wished that by that Time, Half-Life 3 had been released curls into fetal position and tries not to cry
Nice guys. Lmao watch valve just say this whole games canon and call it good, replace the real first game with this instead cause it was better all around.
Nice guys. Lmao watch valve just say this whole games canon and call it good, replace the real first game with this instead cause it was better all around.
Well, if it weren’t for Half-Life, there wouldn’t be a Black Mesa. 
That’s very true, and believe me, I still love the original (for those who are getting hurt over that).
Just what could be behind that door at the far end … Narnia awaits.
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The original Half life 1 Image?
I think it’s a completely new area made for BM, so can’t be compared to anything on the original game.
lol 
So I was thinking about what the Nihilanth would look like if redesigned for Black Mesa, taking into account of it’s backstory and history with the Combine Empire, general aesthetic of Combine technology and design elements of synths, I made this!
I wanted to give the look of something that’s been enslaved and tortured, genetically enhanced and mutated into something horrible and bearing no similarity to it’s natural form, left with stitches and veins, nano-devices embedded throughout it’s body, clearly continuously probed for it’s special telepathy abilities that can open up doors through space-time, being used as a tool to serve as their own local-teleport device. I could imagine the Combine might of been close with a breakthrough for their intra-dimensional travelling needs, but then Gordon killed it, but they found Earth through it’s chaotic outburst of portal energy in it’s death throes, and so found their key to local teleport transportation. Just theorizing here, heh. :bms:
But the Nihilanth wasn’t synthesized by the Combine, he was hiding with his people in the last refuge of Xen.
(Admittedly, I like the proposed parallel of him being the Xenian Breen, but it was debunked by Laidlaw I believe)
The Nihilanth’s neck part from your art reminds me of Christmas garland.