Pretty please BM Devs may we have some more content, pretty please? …Are you guys going to try make it for the Steam Summer Sale?
Quality needs time. Let’s wait patiently.
Try to put yourself in a game dev shoes.
Very brief example:
- Wake up
- Go to work
- Go back home
- Do chores if there are some
- Work on the game
- Go to sleep
You forgot one:
7. Get insulted by interwebz, but ignore it cuz you tryin be professional about it all.
You make it seem like it’s normal for them to be insulted.
Care to tell us the last time they were explicitly insulted?
She’s not talking about getting insulted individually.
She’s talking about constant harassment from the community in all shapes and sizes.
I love Black Mesa but you don’t need to glorify it so much.I dreamed of HL1 on Source since HL2 came out,but they don’t work on it for free.It’s like your 2nd job,your boss(customer) most likely always will be unsatisfied,but you get money from it so it’s not a slavery.
They also get a lot of positive reviews from game journals and players,BM has the highest score on steam and sold about 500k copies without Xen according to SteamSpy.So the majority of players love Black Mesa you just focusing on negative side only.
What did I say earlier about keeping this discussion on topic? I’m serious. Bans are coming if this carries on.
On another note, we are adults, we can take criticism and pestering. We appreciate fans helping stand up for us, but don’t worry - we can speak for ourselves. It’s okay, not a problem really.
A pedantic note - customers are not the boss. They are customers. There’s absolutely no need for an analogy there. It always aggravates me a little where I see people parallelling buying Early Access to being shareholders or even the “boss”. It doesn’t. It makes you a customer. We already have a duty to our customers, and a duty we intend on fully fulfilling. You guys don’t need to be our “shareholders” or our “bosses,” for us to do right by you. Being our customers and our fans is enough. We appreciate that more than anything else, in fact.
The analogy would make more sense reversed really. We as early access customers are working to help find bugs and weak portions of the game, which allows us to better communicate what we want to see. In return, the developers “pay” us with a better game for everyone.
Just thought I’d give my two cents on that, I’m outie unless we get back on-topic.
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This is on topic, I’m pretty sure. New screenshots and an extended dead line to December.
Personally I am loving the colors and feel of it. I know I saw someone say something about it having too much coral, but I like it. I like it a lot. The original hl xen was all in green tones. I was so very much hoping that they would consider changing the color scheme a bit and it looks like they did. So for me, a big two thumbs up on the progress of the final chapters!
There are many maps in Xen, I am amazed that with 2 or 3 pictures people think they know exactly what the rest of the game will look like (or mad that it isn’t green). WHO says the same island will look the same front vs back?
LMAO
I get it takes a lot of time to do all the art for the levels but you seem really defensive, it’s not like the community is attacking you, if anything they are trying too hard to appear kind as to not upset you.
People speculate the general art direction for the levels because that’s the only kind of images you seem to share. Plus there are plenty of images already, from the cave to the 3/4 screenshots recently shared to the thread you recently made where you included even more images and models, there doesn’t seem to be any examples backing up your words that the levels are not just all inspired by earthly coral reefs and generic caves.
The images you showed in your recent thread only seem to backup the speculations that Xen has a lot more in common with Earth’s vegetation and life than the original. Unless you show images of level’s that aren’t so influenced from ocean life (which you seem to refuse to do) then it’s easier to assume that levels differing from earthly inspired caves and coral reefs won’t be too common.
Of course I would love to be proven wrong either when the levels are released or with an image from a “weird/fantastical” level you claim to have but won’t share.
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Still the levels shown are nice, definitely pleasant to look at. I’m sure that when Xen comes out there will be mods that change the models to something more exotic anyways (might even swap models from some Xen mods into the game myself).
tl;dr: “I am amazed that with all those many maps in Xen you have yet to show any varied screenshots”.- Vladimir Putin
CC said we will see more alien-ish levels in Xen and there will be more crazy levels than it was in original so it makes sense they won’t showing you their main features yet.You will start from said “caves” and then you will see more and more stuff which are diffierent from Earth so I’m already happy bcs they showed us something similar to alien forests.
Your sneaky front vs back comment combined with Chon’s more forward “has anyone not even compared the instagram with these new screenshots” before a couple of smarties figured it out. Good job.
General Xen Chit-Chat Thread
I never said I wasn’t happy though, I just explained why people where throwing assumptions (only earthly inspired levels shown). Though in my humble opinion the “forest” we were shown didn’t look too alien either but as I said there are mods for that.
Anyways if you’re going to post images on the internet you shouldn’t be surprised that people would speculate on the content based on the things that are shown. If you don’t show images to counter those speculations then it’s your fault.
It’s like If I made a model of a vehicle using a car as a reference only to get upset for no reason when people tell me that it looks like a car. Plus from what I’ve seen most people comment on the image and not Xen as a whole (in a respectful manner mind you). This kind of behavior makes you look desperate for approval.
We/I never said it was a forest, forest is a max plug-in. I’m not defensive in the least. Everybody is welcome to their opinion, but basing it off 3 pictures is absurd or not liking it due to a color. I don’t have to show any images to back up my claim. We have been releasing sneak peaks not whole level shots.
I dunno, this looks like a whole level shot to me:
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Eh it looks more like a jungle from that Avatar movie, those palm plants or whatever they are remind me of the swamps from Halo. But who cares, as I said there are mods so it’s not like we’re stuck with this, and it might actually be good idk.
Nah pretty sure you are defensive, even the smallest hint that someone dislikes something or even if it has nothing to do with liking or disliking and people just point out how the level looks to them and you storm to the comments to call them absurd for saying it reminds them of an ocean or that the color scheme is interesting. And yes color scheme matters, imagine if you made the canyons around Black Mesa green.
“I don’t have to show any images to back up my claim.” Then you should maybe stop getting upset over every comment speculating.
Overall yes it looks like a coral reef, yes the color scheme is different, no it doesn’t mean it’s bad or that people dislike it, and yes people are talking about the screenshot/area and not the whole of Xen. Get over yourself. Eat a pizza.