scott155

Long load times are why cracked.com was invented.

But I'm sure all both of them missed you.

Just saw this on Black Mesa's facebook page

It would mostly just be for shits and giggles if I do make it. And it's not like anyone would have to participate. Or tell the truth. It's not like I'm gonna hunt you down and look down your pants to see if you're lying.

We can start a different thread for that

"That cat isn't secretly a gun, Freeman, you're just being paranoid."

Either: "It was a bar bet! Barney owes me a beer now. And while I guess that technically makes me a sellout, you don't have to be a jackass about it." or "Hey, you shaved the mowhawk! Fucking hypocrite."

Although falling and dying whilst trying to foolishly hop across dangling crates seems like a more realistic thing for a scientist to do than killing hordes of hostile aliens and trained marines.

Ross also said that he would continue FM as long as there was fan support for it.

Fixed.

I rather enjoy Fibonacci-spiral-jumping. But only a training-course master can perform that.

Crouch-jumping feels much more natural on a game controller to me. In fact, the platforming in general seems to be a lot better with a controller IMO. But you're right, even when I was doing the crouch jumping on the awkward keyboard, the game was still too damn cool for it to really ruin anything.

Just got an adapter today so I can use my PS1 controller with my PC. Been testing it out with Black Mesa and I must say, it makes the abundant crouch-jumping much easier. L2+X+Left Stick is much easier for me than Ctrl+Space+W. I'll have to play around with the sensitivity some more to get the aiming better, though.

I myself wouldn't want to attempt anything as sophisticated as Left 4 dead 2 and I doubt anyone else would either. Something similar to the G-mod script seems like a more viable option, if anyone smarter than me can figure out how to implement it. But in the Black Mesa wiki page about their gib system they said it was like in TF2. If this is the case, it might be easier to do decapitations, which they had in TF2. The TF2 decapitations shrink the head of the model and spawn a head-gib. I think since in BM it would be unnecessary to have a head-gib model since it would be from guns and lasers and not a sword, but it would probably look better to have a neck wound rather than just a pinched-off spot where it gets shrunken. The modeling for this would be easy enough if I could import and export them to and from 3ds MAX. I could definitely do the models for the headless bodies, but IDK if I'd fuck up the textures doing that and I certainly don't know how to get that to work in BM. But that at least seems a little more doable (but you can correct me if i'm wrong)

That's what I figured Since you mention L4D, I wonder if there's some way to re-purpose that code? Probably not, but it's a thought. I'm sure there's way more to finding it and then implementing it in BM than I realize. Or maybe bring the scientist charachter/gib models in to L4D2 to replace the common infected? Fight hordes of angry nerds!

In Black Mesa, the gibbing is pretty much like how it is the original HL or in TF2: Either there's no dismemberment or the body is ripped to shreds. I was wondering if it would be possible to modify the mod to have more localized dismemberment so a magnum shot, really close (like, point-blank) shotgun blast, or charged Tau Cannon shot. etc. could shoot off individual limbs. I know there's hit-detection for limbs and the gib-models are already there, so it's a matter of the coding. Now, I should point out that I have zero clue how this would work. Maybe it's fairly simple, maybe it's ludicrously difficult, or maybe it's not even possible. I'm not looking for arguments as to why dismemberment like this would "ruin the game" or crap like that or how it's "unrealistic" Frankly, I think the localized dismemberment would be MORE realistic, but honestly, I just want it for shits and giggles. Hell, if someone gives me a good place to start, I might try making this myself. (But don't count on it; see the "I have zero clue how this would work" note above) EDIT: This may have some helpful information Black Mesa Wiki: Gib System

I figured out that you need to pick them up and walk with them and they'll shoot enemies in front of you. They have a screen on the back and green is hostile blue is reprogrammed (to shoot everything, including you) and red is completely non-functional.

It always bugged me when people write "mike" as the short form of "microphone". I get that it's pronounced "mike" but IMO it should be written as "mic". Not trying to nag anybody, but it bothers me... like, more than it should....

You don't watch enough Futurama.

Sure, you COULD try harder to direct the more ignorant of the YouTubers here, that they may be enlightened, but honestly if they can't figure out how to find the site themselves, do we really want them here? Best to ignore them really. P.S. That video was fucking hilarious! I want be rich enough to hire him to comment on all the YouTube comments as I read them.

That makes sense. Also, if anyone wants to make a Black Mesa Mod mod, I want a flare-gun, just for shits and giggles.

While Black Mesa as a whole would not be good for Freeman's Mind, there are a few moments in the mod that i'd like to see Freeman's reaction to.

It seemed like the best thing to do before the crowbar is to burn everything with flares. Which raises the question as to why every single scientist seems to have several flares on their desks. Maybe G-man put them there.

The only use I've ever had for trip-mines in HL1 or Black Mesa is to spawn them in the first chapter and plant one where the scientist who's "expecting an important message" goes when you mess with that computer in the corner.

I think he should make a trailer for "Freeman's Mind: Black Mesa" and pick the moments from Black Mesa with the most comedic potential. That way, we can get kind of a glimpse of what FM:BM would've been like without Ross redoing the whole series (because I think we can all agree that redoing the series would be a waste of time). And the Hivehand animation certainly has comedic potential.