I don't mean to sound ungrateful, as this is an amazing FREE mod and it would be wrong of me to demand better. But the meat of this game is solid, it's just that much of Xen is weighing it down. The animations and set pieces are really well done and I don't want any of that to disappear, but half of the puzzles felt like tedium and the facility felt out of place. What we have so far is incredibly strong, that's why I felt like writing all of this. I want the finish product to be as good if not better than Black Mesa. You're on the right track, just gotta trim the fat and finish the last levels.

Lastly I had to turn all of my gfx settings to low just to achieve >20fps. This was not an issue in Black Mesa's Xen levels. It made aiming at the controllers rather difficult at times.

At one point there is what looks like an entire sector of BMRF inside Xen and it feels like a huge overstep. Obviously the OG Blue Shift showed human tech in Xen, but not this extent. Black Mesa did it well with the simple tents akin to what NASA has. Once you get through the facility you ride a tram around this crystal and it just wasn't working for me. I can't rationalize why any of that part exists. Which sucks because it did look really cool, but that alone didn't justify it for me. After those annoying leaf puzzles you launch the teleporter and go back to earth. That took SO long I had to do it over 3 play sessions. It was just frustrating. Launching it was an ordeal and then stopping the jammer was even more so. On return to the teleporter area I was stuck in noclip and my movement was sped up dramatically. I do not know what caused that but it happened again even after loading a save.

Focal Point is not as great. And I hate saying that because it's clear that a lot of care went in to making what we have so far. but with how great the first chapters are I don't want to dread replaying this when the finished version is released. It was a problem in the earlier chapters but it is much worse here; the enemies are a bit to tanky or the weapons need a buff. The bullsquids in particular are just ballbusters. It would be better if you only had to shoot half of the red spots to kill them. As it stands they are a seriously offensive roadblock in the flow of the game. The puzzles in this level are also less intuitive. On earth, we were either told what to do or were shown what to do by the environment. Here I felt stumped too many times to enjoy the game. Especially the leafy door sections. Those got me rather frustrated tbh.

This is two games, the earth portion and the xen portion. The earth portion is phenomenal. It ran great on my laptop at 40ish fps. Really good level design with lengthy but rewarding puzzles. A tasteful rebuild of the facility. It even has a great story with superb voice acting. It takes what Gearbox gave us and reimagines it to the creativity and quality level of Black Mesa.

Run bshift_gamelink.bat as admin and afterwards the bshift_launch.bat.

Great mod, can't wait to see the final version.

dude there's literally no bshift.bat i see only bshift_gamelink.bat install launch and uninstall

7.5
Uneven quality wise, Difficulty is a bit all over the place, Pacing is not as good as vanilla Black Mesa, Entirety of Focal point is just "Why?", Forgoes half life heritage for DOOM on gameplay a lot of the times,way too much focus on DOOM gameplay in Focal Point

does not work despite following every instruction.

Linux mint user: Bootup takes long, game crashes when i press ESC, Really good mod overall, 8/10

This is just f*cking awesome!

@Jofoy ok. I guess it will be fixed in the next update or something like that?

no funciona. Intento entrar a la campaña, crashea y cierra el juego.

Yes we saw.

@Jofoyo. Did you see the problem with the Jeep?

@JustANormalGam3r Can you try going into bshift/autoexec.cfg with a text editor and setting r_4way_use_fast_normals 0 to 1 instead?

It may cause visual skybox bugs with blend textures but there's a possibility it might help with crashes. Let us know!

this is a great mod, but it crashes a lot especially in xen. i've had four crashes in an hour in just Xen alone and turning down the texture graphics don't do anything. still an amazing mod

https://psteamcommunity.yuanyoumao.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3616886738

Roof rack clips through light bar on this Jeep in Duty Calls before you enter the canal.

If i do not see Black Mesa; Opposing Force done by you guys or by ANYONE in the near future I'm going to off myself

This was actually amazing... can't wait for next section to be released.

This is a very good mod, seriously love it 95%, but I am having fairly significant issues with the Controllers in Focal Point, in both fights at the actual "focal point" crystal machine. The fact they can chain pull me through walls and throw me at times into things that instantly kill me is pretty frustrating. Is there something I'm missing about how to not get just killed?

huge thanks to the creator, i was back in chilld times ... huuuuuuraaaaaa can t wait the final scenes. great job love you

You have to shoot the glowing weak spots on the bullsquid to do max damage

Just "beat" this.
♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ fantastic work, I'll be sure to return once the mod is finished

My only real problems are that some enemies are too tanky (That red bullsquid in Xen for example, Which eats 10 shotgun shells), And that the jump pads in Xen are very unreliable in some cases.

Funny thing too, This is the only way that I can play Black Mesa, As the game itself crashes on startup. I've literally gotten into a week long conversation and fixing attempt with someone, To no avail <:)

Theres nothing in "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\workshop\content\362890" and when there is stuff its not "2424633574", Some on ePLEASE help

Это заслуживает быть не в мастерской стима, а на отдельной странице!

а как выйдет полноценный релиз, тоже будет установка с мастерской или можно будет себе отдельно в библиотеку добавить?

5 глава очень перезатянута и переусложнена, в оригинале Зен проходится за час, в ремейке начинаешь уставать и ждешь когда глава уже закончится, не мне давать советы разрабам, они и так делают колоссальную работу, но главу все же стоит сократить процентов на 30

keep up the good work guys !!!

Мод закончен?

Этот мод должен официально продаваться в Steam, как и Black Mesa

this ♥♥♥♥ is so tcking lenghtened than its disgusting ... they made from 3 hour a game 9 hour full of weird puzzles and doom like hordes enemys

how do i install it with symbolic link
i tried it but it doesn't show anything

It is not finished. The first 5 chapters are, but the last 3 are in development and are planned to all be released in one update in the future, before we look backwards and bring the rest of the game up to snuff with what we've learned.

i dont understand? i thought blue shift was finished? to be continued??

Столько танцев с бубном, а дополнение тупо не запускается, жаль

it doesnt work. i cant play it. wont launch. wont appear. doesnt do anything, guide doesnt help.

Omg, this is masterpiece! Keep it up!

ABSOLUTE CINEMA

When I try to install it the game says it is installed but no desktop shortcut appears even though I said yes in console to have desktop shortcuts. Can anybody help fix this, I have been trying desperately for hours to get it to work and nothing has, somebody please help me with this or at least diagnose the issue.

Great, just great. Incredible for a Mod. Masterpiece, cant wait for the next Chapter.

10/10 GOD

What is about this update? It's not yet nex chapter POWER STRUGGLE?

I did the whole story, oh my GOD it was a masterpiece but it felt a lot stressful compared to the other Half Life games I played, max difficulty felt like a walkthrough except you need the patience of a Dark Souls III player. Overall, its a 10/10 mod for this game, should be a seperate dedicated DLC.

Black Mesa: Military its kind of opposing force remake?

It does extra damage to account for this. But yes we wanted melee to require more accurate timing.

ive noticed the crowbar in this has been significantly changed we can no longer swing at at ultra speed like Gordan can.

A really good remake, same as Black Mesa for HL1. It is nice to see how a 25-ish year old game still receives care and attention from the community - especially this one, which always felt rushed and short.

I don't always agree with some of the changes ( trainyard level tbh feels overkill, with too much open spaces and fights; there's a bit too much banter and chatting between friendly NPCs in the later stage of the game; most of all, everything is too brightful and colourful, like Black Mesa, and this vibrant world, especillay in Xen, to me does not fit well with the Half Life universe, which always had grim, acid and shallow colours ) but overall everything is consistent and fun to play.

A few performance issues and crashes (2k monitor, RTX4070, Intel i5 12600k, 16GB DDR5 ram, Asus Pro Z690-A WiFi) but I'm sure they will get fixed in next updates.

Solid work, keep it up!