i just want to work in Black Mesa

I'm afraid they only hire smart people

Has anyone ever made a Half-Life/Black Mesa mod where nothing goes wrong and you're free to just explore?

>>714976280
>smart people
>caused a resonance cascade

>>714976315
yes

>>714976385
May I see it?

>>714976379
inside job orchestrated by an interdimensional being

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnnlDGVIoig

Never relax around Retinal scanners.

I feel like this guy died BEFORE the resonance cascade even happened. Black Mesa has awful safety standards.

>>714976638
This one, too.

>>714976151 (OP)
Play Abiotic Factor

https://youtu.be/MAvH9T__jLQ?si=kFxnsn957CRLaN0R

>>714976315, I don't think >>714976385 is going to answer. I did a chatGPT with the "think for longer" option and it didn't find anything. The only thing it spat out is to turn on the notarget console command(~ key <> sv_cheats 1 <> notarget) while playing the game so none of the enemies shoot you. I could have sworn I saw a mod where no resonance cascade happens. I will keep looking.

>>714976460
GOOD LORD WHAT IS HAPPENING IN THERE?

>>714976491
>it's da ayyyliums!
typical human supremacist response

>>714976520
why were 90s fps obsessed with laser mines

>>714976910
Thanks anon.

>>714976710
>Broom Sepuku

>>714976910
you mean like pic related?

I'm very unsure how this guy managed to do this, or why.
>Big green explosion happens in the test chamber you're near
>Instead of leaving through the door, or sitting tight in your security room, you try to climb through the presumably closing blast door
>The blast door then opens again for some reason after it cuts you in half

>>714976638
>>714976710
>>714977225
what mod is this

>>714976815
too grindy

>>714977375
https://www.moddb.com/mods/half-life-extended
It's breddy good, for a demo. Adds a lot more life to things.
Though for some reason the first Barney lost his gun so he just fucking decks zombies if you take him with you.

>>714977183
Nice

>>714976151 (OP)
for me, it's the alien planet

>>714976151 (OP)
Were these black and white checkered floors actually popular? I remember them all throughout the 90s in media and especially vidya like OP pic or The Sims 1, but I can't actually recall black and white checkered linoleum kitchens despite having been in the US in the 90s.s

>>714977602
Stop using LLM's and work on your google-fu

>>714976280
>Barney
>Otis

>>714977020
I only remember laser mines from halflife.
Other examples?

>>714977653
I've been on the internet since 1995 and have seen the huge downfall of Google. My Google-fu is strong, but Google itself is nearly useless now.

>>714976910
chatgpt monkeys need not apply

>>714977694
Barney is friends with everyone and is really fucking good at fighting.
Otis is a bit dim but he compensates for that by carrying a hand cannon and befriending a solider, someone sent to kill him.

>>714976315
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcEWTPFXAgA

>>714977951
I can agree with this. I blame the indians.

>>714976151 (OP)
I used to play on a Black Mesa RP server as a security guard. I'd pretty much just stand at a guard station and ask for ID before letting them in. Everytime the server did a Cascade event I'd try to link up with other guards and scientists to escape the facility through some back way since the HECU would be at the main entrance. I always made my guy look like the guard from On A Rail with the mustache and everything. Shame there isn't a good BMRP server anymore that doesn't make you apply to their Discord and go through twenty hoops to be given a gun.

>>714978000, >>714977951

>>714977884
duke nukem

>>714977951
i moved to duckduckgo and haven't regretted it yet, although search engines in general ain't what they used to be
I blame indian content mills that ran SEO into the ground

>>714976280
>Work Harder, Not Smarter

>LASER, caution
>LASER, caution
>LASER, caution
>LASER, caution
What could it mean?

>>714976280
Gordon's retarded.

>>714976151 (OP)
What the hell is it about the underground desert facility that's so comfortable? There's something really enjoyable about the setting and I don't really fully understand WHY it comes across as so aesthetic and nice.

Even Abiotic Factor kinda nailed the setting in an Australian version of the environment, even though that game is isn't really fun to play.

>>714979372
>I don't really fully understand WHY it comes across as so aesthetic and nice.
I like to think it's because it's a small city. Less like an actual city and more like an ant farm or diorama. You have the cool science lab, the cafeteria, the roads, the trams, the offices, the living quarters. It helps that everything is a little wacky in there so it feels less strange and more interesting. You wanna know more about it since it feels so massive.

>tfw abiotic factor isn't real
Working there looks so fun

>>714978048
>Loli Alyx
Hot

>>714978141
It is absolutely this. Nowadays when you search something you get bombarded with shitty AI-generated articles that are just there to farm SEO. When I look up something I unironically add reddit at the end now. I have better odds of finding my answer in an old leddit thread than on whatever else the search engine returned

>>714976151 (OP)
You could play VotV with the debug mod.
I highly recommend this. I’ll be making content to remove all the faggotry very soon.

>>714980659
I'd do VotV if I didn't have to clean up the entire place piece by piece at the start.

Holy shit the Barney fag is kill

>>714980769
that's like the best part

>>714980769
The debug mod makes that a fucking button man
Cmon at least google the things people talk about before posting
Pretty sure that’s in the base game too

I want a mod that connects the maps from the original 3 games and good mods into one semi open network. Then have the resonance cascade happen in real time with the military and spec ops coming in a little later. Randomize enemy and pickup positions in all the maps and give the player the objective to escape in any which way he chooses. If you die you'd have to restart the whole thing, so it'd be a little bit like a roguelike.

I'm convinced it'd be great, the randomizer was so much fun.

>>714976815
sunk almost 60 hours into this game over the last 3-4 months - great game but the reactors and the smaller border world after felt really unbalanced so hopefully the 1,0 release smooths that out with all the proposed reworks coming at launch - it's one of the few crafting/survival games i really enjoyed beyond the first few hours or play sessions since not only do i love half-life and it does a good job at emulating some of that game's style but the fact that the facility had such variety and detail within it along with some basic overarching story kept me wanting to explore more and more.

>>714978094
Man, that sounds awesome.
I never played on any RP servers.

>>714979112
This. His shenanigans at the start of HL1 where Gordon blows up a casserole and fucks with the security system are all canon.

Why doesn't Half Life 1 have as much NPC model swap autism as Half Life 2 does, where's my goldsource modeler community

>>714980359
Search engines started going into shit in the early 2010's, AI just gave much more powerful tools to these fuckers.
Also google has been handling it abysmally, right now they estimate the page quality by the amount of engagement and "quality", but in practical terms this becomes

>So you want to cook pasta, great! This is the guide for you
>But what is pasta? Let's jump into the history of our favorite dish
>Pasta has been a companion of humanity for centuries, but what is the best way of cooking pasta?
>Before we start cooking pasta, we need to find pasta somewhere. Where can we find pasta?