Black Mesa News

We're excited to share the news that HECU Collective have released Focal Point, the next chapter in their Black Mesa: Blue Shift mod!

Along with a bunch of fixes and feature updates, players will be excited to finally visit Xen through the eyes of Barney Calhoun. HECU Collective says this chapter is now their LARGEST yet!

[h2]ICYMI, here's their epic trailer for Focal Point:[/h2]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdtIAzJdChQ

[h2]You can download the FREE mod on:[/h2]

Steam Workshop
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2424633574

Or you can learn more about their updates, and download it on ModDB:
https://www.moddb.com/mods/black-mesa-blue-shift-remake/news/chapter-5-focal-point-release


[h2]You can support HECU Collective's efforts here:[/h2]
https://www.patreon.com/Hecu_collective


[h2]Don't own Black Mesa? Get it at 75% off!:[/h2]
https://store.steampowered.com/app/362890/Black_Mesa/


[h3]Now get going, Calhoun![/h3]

Lots of great things coming down the line for Half-Life Fans.

[h2]Black Mesa Sale and Update[/h2]
Previously we released a Fall '24 Update as a Public Beta. With good feedback and insight from the community, we are making some necessary changes, and hope to push the update out to the mainline branch in the coming weeks. Stay tuned for an announcement on that.

You can find more info on that here:
Fall 2024 Public Beta

In the meantime, Black Mesa is on sale for 75% off, from 11/14 - 11/18
https://store.steampowered.com/app/362890/Black_Mesa/

[h2]Rogue Point Announcement[/h2]
In case you missed it, we announced our new upcoming title Rogue Point
Check out the trailer, and be sure to Wishlist it on Steam Now!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1843840/Rogue_Point/


[h2]HECU Collective's Blue Shift "Focal Point" Chapter Coming Soon![/h2]
Their team has been hard at work getting the latest chapter in Black Mesa: Blue Shift ready for release. You can see their latest trailer here:
https://youtu.be/VdtIAzJdChQ

[h2]Half-Life 2, 20th Anniversary[/h2]
November 16th marks 20 YEARS since Half-Life 2 released. It's been a long journey, and Half-Life 2 inspired us to create Black Mesa in the first place, so we can't wait to celebrate 20 years with the rest of the community!

For some related news, check out this new video from NVIDIA and the Half-Life 2 RTX team!
https://youtu.be/5FZ49Ou8zAE?si=6rbWLACR7BCMaGDZ

More soon. Hope your November is going great!

We are incredibly excited to share with the community what we've been working on...

[h2]Rogue Point[/h2]

Our new game will be a rogue-lite tactical co-op shooter that offers a strategic approach to high-octane combat.

But that's not all...

[h2]Crowbar Collective x Team17[/h2]

We've partnered with Team17 as our publisher, to bring you Rogue Point!

Over the last couple of years, our team has been working on this title. It's been very difficult to not be able to share it with you all until now. While we will continue to support and cherish the work we did with Black Mesa, we wanted to take what we learned as a studio, and apply it to something new and exciting.

Rest assured we'll have more info to share with you all soon. We hope you'll take this next step in our journey with us. We couldn't have done it without you all!

[h2]Wishlist on Steam[/h2]
Wishlist Here

[h2]Watch the announcement trailer[/h2] here
[previewyoutube][/previewyoutube]


Follow the Rogue Point socials:

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Black Mesa: Blue Shift, the fan-made retelling of Barney Calhoun's pre-Half Life 2 adventures in the Black Mesa research facility (and beyond!), is set to launch its next chapter on November 17...
Read more.

HECU Collective have shared a new recording from Xen and it contains... the Focal Point chapter release date! No more Xen When™ for this mod too! If you're interested, watch the announcement video now!

[previewyoutube]https://youtu.be/8V4qo3GuhWg[/previewyoutube]

Along with the fifth chapter, their new release will also include a lot of great improvements and content for previous chapters as well!

[h2]Here's the short list of fixes and added features:[/h2]

• New and improved scenes for Living Quarters Outbound and Insecurity chapters;
  
• Improved skybox textures, lighting and Post Processing in all earthbound surface maps;
  
• Added responsive surface sounds to some environments that will be played with nearby explosions;
  
• Improved all explosions SFX and added distance attenuation to them;
  
• Added completely new surface properties for certain props with unique physics sounds. (E.g. barrels, tarps, monitors, crates);
  
• Updated many BM and BM:BS textures/materials;
  
• Various other visual improvements.
  

The updated mod will be available for download on Steam Workshop here: (https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2424633574)

and will also be available to download ModDB


[h2]We can't wait until **November 17th**![/h2]