Black Mesa News

• Massive polish and art updates throughout the game
  Complete lighting and gameplay pass to the chapter “Power Up”
  Complete redesign of second “On A Rail” map (map B)
  Significant optimizations across the whole game that will improve performance on low to mid range PCs
  Outdoor art passes for “We’ve Got Hostiles”, “On A Rail”, “Questionable Ethics”, “Surface Tension”, and “Forget About Freeman”
• New shield and architectural art for Interloper
  
• Full workshop support
  
• Updated closed caption/translation files for:
  
  • English
    
  • Spanish
    
  • French
    
  • Finnish
    
  • German
    
  • Italian
    
  • Norwegian
    
  • Portuguese
    
  • Russian
    
  • Ukrainian
    
  • With all the languages from our Crowdin campaign on the way!
    

• We’re still working on controller support for the main menu
  
• Still have to add multiplayer player model select for new UI
  
• Female scientists unintentionally do not heal player
  
• Still have to release map source files (we are looking at the best way to do this)
  
• Sometimes maps in multiplayer have their bloom blown out
  

• Significant further improvements to workshop functionality. Mods should now be able to properly support a wide variety of custom content, without any need for a custom folder
  
• Deprecated scenes.image. This means workshop content can now ship custom scenes without overriding Black Mesa’s scenes too.
  
• Added a convar which allows users to disable all workshop loading functionality entirely. Add +workshop_disable 1 to the game’s launch options to try this.
  
• Fixed Workshop crash bug related to multi-part VPKs
  
• Smoothed out suit charger animations and increased update rate on player’s HUD, to make everything feel a bit punchier and smoother
  
• Fix deferred rendering bug related to gbuffer, which should fix all the rendering artifacts/bugs and potential crashes related to secondary render targets: including reflection/refraction/monitors, etc.
  
• Fixed soda cans from vending machines not colliding with each other
  
• Added little color pops when the player picks up a health kit or a battery, just to help draw attention to that fact
  
• Fixed a crash related to old depreciated flashlight sprites
  
• The Multiplayer scoreboard can show up to 24 names now
  
• Fixed key binding bugs related to the new UI
  
• Added dynamic lights to chargers, Gargs, flames, and a few other things which should’ve had lights
  
• Added support for justifying the closed captions to the right side of the screen, for the languages which do that
  
• Fixed monitor functionality on the Surface Tension mortar screen
  
• Fixed a bug related to newpostprocessing, where it wouldn’t turn off completely when disabled
  
• Reduced collision/rendering volume of newSpotlights by half for better culling and faster rendering
  
• Fixed rotation bugs for newSpotlights and func_tracktrain, for a prettier game
  
• Procedural dynamic lights have been disabled on potato quality mode for better FPS
  
• Significantly buffed the Gluon gun in multiplayer
  

• Improved fidelity of blood splatters
  
• Fixed some of the charger lights occasionally being in the wrong position
  
• Fixed flickering slime vines at end of Xen swamp level
  
• Increased water frame rate in Lambda Core
  
• Added additional architectural art to Interloper C1
  
• Fixed car windshields to render objects behind them properly and sort better
  
• Fixed multiple Interloper shields to display properly, including the Vort Village intro and the large circular shield in Interloper D
  
• Fixed excessive shine on some rocks in ST
  
• Fixed floating props in Xen B1
  
• Added electric particles to knocked over radio tower in Surface Tension
  
• Fixed rock collision in Surface Tension
  
• Fixed green plant alpha cards in Interloper to work properly with gbuffer
  

• Fixed multiple issues with the in-game audio sliders. Fixed the “sound effect” slider adjusting everything except footsteps and gunfire, resulting in poor audio mix. Now you should be able to hear everything mixed as intended, which really improves the audio experience for anyone who has adjusted their audio sliders!
  
• Major improvements to the in-game music entity, which fixes maps which use the more dynamic music system. Music tracks should blend more seamlessly and quickly as a result
  
• Adjusted Inbound tracks so they finish slightly before the level transition. No more abrupt cuts in music!
  
• Moved Surface Tension Dam fight song over to the new dynamic music system, so the piece properly underscores the fight now no matter how you play it
  
• The music in the elevator fight in Interloper D is even smoother and cooler now!
  
• Fixed many missing NPC sounds, such as reloads
  

• Autosave pass on the entire game to reduce frustrating deaths that send you back really far in the level
  
• Dynamic light optimization pass on the entire game to improve performance, especially on low to mid-range PCs
  
• As always, many many small bugfixes and tweaks based on community feedback, that might not be mentioned here
  
• Multiple balance adjustments game-wide to smooth out the difficulty curve and remove frustrating pain points
  
• Significantly improved damage output of Guards (both Glock and .357) so they are much more worthy and effective companions now
  
• Fixed several instances where the Guard’s arms would clip through his chest
  

• Prevented the player from being able to use the HEV charger next to the suit pickup before the suit battery functions of the suit had initialized. This prevents an odd edge-case bug where if you did that, your HUD would disappear forever.
  
• Moved the toilet paper slightly closer to the edge of the sink, to make it easier for players to grab
  
• Improved lighting on AM lockers
  

• Fixed player being able to prevent the tube headcrab from spawning in Map B
  
• Adjusted some of the logic for the Map B “headbanging” Zombie, to better signpost when he comes out to attack you
  
• Added a little hudhint for the Glock in Map B, so new players know about the alternate fire
  
• Clipped off a spot in Map C where players could get stuck behind a cryo tank
  
• Locked a door in Map C to encourage players to break things with the Crowbar, as a form of basic training
  

• Added more Zombies to the Map A post-Shotgun ambush
  
• Fixed Guard interactions with the turrets in Map A
  
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• Significantly adjusted the Map C (warehouse/outdoor) fight to properly draw players outside and use the space more effectively. Added some barriers and adjusted the side of the bunker the player’s exit is on, to force players to run around the space a bit more than before. The fight is a lot more fun now!
  
• Prevented the Osprey from being damageable via the mortars, which should fix instances where the Osprey is running around on fire
  

• Fixed the missing VOX sounds that were added in the 1.5 beta
  
• Adjusted the “dying” scientist in Map B so he doesn’t turn his head to face you after he’s dead
  
• Destroyed one of the bridges in Map B as a callback to the HL1 iteration
  
• Adjusted the scientist that gets killed by the Tentacle, to prevent him being completely frozen in place before the scene starts. Also fixed an edge case where players could get crushed by the door closing behind them.
  
• Several fixes to the Guard that gets killed by the Tentacle, to prevent a weird edge case where he would sometimes become invulnerable
  
• Fixed player being able to break the puzzle by pressing both generator buttons in quick succession in Map D
  
• Fixed bad lighting on a pipe at the end of Map E
  

• Clipped off some points where players could get stuck
  
• Added an emergency light to the bottom of the lift that the HECU come down in Map B, to draw attention to the movement
  
• Made the crate blocking the generator in Map B be invulnerable before the player goes down there, to prevent a scenario where the Houndeyes/explosive barrels would sometimes prematurely destroy the crate and cause the map to progress without the player’s intervention
  

• Substantial rework to the new silo puzzle based on community feedback from 1.5 beta. The puzzle is now properly linearized and better signposted with visuals. This should alleviate all/most of the soft locks and potential confusion during this section.
  
• Added an elaborate series of cool scenes that play out if you bring the Guard with you up the silo. Give it a try!
  
• Added corner pieces to silo platforms to help NPC with pathing and give the player more space to run around (and prevent falling between levels)
  
• Fixed the elevator in the new silo so that players won’t get crushed/stuck in the door when it closes
  
• Adjusted the Marines throughout the chapter who are scripted to fire the RPG at you, so that they should now do so every single time without fail
  

• Fixed a bad decal that was showing up as a glitchy puddle in Map A
  
• Re-arted the skybox outside the helipad in Map C to match the new art and style
  
• Fixed some visible nodraw at the end of Map C
  

• Clipped a tree that you could walk through
  

• Further attempted fixes for a soft lock that was possible at the end of Map F, by running into the door before the scientist had fully played his sequence
  

• Fixed many instances of shiny rocks from the previous beta throughout the chapter
  
• Removed lots of old and ugly detail foliage models throughout Surface Tension and replaced them with newer ones
  
• Rebalanced the Map A warehouse fight to reduce difficulty spike and improve gameplay smoothness/experience
  
• Rebalanced Map A Apache to reduce his accuracy to ⅓ of what it was before. He won’t laser beam players quite as hard anymore (though he is still pretty accurate).
  
• Adjusted a lot of the new art in Map A to use better/newer foliage and rock models, for consistency with the rest of the chapter
  
• Many small tweaks to bits and pieces in the new Map B art to fix up things like visible world seams, floating rocks, etc
  
• Added level fog to Map C (cliffside map) to help reduce visual noise and provide better layer separation for players, to help make the map more readable with the new art. We found a neat little trick here that allowed us to keep the existing sky fog effect while also using a different level fog effect simultaneously!
  
• Rebalanced Map D “whack-a-Gordon” fight to provide the player with more cover and reduce difficulty spike
  
• Fixed Guard in Map F being unresponsive past a certain point, he should now play out as he did before, with a few of his existing improvements
  
• Fixed broken mortar and fuel truck in Map I end scene (this bug was insane on the code front!)
  
• Added a trigger to Map F which deletes the Osprey gibs before you go up to the TOW Launcher, preventing a situation where sometimes the gibs would block your line of fire to the Abrams
  
• Fixed TOW Launcher in Map F firing hilariously slow rockets
  

• New art for snark nests throughout Map A, to make it look beautifully disgusting and to match the infestation type found in Map B
  

• Rebalanced the Map A Assassin fight to prevent players from cheesing it by simply sprinting to the end. Prevented Assassins from being able to jump onto the upper walkways and shoot down at players through the grate. Adjusted the container maze layout slightly to encourage players to move through it and fight in there. Added many supplies to help achieve the same goal. Spaced out Assassins into multiple waves, so the player doesn’t end up fighting too many at once.
  
• Added some signposting into the ladder the Scientist drops in Map B, so players are more likely to know where to go when the fight is over
  
• Fixed Map B gun-range door not opening properly
  
• Removed an extraneous Long Jump hudhint from Map H, as the player is already told about it so much
  

• Added a tumbling hat animation for when the player takes the Hat through to Xen
  
• Changed Houndeye “alert island” sound used on the Houndeye island in Map A
  
• Added an animation to the winch prop that pulls islands around, so that you can see something is happening even without looking at the islands
  
• Fixed floating ground polyps under the Tree of Truth in Map B1
  
• Fixed ugly areaportal when looking back into previous level while in Map C1
  

• Further adjustments to the new forcefield models to boost visual quality and improve consistency
  
• Cubemap pass on Map A1 (Gargathon) to help boost the visual quality
  
• Fixed up the Gargantua lights on A1 to look better and to improve performance
  
• Gave the Gargantuas things to do after the player has escaped in A1, so they don’t just stand around...menacingly
  
• Fixed visible world FarZ in Map B2
  
• More art passes on Map C to help boost the visual quality
  
• Art pass on the boxes which hold the Controller shield crystals in Map C2
  

• Significantly improved performance in Nihilanth’s chamber for low/mid-range PCs
  

As promised by the team at Crowbar Collective around the 1.0 release, a Definitive Edition of Black Mesa is coming and there's now a Beta.

Read the full article here: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2020/11/half-life-re-imagining-black-mesa-has-a-definitive-edition-available-in-beta-now

Black Mesa finishing development? That was a joke, ha ha, fat chance. After years upon years in development, Black Mesa, the fan-built remake of Half-Life finally launched in full on Steam in March of this year. And now... the developers have even more new stuff in mind. Black Mesa: Definitive Edition features major revamps for several of the game's levels, and it's already playable in beta.

Definitive Edition changes the Power Up level to "have more 'cause and effect' gameplay", the developers explain in the blog post, "and to better highlight the player's overall goal for the chapter". You'll now be fighting through a darker facility while working to get the lights back on and kill Gargantua, and this will help, er, highlight the new dynamic light system.

On a Rail gets some big changes to the rocket silo, which will "better show the objective and subsequent solution", and it looks nicer, to boot. We're also getting improved visuals on We've Got Hostiles, Questionable Ethics, Surface Tension, Forget About Freeman, and Interloper.

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• Fixed needing to manually add the “custom” folder for mods to work, now all types of mods should work just the click of the “subscribe” button
  
• Enabled support for scripts, choreography and particles when shipped with mods, to better expand the types of content community modders can included
  
• Fixed sounds and music not playing properly and requiring “snd_restart” to work
  
• Added ability for mods to ship/edit skill.cfg and weapon .dmx files, allowing mods to now modify player health and damage settings
  
• Added logic_playerproxy entity
  

• Added dynamic lights to all health chargers and HEV chargers
  
• Added corpse gib sounds
  
• Added long jump bootup sequence
  
• Added Agrunt pod breaking sound effect
  
• Sunlight shadows (CSM) for viewmodels fixed for all quality settings. (These will not work on potato quality settings, for performance reasons)
  
• Fixed freezing issue that would happen when closing pause screen too soon while saving game
  
• Fixed Guard not being able to go from crouch to walk without going into idle pose first
  
• Fixed scientists not healing the player when they are low on health (still have to fix female scientists)
  
• Fixed crash when shooting an explosive barrel with shotgun
  
• Fixed Guards in player squad from standing in straight line during combat
  
• Fixed Vort hands glowing after attack has been completed
  
• Fixed long jump “Landing Jets” to call string for translation files
  
• Fixed crash with HEV bootup sequence when using translated text
  
• Fixed crash in Surface Tension on Linux
  

• Added “No Weapon Switch” setting for multiplayer
  
• Added disconnect button for leaving multiplayer
  
• Added crouch toggle
  
• Fixed key binds to allow keyboard and controller binds
  
• Fix in game voice (VOIP) bind and display icon (now displays player icon and name)
  
• Fixed singleplayer maps loading as multiplayer if you start a game from multiplayer
  
• Fixed timer and frag count not being carried over into game
  

• We Got Hostiles outdoor updates
  
• On A Rail outdoor updates
  
• Questionable Ethics outdoor updates
  
• Surface Tension outdoor updates
  
• ”Forget About Freeman!” outdoor updates
  
• All new shields and art details for Interloper
  
• Made eye more reflective for houndeye
  
• Floodlights now have off skin
  
• Fixed incorrect vine flow direction in the vine cave in Xen B
  
• Fixed clustered props in Lambda Core to light better
  
• Fixed duplicate lift geometry in Lambda Core map E
  
• Turned ladder hatch in Office Complex into a prop to fix lighting and sorting issues
  
• Fixed OAR tram glowing in the dark
  
• Added more developed skybox through all of Surface Tension Uncut maps
  
  
  
• Fixed improperly lit props in Interloper map A
  
• Added “server” props to Interloper factory columns
  
• Added LODs to vehicle and hero props
  
• Added hatch models for Interloper
  
• Added trim to Interloper factor
  
• Fixed foliage welding errors (floating props)
  
• Recreated old desert rock props
  
• Added new foliage assets
  
• Added new rock assets
  
• Added new Mesa assets
  
• Added welds meshes to Interloper
  
• Clustered props for Questionable Ethics Xen scene
  
• Fixed floating props in Gonarch
  
• Fixed props missing collision
  
• Added new “heart” room art for breaking the shields at the end of Interloper C1
  
  
  
• Fixed collision on first Interloper machine
  
• New art for “Power Up”
  

• As always, a huge slew of fixes for bugs and softlocks found by the community, many of which are too small to mention here!
• Clipping pass across the whole game to smooth out player collision and prevent nasty bumps
  
• Added further clues
  
• Added designated supply boxes game wide so players can better find resources these will always contain health, battery, or both. Note: other items can still be found in unmarked crates just like in previous versions of BMS, these new boxes are just for health/battery pickups. \Health/battery can also still be found loose in the world too.
  

• Moved first combat headcrab spawn to in front of the player (Map A)
  
• Fixed guard from standing on top of chair in scripted sequence... (Map B)
  
• Drew attention to dead zombie legs in lab and HEV pickup (Map B)
  
• Better drew attention to headcrab/monitor sequence by moving headbutting zombie elsewhere (Map B)
  
• Nudged battery closer to edge of shelf so that it can be picked up without parkour (Map C)
  
• Allowed player to pick up pistol at dead guard that was crawling toward health charger (Map C)
  
• Improved freezer red valve puzzle (Map C)
  
• Made player find red valve and bring it to socket to flood sewer to better iterate on mechanic from the freezer puzzle, and to better utilise the entire sewer space (Map C)
  
• Rearranged barrels in sewer to let players distract barnacles (Map C)
  
• Shortened vent crawl near freight elevator to reduce unnecessary downtime and improve player guidance and storytelling (Map D)
  
• Fool proofed the houndeye explosion sequence to prevent an edge case where sometimes the bridge wouldn’t explode but players would just fall through it (Map D)
  
• Added suit zoom prompt during headcrab, bullsquid fight (Map E)
  
• Added hidden goodies to better reward exploration (Map E)
  
• Increased drama and number of houndeyes in final fight before Office Complex to better send
• off the chapter (Map E)
  

• Fixed soft lock that could happen if you shoot headcrabs that get electrocuted at start of chapter (Map A)
  
• Moved power for electrified water to light switch next to door (Map A)
  
• Fixed bad trim on electrified water room (Map A)
  
• Converted door ladder to model to fix lighting issues (Map A)
  
• Changed Vort ambush to a Zombie ambush, to better “reward” and teach the player about the weapon, and to give the big Vort office fight more power (Map A)
  
• Fixed metal grate that was playing wrong sound effect when hit (Map B)
  
• Added “Xog” to freezer instead of legacy fog (Map C)
  

• New art for outdoor sections (Chapter Wide)
  
• Fixed chapter title having “!” in it (Map A)
  
• Overhauled introduction scene with Guard in vent to feel more natural and be more like the original (Map A)
  
• Reworked “Rescued At Last!” scene to better show story beat and give players a clearer view (Map A)
  
• Improved hallway headcrab fight to be more interesting (Map A)
  
• Choreographed scientist at tripmines to not follow player, to help boost Gman scene (Map A)
  
• Blocked locked double doors to better signal to the player that is not the critical path (Map A)
  
• Restructured environment to frame "12 Dumbass Scientist" scene to give players better and more natural view (Map A)
  
• Increased volume of “I’m with the science team!” voice line and changed one of the scientists to be a woman (Map B)
  
• Better placed “I am the one man who knows everything!” scientist to look more natural and fool proof the trigger (Map B)
  
• Fixed crush death in elevator to surface (Map B)
  
• Rearranged warehouse so that the player is drawn into the combat space and so the player initiates the fight (Map C)
  
• Fixed broken fog and added new style fog (Map C)
  
• Made HECU continue to fire at you after you crawl into collapsing vent shaft; to pressure the player to move forward (Map C)
  

• Added “old style” VOX announcements throughout Blast Pit to give subtle hints to the player about the status of the rocket and what’s going on around them (Chapter Wide)
  
• Fixed radioactive goo not triggering Geiger counter (Map A and E)
  
• Fixed area where player could get stuck (Map A)
  
• Fixed overbright barrels due to water reflection (Map A)
  
• Made it so player could not back out of room during tentacle attack (Map B)
  
• Fixed scientist reappearing after being dragged out of window in tentacle attack (Map B)
  
• Fixed security guard who absolutely refused to die to tentacle monster or rocket fire (Map B)
  
• Fixed some visible seams in the world by the Tentacles (Map B and E)
  
• Better highlighted which door goes where away from the Tentacles (Map B)
  
• Better signposted status of rocket launch and required elements (Map C and D)
  
• Fixed BSP seam as you descended final ladder (Map E)
  

• Gargantuan… update to the entire chapter. Check it out ;)
• Fixed Gargantua lurking by window, blocking your escape to transformer (Map A)
  
• Fixed ladder with no support structure. Everyone needs someone to lean on. (Map B)
  
• Reworked combat scenarios with Grunts and Houndeyes (Map B)
  

• New art for outdoor sections (Chapter Wide)
  
• Added better auto saves (Chapter Wide)
  
• Redesigned chapter progression so you take the same tram all the way through the chapter now (Chapter Wide)
  
• Fixed multiple visible gaps in the world (Map A)
  
• Completely redesigned rocket silo and map progression (Map B)
• Redid silo lighting to feel spookier (Map B)
  
• Added new “workshop” area at the beginning of the map to account for the fact that the player doesn’t have trams to walk on and hide behind anymore (Map B)
  
• Added new “security” area looking into the rocket hallway to help enforce the new circular nature of the map (Map B)
  
• Added health before large vort/HECU hallway fight (Map B)
  
• Improved ladder dismounts in rocket silo (Map B)
  
• Relit and rotated skybox above silo to draw more attention and connect the two levels in the player’s mind (Map B)
  
• Pushed back fog to include sky elements (Map C)
  
• Fixed bad scale on ground blend textures (Map C)
  
• Fixed clipping that allowed player to skip fight at the end of chapter (Map C)
  
• Fixed truck headlight that was missing and fixed misaligned headlight lens flare (Map C)
  
• Fixed bug where the Marine on the 50 Cal would not get off it when the player got near him (Map C)
  
• Increased performance when rocket is raising (Map C)
  

• Added “nice camouflage, asshole!” scene to when Gordon falls in the water (Map A)
  
• Added glowy chemlights to help guide the player through hole in underwater section (Map A)
  
• Moved end of map door opening switch to a position where the player can properly see “cause and effect” to reduce player confusion (Map C)
  
• Added second Assassin fight once the door is opened, to give the scene more impact (Map C)
  
• Added some more health and environmental storytelling around the Assassin arena, to account for the increased difficulty and resulting need for exploration (Map C)
  
• Adjusted final route before “knockout” scene to have it feel more like a natural progression for the player (Map C)
  

• Fixed super bright cube maps in some outdoor areas (Map A)
  
• Fixed bad red pipe coloration and join near the start of the map (Map A)
  
• Replaced vent texture with model to prevent flashlight render issue (Map A)
  
• Small bits of better environmental storytelling (Map A)
  
• Removed crane physics puzzle as it was not fun or interesting (Map C)
  

• New art for outdoor sections (Chapter Wide)
  
• Added new prop and lighting to pod holding Alien Grunt (Map A)
  
• Fixed HECU running into their own mines (Map A)
  
• Choreographed HECU intro so that player now has to initiate the fight with HECU (Map F)
  
• Added all new environment in Xen room (Map F)
  
• Better lighting for scientist beyond surgery machine (Map F)
  
• Fixed soft lock when transitioning to next Map (Map F)
  
• Fixed various softlocks in Lobby (Map F)
  
• Fixed dev texture on column in Lobby (Map F)
  
• Added additional cover and tweaks to Lobby fight (Map F)
  

• New art for outdoor sections (Chapter Wide)
  
• Fixed HECU shooting at you when behind security vehicle (Map A)
  
• Fixed wall the player and NPCs could walk through (Map D)
  
• Fixed doorway you could see through into sky (Map D)
  
• Added “HOLY SHIT!” reaction to Guard to help make him feel more lifelike and like a character (Map F)
  
• Added dynamic lights to exploded osprey (Map G)
  

• New art for outdoor sections (Chapter Wide)
  
• Fixed lasers not turning off when player kills turrets (Map A)
  
• Fixed turret not being aggressive towards player/Guard (Map A)
  
• Adjust Manta positioning/timing to hide the Manta pop in (Map B)
  
• Added better fence for player to climb over, so players won’t get confused and try to climb up on the fence (Map B)
  
• Fixed player being able to get up onto large rock formation (Map B)
  
• Made hospital beds static to keep the playspace from getting cluttered (Map B)
  
• Fixed the manta/tank explosions from throwing health/battery pickups around the entire arena, getting them lost from where they’re supposed to be (Map B)
  
• Fixed HECU from getting stuck on barrier (Map B)
  
• Added some additional ceiling art in underground sections for higher fidelity (Map B)
  

• Improved lightmap scales on many walls/floors for better lighting at no additional performance cost! (Chapter Wide)
  
• Fixed decals rendering incorrectly on walls (Map C)
  
• Fixed sprinkler particles that floated in mid air in one hallway (Map C)
  
• Simplified jumping puzzle in lower area under main core to prevent getting weirdly crushed and make the platforming easier (Map G)
  
• Fixed interdimensional scene to show correct FOV (Map I)
  
• Fixed bug where laser beams would kill the player as they jumped into the portal, occasionally not letting them progress into Xen (Map I)
  
• Fixed bug where the player could sometimes both win and lose at the same time if they jumped into the portal at the exact right moment.
  

• Fixed leafs throughout chapter (Chapter Wide)
  
• Fixed human skulls spawning from barnacles where they should not (Chapter Wide)
  
• Re-culled and clustered all foliage props to prevent weird artifacting and strangely cut off grasses (Map B)
  
• Swapped whiteboards to better guide player for first plug puzzle (Map B)
  
• Fixed floating prop at start of Xen swamp (Map B)
  
• Fixed floating healing pool before second leaf gate (Map B)
  
• Fixed healing pool that players would get stuck on sometimes (Map B)
  
• Added small step after second leaf gate to help the player jump up (Map B)
  
• Re-arted polyps in the Tree of Truth to give them higher fidelity and prevent some floating ones (Map B1)
  
• Fixed “windows” in root walls by the Tree of Truth to better show objective progression (Map B1)
  
• Highlighted tree trunk drop down into trip mine maze (Map B1)
  
• Fixed see through rock due to model culling (Map B1)
  
• Fixed Ichthys in last deep pool from not being able to swim (Map B1)
  
• Fixed second plug puzzle being able to plug two ends of the same cord into one socket (Map C1)
  
• Further refined last plug puzzle to be almost impossible to break (Map C1)
  

• Fixed human skulls spawning from barnacles where they should not (Chapter Wide)
  
• Trapped player in early cave using a rock collapse to prevent backtracking and force them to use the fumerol to progress, to help players learn it is a key gameplay element (Map B)
  
• Made sure player could not get to second level of crystal cave before using water crystal (Map B)
  

• New art and detailing throughout the chapter to add an additional layer of polish (Chapter Wide)
  
• Fixed human skulls spawning from barnacles where they should not (Chapter Wide)
  
• Fixed players falling into void and not dying (Map A)
  
• Fixed hole in village the player could fall into and get stuck (Map A)
  
• Fixed fire at the bottom of controller fight burning out too soon (Map A)
  
• Gave Vorts in the Vort Village a few more things to do, and ensured they properly run and hide if the player starts trying to kill them indiscriminately (Map A)
  
• Fixed missing rock backfaces (Map A1)
  
• Clipped rocks by second jump pad in Garg chase (Map A1)
  
• Fixed overlit Gargs at end of chase scene (Map A1)
  
• Fixed player being able to clip into a green bubble vat (Map B)
  
• Highlighted lift that is needed to find power plug at the top room puzzle (Map B)
  
• Fixed brush clipping in pipe (Map B)
  
• Fixed giant hole in factory (Map B)
  
• Added water effects to Alien Grunt gestation chamber and connecting tube (Map B1)
  
• Added checkpoint to first machine so if you fall down during the long jump, you don’t have to just stand there and wait for the sweet, sweet release of a fiery death (Map C)
  
• Adding “revving up” to 3rd machine to better telegraph to the player what is going to happen next (Map C)
  
• Added grunt pods at end of conveyor sprint to give the section a tenser ending and to look less barren (Map C)
  
• Better introduced barrels and cysts as a means of blowing stuff up (Map C)
  
• Added healing crystal at start of upper cage fight (Map C1)
  
• Significantly optimized elevator fight (Map D)
  
• Re-arted the fog during the elevator fight to help further with optimization and to make “pop-in” look better (Map D)
  
• Ensured that Alien Controllers are being deleted during Elevator fight once you leave their respective sections, to further improve performance (Map D)
  
• Added explosions and nudges to get player off elevator at midpoint (Map D)
  
• Fixed crush zone at top of elevator (Map D)
  

• Fixed a really strange issue where the tram door in the final sequence would sometimes disappear for some players
  

• A number of world seams in ST B with new art
  
• Floating polyp models in Xen tree hub (Xen map B1)
  
• Controllers currently don’t work in the menu
  
• Female scientists unintentionally do not heal player
  
• Still have to add multiplayer player model select for new UI
  
• If players in multiplayer have same score and are in top 3, they will both get metals
  
• Player rank sometimes shows wrong at the top of screen in multiplayer
  
• Guard in Surface Tension F will sometime refuse to follow Freeman
  
• Possible soft lock in 2 spots in OAR. The silo floor and the up elevator.
  
• We still do not ship the mapsrc VMFs - we will do this for the final release of the Definitive Edition