Black Mesa: Military mod

I hope you are excited for this update as much as I am releasing it! There's plenty to talk about!

First of all, I would like to thank all the people who helped make this mod even better than I ever imagined it would be, because it IS much better. When I started working on this back in 2018, I had much ambitions and hope for it, but I did not expect it would grow this much since then. Initially meant to be a simple mappack, it now has everything I could hope a serious mod would have, very amazing music and voice acting, cinematic scenes, suprising gameplay elements and more!

Remember, that this is not the final version and still much can be done to make this mod better. But this update cements something that I wanted for a long time. Proper scenes with proper dialogues and better looking maps. People complained that my maps are not on professional level for a long while, and I understood it completely. Make no mistake, they are nowhere near as perfect as they could be, but when I started working on this, I was learning mapping from the get-go. So you may notice that they are still looking amateur in many spots, in true, but for now at least I can show off with beautiful outdoor expansions:

This map for example, it looked like this years ago and it was one of the better ones then!:

And this is the current one with updated graphics for 2024 version:

The biggest flaw of the mod was obviously interiors and rooms being too big and just simple cubes. From update to update I improved them as much as I could. And so I did the same with 2024 version, here is an example of one of the rooms from chapter 2:

And this is exactly the same location but back from 2019 version:

So the complaints were totally reasonable and much work had to be made on improving them further. Chapter 7 is still incomplete and can't be fully finished and the mod ends in the cliffhanger again but I was wondering what would make more sense, complete chapter 7 and focus on this, or put all the effort to make the already long modification look as best as it could. I chose the second option and I don't regret this. Now with these improvements I can freely complete chapter 7 and 8 for the future update and I have plenty of ideas but I don't want to spoil anything. So enjoy the mod at it's current state and I hope you will have fun playing it!

Composed by JDCreative(Sinon Sniper) here is an example of his amazing work:

This update introduces fully captioned scenes. Skylord_noltok provided voice acting on a very professional level. In english for now, translations will be added later on. New soundtrack, new voice actor and choreographed sequences for Marines are a game changer for these scenes.

I hope you will provide feedback on what's good and what's not so much. I will listen to any suggestions and definitely take them into consideration to impove the quality of the mod.

Thank you for reading!

hecumarine