Made by Gearbox Software and originally released in 2001 as an add-on to Half-Life, Blue Shift is a return to the Black Mesa Research Facility in which you play as Barney Calhoun, the security guard sidekick who helped Gordon out of so many sticky situations.

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Next batch of additions to Half-Life Beyond is here!

As this year draws to a close we wanted to take a moment to talk about more of the progress so far so let's take a look at some of it below!

We've expanded the graphical settings menu with more options, such as resolution scale and the option to turn off motion blur. FOV slider has been moved to the gameplay options tab since it is more related to the player's view. The game will now also auto adjust the settings to best suit your current hardware upon launching it for the first time!

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We implemented Logo Sprays with the addition of being able to change their color to any color you want rather than just having preset color options, and added a new type of animated sprays: 2 animated sprays are currently available and can be obtained by completing challenges tied to them in the Extras menu! Skin preview recieved a minor visual update aswell.


Various details have also been added or tweaked further, like Suit Modification Station's "flames" effect, and made parts of weapons emit light where it makes sense.

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Also added a notification to the right side of your screen whenever you complete a challenge, followed by a sound effect that temporarily reduces the volume of the other sound effects


And plenty of QoL improvements like faster to use Suit Mod Stations, oversights fixed and more! and a Holiday themed extra that will be activated from the 25th of December of each year until the first day of a new year arrival. Happy Holidays!

Recruiting

Interested in making your own content for the game? check out our open dev positions and see which ones interest you the most!

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SeanGaming
SeanGaming - - 166 comments

Here is some Blue Shift Walkthrough, normal day in Security guard.

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doitall
doitall - - 478 comments

Half-Life, Opposing Force, and Blue Shift have made it on to modded Nintendo Switch's ✌️😎

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knb128pl
knb128pl - - 24 comments

Nice but is short and give us small amount of weapons from orignal.But im still love this expansion.And this is only one of HL games who play with HD pack.

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Dmitriy-Bars
Dmitriy-Bars - - 245 comments

Finally, someone fixed player model from Blue Shift, making it look like Barney, not Gordon (and not changing dead HEV scientists skin though)!

HD version: Gamebanana.com
LD version: Gamebanana.com
PS2 version: Gamebanana.com

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JohnCresa
JohnCresa - - 18 comments

Beautiful!

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RecycledDoom
RecycledDoom - - 58 comments

I've gotten tired of not being able to reliably find games for old Gold Source (GoldSrc, HL1, Half Life 1) mods or Source (Half Life 2, HL2) mods, so I made a discord about just that. I am also trying to make this place an informational hub. I'm trying to centralize and unite the multiplayer mod communities for all of the various multiplayer mods out there. We play a mod of the week every Friday/Saturday.

Check us out.

Discord.gg

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Guest
Guest - - 689,389 comments

Oh, no.

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heady123
heady123 - - 50 comments

Easy!!

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hafidin
hafidin - - 13 comments

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how to download blue shift without mod ?

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FLOPMAN
FLOPMAN - - 49 comments

i bought the game in the store but won multyplayer wont work help plzz!

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PMDLEADERSHINX
PMDLEADERSHINX - - 544 comments

Multiplayer is only possible with Blue-Shift Unlocked and Blue-Shift CoOp installed. Made as a stand alone game, it does not working like the other games.

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