At the moment, the focus of the story fashion about black operatives and special. operations in the Black Mesa complex. Hello dear friends! For a long time there was no news from our side. Someone who had exams, someone defended a diploma, etc., in general, we had little. But now when everything is already behind you can already begin to work hard on the next project. For whom it's not a secret our next modification will be Black Mesa: Black Ops, and immediately we want to note that this is not a remake of the remake of Half Life: Black Ops, that is, there will be new locations / levels and most importantly new models that we ourselves And we do. At the moment we have big plans for this mod, our goal is to make it as high-quality and atmospheric, so stay tuned for news.
Самый слабый мод от HECU, самый слабый мапинг и история не представляет из себя ничего интересного, модельки оружия так себе.
English(bad):
The weakest mod from HECU, the weakest mapping and plot is nothing interesting, weapons models are so-so.
It was a pretty decent mod. I really enjoyed playing it.
The storyline is interesting and custom weapons make you feel like a Spec Ops.
I hope BM gets the attention it deserves (in terms of modding community like HL/HL2 mods), so that we can enjoy HL universe more in an updated version of Source Engine and get the best out of it.
There were some small issues, but overall it was excellent.
This is a decent start for a new group of modders but not quite enough yet.
Black Ops puts you in the shoes of a Black Ops operator whose identity is unknown and goal overly simple: kill everything that moves.
And here comes the first problem: no story development whatsoever, not to mention the ending which renders the whole adventure useless. It usually isn't a problem in a mod like that but here, this would have been the only thing maintaining the player's interest as the rest is bland.
Map design quality varies throughout the campaign. While some areas are pretty decent, some are very crude. For instance, the atrium in the last map is kinda cool but when you leave you get to see the facade of the building which is a mosaic of windows and air conditioners surrounded with crude brush work.
The pacing is probably the thing that hurts this mod the most. Move. Kill. Repeat this at a very slow rate. Overall it's a sequence of corridors interconnected with big rooms as detailed as the inside of a shoe box, some being open, some just being shoe boxes with two entry points.
Sound design is almost non-existent. Close to no music and ambient sounds. You might hear noises where it was very obvious for the mappers to put some at, the rest of the time it's just your steps and your gun shots. More buzzing sounds on electric boxes and vending machines or humming sounds at air conditioners wouldn't hurt.
The weapons are pretty fitting to the Black Ops team but the modeling is mediocre. It is overall lacking detail and looks like it's been made out of plastic. Pistol shines like chrome, M4 looks overly smooth and sniper looks too thin.
Overall the mod isn't that bad for a first original project. It is however seriously lacking on every level. Here's hoping they will improve in the future.
A very nice mod all together.. Below I will write what I liked and disliked about it in short format. The review contains some minor spoilers.
Pro:
+Custom made music.
+Good npc scripts in use. Be it monsters & marines fighting one another or Ospreys flying over your head.
+Fantastic mapping both in architecture-design and light choices.
+Medium length mod.
+Properly balanced. Your hardest enemies are really just the turrets and once in a while some Alien Grunts.
+Several new model assets in use which add greatly to the experience.
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-Few bugs remain especially in the final map with open doors that let you look into the sky and map itself. That and couple texture glitches. (purple/black textures)
-Mod lacks purpose. You were sent to Black Mesa, but why? What are your orders? You're no specific mission order given.
-You're once more a lone wolf. Some squad mates would've been nice.
-In some places rather monotone and not enough to hear, kinda boring. Some more vox messages other than x1 "Now under military control" would've added greatly to the Black Mesa atmosphere.
-You didn't get to find or fight a single Black Mesa employee with the exception of the 1st map and in few scripted_sequences outside your actual walk area. Considering this plays rather shortly after the resonance cascade it's kinda unbelievable and sad for the immersion and possible npc enemy types. And where is G-Man?
-Disappointing ending as you get supposedly shot by your very own Black Op mates. Yet the outro indicates that HECU killed you and your whole squad.
-The whole end fight can get skipped if you just go head on to the Black Ops near the street. What's the purpose then?
-Terrible English translation. What's so hard in sending few lines of texts over to a native English speaking person for them to conduct some proof reading?
-No riddles throughout the mod. Just combat and button pressing.
-Most moddb screens appear to be fake or show stuff that is actually not included in the current version of the mod. For instance the Bomb model, the crashed Osprey area and so on.
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Despite the fact that I have written far more negative points than positive aspects about it. It is still a very nice and enjoyable mod experience. Safe to say that it is also far better than Hazard course was as it is more balanced and offers more variety in it's game flow.
During my play through I still had the HECU hud and Arms. Quite possible that some errors I mentioned here happened only on my end. If that's the case then it at least displays how wrong it is to force people to overwrite official files instead of creating a sub mod folder inside a packed .VPK file like other modders do.
Go and play it people.