Do you want to return in "good old days" and experience that true classic - Half-life 1, (xen levels) but with improved graphics, geometry, and gameplay ? You can download it now, on the link below, or in Steam Workshop.
The only difference between these two resources is the way of installing the mod. During 7 years I made 7 versions of Improved Xen, which is a big number for this kind of work. You can see the evolution of the mod since its early version till now, and how Black Mesa influenced it. It was an amazing and exciting experience for me, and I share the result of my work with you, as usual. I tried to take the best materials from Black Mesa 1.0 to bring new spirit into my own mod. However, some things will not be changed because I have my own vision of Xen, and try to fallow the canonical Half-Life style.
New gameplay footage (Trailer)
In my opinion, even the latest version of Black Mesa still has some flaws and it is quite unstable. I faced them while adapting and updating my mod to its new version (1.0). I was surprised, because I expected to see more polished version of BM, than it is now. But the quality of Black mesa is the highest now, compared to all period of its development. I am sure, that all future BM updates will not destruct my mod anymore, and I put a lot of afford to avoid this possible problem. I hope you will enjoy my new Improved Xen. Meanwhile, you can monitor the news about Azure Sheep Remake, I am involved in its development too.
Also I am waiting for your feedback about my mod in the comments below. If you have some problems with it, I'll try to help you If I can. Thank you for your attention!
Latest news about updating Improved Xen to new version.
Latest news about updating Improved Xen to version 0.51 for Black Mesa 2012. Improved Xen will be published on April 7.
Latest news about updating Improved Xen to version 0.5.
As you can see, I updated the mod to v0.4.1, it was necessary because of the detected bugs in the previous version.
Improved Xen is now compatible with Black Mesa (2012) Free version. Here you can download the mod version 0.51.
Improved Xen was a great mod released sometime after the 1.0 release, and it works on the latest version (Definitive Edition), but it does have some flaws...
Black Mesa: Improved Xen version 1.0 is now available!
Improved Xen is now compatible with Black Mesa (2015) Steam version. Here you can download the mod version 0.5
Here you can download the mod version 0.4.1 This is the full version, does not need to install Xen v0.1 v0.11 and v0.4 Attention! This mod is compatible...
Ooh! I like the looks of that new banner and release date! :D
Thank you! I did not manage to lay out the mod on March 29, but I think that a small delay is not terrible)
This has been revived? Exciting!
rivarez, can you make a level transition with a lambda core with less artifacts and a xen v0.1 not 0.11 level? would be much appreciated!
Im getting a game freezing during these xen missions... always at the same place, I installed hazard course, uplink and surface tension uncut... could this be a problem?
On the mod version, (that's the one I have) is this compatible with the hazard course mod?
Is sexy Gman going to have a voice?
Я так понял, на пиратку этот мод вообще нельзя установить?
Чувак, хелп. Я вроде бы всё поставил короче. Все файлы просто перенёс в bms. Я не стал удалять дефолтную папку bms. просто наложил все файлы поверх неё. У меня есть ксен. Но проблема с физикой чёт. Она не действует. В ксене там невесомость какая-то должна быть, а у меня всё обычное как бы, как на Земле. И Гордон он, собственно, даже до первой летающей платформы не долетает. Не могу сойти с первой площадки. Прыгаю правильно, контрол плюс пробел. И если он шмякается на платформу, то сразу подыхает.
А если пиратская версия БМ, то куда файлы кидать из 0.1 версии?
файлы прямо в корень кидать? Scripts папка вообще находится в папке platform...
Первый раз мод просто ставлю на блэк мезу.