Improved Xen is a modification for Black Mesa game. It gives you an opportunity to immerse yourself into original locations of Xen world from Half-Life, but with improved graphics and optimized geometry. At the moment Improved Xen is supported by me - Vladislav Lisovichenko (zloikot)
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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.
Black Mesa: Improved Xen v1.0
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!
New Major update for Improved Xen specially for Black Mesa release!
News 5 commentsLatest news about updating Improved Xen to new version.
Updated Improved Xen has been ported to Free Black Mesa 2012!
News 12 commentsLatest news about updating Improved Xen to version 0.51 for Black Mesa 2012. Improved Xen will be published on April 7.
Imroved Xen has received a new update!
News 22 commentsLatest news about updating Improved Xen to version 0.5.
Improved Xen was updated to version 0.4.1
News 2 commentsAs you can see, I updated the mod to v0.4.1, it was necessary because of the detected bugs in the previous version.
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Black Mesa 2012: Improved Xen v0.51
Full Version 21 commentsImproved Xen is now compatible with Black Mesa (2012) Free version. Here you can download the mod version 0.51.
Improved Xen Fixes
Patch 7 commentsImproved 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 v1.0
Full Version 6 commentsBlack Mesa: Improved Xen version 1.0 is now available!
Black Mesa: Improved Xen v0.5
Full Version 6 commentsImproved Xen is now compatible with Black Mesa (2015) Steam version. Here you can download the mod version 0.5
Black Mesa: Xen v0.4.1
Full Version 19 commentsHere 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...
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Удачи,хорошо выглядит,нравится стиль =).
I really like it, I can't understand why there's so much butthurt on BMS forums for this, maybe it's because the map is based on HL's original xen maps.
I will suggest you to enhance the skybox (maybe making a 3D one? with floating islands, flocks, and maybe a sun, or two hehe) and add/enlarge some paths to make the gameplay more dinamic.
You can approach the fact that there is no gonarch entity, to make that sub-chapter an alien-maze, full of creatures.
This is AMAZING!Only thing that i hate about this mod is chapter "Gonarch's Lair".Because it has no Gonarch in it.But still,nice work 10/10
I'm disappointed that I can not create gonarch because it annoys me and I think everyone else too. It is a pity that no one can help me with this. I do not know very well the entities in Hammer because I previously created only multiplayer maps for hl2 and css and had affairs with the entity.
Its probably because it would be a waste of time.
Great job, perfect for the time until the BM-team releases their Xen (maybe in 8 jears lol.), I hope you continue your work, no matter what others say!
So, are these just recreations of the (truly terrible) original maps? As far as I understand it, the BM team are rebuilding Xen completely. Sorry, but I think I'd rather wait for that.
Why not try and create a mod based on half life, society nowadays think that all mods after Black Mesa is a rip of from Black Mesa, But i agree with you on what this dev has used, same HUD, eapon models, npcs, same maps? time will tell
How does that have anything to do with what I said? I'm saying they shouldn't base their maps of the originals. They're not good.
Also, this is a mod of Black Mesa, and it's hardly a rip off seeing as Black Mesa hasn't covered Xen yet...
Because this is a Black mesa add on, that's why.
Ahh, now I see.