We are glad to post something for all the fans again! Today is the 20th birthday of Half-Life: Blue Shift, and we couldn’t skip that date, so there’s news about the development of the second chapter of the remake.
There is the surveillance room, where you can see what's going on in the different places of the Facility.
Yes, we've got shooting range. and a donut. Behind the wall.
Right now we are rechecking the maps in their current state and improving their design and details where possible. We started to fill them with scripts and interesting scenes that will immerse you more into our mod.
We’ve got our HUD in progress now. It’s hard to make it unique while there are so many restrictions. HUD in Black Mesa was made solely for the Black Mesa, so we can’t do much customization or restore some of the HL2 features, because they are not working now. It’s impossible to permanently disable the scanlines, because this option (that was implemented by Crowbar Collective) is broken in BM. It would be great to have it fixed.
Also, there will be new Glock animations and hands model.
Some screenshots of the work done with our new member - ICEBIRD112:
We are trying to make our mod look and feel as best as possible, so it takes some time. We think that the Insecurity chapter will be released next month, if everything will go smooth. Will you like the new additions or not – this release will make it clear for us.
If you haven't seen our first chapter, Living Quarters Outbound, you can check it out by yourself:
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Awesome. Even the dialogue is way better than Azure Sheep. Keep it up, and now that you mentioned Blue Shift's 20th anniversary, I'm going to go play Blue Shift again.
Awesome!! I can't wait for this to come out. By the way, is the HUD going to change? In my humble opinion, it doesn't really look that good, and doesn't fit the style Black Mesa has.
Besides that, it looks great!
INCOMING INCOMING
Wow this is amazing! So are these the same voice actors from Black Mesa? It sounds almost the same to me, if not exactly the same.
Yes! We have Kevin Sisk and Michael Hillard on the team, however the female scientist is Bones.
That's a lovely sentiment to the 20th anniversary. Fantastic news and these voice samples indeed do sound brilliantly executed. I'm open for enhanced areas as long as no official stuff is cut out. Black Mesa went the same way. If the extended areas are fitting and are not interfering with any official facility structure by their placement then most certainly go for it.
Been looking forward to hear from a new article. Looks gorgeous.
Looking amazing from top to bottom. Fantastic work.
the hand model suks it needs more work but good job boyz
While I admit they're a little veiny, so are the npc's hands in Black Mesa. If you look at the multiplayer guard hands, they're a lot worse, but that's just because they were for a very small part of the game. Black Mesa: Blue Shift's hands are based off of the NPC, but enhanced and redone.
When will the second chapter be released?
Cant wait.