Anyone else trying to d/l "Black Mesa Source" at present?

It’s like the Raspberry Pi launch, or the HP Touchpad frenzy all over again…

my pc isn’t powerful enough to run it (still have the original though 😉
tell us how you find it when you finally download it 🙂

Just give me like 15 more minutes to get home… ####excited!!!

how big is the download btw?

i think it’s between 3-4 gb unzips to over 8gb (from what i saw on the site earlier/now it’s down).

Proper excited about this.

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! HALLO GORDON 😀 .. loved HL and HL2.

http://blackmesasource.com/ it’s a reworking of the original half life,using half life 2 source engine (i think?) anyway i cannot run it on my ancient pc 🙁

Still nothing. Trying and trying….

Forgot I am on a Mac now 🙁 *weeps

just the noises on the website are wafting back to my youth… 8)

meh, yeah someone needs to throw a switch…

No joy here, no download notification and the click here link takes me to the frontpage of a games website or to a forbidden link. 🙁

here maybe?
http://www.shacknews.com/file/32999/black-mesa-source-10-windows-free-game

well this claims to be the torrent for download… but runs too slow, not enough seeds yet…

scrap that fingerbike Wins!

needs more hamsters!!!

The torrent seems to be a live one….lets hope its not a fake one!

torrent was dreadful slow for me, is it going for you? possible my ISP’s traffic policy has kicked in… #give me a break lord#

Sitting about 559kbps at present, 9 seeds and 91 peers.

1hr to go at ~700kbps, this is on a torrent.

http://www.mediafire.com/?khmzyygg4vetko0

I switched to that one, seems a lot faster, will pick up most of your original download so you won’t be starting again. 1.5MBps… 7 minutes to go 😀

splitting my time between BM and ToB, but as I commute to work I must say it all looks lovely…

One disappointment is that when deciding how to rework the game they obviously –

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LOADING

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-didn’t think to have it not do that every 100yards or so, which is a pity, but it does look lovely.

Better go, apparently I’m needed in the test chamber…

Don’t worry. The nice scientist told me there’s only a very very tiny chance of it all going horribly horribly wrong. Well within acceptable limits…

i shall be watching this thread with great interest.

Ah. That’s fine then.

Something about this guy…looks familiar….

Fits like it was made for me!

awwwww no. You’ll never guess what’s happened…

errrr

My original HL experience, on the playstation:
1) Stand on train forever
2) wander around for a while
3) Activate plot mcguffin
4) Smash up a load of crates with me crowbar
5) Uh oh. Looks like I needed those to climb up there, to get into the next section
6) **** it, I’m not standing on the train forever again.

But I think now I will.

there’s a Chuckle Brothers mug in it for you if you do…

Stop posting screenies you gits. Torrent @ 3.3 kb/s, 1w 6 days to go 🙁

schnor, I’ll start sending you bits by pigeon if you like

Schnor, are you using the second torrent I posted? That was flying for me. Or the direct download posted by fingerbike here

that’s at 2hrs for me now, think the pressure has lifted a bit (torrent was faster though)

Thanks unklehomered (and Northwind!), the direct link is much faster than the torrent, should be done in a few hours now 🙂

Amazing, this is the only PC game I ever played! (aside from Rollercoaster Tycoon ;))

You need the Steam engine thingy to run this yes?

you need any source engine game HL2/L4D etc

about 3000 seeds waiting until tonight to take the brakes off some hopefully playing this week (at night with the lights off)

Having tried the PS2 version it was soooooo slow with most of the time spent loading. The PC version was better hoping to stop it early by telling them not to put the thing in the chamber then go have a cup of tea.

It says the source stuff is available for free download, does aanyone have any guides for getting the source & steam stuff installed without buying a game?

see if you can find the source developement kit? (SDK) that might do it… Or you could try downloading a HL2 demo… or treat yourself to portal.

cheapest HL2 game seems to be HL2 deathmatch at 2.99 , none of the other games are that much tbh.

Hl2dm and tf2 are both f2p.