But I am glad that parts are still weird and colourful. Xen still has a load of jumping puzzles, mind, and one elevator battle which goes on several beats too long. The Nihilath battle is particularly more dramatic. I've not played the full Xen yet but I have skipped around a few levels and damn, it's fancy. Now they want feedback on the very end: the final Interloper levels, the boss battle, and the ending. The first chapters of Black Mesa's Xen entered public beta in June and they've added more over past few months. Black Mesa's Xen introduces new enemies, new types of puzzle, and many new areas. They have definitely tried to address complaints about the original chapters. The developers still have some work to do before leaving beta and say they're keen to hear feedback from players but the end is so close I can smell G-Man's government-issue aftershave.Ĭrowbar Collective's version of Xen draws inspiration from Valve's original but replaces chunks with expanded or brand-new parts. And damn, their expanded version of Xen is real fancy.

With this, the game can now be played in full from beginning to end. A new public beta build of the Valve-sanctioned Half-Life fan remake unveils the final chapters of Xen, the alien world much-maligned in Half-Life and absent from the initial release of Black Mesa. After fifteen years of development in one form or another, Black Mesa is almost finished.

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