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Black Mesa Outlast-Like Reshade Preset

This mod attempts to make the coloring and shading of Black Mesa feel more like an early 2010s horror game on par with games like Outlast, Bioshock, or Dead Space.







However just like the story of Black Mesa itself, while trying to remake this shader I've realized there is so much more, the shader has made the game feel so much more lively and realistic with this shader.



There are 3 presets Available in this folder, two of them are standard shaders, the one called Black Mesa 2000s Flashlight Tied is the most unique, it is made with the idea in mind that pressing F will activate a CRT overlay as if Gordon is putting on his helmet to use the flashlight much like the mod made for Half Life 2.

This is meant to make the game slightly more balanced due to the lack of consequence for using the flashlight normally, now in doing so you are tunneling your vision which makes it only viable in areas that are meant to be pitch black like vents.







The two other shaders in this pack are versions of the shader with and without the CRT overlay permanently adjusted if you would just like to use one or the other for screenshots and videos like the ones provided.

This mod requires Reshade, the preferred version is 5.0.2 and for Marty McFly's ray tracing I would suggest Beta 0.17.0.2 as these both are the most optimized versions for Black Mesa

To find the shaders go to: steamapps\workshop\content\362890\2928608663

Make sure Anti Aliasing is at it's lowest setting or else depth based shaders will not work!