@Bonk Man In the context of just HL1 yes, we just figured it would offer more opportunities for interesting lore to have it happen even before when Blue Shift implies it to have happened, let alone HL1

@ЭндрюГОр Not included yet, we made the model with map replacements in mind so we dont have use for it before then, we just decided to tease its existance by including it in a render

@Silvy Softpaws™ @^Doctor Primrose^ I have not read Breengrub so I was not aware it had that to say about the Combine. While its status as canon is questionable like Bonk Man said, its still really interesting explanation for Combines origin.

where black ops ?

I’d kill to see even a cannon glimpse of the combine over world 😔

Finally! Looks great, can't wait to properly experience it, really. Also I'm pretty sure Xen in the actual Half-Life universe was discovered extremely recently. I'm talking a few years before HL1.

@^Doctor Primrose^ Breengrub is not canon, and it never was, Laidlaw said so. We don't know where the Combine comes from, that's the point, it's a mystery much like the Xenian races and the Vortessence

They were once the most harmless race imaginable before they turned into savages, pretty fucked up

@^Doctor Primrose^ @DWBoyGamer i would happen to know about that combine origination you speak of! From what i recall, it was essentially a species that over a very long period of time and technological advancement, they became their technology. They could not support themselves anymore without enhancement. As for the virus side, yes, the advisors were a very powerful psychic race, which became infected by a parasite which attacked their psychic network and prevented their growth beyond the grubs we see as advisors. The parasite is specifically said to be a "rogue thought" given they traded thoughts as currency, in essence.

I dove into this ages ago

@DWBoyGamer nah it’s at least semi official I think it’s about the advisors specifically https://youtu.be/y51SuJgnDrY?si=BXtnIHIX2plFfu0E it’s weird bc that story alone would be a cool origin for the combine but it’s implied that the empire existed before this happened and found them in this crazed state or something I don’t fully remember

@Songbird You should try reinstalling the mod from scratch and verifying integrity of the file integrity just in case. Extremely weird bug. We were actually going to add that HL1 camo for the initial anniversary update but we decided not to do it because lack of map replacements to implement their zombie variants, now that those are in development we decided to bring the concept back.

@^Doctor Primrose^ Official lore indeed doesnt say anything about when BMRF discovered Xen, Blue Shift kinda hints at it happening sometime during 70s or 80s but we wanted to move it at earlier date for reasons. Should make more sense when we release the extended lore guide. That Combine origin is new to me though. I doubt its official canon but it is interesting idea for sure.

"'after 9 years in development hopefully it will be worth the wait" - Gabe Newell.

@DWBoyGamer Yeah, I've been checking the files of my installation of BMCER (and related mods) and everything seems to be in order. Since this is only effecting DOE berets, I'll just replace them with 8point's in the character manifest.

Speaking of the DOE marines, I love that you brought back the splitter camo.

https://youtu.be/bMJH9jqHbq8
part 2

https://youtu.be/O7o7SOs1Rks

Maybe the team of scientists in blue shift stumbled on it accidentally during other research?

But I don’t think in official lore we know anything at all about humanity’s first contact with the border world? Shut me up if I’m wrong

I don’t know as much about half life one’s deepest darkest lore (in part bc there probably isn’t as much to know about in actual cannon) but I know some deep hl2 stuff like how the combine (or at least some part of it) originates from a virus that turned once peaceful creatures crazed and obsessed with cybernetic modification

@Yamcha If you are referring to the rucksack clipping thru the ground, thats intentional. It also happens with the human models since you can toggle the rucksack off of them. Map replacements will feature a DOE zombie (which is actually seen already in one of the renders in the description here) which wont have the rucksack so I couldnt have collision box for the rucksack

@Songbird Yeah those are all DOE berets. I dont know why they are missing, I rechecked the mod includes beret materials and textures even for DOE.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3561030854

The zombie_grunt has clipping issues

@DWBoyGamer Here's a few

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3561020262
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3561020732
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3561020640
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3561020833

From the looks of things, only the DOE berets are missing textures.

Alrighty cool

@Songbird I rechecked and everything appears to be included. Do you have any screenshots of this?

@Continuous λ It was done for consistency with the other zombies. In general the zombies in vanilla game look like they have been in that state for ages despite the fact the game takes place during the time span of just few days, so I tried to make them look bit fresher this time around.

@^Doctor Primrose^ I was referring to more lore to read but there will be in-game stuff too in the map replacements

Some of the HECU berets are missing textures. Is anyone else having this issue?

Are you talking about an expanded lore thingy to read or lore as new game content???

I absolutely love this mod! I really liked the jaw thing in guard zombies, though. A unique detail that makes them slightly different from other zombies.

@^Doctor Primrose^ We will hopefully have it up and running in month or something, no promises though

@larsperkele Yeah, but it felt weird to have it only on guard zombie

@meister Sure if you know how to edit the files

Dam…. Alr

Rip broken jaw zombie

@DWBoyGamer Pls tell me theres a way for scientists to only have khakis

@^Doctor Primrose^ The lore guide gives some hints, but I suggest waiting for the extended version which will include actual timeline of events leading up to the game, you will get more info from there

Ah, how the hell did they discover it?

@Woyy No problem

@^Doctor Primrose^ In our lore yes

Xen was?? Wut this is news to me lol

@DWBoyGamer ah thanks

@^Doctor Primrose^ Breen appears in Inbound as cameo. No idea if BMRF even realised they were way over their head with the whole exploring of another dimension business, but to be fair it was discovered during early Cold War so US wanted any edge over Soviets they could get, no matter the risks.

@Woyy You need the materials for him from Inbound Revamped

Is some version of him seen in this??? I thought it was just his men

Hey for some reason breen's face and hands textures are missing

@DWBoyGamer I also see them as extremely clueless like DID IT EVER ONCE OCCUR TO YOU PEOPLE WE SHOULDN’T BE MESSING WITH THIS ELDRITCH SPACE DIMENSION

@ConnyZGamez Bug with the missing zombie scientist leg textures is already fixed, I will look in to the zombie guard torso gib floating when I get home from work.

@Hgrunt Medic Both normal male Black Ops and Black Ops pilot will be released alongside the map replacements when ever those are ready for release, we dont really have any use for them in the mod before that update drops.

@Donnie Its about as long as the initial Anniversary Update yet took less time to make :)