Black Mesa

Black Mesa

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Chapter Overhaul: Surface Tension
   
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May 31, 2020 @ 1:27am
Jun 29, 2022 @ 12:47pm
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Chapter Overhaul: Surface Tension

Description
This mod REQUIRES Black Mesa Character Expansion AND one of its non-default HECU modules (BMCE HECU or Romka's Classic HECU). Otherwise, it won't work properly! Please make sure they're properly installed first!

A series of quality-of-life fixes and improvments to Surface Tension, using maps from BMS Classic Surface Tension as a base (you DO NOT need to subscribe to BMS Classic in addition to this add-on, though).

    FEATURES:
      New Staff Types - Full intergration with Black Mesa Character Expansion in order to add variety to the Black Mesa staff - living, dead, or otherwise. Various corpses in the chapter which lacked in unique appearances or accessories have been fixed.
      New HECU Soldier Scenes - As a touch of environmental storytelling, docile soldiers have been added towards the end of the chapter.

Special thanks to KyuuGryphon for providing some map source files and allowing redistribution of BMS Classic with this mod!

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196 Comments
The Crackhead Engie Gaming May 15 @ 4:23am 
I've found a Softlock, Where once You've finally destroyed the Apache at the Cliffside battle in Surface-Tension, the Apache starts infinitely spinning at the Part where It's supposed to crash:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3247015188
bbx-1103 May 3 @ 7:22am 
Phantron Apr 22 @ 6:57am 
well Lofty is telling he has the required ones installed, so huhm
Zλdist Apr 22 @ 1:14am 
I'm 95% sure that all of you don't understand how to properly fucking install black mesa mods and are bitching about it here
Lofty Apr 21 @ 4:51pm 
oh also ALL the "custom animations" this puts in don't work. I have the BMCE as well as the other HECU one it talks about, crying guy isn't appearing, the rest aare T posing. This is a terrible and all you have done is put it back to before the difficulty refinement, and there was again A REASON behind that. Also, you'd again expect a mod that is "putting back in cut set peices" to have actually put in cut set pieces, like the orange ice pop line... you didn't. As stated on the other mod reader this mod JUST adds more frustrating enemy spawn and some beta routes around the map, which were deleted on purpose anyways for a better flow to the map :/.
Lofty Apr 21 @ 4:16pm 
This isn't so much of an "overhaul to put back in scenes from half-life crowbar collective cut", this is "we've put ALL the annoying stuff crowbar collective created that they cut put back in". The only "set piece" this resurrects imo is the tentacle in surface tension, all the rest is just annoying stuff the team realised was annoying and cut.... like 2x the amount of marines in the questionable ethics area, only 1 machine gun on the dam so you are dead by the time you run to it, oh and of course 4x the amount of marines EVERYWHERE. This is boring and there is a reason they refined it a bit more, no one wants to spend an hour trying to do one bit because the AI is super accurate and you arn't :/. Download this only if you like added frustration.
CerealWithoutRoaches Apr 10 @ 7:09am 
this is so broken man. triggers all over the place, that one half life source skybox glitch hallways that lead to nothing, what the fuck man?!
Phantron Mar 30 @ 3:11pm 
wait, in the 2nd video theres the 2015+ Gargantua chase scene, but I thought this is based on the overhauled classic maps where you fall down through a vent and get surprised immediately by the Garg?
realdev Mar 28 @ 4:00pm 
this is good but there is no crying marine
cool guy Mar 10 @ 4:12pm 
the map bm_c2a5b is broken