Thanks for the video highlight! I'll try and answer a few questions here! -Release Date? Hard to tell, as there are only really two of us working consistently on the project, and the scope keeps getting larger. -We are re-making pretty much every map in the game, with some maps being turned into entire sub-chapters instead of a hallway to walk through. -Arsenal is varied, but some weapons are there as hidden items, and some weapons are unique variants you can only find if you find secrets in the game and cannot be accessed with cheats. -I am not a weapon animator, so I do use CS 1.5 animations where I can, to fill in the gaps of unusable Valve rigs/anims. We did meet another team who was happy to share some weapon animations with us, so the arsenal may start to get a more cohesive identity in terms of animations in the future. -I believe JonnyQuattro, the lead programmer and co-founder, still has a standing offer to give out keys to Hard-Life if people 1v1 in HLDM on crossfire. -This mod is mainly being made for fun, all the Patreon money has gone right back into buying time of contract programmers, tools, and assets for development. -Hard-Life supports full co-op. We're sorry it's taking so long, but there is a lot to do. We are often learning as we go along, forced to pickup new skills and learn new systems of goldsrc to accomplish the goals we want to.
The remake looks awesome! this might sound weird as a random question but are there gonna be female npcs in the remake? Just curious cuz that would be cool
That's pretty nice that the marines decided to team up with you and the surviving Black Mesa staff as a last resort after being told to forget about Freeman.
Makes no sense, gordon just slaughtered half their guys and they're like "yeah I guess we're chill and not gunna leave or follow orders anymore" like ??????
@@Pigness7Are you saying every marine personally know eachother? And they can't REALLY blame Freeman, because just like them he was just trying to survive.
@@Pigness7 Yeah, sure, he killed a lot of their men. But 1) it was completely self defense on his part and they can not blame him, and 2) it is a life or death situation, you kind of put your allegiances aside when one enemy is so much more dangerous and immoral than the one side. Like in WWII where Finland initially fought against the Soviet Union, later alongside the Axis, only later to realise that the Axis was a lot more evil so they decided to fight alongside the Allies. Like, yeah, they hated each other but the Axis was a lot more dangerous.
It starts with one One thing I don't know why It doesn't even matter how hard you try Keep that in mind, I designed this rhyme To explain in due time All I know Time is a valuable thing Watch it fly by as the pendulum swings Watch it count down to the end of the day The clock ticks life away It's so unreal Didn't look out below Watch the time go right out the window Tryin' to hold on, did-didn't even know I wasted it all just to watch you go I kept everything inside and even though I tried It all fell apart What it meant to me will eventually Be a memory of a time when- I tried so hard and got so far But in the end, it doesn't even matter I had to fall to lose it all But in the end, it doesn't even matter One thing, I don't know why It doesn't even matter how hard you try Keep that in mind, I designed this rhyme To remind myself how I tried so hard In spite of the way you were mockin' me Acting like I was part of your property Remembering all the times you fought with me I'm surprised it got so far Things aren't the way they were before You wouldn't even recognize me anymore Not that you knew me back then But it all comes back to me in the end You kept everything inside and even though I tried It all fell apart What it meant to me will eventually Be a memory of a time when- I tried so hard and got so far But in the end, it doesn't even matter I had to fall to lose it all But in the end, it doesn't even matter I've put my trust in you Pushed as far as I can go For all this There's only one thing you should know I've put my trust in you Pushed as far as I can go For all this There's only one thing you should know I tried so hard and got so far But in the end, it doesn't even matter I had to fall to lose it all But in the end, it doesn't even matter
I like how the Tau cannon uses an automatic rotating front thing like the assualt rifle from Gunman Chronicles I really like to see that mod/game get more attention.
love how the maps look in this mod, kinda reminds me of how Black Mesa was able to improve and make the facility look much nicer in its game. The only thing I'm not a huge fan of are the weapons, I don't mind an extended arsenal but from the looks of it there doesn't seem to be any direction for how the weapons look and feel. It looks like someone just downloaded as many weapon addons as they could from gamebanana and moddb and cobbled it together into a weapon pack.
@@santiago8816I'm not talking about specifically the extended arsenal, all the weapons look like they have a lack of direction in how they look and how they're animated. It's not a big deal overall but design consistency can help to make a mod more polished and well-made.
Yep. - The shotgun just looks like it was ported in from a different game - The crowbar and revolver's old nearly untextured looks don't mesh with the slightly more detailed weapons _at all._ Even in the base game they looked like leftover beta stuff but now, hooo boy.
The beginning is funny because there are details in the structures that show more security than the original, but an experiment also explodes next to a window and there is a little chaos in the surroundings
Correction, this is not a remaster but a remake. Remasters are just the game having higher detail models, textures and sometimes even engine! Remakes are made from scratch, having their take on the game and changing different things to appeal to a modern audience (take for example Black Mesa).
This is practically Black Mesa In GoldSource. Now that i think about it, i had an idea for a mod that replaces Black Mesa sounds, models and textures with the ones from Half Life, and Vice Versa.
one thing I really appreciate is how the maps have been remixed to make more sense of black mesa's design, alot if not most of the facility felt nonsensical and video game-y instead of a real place. truly impressive work
I was full aware of Hard-Life from almost 3 years ago as I find the mod interesting before HL: Mmod got released. It a great recreation and I hope the mod gets released in early access
Valve remastered their original game to update engine, fix some stuff and run properly on modern systems. This is mod, it runs on older version of HL engine with it's own issues, but with new or changed content. Learn the difference and/or don't use clickbait titles.
EDIT to clarify: This is not bad looking but it is an outright lie to call this a "Remaster". This is a remake, not a remaster. Too Many differences to be a mere remaster. Everything is done with different philosophies, only remaster element seems to be that it follows the same path. Enemy placement differs, Lighting is horror ambience as opposed to gritty, Enemy Behavior DRAMATICALLY differs to the extent its basically entirely different enemies in some cases(Zombies particularly), difficulty is spiked hard up due to the enemy changes, map differences are so wide and dramatic that its not even the same facility fully anymore.
It would be cool to see headcrab getting used to human body as the game go on to the point like at the start because how a headcrab can get used the the nervous system that fast
@@mr2meows Well, Black Mesa is a remake of Half-Life AND a mod back in the days (not now, this is a game). There are a lot of mods which are remake for games. A mod can be a remake/remaster of a game
Oh man, I'm looking forward to this one. Love the new dialog with expletives. I was laughing so hard, especially the one "Oh dear, I don't I was supposed to press that button. Uh, it'll probably be fine." The new areas are perfect in their placement and make sense to the locations, especially that security station by the elevator. Not a fan of the running mutants though. They were fine in their shambling states and makes more sense for them to do that.
i used to think scientists failing experiment and dying in half life 1 is a comedy skit, but now it looks to me like a reference to programmer experience where you break your code and shit's breaks
Well, I think since they were Literally told to "Forget about Freeman" and abort the mission, adding that any HECU grunts left in Black Mesa was on their own. they wanted to form an alliance with the survivors and get out of there together.
I hope they add more enemies spawn In original, small 1v3 gunfight is not that fun And just like mmod, they should add pure click based firerates And most importantly, if the ai's primary target system is based on the creature that attack friend mobs, that would be awesome Fighting against monsters first, and fighting with military next
At first I was like. "That's presumptuous of you." but it seems this very much has a bit of identity to its own, I like it, it still preserves that bizzare wackiness that HL1 has that I feel black mesa largely lost. (And bluntly there is a charm to the older asset style in my opinion)
![[WORLD RECORD] Half-Life in 25:57 scriptless Speedrun](/img/1.gif)
Thanks for the video highlight! I'll try and answer a few questions here!
-Release Date? Hard to tell, as there are only really two of us working consistently on the project, and the scope keeps getting larger.
-We are re-making pretty much every map in the game, with some maps being turned into entire sub-chapters instead of a hallway to walk through.
-Arsenal is varied, but some weapons are there as hidden items, and some weapons are unique variants you can only find if you find secrets in the game and cannot be accessed with cheats.
-I am not a weapon animator, so I do use CS 1.5 animations where I can, to fill in the gaps of unusable Valve rigs/anims. We did meet another team who was happy to share some weapon animations with us, so the arsenal may start to get a more cohesive identity in terms of animations in the future.
-I believe JonnyQuattro, the lead programmer and co-founder, still has a standing offer to give out keys to Hard-Life if people 1v1 in HLDM on crossfire.
-This mod is mainly being made for fun, all the Patreon money has gone right back into buying time of contract programmers, tools, and assets for development.
-Hard-Life supports full co-op.
We're sorry it's taking so long, but there is a lot to do. We are often learning as we go along, forced to pickup new skills and learn new systems of goldsrc to accomplish the goals we want to.
I hope you guys can finish this project, it looks amazing!
Take your time friends.
Late is temporary. Suck is forever. -Gabe Newell😊
Even though i can’t play this cause of reasons
This mod is one hell of masterpiece good on ye
The remake looks awesome! this might sound weird as a random question but are there gonna be female npcs in the remake? Just curious cuz that would be cool
This is my favourite mod!
That's pretty nice that the marines decided to team up with you and the surviving Black Mesa staff as a last resort after being told to forget about Freeman.
Makes no sense, gordon just slaughtered half their guys and they're like "yeah I guess we're chill and not gunna leave or follow orders anymore" like ??????
@@Pigness7Are you saying every marine personally know eachother? And they can't REALLY blame Freeman, because just like them he was just trying to survive.
@@Enderwave22and teaming up with gordon was really the only option after xen went all in and black ops arrived
@@Pigness7 i think... you dont know each marine is a individual, they're not zombie pigman from minecraft
@@Pigness7
Yeah, sure, he killed a lot of their men. But 1) it was completely self defense on his part and they can not blame him, and 2) it is a life or death situation, you kind of put your allegiances aside when one enemy is so much more dangerous and immoral than the one side.
Like in WWII where Finland initially fought against the Soviet Union, later alongside the Axis, only later to realise that the Axis was a lot more evil so they decided to fight alongside the Allies. Like, yeah, they hated each other but the Axis was a lot more dangerous.
It’s basically like Half-Life from a slightly alternate universe. It’s the Half-Life we loved, but different at the same time.
It starts with one
One thing I don't know why
It doesn't even matter how hard you try
Keep that in mind, I designed this rhyme
To explain in due time
All I know
Time is a valuable thing
Watch it fly by as the pendulum swings
Watch it count down to the end of the day
The clock ticks life away
It's so unreal
Didn't look out below
Watch the time go right out the window
Tryin' to hold on, did-didn't even know
I wasted it all just to watch you go
I kept everything inside and even though I tried
It all fell apart
What it meant to me will eventually
Be a memory of a time when-
I tried so hard and got so far
But in the end, it doesn't even matter
I had to fall to lose it all
But in the end, it doesn't even matter
One thing, I don't know why
It doesn't even matter how hard you try
Keep that in mind, I designed this rhyme
To remind myself how I tried so hard
In spite of the way you were mockin' me
Acting like I was part of your property
Remembering all the times you fought with me
I'm surprised it got so far
Things aren't the way they were before
You wouldn't even recognize me anymore
Not that you knew me back then
But it all comes back to me in the end
You kept everything inside and even though I tried
It all fell apart
What it meant to me will eventually
Be a memory of a time when-
I tried so hard and got so far
But in the end, it doesn't even matter
I had to fall to lose it all
But in the end, it doesn't even matter
I've put my trust in you
Pushed as far as I can go
For all this
There's only one thing you should know
I've put my trust in you
Pushed as far as I can go
For all this
There's only one thing you should know
I tried so hard and got so far
But in the end, it doesn't even matter
I had to fall to lose it all
But in the end, it doesn't even matter
@@Abiex101*Neuron activation.*
@@Manofpeas5639 finally something we actually get hard from
W pfp
I love it that theres multiple HEV scientists because it makes sense for the ammount of HEV chargers
I love how every npc in the intro is a dipshit to the player
"Gordon you lousy mf"
its annoying as fuck, and ruins a lot of the charm of the original game. Black mesa shouldnt be a toxic workplace
That's honestly how I would act if there was a system malfunction
It reminds of another mod...
Psychiatrist: Half Life Overcharged isn't real, it can't hurt you
Half Life Overcharged:
I hope it won't suck as much as hl2 one
I like how the Tau cannon uses an automatic rotating front thing like the assualt rifle from Gunman Chronicles I really like to see that mod/game get more attention.
I really love map design from this remaster mod likes they're put engine to their limt and it remind me of Half-Life : Enriched but it miles better!
Should be called Detailed-Life, considering how detailed these maps are
I wouldn't necessarily say "better than Valve" more like not as limited.
I am hoping that this mod gets released from beta soon.
How they can be limited in their own game in 2023?
Man, Valve made a ton of shortcuts in the making of HL1
2:11 "can you maintenance guys not keep any of these machines running?"
I recognize that from Doom 3.
3:54 If Half-Life was done in Anime.
I love how Gordon’s first reaction is to jam the crowbar into her jugular.
4:48
Scientist: Don’t shoot! I’m with the science team!
HECU Grunt: Eat shit!!
I died on that one. It was too good! 😂
Love how they used doom 3 voicelines 2:12
love how the maps look in this mod, kinda reminds me of how Black Mesa was able to improve and make the facility look much nicer in its game. The only thing I'm not a huge fan of are the weapons, I don't mind an extended arsenal but from the looks of it there doesn't seem to be any direction for how the weapons look and feel. It looks like someone just downloaded as many weapon addons as they could from gamebanana and moddb and cobbled it together into a weapon pack.
The extra weapons are hidden, if you watch the video there is the base weapons.
@@santiago8816I'm not talking about specifically the extended arsenal, all the weapons look like they have a lack of direction in how they look and how they're animated. It's not a big deal overall but design consistency can help to make a mod more polished and well-made.
The mod is still in alpha so it can change later@@spectywecty
Yep.
- The shotgun just looks like it was ported in from a different game
- The crowbar and revolver's old nearly untextured looks don't mesh with the slightly more detailed weapons _at all._ Even in the base game they looked like leftover beta stuff but now, hooo boy.
@@colbyboucher6391 and for some reason the Glock's ejection port is on the left? Sheesh, that wasn't even an issue originally
This is kinda what I wanted from Black Mesa.
I dunno, I really love the light baking in the Goldsrc engine.
The zombies doing a naruto run to attack you is hilarious
Now the zombies are really scary,not the slow ones from the original game
The beginning is funny because there are details in the structures that show more security than the original, but an experiment also explodes next to a window and there is a little chaos in the surroundings
8:53 Hey dude, its not a beretta, its the tetra gun.
the zombies running at you like lfd zombies is horrifying
Correction, this is not a remaster but a remake. Remasters are just the game having higher detail models, textures and sometimes even engine! Remakes are made from scratch, having their take on the game and changing different things to appeal to a modern audience (take for example Black Mesa).
Well, this isn’t quite a remake. It’s adding onto the original game in the same engine. It’s just a very heavy remaster.
@@too_blatant that is called a remake
4:46 GOD DAMNIT! I did not wake up to get jumpscared by the god damn KingPin.
I like the expanded levels, but new weapon models and animations are jarring, especially the CS 1.6 shotgun.
Oh god, Vortigaunts can revive each other
That triggered my PTSD from Sven co-op and gave me a flashback
Certified Galanga moment, I want this mod!
This is Half-Life 1 But it Feels like Black Mesa in 1998.
7:26 Holy shit that’s an F-15.
ok, the mirror thing is actually creepy 2:05
Gordon is a vampire
5:05 lol bro is disesperete
This is practically Black Mesa In GoldSource. Now that i think about it, i had an idea for a mod that replaces Black Mesa sounds, models and textures with the ones from Half Life, and Vice Versa.
3:31 "Look Gordon: ropes. We can use th-. HELP ME GORDON!"
--- Dr. Coomer (Half-life VR, but the AI is self-aware)
one thing I really appreciate is how the maps have been remixed to make more sense of black mesa's design, alot if not most of the facility felt nonsensical and video game-y instead of a real place. truly impressive work
Yeah fs def my favorite part about the mod
the improvements of MMod
the diolouge of offensive ai mod
the quality of valve
i hope this doesnt get cancled
I was full aware of Hard-Life from almost 3 years ago as I find the mod interesting before HL: Mmod got released. It a great recreation and I hope the mod gets released in early access
Making mmod took much longer than this one's full development cycle until now.
"Don't kill me, i'm with the science team"
*radio voice* "eat shit"
beautiful
2:39
"It's okay, Doc, relax- AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA"
they added railings to black mesa inbound and now it looks more OSHA compliant
2:39
It’s ok Doc Relax.
*A minute later*
AAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!!
i love the ai in this mod, it makes the npcs' behavior almost lifelike and doesn't feel inanimate/"robotic" like in hl1
Barney : its okay doc,relax
minutes later 2:41
It is a great modification of the original, many hours of work.
Years*
8:50 Grammaton Cleric Beretta? Lovely
Ahh yes... More difficult and balance more fun.
Also i love the idea they make hecu into our allies.
Valve remastered their original game to update engine, fix some stuff and run properly on modern systems. This is mod, it runs on older version of HL engine with it's own issues, but with new or changed content. Learn the difference and/or don't use clickbait titles.
how much soy do you eat daily, actual🤓
THEY MASSACRED THE TAU CANNON 😭😭😭😭
Black mesa was a nice remaster but it was DARK
i couldn’t SEE
Not even with the damn flashlight!
4:46 Kingpin... If this is the way he will charge at you then i'm in for some big time
Is this using expanded limits of the Half-Life engine after the new update? (Same like Sven-Coop team did themselves)
seeing as this was in the works for 6 years i dont think so
Hard-Life 💀
Good-Life
Average-Life
Medium-Life
Easy-life
Peaceful-Life
Those zombies are on something. . .
holy fuck the zombies can run now
honestly I would've been terrified too if zombies were actually that fast
Add limbs, blood and holes in the bodies from Brutal Half-life, please. It will be a great addition. Upvote, please.
Funny part is
Cut loop perfectly
Guys if someone was wondering what is that amazing mod it’s half life mmod
This with Half Life MMod will be a work of art.
This is actually awesome because after beating Half-Life for like the 30th time I had just memorized everything and it became quite easy.
The voice acting is incredibly well done. It doesn't sound out of place at all, which is often the case with community driven projects.
Considering how low-quality voicing in original hl1 was recreating it by yourself never was so much big deal.
Idk, one minute of this video and I already cringe at some of the new lines.
Wait, the HECU is friendly in lambda complex?
They deserted and refused to kill civilians.
0:06 The resonance cascade has not even happened yet and there's already stuff going on lmao. Definitely something that would happen in Black Mesa.
Half-Life Regression ❤
EDIT to clarify: This is not bad looking but it is an outright lie to call this a "Remaster".
This is a remake, not a remaster. Too Many differences to be a mere remaster. Everything is done with different philosophies, only remaster element seems to be that it follows the same path. Enemy placement differs, Lighting is horror ambience as opposed to gritty, Enemy Behavior DRAMATICALLY differs to the extent its basically entirely different enemies in some cases(Zombies particularly), difficulty is spiked hard up due to the enemy changes, map differences are so wide and dramatic that its not even the same facility fully anymore.
It would be cool to see headcrab getting used to human body as the game go on to the point like at the start because how a headcrab can get used the the nervous system that fast
black mesa meets OSHA standards... impressive
Hi, i'm mason, and im doing a safety audit on Black Mesa.
Looks like they finally added handrails.
This seems like a demaster of Black Mesa, at least i saw some inspirations from Black Mesa.
That's not a remaster but a remake clearly, looks amazing !
its not a remake its a mod
@@mr2meowsnah man what are you on, it's clearly a remake
@@mr2meows Well, Black Mesa is a remake of Half-Life AND a mod back in the days (not now, this is a game). There are a lot of mods which are remake for games. A mod can be a remake/remaster of a game
@@YeetBoi678 you can clearly see some of the original level geometry is still there
@@mr2meows Indeed, but with ALL of the modifications, we can't call that a remaster. A remaster is not this. Looks very good btw
Oh man, I'm looking forward to this one. Love the new dialog with expletives. I was laughing so hard, especially the one "Oh dear, I don't I was supposed to press that button. Uh, it'll probably be fine." The new areas are perfect in their placement and make sense to the locations, especially that security station by the elevator. Not a fan of the running mutants though. They were fine in their shambling states and makes more sense for them to do that.
The HECU and the Scientist team up?!
Not sure how I feel about the shotgun taking up a quarter of the screen but other than that, holy shit this is amazing!
this looks cluttered and unfocused. hate the new dialogue and weapons too
hear me out
Hard-Life + Half-Life MMOD + Half-Life Sound Remaster + Half-Life RTX
this is how the game feels like in our childhood and original half life 1 is how it feels when you're adult
or when you dream about playing half life
God damn this looks clean! Can't wait for the full release!
This isn't better, its a fever dream.
i used to think scientists failing experiment and dying in half life 1 is a comedy skit, but now it looks to me like a reference to programmer experience where you break your code and shit's breaks
7:25 so this is gunman chronicles gauss rifle.
Once Hard-Life actually is released onto steam. Boy I can't wait for World-War 3 in this room! 6:34
wait, why are the HECU Marines not attacking you in the lambda complex level?
They’re gay
@@MozTS LMFAOOOO
@@MozTS😔
@@Abiex101 not that funny buddy
Well, I think since they were Literally told to "Forget about Freeman" and abort the mission, adding that any HECU grunts left in Black Mesa was on their own. they wanted to form an alliance with the survivors and get out of there together.
I hope they add more enemies spawn
In original, small 1v3 gunfight is not that fun
And just like mmod, they should add pure click based firerates
And most importantly, if the ai's primary target system is based on the creature that attack friend mobs, that would be awesome
Fighting against monsters first, and fighting with military next
Correction,valve didn't remaster half life,ever,they only ported it to the source engine
Surface Tension got an UPGRADE LIKE WOA
I like HDTF. I think it's a good Half-Life remake with fairly low poly and optimized models.
💀
Makes it more realistic with the voice lines alone lmao 10/10!
Wait is it out yet? I now have to check my Steam wishlist lmao
At first I was like. "That's presumptuous of you." but it seems this very much has a bit of identity to its own, I like it, it still preserves that bizzare wackiness that HL1 has that I feel black mesa largely lost. (And bluntly there is a charm to the older asset style in my opinion)
2:07 lol that’s a clever fake mirror trick 😂
5:41 Can't have shit in decomissioned rail system.
Next Opposing Force Expanded
This reminds me of the mods done for doom revamping the classic maps mainly for brutal doom and other gameplay change mods. Me likey
this isnt a remaster this is an expansion
Half-Life on steroids
I'd be terrified if zombies came chasing me this fast
2:39 this is perfect
Whats happening with that snark at the end and that tfc pain sound effect?
Bruh CS 1.6 weapons and animations... And what happened to Tau-Cannon?
now the zombies are TERRIFYING
Half-Life with the US military from irl
Glad to see it doesnt had source ragdoll physics.That feature simply dont fit to such old game.
I feel like this mod uses weapons from CS 1.6
friendly hecu?!