Half-Life remake Black Mesa gets massive VR overhaul

The entire and massively spectacular Half-Life remake Black Mesa can now be performed in full VR because of a sweeping new mod constructed on the foundations of the latest Half-Life 2 Episode 2 VR port. In case you haven’t tried the Valve-inspired Steam FPS game already, or if you wish to expertise the unique Half-Life in probably the most trendy method potential, you will get the virtual-reality-enabled model of Black Mesa totally free proper now.

Created by modder ‘Ashok,’ Black mesa Supply VR makes use of the framework supplied by the latest VR ports of Half-Life 2 and its related episodes. It means that you can play the shooter, which initially launched in 2012, and has been successively up to date since, utilizing a VR headset and movement controls.

Although the combination is fairly easy, Ashok outlines a number of points with introducing VR functionality to the Black Mesa base code. Primarily, quite than utilizing Black Mesa because the mod’s foundation, maps from Black Mesa are recreated in Half-Life 2, after which the VR compatibility is added on high. You continue to want a retail model of Black Mesa with a view to play, however there are a few points at current.

NPCs for instance will use Half-Life 2’s quite than Black Mesa’s AI methods, that are considerably much less subtle. The one weapons supported for movement controls are Half-Life 2 weapons, and there are a number of AI and spawning bugs with enemies – if you get to the alien world Xen, for instance, it’s possible you’ll discover that the alien portal results don’t work, and quite than materialise as you play, all of the Xen creatures are merely current on the map from when it first masses.

However, Ashok gives easy set up directions and can hopefully replace Black Mesa VR sooner or later. In the intervening time, you could find it here.

In case you’re a giant Half-Life buff, you may need to take a look at another nice old games that you could nonetheless run in your PC. You may additionally need to know whatever happened to Half-Life 3, or perhaps check out among the different greatest VR games that you could play proper now.