Nevermind, apparently you can use the crossbow for the underwater crystals after all, but it takes mutliple shots. Some indication of this would be nice as you're taught in all the previous sections to use explosives to destroy them. This is very confusing.

Overall pretty good but the last section (destroying the crystals in Xen) is rather horrible. I'm also stuck at the underwater bit, no clue how to destroy the crystals there as the usual methods don't work underwater.

So yeah, fixing the Xen stuff would definitely make this a good mod :)

Nice little campaign. The platforming sections got me good though.

Ammo crate at gargantua stil bug

The best part was the fight with the gargantua

I really enjoyed the first three chapters, but by chapter 5 it got too hard. Admittedly I am also terrible at platform jumping. It is really sad, I can't finish it,

Nice work! Nicely designed maps, good visuals, and helpful voice lines! Xen part was a little bit challenging since there were less health kits - But overall it was good!

this was a nice little hour-long adventure! i was super bored today so it was nice to have this to blast through on a saturday morning

Overall I rate it a 6/10, took me longer than I'd like to finish what was supposed to be a short campaign, but it has its charms

Cons (Part 2)
- Enemy placements are sometimes obnoxious, not very well thought of and sometimes you are forced into your death and you have no more than a split second to react or youll be grinded into meat
- Xen level design is terrible, especially the platforming/jumping on tiny/oddly spaced platforms where if you jump too far or too little you'll fall off, and if you overcorrect when trying to land youll fall off too, it's quite annoying
- One of the final rooms in the final map where you run in the dark you spawn in facing the gargantua, not great, not to mention it's very dark and your flashlight doesnt do squat, it's alot of guessing and hoping you get the right path

Cons (Part 1)
- Prob a personal thing, but I cannot see how the "story" fits with the grand scheme of Black Mesa but I do appreciate it nonetheless so I guess not much of a con
- Xen lighting is quite bad, flashlight barely does anything it's practically useless, only the underwater portion is bright but even the lighting is bad as when you surface for air you get blinded and makes it hard to see
- Xen backgrounds are static and not much going on, quite boring

Just finished playing this, quite interesting but frustrating mod. Here are my takeaways:
Pros:
- Music is great, love it
- Low ammo supply makes it so you have to think when to shoot and what to shoot, adds strategy to combat
- Despite low ammo supply you still get quite enough when you encounter the HECU and in Xen, mostly for your glock/mp5 and the magnum.
- Makes every bullet/rocket/grenade count don't waste em :)
- Earth portion is nicely paced

@ScyedDragon TYPE IN "map bm_expedition_part1" IN THE CONSOLE RAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH

Can't play, Game crashes when I press start.

the sigma laboratories will be mine.. skibidi labs will be next!

Part 2:

Fifth, some praise here for the story and voice acting. The story makes you feel like you are the last member of the Survey team, alone in a facility filled to the brim with hostile military and aliens. and the voice acting is spot-on, keeping the immersion and not making it feel out of place.

Sixth, The lack of ammo also had me using my crowbar, especially in the beginning where you only have your pistol and your SMG.

Seventh, I don't know if it was just me or if anybody else here had some trouble finding the Grenades, 357, and the Rocket launcher on the first try through their respective sections.

Hello, yes I am here to give my experience.

First, very long and challenging even on the lowest difficulty, not for people who are new to the game or casual players.

Second, this is just my opinion the lighting in Xen is kind of ugly and makes everything else look worse.

Third, the lack of auto saves means that I am constantly quick-saving manually, which gets tedious and annoying, especially in Xen.

Fourth, yes the rumors are true, this can make your game crash even in the regular story mode. idk why.

Quero esse black mesa dublado em portugues, não acho para comprar

oh and lack of auto saves is a huge problem. it needs more

glad im not the only one who had problems with xen maps. they remind me of the halflife 1 xen maps. that is not a complement since it suffers from the same problems as the first half life did. for me the fall damage was the one thing that made it bad for me. in black mesa xen they removed fall damage for the fact that the players of halflife 1 did not like how they took fall damage that removed alot of their health. same thing happens here. i get slamming into a wall and taking a small amount of damage that is ok. but the xen maps NEED to have NO FALL DAMAGE.

Amazing level design!

crashes instantly

Not working anymore.

One of the best BM mods.. always great to play Xen levels.. but i have to agree with some others it was a bit difficult sometimes, lots of enemies and me i'm like 22 health with 1 bullet left...fu#k ...

it wont let me open from steam workshop in game it crashes, and developer console wont open up either any thoughts?

Deep plot. Great gameplay.

This is probably one of the best mods created for Black Mesa

in part 5 i couldnt defeat the Gargantua because the resupply box for Rockets is bugged and doesnt actually refill your launcher.

FUN INTRO

Is there actually a tau cannon in this mod? I beat it without one, but damn, there's a tau cannon?

and I'm sorry, but Xen is absolute alien controller spam

Am I supposed to have a tau cannon or gluon gun by the time I reach the teleporter? I've found ammo for it but not the weapon itself.

Landing jets don't work.

Top!
Except the repetitive and annoying music. However the music is deactivated in the options...

I HAD TO COMPLETE THIS ON 1hp I SWEAR TO GOD THERE WERE NO MEDKITS

This would be great if it weren't so stupid hard most of the time.

Great mod. Some parts are really challenging xD
Good job
Poor guy who will stay on Xen for ever (but maybe not so long)

how to download ?

The ending is pretty challenging , other than that plays smooth.

keeps crashing when i just start up black mesa

Wait, where did I skip the crossbow?

Explosives do not work underwater, you can destroy the crystal using crossbow

What should I do in the part 5, in water section with tentacles? There's orange crystals and I tryed to shoot them with a rocket, but it doesn't work

map bm_expedition_part 1

it should be

map bm_expedition_part1

Why i can't run the game? I already subscribed on the workshop and when i open the game and type map bm_expedition_part 1 it says map isn't found? Can you help me? Thanks.

haha sigma (kill me)

wait a sec... ? in last map part..
is that middle of crystal can just blow up.. ?

https://youtube.com/shorts/A6xABcenVTw

no i dont have a problem with framerate,

Anyone else have framerate issues with this mod?