Media Release Update! Created 18 years ago2006-05-08 14:54:06 UTC by v0rt3x

It's been confirmed!

Deep Velocity Studios - a new release team focusing on Half-Life 2 projects - will be ready to present its first Media Release of their mod "Black Mesa: East" this upcoming weekend - in time for E3!

Concepted in January of this year, "Black Mesa: East" aims at telling a fictional prologue of the original story of Half-Life 2.

"Fictional", as we are not aiming at recreating each and every concept of what might have happened between the events of Half-Life and Half-Life 2.

Story

Step into the footsteps of a squad member, thrown back to the end of the 7 Hour War and learn more about the aftermath of the Black Mesa incident, how Eli, Kleiner, Barney and Alyx survived the cataclysmic disaster of the resonance cascade.

As you get confrontated with the past, discover how the future (Half-Life 2) came to be and the bid between Dr.Breen and the Combine.

Black Mesa: East - a team-based tactical, horror-thriller!

Features

• Chapter-based release (11 Chapters)
• New character movements (e.g. proning / rappling)
• New weapons / familiar modified weapons
• Team-based tactical gameplay
• more to come!

When will BM:E be released?

No specifics at this point.

Sign-up to http://www.dvstudio-production.com - to keep track of current mod activities!

Cheers!

• v0rt3x [administration]

Deep Velocity Studios

Today is day 1 of our 4 day media release, go check it out.

I like the concept art a lot. I somehow wish I wasn't studying architecture so I could commit myself to a mod project. I can only do small (but intensive) bursts of mapping until summer vacation arrives
Keep it up. It looks very proffesional.

Its gonna be good if you do it right.

Day 2, go check out the new content. Maybe I'll get a thread going in our forums so you can discuss it.

everything looks sweet

Nice models.

Pretty good but can someone point me to where the trailer is?

point me to where the trailer is?

its in my back yard (car trailer) Muha..Muhahahaha (evil laugh)

SORRY ABOUT THAT

Look, now we're getting somewhere. Good to see such a media burst.
Sketches and models look very promising, I'm looking forward to see more work. Are the code and level-design departments keeping up the pace too?

Oh, btw, get rid of that logo page. Only slows people down.

I went on the forums hoping to find this trailer and when I click on a thread it doesn't load...Just says it is loading but nothing responds...

All the other threads work however which is odd....

Anyway how'd you get your stuff on E3? Money?

It's not really on E3, we are calling it the E3 media update because it happens at the same time as E3.

As for the thread problem, the company that makes phpfusion, the thing our site is based on, is making an update to hopefully fix it.

The trailer was supposed to be a surprise on the last day, but someone let the beans out before hand Sorry about that.

Sometime today we should have our maps up. Thanks for staying tuned

[EDIT] Day 3's content is now up, go check it out!

Media Release Day 2-3 are out now!

I noticed you have concepts for a 'Combine Big Ben'...

This may help you and I doubt they care because the mod died...

Hahaha....wow....thats ...how shalL I saw it....not quite that good? lol. We arnt having a combine big ben =P just a large citidel overshadowing Britans best known landmark.

The concepts look good, although you should colour them. The rest of the screens are pretty crappy, they're tiny and don't show much at all. Also, the BME main site seems to be non-existant.