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Half-Life Fans Are Making A Black Ops Expansion For The First Game

By 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:James Lucas

Published Dec 23, 2024

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Half-Life fans are developing an entirely new expansion that follows the Black Ops assassins from the first game.
The project began development in 2019, but due to the author's health problems and busy student life, progress slowed down until late 2023.
Dark Matter will be released in three parts, and the team plans to launch it on Steam.

Back in the '90s, Gearbox developed three expansions for the original 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Half-Life, letting us see Black Mesa from a whole n⭕ew perspecti♊ve.

♛Opposing Force 𓃲put us into the boots of a fresh-faced HECU grunt called Shephard, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Blue Shift introduced series ico𓃲n Barney Calhou🌳n, and PS2 exclus🌞ive Decay followed Gordon Freeman's two colleagues😼, Colette Green and Gina Cross. But we never got a game about the Black Ops assassins.

After nea🍨rly 30 🌌years, fans are finally changing that.

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is a mod for the original game that 🌱follows Kovac, an assassin who has been tortured by HECU soldiers following the events of the Friendly Fire chapter. Left for dead, they awaken in a𒐪 sewage system with only a sliver of health and a bog-standard flashlight.

If you haven't played the original Half-Life games, heꦡre's a quick rundown of th🍸e special unit that Kovac belongs to.

In the ninth chapter, Apprehension, we run into an ominously silent government hit squad adorned in j🃏et-black combat gear, wielding cloaking technology. They're here to wipe out everyone, military included, and nuke the facility in a last-ditch effort to stop the portal storm and conceal Black Mesa'ꦏs research from the public eye.

Half-Life: Dark Matter Started Development In 2020

Half-Life Dark Matter screenshot of dead assassins in the Lambda Research Control Station.

Pipeline Software first announced Dark Matter in 2019, be🏅ginning development prop♏er in 2020. But project author D3ads made little progress while studying full-time during the pandemic, and things only got worse when they were admitted to hospital following a heart valve failure.

At the end of last year, having recovered, they restarted developme𒁃nt and rebuilꦚt the entire code base to introduce a few new features.

The first is a spin on Opposing Force's night vision: a thermal vision mode that highlights enemies in bright red, inspired by 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Metal Gear Solid. The other noteworthy addition is the "intelligence" feature, whichও allows you to collect documents and manifests for an unnamed agency.

The Black O🉐ps squad was originaꦑlly intended to be made up of CIA operatives.

Half-Life Dark Matter three male assassin models over a grey background.

Dark Matter is also introducing a new fire axe weapon, assassin zombies (finally!), and revamped vi💙suals for the Black Ops squad themselves, as well as the HECU grunts. It's an ambitious mod, to say the least, even rivalling Gearbox's standalone expansions. But we might not have to wait long to play it.

"The biggest question on every mod fan's mind is always the inevitable, 'When do I get to play this?' The answer is; probably a lot sꩲooner than you realise," the descriptཧion explains. "The release date is still not set in stone, but rather than delivering the game in one chunk, the release is going to be split into three segments: Phase One, Two, and Three."

The first phase will consist of 🦩five chapters, including the Drop Zone prologue. And the team plans to launch the game on Steam, making it easier to slot into your library alongside the official expansions.

I💖f you want to keep tabs on Dark Matter, you can follow their and 𝓰 accounts linked here.