Half Life Black Mesa - Calling in an airstrike on unbeatable alien! 4k MAXX SETTINGS

#fps #halflife #blackmesa #gaming #arenashooter
A really wild part of Black Mesa in the Surface Tension section where an huge alien pops out of a side tunnel and then angrily chases you until you call in an airstrike on it. Bonus: get to see how to get to the next part of the map.

[@saltminer7065]

It always bugged me that it’s more like artillery than an air strike

[@Vorticough]

fellow grumpy cat pfp user

[@nicolae-alexandruluca7853]

It's a mortar

[@dalilconstanzewithanmp5464]

"unbeatable"
**me literally impulse 101'ing on the gargantua's ass**

[@fckrs]

fair

[@tatotaytoman5934]

idk if this is true on the higher difficulties but in the base hl1 if you had all 5 C4, you can place them all in a concentrated bundle and blow him up, pretty easily. I remember doing this in xen.

[@dalilconstanzewithanmp5464]

@@tatotaytoman5934 there's no c4 at power up

[@tatotaytoman5934]

@@dalilconstanzewithanmp5464 huh?, Isn't this after the tram sections? towards the end of the game right, where the military are fully pulling out, by the way I am talking about half life 1 not Black Mesa. You get the C4s way beforehand in the tram levels right?

[@dalilconstanzewithanmp5464]

@@tatotaytoman5934 i say there is no c4 in power up in black mesa, and you need to get the c4's only in on a rail

[@auricom24]

That being breaks a heavy metal door. -Lets hide on a fragile scaffold.

[@TinyDeskEngineer]

The airstrike also works on the Gargantua in the original, but I guess that's less interesting because they aren't immune to regular weapons in the original either.

[@tropicvibe]

This is pretty clean, never thought about playing the original HL on newer hardware. Wish there was some way to smooth out curvatures

[@fckrs]

store.steampowered.com/app/362890/Black_Mesa/ is how I did this, and it's gorgeous. I think I've played straight through at least 5 times? Plus not only is it a good recreation, the Xen and later levels are FULLY redone and sooooo much better. It really brings the narrative to a climax in a way that I haven't seen in many other games.

[@jose5toledo]

Yeah, the Xen looks beautiful compared to the original, it was like I was playing it for the first time.

[@darthjump]

This is Black Mesa

[@BiddaMeanwater]

you know its good when its in maxx settings

[@manfredschultz9619]

Fought so hard on these guys yet yielded so quickly against the Combine :x

[@carso1500]

It's actually because this guys that the military was unprepared for the combine, a shit ton of portals started to open all over the world bringing in a lot of alien super fauna and while the worlds militares were distracted fighting that war the combine came over

[@manfredschultz9619]

@@carso1500 I vaguely remember seeing somewhere where Earth capitulated after the “7 Hour War”
(..or less?)
Blitzkrieg of blitzkriegs

[@Dr.Oofers]

@@manfredschultz9619Humanity was fighting the xenians *and* the combine at the same time. It was a losing battle for humanity, and they figured surrendering to a force more capable of dealing with the Xen portals was better than getting mopped by both alien factions.

[@jorgegames7066]

I just imagine Adrian shepherd being in the other side of the radio

[@barghest94]

Forget about Freeman, we're abandoning the base!

[@TheYellowMan4]

*[Echo-3 Juliet]:* "Any station, any station, this Echo-3 Juliet… My team is ambushed…I am injured… I’m losing a lot of blood here, left leg."
*[Echo-5 Romeo]:* "Echo-3 Juliet, this Echo-5 Romeo. I need you to tie a tourniquet at hand’s length above the wound. Get one of your IFAK now."
*[Echo-3 Juliet]:* "IFAK’s gone."
*[Echo-5 Romeo]:* "Say again?"
*[Echo-3 Juliet]:* "My IFAK’s gone…I’m, uhh…I’m-
*[Echo-5 Romeo]:* "Okay, you’re gonna need to find another pack and get a tourniquet out of it."
*[Echo-5 Romeo]:* "Are you still there?"
*[Echo-5 Romeo]:* "Echo-3 Juliet, can you hear me?"
*[Background]:* "We’re losing men over here come on!"

[@JohnoScott]

So good.

[@TheTechCguy]

Dude, this was done easily on the original Half LIfe from 1998! Too easy with an airstrike like that. Lol.

[@fckrs]

lol

[@Ouskioouo]

o Tigre o 🐯

[@akirosdemale]

*Me look that in 144p*

[@fckrs]

ruined

[@nonyabeeznuss304]

Black mesa is a really cool mod, but the combat doesn't seem as punchy as the original, and they realllllly drag the chase scenes out.

[@fckrs]

yes plz drag them out

[@user-ug2ue3ct5q]

😮

[@ELFanatic]

This battle seems way easier in Black Mesa. But I haven't played yet. But this did look easy.

[@fckrs]

I mean, still play the game, as I captured this mostly because it was visually impressive. But, as you probably heard, Xen is 1000% more rewarding, and in general Black Mesa is thoroughly enjoyable.

[@Alyeska907]

Not an airstrike

[@CastleAliens]

whats your screen width

[@fckrs]

2160 (3840x2160) so I guess not *technically* 4k but yeah.

[@jonathan_payne687]

and you purple secret hat?