Greetings scientists,

We would like to wish you all a happy Chinese New Year and good luck with the year of the Water Rabbit! Don’t forget to check for snarks in bunny suits before you put on your suits, scientists.

We would also like to remind that the Community Hat Competition is still ongoing in the Crowbar Collective Discord. Don’t forget to submit your entries before January 27th!

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Greetings Scientists!

We are excited to share that we are now accepting entries for our community Hat Contest! If you’d like to take part, all you have to do is take a picture of your hat, helmet, or other headwear, and submit your image in the #hat-contest channel on the Crowbar Collective Discord.

The winners will be selected by way of community vote. The hat picture that receives the most reactions will be the winner, and the community member who submitted it will receive a Crowbar Collective Snapback Hat!


You may submit your hat entries in the Crowbar Collective Discord until the 27th of January, after which submissions will close and the week-long voting period will start. The winners will be announced on February 3rd.

• Only 1 entry per contestant
  
• The hat can be bought, crafted, or otherwise acquired.
  
• The image must contain your discord user tag on a piece of paper in order to prove you have this hat.
  
• NO text or symbols allowed that can be construed as pornographic, NSFW, religious, or political.
  
• After the entry period is complete, we will lock the channel and allow all members to react to the entries to place your vote.

We can’t wait to see all the different kinds of hats that you’ll come up with!

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Greetings scientists,

A brand new year is upon us! We want to thank all the scientists that have made the Black Mesa community so awesome this year! As a reminder, the Steam Winter Sale is still ongoing as well as the merch giveaway for those who wish to enjoy Black Mesa for 75% off or {LINK REMOVED}win some merch as a new year treat!

Have a safe, and happy New Year’s Eve. We’ll see you in 2023, scientists!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/362890/Black_Mesa/

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Attention, Black Mesa personnel,

With the Steam Winter Sale finally here, we wanted to do something extra for our wonderful community before 2022 ends. That’s right! It’s time for a Holiday Secret Scientist raffle where you could win some of the new Crowbar Collective Merch!

There will be 4 winners total, each will receive one of the crates below, so if you want to throw your hat in the ring to win some awesome Crowbar Collective Merchandise, {LINK REMOVED}join the giveaway here before January 5th!

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Black Mesa is now 75% off for the Steam Winter Sale! Get your Black Mesa access before January 5th here:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/362890/Black_Mesa/

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Attention, Black Mesa personnel,

The time has come! HECU Collective’s Blue Shift mod’s Chapter 4: Captive Freight is out now! If you haven’t seen the trailer showcasing the new chapter you can watch it using the link below. The new chapter is available for download on ModDB or the Steam Workshop.

ModDB Download Portal

Steam Workshop Download

Don’t forget to play chapters 1, 2, and 3 trying out the newest chapter, as the previous chapters have also been updated with new features, and bug fixes!

Watch the Trailer

Trailer recorded and edited by ALLAN

Soundtrack for trailer composed by Paweł Perepelica

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Attention scientists,

We are pleased to let you know that we have launched a brand new Crowbar Collective merch store, just in time for the holidays! The store offers a wide range of themed merchandise that’s sure to bring joy to any Black Mesa or Crowbar Collective fan.

You can check out all the merch HERE!

One tip before you head out scientists, the hoodies run a little on the small side. The medium sample we got fit a medium build, but was just a bit tight. The store has a 30 Day “Make it Right” Policy.

We can’t wait to see you walking around the facility in your new Crowbar Collective gear! We hope you all have had a great start to the holiday season! Thanks.

- The Crowbar Collective Team

Greetings scientists!

HECU Collective’s Blue Shift mod is receiving a new chapter! Chapter 4: Captive Freight will be out on December 10th! The new chapter comes with tons of new content along with bug fixes and additional features for previous chapters!

Fixes and added features:

• Critical bug fixes (No more softlocks and invisible cables!)
  
• Gameplay improvements (Better Guidance throughout Chapter 3)
  
• Visual improvements throughout all chapters (Better lighting and models)
  
• Animations improvements
  
• Performance optimizations
  
• Addition of interactable telephones (Who leaves them all hanging?)
  
• Support for more languages (Ukrainian, German, Czech, Korean, Traditional Chinese, Vietnamese and French)
  
• Updated UI and its navigation
  
• Barney's finally got his package delivered!

Previous chapters will be updated as well, so be sure to check them out before you play the 4th chapter!

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The ModDB Mod of the year returns for the 21st time. As is the case every year, now's the time to look back and give talented mod makers the recognition they deserve for their creativity throughout 2022.

This is a department-wide effort! Let us all support and vote Black Mesa: Blue Shift as our Mod of the Year for 2022!

Cast your votes here!

Attention, Black Mesa personnel,

The Autumn Sale is about to go critical!

Black Mesa is now 50% off during the Steam Autumn Sale.
Suit up, and step into the Test Chamber before November 29th here:


https://store.steampowered.com/app/362890/Black_Mesa/

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Attention scientists!

24 years ago today, Half Life was released! We owe a lot to the Half-Life franchise, and it will always hold a special place as the series that Black Mesa came from. We are happy to have been a part of the source engine community all these years, and so today, join us in celebrating the 24th Anniversary of Half-Life! Are you feeling old yet?

Let’s hope not! Happy birthday Half-Life from the Crowbar Collective team!!



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Greetings Scientists,

At long last, we are doing a final update on the Black Mesa X Intruder mapmaking competition now that the judging process is complete. Due to unforeseen scheduling issues, we have prepared a wrap up video showcasing the winning maps and honorable mentions instead of the planned developer livestream.


First off, we wanted to thank all the participants of the mapmaking collaboration between Black Mesa and Intruder for all their excellent submissions. We were very impressed with the amount of work that our community members put in, and thoroughly enjoyed getting to try them all out. While it was very difficult to pick from all the entries we received, the following 3 were our favorites:


In third place, we have BlackMesa South submitted by Xixo. A map that is true to form, we could clearly see inspiration drawn from both games with an authentic atmosphere and sneaky routes to steal the package. We very much enjoyed getting the opportunity to play this map, and want to congratulate Xixo on making the top-3.


In the runner-up position, we have Foreseen Sequences submitted by DoubleOSpanky. With interactive environment features like keycards, deadly lasers, and collectible tapes this entry spices up gameplay with a well designed and extremely detailed experience. This was an excellent map, and we were very impressed with what we saw! Thank you for creating such an interesting and creative map for us to play.


Finally, the winner of the Black Mesa X Intruder mapmaking competition is Potential Energy submitted by ActionMan! This entry truly pushed the limit of Intruder Map Maker with a campaign style mission that has custom objectives, multi-round objectives, and moving vehicles it almost seems like this could be its own game! While there were many strong candidates for top prize, ActionMan’s was a cut above the rest. This was a fantastic map, and we want to thoroughly congratulate them for getting 1st place!


To celebrate the hard work of our competition winners, we are releasing a showcase video to wrap up the map creation contest. Tune in to get the teams’ thoughts on what they enjoyed about each map!

The final Black Mesa X Intruder wrap up video can be found here

That’s everything that we have for you today. We enjoyed the opportunity to bring our two communities together, and are extremely impressed by all the maps that were entered. Thank you all for making this an amazing event. See you all later, scientists!


-The Crowbar Collective Team