The complex also has its own newspaper, The Mesa Times, which is sold within the Black Mesa Research Facility to inform the personnel about events within and outside of the facility.It is also used in the Black Mesa Transit System to give general information about the facility and mention each stop, with a female voice. Black Mesa is equipped with a public address system, the Black Mesa Announcement System, relaying audible messages and announcements across the facility with a male voice.All main Sectors are linked together by the Black Mesa Transit System, the monorail network going through the whole facility.As Eli Vance reveals in Half-Life 2 that his wife and daughter lived in Black Mesa with him, it can be inferred that employees' families reside in the dormitory complexes as well. The facility is well-populated by rest areas and dormitories for the employees of the facility.As employees are required to live in the complex itself, Black Mesa contains many personnel facilities, including laundromats, recreation and sports areas such as lounges, at least one basketball court, at least one swimming pool, a library, fast food outlets, food courts, cafeterias, and numerous vending machines.Black Mesa is also apparently kept supplied by a conventional freight rail linked to the outside, managed in the Freight Yard.Īn example of the state of disrepair of some parts of the facility, here in a roughly repaired toxic waste storage unit.The complex also features multi-story car parks (where only Black Mesa SUVs can be found), arsenals of nuclear and conventional weapons, and a local electric rail materials transport network, Sector E Materials Transport.The complex is dominated by a number of underground laboratories, test areas (including an Anti-Mass Spectrometer), and administration offices, most of which contain very high-tech equipment, and even a rocket launch site.Chemical processing plants are also seen and as the facility is located within the desert water treatment plants are required to recycle waste water. The facility is self-sufficient, housing its own: ventilation, cold and hot water, central heating, sanitation, drainage, and power generation systems including a Hydro-Electric Dam and multiple types of electrical generators and reactors, some using nuclear technology.One of Black Mesa's modern electric trams riding along the Black Mesa Transit System. Black Mesa can be completely sealed from the outside. The complex is also equipped with retinal scanners and alarms, as well as heavy blast doors that may shut down in case of fire, explosion or other event. Security guards, carrying firearms and trained for emergencies, are present in all of the facility. Black Mesa undertakes its various scientific researches in the facility, which is a very high-security complex, as each employee is required to undergo a series of rigorous security checks to access most areas.However the surface areas of Black Mesa feature more modern construction. Some areas are also described by characters such as Rosenberg as "old" or "abandoned" several areas of the complex are badly run-down despite the obvious fact that they are still in use. Several Half-Life texture files' names contain the word "fifties", suggesting the facility is as old as from the 1950s. The Black Mesa facility was apparently built over several decommissioned ICBM launching and testing silo complexes probably constructed during the 1950s, which was converted into a vast civilian institute for the research of almost every conceivable scientific discipline.5.2.9 Biological Waste Processing PlantĪ fast food outlet seen by Barney Calhoun in the Black Mesa Transit System.5.2.4 Area 3 Medium Security Facilities.Lastly, Black Mesa Military V2.2 is 400MB in size and you can download it from here. Black Mesa Military currently features six chapters which are: Arrival, Dangerous Facility, Heavy Fire, Escalation, Eliminate Freeman! and Newcomers. Version 2.2 covers the six chapters of the upcoming full release. Thus, players will experience Black Mesa disaster from a perspective of the villains and even see Gordon Freeman in person. The team will try to stick to the canon of the Half Life universe as much as possible. Moreover, Black Mesa Military is a new mod, and it’s not based on any existing mods. Black Mesa: Military is a mod for Black Mesa that allows you to experience the events of Half-Life from the view of a Hazardous Environments Combat Unit marine, Steven Mills.Īccording to the team, players are sent to secure Black Mesa Research Facility with the rest of their squad and eliminate any hostile forces. The Black Mesa: Military Development Group has released a new version of Black Mesa: Military.
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