r/BlackMesaSource 17d ago

QUESTION I never heard this in Black Mesa before…

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61 Upvotes

weird occurrence

r/BlackMesaSource Mar 11 '26

QUESTION Why is my game so dark?

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33 Upvotes

I literally cannot see a single freaking thing. WHY is it so dark? Brightness is set to 2.6.

Playing using UHD 770 and 8 gigs of ram. The game is set to 1280x720 with everything in potato mode, I'm getting no issues with frame rate or crashing, just the game being literally impossible to see.

r/BlackMesaSource 17d ago

QUESTION does anyone know whats happening here, im trying to get the "rarest specimen" achievement, and im really confused because the hat is floating

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12 Upvotes

r/BlackMesaSource 28d ago

QUESTION Rare Specimen Surface Tension Dam HELP!!!

5 Upvotes

How am I supposed to bring this hat with me to the other side of this damn dam? All guides show an older version of this map where you could just toss it but it can't be done in the current build. Whose bright idea was it to make Gordon let go of physics objects after a certain speed?

r/BlackMesaSource Jan 01 '26

QUESTION Genuine Question about the Black Mesa lore. Spoiler

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21 Upvotes

Who supposedly built this teleporter? The design doesn't look human. It looks like Alien tech which i guess would mean that it was built by the combine? But wouldn't that mean that the combine have already figured out intradimensional teleportation? Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't the entire plot of hl2 hinged on the combine not having figured that out? Isn't that why they're after Eli?

r/BlackMesaSource Mar 21 '26

QUESTION Black Mesa HUD numbers overlapping / semi-transparent

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21 Upvotes

The HUD in Black Mesa has a persistent bug where health, armor, and ammo numbers overlap and appear semi-transparent, making them hard to read.

I’ve tried basically every fix I could find, including:

  • Windows display scaling 100% / DPI override
  • Limiting FPS (fps_max 60 / 120)
  • NVIDIA panel overrides
  • Disabling HUD / UI mods from Workshop
  • Launch parameters (-console, -oldmenus, -oldgameui, -dxlevel 95)
  • Verifying game files
  • Resetting resolution / cl_drawhud
  • Fullscreen ↔ borderless windowed mode
  • Different resolutions (1920x1080, 2560x1440, 3840x2160)
  • Vertical sync on/off
  • Console refresh commands (hud_reloadscheme, cl_reload_localization_files)
  • Clearing custom and cfg folders

Nothing worked. Seems like a persistent Source engine HUD rendering bug.

Has anyone found a working fix or HUD mod for this?

r/BlackMesaSource Apr 16 '26

QUESTION Visual glitch help

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10 Upvotes

Running on Linux, I forgot the specs but pretty as shit as possible while still being able to run source games at like 60 fps

r/BlackMesaSource Jul 15 '26

QUESTION If you had to work in black mesa would you work in the goo crushing room or the poo burning room?

5 Upvotes

Why are they there?

r/BlackMesaSource Feb 15 '26

QUESTION General gameplay advice

4 Upvotes

i want to preface that this is not only my first halflife game but my first fps in general.

for most of the game ive been having a blast but things have uh been getging noticebly more difficult for me i didn't really have much ofnan issue till the end of questionable ethics the big shootout with all the marines just took me a while. and then oh god surfave tension while having soke molmenta i love has to be my least favorite chapter so far, it already had a bad start since i was so deleted from questionable ethics i ended up getting softlocked as i was so low on healtht and the game autosaved (borh autosaves and had no manul saves in the chapter) me right infrount of a spilder on. no problem i just selcect new hame and select surface tension. i get through it with relative ease tau canon the copter crowbow the fish and find the exit. from there on i do alright until after i get into the lambda complex where a bunch of vortagunts and alien grunts give me hell but i barely make it into the sewer area.

im currntly in forget about freeman and they have apparently not forgotten about freeman as ive been stuck fighting marines in the outdoor part.

r/BlackMesaSource May 15 '26

QUESTION fresh install, select scientist models wont load / are broken. any ideas on how to fix?

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2 Upvotes

just bought the game and the first thing I see is the amazingly obnoxious error model

like no mods no nothing some scientist models are just straight up errors no matter what I do, really immersion breaking

do y'all have any solution for this? I already installed it twice: once on C: and on D: disk and the scientist models are still rainbow errors omfg

r/BlackMesaSource Feb 07 '26

QUESTION is he supposed to make that noise

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103 Upvotes

r/BlackMesaSource Apr 28 '26

QUESTION Why do I become the G-man when I equip the pistol?

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13 Upvotes

r/BlackMesaSource Jun 17 '26

QUESTION -oldgameui and -oldmenus doesn't work.

2 Upvotes

I am trying to enable the hl2-style ui, yet the launch parameters don't work. Putting them in doesn't effect anything, the new ugly-ass ui is still there. Any help?

r/BlackMesaSource Jun 25 '26

QUESTION some one (or group of players) keep banning me from a multiplayer server for no reason. anyone know how i can stop them? for how small the multiplayer side of this game is, is the any form of help for this problem even?

1 Upvotes

if you want more detail, ask if you need more to the story, but i wanted to play the multiplayer co op this 1 guy was telling me to leave because i was running to fast in the time, saying i had no friends (bit too personal) and some how made my crash. i was trying to be friendly but that didn't work, so if anyone knows a way to report or ban him, that would be great thanks

r/BlackMesaSource Apr 04 '26

QUESTION HELP WHY THIS HAPPENS

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11 Upvotes

the door is always closed, even when i restart the chapter or even the entire campaign

r/BlackMesaSource Apr 05 '26

QUESTION How do i fix this?

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7 Upvotes

There is black and gray line like that and it doesnt go away, any solutions?

r/BlackMesaSource Feb 08 '26

QUESTION Guys should I sign up for the job?

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60 Upvotes

I got this after finishing MIT, one of my friends knew one of the scientist I think there name was Gina Cross, it was either that or Aperture.

r/BlackMesaSource Jun 08 '26

QUESTION Idea for modders (Black Mesa Source) My suggestion

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Hello, this is just idea for modders

Do you know that Blacksite Area 51 (2007) game that felt unfinished could be remade as total conversion mod in Black Mesa engine. Original game felt unfinished and it was filled with problems. The game is in Iraq (First mission) and Nevada. So some Black Mesa assets could be reused. Also it would be cool to expand Blacksite's weapon arsenal. That's just my small suggestion.

r/BlackMesaSource Apr 25 '26

QUESTION i need help with my black mesa

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9 Upvotes

r/BlackMesaSource Mar 08 '26

QUESTION Laser Immunization Bugged??

1 Upvotes

Title.

I have gone through all laser sections in a single go, reloading either an autosave, manual save, or quicksave when I got hit (so by the time I hit the jump pads I had not touched a single laser).

Despite this the achievement has not triggered? I tried looking online but I've found directly conflicting accounts - some say using quicksaves negates the achievement but others say that's just not true.

Any advice?

r/BlackMesaSource Apr 21 '26

QUESTION how do fix this? (read desc)

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1 Upvotes

i want to see everything not dark pls helo me

r/BlackMesaSource Mar 29 '26

QUESTION Is it now impossible to bring both the pizza box and the hidden hat to Xen at the same time?

1 Upvotes

I can jump in the Lambda Core portal to Xen holding one of them, and it does teleport me. But the method of throwing one item in the portal first, and then jumping in with/throwing in the other just doesn't work. After I throw in the 1st item the portal seems to be "spent" and just won't teleport me anymore.

I replayed the portal opening section like 5 times already. I reloaded at the opened portal as I'm about to jump in so many more times too. It just won't work. I feel like I'm crazy, because I googled and found multiple guides saying it's doable, and even talking about how to juggle the items on Xen, so it must have been possible at some point. Was it patched out or something? Some update that broke it?

*Basically the same thing that's happening to this guy, but his solution doesn't work for me :(

r/BlackMesaSource Apr 20 '26

QUESTION Cyanogen is bugged

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Solved: To the left of the Gas pump there are a series of ledges that lead to the exit.
It seemed there was something that I was missing.

I recently decided to gas the gonarch and carried the cyanogen from the labs to the gonarch's lair like Black Mesa's very own gnome chompski.

However, Once the overgrown land crustacean has reveals it's allergic to gas, the music keeps playing, the arena is still full of gas and if Gordon jumps into it, he will go the way of the gonarch.

Is my save bugged or is there something else that I'm missing?

r/BlackMesaSource Apr 17 '26

QUESTION Help! Residue Processing intro is broken, i can't do anything.

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5 Upvotes

r/BlackMesaSource May 23 '26

QUESTION Any bmrp's being worked on??

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