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They can take more hits and had their attack speed increased significantly (it was all too easy to completely avoid their attacks in Half-Life). The first thing you see the latter one do, even, is throw down with a bullsquid. This goes double for their variants in Xen the little fireball ones which explode if you so much as sneeze on them, and the knockback ones which are huge and will send you flying. They didn't pose much of a threat in Half-Life, but if you're not careful here, they'll mess you up.

Achievement Mockery: There are achievements for getting killed by your own snarks, getting killed by a headcrab, cooking a grenade until it explodes in your hand, overcharging the Tau Cannon (which inflicts massive damage on the user), getting zapped by the Anti-Mass Spectrometer, getting flung into oblivion by the Gonarch, and even drowning in the Lambda Reactor Coolant System.

On February 12th of 2020, the final beta updates were pushed to the public, with the full, final 1.0 release on March 5th. This also marked the cessation of development for the freeware version, though it remains available for download.ДЇollowing seven years of development since the mod's first public release, four of which were spent in Steam Early Access, the final four single-player chapters constituting the events set in Xen were gradually made available for early beta-testing over the second half of 2019, with their full integration occurring on December 24th. With Valve's blessing, a retail version of Black Mesa was made available on Steam in May 2015 as an Early Access title, which added advanced graphics technology and multiplayer.

The game's first public release came in September 2012.

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Black Mesa is a Fan Remake of Half-Life 1 by the Crowbar Collective (formerly known as the Black Mesa Development Team), beginning life as a total conversion mod for Half-Life 2 shortly after the latter's release in 2004.