Black Mesa (2019) - 17b - Interloper [Hard]

Chapter 17: Interloper - Part 2 Having successfully entered the tower, Freeman finds himself in a strange alien factory where the alien grunts are manufactured. While the vortigaunts seem to leave him alone, alien controllers soon realize that there is an interloper in their midst, and begin to converge on him en masse. Freeman must escape the factory and find a way to get to the top of the tower. Playlist of completed chapters:    • Black Mesa (2019) - Full Playthrough [Hard]   Notes: The alien grunts introduced at 22:31 have completely different AI than their Earthbound counterparts. They have a tendency to strafe while firing, jump around to reach platforms, and fire hornets at a much faster rate. They also seem to have slightly increased health BM introduces the concept of crystals that regenerate Gluon/Tau ammo at 25:58, which is not in HL1. The Gluon gun in particular has been given much more attention in the game, and is pretty much required in the latter maps of this chapter Some random graphical glitches throughout the video, such as flickering or stutters. These are not because of my recordings, the Interloper chapter is still not fully optimized Trivia: While HL1 certainly shows that alien grunts are manufactured, BM's alien factory shows the manufacturing process itself, from their creation in pools, transport to other parts of the factory, and even how "failed" grunts are discarded It is highly implied that the tower itself is a living organism. The walls are fleshy and organic in appearance, and seems to be stitched together as shown at 6:00 The alien grunts being manufactured, such as at 18:34, cannot be killed with the player's weapons As shown at 28:02, the dead alien grunts falling onto the "waste" pile are in fact spawned in mid-air