The second chapter of the remake, Insecurity, is now released!

We redid some dialogues in the first chapter, fixed some bugs and extended it’s ending for a few minutes! Replay it, so you can transition to the Insecurity seamlessly, rather than jumping right into it and wondering where the hell are you).

Also the new release includes those features and changes:

• Chapter 2: Insecurity;
• Updated Chapter 1: Living Quarters Outbound;
• Subtitles for English and Russian, so you can read something new while playing;
• Keyboard/mouse/xbox controller icons in the binding options in the new UI;
• New default preset for the controller, which you can use by clicking on the new button in the bindings options in the new UI (when applying controller preset, it unbinds all the keyboard bindings for the HUD hints to show up the right icons, and vice versa);
• Chapter name is now showing up properly instead of a map name in saves;
• New soundtrack from our great composer, Daver, one of which you can hear down there;
• You can read the mod description, developer blog and see the people involved in the development of this remake in the last two tabs in the new UI;
• And more…

INSTALLATION VIA SYMBOLIC LINK (STEAM WORKSHOP ONLY):

IMPORTANT: IF YOU ALREADY HAVE AN ACTIVE bshift FOLDER IN YOUR ROOT DIRECTORY, YOU HAVE TO DELETE IT OR OTHERWHISE THE SYMBOLIC LINK MIGHT FAIL TO CREATE!

-Go to */Steam/steamapps/workshop/content/362890/2424633574

-Launch the bshift_gamelink.bat as administrator

-Check, if the symbolic link “bshift” has been created in the Black Mesa root directory (/Steam/Steamapps/Common/Black Mesa)*

INSTALLATION VIA FILE BROWSER (STEAM WORKSHOP):

IMPORTANT: DELETE THE OLD bshift FOLDER FROM THE BLACK MESA GAME ROOT DIRECTORY BEFORE COPYING THE NEW ONE OR YOU’LL FACE SOME ISSUES.

-Go to */Steam/steamapps/workshop/content/362890/2424633574

-Copy the bshift folder and the bshift.bat/bshift_oldUI.bat into your Black Mesa game root directory (/Steam/steamapps/Common/Black Mesa/)*

INSTALLATION VIA FILE BROWSER (MODDB DOWNLOAD):

IMPORTANT: DELETE THE OLD bshift FOLDER FROM THE BLACK MESA GAME ROOT DIRECTORY BEFORE COPYING THE NEW ONE OR YOU’LL FACE SOME ISSUES.

-Unzip the downloaded archive

-Copy the bshift folder and the bshift.bat or bshift_oldUI.bat into your Black Mesa game root directory (/Steam/Steamapps/Common/Black Mesa/)*

VIA FILESYSTEM (IF YOU USED THE SYMBOLIC LINK METHOD):

-Go to */Steam/steamapps/workshop/content/362890/2424633574

-Launch the bshift.bat file (bshift_oldUI.bat if you want to play under the old UI)

VIA FILESYSTEM (IF YOU USED THE FILE BROWSER METHOD):

-Go to your Black Mesa game root directory (/Steam/steamapps/Common/Black Mesa/)*

-Launch the bshift.bat file (bshift_oldUI.bat if you want to play under the old UI)

VIA STEAM LIBRARY:

-Run via Steam: Go to your game properties and type "-game bshift" into your launch options.
(Don’t forget to remove this entry when you want to play Black Mesa again.)

-Run old UI via Steam: Same as before but this time "-game bshift -oldgameui"