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Anyone Else been following the countdown at blackmesa.com? (blackmesa.com)

submitted 3 months ago by foggy to c/pcgaming

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The bottom of the page there is a countdown that will expire at midnight Eastern standard Time tonight.

This company claims to be in Boston. They've received federal grants. I've done a small amount of digging, but it would be entirely within valves resources to set up such a company. They have a LinkedIn, but it doesn't really seem like anyone really works there? It seems like a viral marketing campaign.

There was a Reddit thread. A while back. Some people noticed classes in the HTML that referenced other half-lifey things. But, some people in that thread shut it down as nothing out of the ordinary.

Then, there have been recent leaks with regard to a new game being developed. Someone found a resume suggesting that a person had done voice-over work for an unreleased project with Valve in 2023.

There was also a leak of some files with .hlx file types, and I guess prior to the half-life alyx release some .hla files leaked.

In the .hlx file leak, I guess there was found references to things like the EV suit.

Here's a YouTube video that touches on all of this.

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I don't see a timer at the bottom of their website - instead I see this line of text:

https://blackmesa.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/SampleinGC.png DAMN! You guys are quick... Didn't even have time to put the right image up yet.

That SampleinGC.png image is accessible, and is a picture of a vial in a testing chamber of some sort. The image also has metadata attached; a description that is a string of morse code:

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..- / .-. . .- .-.. .. --.. . / .-- . / .- .-. . / .--- ..- ... - / -- .- -.- .. -. --. / - .... . ... . / -... . -.-. .- ..- ... . / -.--
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..- / ... . . -- / -
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/ .-.. .. -.- . / - .... . -- / .- -. -.. / .... .- ...- . / ..-. ..- -. / .-- . / -..
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/ -.
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- / .... .- ...- . / .- -. -.-- - .... .. -. --. / -
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/ -..
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/ .-- .. - .... / - .... . / ...- .. -.. .
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/ --. .- -- . / - .... .. ... / .. ... / -.
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- / .- -. / .- .-. --.

translated:

YOU REALIZE WE ARE JUST MAKING THESE BECAUSE YOU SEEM TO LIKE THEM AND HAVE FUN WE DO NOT HAVE ANYTHING TO DO WITH THE VIDEO GAME THIS IS NOT AN ARG

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 months ago

Hl3 confirmed.

[–] foggy 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

It depicts a vial of XEN CRYSTALS from Dr. ______.

This is 100% marketing an extension of the half-life universe

Going this all out? I wanna say it...