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The Source SDK is freely available to all Steam users. It is used to develop mods and content for the Source 2006, Source 2007 and. You need to download Source. Download it now. This game is. Launch it now or buy it here. Black Mesa (Formerly known as Black Mesa. Only a working copy of the Source SDK Base 2007.
I have a Macbook Pro 2015 and want to play Black Mesa. I currently have Steam and Half Life 2 installed on the mac, runs fine etc.
I’ve been looking at ways to make this run and looks like Wine is my best option. I’m just unsure if the guides from 2015 will work. There seem to also be two ways of doing this:
- install a PC version of steam and run it through wine
- download the pc version on a mac and run through wine.
I’m also assuming it wont be this simple….
I understand that there are threads on this — however they are from 2015 and the Black Mesa mod has changed considerably since then. If anyone wants to help out then this would be great, additionally this can become a new sticky which will stop any questions like this in the future being asked.
tldr; how do you get the latest version of Black Mesa work on OSX in 2019. Thank you!
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A friend told me Black Mesa has been ‘Greenlighted’ for distribution on Steam. I also read somewhere that it’s free and requires the Source SDK that comes bundled with some Valve games.
I’m searching for ‘Black Mesa’ in the Store section but can’t find it.
Assuming I don’t have any game installed on my machine, how can I install Black Mesa through Steam?
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Source 2 Sdk
You can’t yet.
Source Sdk 2007 Base
Being ‘Greenlighted’ in the movie industry (from whence the terms comes) and in Steam both mean that they’ve been accepted for further development. It doesn’t mean that the game/movie is actually released and available for download / for watching in theatre, just that production with that company is moving forward and it very likely will be released at some point.
The Steam Greenlight page for Black Mesa shows that the game has been Greenlighted, meaning that it has received enough support from Steam users in the form of votes to go into production as a Steam-powered download. At the moment, there are only 10 Greenlighted games, among thousands of proposals on Steam Greenlight. (Zero games have been released through the Greenlight process yet (as of Sept 2012), which isn’t surprising since the whole idea is new.)
How to get the game
I downloaded and started playing Black Mesa only two days ago, so the process is fresh in my mind.
To play Black Mesa, you need an installation of the Source SDK Base 2007 on Steam, which is free. To verify if you already have it, and to install it if you don’t have it yet:
- Go to your Game Library in the Steam Client.
- Click on the ‘All Games’ drop-menu next to the Search Bar.
- Pick ‘Tools’ from the drop-down menu.
- Find Source SDK Base 2007 and verify if it has been installed. Install it, if it’s not yet installed.
Then, download the blackmesa.zip file from the official homepage. I went with a Bittorrent download (because I guessed that my connection could handle more than I was likely to get from the site’s direct-download link), and it downloaded in a bit under two hours (at an average of 1Mb/s).
Inside the zip is a .7z archive and a .exe installer. The installer found my Steam account, had it download and install the Source SDK, and then unpacked the files in the .7z archive into the location in the Steamapps folder where Steam looks for Source mods. It handled this all automatically, which I must say is pretty slick for a mod. It then asked me if I wanted to launch Black Mesa right away, and notified me that it would show up in my Steam Library after I shut down and restarted Steam.
Black Mesa Source Download
All in all, it was a painless install. It will be even easier when it moves out of Greenlight and becomes a Steam Release game, but it can’t get too much easier than it already is.
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This seems to be the official website with a valid download link:http://www.blackmesasource.com/download.html
I can’t check Steam personally since it is blocked at my workplace.
leetyleety
An alternative solution that works just as well (actually worked better for me; for some reason my Internet connection didn’t like it as a 7z file) is to get it from Desura. Make an account and install the client, then you can install it in one step from here.
And I can confirm that Black Mesa is still not available from Steam yet. Dunno what the hold-up is.
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