Black Mesa Done Quick in

Black Mesa annihilated in 26 minutes and 58 seconds.

This run began immediately after the full release of Xen, and went through many rushes and downtimes over the course of 3.5 years. The run was finally finished in mid 2023, and the editing was completed in late 2024.

»»------------- LINKS -------------««

Run Archive: https://archive.org/details/blackmesa...
Audio commentary:    • Black Mesa Done Quick Commentary  
Timesheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...
Demos/Saves: https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/fo...
In-progress renders:    • BMDQ IN PROGRESS RENDERS  

»»------------- RUNNERS -------------««

the_kovic
MPy
qv2b
2838
Eold
tmob
Table
ontrigger
_Smiley
Rama
MXYLR
PegasDoggeAM
Rock
actionstorm
BGB
peng
sunsette
Shvok

»----- Attempted Segments -----«

Lemmons
pointy
JohannVonVorst
chris

»»------------- VIDEO PRODUCTION -------------««

2838
Eold
Table
tmob
the_kovic

»»------------- PREVIOUS RUNS -------------««

»----- BMSDQ Gen 1 (2013) -----«

Elgu
ontrigger
Matmo
D4rw1N
YaLTeR

»----- BMSDQ Gen 2 (2016) -----«

ExtraVirus
ontrigger
Rama
SpeedyQ

»----- Black Mesa in 35:47 (2019) -----«

SpeedyQ

»»------------- TECHNICAL DETAILS -------------««

This run was done on the 0.9 release of Black Mesa with the old Earthbound and Xen designs, which has certain oversights that makes it the best version of the game to speedrun.
Specialized scripts and SourcePauseTool were heavily relied upon for executing attempts and routing.
The run was rendered using custom tooling from 2838 and ffmpeg, and was edited using Adobe After Effects.

»»------------- SPECIAL THANKS -------------««

YaLTeR & Jukspa for SourcePauseTool
Traderain for Listdemo-
SourceRuns for being awesome
Crowbar Collective for Black Mesa (and patching our skips)

Enjoy!
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