The Candidate Twelve Briefcase
Time moves on, and the long-gone drifts to the past memories. The evaluation has come to an end, and the reports have now been published, to tie up loose ends…
This is a package for the various work we have done for Black Mesa: Candidate Twelve, this includes weapons, textures, models, and it has both the HD remakes of Kingpin and Mr. Friendly! There isn’t anymore possibility the project can progress in the future for various reasons, so I would like to provide to the public some of our files for Candidate Twelve that may prove useful to the modding community in the future.
There’s a time where I was really passionate for this project to succeed, and a strong vision that I had to fulfill it, but there wasn’t enough experience to lead a team and properly bring it into reality. The project was conceived at the time of the pandemic, and as everything starts to return to normal, life circumstances mean that I could not invest as much time to Candidate Twelve as I did during the pandemic. Motivation for our team slowly phases out as well, and we eventually move on to other projects. I no longer have that same passion to complete this mod as I did all those years back, and the best I can do now is to provide closure to the mod through this filepack.
We’ve moved on from Candidate Twelve and attended to other matters, but that goes to say it wasn’t without a lot of experienced gained in the end. A lot of mistakes were made, but that came with new opportunities as well. In particular, my work for Candidate Twelve granted me a role as a developer for the new standalone Opposing Force remake; FUBAR. Check it out!
https://www.moddb.com/mods/fubar
Jofoyo and LIL-PIF are part of HECU Collective as well, focusing on a remake of Blue Shift in Black Mesa. "Focal Point", the fifth and latest stunning chapter of Black Mesa: Blue Shift taking place in Xen recently came out, give it a shot as well!
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2424633574
Thank you to everyone in the team who has helped on the project, thank you to everyone in the community who anticipated for this project, and especially thank you to Mr. Gnang, the author of Half-Life: Echoes who have also approved of this project. I apologize dearly that C12 couldn’t make it in the end, but it definitely didn’t go without so much effort, passion, and anticipation that brought it this far.
HOW TO USE
1. In whichever location Steam is installed, follow this directory to find the files after subscribing.
2. Use GCFSCAPE to open the .vpk files.
3. Right-click on any file in the .vpk selected in the GCFSCAPE app and click "Extract" to copy the files to any folder you wish!
(Note: Subscribing to this mod does not instantly add these to the game files right away. Drag them to the "models", "materials", or "sound" folder respectively in any game folder inside Black Mesa. To use them in other Source Engine games, you must decompile and recompile the files yourself.)
CREDITS FOR FILES CONTAINED IN THE PACKAGE:
Remus (Specular Brick and Metal Textures, NW Concrete Textures, Cigbox Model, Hydrant Box)
Ikki (Concrete Textures & Road Sign Decals)
Jofoyo (Kingpin, HD Weapons, Air Conditioner, HEV Guard, Viewmodel Arms, Weapon and Armor Sounds)
SdFuse (Sign Decals)
Skessler (NW Lab Wall Textures)
T-Merc (Mr. Friendly)
LIL-PIF (New Weapon Animations)
VodMesa (Metal Crate, Hydrant Box)
YOU CAN FREELY USE ANY OF THE CONTENTS IN THIS FILEPACK AS LONG AS THEY’RE USED IN A NON-COMMERCIAL PROJECT, AND WITH CREDIT TO THE PROJECT!
Original ModDB page: https://www.moddb.com/mods/candidate-twelve
