We're tantalizingly close to being able to just go all-in on our art passes and quality of life improvements," Lyons says. "I'm super excited to get to the point where we've got our gameplay all down. The developers say they're humbled by the level of support the community is sending their way, especially considering the rocky history of Decay remasters. Peer Review-a project made by four avid fans-is not aiming for the polish of a fully-fledged remaster with over a decade of development time. Whether the project manages to reach Black Mesa's size and quality doesn't seem to be the point for its modders. "We might get a bit of criticism from some people for not having graphical improvements that Crowbar Collective implemented, but given that we have a much smaller team and no engine license, there's really only so much we can do." "I do still sometimes see people saying this is too much or not enough like Black Mesa depending on their views of that game, but you can't please everyone," Lyons says. "There's certainly some extra pressure knowing that we set ourselves up to be the attempt at it," Bryant says.Ĭrowbar Collective's Black Mesa is both a huge inspiration and a daunting quality standard for PSR.
"We kind of pride ourselves on how often we saw something to the effect of 'Wow, finally a good Decay!'"Ĭracking the curse raises the stakes, though. We realised we successfully overcame the curse of the Decay remake project," he continues. "For me personally it was a very big point of pride. The reception was widely positive, senior developer Chris Bryant says. Peer Review debuted in December 2018 with a 10-minute gameplay showcase. We thought it would be a controversial change, but we've come to agree it was a good one," Lam explains. "The original only had an M4 as its automatic weapon we kept the M4 but rebalanced it so that it fills a different niche and added an MP5 to fill the role of the old M4. Changes are made to better suit co-op and fix plot holes or inconsistencies with Valve's Half-Life games. The developers, who call their team PSR Digital, see Peer Review as more of a reimagining of Half-Life Decay than a remaster. "We wanted to make something that played well and really took as much advantage of the co-op format as we could, but still felt like Half-Life, so that involved a ton of gameplay experimentation on our end," Ryan says.Īrtist Notewell Lyons says that the team tries to keep "the overall purpose and vibe reminiscent of the original," but they've reworked the settings of some maps and changed bits of the story where it makes sense.Īnimator Michael Tannock takes more of a purist approach: "I'd like to keep as much from the original as possible whilst also making improvements and additions," he says. Decay's campaign has you and a friend playing as Gina Cross and Colette Green, prominent Black Mesa physicists who are responsible for delivering the Xen crystal to the anti-mass spectrometer where Gordon Freeman initiates the cataclysmic event that jumpstarts the series. One of the biggest hurdles in reinventing Decay was its singular design: it's still the only co-operative Half-Life game to date.
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