In the here and now that is late June 2019, Xen is finally playable for Black Mesa owners. As such, Black Mesa's Xen update has been pushed back multiple times since it was originally planned to be released in late 2017. They had some cool moments, but they were undoubtedly the low point when compared to the rest of the game. Let's face it, those original Xen levels weren't super great. They wanted to redesign the Xen levels in order to avoid the shortcomings the original Half-Life Xen levels had. Xen has apparently proven to be a difficult challenge for the team to tackle. As it is, Black Mesa "ends" the moment you jump into the portal that would normally take you to Xen. That also means it kind of lacked the final boss fight and actual ending to the original game. In aiming to recreate the original Half-Life on the Source Engine, the Early Access release failed to include any of the Xen portion of the game. It's still considered as an Early Access release because the game was incomplete. It wasn't until 2015 that an Early Access release of the game was released. The mod version of Black Mesa did come out back in 2012. So, depending on how you look at it, it's been in some sort of development phase for anywhere between 11 and 14 years now. Actually, Black Mesa has been in development since 2008 after being announced in 2005. The Black Mesa team has finally released a playable taste of the Xen levels that they have been working on for however long now.
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