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Valve-style World Sounds

This mod replaces many of the Black Mesa audio effects to make them more closely match those heard throughout the Half-Life series. Sounds replaced include the following types:

- Buttons

- Doors

- Elevators

- Alarms

- Machines (including notable ones like the Lambda Core, Anti-Mass Spectrometer, transit system, etc.)

- Environmental (flames, sparks, creaks, portals, etc.)

- Ambience (almost every soundscape is changed).

- And much more!

This mod is meant to inject a dose of Half-Life 1 familiarity into the acoustic environment of Black Mesa while simultaneously (and more importantly) making the game sound much more consistent with other Valve Source games--like notably Half-Life 2. However, not every Black Mesa sound that meets one of the categories above was replaced, because either the sound is too good to replace and/or no Valve sound exists to replace it. Also, this mod is *not* meant to be a pedantic replication of every possible Half-Life 1 sound (and the places in which they're heard), so please don't expect that.

Please post any suggestions or issues.

*** If you hear glitchy static, make sure to turn your game off and on at least once to fix it. ***