[glitchvid]

If ever one of us gets cancer or some sort of disease that is going to inevitably kill us.
Use your "Make A Wish" for "Reveal Half Life 3 fully" or something like that.
I know I would.

[Igoreso.spb]

I feel the need to say that those shadows have artifacts because of low resolution.
( Take a look at left bottom corner. And a wall on the right. )
I mean, feels like a stock flashlight from Ep2, if you know what I mean.

( For those who don't want to go back: that screenshot is here. )

[-TRASE-]

Let's get 300 new posts very rapidly so when someone wakes up and visits Valve Games and Mods will have a heart attack. I'm joking of course: We could never do that without any true motivation and we would probably get banned.

Edited:

glitchvid posted:

If ever one of us gets cancer or some sort of disease that is going to inevitably kill us.
Use your "Make A Wish" for "Reveal Half Life 3 fully" or something like that.
I know I would.

Eating asbestos as we speak. Great idea.

[supersocko]

-TRASE- posted:

Let's get 300 new posts very rapidly so when someone wakes up and visits Valve Games and Mods will have a heart attack. I'm joking of course: We could never do that without any true motivation and we would probably get banned.

Edited:



Eating asbestos as we speak. Great idea.

Actually, that would be rather funny. We all just pretend a trailer just came out

[fruxodaily]

glitchvid posted:

If ever one of us gets cancer or some sort of disease that is going to inevitably kill us.
Use your "Make A Wish" for "Reveal Half Life 3 fully" or something like that.
I know I would.

Fuck that, endless supply of doritos till I die.

[Sliferjam Jones]

Digging through boxes getting rid of stuff, I came across an old Games Magazine with this in it.

[testinglol]

-TRASE- posted:

Let's get 300 new posts very rapidly so when someone wakes up and visits Valve Games and Mods will have a heart attack. I'm joking of course: We could never do that without any true motivation and we would probably get banned.

Let's do this.

[Milkyway M16]

-snip-

[nightlord]

Sliferjam Jones posted:

Digging through boxes getting rid of stuff, I came across an old Games Magazine with this in it.

I thought it wasn't actually the leak that got the game delayed, Valve just wanted to change most of it. They did the same with Half-life, Team Fortress 2, HL2: Episode 2 and Portal 2.

[Ereunity]

I thought the game got delayed because they were way behind and the leak came at such a time that they were able to come clean?

[Mr. Someguy]

Straying a bit from the regular topic here, but does anyone know of any good lore HL2 singleplayer mods?

I've already played:
Combine Destiny (6/10)
Riot Act (6/10)
Rock 24 (9/10)
Research and Development (10/10)
Precursor (9/10)

[Banhfunbags]

Have you tried the Stanley Parable?
http://www.moddb.com/mods/the-stanley-parable

[Slight]

I just want everyone to know I disprove of this thread and those who've participated in it.

[CrumbleShake]

Mr. Someguy posted:

Straying a bit from the regular topic here, but does anyone know of any good lore HL2 singleplayer mods?

I've already played:
Combine Destiny (6/10)
Riot Act (6/10)
Rock 24 (9/10)
Research and Development (10/10)
Precursor (9/10)

Minerva: Metastasis

[Mr. Someguy]

Slight posted:

I just want everyone to know I disprove of this thread and those who've participated in it.

I do not agree with you or your opinion but I respect your right to have one.

[-TRASE-]

nightlord posted:

I thought it wasn't actually the leak that got the game delayed, Valve just wanted to change most of it. They did the same with Half-life, Team Fortress 2, HL2: Episode 2 and Portal 2.

It wasn't. I didn't read the article but I can tell you that in the leak there were lots of current HL2 maps in early stages proving that Valve started to rebuild Half life 2 long before the incident.

[Mr. Someguy]

-TRASE- posted:

It wasn't. I didn't read the article but I can tell you that in the leak there were lots of current HL2 maps in early stages proving that Valve started to rebuild Half life 2 long before the incident.

Aside from some changes and rearrangements, many of the maps are largely the same, and so are the weapons, and enemies.

Basically what was leaked was an unfinished version of the final storyline, everything before that (like AirEx) was already cut.

[Blitz n' Barrag]

UntouchedShadow posted:

Me to. Tell ya' what. In the event of Zombie Apocalypse, I'll meet up with you somewhere and we'll both head over to VALVe.

Meet me up in Maryland. I'll supply the crowbars

[Mr. Someguy]

Banhfunbags posted:

Have you tried the Stanley Parable?
http://www.moddb.com/mods/the-stanley-parable

Not what I asked for, but the reviews look good, so I'll probably give it a whirl.

CrumbleShake posted:

Minerva: Metastasis

I'll check this out out too.

[Blokeybloke]

Mr. Someguy posted:

I'll check this out out too.

Fun fact: The Minerva series scored Adam Foster a job at Valve.

[fear me]

Mr. Someguy posted:

Straying a bit from the regular topic here, but does anyone know of any good lore HL2 singleplayer mods?

I've already played:
Combine Destiny (6/10)
Riot Act (6/10)
Rock 24 (9/10)
Research and Development (10/10)
Precursor (9/10)

Late as fuck but try Dangerous World.

[Hell-met]

Mr. Someguy posted:

Straying a bit from the regular topic here, but does anyone know of any good lore HL2 singleplayer mods?

I've already played:
Combine Destiny (6/10)
Riot Act (6/10)
Rock 24 (9/10)
Research and Development (10/10)
Precursor (9/10)

http://www.moddb.com/mods/missing-information/downloads

http://www.moddb.com/mods/eye-of-the-storm

http://www.moddb.com/mods/slums-2

pretty sure the source version update broke combinedestiny, rock24 and human error. Eye of the storm suffers a bit from it too.

[Deremix]

Slight posted:

I just want everyone to know I disprove of this thread and those who've participated in it.

Uh.

Okay.

[SirVerbose]

In follow-up to the HL2 beta post that I made several pages ago, it would seem that something else has come up.

Obviously, this isn't canon, but it's still pretty neat.

[Gabe Newell]

That was just made for Missing Info

Edited:

fuck ninjad

[Anonymous?]

Mr. Someguy posted:

Straying a bit from the regular topic here, but does anyone know of any good lore HL2 singleplayer mods?

I've already played:
Combine Destiny (6/10)
Riot Act (6/10)
Rock 24 (9/10)
Research and Development (10/10)
Precursor (9/10)

Human Error is one of my favorites.
http://www.moddb.com/mods/half-life-2-short-stories

Great gameplay additions, new enemies, vehicles, and memorable characters - all while giving a new interesting perspective through the gas-mask of a CP.

[ColossalSoft]

I honestly didn't like Human Error. It didn't break canon, sure, but at the same time it didn't feel Half-Lifey. At all.

[4yourmalice]

CrumbleShake posted:

Minerva: Metastasis

I just started playing this and I it's great. The interior design is really well done, plus I like not having the gravity gun as an option. Makes it feel a bit like the original Half-Life.

[Bitl]

Bryceanater posted:

Does anyone think that HL3 will be on the Left 4 dead 2 engine or the source engine or a New engine?

Why do ANYONE separate the Source 2007 branch to L4D Source branch.

L4D Source is an engine branch, not a new engine.

[ColossalSoft]

On top of that, it's out dated.

CSGO is Source and much prettier than L4D2.

[MoarToast]

ColossalSoft posted:

On top of that, it's out dated.

CSGO is Source and much prettier than L4D2.

This seems to be mostly due to the really sexy new dynamic shadows and self-shadowing. The only way I can really think of to make Source better now (mostly for modding purposes) is to update the godawful and restrictive .bsp format used for maps (And by that, I probably mean just use a different map format altogether), because they're going to need to do so eventually.

[-TRASE-]

SirVerbose posted:

In follow-up to the HL2 beta post that I made several pages ago, it would seem that something else has come up.

Obviously, this isn't canon, but it's still pretty neat.

It's from E3 demonstration.

[The very best]

The original half life 2 world/atmosphere reminds me of 1984 in a way.

Edited:

[Altair_PT]

How about this?

[Maestro Fenix]

The beta had a lot of good concepts, although later didnt fit very well in game.

I dont know what to talk here, so i´ll ask something easy: there are new "easter eggs" about Half-Life in CS:GO/DOTA2?

[UntouchedShadow]

Maestro Fenix posted:

The beta had a lot of good concepts, although later didnt fit very well in game.

I dont know what to talk here, so i´ll ask something easy: there are new "easter eggs" about Half-Life in CS:GO/DOTA2?

Not in Dota, but CS:GO there were textures with references about HL3's development.

[Tulio]

UntouchedShadow posted:

Not in Dota, but CS:GO there were textures with references about HL3's development.

You mean blackboards, Raising The Bar book and 'Blue Mesa'?

[testinglol]

Tulio posted:

You mean blackboards, Raising The Bar book and 'Blue Mesa'?

Whiteboards :P

[Kahgarak]

snip

[Bitl]

MoarToast posted:

This seems to be mostly due to the really sexy new dynamic shadows and self-shadowing. The only way I can really think of to make Source better now (mostly for modding purposes) is to update the godawful and restrictive .bsp format used for maps (And by that, I probably mean just use a different map format altogether), because they're going to need to do so eventually.

Would be nice if Valve made the model format so it's like the Half Life 2 Beta, but is at model format 21.

.mdl (defines the model)
.vvd (important, vertex data)
.phy (optional, physics model)
.dx7_2bone.vtx (defines the bones)
.cloth (optional, cloth physics)
.anims (animations, makes it easier to define animations rather than .mdls.)
.dx80.vtx (orange box stuff)
.dx90.vtx (orange box stuff)

But, the current file format is easier right now.