Either your stuck in dx8 or your in dx9 with real time reflections not enabled. They are indeed real time. Does your game show player and map reflections in aztec's water? If not than thats why.
Shadows arent random they are based on a single universal 'sun' light source.
Is that as shady as selling valves game and not giving valve the money for it? or trying to say that a game delay means that a previous contract is voided therefore you want the judge to force you into making 2 more games for said publisher. oh btw at the same time, we want the IP for half-life...
It like all its expansion titles, are metaphoric titles for whats going on inside the game. Half-Life is the metaphor for the way the gateway was opened to zen. Mixing one world into 2.
Hit boxes lag because you don't see the prediction in them.
But you hit where you aim. It's just a prediction issue on the hitbox draw on client vs server.
games going gold don't mean their done, they mean they are relatively bug free and going to be replicated. A content lock milestone is when the game is 'done'. Than you do optimizing and what not, and bug squashing.
You can be sure HL2 is 'done'.
They just tell simpletons what that they invested 50 million into source/steam/hl2? Your kidding right? Do you also believe that the us government flies UFO's from mars over white sands every day also?