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Yeah, that's completely incorrect. The publisher always QAs the release candidates, they're ultimately responsible for the final product. That's like saying that an editor never sees the book they're publishing until it goes to production. :laugh: This whole forums seems to have a strange...

Wow, I've watched 1 and 2, great job on them!

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"Top story today, college deans around the country are blaming Valve Software for a 50% higher dropout rate in September..." :laugh:

LOL aeroripper HL3: You Have A Headache AGAIN?

I can't get over how silly you guys sound arguing that the companies that will be selling Valve's product don't know anything more about its schedule than the public does. And that after having wildly different dates for months, one week they all of a sudden decided to copy each others' dates...

If you call EVERYDAY BUSINESS RELATIONS between PUBLISHER and RETAILER "secret info", then I suppose so, yes. I'll tell a little story. For a long time, Valve had only a vague idea of when they were going to finish with HL2. Thus Vivendi had only a vague idea of when HL2 would be...

To: 1) All the people doubting that Valve is really aiming for August gold 2) All the people disappointed that it's not coming earlier You're idiots. Every major retailer in the US has had first week of Sept as release for months now. You're living in a "oo, big Gabeums would never tell...

HAHAHAHA um... maybe because Lambda symbolizes a material's radioactive decay constant (used to calculate half life)? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiometric_dating#Decay_constant The 8 page topics on this board entitled "i wonder what lambda means!!" are amusing...

MS has the final word on everything that gets published for XBOX. When Bethesda was trying to get Morrowind out for the XBOX, Microsoft kept sending it back to them telling them to fix bugs. Since you can't patch singleplayer XBOX games, all the kooky version 1.0 bugs had to be squashed before...

ok, I see you're right, the antlions do not look normal-mapped in the gameplay vids, and there's definitely a different specular map on the one in the HDR vid. Valve has said they may not include HDR with the initial HL2 release, maybe normal-mapped antlions is another bit they've created but...

Not sure what you mean by 'character mapping'. Do you mean normal mapping on characters? Do you mean specular mapping? Not sure what you're talking about in general either. In all the videos we've seen, all character faces are very obviously normal-mapped. None of the faces have a jagged...

Heh... if he's play testing I sure hope he's seen a lot more than just high quality vids...

Ok... one more time: There is no noticable difference in lighting quality. The reason you don't see characters 'popping' from dark to light like in the barricade video is because there are no situations in the new video where that would occur. The 'problem' in the barricade video is where the...

Like Brain said, there is no difference between the two in real life. If the box+headcrab were accelerated more slowly, the headcrab would probably not get crushed (until it landed). But since the manipulator fires with enough instantaneous force to kill a headcrab, it would die regardless of...

August IS the last month of summer. Sept on the other hand, is NOT summer. But whatever, I'm sure Valve has a very loose concept of the term Summer. Again, Vivendi does not just make this stuff up. They don't go to a release scheduling meeting and say "Well heck, we haven't been able to...

Er, it's pretty obvious that Vivendi has told the retailers to expect it in early Sept. They didn't all just make the same date up coincidentally.

The way you guys talk about retailer dates reminds me of how you guys talked about retailer dates back when you were still convinced Sept 30 was going to happen. The retailers obviously knew it wasn't, long before we did. Say what you want about Fragmaster, but he was right when he said...

I guess you didn't understand... does Steam hold your head underwater and spank you? Does Steam throw ferrets in your bathwater and threaten you in a meanacing German accent? No, it just sits there in the systray. If you stop looking at your systray you'll never notice it's there. Except of...