source is good because on my 5200 I get over 80 FPS and it runs smooth as silk. It also can do large open spaces which alone makes it better than the doom engine. Im not worried about small graphical problems more things that distract from it being an emersive realistic world. And from my...
I though civ number 1 got 97% odd but my memory is failling in my old age. Any one know what dune2 got? Anyway quake 2 single player was dull. Question is will HL2 really have the effect on games that the orignal did?
any one can preload but you cant do anything with it till you bye it. Your getting it confused with the CS source beta wich is limited to CZ owers and people with the ATI copon.
Battlefield alows you to chat not over the radio. But if you are talking voice over IP its was sort of done like that when first added to CS but only if you where on the other team.
I think americas army has your second point covered and call of duty yor third.
Any back to HL2 I think it has...
Aliens had the best guns (Nice use of a handy cam as well). The Pulse rifle / flame thrower combination was great.
My addition however would be a vacume gun. Sort of like a shot gun but it punches a 2 meter deep cillinder of nothing in to anything. Like a people whole punch kind of thing.
The relation between the number of line of code and time is exponential in any project. This is why games no take a great deal longer to make than in the past. Its also why people are using 3rd party tools like havok ect. In the not to distant future some companies will build only game engines...
Frame rates are not black and white.
You monitor also has a refresh rate and it is the interaction between the this and the game frame rate that is critical. People who say they cant play with a frame rate of 30 need to adjust there monitor refresh rate. 99 percent of people could not tell the...
It's a "Citadel" well it dosn't look like a city on a hill to me? maybe im too literal. What ever it is I like it and I recon valve has some nice supprises up thier sleave.