extras will be included with the collectors' edition (the most expensive hl2 version), i've read it somewhere, sorry no link. But if i remember it all correctly there will be stuff like posters, caps and/or t-shirts included.
about the steam verification stuff.... you can play hl2 singleplayer and multiplayer (on LAN) without needing steam at all..... it's only for the patching and online multiplay part you need steam for. ( i emailed gabe about it)
If i remember correct Stalker uses ragdoll physics, half-life 2 doesn't, because it uses rigid body physics, which are way better.
Ragdoll physics are used most of the time solely for making death sequences (falling to the ground, tumbling down) more dynamic. This usually (ut2003) looks...
81. All the people on this forum have been so busy posting stuff that no-one noticed it's long past Sept 30th and everybody except them is playing hl2 :P
so the reason is.... there is no delay.
80. Haven't you heard ít's out yet? :| Some guy from some forum who knows some guy who works at some important company that deliver some stuff to some guys that know someone at Valve told me.
Re: Re: Headcrab\Combine?
This had been discussed before, and if i remember correct the beep you hear when they die is because they have HEV/PCV type suits (like gordon) and when they die it gives a flatline (beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep......)
I think the AI will be very nice. At least a heck of a lot better then HL1 *I REFUSE TO GO ANOTHER STEP!* :D:D:D
/me whacks scientist over the head with a crowbar.
yeah i thought so too and posted about it too (and about the 'just like old times' part) but no-one believed me. Glad that's changed now ;)
And yeah it might be true.... could cause a shock to a lot of not-knowers at the end of half-life 2 ;) *SURPRISE! G-MAN = GORDON!*
Q: How come alyx smiles so big at the beginning of the Kleiners lab level?
A: She's got a naughty mini-manipulator in her trousers.
(i don't believe the 'higher set emotional expressoins engine' story ;))