I do hope they do a decent job. its just a question of the atmosphere. You remember MoHAA? In the U-boat base, that guys who played cards. they talked decent german, like one would expect it during a card game. A lot of people did not notice this (just because they don't know german), but those...
so there will be free mods (that can be god or bad, depends...) and semi-Addons, made by professionals? hm...I could live with that. Howeve, it would really really suck if they start to charge for steam, especially if HL2 MP is only possible over Steam (and, of course, the LAN). I hope that...
Medic all the time. i have played a lot of Dc, but the grenadelauncher ruined the CQBs like Berlin. May be the next patch will fix that up. I play alot of battlegroup 1942, and I'm eagerly awaiting Forgotten Hope.
the ai should work together any time, but they should increase the aggressiveness and number of it. so on easy, they advance very carefully, covering each other, but are a little dumb (don't look in every corner, so you can shoot them quite easily). On medium settings, they advance aggressivly...
hm I think it will be like this:
g-man works for the aliens, bringing them to earth and stuff.
at the same time, he has gordon safely stored away, as a "backup plan"
he releases gordon in city 17, without the knowledge of the aliens. Gordon fights the aliens, being supportet by g-man...
they work on a german version, I'm glad...
Roundtabeldiscussions on IRC suck. they should have made one interviewer, who stays in contact with the community over Forums or stuff.
You can see the grass popping out during the buggy scene. Its not that serious, since you barely see enemys and stuff from far away, all the time you getting closer, until you stand in front of em, due to the level design. I haven't noticed any worse pop ups, so it should be okay.
oh, if you are with the online community from the beginning, you can at least put up a good fight. I have recently started to play UT 2003, and i'm doing decent. I'm never at the top, but also rarely on the bottom.
I would probably play sp for a few hours, then fire up Mp and see what goes.
To the buggie thing: why not take one of these cameradrones for that? i'd be cool to actually see the camera circle around the leading buggy. Plus, did gabe say one camera AT ALL or just one camera ACTIVE? cause you...
well, serverside leads to things like shooting your whole magazine at a guy at point blanc range, and still don't hit him. Client side is, when you hit somebody, he is hit. however, as you said, its easier to tell the server "I hit him, I hit him", without actually doing so.