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I think they have pretty much finalized the box-art for the standard edition. http://www.beakshy.com/valve/pic_06.JPG That only shows the Alyx and Gordon boxes, but I believe G-Man is on one of them.

It seems the HL2D link has a break tag left in there by accident. (< br /> )

After reading through this thread I believe I already located the source of my error, but just in case, I'm going to ask anyways. I recently installed the new Cat 3.8 drivers (but forgot to uninstall the Control Bar/Taskbar, which is possibly the problem). I turned on a SmartShader effect...

You know this how? Edit: Please refrain from using all caps like an idiot

Well, then what exactly will we discuss? AMD vs Intel toaster benchmarks? Sounds like fun! If one needed proof "one way or another" prior to having a discussion, it is unlikely one would HAVE a discussion in the first place as it is pretty much... proven. As to whether an enemy will...

Well, for some games it might not make a difference whether you have more or not. But other games, generally the ones which have alot of AI characters/units, it does make a difference. I have, in the same day, switched from 640 to 512 and seen a performance loss (although only when pushing it...

If you only have 512 megabytes of ram and your running Windows XP, then getting more ram will definitely help. I have seen performance jumps in games that have much lower requirements than Half-life 2 by upping past 512. Depending on which motherboard setup you have, you may just want to add...

VAC is going to be the main cheat protection system (integrated with steam). Half-life as an engine was poorly designed for preventing cheaters. All recent games are much harder to hack. Half-life 2 will also be much harder to hack (compared with HL1). If someone really wants to hack/cheat, they...

On another note, this system of giving NPC's weapons would work well with a limited armament system (ie. not being able to carry every weapon). If you can't bring along Gun A (already full inventory), then give it to an NPC so he can assist you more effectively. This would also allow you...

It would be very disappointing to not be able to kill barney, or any character for that matter. While I understand why Gabe wants to set up the game in such a way that the player is not inclined to kill an ally (to get a gun back or whatnot), making some characters invulnerable because they are...

The bootup screen is good as is, I just felt it might be better with a little more, but I don't know what that would like anyways. I understand why you wouldn't want to change all the colors manually, it just that the colors struck me as... weird... or something. Hard to describe. One of...

Just going to add my thoughts/suggestions here. First off, the loging screen is great. The bootup screen... is nice but seems a bit bland. Perhaps you could add some sort of text to it (similar to the "Take off suit" in login screen). The thing that gets me the most is the color scheme...

I have to agree with Typhon on this. Being able to carry a dozen or so weapons with full loads of ammo seems very... unlikely, at the least. Even if Gordon was strong enough (or the HEV made him strong enough) to carry all that, where exactly is that stuff stored? Gordon seemingly pulls weapons...

It seems that the "blue beam" gravity weapon is only used in the tech demo to quickly and easily show off the physics engine. Thus it is very likely that you will not get access to this weapon/device in the game at all. The practical uses for this device are more limited than the manipulator...

You can find it at HL2central.net on this page. Or if the link isn't working, go to Hl2central.net, downloads, movies, and get the 4th video of the gamespot series. This is the sewers level that I believe will be released in large format tomorrow or so on steam. (The quality is low, btw)

Sorry if I can't get off this topic, its just something that interests me ... Gargus said "its already been discussed", which I took to mean someone had either figured out the hidden message or discovered there was none. I didn't really think it had no meaning at all, but I have heard nothing...

Ahhhh okay, I figured someone would have discovered that already. So theres no meaning in all of it? Just random equations, faces, symbols, and figures to create a cool effect?

I was watching the very end of the E3 video and I saw a bunch of (what at least appeared to be) faces and people. Has everyone else seen them? Perhaps theres something in them, maybe the faces are of one of the designers or something. Perhaps I'm seeing things or mentioning something already...

Nearly all of the footage released by Valve to the public was taken from more than a year ago. Any discrepencies like the gun switching between two types (and there are quite a few) are due to that they were using placeholder models/graphics that have been fixed for some time. Valve has...