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Oh, the Combine getting their hands on local teleportation tech would be so, so bad. Due to the limits of their portals, their tactics seem to involve making a small number of massive teleports, hence the Citadels. If they could make hundreds, even thousands of targeted teleports using the Xen...

Go to www.steampowered.com, grab a copy of the Steam client, and download the HL2 demo, and try it out for yourself.

If the lumps of rock were orbiting around some gravity source, this wouldn't mean you'd feel something like gravity standing on the rock. When you're in orbit, you're essentially falling in a circle. And the rock is falling with you. So you experience no force or acceleration relative to the...

Kitfox, sounds like the shader used to do the bloom effect isn't working, what card do you have?

I like how the bloom effect kinda bleaches out when you concentrate and all the detail on objects and things starts to stand out more, I thought that was a cool effect.

Yeh, sometimes stuff can slip out which causes an issue in something you never expected. It happens, look at how spectacularly wrong the last Garry's Mod release went, for one.

Yeh, a client-side cheat cannot give you infinite ammo. The server decides how much ammo you have, and that decision is final, the client can't just appropriate more.

The hardware DX shows the capability of the graphics card you have, and the software level is the version of the DirectX runtime you have installed, I think. Doesn't really make all that much sense to have it there, really.

Nah, Blue Shift was standalone. Which is why it was never on Steam.

Yup, it is absolutly critical that you remember your Steam username and password. Even with the backups you're stuffed if you can't remember that.

You get the feeling that Breen as a character has been telling himself that he's doing what's necessary for so long, he's started to believe it himself. Or, he knows, deep down, that what he's helped orchestrate is wrong, but he keeps doing it because if he stopped, and admitted he was wrong...

Gordon just seems to have a habit of being the right man in the wrong place: being in the test chamber that day, killing the Nihilanth, blowing up Nova Prospekt, blowing up the Dark Fusion Reactor...

And there was much more nuance in the story of HL1 than simply "aliens invade". For a start, it wasn't an invasion, it was an accident. Creatures from another world just ended up on Earth, and defended themselves. Then you find out that they've known about these aliens for a lot longer, and...

Combine teleport tech looks like it's best suited to punching a massive portal through to Earth, sending as much stuff through in one go as possible, then closing it up again. To support this, look how long it takes for the dark fusion reactor to get Breen across, or how long the Nova...

Or repulse.

I got HL2 going on 59% last time I redownloaded it.

There is already at least one external developer who is planning to release their game over Steam. www.piratesoftheburningsea.com But yeh, Valve definatly has an advantage over any other game distribution service, and this is that it's in the marketplace today, and it's proven because...

Not relevant here, but you can do some spectacular stuff decompiling .net dlls. I once decompiled a DLL I wrote in C# into VB. That was interesting.

Very much true. But for the record I agree. It's better than 100%, but they could probably get away with much, much less for Point Insertion, especially as you don't need weapons, most of the enemies, etc.

Actually, you can play HL2 at 59% downloaded. Wouldn't call that nearly all.