Because he must look formal and businesslike to Gordon, even if he's ugly slimy worm with bad breath form another dimention, this is just his human form maybe.
The same mystery as the secondary fire of the shotgun.
I think valve just wanted to preserve all the weapons from HL1 with their original capabilities.
I personaly prefer sacrificing a bit of realism for having the good old faithful grenade launcher under the barrel, and double-action shotgun...
After i overclocked my hardware (CPU + 20%, GPU + 30%, RAM + 10%) i've gained an increased system performance of around 30%, which is a quite an achievement (i can squeeze out more, but i prefer stability). I had to buy new cooling and PSU of corse...I don't think i'll have any problems with EP2.
...yeah, i'm thinking about a 8Ghz quadro CPU, 2x GF8800 in SLI, at least 3GB Ram in Dual Channel, 1000W 5.1 Surround speakers, 30" LCD monitor or better a videowall :P
EDIT: obviously i'm just kiddin'
1. Alyx (Upgraded facial animations, battle moves and of corse - that shoutgun in the hospital :E, not to mention the AI)
2. Zombines (new enemy - new fun)
3. Commentary
4. HDR (Not a big 'who knows what' for me. In fact i think Valve overdone themselves with the HDR, sometimes it doesn't...
Good job. Gordon behaves like a dumb kid, lol. Like, Alyx: "Good shot Gordon!", Gordon: *silent* "Yeah, i kill the monster, i kill the monster, i kill the monster, yupeeee!", lol :E
Alien vs. Predator. The first game (AVP 1, Gold Edition or Director's Cut as they call it) is much more darker and scarier. But AVP 2 is much more advanced, with better graphics (for the time - DX8), sound and gameplay. And the multiplayer is awesome.
Thanks, i'm glad you like it. The idea to use the door as a shield from the energy orbs i learned from the commentary tracks. Remember, commentary tracks are your friend :)
DivX and XviD are the only two video codecs i use (mainly XviD). And AC3 filter for decoding the audio. Only these three and nothing else. I never had problems with any video.
DivX: http://www.divx.com/divx/windows/codec/
XviD: http://www.koepi.org/xvid.shtml
AC3...
Nothing better than a dark coridor, only emergency lights glowing from the walls. You come to a dead end, a heavy door stands here, an airlock. It's locked, but you come closer, you hear some creepy scratching and growling of an unknown monster on the other side. You try your hacking device to...
No suglasses pls, i like the way they created her eyes :)
She might look well in a combine uniform, without the helmet of corse...hmm, hey hey, what about an asassin uniform, she knows how to shoot a sniper rifle, now she needs the proper clothes :P
Not everyone. Alyx and Gordon (obviously) can't, but Kleiner and Eli could do some change on their clothes. After all, they're safe and sound in the heavily guarded missile silo :)
Even on low settings the things don't get so mixed up. Objects displaced and extremely aliased, shadows erraticaly casted, and even some unidentified things popping up around.
These screenshots look like they were taken from early development stage test levels for Ep2.
I lost space and bandwidth on my personal hosting just to make it available to you instead of the crappy YouTube quality, and you're still not satisfied. Thanks for the appreciation... :sleep: