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Hehe thanks for the abundant replies :) My brother played on easy and was very cautious, always attacking the striders from behind or making sure he didn't get hit at least. I'm playing on normal and it seems that easy is made for people who have never played a fps. Combine soldiers, even the...

My brother has finished HL2 today, I'm still a bit behind because of school work and getting my 9800Pro only last friday (just entered Ravenholm), but here's my concern: my brother said he has fought multiple striders, only he has never seen them use the blue cannon as seen in the bink vids...

Errr, it's on Slashdot. Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday June 10, @10:30PM And I think this is the way to go for computer-crime solving: big big communities that all work on one case, like ants in an ant-hill. I can't put an estimate on how big the HL2 community is, but I bet it's big if it...

The sparks thing was NOT fixed in the E3 2004 video: *link removed by author, read edit* Not that I mind, it's still a stunningly great game, but saying it's fixed when it isn't fixed is not so good. Wait a sec...just thought of something: perhaps this vid was recorded on an older build...

I e-mailed gabe about this a long time ago (the effect is called the Droste-effect). In the tech-demo, the player picks up a camera with his antigrav gun, and points it at the big tv screen, so you have a picture of the screen on the screen :) but in that picture of the screen, there is no...

No, I don't remember. Can you give me a link? I searched for "joke employee" (because it won't accept 'bio' as it's under 4 letters long) but nothing showed up :(

No offense to both, I presume :p

One part of me says: Damn, I wish I'd live in Russia. I could go out and buy the game, pretending to be stupid and fall for it, and nobody would get mad at me for getting the Beta. I mean, my ethics keep me from downloading it now, but what if I were in russia, you know? The other part of me...

Damn I'm SO jealous of you, Algor, you couldn't imagine. Great info on the helicopter and their playtesting. It's good to know that they're busy playtesting, gives me some hope that they're actually nearing completion, instead of redoing stuff because of the leak. I'd love to see what's on...

I'm absolutely positive he did that, there's no way that NONE of his 'programs' work on win2k. Best thing to do is format the hard-drive, convert it to ntfs, and just install win2k. Unless of course you only have on hard disk, and you'll lose all your music, pictures, installers etc. I always...

Wow I always thought EAX was only supported by Audigy cards. I just looked at this page http://www.soundblaster.com/products/sblive/specs.asp and indeed, my card supports EAX. The problem still persists though...damn, what should I do? Edit: Hmm, that page seems to be about a Live! 5.1 card...

Well, have you seen the interview? I hadn't, and it was quite a good watch. There isn't any new in-game footage though. But if you haven't seen it, I urge you to look at it, it's quite interesting.Gabe mentions that instead of buying Ferraris with the money they got from HL, they used it to fund...

I've got a Live! 1024 SoundBlaster card, so no EAX acceleration on it, and when I enable EAX in a game, it gives me a huge performance hit. It sounds logical, but is it normal? I'm surprised that EAX is so processor-intensive (in my case, all the work is done by my cpu instead of on the...

That "preview" picture is actually a released screenshot. So not part of any video we've seen. Rather interesting is the actual video. A video interview with Gabe, talking about the game, development funding, and (don't get your panties in a knot just yet) a holiday 2003 release. I guess the...

This mod looks very promising indeed. I'll be excited to hear when it's released. I like the setting, the weapon models are simply awesome, and I like the style of the characters, for instance the bags on the guy's lower back/ass, that's a great idea. The eyes look creepy, may need a little work...

Does NFS:U use Havok? I've played the game (alot), and the suspension (car hangs sideways in heavy curves) and car-crashes (cars crashing full frontal, or from 300km/h to 0 in 0.1 sec) look great, but I can't find any evidence on google. I haven't played Max Payne 2, but I can imagine the...

Ooh, excellent ideas there, DEATH eVADER!! I think G-man would say: "The planet has been overrun" rather than just America. But apart from that, it's totally plausible!!

One thing that surprises me is that there wasn't a native HL option to add bots to a multiplayer game. The only bots you had were 3rd party mods. They probably used part of the AI code from the single-player part of the game, though I'm not sure about that. Anyone who knows? My point is, what...

Champ: I've played both CoD demo's, and indeed it's a rather big portion of the Allied campaign, but after all, CoD isn't that big a game. I haven't finished it yet, due to my exams coming up soon, but I will, and I think even though the game is quite short, it's definately worth it's money...

All nasty arguments aside, I'm going to keep this strictly about the poll: I voted for "little bit of info, not everything", because I value the element of surprise. Just like the people at VALVe, I think it's better to play the game without knowing too much about the story, the characters, the...