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anyone notice the new

"combinesoldiersheet_shotgun.vtf" skin that is in "source 2007 Materials" in "combine_solider"? That is new.

I believe it is one of the new skins we seen in the Advisor Video.

also

"materials\Models\Tools\camera"

Materials for a Camera?
 
The camera is just a little visual icon used in Hammer to show a camera in the 3D views.
 
Lobster said:
The camera is just a little visual icon used in Hammer to show a camera in the 3D views.
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How come the same textures aren't in "source shared"?

The texture size is 2048x2048, I would show you it but that would be illegal.

It says "ARR!" on it.
 
You know, new soldier models are cool and all, but I want a cloaking soldier. I loved the assassins in HL1 and the invisible Elites in Halo. There's something about spotting the slight distortion, and shooting at it so you see his blood on the wall behind him.

It's not totally impossible that Elites, with their garish white uniforms, have an octopus-like camouflage. It would make fighting them in the woods totally different. Too bad it'll never happen.
 
Cloaking worked for the HL1 assassins quite well, but Combine soldiers with cloaking would seem a bit wierd.
 
riomhaire said:
Cloaking worked for the HL1 assassins quite well, but Combine soldiers with cloaking would seem a bit wierd.
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Just the Elites. Imagine driving through a dark forest, climbing out to get some supplies at a random building, wondering at the odd heat haze around you as you smash supply crates... then the familar hum, and suddenly the energy ball comes out of nowhere, and you are blasted away as pulse rifle bolts emanate from empty blurs in the air.

It'd be awesome.
 
Why just Elites though? It'd bring about some fairly silly issues. :p
 
Because there has to be something to differentiate them more from normal soldier then different skins, more health, accuracy, and energy balls.
 
Why would they have camo? If they had camo, they would apply it to every kind of soldier.
 
With that kind of logic every soldier should have a pulse rifle. There is a clear distinction between combine ranks, with clear added benefits. Cloaking seems like the greatest advantage any given soldier could have on the battlefield, so it would be given to the best.

In addition, always remember that the combine do not have infinite resources. On Earth. Yet. :p
 
Elites are, well, you know, Elite. For one, they get the energy orb authorization.

Besides, it's easy to retcon camo tech on their stark white uniforms. Normal Combine have urban camo, so it would be weird to see them go invisible.

Anyway, it'd explain where the assassins' nifty camo tech went. You can set up limitations on their camo if you like... say it only lasts for thirty seconds or so. It'd make Elite ambushes a constant worry as you drive around.
 
i think its just a sort of Advisor Guards uniform, and that we wont see many of them in episode 2, only when we see advisors, but does anyone notice, as hes driving along the road at the start of the 'Advisor Video' that dropship thats crashed into that barn/house, that'll be cool to investigate.
 
Nicky 0123 said:
i think its just a sort of Advisor Guards uniform, and that we wont see many of them in episode 2, only when we see advisors, but does anyone notice, as hes driving along the road at the start of the 'Advisor Video' that dropship thats crashed into that barn/house, that'll be cool to investigate.
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It's a crashed Advisor Pod; the reason the Advisor is in the life-support thing.

Narvi said:
Anyway, it'd explain where the assassins' nifty camo tech went. You can set up limitations on their camo if you like... say it only lasts for thirty seconds or so. It'd make Elite ambushes a constant worry as you drive around.
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I deno, seems about hokey and not too Half-lifeish. I always thought the assassins were dumb.
 
Samon said:
I deno, seems about hokey and not too Half-lifeish. I always thought the assassins were dumb.
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The assassins were a lot of fun, you know. Hot chicks with great legs who could turn invisible and use she fu on you.

Yeah, bit silly, but Elites would look a bit silly in a forest environment anyway. Camo used properly can be quite intimidating; ever watch Predator? :p
 
Elites look silly in general compared to the awesome of the standard soldier. :p
 
Energy pellets + camo = XP

I never thought Elites looked silly, except for the wellies.

I would like to see something like the HL1 assassins again, but the beta HL2 assassins don't seem to fit in very well with the Combine that are in the final version of HL2.
 
I think the Elites look too Nazi. The white looks daft and the wellies scream Hail Hitler. I much prefer the cyborg look of the soldiers. The only redeeming feature of the Elites is the ocular eye.
 
I quite like the white. I never made any connections to Nazis though. I just thought the wellies looks bloody silly.
 
The problem with white is they probably couldn't do it without the black wellies.
 
Black boots would be fine, but wellies? Whenever I see their feet I think of farmers.
 
Seems like Valve has also added their own Parallax Mapping, and they have made textures more hires. All textures of TF2 are 1024x1024, doubled of basic HL2 size. And they have all possible maps, normal maps, height maps, "grey" maps, noalpha maps, speculars, phong and else.

I hope I can run textures in High, along with Model Quality. I don't care of antialias or anistropic, I just hate to play with blurry textures and blocky models.
 
Anyone notice the "Achievement Icons" under "materials\VGUI\achievements"

One of them is called "hl2_find_allgmen" and "hl2_find_alllambdas" These must be some of the secret Achievements.

Haha, "hl2_hit_cancop_withcan"
 
You know that first achievement makes me think that we will be getting some G-man sightings in ep2.
 
riomhaire said:
Black boots would be fine, but wellies? Whenever I see their feet I think of farmers.
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These are a pair of German Knobelbechere (Jackboots):

jackboots.jpg


If that doesn't look like Elite boots, I don't know what does. Also similar is the fact that the Elites tuck their pant legs into the boot in the German fashion.
 
Tomu said:
You know that first achievement makes me think that we will be getting some G-man sightings in ep2.
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These are the HL2 acheivements.

Once orange box comes out, there will be acheivements for HL2, Ep1, Ep2, Portal and TF2.
 
I can't wait until the SDK update. :D
 
Lighting preview is what I'm getting excited about.
 
I don't remember hearing something like that. The Benchmark that you can grab on the Internet is official in the sense that it's what was given out at GDC, but it isn't allowed to the general public. Actually, I don't really know the specifics at all except that Valve said to 'not allow' it. Kinda like the leak content.
 
Samon said:
I don't remember hearing something like that. The Benchmark that you can grab on the Internet is official in the sense that it's what was given out at GDC, but it isn't allowed to the general public. Actually, I don't really know the specifics at all except that Valve said to 'not allow' it. Kinda like the leak content.
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I'm a bit surprised that they're not making an official benchmark for Quad-Core vs. Dual-Core and Single-Core. I sent him a mail a while back asking if they would be making one but he never answered.

I guess he thought i meant the leaked version and ignored me :p
 
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