HL2:Multiplayer (The big secret all this time was that it did not exist?)

[Adam]

For the longest time, since the begining, Valve cept their mouths shut when approached with any questions on what Half-Life 2 multiplayer would be like. All interviews that asked about it recieved 'no comment' and responses that more info about it would be released nearer the games release. Then later on I read interviews where Valve stated something along the lines of, "this is going to be big" when asked about the mutliplayer. And some employees interviewed said they play it often.

Now everyone was very excited about HL2:Multiplayer. The thought of enjoying HL online again with Gordon and his trusty crowbar smashing your opponents up with new features like the possibility of using the manipulator to throw objects at everyone, and even speculated abilitys like being able to control a strider and stomp around the town shooting everyone up, brought much excitment and anticipation.

Now recently to my dismay, I read the following in a recent interview with Doug Lombardi.

Computer Games Romania: Does Half-Life: Source include multiplayer as the original Half-Life did?
Doug Lombardi: Not at launch.

Please tell me this is a mistake. If HL2 is not comming with mutliplayer after all these years of waiting, and them giving it hype but being all silent about any info on it, I will be very annoyed and disapointed. They might as well rename the game HL1.5 if it is missing the multiplayer aspect!

Also, CS:Source does not count as HL2 Multiplayer, theres no Gordon, crowbars, striders, etc in CS:Source. Besides, I did not wait all these years just to play a more graphical version of the same old repetitive Counter-Strike with phsysics added. A mod team could have made that for HL2:Source in a few months if the community needed it that bad.

 

[Shuzer]

Half-Life: Source is the Source port of the original Half-Life. It is not Half-Life 2, and therefore, our question still remains unanswered.

 

[clarky003]

well if you use your intuition,, you can pretty much figure out that the Multiplayer will be classic HL2 deathmatch , I hope :dozey: .

 

[AJ Rimmer]

Well, I never did like HL:Multiplayer to begin with and I don't give a rats arse about it in HL2, I want the singelplayer, although CS:S may actually get me to like CS for the first time ever.

 

[clarky003]

but alot more people do want a HL2 classic multiplayer, it was a big hit with a majority, Valve would have a pipe loose if they didnt include it in HL2 package, but if you look at most FPS's and HL1 , and the leak, its pretty plain to see that they should be including it.

 

[Orange]

any teambased setup would be fine by me.

I freaked out reading the interview also, but i reread the line about multiplayer and noticed they asked about HLsource and not HL2.

I do reallllly hope there's more than the CS port which has been promised for release at same time.
My question: If the RC gets approved for HL2, would the game/package be delayed for the RC of CS:S to be finished and approved?

 

[Shuzer]

Considering CS:S is included with HL2, I doubt they will have a retail package available for CS:S at HL2 launch.

 

[Adam]

Ohhhhhhhhhh.... No wonder! HL:Source is not HL2... lol..

Ok now I get it, so it was a mistake after all, atleast a mistake on my part.
So HL2 might (IT BETTER) have multiplayer still, but the question was asking if the port version of Half-Life original will be included with HL2. Thanks.

 

[VBN]

No.. just.. No.

Don't

 

[clarky003]

Well heres a novel idea...don't buy it then you whinging moron. After all no one is making you do it are they. So your gonna be pissed, lets face it no one gives a toss, go suck on lemon fartknocker.

no need for that really:dozey: im not impressed :flame:

 

[Adam]

VBN you have just been reported to the admins for your negative and rude contribution to these forums.

 

[Mr-Fusion]

At least it was a creative insult.

fartknocker....hehe...

 

[VBN]

Oh no did you tell teacher....well my dads bigger than your dad.

Anyway to whoever thought my post was not needed, don't you find it ever so slightly annoying when mooks like this Edam bloke post stuff like 'Oh I'm gonna be so annoyed coz Santa Newell didnt give me all the presents I want', no one cares mate. This is a HL2 forum not a HL2 aww its not what I thought forum, so I am going to whinge like an ickle girl (Sorry no offense to girls.)

If the admins honestly believe I am out order then I apologise to them.

 

[GorgeousOrifice]

Now recently to my dismay, I read the following in a recent interview with Doug Lombardi.

Computer Games Romania: Does Half-Life: Source include multiplayer as the original Half-Life did?
Doug Lombardi: Not at launch.

Please tell me this is a mistake. If HL2 is not comming with mutliplayer after all these years of waiting, and them giving it hype but being all silent about any info on it, I will be very annoyed and disapointed. They might as well rename the game HL1.5 if it is missing the multiplayer aspect!

Wow, the reading comprehension tests in your state must be behind a few years.

 

[VBN]

Wow, the reading comprehension tests in your state must be behind a few years.

Careful mate he will tell his dad that your picking on him

 

[Daiceman9]

Wow, the reading comprehension tests in your state must be behind a few years.

Yet another child that has been left behind. :smoking:

 

[EVIL]

leave adam alone.. or i'l bring the big guns

 

[ComradeBadger]

Oh no did you tell teacher....well my dads bigger than your dad.

Anyway to whoever thought my post was not needed, don't you find it ever so slightly annoying when mooks like this Edam bloke post stuff like 'Oh I'm gonna be so annoyed coz Santa Newell didnt give me all the presents I want', no one cares mate. This is a HL2 forum not a HL2 aww its not what I thought forum, so I am going to whinge like an ickle girl (Sorry no offense to girls.)

If the admins honestly believe I am out order then I apologise to them.

I happen to believe your behaviour is not needed.

 

[Some_God]

I happen to believe your behaviour is not needed.

OMG OMG PWNED!111

 

[Subz]

SUPER COP OUT, if hl2 does not have a real multiplayer. Sorry but cs:S and dod:S (which you probably have to buy seperatly) DO NOT COUNT. i dont call 4 year old mods a multiplayer mode.

 

[Shuzer]

Already been confirmed CS:S will be included with HL2
Unless you were referring strictly to DoD:S, then.. yeah, I agree

 

[Logic]

Oh no did you tell teacher....well my dads bigger than your dad.

Anyway to whoever thought my post was not needed, don't you find it ever so slightly annoying when mooks like this Edam bloke post stuff like 'Oh I'm gonna be so annoyed coz Santa Newell didnt give me all the presents I want', no one cares mate. This is a HL2 forum not a HL2 aww its not what I thought forum, so I am going to whinge like an ickle girl (Sorry no offense to girls.)

If the admins honestly believe I am out order then I apologise to them.

This is a forum about HL2. It's a place where people can freely share their thoughts about it, and naturally there will be everything from excitement to dissapointment, speculation and even misinterpretation. If you honestly believe that amazingly intelligent posts like 'stop whinging, moron', and 'no one gives a toss' are a valuable contribution, you really, really need to think harder.

Back to the topic though.. I've had a suspicion for quite a while that HL2 may end up just resorting to the mods (CS: source, and DOD: source) for multiplayer. Either way, it's the single player I'm after, so I'm not bothered by the possibility. I suppose they've been working on the game for quite a while, though, so it's just as likely they've whipped up a nice multiplayer mode or two.

 

[Javert]

I'm pretty sure there will be a form of HL2 deathmatch MP, though it's not a port of the HL1 deathmatch MP.

 

[Asuka]

For the longest time, since the begining, Valve cept their mouths shut when approached with any questions on what Half-Life 2 multiplayer would be like. All interviews that asked about it recieved 'no comment' and responses that more info about it would be released nearer the games release. Then later on I read interviews where Valve stated something along the lines of, "this is going to be big" when asked about the mutliplayer. And some employees interviewed said they play it often.

Now everyone was very excited about HL2:Multiplayer. The thought of enjoying HL online again with Gordon and his trusty crowbar smashing your opponents up with new features like the possibility of using the manipulator to throw objects at everyone, and even speculated abilitys like being able to control a strider and stomp around the town shooting everyone up, brought much excitment and anticipation.

Now recently to my dismay, I read the following in a recent interview with Doug Lombardi.

Computer Games Romania: Does Half-Life: Source include multiplayer as the original Half-Life did?
Doug Lombardi: Not at launch.

Please tell me this is a mistake. If HL2 is not comming with mutliplayer after all these years of waiting, and them giving it hype but being all silent about any info on it, I will be very annoyed and disapointed. They might as well rename the game HL1.5 if it is missing the multiplayer aspect!

Also, CS:Source does not count as HL2 Multiplayer, theres no Gordon, crowbars, striders, etc in CS:Source. Besides, I did not wait all these years just to play a more graphical version of the same old repetitive Counter-Strike with phsysics added. A mod team could have made that for HL2:Source in a few months if the community needed it that bad.

Thats hl on source, he isnt talking about hl2.

 

[63]

HL2 will have it's own multiplayer, I even hear it will include a game mode called "SixThree the Flag"..

 

[disruptioN_]

Ohhhhhhhhhh.... No wonder! HL:Source is not HL2... lol..

Ok now I get it, so it was a mistake after all, atleast a mistake on my part.
So HL2 might (IT BETTER) have multiplayer still, but the question was asking if the port version of Half-Life original will be included with HL2. Thanks.

It's alright. I was thinking the same thing as you the first time I read that interview. Then I looked at the forums and there wasn't complete chaos so I read it again. :naughty:

 

[Adrien C]

HL 1.5 hahaha

 

[RoguePsi]

Well, I've just realised something. Amazing, I know! If HL:S will have its MP added later, then that suggests that HL2's MP won't be the same DM kind of affair. Why have 2 games with the same engine and the same modes playing exactly the same way? It would make sense for HL:S to have the traditional DM modes and HL2 provided an interesting and perhaps unique alternative. I could be very wrong but it does make sense.

 

[63]

Well, I've just realised something. Amazing, I know! If HL:S will have its MP added later, then that suggests that HL2's MP won't be the same DM kind of affair. Why have 2 games with the same engine and the same modes playing exactly the same way? It would make sense for HL:S to have the traditional DM modes and HL2 provided an interesting and perhaps unique alternative. I could be very wrong but it does make sense.

HL2 Onslaught

 

[poseyjmac]

city17 is too cool of a place for valve not to have a hl2 mp mode whose levels are based off it and other areas from the SP game.

it would be wasteful, because they have all the SP levels and textures to work with, and i dont think valve is that dumb to not take advantage of the cool world they made for sp and exploit it for MP.

its pretty safe to say there will be some HL2 MP either on launch or shortly after. and if not, modmakers will be all over it. i mean, after i go through SP, i sure as hell want to go back to city17 in MP.

 

[The Mullinator]

/me drools at the thought of a manipulator only death match in City-17.

 

[Be-vishead]

Didn't gabe say Hl2 will be something new and differnet and include Vehicles and stuff? I doubt they added vehicles to Cs.

 

[JATZ-MAN]

well maybe we'll see TF2 ......


ok maybe not, but thats what i would like to see :angel:

 

[clarky003]

* The Mullinator drools at the thought of a manipulator only death match in City-17.

*joins in drooling*

you so know, its going to happen dude

 

[Agent.M]

well if you use your intuition,, you can pretty much figure out that the Multiplayer will be classic HL2 deathmatch , I hope :dozey: .

GOD I HOPE NOT....IMO that would be such a dissapointment if HL2 only came with a classic style DM!

 

[lonestar]

Original Posted by The Mullinator
* The Mullinator drools at the thought of a manipulator only death match in City-17.

*joins the group of droolers

 

[virus]

*drools at the thought of TF2 on source*

I think HL²:mp wil something objective based, well kinda like onlsaught in UT, mayby with bigger varity in goals.

 

[Iced_Eagle]

I think it will be team-based and will require tactics or strategy :\

Take teh City 17 omg omg

Combine vs Humans omg omg

lol it's all speculation ladies

Hmmm.... next topic: Crowbar vs Manipulator

GO!

 

[Kouler]

The Manipulator picks up the crowbar and blasts it in the water...
The Crowbar smashes the Manipulator up into pieces...

It's a draw either way

 

[czrsink]

When Half-Life first came out, it only shipped with bog standard Death Match. We had to wait for a patch to get Team Fortress. What's to say Valve won't do exactly the same thing again?

Personally, I wouldn't mind Death Match with manipulators and Ant-Lions (instead of snarks) - as long as Gauss Jumping wasn't enabled, it could be a real blast.