Levels

[aXoe]

Althought the levels look awesome from HL2 does any body know roughly how many of them there will be? And multiplayer whats up with that, does anybody know what features it will have :hmph:. I would really like to know if any of you guys have heard anything about this. Hey should valve be realeasing info about the game soon, its 2 days and a month away sooo...

 

[Gunner]

How many levels? many.

Multiplayer? nothing new at the moment. Sorry : /

 

[marksmanHL2 :)]

Hmmm, gabe did tell us about how long the game was. But I cant quite remember. Try the emails to valve thread

As for multiplayer. No one knows anything about it. Other than these small facts:

1. Its being developed In house and its not a mod team doing it.
2. The source engine is suppost to be geared arround multiplayer and is supposed to do it well.
3. It will include vehicles


I expect they will have to tell us soonish. And maybe the SDK will be out soon.

 

[dawdler]

Originally posted by marksmanHL2
1. Its being developed In house and its not a mod team doing it.
2. The source engine is suppost to be geared arround multiplayer and is supposed to do it well.
3. It will include vehicles

As far as I know, we havent been specifically told it would use vehicles. That you could use vehicles, but not that it would. Not that I have any doubts it will have them

Anyway, it isnt important how many levels there are. I dont understand why it should. HL2 is a ongoing world, not levels

 

[Gunner]

Dawdler you have the feeling of an "ongoing world" but once you go through the loading corridors of death in zig-zag shape you will lose that feeling.

 

[marksmanHL2 :)]

I remember reading in an email quite early on that gabe said something like:

Yes there will be vehicles in HL2 Multiplayer

Now that could be taken either way. So I see what you mean. Its just me being hopefull I think.

 

[Feath]

It will span 12 Chapters, Each last estimated at 3 - 4 hours each, according to PC Gamer UK.

 

[Ankster]

I remember that it was said that the game should take about 36hours to complete.

 

[dawdler]

Originally posted by marksmanHL2
I remember reading in an email quite early on that gabe said something like:

Yes there will be vehicles in HL2 Multiplayer

Now that could be taken either way. So I see what you mean. Its just me being hopefull I think.

Gabe never comments on multiplayer, so are you sure you read right?

)[eVo]( Para, that's cause you still think in HL. When you get such large levels as HL2, it suddenly become a map instead

 

[DjBourgeoisie]

I wonder how many cd's hl2 will be, I am guessing 3.

 

[Kuros]

Nobody knows what the multiplayer part will be but I'm guessing it will be CS2 or "Counter-Strike Classic" or something like that since they have had Minh Le working on it for quite some time.

 

[Typhon]

omg. honestly. how many times can they say, and how many times can we repeat, that the MP in HL2 is NOT CS2 OR TF2.

 

[Kamakiri]

This is my guess.

Multiplayer will be like BF1942. HUGE maps with heaps of vehicles and MAJOR teamwork to win.

I bet I'm right.

 

[Typhon]

^^ I'll buy the huge maps argument. We've all seen that thing about how much bigger HL2 maps can be than in HL1

 

[Kamakiri]

It would be cool. I really can't imagine it being anything else. It will be quite easy for Valve to create designed multiplayer maps that have flying vehicles jeeps etc etc and who knows what else that we have not seen.

Maybe it will be like Tribes 2 in regards to a inventory. Go and buy your stuff before you go out and kill stuff.

 

[dawdler]

Originally posted by Kamakiri
This is my guess.

Multiplayer will be like BF1942. HUGE maps with heaps of vehicles and MAJOR teamwork to win.

I bet I'm right.

Since when does BF1942 has either HUGE maps or MAJOR teamwork? I played it for what, 5-6 months (and that was nearly the only game played) and never experienced either, especially the last part

 

[Guest]

Originally posted by Kamakiri
This is my guess.

Multiplayer will be like BF1942. HUGE maps with heaps of vehicles and MAJOR teamwork to win.

I bet I'm right.

I think tf2 will be like bf1942.
but it will be great that hl2 features a "bf1942 like" mp with human vs combine vs alien like in starcraft.

I always think that 32 players are not enough for great wars, so each player should be able to manage 10 bots in a small group.

 

[dis]

Originally posted by Typhon
^^ I'll buy the huge maps argument. We've all seen that thing about how much bigger HL2 maps can be than in HL1

I just hope that if it does have huge maps that it won't be as laggy as BF1942. I have a fast cable connection that works excellent for all other games, but BF1942 lags like crazy - almost to the point of being unplayable at times. BF1942 must have some of the worst netcode of any of today's games; another part of the problem, I think, is that BF1942 servers tend to have more players in them than they can adequately handle. Hopefully, either HL2 has way better netcode or server admins will be smart and not allow more people on their servers than they can handle.

 

[Xrenity]

the HL netcode was great and Gabe said that the netcode in HL2 will be even better

 

[aXoe]

I just hope they dont **** the game up by trying too hard to get it realeased on September 30. Anybody remember CnC Generals. Oh i read somewhere that the servers on HL2 will be able to hold more that 32 players

 

[Kamakiri]

Either way bugs or no bugs i just want it in my hands and on my pc.

 

[aXoe]

Agreed

 

[Nuclear_Gerber]

Who cares about bugs? They got Steam to upgrade whenever they want.
We demand HL2!