No multiplayer -- why?

[Eternity]

If you read Icarus' interview, with Chuck, the editor of PC GAMER, Chuck reveals that the only multiplayer is CS: Source. Is anyone else not as much mad (I didn't even play HL Multiplayer) as kind of confused? They've been developing the game for five years, and they obviously implemented multiplayer code. Why not just do a few deathmatch maps? Better yet, why didn't they tell us that CS: Source was the multiplayer instead of acting like it was a big secret?

I'm sorry Valve, but that secret sucks. I would have fallen for it if it was Counter-Strike 2. Right now, we are getting absolutely nothing new, just a rehash of the original CS. Oh, with a few vehicles thrown in, since Gabe said you could drive vehicles in multiplayer.

Blah.

 

[Agent.M]

Yeah I am quite dissapointed also but o well Itll still be a fun game I just wish vavle would have been a little more original.

 

[ukfluke]

well valve told us this at e3. hate to say it "hl2 themed mp beilevers" i was right

err they have been original theyve mad the mp nothing to do with the HL2 world. Instead they made a clever decision to convert the most popular fps mp in history to source.

This all but guarantees success for HL2/mods/future titles.

 

[jimbones]

Blah.

quoted for emphasis

but seriously: relax, there's going to be enough rehashes of current hl-mods to shake a stick at (DOD, Sven-CoOp, NS, S&I etc..)

 

[Death.Trap]

Counter Strike is retarded. I hope someone at least mods in an HL2 themed mp.

 

[Gorgon]

Yes I am dissapointed as well. But, eh what can you do.

There will be alot of great mods.

 

[TheWart]

I just want to see all those people who kept deriding those who thought CS:S was the only MP to admit their foolishness in this thread.

I think Valve dropped the ball bigtime on this by not having any other MP option...

 

[Eternity]

well valve told us this at e3. hate to say it "hl2 themed mp beilevers" i was right

Right, but he was so obtuse about it that nobody really knew what he said.

Let me repeat, I'm not mad at Valve. This isn't a Valve-bashing thread. I'm just conjecturing about why they didn't implement any other modes. It's weird. Importing mulitplayer just doesn't seem their style. And like someone said, CS isn't everyone's bag of chocolates.

 

[KagePrototype]

If you read Icarus' interview, with Chuck, the editor of PC GAMER, Chuck reveals that the only multiplayer is CS: Source. Is anyone else not as much mad (I didn't even play HL Multiplayer) as kind of confused? They've been developing the game for five years, and they obviously implemented multiplayer code. Why not just do a few deathmatch maps? Better yet, why didn't they tell us that CS: Source was the multiplayer instead of acting like it was a big secret?

I'm sorry Valve, but that secret sucks. I would have fallen for it if it was Counter-Strike 2. Right now, we are getting absolutely nothing new, just a rehash of the original CS. Oh, with a few vehicles thrown in, since Gabe said you could drive vehicles in multiplayer.

Blah.

This is my problem. Valve wouldn't talk about it or even confirm it, and we've had to get this information through third-party sources. Instead of clearing up the mess, they just remain tight-lipped.

 

[joule]

This thread was inevitable. Stop complaining. Half-Life 2 will own. And to add that it's going to be packed with so much more and all the mods that follow, I am extremely excited and there is nothing to wine about. Just be happy that you are getting multiplay. Valve knows best.

 

[jimbones]

I think that the main reason for valve's cs:s for hl2dm is:

the community will do the rest mp-modwise..

 

[Pressure]

They're making a Sven Coop 2 right? So no worries.

 

[Icarus]

We don't need so many topics on this, there are two already.

*Closed*