Students took trip to Valve

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Do you think it ends like this? No way. I'm gonna make a dozen Hordon avatars (making one rightnow) , and when HL2 is out , first thing I'm gonna do is a Hordon mod.

Gl Hf m8, can't w8.

 

[ajhodge]

Thanks for the info Strikeman.

I have one question for you about the bookshelf full of games. Had the Daikatana box actually been opened?

 

[Rebel X]

Not natural wind as such, apart from a constant force causing the slack cables to move, you can simulate wind as a force that pushes obects, one of the valve devs said they made a tornado using lots of these linked together, The gunships proppeler also applies this force.

Yeah that's what i thought.
*swears* darnit,dangit and SHAZAM!!! :angry:

 

[Strikeman]

Strikeman,

What’s your impression on the NPC plus enemies AI level ?

We only saw small parts of levels, just some stuff that was worth viewing without actually letting us look at the big monsters.
so there were headcrabs and people with headcrabs on their head; we all know what they do; they just come at you, no matter what, in a straight line.

Spoiler

the helicopter though, that's another thing. At first it just shoots at you with bullets, 2 rays of bullets right at you like in the movies. After you get it 'mad' it'll go after you with a spray of rockets !

I'll probably go to bed now as it is 3:45 past midnight out here and I still have to give a lecture tomorrow. I'll be happy to answer other questions when I'm back from work tomorrow.

 

[Strikeman]

Thanks for the info Strikeman.

I have one question for you about the bookshelf full of games. Had the Daikatana box actually been opened?

didn't really have that much time to look at the boxes; but seeing as they are all heavily addicted gamers, I suppose it had been opened.

 

[Rebel X]

Air is classifed as a fluid. HL2 does not have fluid dynamics. It would be increidble complicated (and expensive computational) to have fluid dynamics in the game. We won't see a game that has fluid dynamics in it for a looooong time.

Sad but true.

 

[Mechagodzilla]

Hooray! I guess it's confirmed that we will definitely see vids at E3. Mmmm...

 

[OnboardError]

Thank you Strikeman for all the info. We in behalf of hl2world say thanks..... and im sure this site too.

 

[Gorgon]

That is very interesting Strikeman. thanks.

 

[PoiSoNSpiDeR]

which is your favorite video strikeman

 

[nw909]

didn't really have that much time to look at the boxes; but seeing as they are all heavily addicted gamers, I suppose it had been opened.

*gasps in horror*

 

[Deadlor]

Here's 2 things I believe. 1. The TF2 shirt pictured in that shot may mean that as people have been speculating TF2 is the multi-player for Half-Life 2. 2. The "Start disc" might mean start disc replication as in going gold or something similar. Just my 2 cents. After all it is on the bottom of the board and there is plenty of room on top if they wanted to move stuff up and add new goals.

 

[Lethal8472]

I vote that this thread is made sticky, at least until after e3. Then 404829405 threads will pop up on that.

 

[Strikeman]

before it would be stickied, i propose cleaning it a bit ;-)

dang i said i was going to bed like 1 hour ago, didn't make it.

could as well answer this one:

which is your favorite video strikeman

well, the running headcrab would be it, the one you all can download on the article's page (or should be able to download by tomorrow). but i have ofcourse seen much more than we could capture on film so i would have to say that the favourite thing i saw was the fire trap I could do that for hours

Spoiler

if i don't run out of gas :^)

 

[AJM2K3]

fire trap? I must have missed something...

 

[DvS]

fire trap? I must have missed something...

Maybe it's just me but that sounds like the last thing you see in traptown.. where you shoot some barrel and boom.

 

[iamaelephant]

He wont tell us whats up with the traps because he says they're way too cool and you have to see them yourself.

And can everyone please shut the hell up about the whiteboard? Honestly....

 

[Jackal hit]

for that 6/3 thing... it looks more like "start disc..." to me, than "start disc."(emphasis on "...") i'm pretty sure they'd write disc as disk. so i think it's something about "start discovery" "start discography" "start disco" "start discount, discoid, discontinue or any of these following things:

http://www.acronymfinder.com/af-query.asp?p=dict&String=exact&Acronym=DISC


hell maybe it's "start discrimination" or something

but i really don't think it's disc as in "cd" or "flat thing with data on it"

edit: it does say discr, btw.

 

[Falcon(Nate)]

I don't know if that t-shirt is even a TF2 shirt to be honest. It could just be another TFC shirt.

 

[Jackal hit]

for that 6/3 thing...
...
...
...edit: it does say discr, btw.

okay i wish i could edit my last post out. i just got to strikeman's first post, so NEVERMIND ANYTHING I SAY ;(
*goes for a quiet walk in the park, and shoots self*

 

[tvgm2]

Was it business as usual though?

 

[chris_3]

Anyone else think that during the game, Gordon will lose most of his memory in the beginning... and then he will have painful headace memories threw out the game that will cut into cut scenes :0

 

[Mikey Canuck]

Anyone else think that during the game, Gordon will lose most of his memory in the beginning... and then he will have painful headace memories threw out the game that will cut into cut scenes :0

I doubt there will be cut scenes. Just scripted scenes like in the original.

Thanks for sharing the info and pics Strikeman.

 

[Shuzer]

VALVe already said there will be no cut scenes

 

[Jackal hit]

well we still couldn't beat the info from valve thread. oh well. btw, you guys think the helicopter from the pictures, and the helicopter strikeman is talking about is the same one that was mentioned back a couple months ago, when that one guy visitted valve and mentioned a programmer working on the ai of a helicopter... and it was smart enough to surprise the programmer? eh eh? :naughty: kinda pointless post i guess... ;(

 

[Mikey Canuck]

a programmer working on the ai of a helicopter... and it was smart enough to surprise the programmer

Sweet for HL2, bad for mankind in the near future.

 

[leadfish]

Wow...thanks for all the extra info and pics Strikeman, and thanks PvtRyan for the links All this has me so hyped up atm :thumbs:

 

[chris_3]

wow, Mikey im from windsor too i live in walkerville... and i love the red wings... and hate toronto :sniper:

 

[Duracell]

I don't know if that t-shirt is even a TF2 shirt to be honest. It could just be another TFC shirt.

It IS a TFC/TF2 shirt, you can tell by the design of the flag, trust me

I'm guessing they will be keeping the same sort of design, so lets just say its a 'Team Fortress' shirt

 

[AJM2K3]

leafs = I aer sad

 

[Deadlor]

T-shirts

Think about this though. Assume they're putting these t-shirts in the collector's edition of the game. (admittedly, no one is really sure about this and if we're wrong then my theory could be fubared, but assuming it is) Do you really think that they would put a t-shirt from a HL1 game into the box? No. Unless they've updated TFC for Source, which I doubt. Of course, over analysing this shit really makes me think about how lame my life is. BUT HL2 WILL r0x0r yu0r m0mx0r. And so will I. All night long. Giggity giggity giggity.

 

[kaf11]

i love this rush of new info

 

[TheWart]

i love this rush of new info

Yep,

Makes me remember this time last year, when speculation was a lot worse.

I am actually enjoying over-analyzing every piece of info we get....isn't that why we took the time to sign up to a site dedicated to a game that is not out yet?

 

[Xtasy0]

Yep,

Makes me remember this time last year, when speculation was a lot worse.

I am actually enjoying over-analyzing every piece of info we get....isn't that why we took the time to sign up to a site dedicated to a game that is not out yet?

i dont know about you but i signed up for the porn and free beer.

 

[Apos]

I doubt there will be cut scenes. Just scripted scenes like in the original.

Well, the original SORT of had a cut-scene: when the marines were carrying you on the stretcher.

 

[XenoSpirit]

the boxes look sweet... i love teh one on deh front... looks 0000000!!!! ps about the head crabs uh.... of corse the info HAS BEEN OUT for a long time now... its onl the stupid mods close the threads and deleat the posts ne ways

Spoiler

Poison headcrab classic headcrab~assain... headcrab and one outher i think... of corse if they infest a human you can problably figer out what they will be... id say more but that spoiler extreamist chris will come deleat my post AGAIN

 

[leadfish]

Well, the original SORT of had a cut-scene: when the marines were carrying you on the stretcher.

Maybe I'm being too anal about this, but throughout the whole stretcher bit, you were still in Gordon's shoes, not watching a FMV or a cinematic (which was the beauty of HL1), so I wouldn't class that as a cutscene. I for one hope Valve have a moment similar to that in HL2

 

[Twilight]

disc...?

Perhaps it is Start Discussion? Has no one else mentioned that Disc could be discussion, and not disc?

Twilight

 

[Varsity]

T-shirts!

 

[Piers]

Anyone notice how every monitor is a CRT?