The Lost Coast Playtest at Bit-Tech.net

[gegam]

the only questoins you need to be asking is is there a performance diff in hdr on sm2.0 and nvidia cars. ask yourself that, which will provide the more eye candy.

funny how all demos of it were on nvidia cards. ROFLAMO says a lot about american partnership

(wasnt there a buy ati get hl2 bla bla bla bullshit. )

 

[Space Farm]

OMG A TFC FLAG!

I'd laugh so hard if someone broke in, stole it and capped it.

(TFC:S ftw).

 

[Kadayi]

What's the difference between HDR and light bloom? I'm ignorant about these things but they look the same to me.

Bloom tends to be a constant burring effect applied to light sources regardless of your viewpoint, it's a bit like looking through a thin film of vaseline on your screen. Deus Ex: Invisible War used bloom, I also believe that the HL2 mod Eclipse did as well. HDR is a lot more exacting in it's delivery to your viewpoint with the full bloom effect only coming into play when your subject to full on light source intensity. Basically it's a more realistic handling of light exposure and your less likely to feel the subconcious urge to wipe your monitor every five minutes. I'm sure someone else can put it in more technical terms.

 

[JorzoR]

shine baby SHINE!!

OOO shall we add more SHINE to the shotgun, so it looks WET? Yeah thats cool! lets add more SHINE here and a bit more SHINE there!!

;x

 

[dogboy73]

One question about Lost coast which, for some reason, I don't know the full story on at this time. There's been little talk of gameplay, with regards to Lost Coast, amongst all the usual how long, will it run on my system, when is it out etc. It occured to me - Do we actually know if there is going to be any gameplay? i.e. enemies to kill? It would seem logical that this would be the case but I don't recall actually reading about it & seing as this is a tech demo above everything else why would there be any enemies? Isn't Lost Coast intended as a 15(ish) minute stroll around the beautifull HDR environments to show of the new technology?

 

[DrDevin]

One question about Lost coast which, for some reason, I don't know the full story on at this time. There's been little talk of gameplay, with regards to Lost Coast, amongst all the usual how long, will it run on my system, when is it out etc. It occured to me - Do we actually know if there is going to be any gameplay? i.e. enemies to kill? It would seem logical that this would be the case but I don't recall actually reading about it & seing as this is a tech demo above everything else why would there be any enemies? Isn't Lost Coast intended as a 15(ish) minute stroll around the beautifull HDR environments to show of the new technology?

Yeah I've been wondering the same thing. Then again I dont want any damn combine getting in the way of my superbright walls and shafts of light

 

[Kadayi]

There are enemies in it.

 

[Cole]

There are eneimes in it...you are stopping a Combines thing that is sending headcrabs into some place like they did with ravenholm. Of course combines are gonna protect it.

I also believe polygon counts are going to be going from 3k to 6k.

 

[dogboy73]

That's cool then. Still looking forward to Lost Coast in any case .......... (How long, will it run on my system etc, etc....)

 

[el Chi]

whats an abacus ?