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PostPosted: Thu, 19th Aug 2004 21:00    Post subject:
sorry. But you could drop by on the way in leipzig, i know some good cheap stores there, hehehehe Wink
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PostPosted: Thu, 19th Aug 2004 22:04    Post subject:
krackhead wrote:
when you are waiting for this game a long time, fabricated stories you dont need, maybe I reacted to hard, sorry

Greetz,

KrackHead


No you didn't react too hard. Injurious just thinks Half-Life is all CS and that's it. He just bashes it. See the post about me arguing with him about HL.


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PostPosted: Thu, 19th Aug 2004 22:06    Post subject:
go to Poland and get the games there, all the games are 20-30€ cheaper than in the rest of Europe. Great Place to get Games. BF42 costs only 5€ there oO
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PostPosted: Thu, 19th Aug 2004 22:42    Post subject:
KarmaQ wrote:
go to Poland and get the games there, all the games are 20-30€ cheaper than in the rest of Europe. Great Place to get Games. BF42 costs only 5€ there oO


couldnt you mention that before, i went there a few weeks ago (from netherlands)

if i knew that i would buy me a shitload of games
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PostPosted: Fri, 20th Aug 2004 15:46    Post subject: sry guys
Sorry but I just read the HL2 preload is being pushed back till monday. I'm not sure this even means anything since you still cant play it till the Keys are released.

This might be old news

Source:
www.halflife2.net
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PostPosted: Fri, 20th Aug 2004 15:58    Post subject:
Doesnt really affect anything, just so that the css beta goes smooth i guess.
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PostPosted: Fri, 20th Aug 2004 21:19    Post subject:
Just watched the new HL2 movie 'trainstation' looks amazing, I can't wait!

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PostPosted: Sat, 21st Aug 2004 15:04    Post subject:
HL2=CS:source

Think I once again will spent about 30min playing hl before going on to the game that matter... Source! Gotta be abit humiliating for valve to know that some amateur mod is what makes their game so populair Smile
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PostPosted: Sat, 21st Aug 2004 16:11    Post subject:
HL blew people away long before CS ever was a thought. Razz
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PostPosted: Sat, 21st Aug 2004 17:23    Post subject:
sTo0z wrote:
HL blew people away long before CS ever was a thought. Razz


Exactly. The main reason why CS was so popular is because by the time it came out loads of people already had HL, so they all decided to try it.

If HL hadn't been popular, neither would CS.

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PostPosted: Sat, 21st Aug 2004 17:38    Post subject:
the game looks good and all graphic wise but there is one thing that really bothers me.
everything is so incredible shiny, thats not how it look like in the real world, not even close.
shaders are a great thing for the games but they shuld not overuse them :/
to be totally honest, when a company uses the shaders like valve do with hl2 it kinda sucks to have a dx9 card, it looks much better and realistic with less shiny dx8 shaders in my oppinion. Sad
i would honestly force dx8 shaders (with rivatuner etc) if i had a dx9 card.

that new video for example (trainstation), the whole level is like a friggin mirror Laughing
maybe the janitor at this transtation is a workaholic and polish the floors and walls 24/7.
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PostPosted: Sat, 21st Aug 2004 18:00    Post subject:
they use the same technology as used in Monsters inc. (the movie) made by Dreamworks, I think half life 2 does not use graphics like in real life, it has a more cartoonish feel, I guess Stalker has more real images.

greetz KrackHead

pallebrun wrote:
the game looks good and all graphic wise but there is one thing that really bothers me.
everything is so incredible shiny, thats not how it look like in the real world, not even close.
shaders are a great thing for the games but they shuld not overuse them :/
to be totally honest, when a company uses the shaders like valve do with hl2 it kinda sucks to have a dx9 card, it looks much better and realistic with less shiny dx8 shaders in my oppinion. Sad
i would honestly force dx8 shaders (with rivatuner etc) if i had a dx9 card.

that new video for example (trainstation), the whole level is like a friggin mirror Laughing
maybe the janitor at this transtation is a workaholic and polish the floors and walls 24/7.
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PostPosted: Sat, 21st Aug 2004 18:04    Post subject:
yes stalker is doing it right, no overuse of shaders as far as i have seen.
valve is for sure trying to get a real-life looking style, no question about that, but they fail because of the extreme amount of shaders.
its certinally not a cartoony style, dunno how you can even say that Smile
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PostPosted: Sat, 21st Aug 2004 20:07    Post subject:
I think it looks fine, if you want to complain about graphics looking fake complain about Doom 3. Everything has a plastic appearance in that, but it still looks fantastic.

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PostPosted: Sat, 21st Aug 2004 20:23    Post subject:
AnimalMother wrote:
I think it looks fine, if you want to complain about graphics looking fake complain about Doom 3. Everything has a plastic appearance in that, but it still looks fantastic.


looking fine and looking realistic is not the same thing.
a person can like the shiny way but that doesnt make it realistic.
im complaining about the realistic way since thats what valve obviously is going for, not how it looks graphically (obviously it looks good).
i have seen plenty of walls and floors at trainstations and no one have shined like these do, not even close Razz
hl2 is not alone with this, farcry had it too and it sucked just as much.

about doom3, the world is in no way meant to be relistic so dunno why you mention that Confused
it can look as fake as it want since as i said its not meant to be relistic in any way as hl2 is.
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PostPosted: Sat, 21st Aug 2004 20:45    Post subject:
I am not saying it looks like a cartoon, but it is realism with a layer, not total realism like stalker
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PostPosted: Sat, 21st Aug 2004 21:31    Post subject:
Well at least HL2 performance looks to be stella.

I just ran the stress test and at 1024x768 everything on high 0xAA 4xAF I get 121 fps!

At 1600x1200 0xAA 4xAF I get 62 fps!

Looks like it will perform well on most systems, although it does perfrom a bit better on ATI.

I have got a good system though, but this means most people will be able to run it on 1024x768 everything on high with no problems.

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PostPosted: Sat, 21st Aug 2004 21:57    Post subject:
well...what i want to see is realisem and as mutch as it will be more realistic it will be more exiting. now..not only visuals build game but this half life 2 seems to have very impresive gameplay too so i think we have a winer and about stalker..from trailer to trailer i noticed that the level is going down:( dunno ...the last trailer looked bad to me, but trailer isn't a game so i hope that i am mistaken.
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PostPosted: Sun, 22nd Aug 2004 00:42    Post subject:
Were did you get the stresstest?
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PostPosted: Sun, 22nd Aug 2004 00:54    Post subject:
It's with the Counter-Strike: Source beta.
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PostPosted: Sun, 22nd Aug 2004 10:37    Post subject:
oh Very Happy...i want it Very Happy
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PostPosted: Sun, 22nd Aug 2004 22:52    Post subject:
You need to have the ATI HL2 woucher or the CS condition zero to enter the beta. I also tested the stresstest in 1280*1024 and got 64fps so It's ok for me Smile. Gonna see what the laptop performs. It should be similar Smile.
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PostPosted: Mon, 23rd Aug 2004 08:33    Post subject:
razor1394 wrote:
You need to have the ATI HL2 woucher or the CS condition zero to enter the beta. I also tested the stresstest in 1280*1024 and got 64fps so It's ok for me Smile. Gonna see what the laptop performs. It should be similar Smile.


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PostPosted: Mon, 23rd Aug 2004 15:38    Post subject:
Multiplayer to HL 2.
What will it be?
CS or something else anyone have an idea.
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PostPosted: Mon, 23rd Aug 2004 16:10    Post subject:
r@man wrote:
Multiplayer to HL 2.
What will it be?
CS or something else anyone have an idea.


Well some says that it will be CS:Source only and well other says that HL2 will have it's own Multiplayer instead of CS...

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PostPosted: Mon, 23rd Aug 2004 19:25    Post subject: it´s monday...
where is it ???

sittin' here impatiently with my coupon, ready to preload Laughing
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PostPosted: Mon, 23rd Aug 2004 19:35    Post subject:
it's not Monday yet at valves Very Happy Gabe is soo fat valve corp. has its own time zone.

BA-ZING!

Seriously just like cs:s you got to wait till Monday’s eve Sad It's good though! Preload at night wake up and just watch the 99.9% turn to *Error: Invalid steam ticket id* and start preloading again Very Happy marvelous this steam invention is. If it’s not your girlfriend that dumps you or your fiancé that runs away with your roommate then it’s steam keeping you away from enjoying a lonely night in front of the 19” monitor running around shooting virtual characters. Gosh steam is a friend that I never had. I love how unreliable steam is. It makes my day! Especially when, in a middle of recreating an immense battle scene, steam suddenly crashes! Oh how wonderful my keyboard must have felt the moment it shattered against the wall! By golly steam is the best thing that happened in my life!
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PostPosted: Mon, 23rd Aug 2004 20:40    Post subject:
Really now? I've had no problems with steam at all.
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PostPosted: Mon, 23rd Aug 2004 21:14    Post subject:
Any updated benchmarks with the 6800ultra vs x800 platinum? Last one I saw the 6800 ultra slightly had an edge, but that was the beta. Kind of funny if the 6800's end up being faster after ATI had put so much hopes on the X800s performance in HL2.

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PostPosted: Mon, 23rd Aug 2004 21:30    Post subject:
there were some benchies on the CS-Source but the first ones published did look doctored. At www.xbitlabs.com is a decent article with benchmarks with CS.Source
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