I asked this on the SPUF, but the EP1 forum seems to be dead, and FP generally knows more about stuff like that anyways.
[url]http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?p=18817349[/url]
[editline]21st November 2010[/editline]
Now that I continue playing, I notice other things not looking like they used to, the energy balls look different/worse, and the Advisor psych effect, for example. It really seems it's using an older DX version or something, but I never noticed something like this in TF2 or Portal in the last week. Any nifty console commands I could try out?
First, I think that's the only place that effect shows up.
Second, i believe it had something to do with the engine update. Valve likes to break their games. Probably they messed with the texture or something. That looks like a brush with a mis-rotated texture on it. Thinking about it, that effect would probably be best with a particle system.
EDIT: and try putting something like mat_dxlevel 91 (don't be surprised if that doesn't work, i don't think thats the command) in the console, if you think your dxlevel has gone down. Then restart your game because some of the content needs the game to restart before it loads.
It looks like that since they updated hl2 and ep1 to the orangebox engine.
I have no idea why they didn't replace that ugly rotating brush with the same particle effect they used in the Xbox 360 version, as the particle actually exists in the GCF files.
We used that in OC to replace the old effect, and that was long before Valve did the official port to orangebox.
[URL]http://obsidianconflict.net/ocscreenshots/1_34/ep1_citadel_010002.jpg[/URL]
Wait, really? It's not my PC, Valve broke the game?
Jesus. It seriously looks awful, a fix would be nice, although I doubt that's on their priority list...
I played Ep 1 4 times since the OB update and I have never noticed this. Probably because I am looking into the pit where the combine fall down too much to care about it, then just run across.
It is so interesting to watch combine fall to their death.
How can you not notice this, it's all over your screen, this horrible looks... can someone seriously confirm it looking like this in their game, too? It's really bothering me now for some reason...
pretty sure it looks like this in mine. I remember when replaying after the update thinking that looks like shit.
It always looked that bad? I never noticed that before.
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