Half-Life and Portal series, general discussion (v6) - Games

[QUOTE=Cows Rule;48639388]More gameplay wise the train race in Highway 17 is nigh impossible to beat the usual way. Nowadays you need to coax the train out and then backpedal into a safe spot. The jeep was given the muscle car's mechanics which broke that particular part.[/QUOTE] Wasn't this broken since May 2010 update? Most of the bugs we have now were introduced by that particular update, SteamPipe update actually [I]fixed[/I] quite a few of those.

[QUOTE=Spor;48638912]Breen not standing up in the teleport sequence at the beginning for a year, ruining this awesome cutscene for many new players.[/QUOTE] I honestly loved that, it made him look so mildly annoyed. The only way it would have been better is if he were rolling his eyes while talking. "Ugh, AGAIN? I swear, I have you nerdy looking motherfuckers teleporting in here 5 times a week. Look, just be glad I wasn't masturbating this time."

Does anyone remeber the particle benchmark from before Episode 2 came out. Did we ever figure out what the Main Menu background was a blurred image of? Was it a background map from Ep2?

[img]http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/half-life/images/8/81/Particle_benchmark_console_bg.png/revision/latest?cb=20100324130737&path-prefix=en[/img] Some quick searching around shows it to be [url=http://combineoverwiki.net/wiki/Riverbed]Riverbed[/url], "a location featured in two style guide maps included in the Android port of Half-Life 2: Episode One". TBH I didn't even know this existed.

It was "recently" discovered with the HL2 games being carried over Nvidia Shield.

I think someone posted a link to them a while back, when I asked if anyone had the files.

[QUOTE=Chrille;48640416][img]http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/half-life/images/8/81/Particle_benchmark_console_bg.png/revision/latest?cb=20100324130737&path-prefix=en[/img] Some quick searching around shows it to be [url=http://combineoverwiki.net/wiki/Riverbed]Riverbed[/url], "a location featured in two style guide maps included in the Android port of Half-Life 2: Episode One". TBH I didn't even know this existed.[/QUOTE] Oh neat. Didn't really expect that much info haha.

I decided to mess around with Mission Improbable's Dr. Magnus and here is what I came up with in a few minutes: [t]http://images.akamai.steamusercontent.com/ugc/433824928579064495/E2AC83A9AA6C476DB9642931EB625D1E49EE56E6/[/t]

[QUOTE=Pigbear;48637958]what did steampipe even give us that was good[/QUOTE] making Half-Life: Source both more easy and more hard now you can skip a lot of chapters and maps since they don't work right, then proceed to get killed by an NPC with broken skill configuration and making everyone look the same in MP games like HL2DM and HLDMS and more...

[QUOTE=Theuaredead;48641577]making Half-Life: Source both more easy and more hard now you can skip a lot of chapters and maps since they don't work right, then proceed to get killed by an NPC with broken skill configuration and making everyone look the same in MP games like HL2DM and HLDMS and more...[/QUOTE] Uhh, man... I remember very well one stupid barnacle bug. In office complex, you know the part with the barnacles with their super tongue breaking the ceiling? well, they dont even break the ceiling to catch you, they magically trespass their tongue throught the ceiling and catch you. Its amusing when you let a scientist being catched by a barnacle in that part, it can happen two things: 1- The scientist get caught, and start going up but he touch the ceiling and the barnacle drop him (i didn't know this can happen), but as soon as the scientist touch the ground, the barnacle catch him again, and the same thing happens over and over and over.... 2- Same thing as the first, but now the scientist somehow can move before the barnacle catch him, so he's safe now, but you will notice that the barnacle's tongue (wich now you can see) is acting strange... if you break the ceiling by shooting it, you will see the barnacle doing the animation when he's getting the prey up, but he doens't have any prey and the tongue isn't going up, he's just stuck... poor fella...

Remember how I was making pixelated versions of all the HL2 weapons based off of the worldmodels? Here's a very rough version of the 357 and grenade. [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/TCkYtDp.png[/IMG] [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/XQdd4h6.png[/IMG] Here's what I've made so far: [url]http://steamcommunity.com/id/kaleide/images/[/url]

[URL="https://twitter.com/MerleDandridge/status/642009634627317760"]Merle Dandridge is doing mocap[/URL] [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/bAkC0rL.png[/IMG] What could it be? [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/Xa6eA3G.jpg[/IMG]

[QUOTE=DevinWatson;48653714][URL="https://twitter.com/MerleDandridge/status/642009634627317760"]Merle Dandridge is doing mocap[/URL] [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/bAkC0rL.png[/IMG] What could it be? [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/Xa6eA3G.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE] [QUOTE] 8:26 PM - DDS: [url]http://i.imgur.com/bAkC0rL.png[/url] is this valve's mocap setup 8:26 PM - The Rantis Pain: yeah 8:26 PM - The Rantis Pain: thats a blade 2 8:26 PM - DDS: blade 2? 8:26 PM - DDS: you mean the suit? 8:26 PM - The Rantis Pain: cams 8:27 PM - DDS: oh shit 8:27 PM - DDS: OH SHIT [/QUOTE] This is Rantis, the guy who won the Saxxy awards by working on Lil' Guardian Pyro. He also provided some mocap for Expiration Date. So Merle is definitely at Valve in that image.

[sp]Ricochet 2 confirmed[/sp]

I remember shitting myself when I heard Alyx in Sons of anarchy.

[url]https://twitter.com/Neil_Druckmann/status/642013726514774016[/url] it's happening

[QUOTE=TheDrunkenOne;48653777]This is Rantis, the guy who won the Saxxy awards by working on Lil' Guardian Pyro. He also provided some mocap for Expiration Date. So Merle is definitely at Valve in that image.[/QUOTE] but this is Valve's [QUOTE][IMG]http://i.imgur.com/Mdjs518.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE] from last year's tour

[QUOTE=jazzpunk;48653970]but this is Valve's[/QUOTE] Merle is at the Naughty Dog mo-cap lab. Here's some BTS footage of it. [media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TxJWy19xxk[/media]

Yeah, what happened is the question was "is that Valve's setup?" aka is that the gear Valve is using, and the answer was "yeah. that's a blade 2.". Question should have been "is that Valve's studio?" "is she at Valve?"

[QUOTE=DevinWatson;48653714][URL="https://twitter.com/MerleDandridge/status/642009634627317760"]Merle Dandridge is doing mocap[/URL] [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/bAkC0rL.png[/IMG] What could it be? [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/Xa6eA3G.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE] /r/halflife must be shaking like parkinsons and pissing their pants right now

[QUOTE=Trixil;48656112]/r/halflife must be shaking like parkinsons and pissing their pants right now[/QUOTE] They'd do that if someone caught a blurry, bigfoot-esque picture of Gabe at the 15 items or less checkout line because 15 is divisible by 3.

[QUOTE=jazzpunk;48654069]Yeah, what happened is the question was "is that Valve's setup?" aka is that the gear Valve is using, and the answer was "yeah. that's a blade 2.". Question should have been "is that Valve's studio?" "is she at Valve?"[/QUOTE] that camera is clearly hammer though

[QUOTE=Pigbear;48656587]that camera is clearly hammer though[/QUOTE] The Source 2 Hammer looks like this at the moment [t]https://i.imgur.com/WoiIOdo.png[/t] This looks more like your average mocap software.

its probably not hl3 mostly because that gui is just generic QT gui with a standard dark skin and nothing special and the map is nowhere near being source cause a. the missing texture is something placeholder we've never seen and b. the fov on that camera isn't like source 2's hammer view at all and c. because valve would never go outside their walls to work on something other than voice acting and has no use for recording in such a big place and d. these [QUOTE=Marlamin;48654052]Merle is at the Naughty Dog mo-cap lab. Here's some BTS footage of it. [media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TxJWy19xxk[/media][/QUOTE] [QUOTE=Fort83;48656619]It's for Uncharted 4 where she is probably playing Nadine Ross, one of the villains of that game.[/QUOTE] like why would they spend millions (what they said when I went on a tour there) on a mocap studio just to record in someone elses building? nah, that doesn't seem like valve at all.

[QUOTE=TheDrunkenOne;48653777] [quote]8:26 PM - DDS: [url]http://i.imgur.com/bAkC0rL.png[/url] is this valve's mocap setup 8:26 PM - The Rantis Pain: yeah 8:26 PM - The Rantis Pain: thats a blade 2 8:26 PM - DDS: blade 2? 8:26 PM - DDS: you mean the suit? 8:26 PM - The Rantis Pain: cams 8:27 PM - DDS: oh shit 8:27 PM - DDS: OH SHIT [/quote] This is Rantis, the guy who won the Saxxy awards by working on Lil' Guardian Pyro. He also provided some mocap for Expiration Date. So Merle is definitely at Valve in that image.[/QUOTE] [quote] 2:45 PM - DDS: it can mean one thing 2:45 PM - THE RANTIS PAIN: If your asking if that IS valves mocap room no. valves room is much smaller 2:45 PM - THE RANTIS PAIN: :V 2:45 PM - DDS: oh 2:45 PM - DDS: ffs 2:45 PM - THE RANTIS PAIN: its the same model of mocap system tho 2:46 PM - DDS: maybe a new place 2:46 PM - DDS: for you know 2:46 PM - DDS: larger areas ingame 2:46 PM - DDS: they couldve easily rented a place [/quote] Sensationalist as fuck :v: The Vicon blade systems are fairly common in the industry (my uni has one)

Random titbit of information (and probably extra late) but Dandridge did the voice for a main character in The Chinese Room's Everybody's Gone to the Rapture. I was surprised when I'd completed the game and saw her name in the credits, I hadn't recognised her.

[URL="https://twitter.com/Neil_Druckmann/status/642013726514774016"]https://twitter.com/Neil_Druckmann/status/642013726514774016[/URL] Shots Fired.

[QUOTE=TheTrainRider;48671403][URL="https://twitter.com/Neil_Druckmann/status/642013726514774016"]https://twitter.com/Neil_Druckmann/status/642013726514774016[/URL] Shots Fired.[/QUOTE] late. did you even read the last few posts? [QUOTE=TheDrunkenOne;48653877][url]https://twitter.com/Neil_Druckmann/status/642013726514774016[/url] it's happening[/QUOTE]

A half-life made my pretty much any developer other than Valve would be pretty fucking terrible. Not because they're not as a good as Valve, I just don't think they would give the same respect to Half-Life relationship between its gameplay and story. [editline]13th September 2015[/editline] I mean like a proper Half-Life sequel, a spin off like they've done in the past would be fine with the right developer.

I just want a competent end to the story arc. I don't trust anyone but Valve/Laidlaw to have it.