[QUOTE=Hybrid 4F;44514062]Michael isn't on Facebook, but his brother is.[/QUOTE]
Tell us everything you know
His brother's name is Greg Houston
[url]http://riad.usk.pk.edu.pl/~pmj/quakecomics/about.html[/url]
[QUOTE=Hybrid 4F;44514062]Michael isn't on Facebook, but his brother is.[/QUOTE]
Alright men, this is the moment we have been waiting for. The moment we all knew would come. The end to this war is nigh. The target is Michael Houston's brother.
You know the drill.
[B]COMMENCE THE FRIEND INVITE SPAM![/B]
(No, I don't know how this thing counts as a war so don't ask.)
[QUOTE=IntenseBarney;44518118]Alright men, this is the moment we have been waiting for. The moment we all knew would come. The end to this war is nigh. The target is Michael Houston's brother.
You know the drill.[/QUOTE]
I'm not sure what exactly are you trying to achieve here. Houston was invited to Valve to play Half-Life, take screenshots and create a comic. I don't think he was given any builds.
I don't think spamming someone with friend invites or messages is going to help anyone. I can get his contact information from his brother, but Facebook is charging me for messaging people I'm not friends with.
Quit being creepy dudes, creepy dudes.
Have any of you tried just contacting Valve and asking if they would be interested in releasing older builds of the original Half-Life, just for fun of poking around with? I mean, it's not like those builds are going to contain any mind-blowing new technologies or anything, and I doubt they contain any ideas that they haven't already used by now. I don't see why they would have anything against it, really. In a way, it could even be seen as a sort of "gaming time capsule".
But, seeing as it's been so long, Valve may have long since deleted or otherwise lost those builds, so who knows.
[QUOTE=Marcolade;44519755]Have any of you tried just contacting Valve and asking if they would be interested in releasing older builds of the original Half-Life, just for fun of poking around with? I mean, it's not like those builds are going to contain any mind-blowing new technologies or anything, and I doubt they contain any ideas that they haven't already used by now. I don't see why they would have anything against it, really. In a way, it could even be seen as a sort of "gaming time capsule".
But, seeing as it's been so long, Valve may have long since deleted or otherwise lost those builds, so who knows.[/QUOTE]
They still sell Ricochet for $5.
I don't think they're going to release them for free.
I just had an awful thought: If this guy got an alpha build, he probably also got a REALLY strict NDA. Even if he still has it, he probably won't release it out of fear of getting sued into next year.
Also I don't know how to word the poster in a way that doesn't sound sketchy as fuck.
I'm doubting Valve genuinely cares about ol' HL Alpha. Plus Valve is ok unless he makes money off of the leaks.
Well, as we saw with the beta L4D1 models, maybe someone should sent an email [i]to the right person[/i] at Valve, in order to get access to it.
I'm too optimistic since is just what everybody was already doing for years, but well...
We should convince Gabe to release alphas by saying its to tie us over while we wait for the big 3.
We could also pay a janitor to sneak one onto the internet.
[QUOTE=Maestro Fenix;44526933]Well, as we saw with the beta L4D1 models, maybe someone should sent an email [i]to the right person[/i] at Valve, in order to get access to it.[/QUOTE]Splinks didn't email anyone. He became an intern for Valve and physically worked at their building for a time.
Hence, I think our best bet is for someone to physically travel to Valve and physically pry the Half-Life alpha from their cold, dead (well, maybe not dead) hands. I have formulated a plan which I have calculated to be the most likely to succeed: One of us must disguise as Gabe Newell himself and infiltrate their headquarters. All we need now is the right man. Who here is a pasty white, overweight computer nerd with corneal dystrophy? Preferably also with an unhealthy obsession with knives.
[QUOTE=Marphy Black;44527743]Splinks didn't email anyone. He became an intern for Valve and physically worked at their building for a time.
Hence, I think our best bet is for someone to physically travel to Valve and physically pry the Half-Life alpha from their cold, dead (well, maybe not dead) hands. I have formulated a plan which I have calculated to be the most likely to succeed: One of us must disguise as Gabe Newell himself and infiltrate their headquarters. All we need now is the right man. Who here is a pasty white, overweight computer nerd with corneal dystrophy? Preferably also with an unhealthy obsession with knives.[/QUOTE]
I'm not pasty white or overweight computer nerd, but I like knives, guns, and weapons. A lot. Maybe a bit too much.
[QUOTE=Marphy Black;44527743]Splinks didn't email anyone. He became an intern for Valve and physically worked at their building for a time.
Hence, I think our best bet is for someone to physically travel to Valve and physically pry the Half-Life alpha from their cold, dead (well, maybe not dead) hands. I have formulated a plan which I have calculated to be the most likely to succeed: One of us must disguise as Gabe Newell himself and infiltrate their headquarters. All we need now is the right man. Who here is a pasty white, overweight computer nerd with corneal dystrophy? Preferably also with an unhealthy obsession with knives.[/QUOTE]
I was thinking, what about Adam Foster (Minerva Metastasis)? Couldn't he go ask from the inside.
[QUOTE=Maestro Fenix;44529288]I was thinking, what about Adam Foster (Minerva Metastasis)? Couldn't he go ask from the inside.[/QUOTE]Foster's probably very busy working on The Next Valve Game, or possibly The Valve Game After The Next One.
In addition, Valve's archives - from every indication I've heard as an outsider - are kind of a labyrinthine, abandon-all-ye-hope kind of deal. Apparently Splinks had to do a decent amount of work to get the beta L4D models into a releasable state, I doubt that anyone at Valve is completely willing to dive in deep and try to find that sort of stuff and scrub enough gunk off of it for a release.
Kudos if it ever happens, though...
[QUOTE=The Kins;44541503]Apparently Splinks had to do a decent amount of work to get the beta L4D models into a releasable state, I doubt that anyone at Valve is completely willing to dive in deep and try to find that sort of stuff and scrub enough gunk off of it for a release.[/QUOTE]
Well sometimes the community does this stuff. Look at HL2 leak for example
[QUOTE=halfer;44541532]Well sometimes the community does this stuff. Look at HL2 leak for example[/QUOTE]That's probably [I]why[/I] dips into the archive have been few and far between since.
[QUOTE=Polonium9;44520756]They still sell Ricochet for $5.
I don't think they're going to release them for free.[/QUOTE]
Hell, I'd buy a copy of the alpha.
Apparently the archives are litteral hell. It took Splinks like 3 days just to find where he's going. And that was for content that's only a decade old, imagine two decades of shit.
God I wish we had access to those archives.
[QUOTE=Gamerman12;44548670]Apparently the archives are litteral hell. It took Splinks like 3 days just to find where he's going. And that was for content that's only a decade old, imagine two decades of shit.[/QUOTE]
A lot of archives are literally hell, it can be just from bad naming convention, bad folder layout, and a bunch of other things. Although I imagine it's especially bad at Valve since HL started out with just a bunch of people who could yell across the office "Hey john, make sure to fix the lighting in c1a3!!" So they probably didn't keep very good organization because they could just ask where someone put all their content.
Hellow, and enjoy it guys. Some new founded photos (some from another view). I am new there.
[IMG]http://i57.tinypic.com/15gb1pj.jpg[/IMG]
[IMG]http://i58.tinypic.com/9qb96f.jpg[/IMG]
[IMG]http://i62.tinypic.com/2ekrcs1.jpg[/IMG]
[IMG]http://i62.tinypic.com/9zrsxv.jpg[/IMG]
[IMG]http://i59.tinypic.com/2gxfnv7.jpg[/IMG]
[IMG]http://i57.tinypic.com/w9bqu1.jpg[/IMG]
[IMG]http://i57.tinypic.com/24ybr47.jpg[/IMG]
[IMG]http://i62.tinypic.com/3444h06.jpg[/IMG]
[IMG]http://i62.tinypic.com/1znwlfq.jpg[/IMG]
[IMG]http://i59.tinypic.com/dfdi4g.jpg[/IMG]
[IMG]http://i58.tinypic.com/14uclj5.jpg[/IMG]
Only 2 of those are new to me.
[QUOTE=Hybrid 4F;44518613]I'm not sure what exactly are you trying to achieve here. Houston was invited to Valve to play Half-Life, take screenshots and create a comic. I don't think he was given any builds.
I don't think spamming someone with friend invites or messages is going to help anyone. I can get his contact information from his brother, but Facebook is charging me for messaging people I'm not friends with.[/QUOTE]
Agree. I think he just don't care for this game.
[editline]16th April 2014[/editline]
[QUOTE=uaredead2020;44513622]actually theres 2 versions of the same map in his comic meaning that he might have more than one build.
but i doubt we'll ever find him, and if we did i doubt he would give the build[/QUOTE]
That can be graphic error in TEST_CHAMBER map.
[QUOTE=Sidd Roxe;44563077]Hellow, and enjoy it guys. Some new founded photos (some from another view). I am new there.
[IMG]http://i57.tinypic.com/15gb1pj.jpg[/IMG]
[IMG]http://i58.tinypic.com/9qb96f.jpg[/IMG]
[IMG]http://i57.tinypic.com/24ybr47.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE]
the first one is someone's edit:
[url]http://puu.sh/8bgz4.jpg[/url]
also hi gaussgunner stole anything recently?
Well, i succesfully got builded (remaded) alpha MP5 with reload, Alpha Grenade/Shoot aniamtion, and same accurate Pre-Alpha MP5. If someone want - tell me, i will send.
[IMG]http://i60.tinypic.com/10hj3bl.jpg[/IMG]
[editline]16th April 2014[/editline]
[QUOTE=uaredead2020;44563232]the first one is someone's edit:
[url]http://puu.sh/8bgz4.jpg[/url]
also hi gaussgunner stole anything recently?[/QUOTE]
Emm, who are you and what are you talking about ?
[QUOTE=Sidd Roxe;44563249]Well, i succesfully got builded (remaded) alpha MP5 with reload, Alpha Grenade/Shoot aniamtion, and same accurate Pre-Alpha MP5. If someone want - tell me, i will send.
[IMG]http://i60.tinypic.com/10hj3bl.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE]
OH LOOK you answered my question!
you stole the shaft reload!
[editline]16th April 2014[/editline]
[QUOTE=Sidd Roxe;44563249]Emm, who are you and what are you talking about ?[/QUOTE]
gaussgunner, you cant fool me
[QUOTE=uaredead2020;44563267]OH LOOK you answered my question!
you stole the shaft reload![/QUOTE]
Its not "Shaft reload", this reload maded by GaussGunner (i know he from one community). I can send to you file and prove what this not his reload.
And i am not GaussGunner.
[QUOTE=Sidd Roxe;44563291]Its not "Shaft reload", this reload maded by GaussGunner (i know he from one community). I can send to you file and prove what this not his reload.
And i am not GaussGunner.[/QUOTE]
even if you aren't gaussgunner, it isnt gaussgunner's reload, he stole it from shaft.
[QUOTE=Sidd Roxe;44563249]Well, i succesfully got builded (remaded) alpha MP5 with reload, Alpha Grenade/Shoot aniamtion, and same accurate Pre-Alpha MP5. If someone want - tell me, i will send.
[IMG]http://i60.tinypic.com/10hj3bl.jpg[/IMG]
[editline]16th April 2014[/editline]
Emm, who are you and what are you talking about ?[/QUOTE]
Wait, how did you get the pre-alpha MP5?
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