so you will have a prebeta...so what? I gurantee I'll be able to find the same thing for download around the net
Originally posted by: squidman
Originally posted by: BoomAM
2 Weeks? Dude, you in dream land. It doesnt get released till September 30th.Originally posted by: squidman
In 2 weeks we are getting HL 2, so ill try out on both my PC's and tell u how it goes.
Haha! in US it doesnt get released until then. In germany - the 0.3x version is already in press. Our distributors machines are located thereabout too, and are already in press as well. +1-3 weeks for transportation and we get a "pre-release"
Originally posted by: BFG10K
I'm guessing that it'll require about the same level of hardware as Doom 3 does. It might not have the same levels of visuals but Valve can't match Carmack's coding skills.
Originally posted by: boran
naah they would hold mass fights wether to go for gameplay or visuals
the halflife engine (a modefied quake1 engine) is still one of the most used ones in existence in online gaming (Counterstrike, DoD, TFC, FA, etc) and offers many singleplayer mods, the $50 I spent on halflife here were the best money I ever spent on a game ever.
I have no idea how old it is, but I kno it's counting in over 2 years now. while the visuals might definetly not be up to par, they suffice, and they are not cluttred, hard to explain if you never have played TFC or CS or something like that.
Originally posted by: BFG10K
I'm guessing that it'll require about the same level of hardware as Doom 3 does. It might not have the same levels of visuals but Valve can't match Carmack's coding skills.
As for the E3 hardware it was definitely a 9800 Pro and probably a 3 GHz P4 as well.
I agree. Doom3 uses various bump mapping techniques to get its fancy visuals, the textures in game are crap. HL2, from what ive seen has some nice high res textures.Originally posted by: Bonesdad
Originally posted by: BFG10K
I'm guessing that it'll require about the same level of hardware as Doom 3 does. It might not have the same levels of visuals but Valve can't match Carmack's coding skills.
As for the E3 hardware it was definitely a 9800 Pro and probably a 3 GHz P4 as well.
From the visuals I have seen, HL2 looks superior...
Originally posted by: boran
naah they would hold mass fights wether to go for gameplay or visuals
the halflife engine (a modefied quake1 engine) is still one of the most used ones in existence in online gaming (Counterstrike, DoD, TFC, FA, etc) and offers many singleplayer mods, the $50 I spent on halflife here were the best money I ever spent on a game ever.
I have no idea how old it is, but I kno it's counting in over 2 years now. while the visuals might definetly not be up to par, they suffice, and they are not cluttred, hard to explain if you never have played TFC or CS or something like that.
I thought that a while ago, but i found out that it actually uses a heavily modified quake1 engine.Originally posted by: TheInvincibleMustard
FYI it uses the Quake 2 engine, and was released in 1998.
It did run on a 9800pro 256mb.Originally posted by: Texter
I thought H-L2 at E3 was run with a prototype Radeon 9800 with a 256 MB DDR2-module on it. And it didn't run THAT well (detail at max 6x FSAA and all)...whatever I'll see it when it comes out. I'll even buy it...98 days left...
Originally posted by: BoomAM
I thought that a while ago, but i found out that it actually uses a heavily modified quake1 engine.Originally posted by: TheInvincibleMustard
FYI it uses the Quake 2 engine, and was released in 1998.
I think it was a similar situation to the DeusEx2 thing. The renderer and sound systems in quake1 were completly re-written to cater for Valves needs, but the other stuff was still intact, such as the net code, and control interface.Originally posted by: EdipisReks
it was more quake2 than it was quake1.
How many times are we going to have to argue about this? Its been 4.5 years since the damn game came out and people still think Quake2 played any part in the game's inception. There was never a license for the Quake2 engine. The current rumour says there was a section of code that wasn't working properly from the Quake1 source that was fixed in Quake2. John Carmack snipped the function from the Quake2 engine and sent it to Valve as a patch.Originally posted by: EdipisReks
Originally posted by: BoomAM
I thought that a while ago, but i found out that it actually uses a heavily modified quake1 engine.Originally posted by: TheInvincibleMustard
FYI it uses the Quake 2 engine, and was released in 1998.
it was more quake2 than it was quake1.