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Half-Life 2 Targeted for Summer Release
Gudlyf writes "According to CNN Money, Valve's director of marketing Doug Lombardi announced that the company is 'currently targeting this summer for the completion of Half-Life 2'. From the article: 'Valve does not plan to reveal any additional information until the time surrounding the E3 trade show, where the game will once again be shown this year. E3 will be held in Los Angeles May 12-14.'" The game was delayed following a previously covered code leak, and the article also notes: "Arkane Studios, an independent French developer that created the critically-acclaimed role-playing game 'Arx Fatalis,' has licensed [Half-Life 2's Source engine] for a forthcoming title [as has Troika's Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines]."
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With updated source code available, plenty of improvements, and lots of ways to create your own maps, there's plenty to do before HL2 comes out!
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Nope, Half-Life 2 is pure DirectX only (versions 6 to 9, quite impressive compatibility really).
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So unless you'd want to fight through it with WineX, you'll not be able to run it on Linux.
HL2 is by the way the main reason I still have a windows box running here
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For those who haven't seen the video, check it out here: http://www.gametrailers.com/gt_vault/t_halflife2_v ol1.wmv
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Here's an article on 64bit HL2
" We have learned today from AMD and confirmed with Valve here at E3 that there will be a x86-64 port of the Half Life 2 client. This is in addition to the x86-64 port of the Counterstrike server that will be available soon. We saw the Half Life 2 demonstration and it looked amazing."
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It is the Half Life Two engine. It was made to run Half Life Two. It was devloped by Valve, the people makeing Half Life Two.
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The whole reason it's been delayed from Christmas was to change the game enough that compatible cheats couldn't be written with the leaked source code.
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Yeah, I was really impressed with the videos from the previous e3, and even though its been more than a long time they really don't need to rush it. Especially since the single player story mode will be the meat of it. If it was another deathmatch fps I'd expect them to push it out and patch it and such, but when it gets released, I want to play it straight through, completed. So, I think it's unfair to expect them to be expected to get it done ahead of when they think it should be done. I also have to tell myself it will be worth it, theyre doing some really impressive work, or so it would seem.
Yeah, the original Half-Life engine was a heavily modified Quake1 engine.
.. Valve has sadly dropped OpenGL.
Although I remember that it has a tiny bit of Quake2 code in it as well. (not sure though)
And yeah
Good thing we still have Carmack to keep OpenGL alive as a realtime 'pretty' 3D framework, not just for serious applications.
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What I keep wondering is, why don't they, say, *make it not quite as hackable*?
It's not like we don't know how to do it. You don't send the client information that they don't need (say, the position of players that they can't see), and you check to make sure the returned data is sane (for example, the player is traveling on foot more slowly than 200mph, the player isn't walking through solid obstacles, etc.)
Obviously it's not nearly as possible to get rid of things like bots - we're pretty much stuck with those - but we should at least be able to constrain it to bots that play by the rules. Why *was* Half-Life so cheatprone?
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Something weird happened with the port of that game. It was being done years ago, and then the project was canned.
Since then Sierra games have been nonexistent on the Mac. Why? Who knows. Sierra is probably reluctant to hand their games over to third party developers.
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You are correct. Some of the renderer and network code was QII, I believe.
" Nope, Half-Life 2 is pure DirectX only (versions 6 to 9, quite impressive compatibility really)."
Maybe in the final version, but in the beta that leaked it ran fine under OpenGL. Not that I'd know of course, I just heard about it on the discovery channel. (/best excuse ever).
For them to take it out now would piss off a lot of people, especially since the support was in at some point. It would be like microsoft buying out whoever made VirtualPC and cutting mac support..
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That version of Wine is gone, and from the comments in the thread it looks like it was very old too.
Darwine looks pretty interesting though. If only my MacOS X coding skills were more up to par.
No! The game was delayed because the GAME WAS NOT DONE. Come on people! Do some reading and digging before you post shit about Valve/HL2. I know not everyone can be an expert on the Valve code-theft scandal, but I'm tired of reading the same old story with the same old misinformation. I wish Valve would fess-up to the fact that they were either:
A) Going to ship a basically unfinished game and use the masses as beta-testers (maybe even alpha!)
B) Just keep silently delaying it without further explanation.
C) Pull a Duke-Nukem Forever "When it's done" stance.
"It may be more work for the lawyers, but the programmers are definitely not going to be involved in this. No, it was clearly just an excuse, because they were way behind schedule."
If you don't see how this effects the release of the game you obviously have no grasp of what "integrity" is. With the code leaked to hackers, hackers will make cheats A LOT quicker and likely harder to patch against and/or detect, which will then sacrifice all integrity of the online portion of the game... some of us don't want HL2 to be just like CS on the first day of release, thanks.
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