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G4TV To Preview Half-Life 2 Expansion
Voodoo Extreme has word that new technology for the Steam engine, as well as a HL2 expansion entitled 'The Lost Coast', will be shown off on G4TV's Attack of the Show (formerly The ScreenSavers). From the article: "On Wednesday's show, Valve's Doug Lombardi will give an exclusive demonstration of the previously unseen 'The Lost Coast,' an upcoming expansion that utilizes a brand-new technology that Valve is implementing into the Source engine. Called 'high-dynamic range lighting,' this new technology enables a leap in lighting realism from even the current high benchmark set by Half-Life 2 and the existing Source engine."
until the source code is stolen and it's delayed for a zillion years...
/. (or another forum) with a sig about how they "stopped watching MTV when it became the shiny things network"... that's how I feel about what was TechTV about now...
How can anyone take what valve says seriously about release dates,etc anymore?
With that said, HL2 was awesome and almost worth the wait, and i'll end up buying the expansion. *sigh*
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What is all this talk about source "technology"? it pisses me off to no end. What people dont get is that its still a botched hl1 engine, which in turn is a botched up quake engine. Building your levels completely out of BSP geometry is completely unnacceptable these days. I nearly puked when i got to the city portions of the game and buildings are comprised of one single cube, no detail whatsoever. As for higher polygon counts, only MODELS in the game were increased. The geometry of the levels(most important) is still very simple, uses the same old csg, bsp, vis and rad tools. The engine is NOTHING NEW. NADDA. The story was half assed too.... They expect to have these memorable characters made from the end of HL1 and you're supposed to remember all their hero characteristics, when all they did was play a wav file that said "Catch me later ill buy you a beer" or "Oh do be careful gordon" to inaccurate lipsyncs. The whole ONOALIENSLOLZWTFKDIE is getting old, and cs-s is a joke. Biggest waste of 99$CAD for the "gold" version. PS: Steam sucks ass too.
They screwed TechTV, so screw them.