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G4TV To Preview Half-Life 2 Expansion

Posted by Zonk on from the it-was-screensavers,-dangit dept.

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."

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  1. Re:... this will be great! by Ford+Prefect · · Score: 4, Informative

    With that said, HL2 was awesome and almost worth the wait, and i'll end up buying the expansion. *sigh*

    Well, I'm definitely not going to buy this particular expansion...

    'Cause it'll be a free download!

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  2. Nerdgasm by uglysad · · Score: 3, Funny

    Playing my PSP and I saw this article. I just suffered a nerdgasm

  3. Does anyone watch/care about G4TV? by HycoWhit · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The Screen Savers used to be great. Tried to watch the G4TV version but in the end I saved myself $350 buck a year and canceled the digital tier of cable. TechTV was the only thing worthwhile and G4 ruined it. Watching G4TV made me feel like an idiot for being a gamer. Who is the idiot now? Me for reading/posting under a G4TV thread or the /. editor that decided this story was worth the front page. Who cares about G4TV? And who cares about HL2 hype? I lived through too many years of HL2 hype--I'm cool with waiting for the product to hit the shelves and learning about the new stuff then...

  4. Valve Should Do Other Things With Their time by jmole · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I know Valve probably has different divisions that work on different aspects of their games, but if they have enough resources to come out with new improvements to the source engine and a new expansion can't they shift some of those resources to the areas that need more attention?

    They are working on expansions when HLDM and CS: Source are practically incomplete. Its been 5+ months (counting beta) that CS: Source still has only two available player models. I just think there are more important things that need to be added(especially VAC2)/fixed with the games already out rather then start on something new. There is a good portion of the servers out there now, which are being exploited with the falling skulls and purple boxes. I could care less about lighting when I can't even play in a server without it crashing due to exploits.