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Half-Life 2 Aftermath Retail Details

Posted by Zonk on from the that-rhymes dept.

Eurogamer.com is reporting on details of the upcoming Half-Life 2: Aftermath expansion pack. At the moment Valve is still finalizing their publishing partner, and they expect to announce who that will be in early summer. From the article: "He also added that the current release date estimate for Aftermath is 'September'. Those with long memories will recall Valve signed up with Activision back in Spring 2003 for future content, but so far the only release has been Day Of Defeat. It is not known whether the US publisher will be adding to its expanding roster of FPS developers, with id and Infinity Ward among others already signed up. We shouldn't have long to wait to find out."

17 comments

  1. Soo..... by thenetbox · · Score: 1

    September 2008?

    1. Re:Soo..... by Tsunayoshi · · Score: 2, Funny

      Apparently you don't understand the little amount of work they have to do...shouldn't be more than adding the new levels since the engine is already built. Off of the top of my head...I would say NLT August 2008

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  2. Wake me.... by XFilesFMDS1013 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    When I can download Half-Life 2 into my brain and play it.

  3. Re:More Information. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Don't click his link. Leads to goatse, tubgirl, and a weird perverted parrot.

  4. Day of Defeat: Source? by JorenDahn · · Score: 1

    Wait, so did they just say DoD:Source is out? The lack of DoD:Source is the only reason I haven't installed my collector's edition of HL2 yet...

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    1. Re:Day of Defeat: Source? by Fred+Or+Alive · · Score: 1

      Steam still has DOD:S as "Comming Soon" section, but I don't have Half-Life 2 in any form.

      Perhaps they're refering to a retail version of the HL1 mod, like they did for Counter-Strike?

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    2. Re:Day of Defeat: Source? by Jmechy · · Score: 1

      DOD:S has not yet been released, and no media or details have been released in months.

    3. Re:Day of Defeat: Source? by DeadlyDonkey · · Score: 1

      Yes there have, but they are mainly print-only. There were some scans of some pages of DoD:S in PC Gamer in the UK about a month ago, which showed them doing a CS:S to DoD:S (abbreviation heaven!), aka totally redoing everything.

  5. Unfortunate Engine name by Funk_dat69 · · Score: 1

    Every time I hear about these "source" releases, I keep reading it as source *code* releases.

    Like: 'Damn! More Valve source code on the net? They needs to get the latest 15 windows mega-critical security patches, like, quick!"

    Then I realize that we're talking about the source *engine*. D'oh.
    That reminds me... *goes to windowsupdate.com*

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  6. Natural Selection by superpulpsicle · · Score: 1

    Wasn't Natural Selection supposed to be the most anticipated HL2 mod? Is it me or is the mod community really slow with any HL2 addons?

    1. Re:Natural Selection by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0
      NS is working on a Source port but theyre doing it in their spare time. They are working on a somwhat final version of classic NS (3.1) and also starting work on their original retail title which is currently unnanounced.

      The last mention of NS:S was on April 11th:
      We have also begun to research the efforts and challenges involved in a port of Natural Selection to VALVe's Source engine (Half-life II). So far our results have been mixed but with some positive surprises in terms of the artwork. We hope to begin asset creation relatively soon. There will however be no decisions on the code and the initial scope of the Source port until after v3.1 is released.
    2. Re:Natural Selection by Ford+Prefect · · Score: 1

      Wasn't Natural Selection supposed to be the most anticipated HL2 mod? Is it me or is the mod community really slow with any HL2 addons?

      Well, given that everyone has to figure out how all the new modding stuff works, practice with it, learn how to make the higher-quality content expected for Source, actually produce said content, test it, program stuff, design, alter, monkey around and generally do a full-time job in whatever free time they have available, I don't think things are going too badly... ;-)

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  7. Is there any estimate by Happy+Monkey · · Score: 1

    on the Lost Coast release date?

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    1. Re:Is there any estimate by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I am sure 2007 as Aftermath is coming 2008

    2. Re:Is there any estimate by Jmechy · · Score: 1

      They said that it would be released this summer as a free add-on, along with the graphical updates to add HDR to source.

  8. Expansion due out "this summer" by Some_Llama · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Great!!!

    So now the game I paid 50 dollars for will have it's story explained and actually make sense, now all I have to do is fork out another 40 bucks to get it!!!