5punk

I bought this just to scan it for you all:
http://www.jinxx.co.uk/5punk/Aftermath/
10 pages on what Valve's up to regarding their next few releases.

Vvvvvery interesting. I'm actually not too excited about Aftermath, I want to know about interesting new features first.

I'm so excited. As a completely passionate (obsessive?) gamer, Half-Life 2 was one of the most special times in my life. And now, all over again... ALL OVER!!!

*5punks all over the place*

Also, cheers for buying the mag, very kind.

Valve on exploding barrels wrote:"We always joked that players would give us some slack if right towards the end we took them past the Combine's exploding barrel factory. Maybe with the soldiers coming out of the factory with their own personalized signed barrel, and a note saying 'Never stray more than ten metres from your assigned barrel.'"

-Marc Laidlaw

lmfao! that would be something that the No One Lives Forever series would do...

I still haven't played HL2 since I got to the hovercraft bit where you try to escape.

I'm looking forward to DOD though, it sounds cool

Woo Elephant Yeah wrote:I still haven't played HL2 since I got to the hovercraft bit where you try to escape.

I'm looking forward to DOD though, it sounds cool

you should finish it. it is quite good. in fact, IMO it is the best ever.

Cheers Jinxx,

All that stuff on lighting and HDR on the lost coast sounds awesome, no chance of me being able to run it though

But I am looking forward to DOD

"We always joked that players would give us some slack if right towards the end we took them past the Combine's exploding barrel factory."

That's a beauty. just the other day a friend and I were talkin about where all these exploding barrels come from and whether there's some kind of open source model pack called "Generic exploding barrels." The conversation propted me to add a few exploding barrels in a map I made to aid my Uni application. Nothing triggered them at all, they just went off when the camera flew past them. Made me chuckle in my interview anyway!

Seriously though, the lost coast map looks like a beauty. I'm runnin a 3.2ghz P4 and have 1gig of ram but I feel my Geforce FX5600 will let me down. Anyway I am in the process of upgrading my graphics card so we shall see.

/5punks all over the fisherman

Woo, thanks for that jinxx

TY Jinxx, I can actually read this review, unlike the pcgamer ones which where posted on hl2files. =D

Woo Elephant Yeah wrote:I still haven't played HL2 since I got to the hovercraft bit where you try to escape.

I've just finished it. It's cocking ace.

yup, unfortunately some of the bits are a little weak.

but at least it's not got farcry levels of crapness (best game ever, until the wolf zombie fuckers) :D

Yeah, what was up with them? Ruined the game.

JamieChalm wrote:Yeah, what was up with them? Ruined the game.

Ruined the game and my trousers on more than one occasion.