Half Life 2

[TrueSephiroth]

Well the forums have renewed and this is a new start so lets get the show on the road.

First piece of business is that there is a poll for this thread. Honest answers please.

Second have you got a new video card to play the latest games or are you still trying to run them on a geforce or Radeon 7000?

[silverDistortioN]

i'd put yes because, while i do believe they "will be able to," i'm guessing they won't.

...but i'm not going to because i don't really agree with the rest of that option.

[DarkSoul]

I think half-life 2 is going to be released.. The beta version which contains all the full content of the game has been out for like 3-4 months.
They have to release it! And I am also hoping they release Team Fortress 2 with it. =)
Hopefully it's not to much like ET.

[Locke Cole]

I voted for "I don't care when......" as I look forward to the game no matter when it arrives. I'm actually waiting more for Team Fortress 2 then Half Life 2, but I'll take either. Until it comes out, I'll just stick to Enemy Territory :p

[silverDistortioN]

let's make an rpgn mod. =)
hmm?

[Zedie9]

:bouncy: I don't care when it comes out, as long as it's good when it does. ;)

[Kilu]

As long as it does come out, I don't care when.

I'm using Radeon 9200 SE. Which basicly suck monkey ass. But it was cheap, and I don't expect to play any fps games anyway. Except ET now that I downloaded it :p

[pikatsu]

Weren't you just playing Half Life? http://img50.exs.cx/img50/4918/wave7.gif

[Kilu]

Well, let me rephrase. I wasn't planning on playing any fps games. But yes, I was playing some Half-Life the other day. That's why the question about controls. It seems that I can't decide where to put my jump and duck keys. CTRL for ducking is awful.

[Locke Cole]

I usually configure my duck key to "C" (crawl?), because I am use to it from a few different games.

[Zedie9]

:wonder: Hmm... It's been a while, but I seem to recall using the space bar for jumping... :bouncy:

Jari ~ Weren't you the creator of the What are you playing now thread? You gonna make one here? ;)

[Kilu]

C for duck might work quite well :) Thanks for the hint :p Prepare to be whooped in ET :) BWAHAHAHAAAAAAA! :p

[Locke Cole]

I accept your challenge, Kilu. *pulls out a panzerfaust and blasts Kilu* mwwhahahahaha!

[Kilu]

Laufen für ihre leben! Er hat eine Panzerfaust!

[silverDistortioN]

ich esse raketen zum fruehstueck.

[Kilu]

Aber das ist gerade böse, sie sind meine Raketen.

[pikatsu]

Merde! Je suis un pauvre petite finlandaise, a medi de guerriere Allemande!

(Shit! I'm a poor little finn, in the middle of warring germans!)

Or something... Spelar ingen roll.

[silverDistortioN]

Aber das ist gerade böse, sie sind meine Raketen. no they're not. they're Locke's.

[Kilu]

no they're not. they're Locke's.

Good point.

And for those illiterate, I said that "Run for your lives, he has a bazooka." And Silver said that "I eat rockets for breakfast" And then I said that "But that's just evil, they are my rockets."

[Zedie9]

:D Ah! I understand: You three are on the Half-Life 2 coding team. Now I completely understand all the delays... Instead of debugging and polishing the game, you've been having bazooka fights in German. :shame: ;)

[silverDistortioN]

...my bad.

but i always win, and that's all that really matters. ^.^

[IceBurner]

The only FPS controls that worked for me came from Unreal Tournament:
Up arrow - Forward
Down Arrow - Backward
Left Arrow - Strafe left
Right Arrow - Strafe Right
Right Ctrl - Jump
Keypad 0 - Duck

Mouse 1 - Fire
Mouse 2 - Alt fire
Mouse 3 - Use/activate
Mouse wheel - scroll weapons
Mouse X - turn left/right
Mouse Y - pitch up/down

This setup has the advantage of putting all the important movement keys right under your fingertips, on a set of unmistakeable keys. Unless your fingers are VERY short, you shouldn't have a problem crouch jumping while backpedaling and strafing all at the same time :)

After playing UT, I switched the original Half-Life, and all subsequent shooters over to this setup. It's worked like a charm.

[silverDistortioN]

i think my best set of controls originally came from this demo of shadow warrior i played...

a/z = jump/crouch
x/c = strafe
mouse2 = forward
space = backward

i like the azxc setup... but i've been meaning to move it a little up and right so i can surround my hand with as many useful keys as possible.

...but i haven't really played much lately.

(i've tried a variation on the arrow key setup, and i've tried halflife controls. i really like these the best. =)

[Kilu]

can't use arrow keys at all, too close to my mouse hand. If I had an actual computer table with good space for mouse and whatnot, I could use arrows. However AWSD works as well.

[silverDistortioN]

yeah, that's the same problem i had when i tried out the arrow key setup... it makes my arm ache after a while.

[Zedie9]

:wonder: Using the keyboard as a controller substitute always griped my ass. However, at the same time, not having a mouse for first person shooters sucks the big donkey d**g... Now that we have all this wireless technology, couldn't someone combine a controller and mouse? Maybe make a controller (with plenty of buttons, of course), that doubles as a mouse when you move it around using both your hands? Or if nothing else, using a finger-controlled flywheel in place of the rollerball beneath old mice (or would that be mouses ;))? :bouncy:

[TrueSephiroth]

Sorry i haven't bothered to reply to my own thread recently.

DarkSoul's full of it there is no beta release. There was a stolen build that was also sold overseas in like turkey or something.

I hate it when people don't just simply goto planethalflife.com they have everything figured out.

Misinformed fool.

[Charon]

Won't be getting half-life 2. But I am back and kicking ass on counter strike. So much has changed and despite the initial ballache of getting it working it's actually not as bad as I had thought.
And as for custom controls, here's what I like for CS.
Roll mouse wheel = change weapon
Press mouse wheel = use (hostages, cameras, etc)
Mouse thumb button 1 = Jump
Mouse thumb button 2 = Duck
CTRL = Walk
Enter = reload

The mouse thumb buttons are on the intellipoint mouse. They're pretty cool. The jump being there is just so easy to use.

[TrueSephiroth]

I have an intellimouse with the thumb buttons too. Mine is the one with one on each side. Ones a thumb button the other is a fore finger button.

I use them for natural selection. The one next ot my thumb is reload while the other is call fora medkit. The wheel button I use to calling for ammo pack.

[TrueSephiroth]

WEll CounterStrike Source has been realeased to cyberCafes. And next weak ati voucher people like me can get it.

I want to see this thing in action! The source engine I mean.

[silverDistortioN]

i doubt it includes the halflife engine source code with it, if that's what you're expecting.

i don't see what the big deal with counterstrike is. it's just another mod to me.
...'cept with the potential to die in 15 seconds and then to have to wait 5 minutes to come back to life.

[Jim]

i doubt it includes the halflife engine source code with it, if that's what you're expecting.That's the name of the engine. He's not referring to Source's...source.

[silverDistortioN]

oh, i see... i have a problem when it comes to capitalization, it seems. =)

[TrueSephiroth]

Yes counter strike Source is the name of the game not counter strike source code.

If you knew anything of HL community you would know about it!

Side note I'm getting a new hd 200 Gig. Yay! I'm so happy something new for my PC!! Although I already got a new monitor recently but this upgrade was more of neccesity my current one stopped loading at a specific point when it got turned on so I had to hit it when it was off.

[Kilu]

If you knew anything of HL community you would know about it!

But why would anyone need to know anything about halflife community :p

[silverDistortioN]

take that, nerd.

[TrueSephiroth]

*Pushes glasses up onto the bring of his nose*


Well because if you are concered about Hl2 at all you should goto planethalflife.com and read a few posts that explain some of the basics.

[TrueSephiroth]

HAHAHAHA!!!

I finally get to see the source engine in action!

It is wonderful!

I have Doom3 and there bump mapping doesn't look as good as theres. And it's just well you gotta play it its to incredible to describe!

[Charon]

http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/148082
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/182050

Hopefully you'll like.

[TrueSephiroth]

certainly funny escpecially the extra scenes with teh admin that was really funny.

[Charon]

Yeah I really like the guy's style. And the stereotypes are perfect. I love the look on Dumbass's face when the Pro does the leap in de_dust. I do that leap all the time. :)

I also found this http://www.pwned.nl/
Not as funny or cool as the others but still worth seeing.

[TrueSephiroth]

Seen it and i saw another alot like it. Still funny though.

[TrueSephiroth]

Well I'm happy HL2 has started preloading. So the release aproaches. Not sure how long but it does draw near.

HalfLife Source has made great progress already and DoD Source has aswell.

[TrueSephiroth]

Well alot has happened about HL2. For one valve sent off a release canidate to Vivendi so the game will for sure be out within 5 months.

Two: We know the packages we can get the game in:
retail has 2 versions regular and collectors. Collectors is on a dvd and has a tshirt big deal.

Online packages through steam are better. Bronze gives you basic package hl2 +css, Silver gives you hl2 css hls and dods. Gold gives you all that plus a load of valve and hl2 merchandise, stickers and the like.

[TrueSephiroth]

HALF LIFE 2 HAS GONE GOLD!

YES! Yes YES YES YES!!

Its to be realeased WORLDWIDE on November 16.


So close yeah!

So excited must not go nuts bubye for now!

[TrueSephiroth]

*Slaps self*
*SLaps self again*

*Casts fire 3 on self*

Yeah I'm not dreaming.

Hl2 is two days away. I will be sitting at my computer tomorrow at midnight waiting for Valve to unlock HL2. My new system isn't here yet but I don't need it to play HL2 my computer can play it pretty well already I'm sure. Doom3 is beign kocked around, so can farcry.

[TrueSephiroth]

*Blinks bloodshot eyes after hours of being wide open*

This is so cool I could fill a page with the stuff I've seen in one hour of HL2. I can't say that for Doom 3.

Half Life 2 Is a worthy successor indeed. Perhaps it surpasses the original.

[jetblue]

Really it might surpass the original?
I was gonna wait a few months before I buy it to see how it turns out,but I am itching to play a new game. Especially one with weapons.






And get some eye drop's before you get monitor blindness!

[TrueSephiroth]

I don't think I'm much more then half way through right now with about 9 hours of play on it. But thats keeping in mind mistakes and wrong turns. For those take off half an hour. It feels like HalfLife yet you know that its not anything like the original except for the HEV suit.

The vehicles are awsome. If you ever played farcry the vehicles were to bulky to do any good in a dense jungle but these vehicles can down right FLY!! (not literally, they've told us before no flying vehicles in hl2 but that doesn't mean a mod can't have em.) The buggy has got a turbo button, its a DAMN NOS BOOST!! And it sounds really mean too, I think they got these sounds from a freakin race car.

A friend of mine is adamit that Doom3 is way better then HL2; He's a dumass. Doom3 has got nothin on HL2 and I've been knowing it for along time.
I questioned that judgement when doom 3 came out first, but well if you've played both you'll see.

I was really tired from playing that game it was exausting and really fun.
You need to play it. PLAY IT I SAID GO OUT AND PLAY IT !!!!!!

[jetblue]

wow,over a year and finally i played hl2.
Wonderful game,so crisp and almost frieghtening(ravenloft). It satisfied my shooting lust but it took me by surprise when the game ended cause i thought a beam was gonna fly from the teleporter and hit me sending me to the alien homeworld.
My favorite battle was with the tripods,my blood was rushing trying to destroy them.