Half-Life 2 - official (9/14 Black Mesa Source?!)

[epmode]

http://www.blep.net/hl2stutter/

11/22/04 02:09:11 AM GMT
A solution for the stuttering problem has been found and a fix is coming. I've been talking with Gary McTaggart about this today and it turns out that my texture management theory was correct. A patch will be coming for this issue that will load all of the required textures into video memory on level load, rather than doing it during game play. There is currently no ETA for this patch, but I will post an update as soon as I get more information.

the 4 character minimum is back?

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11/22/04 04:53:34 AM GMT
I bought up the issue of level loading times with Gary and he mentioned that this is being worked on. I am speculating that the preloading of textures will add to the loading time so this is good news.

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11/22/04 06:03:33 PM GMT
Just received the following email from Erik Johnson at Value. The patch should come out no later than tomorrow.

We've found a fix for this problem, and we're planning on shipping it no later than tomorrow.

[Rumpy]

uh, don't touch the lasers. you'll have to crawl over the computers/furniture a few times to make it safely to the other side.

I'll have to look more closely at the room. I was worn out by the time I got to it.

Another awesome part! In Antihero (or follow freeman, can't remember exactly) the Combine are going all out and your running through buildings with NPCs when you get to the stairwell when a guy comes running down the stairs and sceams "Run for your life!" and just as he hits the bottom stair you seem him get shot right in the chest. The blood shoots out and he like falls down with the momentum he had from running. Then you have a great fire fight in the stairway.

Don't worry JMET, all the solider combat you can handle is coming your way. Greatest levels and scripted events ever made.

[Mzo]

Don't worry JMET, all the solider combat you can handle is coming your way. Greatest levels and scripted events ever made.

Yay!

[toxic]

How to get the 'uber physcannon' *spoilers*



set sv_cheats to 1

complete the game and save at some point when you have the physcannon, go to that point.

type in the console:

changelevel d1_trainstation_01

type impulse 101 in the console. Or if you just want the phycanon then type

give weapon_physcannon

[Burky]

I just got it and it's amazing so far, even with my shitty graphics card. However, what pisses me off is steam having to "prepare" every time you want to play it. Is there a way to avoid this, cos right now it's taking about five minutes to load each time.

[epmode]

you can turn off the 3d menu screen which should reduce the initial load time. right-click half-life 2 in your steam games list, go to properties, then launch options. add "-console" without the quotes. i haven't tested this yet, so i'm not sure if it works.

[JMET]

no carrying around a dozen healing items, etc.

Am I understanding this as in you can carry around health packs and use them when your low?

[Rumpy]

Am I understanding this as in you can carry around health packs and use them when your low?

He's referring to Resident Evil type survivor horror as we've been calling Ravenholm survivor horror-ish. The level seems more intense because health and ammo is limited.

[Omni]

The best part is when your waiting for the dude to send the trolly and the hobgoblin zombies are climbing the pipes to get to you. You can look down on em and blast them off the pipe as they climb. And when you find that elevator that takes forever to get to your level. It starts coming up and you see like 2 hobgoblins climbing up. I ran over and shut the door thinking they would either be too stupid to open a door or if they opened it, they would be nicely framed in the door for a head shot. Except there's a fucking skylight in the room! Man, when they crashed through that and glass comes raining down it was insane. The room is pretty dark so it was like all hell broke loose.

Yeah, that part was awesome.

[Roufuss]

Epmode, did he mean the patch for the stuttering is coming out tommorrow, or the other thing you mentioned?

The stuttering takes me out of the game so much I've been waiting for a patch to finish it =/