Lombardi talks CS

[CSN NewsBot]

...among other things. Doug Lombardi from Valve recently talked with CVG and discussed TF2, HL2, and the all-important CSX (CS for Xbox) and CS: CZ.

You've always been keen to support Half-Life mod developers. Will you continue with this sort of support with future Valve products?



Lombardi: Definitely. I think we've done a fair job of continuing to grow the scale upon which we do the mod support with. First we put out the level editor and the SDK, and we continue to update the SDK, and then we do the mod Expo and we've also taken Counter-Strike to retail. Any way that we can find of extending that we will, from this point and in the future. When we release Condition Zero we'll update the SDK once again so that you can make single-player Condition Zero experiences of your own, and take the new higher-poly-count models and use them to make total conversions.

I really look forward to the community coming up with interesting new scenarios and experiences for CS: CZ when it comes out. Read more here.

[ploclyn`]

nah..



boring....

[MikeJ]

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Good read rizzuh, I see TF2 is possibly being built from the ground up. Which means no "modified" HL engine. A good thing.



I think i might go upgrade to steam, I miss tracker.

[cheetarah654]

how can you say thats boring? i thought that was great! info on 1.5 and 1.6!!! and TF2 and HL2!~!~ im so glad it wasnt just randy pitchford telling us what we know about cz

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oh and mike j, why the hell did you thank rizzuh for that, he didnt interview him or post the news

[Smart[N.e.r.d.]]

I hope Valve is working on a Linux server release of TF2.

[narby]

MikeJ, asspennies posted :X

[FLeK0]

Connecting to a server with Steam is a bit slower than normal way.

I hope they can build up a cool engine for TF2 and for year 2003. They arent going to release it this year :/.

[MikeJ]

I AM AN AOL RAISED 13 YEAR OLD AND ONLY READ THINGS WHICH CONCERN ME THEREFORE I ASSUME ANY CONTENT ON RIZZUH'S SITE IS A DIRECT RESULT OF RIZZUH.



Hint: It was a joke, every time asspennies post someone concludes it was RzE.

[rizzuh]

Steam is slow because it downloads everything as a stress test. Eventually it'll be just as fast as the normal method, it'll only download things it needs.

[asspennies]

I want my

I want my

I want my CSX

[FLeK0]

I want an X-Box first! Anyone can send me one?



I know whos rizzuh.. He is the valve and the gearbox team in 1! He makes interviews with himself, developing the game and running the site. He controls the whole internet, he adds everything, hes our life, hes the matrix!!!!'!

Im retarded today sorry :p

[Spike Spiegel]

So is Team Fortress 2 going to blow us away?



Lombardi: I think so. I hope so. We hold our quality bars up really high, so I think it's going to be exciting - it's certainly exciting for us. We're really anxious to start showing it to folks.



Wow that is a lot of information about TF2!

[FLeK0]

New shots from the new engine. Yummy :)

[Unregistered]

I'm still not to sure about the LAW rocket launcher =/

They still really need to work on cheat prevention. Sometimes I wonder if HLgaurd works with all the cheaters that I've been seeing.

[David Johnston]

I want screenshots.



Then I can curl into a ball and shout, "No! No! I can never understand how to map for that!" - just like I did when I got Half-Life. And again, after seeing the Doom3 footage from E3.



Give it a few years and maps will take months by one person or weeks with 10.