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[Lento]

and after this... Ricochet: Source!

[defuser]

Lento wrote..

and after this... Ricochet: Source!

even better....teh specialist:soucre

[RobinsonCutter]

that is pretty fucking gay. i mean seriously. don't you have teamfortress2 to be working? oh yea, vaporware.

[Que_?]

RobinsonCutter wrote..

that is pretty fucking gay. i mean seriously. don't you have teamfortress2 to be working? oh yea, vaporware.

They still have to fix CS:S. I'm nothing getting anything else from them until it's fixed.



I'm glad BF2 demo it out.

[Equalizer!]

Valve is in ruins...

[RobinsonCutter]

seriously who's bright idea was that? i mean can you imagine sitting in a meeting, having somebody suggest you port a completely obsolete and practically unplayed mod to a newer engine while not upgrading ANYTHING? and then EVERYONE AGREES IT'S A GOOD IDEA? i mean what the fuck? the people who have HL1:S ALREADY HAVE HL2DM!!!! why port hl1:dm?

[Pharlap]

[Zips]

RobinsonCutter wrote..

seriously who's bright idea was that? i mean can you imagine sitting in a meeting, having somebody suggest you port a completely obsolete and practically unplayed mod to a newer engine while not upgrading ANYTHING? and then EVERYONE AGREES IT'S A GOOD IDEA? i mean what the fuck? the people who have HL1:S ALREADY HAVE HL2DM!!!! why port hl1:dm?

Because it's better? Have you see how many converted HL1DM maps there have been for HL2DM already from custom map makers? Not to mention the complete change in weapons, especially no grav gun.

[RobinsonCutter]

i stand corrected. that is, unless they don't update the gfx, in which case it will still be gay.

[washuplushie]

you guys are dicks. you bitch and moan about valve and yet all you do is play their games and post on a site dedicated to their most popular game. seriously shut the fuck up guys. (note: this is only to the trollish asshats, not the good dedicated citizens)

[peagle]

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Lento wrote..

and after this... Ricochet: Source!

I actually think that could be really cool, if ever a game could be extended into something unusual and great, thar she blows.

[jojojohanson]

I warned ya didn't I Cliffe? BF2 demo? Play it yet? "Don't spam in the forums.." Yeah, good reply. I was trying to help...Source engine is dead in the water. Hope you guys saved some money...



A Source version of the original deathmatch? Who you kidding with this?

[Zips]

Are you kidding me? Source engine "dead in the water?"



Even though BF2 is more recent than the Source engine, Source still looks a whole lot better than the BF2 engine.

[FightingChance]

Besides Vampire: Bloodlines (which, probably due to the late Troika studios inexperience with 3D, looked sub par), has anyone licensed the Source engine for anything?

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Zips wrote..

Even though BF2 is more recent than the Source engine, Source still looks a whole lot better than the BF2 engine.

True. Although, it has more to do with scale than anything. An HL2 level the size of the Gulf of Oman map with that many players would simply not work. I think we have about two years or so before we see HL2 graphics doable in large environment games. (Needs about 512-1GB on onboard video card memory)

[Zips]

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FightingChance wrote..

True. Although, it has more to do with scale than anything. An HL2 level the size of the Gulf of Oman map with that many players would simply not work. I think we have about two years or so before we see HL2 graphics doable in large environment games. (Needs about 512-1GB on onboard video card memory)

EA seemingly doesn't know how to do large scale environments on newer engines efficently either. There's been a ton of problems with the game stuttering that I've read. I personally also experience a ton of freeze-ups and stuttering for the first 2 minutes at the start of a new round for whatever reason. I don't know if it's the content being cached into memory or what, but on every new map it does it (even though it's the same map).



Still others can't even get the game running be it from the stupidly high system (vid card) requirements, a problem with the nVidia beta drivers that are basically neeeded to run it on an nVidia card (Personally had a blue screen of death for the first time in nearly two years just from exiting Guild Wars with the error citing a problem with said drivers), hardlocks when trying to refresh the the server browser (happened to others and myself, personally a total of 3 times and 3 forced reboots) or other random system crashes or black screens of nothing (not personally experienced).



When it works, it's a fun game I'll give it that. Other than that, I'll still be playing Source games more frequently (and Guild Wars even more frequently than that).