Weekly News Update - New Tech

[CSN NewsBot]

Valve's own Gabe Newell is spearheading the latest Steam news update, and it's one you won't want to miss.

Hi, this is Gabe Newell. Normally the weekly Steam update news is written collaboratively by a number of people around Valve, but this week I'm grabbing the reins and writing it myself.

I've been playing a lot of Darwinia lately. Like most of you reading this, I play a lot of games and most of them don't manage to capture my attention for very long. But I'm now playing through Darwinia a second time, so I think it's fair to say I'm hooked. I'm currently on Temple, and while I'm not as good at the game as some people around the office, I've managed to get Airstrike researched to level 4.0 which is pretty satisfying. It'll be out on Steam this coming Wednesday, and the demo will be available shortly before its launch. Send an e-mail to me at gaben@valvesoftware.com and tell me what you think of the game once you've played it.



We recently had several members of the hardware press out to to Valve to see the new Day of Defeat movie we used to drive some new features in the Source engine. A number of articles about their visit should surface over the next week or so. The first one we've seen is over at Bit-Tech.net.

I am really, really impressed by that new technology displayed in the last link there for Day of Defeat: Source. The Source engine is certainly undergoing drastic changes all of the time, and the innovation is apparently never ending.

[BAILOPAN]

Gaben, stop playing Darwinia or whatever and fix all of the SDK bugs.

[rizzuh]

Can someone tell me what the video says at 2:13?

[Que_?]

That "yes" he does lie. A lot!

[FLeK0]

rizzuh wrote..

Can someone tell me what the video says at 2:13?

Sniper in german (Scharfsütze).

[skankuser]

Why is he gonna tell us what he's done in the game, when we have no idea what that means?

[Zips]

rizzuh wrote..

Can someone tell me what the video says at 2:13?

I thought there were multiple videos... at least in that 360MB torrent link they have there is.



Which one specifically?

[Psychotron]

That game looks so bad.

[washuplushie]

Psychotron wrote..

That game looks so bad.

troll >

[Alpha_Tay]

best way to lie a kids to buy his only chrismas presents that has not yet out!

[Psychotron]

washuplushie: How is that a troll comment? I think the game is bad, I didn't come on here flaming people for liking it. The game looks like im playing Risk with stick figures.

[V.C. Sniper]

Psychotron wrote..

washuplushie: How is that a troll comment? I think the game is bad, I didn't come on here flaming people for liking it. The game looks like im playing Risk with stick figures.

If you haven't played the game yet and have already post shit about it, STFU!!! Alot of people have played this game's demo and 90% of the comment back are good. Anyways,WOW!!! Those screen shots looks amazing!!! WOW!!! It really look like a WW2 film with them special EFFECTS!!!! HOLY S**T!!! It look Soooo *wet pants* SWEEt!!!! EXTROADINARY J0B VALVe!!! The second screen shot reminds me of the section in Saving Private Ryan where they show the MG-42 firing at the landing craft!!! I can't tell it apart if it were on a Omaha Beach map. w00t!!! GJ VALVe!!!1 Can't WAIT!!! w00t!!!

[DaRk-AnGeL]

^ Lay off the pro plus.



This is all well and good, but when will they fix cs:Source?



Also, why don't they use the same hit detection methods for CSS as they do for DOD:S ? :/

[Psychotron]

#11 What? Are you sure youre not talking about DOD:S? Were on the topic of the game titled Darwinia.

[kerosine99]

Actually he is on topic. The news post includes links to a video about cinematic effects that can be used in DoD:S somehow.



"I am really, really impressed by that new technology displayed in the last link there for Day of Defeat: Source. The Source engine is certainly undergoing drastic changes all of the time, and the innovation is apparently never ending."