In Duke Nukem, you could fire an RPG round into a teleporter and it would vanish.
In Half-Life the RPG round continues on, even if it passes right through the teleporter.
In Duke, you couldn't dodge into a teleporter to escape. In HL you can.
Machine = general design of the teleporter. Be it just a pad, or an elaborate construction.
Anyway, I want a teleporter, that teleports anything that passes into it.
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Game has a fantastic premise that just happens to be paired with a pretty cool graphics engine and some great content. It's still a simple game at its core, sure, but so many of the best (Half-Life) are.
If I'm not mistaken, you can teleport barrels in HL2. I've thrown them into teleporters and had them explode at the destination several times. I cant recall about standard ammunition though.
On a side note, I just purchased "Computer Games" magazine yesterday,because the cover story was about Prey, and it looks awesome. There was also a sidebar about Duke Nukem Forever. Basically here are some quotes from 3d Realms George Broussard:
"We F***ed up" George Broussard says."Basically, we threw everything out and started again".
The first thing is that Duke Nukem Forever is well underway. "We've been Tech complete for a year".
The second thing is that 3D Realms trademark sense of humor is still intact."Duke is a mans man, He drinks, he smokes, he enjoys women."
"Every other game that comes out is World War II or dead serious.Duke is about being the ultimate alien ass kicker".
Theres some more about the technology, and a tech demo where Broussard gives Duke the interviewers e-mail address and Duke heads over to a computer, types and sends an e-mail, which the interviewer actually recieves on his home computer.
And the third thing is that interactivity is still a big part of what 3D Realms wants to accomplish."You should reward the player for playiong around with the world".
Thats it in a nutshell, no dates (of course) but actual recent proof that DNF is still alive.
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Great news there Juim. I just fear that Duke will be old, about 2 years before it hits the shelves. They have taken so long now that if its not at least the U2 engine, then it will most assuredly will be old. 
True, but still serviceable. The U2 engine is hardly obsolete. But, originally it was supposed to be? The Q2 engine. Then they scrapped a nearly complete game for the U1 engine.. A step up to be sure but with its age, the U1 engine is obsolete now. I'd expect that simply upgrading to the U2 engine would be simpler than beginning from scratch again with the U3 engine... I doubt they can upgrade 2 whole engines with one step.
I'd settle for the U2 engine. Its still powerful as hell and runs smooth on almost any medium sized PC now.
Why?
Looks? U2 has graphics out the yin-yang.
I know that the U3 engine is going to whip its socks off but, the U3 engine will require another PC upgrade. U2 doesn't and it still looks modern enough to be counted as new.
Besides, people are still discovering HL1. How much older is that?
In the end, I don't think it will be graphics that sell Duke. It will be a combination of two elements.
1) Its been on the drawing board since before some of these kids were born. It will be bought for its legendary history.
2) Its content. Nothing beats Duke for originality and bravado.
Duke 3d set the standard to which many games were compared to for a long time.
[EDIT] Sorry, I dunno where that D stuff came from. My bad.
Game has a fantastic premise that just happens to be paired with a pretty cool graphics engine and some great content. It's still a simple game at its core, sure, but so many of the best (Half-Life) are.
Maybe the bravado bit is true, but Duke isn't quite "steeped in originality" as far as I'm concerned.Hold on a sec. We're talking about a game over a decade old now? Or nearly so.
Up to that time, no game came close to Dukes simulated 3d environment. It also had a character all its own. Show me one game up to that time that Duke resembled?
Duke was original at that time.
Hmm.. I will lay you odds. No matter what engine they use, DNF will sell record numbers.
I personally do not see them remaking the game for a 4th time, just to use the U3 engine... Its taken years just to get..... Well no place.
I just don't see them wasting more time on another engine. Its simply not economical.
