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Posted by half-dude on Sun Mar 4th at 11:01pm 2007

Hey all it's me Half-dude!

I finally got episode 1 to run. I'd been having problems with it, like it just sitting there when loading and having to reset. Or just crashing in general. Well I finally got it running by closing EVERY single background program.

So this is my question, how exactly was blowing up the citidel's reacter making it possible for them to send a transmition? I thought this the first time I played it. I was like WTF? and reloaded to make sure I heard right. I just makes absolutly no sense. Honestly I think that Valve was just looking for an excuse to blow something up.

I mean at the end we see a portal open at the top of the citidel with the 'message beam' shooting out. How is this possible? The whole freaking teleport section if blown up!

I'm just at a loss here, help?




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Posted by fishy on Mon Mar 5th at 12:13am 2007

it all gets explained in ep4


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Posted by Orpheus on Mon Mar 5th at 12:54am 2007

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Posted by reaper47 on Mon Mar 5th at 1:05am 2007

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Honestly I think that Valve was just looking for an excuse to blow something up.


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Posted by OtZman on Mon Mar 5th at 8:09am 2007

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Honestly I think that Valve was just looking for an excuse to blow something up.



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Posted by Naklajat on Mon Mar 5th at 3:42pm 2007

The explosions are where the magic is at.


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Posted by rs6 on Tue Mar 6th at 1:43am 2007

I think it was something about they needed more power to send the transmission, and the only way to do so was to push there power source past its safe capacity. idk, but the explosion was cool.



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Posted by Rumple on Tue Mar 6th at 4:04am 2007

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but the explosion was cool


That is the reason they had the explosion, everybody likes explosions.


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Posted by Le Chief on Sat May 5th at 3:43am 2007

Hay yeah. Now that I finally download ep1 and finshed it. Mabye the citidal in secret is a Power Plant and they needed to overload it or some s**t. And why didn't ep1 have any vehicles. They where so cool in hl2.

And another thing, I hate how valve does the episodic thing. Its annoying. Instead of makeing ep 1-99999, they could just make Half-life3. Featuring better graphics and the lot. Episodic sucks!!!!!!




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Posted by RedWood on Sat May 5th at 3:47am 2007

I like the episodic thing. It's nice playing them and i would like to see a real jump in image quality before HL3 comes out.



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Posted by omegaslayer on Sat May 5th at 4:22am 2007

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And why didn't ep1 have any vehicles. They where so cool in hl2.

If you were up on HL news, you'd know that in E2 they're having vehicles. But what do you care, you've never played HL2 entirely.

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And another thing, I hate how valve does the episodic thing. Its annoying. Instead of makeing ep 1-99999, they could just make Half-life3. Featuring better graphics and the lot. Episodic sucks!!!!!!

Episodic does not suck. If you've read any press releases from valve they've said that delivering HL2 through episodic content is faster and a better means of developing a game thats even better. Game developing companys WISH they could do this. Heres the break down:
-You play E1
-You report back what you liked/didn't like
-They improve E2 by taking out things that didn't work and adding in things that do work well to improve the game.
-You play E2
-You report back what you liked/didnt like
-Rinse and repeat for E3 and any future episodes.

Do you notice a trend? They're refining the game as it progresses! Bungie wished they could do this, but lack that ability because of being on a console (you ship a game once, valve can ship a game with ease).

Honestly arron I don't know why your here if you keep making one sided arguments that have no ground to them.


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Posted by Naklajat on Sat May 5th at 4:48am 2007

The HL2 episodes don't seem all that episodic to me. Episodic kind of implies more than one per year, if not at regular intervals, as far as I'm concerned. I'm not too happy that Ep1 was 6 hours long at best, either. If Ep2 came out four to six months later it'd be perfect, but it didn't so its not. In my opinion/speculation Valve is most likely holding Ep2/TF2/Portal back to polish up the multicore update to the engine (again, speculation). I hope Ep2 is a little longer in any case.

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Instead of makeing ep 1-99999, they could just make Half-life3. Featuring better graphics and the lot. Episodic sucks!!!!!!


They said there will be 3 episodes, and if you look at them you'll notice the graphics get better with each. HL2:Ep1 had HDR and color correction, Ep2 will have multicore support, the improved AI, particles and physics that come with that, and an improved lighting engine on top of HDR and color correction.

The only truly "episodic" series of games I know of is the new Sam & Max games.


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Posted by Fjorn on Sat May 5th at 5:41am 2007

I also know that Valve has definate goals for the episodes

ep1 was character development of a character close to gordon (alyx)
ep2 is large outdoor areas and the like
ep3 is ???

I don't even know if Valve has announced anything about ep3, if someone knows the goal for it, feel free to post it


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Posted by NameWithHeld on Sat May 5th at 6:20am 2007

I don't like the whole concept of episodes, it's probably just because I like to sit down and do several hours of gaming rather than have little bites every few months.



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Posted by Le Chief on Sat May 5th at 7:56am 2007

No episodic sucks. Ep1 and Half-life 2 where like the exact same things to me. Just minor diffrenses. I dont like short games. I wanna play it from start to finish and the whole thing being like an experiance. Awsome s**t happening in between, many twists, then a massive explosive ending. I would describe Episode1 as a small exstension of Half-life2 with a small cliff hanger. I dont know. Did Ep1 even have multiplayer




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Posted by Stadric on Sat May 5th at 9:21pm 2007

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Honestly arron I don't know why your here if you keep making one sided arguments that have no ground to them.


To make us feel better about ourselves?

The episodic thing keeps the series alive in the mind of the consumer for extended periods of time. When a company finishes one full-length game in a series, they usually don't have anything worth showing from the next game in the series. With Episodic, they don't have to change the entire engine to make something worthy of the next game, they can show a brief clip from something they've already made for the next game while the mappers and beta testers were polishing up the current release. That can be in the old engine or a slightly modified old one.
It's like Lost; it's about anticipation, IMO.


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Posted by Le Chief on Sat May 5th at 10:57pm 2007

Well, mabye if valve releases like some pack with hl2 and all the episodes, with some bonus art books and commantary disc, behind the scenes, the like i'll buy that.


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Posted by omegaslayer on Sat May 5th at 11:44pm 2007

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Well, mabye if valve releases like some pack with hl2 and all the episodes, with some bonus art books and commantary disc, behind the scenes, the like i'll buy that.

They do...its called comentation mode...

Did you also know - along with E2, they're releasing TF source? as well as portals around the same time.

Plus valve is working on HL3 technology. They wont say anything, but while your patching the current version thats out there, you start building the next step of technology. SO really what this episodic thing is extra to keep us occupado while they work out the next level of technology.


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Posted by Le Chief on Sun May 6th at 12:23am 2007

Cool omega.

Mabye episodic is ok. You know what I want to see. Half-life1/Half-life2 deathmatch game with cool modes like Ctf, deathmatch, territories, king of the hill, Oddball, Jaganought team deathmatch where you can actually choose your team. That would be cool. Really cool. And you can have matchmakeing and party clans, custom game modes (like snipeing only and there are only snipers on the map) or shotguns or whatever. And you can go to a freinds house and play lan/online and have lots of coke and lollies and chochlate, than wipe the cheetos of you hands and start kickin ass. Stay up all night, people throwing lan fests.?And you have rankings and like a profile and stuff.

That = cool.

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Posted by omegaslayer on Sun May 6th at 1:23am 2007

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Cool omega.
Mabye episodic is ok. You know what I want to see. Half-life1/Half-life2 deathmatch game with cool modes like Ctf, deathmatch, territories, king of the hill, Oddball, Jaganought team deathmatch where you can actually choose your team. That would be cool. Really cool. And you can have matchmakeing and party clans, custom game modes (like snipeing only and there are only snipers on the map) or shotguns or whatever. And you can go to a freinds house and play lan/online and have lots of coke and lollies and chochlate, than wipe the cheetos of you hands and start kickin ass. Stay up all night, people throwing lan fests.?And you have rankings and like a profile and stuff.
That = cool.


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