Half life 2 gameplay

So with all this time Valve has with HL2 What should we REALLY find in the final version?

We don't know, and we wont know until E3 in May.

Says Mr. Doug Lambardi (I think I spelt it right) from Valve.

But we can make this thread on what we hope is there lol.

SO, what do you guys hope is there with all this time they've had to remap, refine, and redo their game?

Besides TFC2 and DOD2 of course lol.

I hope it comes with a badminton game mode. That would be awesome :biggrin:

lots and lots of nice how-to's and tuts,

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and a nice shiny new version of hammer that fixes leaks for you.

Well that is what makes the source engine so powerful, is its ability to mod, there will be definitely more mods 4 HL2 than HL1.

There are 288 registered mods at the moddb already, compared to Half-Life's 415 :biggrin:

Really, as long as they take full advantage of that spiffy engine, I'm set. I'm not totally bothered over new features rather than what we've seen in the videos.

Fishy: Prima is already releasing a Mapping and Modding tutorial for HL2. It's like 20 bucks (U.S.) And the new hammer does look very nice, but it will never fix leaks for you lol. (sorry)

I just hope it doesn't need the CD to play (it most likly wont). I find that really annoying, thus cracking all the games I own, no more CD :biggrin: (and If I happen to do the same on my friends computer no one's the wiser lol).

I also want people on the steam forums to stop being morons . . . I know this isn't connected to features of HL2, but it would be nice lol.

Crono said:
I also want people on the steam forums to stop being morons . . . I know this isn't connected to features of HL2, but it would be nice lol.

rofl

and i thought my 'leak fixing editor' was asking some.

A man can dream can't he? . . . a man can dream sigh

IMO, HL2 should come with editors for all game resources, ie. teh new hammre, the cool mouth movey thing they said was going to be there, a model editor, etc. etc.

And you shouldnt need steam to run it.

Hey! maybe theyre delaying HL2, not because its not done yet, its cos it needs STEAM, and STEAM isnt done yet!!!!! OMG ive found out your little scheme, Lombardi! :biggrin:

Steam isn't that bad and the current version of Hammer already works with it, just not intuitivly.

But I'm sure they're waiting also because of Vivendi being a demanding overpowering production company sure does take it out of you . . .

Gameplay, I have nothing I really want. Any new features would be pretty good, but the original HL gameplay was excellent, so I suppose Valve already know what to do.

As far as the editing side goes, I'd like lots and lots and tons and tons of documentation. Official Documentation, written by the developers and in a proper format. Every feature clearly maintained, if possible. It should really help in making better stuff, IMO. Less guesswork, editors can spend more time on actual work.

This is what I was talking about:

Barnes And Nobel's Copy

EBX's Copy

I like how they have different publishing dates lol.

There also seems to be another book Prima is putting out called "Half-Life 2 Raising the Bar", interesting look here to see what I mean.

I think they are on the right track with the 1player portion of HL2. HL1 was about intelligent interactivity with NPC's and the environment, and the Source engine seems specifically geared toward that kind of 1player experience. Maybe people will get into more 1player modding with HL2...?

I'm mostly concerned/irritated at the release delays. I'm also worried that no multiplayer portion has been seen yet, not even vanilla dm. :sad:

I thought they have soecifically kept multiplayer a secret? I mean, so that when you buy the game, it's a supprise... like the stroyline.

Kage, Ive seen a TON more MODs...

I wanna know who the mysterious G-man really are... and I want the game to be really... scary.

To answer my own question.

I want the thing to NOT come on a DVD-rom. I don't mind having four-eight cd's for instaltion (UT2K4 has 6 I believe).

Ubisoft is making this mistake with Far Cry, I'd might consider playing it if it weren't DVD only (I just don't want to buy a DVD-Rom at this time).

OtZman said:
I want the game to be really... scary.

I must agree. HL2 will need to be scary to have the appeal HL1 did.

I think it should come in CD and DVD editions. I do have a DVD-ROM, but I still dont want all you out there who cant be bothered getting one missing out!

Not to mention I've already purchased it lol. So, I actually don't have a choice. But, I know (obviously) if there was a DVD version there would definatly be a cd-rom version. because valve wants it to run on slower computers as well, and they most often do not have DVD-Roms, I'm just someone who doesn't want 2 cd drives. I don't care about burning on the fly BS, but I would still want to burn and stuff and I just don't have 50-70 dollars to go get a DVD-CDR rom.

Just me though, by the way, If HL2 was DVD only (which doesn't make sense, I just tossed it up there for the hell of it) I would absolutly buy a DVD-Rom, probably a new video card too ( need something for my SuSE box that can . . . run.)

DVD drives are cheap as hell, so are cd-writers. it would be a waste of $$ to buy a vanilla cd-rom anymore. I got a dvd/cdrw combo for only $30 after a rebate, same as a cdrom would have cost me. And I would think any computer old enough to not have come standard with a dvd player probably wouldn't be able to play HL2 anyway.

And why would you want only one cd/dvd type drive? I have three, it's great, no swapping stuff all the time to play music/games/movies. My fourth slot is saved for a dvd-burner when those get a little cheaper :biggrin:

UT2k4 will come on either 6 cds, or a 2 dvd special edition (2nd DVD is mapping/modding video tutorials & extras). I'd rather have the DVD for games this big if only because it's less an annoyance to install and keep track of it. Hopefully more big games will follow this trend and at least give you the option of getting them on DVD.

Has there been any talk of HL2's size, anyway? It's kinda hard to know, since we can't be sure what will be included beyond the 1player game (though that's probably 2-3 cds itself :biggrin: )

i will be happy with it as long as

steam works good and fast

its as manipulative as hl1

no cd playability

and last but not least, as long as i never have to PAY to play online (like phantasy star online and star wars galaxys does)

i just dont have the money to pay for one single games playability, and besides if you have to pay monthy to play star wars galaxys than the game disk should have been free(i mean am i right)

and im personally glad it was delayed i still need a new comp before i can play it(right now i am running with its minimum specs, oh how i need a job (grumble economy)

Jinx, you missed my point.

Number one, I made my computer so it technically didn't come with anything lol (Not to mention it will run HL2 just fine).

Secondly, I was talking about getting a combo drive, but here they're about 50 to 70 bucks. It wasn't a complaint, just some opinion.

:biggrin: just clearing up some confusion, unless you weren't replying to what I said . . .

ah, I see it now- you were an idiot and didn't make it with a dvd drive, and now you want Valve to make us all get an annoying 8-cd version of HL2 just to make YOU happy! It's perfectly clear! :wink:

hey, maybe HL2 will just come on one CD- and then you download the other 6 gigs of content via Steam. I'm sure that would work out famously!

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guess that settled that eh?... :rolleyes:

Doc B... :dodgy:

of course it's settled!

sorry, I'm just in a perky mood since things with the girl I'm dating are going really well :cool:

No need to attack me . . . Try, I didn't have money for one when I made the system a year and a half ago.
I never said I wanted the whole thing to be CD only or DVD only, I just said that I hope they don't make it DVD only . . . what the f**k?

warlord said:
i will be happy with it as long as

steam works good and fast

Hmm... could be waiting awhile before that happens .

Not that I hate valve, its a great company, and it doesnt matter to me much that HL2 is delayed. I just enjoy bagging steam :biggrin: .

Crono said:
No need to attack me . . . Try, I didn't have money for one when I made the system a year and a half ago.
I never said I wanted the whole thing to be CD only or DVD only, I just said that I hope they don't make it DVD only . . . what the f**k?

I was just teasing/joking, sorry :sad:

Alrighty :biggrin:

Your post just sounded WAY too harsh when I read it.

Anyway, I'd get a combo drive if I could. I'm sure it'll work just fine with Steam, wil5on. It's not like it hasn't been in development for forever and a day. lol

P.S. Steam works lol . . . Its friends system is a little flawed though, it's really inefficient to have someone signing in and out while they enter/exit steam, it should just be an integer value or somthing like that which isn't initiliazed, Its probably missing three lines of code for this functionality lol.

Crono said:
I'm sure it'll work just fine with Steam, wil5on. It's not like it hasn't been in development for forever and a day. lol

Like I said, HL2 is delayed cos steam isnt ready yet. Bah, steam! Bah I say!