Thoughts?

It's pretty good, as long as you weren't expecting more than a gorgeous
20 minute Combine fight. I like the commentary system - Robin Walker's
voice is completely different than what I imagined. :wink:

Only problem I've had is the game locking up after a while with a "memory could not be read" error. Beware!

Well, It certainly looks pretty, I am gonna play it now. w00t!

Alright. I just finished. I was expecting MUCH more. But... that's my life with HL2 i suppose...

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WTF ITS RELEASED!!!!!!!!!!! MAN I GOTTA GO DOWNLOAD! I've been waiting ages for it and just in time for the weekend WOOT.

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HD. dont get your hopes up..

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The point of "Lost Coast" isn't the gameplay. It's a
technological demo that happens to have some combat. In fact, I
wasn't expecting any fighting at all. I was just interested in
the scenary and checking out the new engine. To be honest, I was
a bit annoyed by the combine.

I very much enjoy the commentary. I found them very informative,
and they really enhance my appreciation for the technical aspect of the
rendering process.

I took some screenshots. As far as the aesthetics, I was actually
expecting a bit more from Valve. The water looks even more
gorgeous, but I think some textures do not work well with HDR.
And the distant fog effect is not perfected yet.

Overall, I was quite thrilled. I am just glad that my machine
could handle the engine. I was given a warning that my specs
weren't up to par, but luckily the game ran without a hitch.

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Since I lack the shaders and such to use HDR ... period. I thought it was okay.

Wish I had the money to do an upgrade.

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As free 'lost levels' go this doesn't hold a candle to Uplink. Still, it's cool :biggrin:

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Every time something happens that gives me additional cause to hate humanity I add another room to my Half-Life level.

I ran it on my normal settings and got the same frames as I do while
running regular HL2. Listening to the comentaries was what I liked the
most (level design terms - Verticle combat, arena, and puzzles =P).

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I enjoyed it very much, especially the commentary! The ones about game
concept rather than technology give people (particularly mappers,
aspiring developers, etc) some insight into what goes into making
single player games and maps fun. Thats a good thing. This has even
inspired me to make a single player map or maybe even a series of maps
for HL2!

I say bravo! I think it was quite well done for what it is, a tech
demo. I think people will get POed at Valve for taking sooooo long on
something sooooo short and stupid. But then again thats the typical
reaction of a lot of gamers (especially the vocal 12-year-olds) to
ANYTHING Valve does.

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Lost Coast

It had me drooling.

meh, its good. but one of the voices crashed my pc at one point & I
cant be bothered to boot it back up. It's quite clever, but its not
something that impress' me overly tbh.

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My Pit

Just downloading now. For some reason, my computer seems to think that
an Athlon 64-bit 3000+ is below 2.2GHz, and so is too slow for the
game...

I hope to prove it wrong. :smile:

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It thinks my Sempron 2500+ is anywhere from 1.8 to 4 ghz... I've always wondered why.

Havent downloaded it yet, probably not much point if its just a tech demo. My video card probably couldnt keep up anyway.

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• My yr11 Economics teacher

Just played it - impressive stuff. The final comnment said that it was
a test to see if the community liked this sort of stuff (i.e.
commentary on development), so I hope we get more of this in the future.

And it seems I proved it very wrong in terms of specs...

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Let me guess. This is just another reminder that I am on 56k now. You guys, so cruel.

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Well after 5 crashes I managed to get through it. It was stunning, it had eye candy!

Scripts were quite good but they didn't amaze me like the Canals scripting!
There were a few bugs but I can ignore them because they did work hard on it.
I decided to take pics for those who can't play it yet...I will zip it because some people don't want to spoil it.
www.websamba.com/habboi/lostcoast.zip

I had to delete dedication and de_boshi to save room but here are shots of pretty much everything on full graphics.
People said it was too short but I found it quite entertaining and lasted me 30 mins, they just rush things like this and expect more...

All in all it was beautiful, entertaining and I hope they make more...Maps like these make me realise why I map, cause you can make eye candy like that if you try hard enough. Just looking at it again makes me want to map something spectacular.

Zip is corrupt and/or empty.

Check it.

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Did anyone else seem to have a sort of god-mode while playing this? I
wouldn't take damage from the combine or anything the entire level.
Possibly a glitch? I didn't set it that way I swear! :razz:

If you have the commentary on then you don't take damage. I played it
through twice - once without commentary and once with. It's an
enjoyable diversion for 20 minutes or whatever, a lovely demonstration
of HDR, and the commentary is a neat feature that I'd love to see in
more things. All in all, it's nothing amazing but good for what it is.
GG valve.

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Underdog, works fine :razz: because I tested it, my friends tested it...Update your zip extractor or something.

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If you have the commentary on then you don't take damage.

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That's what I noticed too. However, I still received damage when I wandered into the open water. Those little fishy things hurt me, even with the commentary on.

I guess it's necessary so I don't go to the edge of the map and hit the skybox. Playing games isn't the same when you have mapped.

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Zip remains empty. Anyone else care to try and determine if its on my end or not?

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I replayed it, without the crashing. And tbh, I think the best thing was as many people have said already, the commentary.

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I assume with the release of Lost Coast we get HDR in HL2 and the SDK, no?

no, it won't be added to HL2 as it supposedly requires map specific things and nobody is going to remake all the HL2SP maps just for some bright lights

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[sidenote]Wil5on, an Athlon 64 3000 is below 2 Ghz. Clock speed is 1.8 Ghz, I believe, but they're not checking for pipelining and stuff, so don't worry. It'll run. :smile: [/sidenote]

If your specs are too low, then HDR isn't activated at all and this level blows. :sad:

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no, it won't be added to HL2 as it supposedly requires map specific things and nobody is going to remake all the HL2SP maps just for some bright lights

But what about the SDK? Anandtech said you'd have HDR in the SDK when Lost Coast came out. I can't find any info on this.

I would dload it, but I heard you need one helluva PC to run it :sad:

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I would love to change the world, But they would'nt give me the source code.

Not really. I mean, you do need a relatively new video card, but not a uber-machine per se.

My specs:

Athlon 3200+ Barton

Radeon 9800 Pro

1 GB dual channel memory

And it runs pretty smoothly on my machine. No crash, no hiccups. In fact, I get framerates between 20-30 most of the times.

For UnderDog, here is a IGN thread that has some nice screenshots, if you can't open the .zip file.

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I dont have a gig of ram :sad: Thou will so but some thou!

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I would love to change the world, But they would'nt give me the source code.

Amazing job valve, i love that map, the HDR thingy is quite impressing, the bloom effect is even nicer, nice job..

It crashed more than 5 times, i guess becuase i have radeon 9700 Pro.<span style="color: red;">.Correct me if im wrong...

Oh, and about HDR lightning, are they going to add that in hammer ??

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Habboi's zip file works fine, nice pics you got there buddy

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For UnderDog, here is a IGN thread that has some nice screenshots, if you can't open the .zip file.

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My thanks but 5 minutes after clicking the link the page was still loading. I am not sure what was on it but it must have been massive.

I will just sit on the sidelines and enjoy the text.
(and yes, the page was loading, the connection was not broken)

[edit] I think I figured out why Habboi's link failed. My download manager knew that only a complete fool would download 11.5 megs worth of images. I shut it off and attempted to download the old way and got this:



Apparently, it knew me better and refused to download it, as it knew I would too.

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Man, the SnarkPit was down for a few hours. I thought it's a gonner for the day for sure.

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BTW, extra points
for Valve for finally settling the Catholic-orthodox conflict by
creating the ultimate church; a church of both religions. :evilgrin:

No, seriously.

Interestingly enough, there's a <A href="http://www.tow.com/photogallery/lost_coast/part2.shtml" target=_blank>real-life "Lost Coast"</A>. It's quite beautiful.
But read the photogallery comment, especially the one about the shotgun shell. It's too funny to think that the Combines have been there already.

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Made an album of LC screen shots.

Specs: Everyhting high, 2xAA, 4xAF, full HDR.

http://photobucket.com/albums/v613/HL2photo/Loast%20Cost/?sc=1&multi=19

I averaged 20-40 FPS, with some spots that would run under 10 fps. I have a 64 3200+, 1GB RAM, and a 6800 128 mb vid card.

the hdr dont work for me and I have it set on full in the settings I
think it might have something to do with the glitch since they released
DoD where I carnt run any hl2 game in fullscreen cos it reboots my pc.
I have done all the stuff that valve has sugested on the support
section yet none of it works.

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You know, as of yet no one has said. How big of a download are we talking about?

I'd be willing to commit a dozen nights or so.

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Im mad there is'nt an actually head crab cannon.

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Underdog said:
How big of a download are we talking about?

I can't ascertain the update file size from Googling. When I got
the update, Steam didn't show any file size. But to give you some
idea, I have DSL, and it took me about thirty minutes to finish the
update.

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Thirty minutes? about 4 here :smile:

I believe it's about 300 MB, but I don't remember.

It's a lot to say the least.

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It's less if you have HL2 and DOD:S assets on your computer already (from what I hear).

I dont have a gig of ram :sad: Thou will so but some thou!

Christ, Im dislexic!!

Thirty minutes? about 4 here :smile:

I believe it's about 300 MB, but I don't remember.

On my connection, that would take, say, 2 - 3 days :sad:

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I would love to change the world, But they would'nt give me the source code.

I was gonna say, that despite it saying it was about 340mb or whatever,
it installed for me in minutes. I started it going, went off to watch
my flatmate play his new game, then came back five minutes later to
find it installed.

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So now the question is. I assume this is a Steam option you choose like installing a new game file?

OK, I will look for it. I only hope that Steam has a decent resume cause I cannot tie up my phone for a week solid.

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i don't know what else, if anything, would be downloaded, but the lostcoast folder that gets created weighs in at just under 60mb. the dl might even be less than that, if it comes in compressed form before being extracted to that folder.

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fishy, if you have HL2 and DoD:S assets already, I think that's the case.

I will have to update you guys when its completed but, upon firing up Steam and after its updates completed (almost 10 megs again :rolleyes: ) I clicked on the link to begin the download. I was at 88% complete from the beginning so I am assuming it is borrowing components from elsewhere. At 89% it was approximately 10 megs already downloaded so I am assuming that I need an additional 110 megs yet.

54 minutes and 14 megs complete so far. Isn't 56k grand. :smile:

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Hmm...

Strange, I didn't notice this before...