Posts by Bluestrike

Bluestrike · Valve to acquire Turtle Rock Studios Bluestrike January 15, 2008 at 5:18 PM

Quote from e-freak

Earlier Teams (or at least theyr leads) came to Seattle, Washington and worked at Valve's HQ but with Left 4 Dead's Developers they made a step which other Companies did a long time ago: They start a studio in another place ...

Earlyer teams were modders and students who didn't have a office/company as far as I know.

So maybe the Turtle Rock guys (ex westwood right?) just didn't want to move.

I find it a bit weird for a big studio like Valve (100-150 people last numbers I saw) and their loose policy of "work on what you want when you want" to start a satelite team of what, 10 people?

Bluestrike · Who's your #1 in games? Bluestrike January 15, 2008 at 5:00 PM

Valve, Chris Taylor, Mythic entertainment, Crytek

Bluestrike · [Release] Cp_studio_rc1 Bluestrike December 24, 2007 at 12:52 PM

Looks great and original

Bluestrike · More Crysis / F.E.A.R sequels Bluestrike December 16, 2007 at 5:44 PM

It was already known there would be 2 more crysis games, but I guess we also know the names now

Bluestrike · Oh dear. (new terminator film) Bluestrike December 14, 2007 at 9:54 PM

hmm the machinist is on tv right now if its the same movie, perhaps I should go watch it

ontopic,

not sure what to expect from this 4th one but ofcourse I like 2 the most, terminator vs the liquid one is just great

Bluestrike · buffer underrun? Bluestrike December 14, 2007 at 5:40 PM

This week I'm having ie explorer crashes saying buffer underrun when I visit this forum (and only this forum)

Any idea's anyone.

Bluestrike · A Portal map Bluestrike December 11, 2007 at 10:24 PM

Quick little project, worked on the layout for 3 days (had to make my own prefabs since valve's portal prefabs only show up under ep1 and they look more like model reference geometry then anything else

Finetuned, tweaked and made a advanced version for another week.

So its basicly a small map pack with a basc version, advanced version and then the 3 challenges.

I used the typical modular tesetchamber look so nothing fancy there.

And creds to Spine from http://www.texturehub.net for the sphere skins and button edited skin.

Main reason I wanted to do this was for the balls stuff

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http://bluestrike.steamfriends.com:80/maps/m_bs01.html

Bluestrike · Crysis Reviews Bluestrike December 10, 2007 at 6:52 PM

I'm at the bossfight but I can't finnish it, the tactical gun won't lock in.

I played the ending (?) at the carrier at least 20 times already that I got bored of it. After I locked and fired the gun I died and it doesn't work anymore even after savegames, I now probebly have to replay the entire level.

Since the world freezed over I switched to easy to have some fun and died more then I can count.

Compare that to other games I play oin normal like the HL series what I can play with only a few stupid deaths that are usually my own fault.

Also the player was given the tactical gun to early, why give it to him when he has to fight the big exosuit or what was it called and not being able to fucking use it. Its only confusing.

The player should have sent in to retieve the weapon after the fight on deck for what I suspect is the big final.

I also don't feel like a special forces guy, my aim sways more then a 3rd world country rebel, while I am in this neat nano suit that enhances my muscles?

The only effective way I found to deal with enemy's is to cloack, pick one off, cloack again and repeat until you wiped em all.

It aslo doesn't seem to run smooth on my quadcore with 8800gtx in automatic settings. (some serioes hangups at times)

Well I wish I could set this 19 inch monitor in a lower resolution but those samsung fuckers decided they only needed to support 1 widescreen resolution

But I will probebly play the game again when I got a new PC

So overall its a good game but it feels like it could have some longer testing to tweak the gameplay more

*edit* Also want to add that these end bosses seem to wait for their destruction, in the level with the river it just sits there in front of you taking damage withouth really doing anything of importance, and once you get out it finnaly advances, kinda like its a retared alien

(same goes for the fight on deck)

Bluestrike · HL2 Portal Bluestrike December 10, 2007 at 6:34 PM

I think the portal gun would need some serioes slaps from the nerf bat to be used in something like Ep3.

Unless Ep3 will be indoor levels looking alot like portal

Bluestrike · Crysis Reviews Bluestrike November 29, 2007 at 8:33 PM

hmm I wanted to wait for vista for DX10 (I had it but the friggen oem edition gave up on me)

Anyway I can't play for longer then 1 hour, the motion blur is overdone or something, because I get dizzy just from looking around and never had this problem in any previoes games.

Also the wind effect on vegetation seems a bit overdone.

Also the button to cycle trough the suit powers seems to malfunction as it always stops at strentgh?

The mouse selection is neat but to slow for my taste the 6-0 keys could probebly be used I got to check the keyconfig if I can bind em

The game makes more sence (with the nanosuit) then I tought, and ofcourse the 2020 date helps a bit too ;-P

Bluestrike · Insurgency Beta 2 Available Bluestrike November 22, 2007 at 6:52 PM

They are working on that, no ETA

Bluestrike · Insurgency Beta 2 Available Bluestrike November 22, 2007 at 4:44 PM

yeah altough I am not really convinced the extra publicity is better then having a whole load of mirrors, maybe to hit a US public, but my general impression is that people don't really like the Planet network that much

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Texture sizes should not matter, the problem is where rock and ground textures meet.

Usually you want to scale up the rock faces to look good, but that means the other texture in the blend texture also gets rescaled.

Bastetexturetransform(2) should be usefull to scale only one of the 2 textures in the blend but like mentioned its not working.

I put it on valve's bugzilla and it got assigned but its still a questionmark if they fix it and when

hmm Skybex it works for the shader "WorldTwoTextureBlend" ?

I should try using that for my displacements then and see if it works, but a nasty sideeffect of that os is that the alpha's are inversed ingame compared to how it looks in hammer.

Bluestrike · ol_undersiege Bluestrike November 12, 2007 at 4:47 PM

Bah I expected a battleship lol.

Anyway looks good.

Bluestrike · HL2 sdk update tomorrow morning Bluestrike November 9, 2007 at 5:16 PM

Where is mike posting?

I would expect this kind of stuff on the official wiki

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None, spend alot on my PC and I would not mutch have the TV availble for it anyway.

There really isn't any interesting on them what makes me want to buy one anyway or I probebly would have

Bluestrike · HL2 sdk update tomorrow morning Bluestrike November 7, 2007 at 9:56 PM

Quote from seir

cant load filesystemopendialog.dll
missing material 'materials/flatnocull'
game dir is correct

I have that error when I try to add mods to the orange sdk.

Light preview makes most stuff black, 3d raycast rendering doesn;t seem to work, or its barely using my cpu

Bluestrike · Showbudget Bluestrike October 30, 2007 at 6:00 PM

Valve just tests on lower systems as well but thats alot harder for us to do.

If you need a fixed number, this is what I did,

I went in my highest settings (hight end pc) and checked the dod:s maps for the lowest fps, and on my own maps I stay above it (100 fps in my case) or try to anyway.