Posts by D3ads

So I might as well post about my current project here finally, since I've been doing so on the Discord for awhile now. Half-Life: Dark Matter is designed as if there was a fourth and final expansion to the original Half-Life from the perspective of a Black Operator named Kovac. I got the idea when I was replaying Half-Life for the 20th anniversary in 2018, I realised that although the Black Ops had appeared in a couple of mods, they certainly weren't done real justice, so I decided I would be the one to deliver it...

Since then it's evolved a fair bit, and I have seven others in a team working with me now, including brand new code! There will lots of new areas and also crossovers with existing areas as well, and the story will not only be in keeping with Half-Life 1, but also Half-Life 2 and even Alyx where appropriate!

This is my last ever Goldsource project*, upon completion I will be moving onto a newer and more modern game project, what that will be exactly is not known right now. Most of you guys know I've been working with Half-Life 1 for almost 22 years now, so I've got the experience and knowledge to pull this off, and the others have extensive skills in the field as well!

Main page: https://www.moddb.com/mods/half-life-dark-matter

An extensive FAQ which answers most questions: https://www.moddb.com/mods/half-life…ed-questions-20

Twitter: https://twitter.com/HLDarkMatter

and we also have a Discord server! https://discord.gg/yX4CfrH

Right now as we speak, Dark Matter has been nominated for the ModDB Mod Of The Year awards Top 100, in the Upcoming category! So if you guys want to vote for me, that would be awesome ?

Just follow this link: https://www.moddb.com/groups/2020-mo…op100#vote41984

and select Dark Matter on the bottom! If we win, there will be a new chapter reveal in advance of the media update next year!

Anyway, it wouldn't be the WIP thread without some WIPs, so here's a bunch of screenshots, more on the page above obviously!

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I'll post more enviroments here as I make them! Enjoy.

*I might still work on something smaller for fun, if an idea arrises

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On 5/6/2020 at 9:08 AM, Vilham said: Zen

Spoiler Well this didn't age well...

Your Elite PC Gaming Master Race membership has just been revoked

It's ok, it was going to suck anyway

Everyone: You can't do blockouts in Goldsource engine, that's like against the law or something..!

Me:

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I'll just leave this here...

Following on from previously mentioned events, I'm sure pretty much none of us here will be surprised to see that Anita has failed to recognise the hypocrisy of her actions and is instead doubling down on her being the victim. Not only that, but Vidcon has fully backed her in their after event write up about what happened...

It also turns out that boogie2988 was sat next to Anita on a "cyber bullying" panel and she had a go at him because he dared to say that online harassment and abuse is not just a woman issue and also happens to men as well... "I think that was kinda fucked up what you said" Yeah.. he had someone try to kill him from a hit organised on the dark web and had people mail him turds.. but none of that matters because you have a vagina... Fucking unbelievable...

I recommend everyone watch this hour long video where Sargon defends his record and shows quite clearly that all the claims that he was one of the chief instigators of Anita's harassment is total bollocks, because he started his channel two years after Gamergate began and even made a video investigating who has abusing her and asking people to try and find out where the trouble was coming from amongst other things.

On a related note, it turns out one of the Neogaf staff members who was staunchly anti-Gamergate has recently been arrested and charged for possession of child pornography!

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'I dare thee to find a better "This tweet did not age well"' HAHAHA!

Also in that video is Zoe Quinn being a shit head again.. Beloveth Anita posted some kind of fantasy storyline on her blog where she literally shoots Randy Pitchford to death (something about Aliens Colonial Marines.. because I'm sure she really cares about that). Anyway, Randy saw it and freaked out about it naturally especially since one of his kids read it.. Zoe's response to him is "grow up" plus a whole bunch of other bullshit...

Seems like Gamergate lives on...

HAHAHA.. this is fucking beautiful; Sarkeesian was sitting on a panel at vidcon yesterday holding a conference about "online harassment against women" and some of the "anti-SJW" users were sitting in the audience right at the front including Mundanematt, and Anita recognised Sargon Of Akkad and proceeded to call him a "shit head" and "human piece of garbage" !! The irony of abusing someone who has done nothing to you (apart from making videos that call her out on her bullshit like hundreds of others) at a panel about standing up to abuse...! She also tried and failed to get security to move them to the back because she felt like they were invading her safe space... hahahaha. Funny thing is she actually broke the convention rules with her little stunt and now people are trying to get her kicked off (or it's just a troll using the same kind of victim claims she uses). The absolute audacity of that woman, the same woman who went to the fucking UN with Zoe because she didn't like people telling her "you suck" on the internet. Jesus Christ.

http://www.oneangrygamer.net/2017/06/anita-…on-panel/33681/

Missed an opportunity to get as many women as possible to ask questions and call her out on her nonsense, nevermind...

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On 23/06/2017 at 2:03 AM, DrywallDreams said: that was one of hte most unhinged things i have ever seen posted here (lucky for you you had to compete with white supremacy).

just to your point of no other words existing for prejudice against religions thus islamophobia doesn't exist, 'antisemitism' exists.

okay i'm out fuck this too many crazy people here

There's nothing "unhinged" about anything I said, and what the Hell is "lucky for you you had to compete with white supremacy" supposed to mean?

Antisemitism is prejudice against Jews as an ethnic group, it includes Anti-Judaism where apparent but it is not exclusive to it since there are non-religious Jews. Whereas Islamaphobia is exclusively about the religion of Islam and it's followers, not a race.

It's not my fault if the things I state offend you or whatever, since offence is taken not given and facts don't care about your feelings.

Thanks, now my office is covered in jizz...

Surprised no one posted about this, literally what the actual fuck...

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12 hours ago, WD said: 4k has become such a buzzword in so many different contexts that I can barely even understand what they actually mean by that.

The first rule of in-house engine, is not to talk about in-house engine...

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On 16/06/2017 at 2:34 AM, [HP] said: Good, there's enough of those around. I love me a linear game. HL2 is linear and it's a cult hit.

Quote from dux

On 16/06/2017 at 2:44 AM, dux said: I'm sick of open world. Give me linear well crafted any day.

Lmao... I swear everyone was like "y is it not openwurld" when Metro 2033 came out and now this, how times change

Didn't really want to drag this out, but some things need addressing...

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On 15/06/2017 at 1:52 AM, DrywallDreams said: What did Anita Sarkeesian lie about? She simply said there's a tendency to portray women in video games as negative stereotypes, and showed examples of such stereotypes

She did much more than that, she completely flat out lied on numerous occasions about scenarios in certain video games to push her agenda, the fact that you don't know about that leads me to believe you don't actually know much about Gamergate. Take a look:

You can find many examples like the above, just research it. She claimed she was doing all this because she was a gamer who loved video games and then was caught on camera saying she wasn't actually a gamer at all and everything she did was about "social justice".

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Quote The wage gap exists, here's some statistics http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php/Gender_pay_gap_statistics.

Aside from the fact that the EU has a lot of varied figures considering that different countries hold different standards, it makes it clear from that data that it simply a comparison of the average earnings of men and women. When you take into account different jobs, hours worked, the simple fact that women generally go for lower paid and part time jobs, you can see clearly see that the different choices made by men and women make an impact on the statistics. It has nothing to do with women being paid less than men for the same job because of sexism, it has nothing to do with discrimination. Anyway, don't let me "mansplain" about it, I'll let an actual feminist (Christina Hoff Sommers) explain it to you from a US perspective since I believe that's where you live:

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Quote Feminists portraying straight white men as the enemy is a stereotype that you've been sold.

Give me a break, the whole "white guilt/privilege" rubbish is pushed by feminists at every turn, stereotypes exist because there was a truth in it in the first place and the hundreds of such articles on Huffpost, Salon, Slate, Buzzfeed and the like clearly show this. Then there's sites like Everydayfeminism where every article is basically just "check your white male privilege and stop oppressing me".

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Quote Women (and LGBTQ+ people, people of color, etc) just want more positive portrayals of themselves in games, that's all.

You mean feminists... most regular women don't give a shit, the vast amounts of women cosplayers wearing "boob armour" and dressing up as Quiet from MGS5 is evidence of that. How many video games feature LGBTQ people anyway let alone negative depictions? In certain games, such characters can add something I'm sure like in certain tv programmes and movies, Felix from Orphan Black for example is one of my favourite characters. Otherwise what's the point, especially with Transgender people who are a tiny minority. People of colour depends entirely on the scenario, funnily enough Anita did a recent video about this and got destroyed as per usual...

For the record, "Islamophobia" was a term used by the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood and the Mullahs in Iran to shut down any debate over the teachings of the prophet in the Quran and the Hadith. Ask yourself why there is so "Sikhophobia" "Buddophobia" "Hinduphobia" etc

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Quote Of course Gamergate was portrayed as negative, it was started over a non-existent review of a video game. The big buzzword was "Objective reviews," a concept that does not, and is impossible to exist.

It really started because of the Zoe post, which you described as "a harassment campaign by her abusive ex-boyfriend" which leads me to believe you haven't actually read it because then you would see it's more like her boyfriend pouring his heart out because his girlfriend cheated on him. Zoe Quinn is a cry bully, she claims to be the sole victim of abuse but she and her minions have harassed and doxed people just as much. She's literally gotten dozens of projects shut down all over because, she objected to their themes or she cherry picked certain things people working on them said using various campaigns through petitions and gofundme donations. Now the campaign to shut down yet another talented game is in full swing as we can see. I fully accept that she got threats and was harrassed but it was mostly from trolls whose sole intent was to cause harm anyway and she gave as good as she got. Hell.. the FBI did a investigation into it and found no credible evidence of actual crimes in the making...

As for other things discussed, I can quite easily talk about the many issues with BLM or what Islamism is (nothing to do with blaming an entire religion for terrorism) but I don't want to drag this thread into the land of off topic, so I'll just end this here with a recent video:

*drops mic*

Gamergate was and still is about pushing back against identity politics in video games. Back in the day of Quinn it was specifically about feminism with all the ridiculous claims about sexism and misogyny by people like Anita Sarkeesian through misrepresentation of facts and outright lies, we covered all that extensively here. Of course the media mainly focused on a minority of trolls making abusive comments and threats (which were and always will be condemned) and deliberately ignored the actual point of the movement in order to facilitate the agenda of the ever virtuous regressive left.

Tim hasn't said anything that isn't true, feminism has become a parody of it's former self bleating on about non-existent things like the wage gap, the ever present yet totally invisible "patriarchy" and blaming everything on "straight white men". It's no longer about equality.. Hell I don't even know what it's about anymore... Anyway none of the issues that women face in real life has anything to do with video games.. 50% of gamers are female.. Achievement unlocked: EQUALITY!

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8 hours ago, DrywallDreams said: Look at his channel, his videos are about video games, right wing politics, and enforcing stereotypes of feminists, black people, muslims, and so on. Maybe don't say literal racism is good??

I subscribe to mundanematt, he talks about the issues with feminism I mentioned, Black Lives Matter (a racist bullshit movement) and Islamism/Islamist terrorism which to those paying attention to the world is something to be concerned with. It's the reason why kids in my country were blown to pieces at a pop concert but people are more concerned with "Islamaphobia".. Just listen to anything that Maajid Nawaz and Ayaan Hirsi Ali have to say on the subject...

Anyway... the game is looking very impressive with a very unique art style and I look forward to seeing more of it.

Holee sheet... I did not expect to see another Metro game ever again given that Last Light came out in 2013.. but I was pleasently surprised to be wrong... Metro Exodus is here!

http://store.steampowered.com/app/412020/Metro_Exodus/

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Quote The year is 2036. A quarter-century after nuclear war devastated the earth, a few thousand survivors still cling to existence beneath the ruins of Moscow, in the tunnels of the Metro. They have struggled against the poisoned elements, fought mutated beasts and paranormal horrors, and suffered the flames of civil war. But now, as Artyom, you must flee the Metro and lead a band of Spartan Rangers on an incredible, continent-spanning journey across post-apocalyptic Russia in search of a new life in the East. Metro Exodus is an epic, story-driven first person shooter from 4A Games that blends deadly combat and stealth with exploration and survival horror in one of the most immersive game worlds ever created. Explore the Russian wilderness across vast, non-linear levels and follow a thrilling story-line that spans an entire year through spring, summer and autumn to the depths of nuclear winter. Inspired by the novels of Dmitry Glukhovsky, Metro Exodus continues Artyom’s story in the greatest Metro adventure yet.

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Here's the reveal trailer, it's scripted as fuck but it looks and feels epic. Apparently the game wont be fully open world but it will allow for more open environments where players can explore much more freely...

Four years in the making and no release until 2018, I'm expecting a masterpiece. Smart idea to move out of Moscow, I wonder which cities we'll see.. St Petersburg perhaps. I just hope there is enough air supply to explore places properly, I hated having to sprint everywhere in previous games to try and see everything before the filters ran out...

The best bit of Prometheus is the trailer...

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11 minutes ago, Bastion said: Only way they could've stepped up the plot now is if two different dimensions were at war with eachother.

Hey, don't go giving them ideas...

I was wondering what came after space warfare.. reboot!!!