Posts by e-freak

just keep your machines running and restart steam from time to time. They have already extended bandwith to more than 70 gigabytes per second.

Tuesday, November 11th, 7.00 am PST. (15.00 GMT)

I'm at Darmstadt, 2 stops away from Hauptbahnhof by RB65

Modding has become kind of mainstreamed: While few get really into it, there's a new mass of people actually trying it and never get over the point there they just don't get creative. Back in the gold-source/quake3/ut1 times it was harder to get into but therefore felt more rewarding to get something accomplished. infact I do think you can equal the "easiness" of the modding-tools with the amount of crappy mods/maps (and attempts to do smth). really everyone is whining about the number of shitty maps for Counter-Strike:source, but infact I think the common crysis custom-map is worse than the avg css custom-map, not visually - there's a lot of shaders making sure even the last bs looks decent - but in terms of what was involved in the preparations and creative-process (ofc there's alot of good crysis maps and hp has already proven that the engine is worth a lot in terms of custom-maps).

It's not bad that tools get easier, infact it's the way to go and making it easy to get into modding can help alot in terms of young-talents discovering theyr strengthes maybe. The major problem is that not only the mods get less original/creative, infact the games are less creative either. Everyone's trying to make WW2-Mods these days because every major studio has done a ww2 game as well, back in the days Day of Defeat was kind of one of the first bigger games/mods I knew with setting in WW2.

A good thing however occuring atm is the fact universities really push creative mods. There's alot of good mods coming from DADIU (just google for it) and they are not always technical perfect but they really are creative and refreshing!

It's far from being a HL2 Mod. Actually the difference between L4D and HL2 is far bigger than the difference between TF2 and DoD:S.

Valve is going to support L4D for a long time technically. Contentwise I think it's going to be the usual one to two years they are giving content deliveries.

The TF2 Support is not dead btw. It's just on hold to crunch L4D to release and the team is most likely back on TF2 by now.

well, xbox magazine just rated it 9.5/10 (compare: Far Cry 2 8, Dead Space 6.5)...

that's awesome noise reduction

the colors are nice and the general mood but there are some flaws in the cropping and I don't know how long you exposed every frame of it but the water would have benefited from some longer shuttertime I think

Quote from Jetsetlemming

Valve's busting THOUSANDS of cheaters daily

infact they are busting alot of cheaters every day. and after all there's still alot of kids buying the old cs every day in these ea packages.

where are you currently living (which part of frankfurt?) 2d Chris? Have you already been introduced to äpplwoi?

Because you are living in Belgium/EU and Steam has to pay taxes for importing and value add that you have to pay as well. The store page is the netto price or the US-VAT-price iirc.

I think the difficulty levels are still to low - it really depends on your team and if you know the guys you are playing with, keep your voice chats activated - you can easily overrun an expert horde as well.

stephen fry is the narrator? that'd be a reason in it self to buy the game (and a ps3 )... why don't they release these games to pc?

create a new bat:

@echo off


net stop tabletservice


net start tabletservice


echo Hit any key.


pause

source

if this happens, just hit the bat once and try if it's gone. helped me quite alot.

alternative ideas: check the pen on different tablets, go to older driver version, try if it happen with your wacom mouse aswell, lift the plastic-layer, clean beneath, clean the hotkeys (ok that shouldn't be the problem), go to former windows reset-point and test again, get yourself an pci-usb2 card (5-15€) and try it again.

November 11th - 7 days before the full release

early demo-access....

beaten to it

and you've gotta dl another 100 mb patch after you unlocked the files...

Quote from Sindwiller

Inside a democracy, every major opinion should be taken into consideration.

wrong. demcrocacy is (or should be) the "concert" of all opinions. if you go for the major opinions only you could easily go for nearly every other state-form as well. a dictatorship can consider all major opinions but the strenght and weakness of the democracy is that every single opinion is taken into account.

-snip-

on the one hand - party. on the other: obama's most probably not gonna end death-sentence, not gonna restrict weapon trade and he's most probably not gonna make any changes to the patriot act and stuff like that.

Well at least he seems to be the best educated president in somewhat like the last 2 decades.

Quote from Furyo

Quite the opposite, this was done in Source, using non game assets, just like the TF2 movies.

actually - it's all ingame assets, just extra animations and unlimited source-version which would certainly not run on any machine atm

Seems Germany still gets a good version: valve cut the exploding heads and limb-shot-offs but hired German Dr. House/Luthor Sen. Synchron-actor and it sure sounds awesome in the trailer (Bill, the Vietnam-Vet. fits perfectly into the Dr. House scheme )