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Quote from blackdog

1 hour ago, blackdog said: So in short, what was interesting?

I imagine several asked explicitly about HL3, what did he reply? "Can't say?"

Pretty much covers everything http://www.valvetime.net/threads/gabe-n…17-2017.257716/

Think that's one of the first times I've seen Elon genuinely excited talking about something. I know he's passionate about his products/projects and he's super awesome at what he does, but it just goes to show how much joy gaming brings to people.

Quote from Izuno

On 13/01/2017 at 7:43 PM, Izuno said: I got to play some Zelda on Wii U at E3 last year and it was perfectly fine, except I still am not in love with the tablet controller.

Just get the "Pro" controller. I'm sure they'd support using that since you won't always have the touch screen if you've docked the switch so should be easy enough for them to support non tablet controllers on the Wii-u.

I started reading this thinking I'd missed so much over the weekend... 4 pages in I noticed the dates on the post -_- lol

Good guy @Sprony.

Love the look of that Mario game. I think I'll just get Zelda on the Wii-U. I doubt there will be much difference and then I can wait for the Switch's price to drop before getting the rest of the first party titles. Looks like a fun little console though!

Bought this from a colleague yesterday for 15 quid.

After the huge 12 gig patch I did the first part of the story and already messed with the photo mode. This game is stunning.

Spoilers!

There was a leak quite a while back with of their JIRA database if I'm not mistaken. Had references to L4D3 and I think there was some HL3 entries in there too. But of course, with the way Valve works they could have been small teams trying things out and they've been canned like in the article.

I'd love for Valve to release an actual game. L4D3 would be very appreciated.

You'd have thought if Valve were going to release and push Source 2 they'd need a big game to release alongside it to show off their new tech like they did with Source and HL2. We need someone on Mapcore to get a job at Valve and leak us info

Raising the Bar is a great read and a lovely art book. So happy I got a copy when it first released.

I have hope HL3 will come one day. I'm not excited or anything for it because I know that Valve never releases anything in a timely manner. But yes, would rather it never came out then have a sub-par experience.

Not that great 'cause I haven't seen it :P:(:P

My girlfriend got me a PS4 with Mafia 3 for Christmas. I renewed my PS+ subscription and bought Ratchet and Clank so I'm playing through those when I'm on my couch.

My girlfriend also got me BF1 for an upcoming birthday so I'm playing a lot of that whilst on my PC. Loving it, she's done well

Quote from blackdog

26 minutes ago, blackdog said: I think the big problem here is the tech really: re-compiling maps for such minute additions is really painful. That's also the kind of thing I would get an apprentice to do (would be cool if they hired a couple, I mean for first gig).

True. Re-compile times can be long and especially annoying if there's an error at the end of it meaning you have to redo it all again.

I'm not sure what Valve has in-house but here we can unload a lot of that stuff to servers or slave machines to save us from sitting around for hour/s whilst stuff calculates. Valve might have something similar which would make it easier for them.

I think it just all boils down to CSGO not having competitors. They're a top 3 e-sports game and nobody is challenging them for that spot really. On the flip side DOTA gets loads of nice tweaks, balance changes and updates to keep it competitive with LoL. We know Valve can do it but obviously they're putting their resources into projects which need it more.

We also don't know what they're doing with stuff like Source 2 and any other internal projects. Maybe a lot of their time is taken up with porting it over to S2 or whatever. It's all rumours and speculation when it comes to Valve which sucks a bit. Would love them to be more transparent at times.

My girlfriend bought me this as an early birthday present and I'm loving it. I enjoyed the beta but not to this extent I wish I picked it up sooner!

The atmosphere in this game is so bleak it really does capture the horror of WWI I feel. I know most of the war was in trenches and not running around towns and deserts but the explosions and amount of people that die in a game is frightening.

Operations mode is a lot of fun and I've actually played it more than my beloved conquest mode so far. I love it when you have to push/retreat and you hear everyone's whistles blowing and lots of screams in the background of people charging.

Love it so far. Add me on Origin: Ren182

I saw season 1 and really enjoyed it. Probably going to binge season 2 over the Christmas break.

Quote from blackdog

1 hour ago, blackdog said: I can't wrap my head around hunting games. What's fun about them?

I guess you could say the same about war games. What's fun about shooting people? People get a kick out of it, at least nobody gets hurt this way

He's gotta be voicing Doomfist. He's said in the past he'd love to do voice work on Overwatch and he posts quite often about Overwatch events like the free weekend and such. Would love to hear him in game

Overwatch for me, too.

Civilization VI gets a mention too!

I managed to claw my way out of gold into platinum over the weekend. Got on a little win streak with a group that invited me after I had a few bad matches where people were maining genji/hanzo/tracer and would refuse to change and said that they had gold damage and gold kills, but they weren't playing with the team at all.

Platinum is a little better and people seem a little friendlier so hopefully I'll just keep on going up from here.

Quote from Jetsetlemming

7 minutes ago, Jetsetlemming said: Same. I was at 2980 last season. This season I'm floundering at ~2300 because team comps just aren't remotely reliable enough to build forward momentum.

Think I'm hovering around the same rank. Feel free to add me Ren#2237. Would love to have some Mapcore games to help each other climb.

Meanwhile I'm stuck in gold with people who only pick Hanzo or Genji. Or there's the Soldier 72's and McRee's who refuse to shoot down Phara's and people who choose Bastion or Widowmaker on attack. All the while they're screaming at me that I'm not healing them enough because that Phara keeps focusing me and I can't do nothing to get rid of her.