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I'm sure at LEAST 3 or 4 people noticed it was down.

i havent played it.. probably will never... but i tell ya what... from what i have seen as far as screenshots go... this is the worst looking fps i have seen in a very very very long time.. im gonna go back to playing need for speed underground

I must see a lot more fps' than you then

no, much bigger. ~30 feet tall maybe?

I heard that there was 15 thousand people simoultaneously on x-box live playing csx the day it came out. Mac brought it home last night so I'll prolly get to play it next week and see if it's as bad as everyone is making it out to be.

thats pretty acceptable for scenery objects this large. Might end up lod'ing it.

this is a big refractor telescope that's going into an observatory I'm making atm.

3,051 polies and 1024x1024 texture map

I'm not being dumb, everyone bashes the game, and nobody has actually played it.

http://www.anandtech.com/guides/viewfaq.html?i=45

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It's a good thing we can always count on an unbiased opinion from the mapcore crowd.

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raep?

affirmative

Hitting your texture memory guideline in 3 textures isn't a good thing.

standard hl2 textures have bilinear filter (I think thats the correct term), thats why you see the ugly distortion of textures after a certain distance. These specialty textures actually use trilinear filtering so they look sharper and cleaner from distances and odd angles.

If I am not mistaken, bilinear or trilinear filtering is a function of the video card, not the game engine. And I would be very surprised hl2 didn't support the use of that function.

I don't hate valve. Without valve and half-life, I wouldn't have a career.

quarter pounder? plz~

gimme a western bacon chi

I thought it was a very entertaining movie, and worth the price of a movie ticket hands down. The plot was confusing ( lets face it, what matrix movie has a plot you can follow as you watch? maybe I'm just slow) but on the whole, there were too many scenes in this movie where I was just in awe of what was layed out on the screen before me. The cg is so excellently done, and I think the battle of the dock scene would have been worth a ticket price to see by itself. The fight scenes were for the most part very well done, more so than the last movie. Overall I would give the movie a b+, riding mostly on the wow factor of many of the scenes.

never failed in 16 years.

mmmmmm . . . 28 days later .. .

gewd movie.

dosen't touch the omega man however.

I'm down. My solo career has gone down the crapper since I left dod.

It's probably just to give the under 18 kids a rush before they get to the content

sorry if your dissapointed. It seems like most people over-complicate what the source engine is capable of doing, which is understandable given the complicated wording valve likes to use to describe thier technology. I'm just trying to ground everyone here so they don't get decieved and then dissapointed.

I've been playing it, it's fun to pass the time with, nothing to write home about though. The multiplayer is fun for some kicks, lots of tracer / intense firefight action.

I meant, if you could show me the picture, my bad. Not meaning to patronize you, if I'm who your talking to.

No, there is definetly nothing like that. If I showed you the picture, I could tell you what you are tlaking about, it sounds like clip brushes, triggers, etc. I can't really comment on the content of the leaked beta, since it wasn't meant to be judged by anyone outside of valve.

mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.

no.

those rails are just models.

MUCH better It's important to work some highlight/shadow changes into the texture where your geometry changes too. gj