Steam News Update

I really don't want to hear anything else about Lost Coast until it is actually released. It seems each week they release a screenshot and say they will release it in about 2 weeks.

"next week we'll have an announcement of another new game"

HAY THANKS FOR ANNOUNCING THAT YOU'LL BE ANNOUNCING SOMETHING LATER

Well damn, I was hoping that there'd be some thought provoking discussion in this thread about what game "another new game that will be coming to Steam that wasn't built here at Valve" was talking about.

My guess, perhaps Dark Messiah is going to be released over Steam? Doubtful because it's published by Ubisoft, who obviously wouldn't be thrilled to have Steam distribution cutting into their profits.

I guess I shouldn't have been surprised to see the usual bout of "wah wah wah" about these Steam news updates always promising and not delivering. Haven't you people realised yet that Valve _always_ slip on release dates? This is simply because Gabe won't let anything out that isn't polished to near perfection. The reason why these weekly Steam news updates were started was to stop the rumours and whinging and to let the fans know what was going on at Valve.

rawk

I'm currently enjoying the the commentary mode in Riddick. This is a trend I would like to see (hear?) more of in gaming.

blah blah blah, where's TF2?

Well done for learning how to re-skin a old model and add a gasmask to it, i bet that pushed your modding skills, strange hundreds of people managed it before a lot quicker, and they were only modding for coffee. Would be good if they looked like actual SAS, and weared black etc. Or just made ones of the current British anti-terror police.

The other news though sounds really cool, more singleplayer for free, thats great to hear of course, shame we haven't learnt much more in this news post, and same refering to DoD, they could do better planning their hype i guess lol. But thanks all the same those in valve (not steam, steam has caused me many hours of pain).

I don't understand why people complain, a short announcement is better than nothing,

I work with Maya making effects for movies, and believe me..deadlines are a bitch, it's always really hard to keep them because of quality assurance... a texture can always be better, and a model can be improved, animation can always be more interesting and with more weight... and (in games) a map optimized a bit more... so its a fine balance between time you got, and the quality you aim for... and like in any artistic job, there is no right or wrong categorically, so your boss (or client) can always come and ask you to improve something a bit more, and you can't say anything... because its up to personal taste.

I love these announcements of announcements to come. Seriously why do they do it? Just shut up and work. No more 'were really really close' lame ass crap.

It being an Eastern European setting, I'd love to see a Cz Skorpion and Ak47 (something with a wood stock and somewhat older looking maybe...not a black stocked AK74). I'd also love to see a Tau cannon (hand held) and maybe a sorta pump-gluon that you'd pump/charge up and then discharge at people...but now I'm rambling about my own fantasies.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but these are the first "new cs model" screens with both the new and the old in the same shots. Please let them unlock the other models for play again so I can stop playing as the gaytastic stumpy lipstick wearing fag of a terrorist

hopefully the CS models will be easier to differentiate now

since the last update with the new terrorist model, t's and ct's are really hard to tell apart at a distance :(

Sweet! I love the SAS model.

Is Lost Coast going to be free? I'm pretty sure that Aftermath is a full blown add on and thus will not be, correct?

That sure is a shiny construction barrel!

I like this update, I like it a lot. don't know why, but i do...

hmm what could it be

I can't view the fullsize images? anyone else?

More cockteasing from Valve, but hey when they deliver its always good.