Valve News Update; Half-Life 2: Episode Two News

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  they've added multithreading and increased the particle count in physics reactions. : oatmela
  • I thought they were adding in dynamic shadowing/lighting this time around, but I haven't heard that menti... : speon

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• It works. It's a bit fast and its fullscreen at a horrible resolution. But it's still XCom goodness (hard : freshyk

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  oooh syndicate yeah! : FuzzyOnion
  • I'd buy that !!! : noven
  • Oh my! please yes : jigstah
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    What about Syndicate Wars? Was that Syndicate 2? Cause that game was fantastic. : Jobos
    • yea, that was the second one. : famine101
• Pics of previous background please. : Psychic Potato
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  I'd love to play Syndicate again. And see the rack. Don't let me down both of you! : thaperfectdrug
  • hey will do it if they put out syndacate : supercromp
• It is nice, but I still use your girlfriend's rack as my desktop background. : AroundTheFur1380

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• You sure are an optimist. : DOOManiac
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  Left4Dead isn't made by valve, its made by turtle rock studios : Archangel2007
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    with Valve's help. : doomed
    • still made by turtle rock, its not valves decision. : Archangel2007

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• Is being connected for a few minutes to unlock that hard? : Sapiens
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  When you buy the retail version and don't have internet access, yes it is. : Xin Jing Client 1a
  • This seems like a moot point considering your posts here. In the event that a PC actually capable of run... : Sapiens
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    pssst, you have internet access. wtf is your problem? : Peace frog
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      Right, but then he can't install it on 20 of his friends computers. : Vangoghs Ear
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        I'm accessing the internet at work, hence posting these very words from a computer that is different from... : Xin Jing Client 1a
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          Basically they are stating that your case is not one shared by the usual demographic that purchases valve... : AroundTheFur1380
          • This is the correct answer, WoW analogy notwithstanding. : Sapiens
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          What does it have to do with your question? Everything apparently. If you're really that up in arms a... : Zips
          • Thank you, this was the most useful bit of information yet. : Xin Jing Client 1a
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  yeah, i was pretty frustrated with this when i moved. no internet for a couple of weeks and i got back in... : mallrice
  • CS had been updated and you ran it prior to enabling offline mode, while HL and Ep2 had been installed bu... : Sapiens

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• Yes. : systatic

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• wow. the ending is great. I'm gonna play it a 3rd time right before ep2 is unlocked. : dumptruck

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• Whats weird is that large portions of West Virginia resemble City17. : Vorlonesque

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• Yea like a Naughty Nurse outfit. Oooh or maybe French Maid. : coyoterys
• She needs to loose her clothes in some sort of combine disarming machine...and then she'd have to go nake... : Vorlonesque

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• Hotel Dusk is kinda like that. : Helter Skelter
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  Or how about that one quest in Oblivion? Where you go into the painting... : Jobos
  • shit I never did that quest :o : thebigbeefsandwich
  • Hell yeah, that was trippy as hell. I actually wore that Apron of Adroitness for a while afterwards. : MaxPete82
  • Ummm can you PM me details on that quest? not too many spoilers but just how I get there. thanks! : jigstah
  • One of the best quests in the game. Fantastic. : DOOManiac
• *drool* : finalthrill
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  okami for ps2? : flasher 907
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    Good call. : Speedy8
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      however i'm still bitter okami doesn't support 16:9 : flasher 907
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        Didn't it? It kind of goes in to a squish mode and you blow it up with your tv. It's been a while, but ... : smegmar
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          Nope, that's the doing of your TV, not the game. : enyakk
          • Yeah, it did make it kind of blurry : smegmar

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  It might make at least an attractive film but I never want to see that happen. Valve is one of the few d... : Chris Remo
  • I dunno, i'd like to see uwe boll's take on the hl2 universe In the name of the G-man : IrN00btastic
  • I think a great survival horror film could be made out of the first one. : SpaecKow
  • I understand your point and totally agree with you about Valve's storytelling ability. But Hollywood's i... : dumptruck
  • Children of Men, but with Gordon running about instead. He wouldn't have to do much fighting, either, ... : Beady

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• Steam 0wnz. : mrfunky3000

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• yeah, i was going to say that... it could be anything, but the piece of crate gave it away as HL. : doomed
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  The first and third ones are commonly referred to as "paintovers". A concept artist will take a screensho... : Porkasaurus
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    but the news item says they created the concept drawings so the developers could know how to do the maps. : doomed
    • They don't finish the level and then do the paintover. They probably make a rough area with gameplay in m... : Porkasaurus
  • he meant 'pallet' :P : ermac

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• http://www.shacknews.com/ja.zz?id=14347205 wtg : Sapiens

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• Nope, it's on gametap apparently : megarust32

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• because you are nervous, too nervous. you should take care of the mad disease and get back to being a ... : doomed

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  you mean "ex........celent" : bradsh
  • you mean "exssssssssilent" : sneak
• "Smithers, did you hear her 'Excellent'? It was EXXSSSELLENNNTT..." : tomservo