Action HL Released

YES!!! post 0_69_0!!!

Just a few things I\'d like to say. First of all, let me address a few people, people like atari. Let\'s all think back shall we? Back to Quake 2\'s first release. Not the point release folks (which can be said was more of the released product) im talking about the out of the box game. Lord, the problems that plagued this now God-like game. Heh, months later, it was finally a bit like the incarnation it was intended to be. Atari, you are not only misinformed, your a very angry person. I can\'t believe you would be ignorant to say \"if I were making a game, or add on.\" Do you make games atari? Do you have any knowledge on how to make a game \", or add on?\" I fairly doubt it. Go make a game atari and come back to me and tell me how bad AHL really is, based on your expert experience. I thank all of the people who mentioned the first release of Action Quake 2. I downloaded its very first release. The models were rather blocky, the sounds were off, they had one map (office), and it all in all had some major and minor problems to address. But, do you know what? I played it and so did many other people, because the gameplay was new and interesting and above all, FUN. Action Quake 2 made realistic action in FPS\'s popular. Flame me all you want for that one, but it did. Did you know that Gooseman, of Counterstrike fame created most of the models in Action Quake? They started it all. Keep that in mind. Oh yeah, and one more thing, saying something is a beta is not an excuse, its a fact. Its not a completed product currently but will be in the future. That\'s when you make the final judgement. Thanks for listening. ~ AciDHeLL

Q&A vs. QA...

Yeah, I was rather tired at the time. But it is a sort of Q&A; You ask \"Wtf is this crap?\" and Chris answers \"It\'s only an alpha...\" 8P

-- Martin

Chris, the reason a lot of guys bitch and moan might be that they believed that the A-team got paid by Valve or something (a la TF2). I did.

Now, I fully understand that you choose to do a public Q&A, heck, even id Software does it, but it should have been clearer on the news sites that this was an alpha. I don\'t think I saw this mentioned on any major news site.

I\'m on ISDN so I don\'t mind really, my biggest problem is to find my HL cd and reinstall the game... 8)

-- Martin

OK... I can understand the newest excuse for a shitty game coming out, just call it an Alpha.. i havent played AHL yet, but anytime any game gets bad reviews, the company, or other people defending it just say, \"Hey guys, its an Alpha!\" or Beta, which ever the case may be... NOW, if I were making a game, or add on, wouldn\'t it make sense to make a DECENT version of the game first before releasing it too the public, and running the chance of some people thinking, \"OK, I D/L\'ed this game on my 56k modem for around 30 mins - 1 hour, and it blows.. Do i wanna waste my time in the future?\" More than not, the person will never give the game or addon a second chance.. my point? TAKE YOUR TIME.. Not DAIKATANA TIME tho!!! (3 years and still shitty), but release a decent game to the public that will want them wanting more, not wanting to not give it a second chance. i.e. the guy who said \"Ill wait for Action Q3\" These are your hardcore gamers on this comment thingy.. LISTEN TO THEM! Crummy models? Misaligned textures? Cmon.. these are basic problems that shouldn\'t make it past QA..

-Atari

Actualy half-life\'s mplayer code aint half-bad (no pun intended), its better then most. The problem with ahl and why there is so much lag is that the r speed are to frigging high!!! I meen if the map is so huge that u cant see the end only white u know the map is to huge... cum one peopl the Quake engin cant handle such lare open enviornments! The maps are ugly and uninspired. The player modwls are all unproportional and look like they are from Quake and the player skins suck asss, the faces are so misaligned its funny! the weapn models also look like they where taken directly out of uake and not improved for the hl engine.

I think you guys are missing the point. This was a near alpha copy if you read the docs. I myself loved it. You can\'t really compare it to AQ2 because it\'s not even close to being done yet. And at least one
of the maps was a exact replica of an older map Cliff. That and of
course Gerbil spit out another rock ass map. But some of the others
had a unpolished feel to them but again this is only kind of a alpha/
beta copy and that will probably be remedied when the full game comes out. Overall the weapons are pretty much the same as AQ2 and I really like them myself. With a bit of tweaking it all should come out to be
a really cool mod.

BTW, My ahl d/l went at 350k a sec on my cable, not too shabby ;)

Anyway, disappointed is all I can say, again urban is THE shit, everything else IS shit. Oh well, time to go play some Counterstrike!

#13, I kind of agree with you on most everything, except for the maps being total crap, most em yes, but you go to hell if you think Gerbils Urban map is crap, he is THE BEST action map designer and he combine all 3 urban maps from AQ2 into a perfect hybrid for AHL, major props go out, he is one of my favorite map designers around!!!

I\'ve read some nasty things about AHL while downloading it. The more the download progresses, the more I am nervous. Right now 85% of AHL is on my HD and I don\'t think I\'m gonna install it tonight. I\'m gonna wait till the first patch comes out. Everywhere people talk about lag, bad looks and general suckage.

It\'s true that online HL looks chunky compared to Quake2, so if the Ateam rushed out piece of crap, I don\'t even wanna take a look at it.

Feel free to argue/disagree/state your own opinion (I\'ll gleefully ignore you, I\'m quite closeminded), but uh...

This mod sucks. Bad. AQ2 was excellent, the weapon models were amazing, play was good etcetc. AHL is ugly. Ass ugly. The models, the maps. Good lord. And the lag? WTH. I stopped playing HL partially because it seemed to be laggy everywhere (same deal with TFC, just worse) but this is atrocious.

When you see how badly they mangled the sweet guns akimbo, you too shall rue the wasted download time :P And I seem to remember seeing a screenshot a long time ago (with a really ugly player model and map in view) that had an incredibly amazingly good looking mp5 model - not now. Bizarre.

I\'m willing to chalk the lag up to no good servers up quite yet, but the rest? Yikes. It is listed as Action Half Life Beta 1, so mebbe it\'s just public beta testing. *shrug* Blech.

I have a 56k modem and AHL is coming in at over 4 k/sec. I\'m getting from WON site without problem.

Wulp, holding back my opinions on the
PQ family, they aren\'t supposed to be
mirroring it.

But who am I to preach of morals..
Enjoy.

WTF! If your the only one with the damn file! get your fucking ftp workin!

Isn\'t that great...

The official word from Chris O\'Brien,
A-Team Public Relations Manager, is:

No mirrors. WON gets the 24 hour exclusive.

I had asked earlier this afternoon if
we could help mirror the release, since
we\'re eager to get a server up and running..

Oh well.. any more on this, I\'d like to hear.

Geez, if anyone has it yet, post it on a mirror for God\'s sake... please.

I see I\'m not the only one having trouble getting it... hopefully they will have mirrors up soon.

AAGGGGhhhh!! Too many users hammering won.net. I\'ll have it soon enough.
DragonTHC