Half-Life Patch Waiting Game

I think software companies should give release dates that are way off in the OPPOSITE direction. Like Valve should say "We will be releasing the patch in a week" then give it to us tomorrow. Then everyone would be singing praises about how cool a company Valve is for getting shit done early... anyway just my theory. Either that or (as others have suggested) shut the fuck up about release dates until you're about to release something. Again, just my theory =)

-SatansFist

Mark my words, no HL patch this week.

Maybe this would go a lot better if Valve simply didn't say when their patches were released and they just appeared? :)

Bad HL Patch News 8:02 PM (your time) Chris "Outlaw" O`Brien (0)


Ok, everyone is going to organize a group beating on Chris pretty soon, but I swear, it's not my fault (or my contact's for that matter)! :)
Anyways, I have very strong word from a different source (but pretty much in the same position as my other contact -- in direct contact with the patch team) that, not too long ago and due to last minute bugs, all parties involved with the Half-Life patch made an announcement (not public) that the patch has been delayed. As was stated before, my date stated earlier was a very strong educated guess (obviously a little dated), but last minute bugs popped up, so that's why I'm making this post. Look for the patch anywhere from tomorrow to a day or two after tomorrow.

http://www.voodooextreme.com/

Well I feel as though the patch is not going to make it out today. I hope Valve proves me wrong.

A million magic crystals, painted pure and white
A multi-million dollars almost over night
Twice as sweet as sugar, twice as bitter as salt
And if you get hooked, baby, it's nobody else's fault, so don't do it!

Freeze! Rock! Freeze! Rock! Freeze! Rock! Freeze! Rock!

Just a little something to pass the time while we wait for the patch.

http://www.msnbc.com/modules/surveys/sx/sexsurvey2.asp
This is a questionaire on msnbc about sex online and here is part of the disclaimer. Note BOLD items

This survey is a 76-item questionnaire that inquires about Internet behavior. You must be 18 years of age or older to participate. Responding to the questionnaire is strictly voluntary and should take approximately 10 to 15 minutes to complete. There is no penalty for choosing not to participate. There is no expectation of harm or injury as a result of completing the survey.

I sure hope they don't expect harm as a result of completing this survey

The CS team took down the forums for the BETA6.5 release, what a bunch of pussies. Such a bunch of sell-outs they can't stand criticism. Constructive or not, you should be able to stand someone disliking and commenting on your work.

my mate Dave has a surface-to-air missile trained at Valve HQ and he's gettin twitchy

JK!



Sorry had to do that.

The patch was just released I am going to play now!

im going out and when i get back the patch better be here waiting for me

Mindlessly plagarized from the Onion.

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Clinton Goes On Fun Plane Ride
LISBON, PORTUGAL--President Clinton deplaned from Air Force One excited and thrilled Monday following a fun plane ride from Washington to Lisbon for an eight-day, three-nation European trip. "I went on the airplane," Clinton shouted to Portuguese president Jorge Sampaio. "We went way, way up high, and I saw lots of clouds." Clinton, who has refused to remove the golden-wings pin given to him by Air Force One pilot Edwin Jacobs, capped his remarks with several seconds of airplane noises.

The Half-Life patch hasn't been released yet.


Sincerely,

Marcus Allen
CBS Sports

In the (weak) spirit of 'Make up a news story day' or what have you...here's my entry.

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Napster Announces Nationwide Rollout of Drug Selling Stations
Creaters Of Popular Internet Application Plan To Tap Dormant Market

Earlier today, Napster Inc announced its plans to deploy second-hand drug stations across the country, filling what they have labelled a 'void left by modern health care'.

"What we've found, see, is that you have these people, these old, old people, who are being given prescriptions that they never take, or they take only a little bit of, or maybe half of, and then they have nothing to do with the rest, so they just leave them there, in their cabinets, or in their drawers, or those little organizer things that have the days of the weeks on them, and they just sit there, until the children come and through them away, or force feed them to their parents, or just give them to the kids, and we see how that's a problem, because it's a lot of money wasted, money that could be saved, or better yet, returned to the consumer via one of our new Stations," explained Napster CEO Brent Tretford, between classes.

These Stations, in theory, allow an individual to set up his or her own mini-booth in which the person's prescriptions are on display. Another individual would then browse the booths, looking for the medicine he/she wants, and then negotiating a price with the vendor.

In response to the many complaints involving the suspicion that such a facility would promote, and perhaps even legitimatize, the practice of illegal drug trafficking, Tretford had this to say: "That's just ludicrous, what they're saying, because we at Napster are against drug trafficking, highly dislike it, rarely, if ever, dabble in it, are disgusted by it, and do nothing whatsoever to promote it, because we are setting up a legitimate business for those of us, or those of you, who have medicines left over that they don't need, and are looking to score a couple bucks, plus I mean it's not like we can go to each individual seller and say, you know, 'You can't sell this,' you know, because A, I mean, there are so many of them, all across the country, it would just be insane to try and look at each separate booth."

Tretford went on to explain to the press that should any party find proof of a user exploiting these Stations for illegal trafficking, the company would happily shut them down and write their names in the company's Black Book, thus ensuring that those users would have no direct access to the company's services.

"Look," sighed Tretford, "we just want to help out a couple of old people, so really what's wrong with that?"

still *D O W N ' D*

100th post!!! damnit get the patch out!!

Well the hl masters appear to be down, could that mean something? Im prolly just too eager, huh?

This patch is a REALLY late april fools joke
haha.. cough

Denver Post, Milwakee Wisconsin

Bush Chooses Romero as Running Mate

Oh and unless they change something in the patch since it was leaked the animations still suck. (i.e. the "My legs belong in my chest" gayness jumping) DAMN YOU VALVE, I WANT PARAMETRIC ANIMATIONS!!

the way things are now your framerate in the game seems to depend a lot on the speed of your connection, nothing happens ie. next frame isnt drawn until the computer gets all the info from the server. now even if the connection lags this doesnt affect the frame rate (meaning the frame rate is whatever your computer can handle) this does not mean the game necessarily runs smoother though, that still depends on getting the data from the server however this too has apparently been improved with improved client side prediction to take care of things while it waits to hear from the server............i think anyways, so i guess it is pretty similar to q3a

The new netcode is hilarious, you aim at someone, shoot, he walks for a second, then dies. It's reverse lag (instead of having to aim ahead of someone, they die after you shoot, due to lag)

hawkeye
(not the one with leaked betas :)

Well somethings gotta happen 'cause I'm getting bored here. Heaven forbid I might actually go outside and live in the real world for a bit...

BH

Bungie cancels Halo, makes Balo

New York Times, New York

In shocking news, game developer Bungie has cancelled their team-based combat game "Halo", for a completely new idea called "Balo". One team member commented: "We saw what we could do with Halo's engine, and we thought it was being wasted, we all spent long summers bailing hay, and decided to make a new game, 'Balo'".

This is shocking news to most of the industry. John Romero, a prominent game devloper, had this to say: "SUCK IT DOWN, DAIKATANA WILL OWN YOU", while others were less volumous, John Carmack, for example, said: "Due to the increasing complexity of entertainment software and the requirements put on a company for an engine to compliment their vision, the move seems like The Right Thing, to me". Posters on a popular website "Scary's Shugashack", had this to say: "FIRST POST, BITCHES", and "* N U K E D *".

Whats the deal with the new netcode that will be in this release? Someone told me it was based largely on Q3's netcode, but other than that I have heard nothing. Someone feel free to shed some light on this.

On a side note I leant my HL CD to a mate, who kindly took it with him when he dissappeared off to uni, and as I reinstalled Windoze lately I dont have the damn game anymore, so I wont be trying out this new stuff for a while yet =(

Mates eh?

Ya, Half-Life definitely does give the most bang for the buck. You've got the single player game, TFC (which could easily be sold as a 40$ game by itself and would sell quite well) and Counter-Strike (which could also be sold as a single 40$ game itself.) Can anyone name any other game that has transformed itself into three 40$ games?