ok, here're some HL2 screenies. Not a whole lot, but it sure is purdy.

*Edit* This was from early in the game (duh) so I don't think my settings are all maxed yet. I didn't try jacking up all the AA crap until later on. I'll try to take some screenies when I play today.

Shit, looks very tight. Especially the third one. I'd love to see some later-in-the-game impressive stuff with everything maxed, so I'm in eager expectance.

meant to post a few of my own, meh, have to wait now.

aight, I took more screenies while playing yesterday.

some more

and another set of screenies

Great stuff, keep it coming. The fight around the lighthouse is great...not easy, but not too difficult to use the gravity gun on them combine bastards. Man, I wish I could play HL2 at those settings...it's already impressive on medium detail and without AA and AF, but that looks just delicious. Especially liked the third pic of your first post. On the bright side, I could prolly put a bit more pressure on the old pc with my newly acquired RAM. Smoothed out Vampire a lot, anyway.

The fight in the lighthouse with the glass windows flying etc. is superb. I love the blurry-moving things thet combine use for shields in gunposts etc...dunno their name, but they look really neat. lol@ bridge plank. I feel like a sucker now for going the long way around.

k, I'm trying to enter Nova Prospekt now and am stuck. I can't get past this point.

If you remember, I'm at the point where I'm coming out of the sewers, murder off some guard towers with my army (easy) and then a stupid helicopter thing spawns and you have to blow it up.

Well, on hard, two of them spawn. I must've played this level like 50 times already...I can usually down one of the two, but I can't get the second. I take mad damage, since they seem to cover one another fairly well...so I've wasted most/all of hte health and armor crap by the time i blow up the first one. It also takes like 5-10 rockets to drop one, which requires several runs to the ammo crate, assuming none of my missiles get shot down.

So, basically, I'm not playing it for a bit. I'll try again at a later time. This makes me somewhat fearful about the hard part of nova prospekt.

hah hard too difficult for ya...lol

but yeah, took me a while too, but i found just concentrate on 1 first. As you come round from the towers up the stairs where the guards are underneath that shelter the first one appears, so wipe the floor with the guards. And using the shelter for cover use every rocket you have got and then every one which are on the floor. You should be able to hit the thing with every rocket, it's not too hard. Then the heli appears to piss of for a minute, so use this time to get into the guards office to get your health and armour replenished. A grenade through the window always does the trick for me. Then using the antlions kill all the guards on the rooftops whilst trying to aviod the heli's guns, yes i know it's hard but you really need to take down the guards at the machine guns otherwise you'll never do it. Use the upturned steel box thingy for cover. Get up the stairs, watch out for the explosive barrels the heli's have the tendancy to hit. Go to the ammo crate and then run around, jumping helps, until you see the heli which should be smoking like a mother. Shoot the hell out of it with the rockets and if you need health go for the health in the upturned steel box thingy you used for cover earlier or make a dash for the other room which is past where the hole is the wall appears later. Basically just shoot down the original heli and then the second one goes down like childs play by just using the large steel container in the middle for cover.

Can't say it took me 50 tries, but certainly took a few. Hardest fight in the game on hard i found. Great fun

Nice explanation. And I can see how that fight troubles you Satis, even on medium it's not simple. But on medium heli's go down fairly quick and don't do mad damage, either. If all else fails, I guess you can still tune down difficulty for that particular part and turn it back on afterwards. (needless to say, that would be wuss )

Anyone tried the deathmatch yet? Mighty fun, but often laggy as hell with all the objects flying around. I love the way the gravity gun replaces the usual "undroppable" crowbar/knife/handgun. If you're good and lucky to grab something useful you can seriously own. Either by breaking a toilet on their skull or using a metal table as shield.

nah not tried it yet, will do though, sounds kinda cool

but on counter strike i'm finally getting scores of double my number of deaths which is nice

any of you members of counter strike clans?

Played this game at my Cous's house for a while.

Largely unimpressed. Nice feel, but the gameplay and its linearity is incredibly tedious.

I'm an ok CS'er, deagle-specialist. But I haven't played it in a month now, I think. And not in a clan...i don't do clans. If I want to get in a posse with 4 12-yr olds (who probably own me) I'll just go hang around the local kindergarten with some popsycles in my pants, ty very much. (minus ownage)

And Derf, wtf? H-L 2 is an amazing game...its linearity is made up for with the physics possibilities, imo.

For everyone who hasn't played H-L 2 yet but can; Valve released a demo.


http://www.ati.com/gitg/promotions/halflife2demo/

You will, however, need to create a steam account. But you'll have to create one anyway if you're ever to play H-L 2 so it's not much of an extra bummer.

For anyone who's interested in making it harder

http://halflife2.filefront.com/file/;35658

I saw this pic in someone's sig on a forum, too.




EDIT: I've finished the current HL2 game here's some pics.