Half Life 2. Holy shit!

[gaLdaB]

I don't like FPS's but this is the best game ever made. Kids are now in bed so back to it.

[dozer]

i wish i had the time to play this :(

[PhilDude]

/me hugs uni holidays :banana:

[dozer]

bastards! with work, damn leaving dinners, lets catchup dinners, football and other shite theres no chance ill get to play until next week

[psi_ko]

bah ive got it activated now and im in the middle of uni exams!!! CURSES!!!

[gaLdaB]

bastards! with work, damn leaving dinners, lets catchup dinners, football and other shite theres no chance ill get to play until next week

It will still be there... savour the moment :)

[dozer]

im checking some screenshots now and cancelling all social engagements, damn it looks beautiful.

[saige]

I know what you mean. Times like this I hate work.

Have to say the SMG is rather useless. Crowbar and pistol all the way so far.

[Salted_Chipmunk]

Whats everyones specs for their pcs and how does it run on them?

I want to get a feel for if i need more hardware before i play this.

[saige]

I posted my specs and how it handled in the other HL2 thread.

[Salted_Chipmunk]

Sweetness, i have pretty much the same spec as you other than an athalon 2800.

I dont see whats wrong with the 9600xt, it runs doom and farcry fine on my machine.

[gaLdaB]

I have a 1.9 with a geforce ti4400 and 768 meg of ram. Runs really smooth and at about 30-45 fps on that box. Doom 3 however was lucky to get over 5-10 on the same machine.

[Salted_Chipmunk]

I'd just like to say fuck you to Valve for making a fucked up installation on my cd's, Fuck you and your fucking high horse you ran in on fuckers.

Now i have to wait another day at work then go back and get it replaced.


On the other hand, 1 Half life 2 CD key for sale. :)

[Bifrost]

PC spec:

Athlon 2400+
GeForce 4Ti 4400
512 RAM

Current Half-Life 2 settings:

1024x768
All medium level video specs except model detail which is High and water reflection which is on the lowest setting (not that I've seen any water yet).

I admit I'm only just past the first teleport thingy (yeah, look I only played it for the first time this morning before work), but it runs beautifully. No slow-down at all. Only once, when I first got into the open air of City 17 did it pause for even a second. I'm going to test out my upper-limits of my spec tonight.

I am VERY impressed with the engine thus far considering all of the pre-release hype about having to upgrade to a fucking Cray to be able to run the thing.

As compared to the Doom 3 experience system spec-wise, this is much the same for me, but in Doom 3 I did have to tweak the config files to achieve the same outcome.

Having only just gotten into the game I can only comment on how it's running...But I'm super impressed with the skin textures and the City 17 atmosphere.

[Moga2]

p4 3.2
Radeon X800 XT
1GB RAM

Running at:
1024x768
Max Detail on everything, averge 80FPS, with other things running in background.

[Salted_Chipmunk]

I'd just like to say fuck you to Valve for making a fucked up installation on my cd's, Fuck you and your fucking high horse you ran in on fuckers.

Now i have to wait another day at work then go back and get it replaced.


On the other hand, 1 Half life 2 CD key for sale. :)


Better make that 2 cd-keys, woot! :swear:

Fuck me, this is fucking rediculous. How many cd's could possibly be fucked. Thats two for me now.

[Aardvark]

It's a big fuck you to vivendi. Double fuck you, as they prevented the early release of the game AND they fucked up your particular copy.

At least they didn't anally violate my DVD. Woo for me!!!

Woo for circular saws slicing zombie bastards in half

[a|A]

I just finished HL2 then
What a fantastic game that was :D

Wait until you get into the citadel. The gravity gun is the best, and I mean BEST weapon there. It really made my day :D

[imp]

I Want

[Necron]

I Want

What? :rolleyes:

[imp]

Smart Ass....... a robot monkey ofcourse

[Salted_Chipmunk]

It's a big fuck you to vivendi. Double fuck you, as they prevented the early release of the game AND they fucked up your particular copy.

At least they didn't anally violate my DVD. Woo for me!!!

Woo for circular saws slicing zombie bastards in half

Two copies!

[Merudo]

I'll rep you for one of the cdkeys.

[Salted_Chipmunk]

Sorry dude, one has already gone for $35 bucks, and i am going to raise hell with vivendi tomorrow on their live chat, we shall see what we can do ;D

[Zan]

Better make that 2 cd-keys, woot! :swear:

Fuck me, this is fucking rediculous. How many cd's could possibly be fucked. Thats two for me now.

It's nothing to do with what's detailed here (http://promos.vugames.com/halflife2/), is it?

[Salted_Chipmunk]

nope, i have already checked that, tried installing with and without CS:source.

Strange thing that on my first copy the errors occurred on disc 4 and 5, the second copy the error was on the 3rd disc.

BUT, if you image the disc to your HDD, it works.....

[durus]

I got DVD edition and if you look at my hl2 thread in bitching and rants you can see my complaints.
raise hell on my behalf two? i bought the retail copy, but it doesn't mean i want to be unnecessarily putting the dvd in the drive all the time, i'd like to just leave the dvd on a shelf somewhere.
will probably uninstall the entire game and then download it from steam soon.

[Glompbot]

My video card isn't beefy enough to run it.

[Moga2]

Was just talking to a friend of mine, has the same problem, a fucked disc, his is disc 1. I havent heard anything about dead DVD's so go grab a collectors copy.

[fastfood]

I have a 1.9 with a geforce ti4400 and 768 meg of ram. Runs really smooth and at about 30-45 fps on that box. Doom 3 however was lucky to get over 5-10 on the same machine.


galdab, thats similar specs to my rig! excellent, hl2 will run when i get a chance to play it in, oh, 2 months time!! im a happy camper now :D


edit: actually bifrost's specs are closer to mine, 'cept ive got a p4

schweeeeet...

[Willcow]

Sweet fucking game!!!! Best Pistol ever

Took 30 mins to install the game ... and another 90 to register and unlock the files and shit ... WHAT A JOKE!!!

[durus]

3.2 Ghz Pentium
1 Gig Mem
Radeon X800XT PCIE

runs soooo sweeet. wondering if i should upgrade to 2 gig mem (that was the HL2 test bed).....

[Urban3300]

p4 3.2
Radeon X800 XT
1GB RAM

Running at:
1024x768
Max Detail on everything, averge 80FPS, with other things running in background. With those specs you could use a higher resolution, why is it so low?

I have Athlon XP 2400+
768 MB DDR 333 RAM
Ati Radeon 9800 Pro
I run Half-Life 2 with maximum video settings and the resolution I use is 1280x1024, very smooth. Doom III also runs perfectly with high settings and the same resolution with no antialiasing.

[Salted_Chipmunk]

Was just talking to a friend of mine, has the same problem, a fucked disc, his is disc 1. I havent heard anything about dead DVD's so go grab a collectors copy.

Tell him to make an iso of each cd and then instal from his hdd. It worked for me and i am now playing it.

Fcuk me its good :)

[SamBo]

Sweet fucking game!!!! Best Pistol ever

Took 30 mins to install the game ... and another 90 to register and unlock the files and shit ... WHAT A JOKE!!!
yeah, fucking joke having to wait so long to unlock it and register and shit... argh, I just wanted to play it!!!
hehehe
It runs pretty sweet at 800x600 on my machine and looks rather pretty :)

And how much does the magnum lay down the law?!!!!! :D

[Merudo]

I got DVD edition and if you look at my hl2 thread in bitching and rants you can see my complaints.
raise hell on my behalf two? i bought the retail copy, but it doesn't mean i want to be unnecessarily putting the dvd in the drive all the time, i'd like to just leave the dvd on a shelf somewhere.
will probably uninstall the entire game and then download it from steam soon.



EXACTLY THE SAME THING HERE!!!

I mean, since its all through steam, why should retail bought copies require the CD when steam downloaded copies do not?

I mean come on, it's all the same market! :grr:

[NeXuS]

AMD 64 3200+ + 1GB Ram + 9600XT + 12ms LCD Monitor + 1280 x 1024 + 5.1 Surround = Loss of sleep due to playin. I love it!

Ravensholm was lame and I am up to the mines at the moment and well let me put it this way its creepy, and I'm out of Ammo....

/me reaches for crowbar and Grav Gun.....

[SamBo]

I guess you got quite a bit further than me so far... I'm still driving around on the air boat thing.... at least i shot down that annoying chopper though! :D

[saige]

Ravensholm was annoying. I pretty much had no ammo for most of it and had to Crowbar and Grav it. It's silly that when I found ammo it was so damn much there was always some left. Made me wish I had bigger pockets, as some of it just goes too damn fast.

And I hate those new headcrabs. Bloody evil.

[Salted_Chipmunk]

I guess you got quite a bit further than me so far... I'm still driving around on the air boat thing.... at least i shot down that annoying chopper though! :D

That boat is fun :)


I got up to the end and it was flying directly towards me, i killed it and it made this magnificent diving arc straight on top of me.

So i reload and the save point is about .1 of a second after i killed it. now i have an awesome reply of my death.

I wish there was a way to save a replay, its fucking awesome :)

[royale]

Thanks to all who posted, as a result of all the reviews I have just ordered it.

I have a AMD 2000, 1Gb RAM, Ti 4200 8X vid card, and a 12ms LCD, anyone care to predict how it will run at 1280x1024 with all the fruit enabled?

[Salted_Chipmunk]

Sweet. It should work peachy fucken creamy. :) Good gaming ahoy!

I bought my new pc on impulse after playing doom3 on my friends computer. It was a wise decision.

[dozer]

Thanks to all who posted, as a result of all the reviews I have just ordered it.

I have a AMD 2000, 1Gb RAM, Ti 4200 8X vid card, and a 12ms LCD, anyone care to predict how it will run at 1280x1024 with all the fruit enabled?

as discussed your vid card will let you down, no dx support afaik

and to anyone that grabbed the torrent, you have spyware

http://halflife2.filefront.com/news/HalfLife_2_Pirated_Warez_Version_Info;13907

[durus]

playing on norm diff.
Up to the mines now too. fucking creapy. had plenty of ammo through ravensholm.
still got a reasonable ammount of ammo now i'm in the mines.
Keep your eyes open for half life symbols and crates marked supplies. Half life symbols usually mark supply areas. crates usually contain med packs, batteries and ammo.
Use the grav gun on the new head crabs or you WILL run out of ammo

you have to use explosive barrels and shit to conserve ammo
what's with those jumping zombie guys? aren't they dead already?

[BlueBoy]

I'm worried this won't run on my computer now:
Athlon 1800XP, 1Gig of RAM @266Mhz, Geforce FX5600 vid card.

[Glompbot]

heh, thats like me asking if it will run on mine

I have an athlon xp 2000+, 1 stick of 512 ddr400 kingmax ram, and a *cough* TNT2 video card

I want to upgrade the CPU and the video card... but I just don't have that kind of cash... I also need to buy another stick of the same ram.

[Pirate]

I finished HL2 last night. Wow, fucking awesome.. Though the ending sucked a little bit.. man but I never would have guessed Gordons father was a head crab.

Now I'm replaying the game with the uber gravity gun only, sooo fucking cool..

If you guys want to learn how to do this.. its a bit tricky do this.

1. Load a game where you have the super grav gun.
2. pull down the console and type changelevel d1_trainstation_01
3. After the level has loaded type give weapon_physcannon or impulse 101

WARNING - don't attempt to use the grav gun on any enemy vehicles or your air boat or buggy as it will crash the game... at least it did on mine.

[dozer]

got it yesterday but was getting memory crash errors. now all fixed with gravity gun this game does certainly rock, the temptation to play is irrepressible!

anyone playing vampire the masquerade also?

[BlueBoy]

heh, thats like me asking if it will run on mine

I have an athlon xp 2000+, 1 stick of 512 ddr400 kingmax ram, and a *cough* TNT2 video card

I want to upgrade the CPU and the video card... but I just don't have that kind of cash... I also need to buy another stick of the same ram.
At least my video card does DirectX 9. :p

[Salted_Chipmunk]

heh, thats like me asking if it will run on mine

I have an athlon xp 2000+, 1 stick of 512 ddr400 kingmax ram, and a *cough* TNT2 video card

I want to upgrade the CPU and the video card... but I just don't have that kind of cash... I also need to buy another stick of the same ram.

You would only need to upgrade your video card to be able to play it.

I have an Athalon XP 2800, 512 meg and a Radeon 9600xt, that runs the game at 800x600 with everything turned up perfectly fine.

[s3raph]

You sir are a god. I need a new computer. This thing is starting to be old, and won't run the latest games.

[psi_ko]

anyone playing vampire the masquerade also?

I will...looks fucking badarse.

[psi_ko]

not least cause the guys that made it made fallout and vampires are cool.

[Willcow]

Great game when on foot, but is anyone else getting frustrated by the HUGE amount of time spent in vehicles? At first it was pretty cool, but I'm now quite a few hours into the game and I'm sick of driving that bloody buggy around.

[SamBo]

at least on the buggy bit, you can stop every now and then and get out and explore a bit.... the boat bit was worse! I actually ditched the boat at one stage, only to find that I really needed it to keep going through the level.... ooops! :eek:

Besides, the part with the buggy isn't that long really, and you can do cool stunts in that thing :D

[Aardvark]

The boat bit rocked. 'Specially when you got the machine gun attached. Most fun in the game, next to sawing zombies in half and watching sandlions overrun combine positions

[Willcow]

I have to admit. I still chuckle when throwing blades around with the gravity gun and sawing people in half.
I'm still to figure out how I managed to get a blade through a chain fence though.

[saige]

I just finished it myself. Bloody awesome, but can anyone say Half Life 3?

Grav gun rocked, but man I wish I hadn't conserved ammo in the later parts of the game... plus I don't think we got to use some of the fun weapons enough.

Btw, I agree with Pirate about the ending.Didn't see that headcrab coming. :smith:

[Urban3300]

It was a good game. I think it is incomplete though and they have had to delete some scenes. Some of the scenes that were in the two 20 minute demo videos are missing too. They said it was going to be longer than Half-Life but I finished it in about 15 hours. It was also missing the Half-Life "feeling" and some of the songs were the same songs that were in Half-Life, I think there was 1 or 2 new songs in the game.

[dozer]

i like the music when something significant is happening or you reach a certain crossover point, like some ambient techno, surely they werent in half life 1?

[Urban3300]

i like the music when something significant is happening or you reach a certain crossover point, like some ambient techno, surely they werent in half life 1? Like the music that started when you had crossed over the sand and got on the rock just to see more sand?

[dozer]

yeah thats it, i remember thinking 'whats the big deal?' but obvious it was special enough for an ambient interlude

[Urban3300]

Yeah the music was in Half-Life :P But yes you are correct, not all of the ambient music was in Half-Life. I only recognized one or two completely new songs, I don't mind if there's old ambient music but the actual songs should be new (Except the Valve intro music). The ending song was a remixed Half-Life song too.

The sand part was cool, I remember thinking "Voi vittu..." when I got on the rock.

[Movius]

Even though halflife 2 is a brilliant game, It's ridiculously over-rated. Most of the reviews it has received take this form:

Halflife 2 Review by some fuckwit

OMG DOOM3 YUOVE BEEN SERVED! olOL!11

Score: 10/10

Which is rather sad for those of us that expect some form of in-depth analysis of a games strengths and weaknesses.

more colourful commentary to come...

[SamBo]

yeah, i'm kinda getting tired of reading reviews like that. There is relatively no decent info about the game out there. It's all just stuff like "this was worth the wait" and "wow, this is better than doom3".
I finished the game last night. I was expecting more to be honest.
don't get me wrong, it's a good game and I enjoyed it lots, but I was under the impression there was about 72 hours of game play to be had, and it wasn't anywhere near that.
And there was no sniper rifle
and no frantic underwater bits like in the first one :(

I also felt like i couldn't explore properly, like, there were some areas where I felt I had to rush through inorder to survive. Once I get cheats, I'm going to go back and check it all out properly i think.

[saige]

I also felt like i couldn't explore properly, like, there were some areas where I felt I had to rush through inorder to survive. Once I get cheats, I'm going to go back and check it all out properly i think.

Maybe that's why I took ages to finish it. I explored every corner. Most had nothing of interest other than dead bodies and annoying headcrabs. Some extra ammo and stuff in other places.

[banga]

im at the part where im in air boat and choppers dropping mines , ive only got 8 hp is there a trick to avoiding the bloody chopper ??

[Aardvark]

Yeah. It's called being really arsey and quicksaving a fuckload

[royale]

Delivered....installing tonight...

[Thyrd]

My mate came over today and I was able to play it for the first time... SWEET HOLY MERCIFUL CRAP SHIT! This has to be the most amazing physics engine ive ever seen, not to mention that the beginning of the game was so totally immersive! As I walked through those appartments was throwing all of the TVs with beardo out of the windows at the APC, it was so satisfying! I got up to the bit where You going through some ruined sewers and there are lots of barnacle clusters on the roof.

[Enos]

Finished earlier today and have to say quite satisified thankyou very much.

Great game with great story and great everything. I got nothing else to say.

[psi_ko]

Finished earlier today
.

ditto... not too bad at all! they coulda done a lot worse!

[Merudo]

I agree with the story part. I think some reviewers are being a little too over-critical regarding the story. They say that it was non-existent, didnt answer questions, well so fucking what? just leaves the window open for a Half-Life 3.

and frankly I don't see that as such a bad thing, considering how good #1 and #2 have been.

[imp]

Well it took me a while but I finally have a copy. (Thankyou astro!)

I've been playing pretty solid .. which is probably pretty bad since i'm meant to be cleaning, packing to go away and packing up boxes to move rooms. What can I say? I'm addicted.

The grav. gun is fun to play with and the magnum is oh so sweet. The machine gun is still fantastic and I"m glad they left in the secondary grenade fire from the first game with this gun.

The head crabs are pretty standard (i like the way you can shoot them off the head of the infected people though this time), I'm enjoying the new beasts and the amount of detail in the characters. The A.I is pretty damn good .. unfortunetly for the foes too ;)

I'm liking the vehicles even though i've only played with one so far. Using that helichopter gun was so much fun :D

My machine handles it pretty well. I'm going to miss this game when I go away :p