Tuesday, 23 November 2004
Source: PlanetHalfLife[UPDATE]PlanetHalfLife just reported that they have received another e-mail from Erik Johnson informing them that it might take another day for the fix to be released:We're still working through some testing on this release. It might be something we'll want to hold for another day and release tomorrow.[/UPDATE]PlanetHalfLife got a confirmation from Erik Johnson, that Valve is planning on releasing the Stuttering Fix for Half-Life 2 today:
That's what we're shooting for.So if all goes well, then we will have more on this soon.
Source: PlanetHalfLifeThe newest GW Films Counter-Strike movie has been released. The_Family_Man and all the other hard working men that have made this movie are proud to present to you ClanWars:
This is the highly anticipated counter-strike film ClanWars. Created by GW Films and CN Productions, the story follows two opposing teams: one being an unstoppable clan, and the other being a group of unskilled wannabes.At the moment the movie can only be downloaded by paying FilePlanet subscribers but hopefully it will be available soon to the rest of us. The movie can be downloaded from here.
Source: PlanetHalfLifeRelated: Half-Life 2 Deathmatch modThe people of the Half-Life 2 Deathmatch mod made at www.hl2mp-mod.de.vu/ have released their Alpha 1.0 which features
A lot of the site is in German but I installed this and it seems to work pretty well. They put in a Police model so you can actaully see people.All the weapons seem to work and it has two maps, deathmap1 is actaully alrightSo check it all out right here. (Site mainly in German)
Source: PlanetHalfLifeRelated: Move In!The team of the Half-Life mod Move In! have revealed something very great looking. Their team member n3m3s1s made a 3D sky, as seen in Half-Life 2, for the mod:
Do you like the new source 3d skys? Well here it is for Move In!n3m3s1s did a great work and it tooks him from midnight till 5:30 AM (mapping, modeling, skinning). The worst part was finding the right scale for everything. Call him insane but I think it was worth the time and the coffee he needed ;)Here are some pics out of a testmap:This looks amazing, and once more shows that the Half-Life engine is still capable of some pretty neat things. Check the Move In! site for more.
Source: PlanetHalfLifeOver The Counter-Strike is a brand new site featuring Counter-Strike Machinima that is in the style of the red vs. blue movies. Already several episodes are online, and they are great. You can check it all out over at Over The Counter-Strike.
Source: PlanetHalfLifePeople are still experiencing motion sickness while playing Half-Life 2, mainly when operating a vehicle in the game. Still no real fix for the problem, but over at the HalfLife2.net forums some more information from Valve has been posted. Here some words:
We've been rigorously playing and testing Half-Life 2, Counterstrike Source and Half-Life Source for a long time now - and we've found nothing to suggest that the FOV change is a significant factor in causing motion sickness. We have, however, put a great deal of work and attention into reducing the motion sickness that can be experienced in the vehicles in Half-Life 2. During our early playtests, many of us were experiencing motion sickness from driving the buggy and the airboat - especially the airboat. We've done a lot of work on tuning the experience to reduce any ill effects - especially looking at how we manage the players head/view in relationship to the movement of the vehicles. Interestingly, for all of the vehicle sequences we revert back to FOV 90 so that you have more peripheral vision which is helpful when moving at these faster speeds.The full post can be found here. The best thing to do at the moment is to just take several brakes from playing, especially when playing with the vehicles.
