#241406 - 01/12/2004 21:41
Re: Ladies and Gentlemen, start your Half-Life 2 engines
[Re: Cybjorg]
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I also don't feel like you necessarily thwart (or destroy) the Combine stronghold in City 17 - just the warping machine in which Breen is trying to escape.
I think you do.
Alyx and Breen both talk about how you'll bring down the whole Citadel if you blow the reactor, which is supposedly what your goal was in the final scene.
After you do it, Alyx starts to say something like "I wonder if we have time to get out of here?" but the big explosion begins before she can finish the sentence, and Gman freezes time and takes you out of there.
The assumption is that Alyx doesn't make it, she sacrificed herself (and I suppose Eli and the other scientist, too, whom you'd left downstairs) for the cause of the rebels.
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#241407 - 02/12/2004 11:42
Re: Ladies and Gentlemen, start your Half-Life 2 engines
[Re: tfabris]
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True, that. I guess I was so busy stopping Breen that I wasn't atune to the background story evolving.
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#241408 - 28/07/2005 20:18
Re: Ladies and Gentlemen, start your Half-Life 2 engines
[Re: Cybjorg]
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Ok, so I finally got my new PC, video card, and Half Life 2 running. Anyone want to kill a newbie? Let's start a game!!!
- Jon
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#241409 - 29/07/2005 00:54
Re: Ladies and Gentlemen, start your Half-Life 2 engines
[Re: mschrag]
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Ok, I just got the gravity gun and met dog. This is the best game I've ever seen. The most fun I've ever had playing any video game.
- Jon
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#241410 - 29/07/2005 01:20
Re: Ladies and Gentlemen, start your Half-Life 2 engines
[Re: jbauer]
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Registered: 23/08/2000
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I still don't have a PC up to spec to play it decently. =\
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#241411 - 29/07/2005 01:56
Re: Ladies and Gentlemen, start your Half-Life 2 engines
[Re: jbauer]
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Isn't the gravity gun one of the coolest weapons in any game...ever?!? It is sooooo fun. Have you gotten to the point in the game with the magneto-crane thing? What the hell are those called?
Funny you should post this, I just five minutes ago finished installing HL2 on my new machine with an ati 850xt and bigass lcd monitor. Should be fun.
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#241412 - 29/07/2005 02:17
Re: Ladies and Gentlemen, start your Half-Life 2 engines
[Re: visuvius]
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Isn't the gravity gun one of the coolest weapons in any game...ever?!? It is sooooo fun. Have you gotten to the point in the game with the magneto-crane thing? What the hell are those called?
Funny you should post this, I just five minutes ago finished installing HL2 on my new machine with an ati 850xt and bigass lcd monitor. Should be fun.
No, haven't gotten to any cranes yet. I had to stop soon after getting the gun as my hands are killing me.
So I went with an nvidia card with the Dell 24" 1920x1200 monitor and am having problems with it. I may end up trying an ATI card. Is the 850xt the one to get? Can it support that res? What specific card did you get? Link?
- Thanx
- Jon
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#241413 - 29/07/2005 03:05
Re: Ladies and Gentlemen, start your Half-Life 2 engines
[Re: jbauer]
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I've had better luck playing Half-Life 2 with an ATI card than with an nVidia card. In fact, my new nVidia card is supposed to be better than my old ATI card and still has some crash issues with Half-Life 2. Pooh.
I've played the game several times through. I'm anxiously awaiting the expansion pack.
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#241415 - 01/08/2005 00:29
Re: Ladies and Gentlemen, start your Half-Life 2 engines
[Re: tfabris]
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I didn't measure, but I think it was close to the 15-20 hours estimated in the reviews. Possibly a bit longer because I played on the harder difficulty setting and had to reload some scenes a lot of times.
By the way, about those screen shots... Are you enamored of that one female scientist or what? 
I just finished. Man, Tony finished in 15-20 hours? I think I have more than 30 in it. My hands hurt.
Need something else to get addicted to. BF2 is next, I think.
- Jon
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#241416 - 01/08/2005 01:41
Re: Ladies and Gentlemen, start your Half-Life 2 engines
[Re: jbauer]
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Registered: 14/02/2002
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Loc: Salt Lake City, UT
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The bad thing with BF2 is you start to want to rank up, and unlock weapons. Then after scoring really well, the ranked server doesn't update your stats/awards/ranks. Then you just get pissed at EA for the crap they sell and stop playing. The next week you repeat the cycle.
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#241417 - 01/08/2005 04:27
Re: Ladies and Gentlemen, start your Half-Life 2 engines
[Re: jbauer]
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So I went with an nvidia card with the Dell 24" 1920x1200 monitor and am having problems with it. I may end up trying an ATI card. Is the 850xt the one to get? Can it support that res? What specific card did you get? Link?
I love Battlefield 2. Its an amazing game and I wanted to maximize my BF2 experience. Thats why my video card purchase was basically based on this anandtech review.
I was willing to get the most expensive/best thing available. Turns out this is the nVidia 7800, which is just a little too ridiculously priced for me. So I went for the next best thing, the ATI 850xt. I didn't really want to deal with trying to find it cheap online so I just bought it at CompUsa for $400.
I can play BF2, which is a very intense game, at 1280x1024, max resolution with no problems at all. P4 3.3, 1 gig ram. However with the 30'' LCD, it can play at a max of 1024x768. I havn't tried any hacks yet and I'm a bit reluctant to really.
I can safely recommend the 850xt, if you can spend the bucks, then the 7800gtx. Both of these cards can definitely run that resolution.
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#241418 - 01/08/2005 04:29
Re: Ladies and Gentlemen, start your Half-Life 2 engines
[Re: Waterman981]
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Damnit that is SO true. I've received my 1st rank and am working on my 2nd but it just seems like it's taking forever...and I play a lot! I try to only play on ranked servers too.
I still havn't figured out how to use the unlocked weapons in the game though. Something about an arrow that I can't seem to find.
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#241419 - 01/08/2005 04:30
Re: Ladies and Gentlemen, start your Half-Life 2 engines
[Re: Dignan]
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Hey I never actually played Doom 3. Was it any good? It just looked very generic FPS shooter to me. I'm sure it looks good and all, but was it fun?
edited cause I want to change my avatar.
damn. Just realized that can be done through My Home. That's pretty sweet.
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Edited by visuvius (01/08/2005 04:37)
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#241420 - 01/08/2005 04:39
Re: Ladies and Gentlemen, start your Half-Life 2 engines
[Re: visuvius]
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Game Resolution Switcher rignt now will launch Battlefield 2 at whatever your resolution is set to. Though to be honest, it's not doing much special. To run Battlefield 2 at a resolution beyond the limited ones in game, you simply add: +szx 1280 +szy 720 to the executable. Easiest way to do that is to right click the shortcut and hit properties. Odd are, there are other commands there as well, like +fullscreen 1 and such. No hacks, no fuss. Do be warned though, Battlefield 2 does not have proper support for widescreen displays. Running it at any aspect ratio other then 4:3 results in what you see being cropped. People are hoping support for this is added in soon, as games like Half Life 2 and Doom 3 simple work and asjust the aspect ratio on their own, requiring no FOV adjustments.
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#241421 - 01/08/2005 06:43
Re: Ladies and Gentlemen, start your Half-Life 2 engines
[Re: jbauer]
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Registered: 18/01/2000
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I just finished. Man, Tony finished in 15-20 hours? I think I have more than 30 in it. My hands hurt.
The Half-Life 2 Done Quick movie is just over 3 hours...
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#241422 - 01/08/2005 13:52
Re: Ladies and Gentlemen, start your Half-Life 2 engines
[Re: jbauer]
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Need something else to get addicted to. BF2 is next, I think.
I find Counter-Strike: Source incredibly addictive. And since you own HL2, you just got it for free.
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#241423 - 01/08/2005 19:17
Re: Ladies and Gentlemen, start your Half-Life 2 engines
[Re: Roger]
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The Half-Life 2 Done Quick movie is just over 3 hours...
Wow - that guy is good.
- Jon
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#241424 - 02/08/2005 03:14
Re: Ladies and Gentlemen, start your Half-Life 2 engines
[Re: visuvius]
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Registered: 15/01/2002
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Loc: Austin
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#241425 - 02/08/2005 05:58
Re: Ladies and Gentlemen, start your Half-Life 2 engines
[Re: RobotCaleb]
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Sweeeeet! I've seen the sigs around on the Planet Battlefield Forums but I havnt tried yet.
Hey where do you play? I'm looking for a consistent bunch of people to play with. I've never really been in a clan or anything before but I'm getting sick of playing on random servers and taking my chances.
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#241426 - 02/08/2005 13:28
Re: Ladies and Gentlemen, start your Half-Life 2 engines
[Re: visuvius]
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pooh-bah
Registered: 15/01/2002
Posts: 1866
Loc: Austin
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LANCAMP has our own server. That is where I spend most of my BF2 time. Info is available on the front page.
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#241427 - 30/10/2006 21:50
Re: Ladies and Gentlemen, start your Half-Life 2 engines
[Re: RobotCaleb]
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Registered: 15/01/2002
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http://bf2sig.l0ser.net
Info
I wrote a new sig generator with the guy that runs bf2s. You can play with it here.
It can be found by locating your profile on bf2s and clicking the Sig Generator link at the top right of the page. I wrote the WYSIWYG part. It's getting a lot of traffic, which is sweet. Some people can't figure out how to use it (I guess it's complicated. I developed it, so I don't think it's complicated at all. The admin at bf2s was supposed to write a tutorial though, but hasn't.) so some guy made a video tutorial and posted it on Google Video. I only tested in FF and IE under Windows XP. Sorry for you others that have a less than spectacular time.
So far (last 24h or so) it's seen over 40,000 hits, over 4,000 unique hits and nearly 3,000 unique profiles (players). I'm excited. Except for one little thing. Big thing. Dude gives me credit nowhere. 
I told him all I wanted was a link to http://l0ser.net and a link to http://www.lancamp.com and my name. That's not asking too much.
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