Slow Day of CS News: Round Up

Posted by NoToRiOuS at 21:41 17/5/2003.

Having recovered from the night before and enjoyed a nice afternoon of footy (damn the Arsenal), it is time to post some news:

First off our friends at PHL have informed me that fileplanet is hosting a 500+ mb whopper of an avi. What is the avi?
23 minutes of high resolution HL2 action from E3. However the downside is that you have to be a fileplanet subscriber to download it.

Next up is ATI, yes that's right brand new ATI drivers are out. Catalyst 3.4s to be exact which fix a nasty bug with HL/CS which would result in a system crash when the escape key was pressed.

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	NoToRiOuS 2 COOL 4 SKOOL UKTerrorist 21:48 17/5/2003	any1 dls that avi and hosts it pm me plz Noto on irc -FANX [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Pyroux 2seXeh 2perfoRm 21:51 17/5/2003	fileplanet can burn in hell [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Andros 22:07 17/5/2003	yea dled that file earlier and must admit that is very impressive physics going on there more believable than karma physics. Graphics like top notch you get to see the rocket launcher from hl1/tfc (the same one which i presume will be used in TF2) [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	m2c4u 22:10 17/5/2003	isnt totally fixed, when you have vsync enabled and press escape then go back into cs it turns vsync off dunno if that happens to anyone else... [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Andros 22:12 17/5/2003	s*** posted wrong place (but yes i do have the prob that it takes a while when pressing escape going back into cs with refresh but it appears to have fixed it self now) [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Grunt 22:28 17/5/2003	is that avi just all the smaller ones rolled into 1 or is there new stuff in it ? [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	edd 22:30 17/5/2003	download it and find out grunt [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Anisty 22:53 17/5/2003	the avi is unreal.... totally blew my mind [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Obi Clan ONE 23:02 17/5/2003	now downloading the avi, thanks to a sexy individual lending me his account :) [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Grom^ 23:18 17/5/2003	you can get it from alt.games.binaries as well well, 4 movs which are the same thing anyway [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Scam 23:29 17/5/2003	3.4's with CS @ 800x600 have moved the game screen like an inch to the left : [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	callous Specster 00:28 18/5/2003	i want to be like Grom^ [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	oRbo 00:30 18/5/2003	been waiting for these 3.4 drivers for ages! [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	phonics 01:16 18/5/2003	any one who wants to critise the hl2 graphics needs to go to specsavers after seing that avi, ive got the doom3 playable test thing and the graphics arnt as good even with higher polly models. [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Nick^ 02:43 18/5/2003	Doom 3's graphics are made in a different way, if you look Doom 3's surfaces are far more round whereas HL2's are still constructed with right angles, so both have their good and bad points. They're both using the same methods of shading though, you just haven't seen id software showing off every single f***ing graphical effect their engine can support. [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Weebull 09:57 18/5/2003	ooooneeeeeeeeeeeee - niiiiiillllllllll :D [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Hotshot Choke 11:29 18/5/2003	the doom3 "playable thing" was an alpha, an alpha with an unoptimised graphical engine. Comparison of that to what was lauded at E3 is a tad ridiculous [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	PFCalcio THX 11:47 18/5/2003	I'm sure the graphics will be a matter of taste - they always are. I don't really see the problem with them showing off their graphics Nick^ we all wanted to watch em... I'd watch DOOM III stuff if they posted it as well. [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	NoToRiOuS 2 COOL 4 SKOOL UKTerrorist 12:54 18/5/2003	either way both will be wicked games :) i love how everything in HL2 is affected, like when freeman moves the table to block the door, the items on the table shake and judder. [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Grom^ 12:59 18/5/2003	alt.binaries.games :(( THATS WHAT I MEANT DAMMIT and everyone wants to be like me [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Nick^ 13:56 18/5/2003	I didn't say there was anything wrong with showing off graphics, I was saying you shouldn't comment unless you've seen both games fairly and know their production methods, which clearly he hasn't... [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	phonics 15:36 18/5/2003	i have seen the new videos of doom3 and the graphics are not really any better than they were in alpha, its the textures and realism that doom3 is lacking, it looks like the old fmv things u used to get with c&c. When you see the game running , even though the characters arnt quite as high poly models nor the scenery as round they all look far more realistic , doom3 looks more like a comic book style. [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	phonics 15:43 18/5/2003	oh and nick im judging the actual in game graphics and how they are used not the individual examples so how can you say thats not a fair comparison, doom3 is going to look pretty much exactly the same as it does now when it is realised. [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]

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