Hydra! Created 19 years ago2005-04-03 13:19:24 UTC by Sajo Sajo

Created 19 years ago2005-04-03 13:19:24 UTC by Sajo Sajo

Posted 19 years ago2005-04-03 13:19:24 UTC Post #101162
Anybody really seen Hydra! : in hl2
Posted 19 years ago2005-04-03 13:20:30 UTC Post #101163
It was taken out along with weapons, assasin combine, female combine, models etc

I am sure an expansion will be made one day by Valve to add these.
But don't expect it to be free!
Habboi HabboiSticky White Love Glue
Posted 19 years ago2005-04-03 13:39:18 UTC Post #101167
What, the weapons, assassin combine, female combine, etc, or the expansion pack itself? :P
Posted 19 years ago2005-04-03 14:07:14 UTC Post #101178
All of it will be in the expansion pack! and the expansion will cost as much as say a Doom 3 expansion.
Habboi HabboiSticky White Love Glue
Posted 19 years ago2005-04-03 14:24:39 UTC Post #101186
Where is your source for this? How can you confirm that?
Posted 19 years ago2005-04-03 14:27:09 UTC Post #101187
well it would be great if this was true
Posted 19 years ago2005-04-03 14:49:35 UTC Post #101192
He doesn't have a source, he's just speculating.

I like the new avatar, by the way, even if the English is a little strange :). It should be "a snark gets burnt", and "help save (not saving) the snarks". Just for your information.
Seventh-Monkey Seventh-MonkeyPretty nifty
Posted 19 years ago2005-04-03 15:21:56 UTC Post #101200
There is an expansion being released, one would expect. It's inevitable. If there isn't, it's horrible planning by VALVe :p.
RabidMonkey RabidMonkeymapmapmapfapmap
Posted 19 years ago2005-04-03 16:06:40 UTC Post #101212
I meant his source for saying it'd be a particular amount of money. I am, as you are, sure that there'll be an expansion (or two) ? and I believe I read something from Mr. Newell along those lines earlier in an old interview.
Seventh-Monkey Seventh-MonkeyPretty nifty
Posted 19 years ago2005-04-03 17:50:50 UTC Post #101251
Tis a joke because Steam are EVIL!

But I would imagine some evil plot.
Habboi HabboiSticky White Love Glue
Posted 19 years ago2005-04-03 18:34:52 UTC Post #101260
Its just to make more money.

Damn theives. :badass:
Luke LukeLuke
Posted 19 years ago2005-04-03 20:02:19 UTC Post #101267
I do believe we'll see the Hydra sometime in the future though.
Too bad it never appeared in HL2.

AND NO ICHTY!
i'll never forgive Valve for that :x
Posted 19 years ago2005-04-03 21:24:38 UTC Post #101282
The female combine will be one cheap slut.

Icky was in a little sequence though.
Posted 19 years ago2005-04-03 22:56:16 UTC Post #101295
Yeah, in the beginning, but only as a model, not really a monster you would have to fight... :roll:
Posted 19 years ago2005-04-03 23:20:32 UTC Post #101301
Afaik, the upcoming expansion is hardware specific: only those with high-end machines can run it.
AJ AJGlorious Overlord
Posted 19 years ago2005-04-03 23:53:41 UTC Post #101304
That's Lost Coast to my knowledge, Ant, and I think it's only some additional content (materials) and a level, not a full-fledged expansion. (Read: It's more of an HDR demo.) I assume the expansion will have an HDR option, though, for people with higher-end systems.
RabidMonkey RabidMonkeymapmapmapfapmap
Posted 19 years ago2005-04-04 00:05:51 UTC Post #101306
Ah, ok. So it's like a mini-expansion. ;)
AJ AJGlorious Overlord
Posted 19 years ago2005-04-04 04:23:02 UTC Post #101357
Yeah, it's pretty much just a little show-off thing. To my knowledge, it's free. I hope I can run it :).

For people curious about HDR, have a look at this pretty thing.
Seventh-Monkey Seventh-MonkeyPretty nifty
Posted 19 years ago2005-04-04 04:55:27 UTC Post #101369
Envy sets in...
AJ AJGlorious Overlord
Posted 19 years ago2005-04-04 05:22:54 UTC Post #101376
they should have left some of that stuff in the game. it would have made it alot funner and more exciting. i was hoping to come across the guass gun in hl2 but i never did :( i loved that gun in hl1. had enough power to splatter a roomful of aliens (or scientists, if you preffered) and blow you 20 feet back :D
Posted 19 years ago2005-04-04 06:13:17 UTC Post #101382
A lot of stuff was removed after the source code leak. Thank the hacker who's now residing in jail.

Funny story about that, did you hear how they caught him? Gabe Newell managed to contact him via email and pretended to hire him to work at VALVe for security of code and stuff. So the guy, being incredibly ecstatic, jumped on a plane and flew to America where he was met by police as soon as he stepped off the place.
AJ AJGlorious Overlord
Posted 19 years ago2005-04-04 06:50:49 UTC Post #101383
Just on HDR:

Doug Lombardi Quotes:

High-Dynamic Range Lighting is basically the last piece of chasing really good lighting in a digital world. What we?re doing here is completing the promise when we said back in the old days, ?We?re going to have real-time lighting.?

It?ll definitely come out this spring. We don?t have an exact date just yet, but like I said it?ll be made available as a free update to all Half-Life 2 owners probably within the next four to eight weeks.


Free update. Nice words. ;)
AJ AJGlorious Overlord
Posted 19 years ago2005-04-04 07:05:03 UTC Post #101385
Erm, yeah.

[i]Doug Lombardi Quotes:[/i]

Half-Life 2 will be released in September

Half-Life 2 will be here for the holiday season


You'll have to come 'round and play it :P

Try the other demo, the one I posted. You might be able to run it, but I seem to remember something about DX9 hardware for floating-point calcs.
Seventh-Monkey Seventh-MonkeyPretty nifty
Posted 19 years ago2005-04-04 07:09:56 UTC Post #101387
I doubt it'd work for lower end cards. I can't run DX9's shaders in HL2, so I think there's no chance with that demo.
AJ AJGlorious Overlord
Posted 19 years ago2005-04-04 08:38:17 UTC Post #101401
I'm glad I own a great computer then :D

It will be great though but the old maps will have to be redone with the new lighting!
Habboi HabboiSticky White Love Glue
Posted 19 years ago2005-04-04 08:48:41 UTC Post #101407
I dont think they will include the hydra. You can read the reason on the strat guide.
Posted 19 years ago2005-04-04 10:09:48 UTC Post #101434
Not necessarily, habboi. They could likely use the present light data and just examine it to apply the post-draw glare, etc.
Seventh-Monkey Seventh-MonkeyPretty nifty
Posted 19 years ago2005-04-04 10:39:18 UTC Post #101457
Hmm true, Anyway that example program is brilliant!
Habboi HabboiSticky White Love Glue
Posted 19 years ago2005-04-04 18:30:26 UTC Post #101607
They may: there's still remnants of it in the GCF files.
AJ AJGlorious Overlord
Posted 19 years ago2005-04-05 02:27:49 UTC Post #101658
But, the designer of the monster, wich worked over a half year on it. Decided to scrap it because it was an extremely boring gameplay.
Posted 19 years ago2005-04-05 05:29:05 UTC Post #101683
Habboi HabboiSticky White Love Glue
Posted 19 years ago2005-04-05 05:50:57 UTC Post #101687
gauss/tau cannon would be fun in ravenholm :D
Posted 19 years ago2005-04-05 13:27:25 UTC Post #101819
Yeah it should would have!
Habboi HabboiSticky White Love Glue
Posted 19 years ago2005-04-05 14:03:21 UTC Post #101835
Did you notice Alyx's back in the hydra pic? It looks untextured... :confused:
Daubster DaubsterVault Dweller
Posted 19 years ago2005-04-05 14:33:34 UTC Post #101851
Maybe because it is untextured. Perhaps they were only testing the AI...
Habboi HabboiSticky White Love Glue
Posted 19 years ago2005-04-05 15:25:58 UTC Post #101873
Okay, those docks, were for preview purposes only.

THe other weapons wouldve been awsome. :D

Oh well... :(
Luke LukeLuke
Posted 19 years ago2005-04-05 15:50:18 UTC Post #101877
Its was in an early state of hl2, if im right they dindt implement bump and normal mapping then wiht z-brush.
Posted 19 years ago2005-04-06 05:10:58 UTC Post #101976
Whats z brush?
Habboi HabboiSticky White Love Glue
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