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Counter-Strike was fun and all, but there were major logistics errors. Why in the hell would a right handed shooter own a left handed variant of a firearm, when a left handed variant doesn't even exist for said firearm? How do you even PULL the forward assist without breaking your entire M4\M16A4? Why are so many weapons extremely underpowered? Deagle is the only pistol worth buying, and AK\M4 are the only rifles worth buying apparently, because every other weapon is terrible.

Condition Zero fixed most of this, but mirrored weapons again? Facepalm

Remake Half-Life 2 in the goldsource engine.

I tried that, it worked brilliantly.

'Baby' Desert eagle, .45 Caliber.
Magnum Desert eagle, .357 and .44.
Desert Eagle Action Express, .50AE.

Am I the only one who has this knowledge on Desert Eagles?

You're right, it should be more accurate, but that doesn't mean that without it you can't hit a human sized target dead center from point blank range for christ sake.

And what are you going to see at your native resolution? 8 bit textures. Doesn't take a computer degree master to figure out it'll still look like shit.

Also, phones run at that resolution in such a small screen size for better image quality, doesn't equal physical space, at all.

Fair enough.

You mean you got a phone, let the battery die, and just said, "Well I guess that means no more phone for me!"

For all we know it's a 8 year old phone which uses a arbitrary battery system, which you can't buy chargers for anymore. Not everybody who says they own something has got it recently.

Just because the items on screen are smaller and the image quality improves, doesn't make the game itself look better, and using half-life's default screenshot doesn't do anything that printscreen doesn't, other then making BMP's, the most god awful thing known to image editors worldwide.

Try changing the video mode to opengl or direct3d if you can't select higher resolutions.

For such an aged game i fail to see the purpose in setting a higher resolution, it doesn't make it look particularly better, unless you're upscaling a 320x240 image...
I run SC:C on my 360, on a OLD SD CRT TELEVISION SET. Yeaaaaah. And guess what? it still looks perfectly fine, despite being 640x480 or whatever the output is.

I'm the one who first started with the form 'Why you shouldn't', so if anyone it'd be me who started it. [As usual.]

Just because there's engines more powerful then goldsource doesn't mean goldsource is bad.

How about this, there's people more important then you in the world (President?), which makes you the most useless person on the planet. Does that work?

Although I do get what you mean (It's outdated), it's still a bit extreme to make that example.

What's going on in here.

[Taken out of context, yes, but I felt even in context this sentence was ridiculous]

what the hell are you doing offering yourself up

If there's no money involved, it IS 'offering yourself up'. Because it is a 'volunteer' position, you basically are dedicating your own time to do a job you don't have to do.

(And no, I'm not saying I should be picked even though I'm not 'the best', I'm just putting up a honest application as to why I'd be interested in the job.)

No, the pirate kings.

Map Vault Moderator Application

Hello, I'm Crollo, although many of you know me under a different alias which I won't go into details about, here are some of the reasons I think you should pick me for the position, and some reasons you shouldn't:

[i]* I am able to review Goldsource maps, but unable to review any source maps as my machine is not adequate for the source engine to run well.

• I do not own any valve games on steam, other then HL2DM, HL2:LC, and CS:S, but as mentioned before my machine is not adequate to run them well. (I run goldsource under WON)

• I can review and give C&C to a decent standard.

• I am able to do basic moderation.

• My level of grammar and spelling is adequate for the job.

• I have a good level of free time as I have no job, and I'm still in school.[/i]

It barely ran HL2

Did you try turning the settings down or were you one of those people that just assumed it could run max settings at highest resolution with highest aa? Because when I first started with computers i had a shit geforce TWO. And it ran half life 2 fine. I also had a Geforce FX 5500 later on, and it ran portal fine on lowest settings. I think it's safe to assume it was just on your end.

Although recorded by a shitty camera and ultra slow gameplay, this is a somewhat good example of the card
(Just keep in mind if he lowered the settings even more and resolution it would run better, but people nowadays don't even care about framerate.)

A FX 5200 is low end, but not low end enough that it can't run source on lowest settings. Don't tell me you've never owned a single 'FX' card.

2048 MB Ram is bad?

I doubt he's running vista or windows 7.

Now I thought we were discussing the mechanics of having a 'walk unless run' feature, not the speed of either walking or running.

Blocking edits, blocking edits everywhere!

Again, while out of context it may seem that way, he was only comparing the sandbox aspect, not necessarily anything else. Just like the miscommunication with the cover system, which even I didn't realize at first.

EDIT: Funny that you mention that option Archie, because IIRC, every game that isn't a decade old also has that function anyways.

Also, don't get me started on far cry 2...

You hold Shift to run, which makes no sense.

Doesn't half-life 2 and every single game that isn't a decade old do this?

I don't see how you could get the impression rockstar wants you to walk anywhere, as with all the gta games i imagine the emphasis would be on jarcacking, and driving around? Still, I've honestly never played the fourth as don't have a machine to run it, and when I did it wasn't released yet. :/

LD Coat?

Native dual-boot into Windows 7 Professional 64-bit.

The software is not what he was referring to, it's the hardware.

I also fail to see how you can compare uncharted 2, to a fully open sandbox game such as GTA IV. You were referring to the cover system, nevermind.

With?

In response to Strider, not striker

So long as you don't say you made them, everything should be perfectly fine.

I sometimes make my games taste like consoles too, but that's probably because the DVD case is plastic, like most consoles.

No really though, a shitstorm's a shitstorm, I may have [attempted to] shut up a good couple times, but it's only a matter of time before somebody else posts something and simply restarts the discussion, unrelated to the current topic or not, it's going to keep happening until a staff member steps in.
I've attempted to plug the fire a couple times, but considering i started it it simply doesn't work that way.

As said before, could a staff member clean this up a little, but leave my last post please? Dimbark asked a valid question and i answered it, unrelated to the 'side topic', so i think it'd be fair if it was left up. (Even if modified, for obvious reasons.)

You can't clean it up yourself, Ant?

"I am sorry but it's truly more confusing than any system I have ever used."

Target: "Put entity name here"

OH SHIT!

Also, Dimbark, if you can run\use the UDK, then as a former user of all of the Unreal engines, I strongly suggest you start learning it, it's a great engine and you can't beat the free price tag for non commercial use. [Not necessarily to make a game, but also because it adds towards your career in the video game industry, the more you know, eh?]

Also, for your question, no you cannot sell your work, you will need to buy a license for UDK to sell your work, but you can make a 100% free game and release that anywhere you want, so long as it doesn't infringe any copyright laws.

Also, above all, I recommend you keep working on this, or at least half life mapping in general, it's what you seem to enjoy most so by no means should you drop it in favor of unreal engine, just keep making maps, and someday you may have a job in the industry.

When you save it, save it as 11025 khz, 8 BIT, MONO wav.

Not really, but anyways, any progress on the mod\map?

No, actually it was from me responding to Strikers suggestion to move to source, but okay.

Well for the past 3 posts I've been attempting to respond to that section when you weren't even on the same page. [Not literally in the thread, however.]
Like i said, we're destined to do this forever. (Albeit to the entertainment of some members, but not so so much to the staff.)

I've edited my previous post because i failed to clarify it correctly, sorry.

Let me clarify again to avoid confusion: Somebody wants to run crysis, but doesn't even meet minspec, so he goes looking for support, and because he doesn't meet minspec he gets no support, so he instead plays far cry 2. It's anti logical.

it's anti logical if they don't meet minspec [For sourcesdk] that they would even be able to get past install phase [For installing UDK], let alone come even close to using it, they wouldn't be able to run the engine, let alone the editor.

Try reading a little harder.

Or maybe i didn't clarify that correctly, sorry, added UDK part.

"at one point the SDK was so completely fucked that no mods would run, tools didn't work, and everyone's mods basically just shut down for a period of time."

Really, because I thought this was a non-existant fact, at least, up until i had some sort of source that something actually did break, right?

You fail to remember strider's reference to many people moving onto UDK, it's anti logical if they don't meet minspec (for sourcesdk) that they would even be able to get past install phase, let alone come even close to using it, they wouldn't be able to run the engine, let alone the editor.

Argh, I'm gonna have to get some kind of a grammar checker instead of just a spelling checker. "something actually did broke" (Ironic considering I'm considered a grammar nazi to other people.)

I fail to see how people who could run UDK fail to meet minspec for sourcesdk, that's anti logical. If you'd known anything about computers you'd realize that also.

Stop comprehending my posts badly so you can just ramble on with more of your nonsense, at no point did i say the engine is bad, I'm saying the engine is Broken, give me one instance where i said source was a bad engine, it's a unusable engine in it's current state, there would be no point in moving to it. Maybe there's people that it works perfectly fine for, that's good for you, but for people who've been using the engine for years, and they download a update, and it suddenly breaks their toolkit? And you're response is that they don't meet minimum requirements? Then you contradict yourself by saying 'get used to it, it's hammer', and finally you're resorting to saying that it's free.

Why is it a lovely trend to contradict yourself in a attempt to make your point more valid? It doesn't, at least not when somebody with a IQ over 20 realizes this and points it out.

Unity is also offered as free without support, yet it's a excellent toolset and works for pretty much anyone who passes requirements, UDK is a free toolset also, and it receives monthly updates and again, is extremely bug free. You see, just because somethings free and is unsupported, doesn't mean it's perfectly acceptable for it to break at any time just because of that.

In all honesty though, I think it'd be best if a staff member came in and forcibly removed both of us from the thread, we're destined to do this forever.

Funny that you say that because one of Valves best selling points is it's scalability, nowadays it seems it's more like "Low end machine? Buy a better one you cheap bastard.", like every other modern company nowadays.

Why is this about me, exactly? Somebody explain this to me.

I don't give 2 fucks about what valve does with their SDK, i don't use it, i dislike source, and I don't work with the engine, I'm pointing out that it's a broken mess, period, not just for myself.

It's not just about minor graphical errors, for hundreds of people, the sourcesdk was BROKEN. Through and through. Faceposer would instantly crash, unusable, hammer would crash also, game configurations were corrupted and failed to reset, if you actually DID get hammer to not crash, you couldn't do anything because of blank viewports and extreme graphical glitches.

Just because you gave somebody something for free, why does that make it perfectly ok to give them somethings shit\broken?

Your logic is at a loss here, free or not, I don't see how that makes it ok for valve to drop support for it at any time, and then just go around and say "OH WELL IT'S FREE, DEAL WITH IT", that's like giving somebody a super high end machine, and then going "Oh and by the way you'll have to buy a 900$ motherboard, sucks to be you".

Welcome to Hammer. You get used to the constant crashes, driver glitches, and artifacting.

Huh, for a second there I thought you were saying it was entirely on the end users machine, not hammers end. Heh, wonder how i got that idea.

Would you really believe it was me if i didn't come up with a bullshit conspiracy theory to back up a non backed statement about something unrelated the topic at hand which would ultimately start a massive controversy or possibly even a shitstorm?

tl;dr: Striker recommended him to go to the source engine, I failed at attempting to make a witty response that would reference the fact that source engine is broken and unusable, shit happened, can we move on?

Dimbark, as said before, you really shouldn't aim for a full on game, try focusing on one large map, release it to the community, get some criticism, keep improving it, then when it's complete enough, make another map, and continue and so forth, you really cannot dive headfirst into the gaming industry like that.

I'm finding it hard enough to look at them without 3d glasses.

Well, this thread is about his mod, he is comfortable with goldsource, so let him use goldsource. Let's leave it at that.

In order to maximize compatibility for macs (Because say, every macbook of a certain type has the same hardware), they did something you'd normally see on a console, they made every source game update to one specific engine, instead of being scaled over several, and without bothering to fix any errors that may arise in the sourcesdk or source 2009 itself, they just simply updated everything and it broke everything. For well over 6 months now, they did nothing and instead just repeatedly pushed out more and more content for mac, neglecting the obvious gaping holes in using 2009, disregarding several topics that spanned for tens of pages for well over 4 months, and simply deleted them as they popped up, and when their 'volunteer staff' popped a response, they simply quoted the FAQ, which had absolutely NO helpful information whatsoever.

You want some sort of source that it was actually broken? Ask Strider, or anyone else it was broken for, for that matter, I would have a more valid source myself, if the threads hadn't been locked and removed left to right, now all that remains is a couple 3 page threads, which of course is little more then 10 people, and that isn't much of a source.

All of this information would have been available right from the start, but instead i posted a witty response which i figured most people would have gotton, but i guess not.

(EG: For biased people who say ati sucks and nvidia is the best, I often post "What's that? I can't hear you over my fried Nvidia card, I made the fatal mistake of installing the latest drivers, whoops!", or people who prefer xp over windows 7: "What's that? I can't hear you over my DirectX 11", you get the idea.)

It's not possible to make or modify GCF files. If you actually made some serious progress on the level and if it was even good enough to be accepted into steamworks as a mod, then you could work towards making it into a game, otherwise don't bother chasing it.

Delete the game folder, ignore soup miner's GCF deletion suggestion, it's useless.

Soup, not everybody has high speed connections, 400 Mb's can be a lot to certain people. While Ninja doesn't strike me as even being in that group, it's still stupid to suggest removal of the GCF, there's no point to that as you can't even modify GCF files, and in the even something actually happened to the GCF files, just validate and you're good to go, no need to completely redownload.

Well I don't know then, several people i talked to said the source sdk was busted for them as well, and even Strider says it was broken for several months (Not to put him on the spot or to 'gang up' with him in any way, mind you.), if you look in the competition thread you'll even see references to the broken sourcesdk, from other twhl members.

If you weren't affected, then I'm just going to assume that you've disabled updating or something, because even though it may seem minor, hundreds of people themselves had contributed to a +50 page thread begging valve for some kind of support, and no support was given, nothing was fixed, and AFIAK the sourcesdk is still broken for a lot of people.

Either way it's a pointless discussion, it either works or doesn't work, since sourcesdk is broken for dimbark it's pointless to suggest to him to 'upgrade' to source.

EDIT: Wait a minute, how can you even CREATE a source mod if the only engine that's still running is source 2009, but there isn't even source code for 2009 yet? Or is it available now?

If i recall correctly, he used opera itself, didn't he?