Half-Life: Hostage Situation Created 18 years ago2005-10-22 08:42:32 UTC by Archie Archie

Created 18 years ago2005-10-22 08:42:32 UTC by Archie Archie

Posted 16 years ago2007-08-31 09:12:14 UTC Post #233203
:biggrin:
Trapt Traptlegend
Posted 16 years ago2007-08-31 09:15:37 UTC Post #233204
please, oh god no.
Seconded.
Posted 16 years ago2007-08-31 19:30:00 UTC Post #233250
And on Sauce? :o So what exactly is left to do!?
Habboi HabboiSticky White Love Glue
Posted 16 years ago2007-08-31 19:44:33 UTC Post #233252
lol, a second mod with the same team. Even I'm not that foolish.
Posted 16 years ago2007-08-31 20:23:54 UTC Post #233258
Yeah. After this i kinda want to continue my work with Demonic Puppy Games rather than make a more solid team out of our bunch.

Anyhoo. Lets get some shit over with:

1. This mod will be finished. Stop asking, commenting on its near-death experiences. Me and Daubster at least have the passion to finish it. The rest of the team, while i get the feeling don't share the same passion, are all A-grade mappers and will get the job done.

2. The workload we have, while large, does not excuse the current age of the mod's development. (2 years, 9 months)
I mostly blame
? My poor leadership. First time leading a team, and it's really difficult when you don't all share the same communication methods to chase people.
? People leaving and screwing us over. <cough>Unbreakable</cough>
? Negative input from a lot of you lot. It might sound stupid, but seriously. when the general feeling is that nobody fucking cares anymore, it gets harder and harder to work on this.

3. fucking gutted @ lack of new weapons.

Muzz: Please finish your map. It was "almost done" a year ago. ONE map. ffs.

Srry: Increase pace a bit, perhaps? Keep me informed more.

Kasperg: Keep me informed more.

Daubster : Increase pace a bit? Be careful with the new story elements in your chapter.

Me: Get. Hammer 3.5. Working.

Gargly: lolwut? helloooo? :'(
Archie ArchieGoodbye Moonmen
Posted 16 years ago2007-08-31 20:28:59 UTC Post #233260
I am definitely slow when it comes to making progress, yes. :(
Posted 16 years ago2007-08-31 20:56:56 UTC Post #233263
Waits patiently for this mod
Posted 16 years ago2007-09-01 04:54:08 UTC Post #233273
Hunter, next to the weapons i also lost the crowbar replacement i made for the competition here(thats why it never came in muzz). I lost a couple of planes i was working on for flightsim, some more then 50 hours of work into them...and i lost the Troll-A platform i was working on for FS-ODG.. So yeah, im rather fucked/pissed/etc about it.
Posted 16 years ago2007-09-01 05:51:50 UTC Post #233274
How do you guys always manage to loose something. BACKUP, BACKUP AND BACKUP. I had 3 HDD failures this year, but didn't loose ANYTHING. So wtf? lern2bakup you fools.
Posted 16 years ago2007-09-01 06:22:32 UTC Post #233275
3 HDD failures? :o
I've had my system drive for 5 or so years, and it's still working.
ChickenFist ChickenFist<Witty Title>
Posted 16 years ago2007-09-01 07:10:51 UTC Post #233277
[quote]I had 3 HDD failures this year/quote]

yeah.. i'd stop shopping with whoever made your hard drives.
Archie ArchieGoodbye Moonmen
Posted 16 years ago2007-09-01 07:14:00 UTC Post #233278
I my experience HDD's always fall into two categories:

1) Those that break very quickly
2) Those that last longer than expected

It's very strange, they never seem to fail mid-life.

Unless of course, you hit them with something :P
Posted 16 years ago2007-09-01 09:24:28 UTC Post #233279
There was a 3 year warranty on the first HDD. And it managed to break in the last days of it. Then they gave me the second, which broke after a week, and another which replaced the second, which also broke after a month. And now they gave the fourth one. Hope this one doesn't die.
Posted 16 years ago2007-09-01 12:42:27 UTC Post #233282
lol, hard drive failures. All of my hard drives work fine:

500MB (Power Mac 7200/75)
4GB (iPod mini)
10GB (IBM Aptiva)
120GB (Current HP)
250GB (MyBook)

I've dropped each one at least a few times, turned off the computer while writing a big file, etc. That doesn't make me careless though, I make backups.
Posted 16 years ago2007-09-01 12:54:58 UTC Post #233283
3. fucking gutted @ lack of new weapons.
Not including any custom weapons is a bad idea for a mod this big. If Muzz doesn't want to code them, and if he doesn't mind, I can take that part over.

Pepper: We all have the compiled weapon models. Wasn't there some .mdl decompiler, that you could use to get the editable meshes back?
Daubster DaubsterVault Dweller
Posted 16 years ago2007-09-01 14:06:03 UTC Post #233287
I just buy good hard drives. Seagate, Western Digital, etc. Not that I don't back up, just not much.

P.S. I don't have those models. :
Posted 16 years ago2007-09-01 14:39:09 UTC Post #233293
Oh yes, it was the backup that failed, wich at that point wasnt copyed yet. So i didnt have a backup from the backup, nor the original files. classic i reckon.

I'm not quite sure Daub. I'd have to look into that.
Posted 16 years ago2007-09-01 16:10:13 UTC Post #233297
do you guys backup on cd's?
Tetsu0 Tetsu0Positive Chaos
Posted 16 years ago2007-09-01 16:24:46 UTC Post #233298
No. I'd need like a few hundred of them, and if I lost one, i'd be fucked. Same with DVDs too, but I can't burn DVDs.
Posted 16 years ago2007-09-01 17:38:52 UTC Post #233299
If Muzz doesn't want to code them, and if he doesn't mind, I can take that part over.
Yes please. Ill send you the HLHS sourcecode soon, which includes my awesome dynamic lighting. ^^
The Mad Carrot The Mad CarrotMad Carrot
Posted 16 years ago2007-09-13 17:03:46 UTC Post #234046
Here's a quick in-hammer shot of an upcoming area in chapter 4. Not gonna reveal the texturing yet. ;)

User posted image
Daubster DaubsterVault Dweller
Posted 16 years ago2007-09-13 18:33:54 UTC Post #234056
Woo you stuck crates all around the structure ;O It teases me. I demand more.
Habboi HabboiSticky White Love Glue
Posted 16 years ago2007-09-13 18:48:43 UTC Post #234058
Are those things just on 45 degree angles or did you rotate them? No way are you that good at vertex manipulation.

...lol team communication.

Also, we're on our 99th page in small-screen TWHL. Woohoo.
Posted 16 years ago2007-09-14 11:45:19 UTC Post #234091
it'll explode your mind if you see it in flat view like i have. Awesome, daubeh.
Archie ArchieGoodbye Moonmen
Posted 16 years ago2007-09-14 12:58:37 UTC Post #234095
Are those things just on 45 degree angles or did you rotate them?
Rotated. VMing that would be possible, though it'd take like 3x more time to finish than it already has. D:
Daubster DaubsterVault Dweller
Posted 16 years ago2007-09-28 17:18:37 UTC Post #235183
Keep it up guyz.

I need to geto Huntehs to play the latest version.
Havent done that since last year :lol:
Posted 16 years ago2007-10-02 01:43:13 UTC Post #235431
how long do you feel it will take to finish Hunter.
less than 4 years maybe.
He wasn't joking.

There goes September...
Posted 16 years ago2007-10-02 02:12:11 UTC Post #235432
I predict it'll be done somewhere between now and never.
Strider StriderTuned to a dead channel.
Posted 16 years ago2007-10-02 02:39:23 UTC Post #235435
I blame Vista.
monster_urby monster_urbyGoldsourcerer
Posted 16 years ago2007-10-02 02:52:14 UTC Post #235438
I think we've officially taken longer to make this small mod than it took Valve to make Half-Life.
Posted 16 years ago2007-11-13 20:17:27 UTC Post #238395
This is dying.

Save the Hostage Situation!
Posted 16 years ago2007-11-13 20:59:55 UTC Post #238397
Dying again?

If you need help...
AJ AJGlorious Overlord
Posted 16 years ago2007-11-13 21:10:34 UTC Post #238400
We need help. And I didn't hesitate the slightest to say that.
Posted 16 years ago2007-11-14 09:45:35 UTC Post #238452
we do? &lt;:(

I just can't map with vista, so i've been looking around for a cheapo win2k machine to map on.

I thought the rest of the team were doing well?
God damnit i wish you'd keep me more updated ?_?
Archie ArchieGoodbye Moonmen
Posted 16 years ago2007-11-14 15:26:14 UTC Post #238469
Soon we have posted 2000 replies. Is there a limit?
Oskar Potatis Oskar Potatis🦔
Posted 16 years ago2007-11-14 21:07:51 UTC Post #238501
No i do not think so.
But it'd be ironic that this be the thread that kills TWHL2 as it killed the original TWHL if i'm not mistaken.

is there anything i could do to help, fellas?
Tetsu0 Tetsu0Positive Chaos
Posted 16 years ago2007-11-15 08:12:59 UTC Post #238529
Moves HL:HS to Intensive Care Unit

OiFH and 6-D stand in hallway tutting
monster_urby monster_urbyGoldsourcerer
Posted 16 years ago2007-11-15 20:29:56 UTC Post #238575
If this isnt released by Summer 08

Hunty is getting punched in the face.

He goes to my school, its nor hard to accomplish.
Posted 16 years ago2007-11-16 00:47:54 UTC Post #238595
Catch it on video plz
Tetsu0 Tetsu0Positive Chaos
Posted 16 years ago2007-11-25 14:29:11 UTC Post #239152
I haven't heard a word from any of you for a long time, I had kinda assumed you all died or something.

Hunter talk to me on MSN or something, really.

If you and the mod are in fact, still alive, I'll go back and remake the parts I lost when my HDD failed (Took my Reissues map too, and I was pissed about that and stopped mapping for a while.)
Posted 16 years ago2007-11-26 20:54:20 UTC Post #239242
Just out of interest is Reissues still going? I was mapping for it myself a long long long long long time ago.

Also I would love to see HS finished but Vista has disabled the team leader.
monster_urby monster_urbyGoldsourcerer
Posted 16 years ago2007-11-26 21:00:29 UTC Post #239243
Congratz for making the first post on the hundredth page! I thought maybe we'd have finished by that point!
Posted 16 years ago2007-11-26 21:05:09 UTC Post #239244
According to my screen I made the 16th post on the 40th page.
monster_urby monster_urbyGoldsourcerer
Posted 16 years ago2007-11-26 21:08:08 UTC Post #239245
Yeah, that's what I see too. Srry uses gay-view. ahem I meant Srry uses the option for less posts per page. Close enough.
Posted 16 years ago2007-11-26 21:49:08 UTC Post #239246
rioght.
Tetsu0 Tetsu0Positive Chaos
Posted 16 years ago2007-11-26 23:05:50 UTC Post #239249
Make a huuuuuge checklist of everything thinkable and start organizing it. Thats how I keep it together.

Seeing that percent mathematically jump up by 1.7% by doing a few small things is incredibly enlightening, and you can give an accurate percent done.

Re-assess the situation (hostage situation... snxxxx...) regroup and start where you left off.

Like Laceter said,
[i]"Just do it, you may hate doing it, but do it anyway because it will be so fucking awsome when it is all done!!!"[/i]
Rimrook RimrookSince 2003
Posted 16 years ago2007-11-26 23:59:44 UTC Post #239253
Well, I wish that was true in the mapping world, but it would seem that if you hate creating something it's not going to turn out being a fun product, unfortunately.

By the way Saw, I prefer the small avatars to the large oversized ones. If I could get more posts per page, I would.
Posted 16 years ago2007-11-27 00:15:57 UTC Post #239257
removes freedom of choice for TWHL3
Penguinboy PenguinboyHaha, I died again!
Posted 16 years ago2007-11-27 00:22:24 UTC Post #239258
thanks srry
Tetsu0 Tetsu0Positive Chaos
Posted 16 years ago2007-11-27 00:43:05 UTC Post #239259
Penguinboy's fault, not mine. Way to downgrade.
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