smacks lips Are you tryin to say somethin?
smackelismack smack
Maybe.
As you can see it causes drain bamage.
Derailment.
Stop it.
topic de-railment detected. bringing back on topic by wondering if we will get any new media between now and the release. Though I expect a trailer or something atleast a week before.
I’m hoping for something like what happened before the Steam release. A bunch of hype and website countdown-related shenanigans, plus a trailer.
hey if we are lucky maybe they will give us the answer to the ARG with the update.
I wonder when the engine update that is supposed to precede Xen will come out?
I think on halloween
Updated the OP with the new information about the Xen deadline. Good time to bump this thread!
Ok, the gonarch looks epic. Instead of looking like a giant squishy headcrab with a ballsack, it now looks like a giant armored tank with an eggsack. And man I can’t wait to fight it.
I actually found two models of it in the game with all it’s animations included albeit untextured.
[attach=5617,none,1366][/attach]
The following pictures are just a list of its animations.
[attach=5618,none,678][/attach]
[attach=5619,none,672][/attach]
[attach=5621,none,637][/attach]
This model apparently shows that the Gonarch will show a different model when low on health.
[attach=5622,none,1366][/attach]
the gonarch has a teabag animation… it has a teabag animation… WTF. Well I guess the immaturity of the design must shine threw somewhere.
Holy crap! Anyone wanna catch me up on what I missed? I don’t have a whole lot of free time for reading through the good news/bad news thread.
beta branch dropped today, has a lot of new things hidden in it for us to data mine. some of it good some of it meh. hell there are a few maps that seem to just exist as lighting tests. and somejust crash the game if you load them which means xen props which are not in the game.
Thanks! I found the update log so it wasn’t as much reading as I expected. Did a speedy update on the OP.
Actually there are plenty of xen props under the props_equipment and props_rocks folder. Also
[attach=5625,none,1366][/attach]A odd flipped version of the barnacle apparently meant for water judging by it’s name.
[attach=5626,none,1366][/attach][attach=5627,none,1364][/attach]
The protozoan from the intro of the original is here fully animated along with a variant without the nucleus. Strangely this one is fully textured while the rest are untextured.
[attach=5628,none,1366][/attach]A redesigned baby headcrab is here with it’s sack missing and made to look like it’s older form.
[attach=5629,none,1365][/attach][attach=5630,none,1366][/attach]Two retexured Houndeye models no other changes. Could possibly have different attributes to the normal Houndeye judging by their names.
[attach=5631,none,1366][/attach]A tentacle with no other difference other than two new animations.
[attach=5632,none,1366][/attach]The final boss of Half Life, the Nihilanth is here with a more slicker appearance closer to the controllers and is able to blink as well as a modeled on mouth.
wonder if the houndeye varrients can be spawned with npc_create
also, glowing eyes on vorts, man they are strange.
Just as a clarification, missing models shouldn’t be the thing to cause a crash. It used to in goldsource (or if they weren’t pre-loaded when the map tried to access them), but nowadays that’d just result in a bunch of floating "ERROR"s. It’s probably code-related.
wonder if there are any new zombie types for xen.