Greetings all!
We’ve been a bit quiet on the forum front for a while, but we have been steadily toiling away on Content Update 2! Content Update 2 is going to be a huge, awesome update, and we’re super excited for the coming weeks. Over the next few weeks, I will be periodically showing off snippets of what’s to come in Content Update 2 to you guys. There’s a lot!
First up, in today’s post: CU2 will feature 3 new weapon models. The Crossbow, the Shotgun, and the Gluon. All are completely new models/textures. The Shotgun and Gluon still currently (and probably will continue to) use the old animations, the Crossbow has also been completely reanimated. Stylistically, the Crossbow and Shotgun are both quite different to the models which you can see in retail at the moment (which are the same as the mod release), and are now much closer to their HL1 counterparts, design wise. This is part of our effort to bring our viewmodels all up to the same high standard and ethic for design, and this marks an end to our weapon remodels. The Gluon is pretty much the same looking as it was before, just with a higher polycount and a cleaner texture.
Below you can see far too many screenshots of the new Crossbow. Please remember that this is still a work in progress! Feel free to discuss and comment. We’re very happy with how it’s turning out - I personally think we’ve kept the distinctive look and style of the HL1 Crossbow intact (it’s much less generic looking now), and kept it to a very high quality.
