Steam release fun

[MAXGEAR]

Well, i’m starting up the game and see the magic - zero shadows and interesting text. It seems that everyone with steam language different from english gets this text issue.
Money well spent

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hostname: Black Mesa
version : 100000/24 100000 insecure
map : background01 at: -416 x, 8808 y, -40 z
players : 1 humans, 0 bots (1 max)
edicts : 213 used of 2048 max

userid name uniqueid connected ping loss state adr

2 “!USELESS MAN!” STEAM_ID_PENDING 00:19 35 0 active loopback

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setpos -416.000000 8808.000000 -40.000000;setang -4.998779 -120.003662 0.000000

[TextFAMGUY1]

To fix the language thing, try adding -language english to the launch options. Our font currently does not support other character sets.

The fullbright occurs because mat_hdr_level is not 2, or dxlevel is below 9. Try starting up the game with -dxlevel 95, and then setting mat_hdr_level 2 in the console. We are looking into both issues as we speak.

[MAXGEAR]

@TextFAMGUY1

To fix the language thing, try adding -language english to the launch options. Our font currently does not support other character sets.

The fullbright occurs because mat_hdr_level is not 2, or dxlevel is below 9. Try starting up the game with -dxlevel 95, and then setting mat_hdr_level 2 in the console. We are looking into both issues as we speak.

DirectX and hdr level change helped against lack of shading, but language change did not has effect. Although steam language change helped with this problem. Maybe because application have not language selection at all?

[TextFAMGUY1]

Well, it’s a temporary solution at least. Thanks for finding that so we can tell people how to fix it. We’ll keep working to resolve this.