The December Update, Part 2

The Cinematic Mod looked pretty, but wasn’t perfect. Alyx looking like a stripper, for instance.

Maybe you already made it clear and I just failed to notice, but when you say “Join us soon for the next part!”, do you mean for the “December Update” or are you saying that you plan to make another forum post about the update?

We’re planning another forum post with even MORE news.

Thanks! :slight_smile: I’m excited to learn what comes next (particularly to the singleplayer version of the game).

then let us hype train for part 3 of this info dump.

Can’t wait for more information on upcoming Multiplayer balance / gameplay / feature changes…

Will you add the headshot damage bonus for Crowbar, Crossbow, Tau Cannon and Gluon Gun as it was in Half-life??

that’s already in BM… except for the gluongun

That isn’t in BM. I check it out with my friend

I would love if CU2 would include multiplayer map reskins with Christmas trees and decorations :3 I need to get in to that festive mood.

It seems like Gordon is tripping

Even not the new engine u use?

The engine they’re using is not all that new (they’re using 2013). It’s 2 years old now and I believe Source 2 is newer than this.

They’re not using “2013” which itself is more like 2009. IIRC it’s a bastardized version of the TF2 version of Source. Just slapping new effects into an already screaming-for-mercy engine ^^

Source in all its incarnations is unbelievably outdated, I’m not surprised there was no godray support in any if them. Hell, BM was still using that model-based hack that was being used way back in the early 2000s.

It’s not a bug in the game. Let’s return to the topic, please.

True, Source is, as painful as it is to admit, very old, outdated and inferior to pretty much every currently-used engine on the market. But that’s why we all have Source 2 to look forward to!
It sucks that only DOTA has it right now. So many possibilities and it’s all being put to waste on a MOBA.
Not to say DOTA is bad, I mean, there’s a reason it’s Valve’s most played game. But the camera perspective is very limiting.

Anyway, back to the main topic, how exactly do these godrays work? Do they have their own entity, or are they toggleable under the env_sun? Perhaps it’s a special type of skybox texture?

It’s not a bug, it’s a feature!

hype train dying waiting for part 3 to this or the update. :frowning:

Your hype train must have a shitty conductor. Mine’s still going quite steady.

yeah pretty much.

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