HL2 Multiplayer & Competitive Gaming? Thread

Do you think HL2 Multiplayer has a chance to be adopted by the e-sports community?
Doom3 MP was dropped by several tournament organizations that switched back to Painkiller.

If you mean Half-Life 2 Deathmatch, then I'm pretty sure it will It was back when HLDM was out... Counter-Strike: Source will obviously be bigger among the tournaments.

I saw on G4TechTV, Adam Sessler from Xplay played Fatal1ty at Doom 3 MP (if you don't know of him, he's perhaps the best gamer in the world). Sessler got squashed

I don't think hl2dm has much of a chance whilst it still has the gravity gun, that's just too cheesy/too much a gimmick imo.

The gravity gun was the weapon that helped sell Half-Life 2. It was amazingly awesome I don't see what's cheesy about it. It allows you to mess with the physics of the game perfectly

It's a gimmick, a tech demo, it should never have made the final game.

You're an idiot, then

good argument

i second that

I third that, especially the sarcasm.

hl2dm is crap. You get 2 of the worst maps I've ever seen, and you can tell they just threw it together last week. the gravity gun is not amazing, it's just an exaggerated "use" function, except now you can throw radiators and toilets at people. Maybe if they put more time into it, I would enjoy it more, but for now I would rather play hl1 dm.

There is no innovation in the deathmatch, so I don't think it'll last too long.

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HL2DM is too unprediactable to become a popular pro choice, IMO.

Varsity wrote: HL2DM is too unprediactable to become a popular pro choice, IMO.

I gladly second that I think CSS and DOD S will be the most popular

Hopefully there'll be an AG type project to fix up hl2dm into something more competetive.

HL2 DM is designed with fun in mind. Not competition. Just as it was withy the original DM for Half-Life. There will be maps, servers with different versions and add-ons and whatnot, but no tournaments. Nothing big for sure.

Which is a real shame, hopefully people can fix that, at least back when HLDM was around there was Q2dm (the best DM ever) and not long after HL was Q3DM, but now there isn't really much, so it's a shame HL2DM isn't up to much in a competetive sense. (and UT2Kx dm sucks too imo)

Which is a real shame

Well, that depends...

w00t! UT 2k4 DM ownz you! Competitive element in HL2DM - this is bullsh*t. There's nothing that Valve can do about it. Not only because of the way the game plays and behaves. Havok and multiplayer are two words that don't go down well in the same sentence.

Now having got a chance to sit down to some hl2dm properly, it sucks!! the physics I agree are just way way out for good deathmatch, jumping is shite. The sprinting system should be realism mods not deathmatch fs, and there's one gun (the magnum) that's just better than everything else combined...

Varsity wrote: HL2DM is too unprediactable to become a popular pro choice, IMO.

Ditto. Unbalanced is the word of the day.

I agree with all of you .. i tried playing HL2dm as it was mean to be and it was too boring .. and unbalanced as frosty said ..

The way i play it now though its fun .. stick the gravty guns strength up .. and start inventing fun physics games .. like car jenga ..

As i see it basically a way to play hl2 with friends they shud have really made it coop instead of DM but every one was crying for DM..

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L337_Haxs wrote:

Varsity wrote: HL2DM is too unprediactable to become a popular pro choice, IMO.

I gladly second that I think CSS and DOD S will be the most popular

w00t!!! CS:S and DoD:S are and will, respectively, be tthe pwnz0rzessesess