May not be the best mapping (yes, some stuff that could be func_detailed isn't), however, the level design is superb.
Oh, and many of the performance issues may be traced back to the particle systems. Particle effects tend to kill fill rate in graphics cards.
We will not be posting screenshots of Xen until after release.
It is. I was the one who announced it was dead.
Not because of L4D, but because a variety of reasons.
(buried)
Anyone who hasn't played this game is a ***.
Don't you meet them before that? Er, when a barney is about to tell you something, and gets shot in the back.
From an old devblog:
"We've been finishing entire chapters
The screenshots that we showed last year were of sections of chapters that were shiny at the time. Most of those chapters that you've seen updated now are essentially DONE. When we showed them to you last year, we picked a pretty part of one level out of the chapter. Now we have entire chapters that are COMPLETE, checked off the list. Again, this is the kind of major accomplishment that is really hard to relay to you guys, without ruining things for you, or having 20+ screenshots of all the levels that make up an individual chapter."
"We orange-mapped the whole damn game.
This is important because you can go from level-to-level through our game, even if sections are barely blocked out. This is like laying down a rough draft that you iterate and improve upon over time. This was a big deal, and took some work for us to get done, but it was worth it and has proven to be a positive additon to development. Being able to play and walk through chapter, to chapter, to chapter, is an amazing thing."
The difference with Duke Nukem forever is that it is a commercial game that has been in development for over 10 years. BMS has been in development for about 3 or 4 years. The main difference being that BMS is a mod, and started out as a quite small team, and grew larger gradually. Compared to a commercial project, it is only expected to take MUCH longer. Compared to most mods, BMS will be quite long, as it IS re-creating Half-Life 1 and adding immense amounts of detail. Where a corridor in HL1 was plain and simple, BMS takes every corridor into consideration and takes time to make it pretty.
Now, BMS has shown quite a bit of media over the years in contrast to Duke Nukem forever. Anyway, bottom line is, the BMS developers are working their ***** off to re-create the art that is Half-life in the source engine to the best of the ability, and if you have no respect for that, you should just leave now, because this is not a mod for you.
The lighting in this shot is much better than the old version of this. Also much more detailed (imo the other one was a bit bland, but this is much better).
Alright. As someone outside of the dev team, but knows things beyond the general public, I'm going to say that these guys really are working hard to bring the public an awesome re-make of HL1. There are no jokes, no lies, it's all real. It will one day be released, and they are progressing.
Just because we don't cram the public's face with media, it does not mean we're dead or don't care about the public for that matter.
Yes, the gore system will be in BBS. No, we have not said it will be in early 2008, we said it would be in 2008.
Of course. There will be several different models and several different skins. Can't say when it will be released, though.
The map is indeed very much a wip. I haven't personally shown any of the work I've done on the team yet... but yeah, deffinately a WIP.
The mod will come out eventually.
Don't worry, we're not dead by any means. We are working our ***** off. We are kind of re-organizing **** as well, and I am addicted to hammer.
Where did those blue chairs come from?
Aren't they from Black Mesa Source?
Love the huge pipes on the ceiling. What's holding them up, though?
Uhh... that's Silo D, with the tentacle. Not the test chamber. That IS after the residence cascade.
In 2005 I made a joke about them not getting the mod done until 2008. Oh man...
It's better than what Valve can produce...
When Valve first released Half-life: source, they said to themselves "Some mod-team is going to notice of what a half-assed job we did on this, and is going to re-make Half-life in its intirety. Keep up the bad work."
Keep up the good work, guys.
Soo... How many geforce 9xxx series graphics cards will I require in SLI to play this mod?
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