City17 aims to bring the player a Rebel perspective of the Half Life 2 Universe. From the City Streets to the Canals, City17 Ventures through the Episode 1 timeline.


City17 also brings a list of graphical Features towards the Source Engine Including:

  • Volumetric Lighting, creating god rays and volume light shafts.

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  • Dynamic Lighting, including scalable lighting at realtime, with proper occlusion, and realtime shadowing.
  • Improved AI, resulting in more realistic battles, and smarter Opponents.
  • Dynamic Triggering System, giving the player a choice of different paths, resulting in highly contrasted game play.
  • Improved Radiosity, creating realistic lit scenes.
  • Phong Shading, adding depth and realism to more of the characters and models around you.

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Welcome to the City17: Episode 1 September update! This month's going to be a short and sweet update, instead of the usual 3 day updates, but we at Team Gear feel that we've packed plenty of great new info and features into this update.


The Options Menu

Will City17 set your video card on fire? Probably. Since we first began working on the coding aspect of City17, we've been continually making engine optimizations and adding options to disable our frame-rate lowering improvements in an attempt to not set your video card on fire, or you. So, we've implemented a state of the art Options Menu.

With Tabs, and Organization!


Through the tabs within the menu players can lower some of the various things we've added to the engine for more performance. The menu also holds controls to FaceAPI, and the Maxsi Distribution system.



This thing isn't radioactive, is it?


Nothing more need be said. Just keep in mind, the map featured in these screen shots is old, and was cut out long ago.



This is a video we set up to show off our projected texture enhancements, such as adjustable shadow blur amounts, and parenting. The video also demonstrates our new and improved water particles, which actually send up individual droplets of water, each of which make their own ripples. It's really quite amazing to view in motion.


Projected Texture Performance Enhancements


Projected textures now have an option to use pre-rendered shadows instead of rendering them in real time, allowing for DX7,8, and performance conscious 9 users to increase their framerates, while still retaining most features.


Projected Texture Based Muzzle Flashes


Much like Valve's Left 4 Dead, City17: Episode 1 now has muzzle flash lighting that casts real time shadows, giving a more cinematic feeling to the game. The light's intensity dynamically adjusts between indoor environments and outdoor environments.


City17: Episode 1 Wallpapers

Get them while they're hot!


These come in bitmap format at a resolution of 1920x1080. That's 5MB of raw, uncompressed awesome per wallpaper image.


That's it!

And that's it for this month! Catch us on PlanetPhillip within the week for some awesome exclusive media.

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MrtwovideoCards
MrtwovideoCards Jul 3 2008, 5:19pm replied:

You might just find that you may very well Like it!

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NYANG_105th
NYANG_105th Jul 2 2008, 11:44am says:

Were do i download it????? It looks really good but i will have to have everything on low though--- even that might not work! :{

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MrtwovideoCards
MrtwovideoCards Jul 2 2008, 2:38pm replied:

No the mod's still pretty optimized, what are your current Computer specs?

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no.00dylan
no.00dylan Jul 1 2008, 11:20pm says:

Sorry we had to delay, but we want to make sure this mod has the best looks, gameplay, and most importantly, it's fun for you.

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LORDDEREX
LORDDEREX Jul 2 2008, 11:34am replied:

I am sure that Players want a good mod, then a quick made.

So dont think anytihng like this "It must be dont that day" Take it that time it need.

me: Even if a great mod/game take "forever" to make I still will be w8ing! Still w8ing for Duke Nukem Forever And I will w8 until it comes out, and I am going to buy that game so fast as its possible!

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TheFrohmen
TheFrohmen Jul 1 2008, 10:28pm says:

Looks neat. Will have to try it.

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ThatTrunkMonkey
ThatTrunkMonkey Jul 1 2008, 8:14pm says:

TOday is july 1!
OMGOMGOMGOMGOMG
I doubt my laptop could handle it thought :'(

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MrtwovideoCards
MrtwovideoCards Jul 1 2008, 11:13pm replied:

Whats you Laptop Specs? We've made this mod pretty optimized for play, but if you can't play EP2 at 30 frames r higher, then you might not be able to play City17 either that well.

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kacsand
kacsand Jul 1 2008, 11:55am says:

when is it comming ?
pleas tell me!!!!

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Bugles
Bugles Jul 1 2008, 1:21pm replied:

this month, or next.
read the news ;)

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