Recent content by bluechirri

pretty wall-of-texty but i love the borealis, okay The Borealis device definitely has some kind of teleportation function, but I've always felt that it's a device that actually mucks around in spacetime specifically, and teleportation over extremely large distances is just one way that...

Alyx flat-out states "this is what happens to you if you resist" while mournfully closing a stalker pod in Ep1, and a couple of Resistance fighters sometimes reference how rebels get turned into stalkers, too. Besides, the closest Valve's ever come to designing a humanoid Half Life alien have...

Oh, yeah, I'm not questioning your title. I'm questioning the hypothetical decision on the part of Valve and Sierra to write it as "Lambda Life 3", when it ought to just be Half Life 3 or a lambda cubed. It makes no sense to hide a lambda followed by "life 3" somewhere in a teaser, because...

I'm pretty certain that mountain just says "ice". The only thing that can even be made out well is the E. And yeah, why the heck would it be branded as "lambda life 3"? It would make way more sense to hide a "λ3" somewhere if that's what they were trying to do instead of cramming a "life" in...

Oh, that's pretty cool. I'm glad Valve's been making an effort to include assets from other games besides TF2 in the public edition of Source Filmmaker, and the updated models of classic Half Life enemies were one of the best parts of Black Mesa. I just hope we get an official Gordon Freeman rig...

I really like all the thought that went into the people on the Friends bar, haha. It's a little cluttered for my taste - there's a lot going on. I don't care about the Trading Cards and I seek out the Workshop when I'm interested in finding a specific build for a specific game, so I wouldn't...

To clarify: when you say "this version of Dota 2 runs on Source 2", do you mean that with this latest update, the game has been ported to Source 2 and is running on the new engine right now when you load it up? Or do you mean something else?

Yeah, haha, I figured. It's a good joke. "Portrait" just made me think it might've been art and not a screenshot. Thanks for the screens, guys!

That's incredible! Haha, it kind of reminds me of Zoo Tycoon and the way you would just drag around the terrain with different brushes to make exhibits.

Got any images of that? I'd love to see if it's new art or not. Yeah, that probably won't be in there for long, haha. That's some interesting squash-and-stretch on those "climb the wall here" textures, looks like they'll be animated like grabbing hands.

Even if content generation was the major focus, though, there's no way they'd center that focus around a remake of an engine ten years out of date. Source had a good run, and it put out a lot of games that still look great even to this day, but it's absolutely showing its age visually and from a...

Dang, that's a neat find. It could be that the new Hammer supports the use of PhysX so that users working on amateur projects don't have to code game physics from scratch, maybe? Download the SDK, transplant some code, boom, you're done. It seems to me like a big part of what Valve would...

Oh, wow, now that's interesting. I wonder if this means that Valve is gearing up to publicly discuss Source 2? It seemed like the new version of Hammer was closely tied to the new engine based on that leaked powerpoint with the Plantation screenshots we got a little while ago.

I remember seeing something similar on YouTube and if I'm remembering this right - and I might not be - it was basically somebody who pointed out that killing Eli in the first game by giving yourself a weapon early triggers the opening of the locked door that he's supposed to unlock for you, so...

My going theory is that whatever the Borealis device is - be it a weapon, a teleporter, a power source, an AI, even a goddamn invisible time machine considering the Borealis may have been partially based on the Philadelphia Experiment - it has the potential to open a tear in the fabric of...