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Because it would have been a lot of work to implement a body awareness system that Valve would have been happy with? That's what I think, although I believe Valve have said it was a design decision.

Yes, but it's still possible that could occur. Half-Life 2 is an alternate universe, so events don't have to match up with our timeline - they just have to be consistent with the nature of the (fictional) universe. If things happen differently there has to be a reason.

In the last incarnation it was a sci-fi FPS with many RTS elements: http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=323745 If it had shipped it would have completely unique. Not even Quake Wars will offer buildable bases.

Valve have said the new shadowing system is experimental. That's why it's not being used in the rest of the game. However, I wouldn't expect Valve to move away from their static lighting system - it's a huge performance win, and lightmaps still look pretty good. As long as they still use...

The streaming system is in place in the Xbox version. It's there to allow them to keep the same number of loading points as the PC version (well, they still had to split levels up in a few cases). That's no mean feat when you consider that the Xbox only has 64MB of memory.

Yes the entire FX line is too slow to run DirectX 9 at full precision. Anyway, who cares what the menu settings default to? Just change them yourself, like everyone else does. Valve don't know how fast you'll be able to run the game - all they can do is build in a basic hardware detection...

You'll need to learn how to aim and move before you can have fun, I think. FPS are quite different to conventional, arcade-like games. A mouse is more or less a requirement - it's what you'll be using to aim all the weapons. That means a mouse with buttons, so you may have to go out and buy...

Cancelled. http://productionblog.typepad.com/pov/2006/02/dice_summit_200.html

Steam hasn't really stopped piracy because people just use a steam emulator.

1.) An improved shadow algorithm - better shadow mapping for dynamic objects, ideally full shadow buffers 2.) Better A.I - In line with what we see in F.E.A.R 3.) Biozeminades

That's cool. Thanks for responding.

When is the review going to be up? Is there a set time Valve have set for the release of reviews?

Iron sites are only on the rifles, and they're an alternative to the crosshair. You hit the secondary fire to use the IS and get more accuracy. Bear in mind the accuracy of the primary fire has also been changed. Overall this is not plain DoD - the loadouts have been changed, the weapon...

That looks very nice for medium settings.

1 kb/s :(