Are there any screenshots of Xen?

[Silverstreak]

Any screens of Xen in new Half-life 2? I'm interested in what it would look like! :rolling: :cheers: :E

 

[Apos]

There is no Xen in HL2

 

[Raziaar]

Yeah, no Xen.

 

[mortiz]

there will be no Xen in HL-2, the best bet of seeing Xen in source would be in HL:Source.

 

[Feath]

Probably not considering you don't go to Xen.

But screenshots of "Xen on Earth" will be interesting.

EDIT: Curse you fast typists!

 

[Silverstreak]

How can you be sure there will be no Xen? Maybe not even a small part of it would be in the story?

 

[Feath]

How can you be sure there will be no Xen? Maybe not even a small part of it would be in the story?

Because Valve have said so. Gordon won't be going to Xen this time round.

 

[Raziaar]

It could be in the story, but the developers said the players do not go to Xen.

 

[Angry Lawyer]

As mentioned before - you're not going to Xen, but large chunks of it are likely to come to you. So don't despair - you'll get all the good Xeniness without the pants low gravity!

-Angry Lawyer

 

[RoguePsi]

It is NOT in the game. However, HL:Source will be released at the time and will show Xen in all of its limited designed glory. Plus Xen (or Xen-like areas) may be on earth in HL2.

 

[slicktick]

Valve took what people liked and didnt like from the original Half-Life and decided to not send you back to Xen in HL2. But they did say that the 2 worlds were starting to collided, but they are keeping that well under wraps for now. Sorry, to see any xen things you will have to wait till the game comes out.

 

[gunstarhero]

They never said no Xen. They said Gordon wont be leaving Earth this time around. There could be a loop hole there.. I know it. Like if part of Xen was pulled into our plane of existance or something like that. It probablly isn't true and at least we can hope for no jet pack jumping puzzles in low gravity.

edit: oops.. alittle late with my responce

 

[Tarkus]

Xen didnt bother me that much....

 

[gunstarhero]

Isn't Valve redoing Half-life in source as a bonus to us? So we will be atleast seeing Xen in Source goodness.

 

[breadbomb]

Isn't Valve redoing Half-life in source as a bonus to us? So we will be atleast seeing Xen in Source goodness.

I'm pretty sure they are, it will definitely make the game more interesting.

 

[Xenon]

Because Valve have said so. Gordon won't be going to Xen this time round.

Well Valve said it, but does that mean it is true?

 

[Moejoe]

Isn't Valve redoing Half-life in source as a bonus to us? So we will be atleast seeing Xen in Source goodness.

We know they are doing a remake of HL1 on source, but as far as being a 'bonus,' that's another story. I consider a bonus free, and the HL:source remake may not be free. But, who knows, they may be nice to us and give us some kinda consolation for all of our horrible suffering (j/k, don't attack me about how not having a game isn't really all that bad)

Personally, i thought xen was awesome. I mean, the first time i played HL and got to xen, i hadn't ever really played any other first person shooters (other than DOOM). So the low gravity and cool jumping across long distances was so cool to me. I really wouldn't mind if they had an hour or so gameplay on xen in HL2.

 

[gunstarhero]

the rumor was that hl in source was going to be in the special 70 something dollar halflife2.

 

[Frank]

What? I thought Gabe said we would return to Xen?...or maybe Xen gets to the earth!

 

[Moejoe]

Xen gets to earth. they said that you don't get to go to xen at all in HL2. But yeah, Xen may come to earth, i think they hinted towards that.

 

[dream431ca]

Because Xen is on earth...would that area of Xen have different gravity..could be interesting.

 

[Glo-Boy]

I saw a screenshot of HL1: Source... unfortunately I can't show it here because I'll get pwned.

*note* Never played it, nor have I played the Beta.

 

[gunstarhero]

How did u find a screen shot

 

[urseus]

WHy the mother hell are they spending time remaking hl1. Cant they just concentrate on the god dam game, then go about remaking hl1 and releasing it on steam later.

****ing hell. So much bullshit going on when they could just be releasing the game.

 

[InsaneCow]

I thought half life source was just half life 1 with the new physics engine, same old models and stuff. Hope not

 

[BabyHeadCrab]

arent headcrabs xenonites? heh

edit: oops misinterpreted thread.. not natives of xen..the actual place

yeah I was a bit dissapointed by the fact that hl2 has no xen, but then again valve knows there stuff

xen was my fav. part of hl :E or one of em

 

[Non-Sequitur]

People, I don't think Valve are actually rebuilding any of the games maps at all, they just run under source. A completely playable version of HL1 in Source with physics was released by Anon last year.

Perhaps they might update some of the textures? But I could see them simply releasing this version that is evidently working quite well already...

 

[Feath]

Don't assume that Half-Life: Source will cut too much into Half-Life 2's development time.

Most of the maps will be finished for Half-Life 2 and most of the textures. Some people will not have much work to do on Half-Life 2 now and are working on Half-Life: Source.

 

[Apos]

They might not change any of the geometry, which is too bad since some of it is pretty clunky at this point and could use a quick touchup. But I'm sure they will release higher quality textures and redo all the entities and so forth. They have all the high quality textures they originally used, so why not just add them? Wouldn't take too long, since you'd just have to plug in a new wad, not necessarily go back and retexture the maps face by face.

 

[isthatacat]

I dont see whats all that bad with Xen other than it's just annoying. Jumping from little island to island is a bit boreing but since theres no huge monsters there just crabs etc I couldnt care less