Interview with Yahn Bernier

[Lancelot]

They talk a lot about moviemaking with HL2: http://www.sogamed.com/?s=sgfeaturednews&sub=viewfeature&feature_id=219

 

[Sub_Lon]

"We try to compress down the .dem files as much as is possible without doing a lot of extra work, but in the end the size of the files hasn’t been a huge priority."

I love not doing a lot of work.

 

[X-FacToR]

Kickass information

 

[poorito]

"We are planning to deliver a release candidate to Vivendi later this month..."

I think a release at the beginning of september, as many suggested, won't be realistic.

End of september or beginning of october i think. Hopefully the cs:s beta will be on till release of hl2.

 

[Para]

End of september or beginning of october i think. Hopefully the cs:s beta will be on till release of hl2.

I hope VALVe staff has sense of irony and they'll release HL2 on September 30th

 

[Lobster]

Thats that exact quote they keep using, man they must be really squeezed by the PR guys not to release any infomation beyond it.

 

[Baal]

That's the guy that e-mailed me after I e-mailed gabe telling me the command host_framerate 30.

Very useful.

 

[Baal]

I can answer this one (well, I think I can....I'm pretty sure I know why they changed it)

Many people complain that in CS Steam there is no longer a command to remove the black bars that appears on top and below in spectator mode. Previously these were removed by using the command "hud_draw 0". Why has this feature been removed?

I think the reason they removed it was because it was possible to remove the black around the awp scope using that command, and if you wanted to you could make a script so that everytime you zoom in it'll type hud_draw 0.

At least that's why I would remove that command.

 

[theGreenBunny]

Funny how he mislinks us:

The returning characters are played by the same actors. Gabe posted the full voice actor list a few weeks ago. I think that’s on Half-Life2.net.

Pretty obvious he's talking about halflife2.net of course.

On a sidenote, I wonder if the 4 cds HL2 is supposed to be will include CS:S... or perhaps they'll send CS:S over steam for retail customers as well...