Steam And Other Questions
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Join Date: 2003-02-05 Member: 13167Members
Join Date: 2003-02-05 Member: 13167Members
With Steam 2.0 going public beta, it's getting ready to be officialy lanched. Will/should NS be part of Steam? I'd like it to be but hey, just MHO.
Next qestion, anyone know if HL2 will finally allow us to see the volumetric flamethrower make its debut? Does the new engine allow for the creation of it? (drool)
Next qestion, anyone know if HL2 will finally allow us to see the volumetric flamethrower make its debut? Does the new engine allow for the creation of it? (drool)
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if the source engine doesnt support it then thats pretty silly.
but then again this is just my opinion/answer
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yeah, I would be shocked if the source engine didn't support a volumetric flamethrower
<b>If</b> NS ever went to HL2 then it would be the fact everone's minimum specs would be HL2 which would enable a flamethrower, not HL2 in itself. Although i'm sure it'd would be easier in HL2 <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->
Well, hopefully the HL2 engine will allow for a more efficient flamethrower that wont kill the CPU.
As a side question, has there been a survey to see what the comp. specs of the NS community are? It would be interesting to see what they are. After all, the average must be going up every year.
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IIRC, the dev team looked at the survey that valve did a while back to ascertain average spec.
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right now NS isnt directly supported by valve (ie. its not being made retail or valve isnt helping with huge amounts of work) so steam isnt going to do anything for NS.
also if NS <i>ever</i> went on HL2 im more then sure good ol' Flay will do anything he can to get that flamer up, even if it means taking the valve guys hostage and forcing them to do it themselves (...or not)
but wether NS does go on HL2 will be another story... we'll have to see how it plays on a low spec(ish) pc first probably
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No sure if this helps
<a href='http://www.steampowered.com/index.php?area=faq&id=1050915513,94468500,1050915778,03563100' target='_blank'>http://www.steampowered.com/index.php?area...915778,03563100</a>
I hope they add something of that quality to the game!
I recall seeing that on the news page. However I, as well, don't know if its still going to heppen. I have Steam right now and have yet to see it. But, they could be waiting till the 31st ...