Yea I feel you there but what I meant by my statement is that mechanics aside, if the storytellers in Half Life need an easy out, summon the magical alien wizards. Just seems like they always have this option, which is a little disappointing. I mean you can make a story element like this work, but always having the instant safety eject button in the cockpit cheapens certain aspects a bit
yeah it gets a bit random and deus-ex at times, but to cut them some slack, the unexplainable alien powers at play here need to be fairly unexplainable
Like I said you can totally make this plot element work, and to this point I think Valve has. At no point during episode 2 did I question them being able to heal Alyx with thier hoodoo voodoo, they just did and it was fine enough. I m just hoping when HL3 eventually rolls around they dont rely to much upon that. I forget the guys name, but one of the lead writers who left and eventually leaked the rough outline of 3, its a damn shame that hes gone. Hopefully they can stich something semicoherant together
I believe he did personally set up the resonance cascade knowing what would happen. I think it's even stated in the games that the crystal they used was delivered by him. I will expand a bit more on my G-man theory when I have some more time since I thought about it some more and how it would interact with dangling story threads a bit.
My 3060 seems to be getting old so when it gets announced I'll probably make the jump to something better. I think it will deserve to be played at ultra.
it'll probably run fine and look reasonably pretty on anything that can do vulkan if their engine is still as relatively potato-friendly as it's reputed to be
HL3 is probably releasing w/ Deckard (Valve's new standalone VR headset), when I do play HLX/HL3 it'll probably be on that
Yeah, I shoulda stated that I don't "need" to play it on Ultra since Valve has always been good at optimization (besides FPS caps) and having played Alyx I can run it at High settings at a consistent 60 on my 3060.
I thought HLX was going to be flat screen?
afaik source 2 is very non-cutting-edge in the graphics department, heavily using cubemaps and radiosity for indirect lighting just like source 1
Behold: the most fragile of all whites. What a pathetic creature you are, not only a racist brainlet but one that worships totalitarian regimes. The world would be a better place if cocksuckers like you were all to die. Nobody will mourn your hateful ass so feel free to hasten your own demise.
even though the guy you're replying to is a bit retarded, you should calm down in this thread about the video game with the wacky screaming scientists and the funny telescreen speech man
Your 3060 should handle HLX just fine. Source 2 is just extra smoke and mirrors to make Source look better, it's still all old school raster techniques. Map lighting is still pre-baked, and all the fancy schmancy bottle liquid and dirty water physics you see in HL:A and CS2 are just shaders. It's not that Valve is good at optimization, Valve is good at doing the bare minimum to have a convincing, good looking effect.
To hell with that headcrabfucker, bring Barney back instead.
I'm still not worshipping niggers bud.
I really want SteamOS, just to get away from Microshaft. That's the only reason, I'm sick of the garbage merchantile bloatware Bill Gates wants on my PC.
If they do go through with having Alyx and Eli swapped for HL3 then I would prefer that, not because of how it would affect the story, but more in that it would probably make HL3 more solo focused.
