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Game Forum / Action Games / Half Life / June 2006Episode one first impressions
played for about 40mins so far. have already found a really annoying bit! won`t say cos it`ll spoil it for people who haven`t got the game yet. needless to say you`ll know it when you get to it! it`s a decent graphical upgrade on HL2 with HDR used all over the place and i had to crank the settings down to get the fps above 25fps@1280x1024. Still debating wether to turn HDR off and keep FSAA on instead cos my gfx card aint got the muscle to do em both at once! could go to 1024x768 but it pixellates a bit on my tft monitor. enjoying it so far! :-) What a pain. I had it pre-loaded, but when it was finally released, Steam asked me again for my Password. I had forgotten it, so it had to have it re-set and the new one sent to me in an email. Once I entered my new Password and got in, Steam said I needed to update my vid card drivers, so I downloaded today's new Catalyst driver, uninstalled my old one (WinXP went nuts when I did this), and installed the new one. Then Steam slowly unlocked the pre-load before I was finally able to start playing. The whole process took nearly an hour. Jeez, all the hoops ya have to jump thru just to play an add-on. I bet the annoying part is the crashing platform. At least it is for me.... >played for about 40mins so far. have already found a really annoying bit! >won`t say cos it`ll spoil it for people who haven`t got the game yet. [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] >do em both at once! could go to 1024x768 but it pixellates a bit on my tft >monitor. enjoying it so far! :-) >What a pain. I had it pre-loaded, but when it was finally released, >Steam asked me again for my Password. I had forgotten it, so it had [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] >I bet the annoying part is the crashing platform. At least it is for >me.... Have you got to the <ROT13> qnex ebbzf jvgu gur mbzovrf </ROT13> or the bit where <ROT13> gur nagyvbaf ner pbzvat bhg bs gur tebhaq naq lbh unir gb oybpx gurve oheebjf jvgu pnef? <ROT13> Annoying as hell and not particularly scary or exciting. I'm not impressed so far... Now playing: f.ck all >>What a pain. I had it pre-loaded, but when it was finally released, >>Steam asked me again for my Password. I had forgotten it, so it had [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] > impressed so far... > Now playing: f.ck all Yeh, I've just passed there. Alyx was probably the most irritating part of that... >>>What a pain. I had it pre-loaded, but when it was finally released, >>>Steam asked me again for my Password. I had forgotten it, so it had [quoted text clipped - 20 lines] >Yeh, I've just passed there. Alyx was probably the most irritating part of >that... Can Alyx actually die? Those bits were made even more irritating by having to keep an eye on her while she wades into the middle of it and just stands there, getting the crap kicked out of her. As usual, she hangs around in corridors getting in the way too. Just completed the game at any rate. Not that impressed. Way too short for $20, though there are some nice-looking bits (I liked the bit where gur pubccre jnf fubbgvat gur ebbs naq jnyyf njnl sebz gur jbbqra ohvyqvat). Took me about three and a half hours altogether...  SignatureThis space intentionally left blank. Now playing: The Jam - London Traffic On 6/1/2006 1:50 PM Dav brightened our day with: > Have you got to the <ROT13> qnex ebbzf jvgu gur mbzovrf </ROT13> or > the bit where <ROT13> gur nagyvbaf ner pbzvat bhg bs gur tebhaq naq [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > Now playing: f.ck all > How does ROT13 work as functional html tags? Is there a newsreader that will interpret that? SignatureHey! said my name is called disturbance I'll shout and scream, I'll kill the king, I'll rail at all his servants Steve > Inglo >On 6/1/2006 1:50 PM Dav brightened our day with: >> Have you got to the <ROT13> qnex ebbzf jvgu gur mbzovrf </ROT13> or [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] >How does ROT13 work as functional html tags? Is there a newsreader that >will interpret that? No idea. Next question. :) SignatureThis space intentionally left blank. Now playing: Generation X - From The Heart > How does ROT13 work as functional html tags? Is there a newsreader that > will interpret that? XNews does. It doesn't use the ROT-13 tags, you just select the text that needs to be un-ROT-13ed and choose "View:ROT-13" from the menu. >How does ROT13 work as functional html tags? It doesn't. > Is there a newsreader that >will interpret that? The point of using it in a newsreader is that it requires the user to select a manual option in the program so that spoilers aren't automatically shown. I think all Usenet clients I have used will decode ROT13, even Outhouse Express. SignatureAndrew, contact via http://interpleb.googlepages.com Help make Usenet a better place: English is read downwards, please don't top post. Trim replies to quote only relevant text. Check groups.google.com before asking an obvious question. >>How does ROT13 work as functional html tags? > [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > automatically shown. I think all Usenet clients I have used will > decode ROT13, even Outhouse Express. Really? Thunderbird won't :( Civilian_Target >> The point of using it in a newsreader is that it requires the user to >> select a manual option in the program so that spoilers aren't [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > Civilian_Target I can't find that option either in TB, i did find: http://www.rot13.com/ HTH >>> The point of using it in a newsreader is that it requires the user to >>> select a manual option in the program so that spoilers aren't [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > > I can't find that option either in TB, i did find: http://www.rot13.com/ There's a plugin for Thunderbird - apparently it does rot13, leet base64, Morse Code and some others. > HTH Signature- AG > There's a plugin for Thunderbird - apparently it does rot13, leet base64, > Morse Code and some others. Ah - a leet decoder. Might install that and go read some alt.games.half-life.team-fortress-classic :) Civilian_Target >> The point of using it in a newsreader is that it requires the user to >> select a manual option in the program so that spoilers aren't >> automatically shown. I think all Usenet clients I have used will >> decode ROT13, even Outhouse Express. > >Really? Thunderbird won't :( You know it is time to change Usenet clients when your has less features than OE ;-) SignatureAndrew, contact via http://interpleb.googlepages.com Help make Usenet a better place: English is read downwards, please don't top post. Trim replies to quote only relevant text. Check groups.google.com before asking an obvious question. > On 6/1/2006 1:50 PM Dav brightened our day with: >> Have you got to the <ROT13> qnex ebbzf jvgu gur mbzovrf </ROT13> or [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > How does ROT13 work as functional html tags? Is there a newsreader that > will interpret that? http://www.rot13.com/index.php Ron SignatureAnd it really doesn't matter if I'm wrong I'm right Where I belong I'm right Where I belong. Lennon & McCartney >> How does ROT13 work as functional html tags? Is there a newsreader >> that will interpret that? > > http://www.rot13.com/index.php Netscape Communicator has a built in option to decypher ROT13. for some reason it isn't available in Mozilla Thunderbird by default, but a ROT13 plugin can be easily found. SignatureBen Cottrell AKA Bench > Have you got to the <ROT13> qnex ebbzf jvgu gur mbzovrf </ROT13> or > the bit where <ROT13> gur nagyvbaf ner pbzvat bhg bs gur tebhaq naq [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > impressed so far... > Now playing: f.ck all I'm at the first annoying bit, where <ROT-13>lbh'er ba gur ryringbe gung xrrcf trggvat fghpx juvyr qroevf snyyf sebz nobir</ROT-13>. In the words of Captain Sulu: "Oh, my". Liking it so far though... |
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