Half Life 3 is getting announced today in 5 hours. Are you ready?
Source?
>>727341197Source 2
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>>727341139I'd join Civil Protection for that...
Don't drink the breast milk, they put something in it, makes you forget.
>>727341247>laughing cheetahThat's CLEARLY a house cat! >:(
>>727342147GOT A SCIENTIST HERE
Reminder today's a green day.
This will be half life in 2013
>>727342602VALVE
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>Half Life 3 is getting announced today in 5 hours. Are you ready?
>>727342691>tfw no post-human overwatch gf
>>727342594sovjak retards cannot meme
https://store.steampowered.com/app/723390/HalfLife_3/Holy shit
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>>727341197>>727341212This is Gold
What do you honestly expect from HL3?Are your expectations realistic?
>>727341212:)
>mfw the release is only going to be the announcement of Deadlock 1.0 and the price of the gamecubeserves you mesa niggers right
>>727343439A hybrid between half-life 2 and half-life alyx with new, more advanced physics gimmicks. By "hybrid" I mean PC first but compatible in VR.
>>727342746No Houndeye?
>>727343439I'm ready for them to once again end on a cliffhanger.
>>727343878They all exploded with Black Mesa.
Would you consider moving to a poor eastern european country to LARP as if you lived in the half-life universe?
>>727342746why do people have to add anime characters to everything?
>>727343439>Linear shooter which is typical Half-Life>Expanded maps with more open-ended design due to vehicle segments so it doesn't feel too linear>More character interactions>More enemy varieties from Xen to Combine and moreSorta realistic in expectations desu. Not expecting a paradigm shift or something.
>>727342602VENTIL
People screaming that HL3 will be released anyday now will turn into Tyler Micnigger
>>727343951don't have to
9 days
Need the fent lean despair edit
>>727343961Fag
>>727341212Sourced
this model was made by indians
>>727343961weebs were bronies before bronies
Have most of the true believers actually played the Half-Life games and beaten them
>>727344583Who the fuck hasn't played Half Life?
My body has never been more ready and my mind never been more hopeful. Hopium is not needed!>>727342746Very cute image, mind if I save it?
>>727344550>GO.>SHIT. RECON.>>727344645Make sure it's comfy in your folders, anon.
>Have most of the true believers actually played the Half-Life games and beaten thembruh are you retarded?
>>727344583Well are you even a true believer if you haven't?
>>727343097Fake and gay.
Postan the list of fun half life 1 mods:Half-Life: FIELD INTENSITYHalf-Life: THE INFECTEDClean Half-LifeHalf-Life: ZOMBIE EDITIONHalf-Life: AZURE SHEEPHalf Life SumHalf-Life: FOCAL POINTMilitary DutyHalf-Life: RESIDUAL LIFEHalf-Life: SWEETHalf-Life: Life's EndHalf-Life: VISITORSHalf-Life: HOPELESSNESSHalf-Life: HOPELESSNESS 2 - THE AFTER LIFEHalf-Life: BLACK GUARDHalf-Life: BLACK MESA SIDELINEHalf-Life: FIGHT FOR LIFEHalf-Life: HALF SECRETHalf Life: SidelineHalf-Life: RESIDUAL POINTHalf-Life: OPERATION NOVAHalf-Life: InductionHalf-Life: REPORT ONE OPERATION ALIVEHalf-Life: DELTAHalf-Life: HELP WANTEDHalf-Life: URIELHalf-Life: CATHARSISHalf-Life: SHIFT-TWOHalf-Life: THE WORLD MACHINEHalf-Life: SENSES IN DECAYHalf-Life: ECHOESHalf-Life: POINT OF VIEWHalf-Life: BRAVE BRAINHalf-Life: UPLINKEDHalf-Life: CASE CLOSEDHalf-Life: XEN WARRIORHalf-Life: EVACUATION POINTHalf-Life: SIGNAL LOSTHalf-Life: Opposing Force: UNDER THE BLACK MOONHalf-Life: Opposing Force: A SOLDIER’S TALEDetla Particles
Alright, /v/, I’m here and I’ve played every Half-Life game. What’s the skinny?
>>727341139So that's what they call hospice nowadays?
>>727343961because you gay
Why were they wearing arctic camo in the desert?
>>727344917I like anime a little just not when it gets shoved everywhere, like why?
>>727344962I think it's meant to be urban camo, since they're fighting in a giant underground concrete complex.
>>727344985anime website
>>727344985Because some people ONLY have anime, not everybody is a rich western animation saturated based-bean boy. Consider other people's situations, please. :(
>>727345047That's actually a fair point
>>727343030This would be better if he knew it was Barney and it was a "beer I owed ya" joke.
>>727345091I don't like western animation much to be honest, was just wondering why anime gets added to everything these days
>>727343401No it's Source 2, not GoldSource.
Come on Gordon, we've got work to do
>>727344254They're not gonna do it right before TGAs, Gaben respects Keighley enough to not steal all spotlight right under his nose
>>727345258I wonder how HLX will show this scene to all the players who skipped Alyx
>>727344637>>727344694>>727344760I can’t help but notice you did not answer the questionWhen did you guys play them
>>727345464https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaYvsHFCqokmaybe a recap like at the beginning of Ep2
>>727342602FULLY
>>727342884This is what they took from you
>>72734546918 years ago
>>727342529with a lot of pictures of girls with DICKS
>>7273454692010
>>727342529>>727345874https://files.catbox.moe/efir1y.mp4
>>727342691>>727345539Her cunt is sewn shut, btw
>>727346035Life, uh, finds a way.
>>7273454692009 on Xbox 3602011 on a shitty laptop2013 on a decent PC2024 on an even better PC
Played HL2 in 2004, I'm 35I've been waiting 18 years for Gordon Freeman's next adventure(I bought a VR headset to play HL Alyx on day 1)
>>727346178Her asshole as well
>>727344468...And?
>>727342691Why they didn't add combine female ass ass in?
>we're going to have daily "HL3 TODAY TOTALLY THIS TIME FOR REAL" threads for the next month or so
>>727342594Mon through Wed next week is still plausible.
>>727345643>>727346296You’re alright>>727345906>>727346180Secondaries
>>727346654HL3 hype threads are pretty comfy ngl.
>>727346658Why?
>>727346481My personal speculation is because they went for HL2 being a power fantasy (a direction shilled by Gape himself), enemies were mostly supposed to be fodder that you mow down in waves. Compare zombies in HL1 and HL2. In HL2 there's like 20 times more of them, and they exist solely for you to abuse with physics props. A rare enemy humanoid that is slick, hard to hit, and takes some time to corner and put down probably didn't fit their new combat philosophy. They towned that BS down in Episode Two, Combine sodliers are placed more sparsely and smartly + they added Hunters
>>727346035You can remove her gas mask filter and stick your dick in her mouth hole.
>>727344962It's urban camo, though one must wonder why they're using green vests. The actual gameplay reason is that it gave better contrast one the grey/orange backgrounds of the game on a low resolution crt.My personal headcanon is that they got handme-downs from the DOD because they thought they were never seeing any actual combat.
>>727341139Nobody believes this
>>727342594It's so obviously going to be revealed at the TGA but goddamn if I'm not hoping for a reveal tomorrow
>>727345034>>727347031>>727344962HECU procure gear simply on the basis of "is it cool"
>>727346905Why not? It's still before TGA so it wouldn't overshadow the event, but rather bring even more audience to it. It's entirely possible that we'll have even more details about the game in the event itself.
>WomanI sleep.>Woman, helmetedI RISE.
>>727342594It's already December, they might as well reveal it at TGA at this point.
>>727345258I will say it: This was reddit as fuck (but at least it gave us hope for next installment)
>>727347283I can see it already, they let the marines do the procurement:>Okay, we need to get gear for the HECU boys, suggestions?>Isn't the army testing that new urban camo?>Kay, 'urban camo', but they don't have urban camo vests... Anyway, side arm?>Desert eagle of course, with a laser pointer>Okay, big bullet...>I want a SPAS-12, been dreaming of one since I saw Jurassic Park!>Can we get a MP5? That 9mm M4 looks lame>With a grenade launcher attached of course!>LASER. GUIDED. MISSILE. LAUNCHER
>>727347560>I'll have two desiccated water flavored sustenance bars, a surplus bar for manual labor credits, one desiccated egg flavored sustenance bar with extra sodium chloride, a tube of gelatinated calorie paste, two self-preparing stew packages, one with leather, and a LARGE can of Dr. Breen's Private Reserve water
>>727347560>water flavorGrok, describe it without using the word "water" please
>Deadlock official announcement at the early TGA announcement batch to make people think that was it from Valve>Then HL3 announcement right at the end
YORE FUCKED FREEMENDo you think the spooks are as illiterate / retarded as the HECU grunts?
>Turn the ship, we're going to Borealis
>>727345034It's a shame this artist turned into a furry tranny I guess this happens to all c*nadians
>>727343951Isn't this the block from District 13 Ultimatum?
Did you like Half-Life Alyx's ending?
>>727348338I know a lot of people weren't fond of the retcon, but it'd been so fucking long since Episode 2 they kind of had to address the ending in some way. I liked it.It's either that or an awkward "PREVIOUSLY ON, THE HALF-LIFE SERIES:" recap at the start of the next game to remind everyone who hasn't played the series since 2007 of what happened.
>>727348338Everything about the Vault was kinoThe G-Man sequence was kinoThe end cutscene with Gordon and Eli kind of sours things
>>727348338Yeah, the whole game was pretty good and I didn't mind the ending at all. As >>727348462 said, Episode 2 was so long ago that I don't really give a damn about retcons, just as long as those retcons allow the story to continue.
>>727348338It was alright, but I think Alyx in general is too optimistic for my liking. Compare HL:A's atmosphere with HL2. HL2 is superior.
>>727344583I feel it's more likely that anyone who has stuck with Half-Life from the start gave up years ago.
>>727348338>I was just responding to an email from a fan who had this idea that somehow we would bring Eli Vance back, and I was like 'No, he's dead. He really is dead. People die in this universe. It's not a kids TV show where the cast of characters is static and what can happen to them is constrained by the fact that customers are able to view the TV shows out of order, right? Which is a horrible restraint on TV writershalf life is marvel now where any character can be magically back to life
>>727348338It could've been WAY worse with awkward 'memberberries so I'm grateful for what we got
>>727344583I've been playing pretty much nothing but HL1 and HL2 mods and gmod for the better part of the decade cause they're free and the familiarity of assets/ controls makes my autism tickle.
>>727343951No, but I do really want an MP7 clone so I can larp as Civil Protection.
>>727348338It truly depends on how HL3 builds upon it. That'll determine if it was worth it or not.
>>727348891Yep I remember that Laidlaw's email, and him thinking that going back to Black Mesa would be essentially a creative death. For me, the way the scene happened was too on the nose. As much as I like Eli being alive because of the story potential from Episode 2, I can't help but be weirded out by the rewind time thing, like it's too over of line for the series.
>>727349020Any good mods you'd recommend to someone who's never really gone down the HL2 modding rabbithole?
>>727346143Imagine finally asking out that security chick, she says yes, and you spend your day on cloud 9. Then Gordon pushes a wedge of cheese into a machine and kills everyone.
>>727348338nah, it soured the whole experience for me, and I'm still mad about it
>>727342691gordon freeman took this from younever forget
You get to bring one character from the Half-Life expansions (including Decay) back for HL3, and it can't be Adrian Shephard.Who do you pick?
>>727349460Otis.
>>727348864This is true. I gave up in 2013.
>>727348338genuinely amazing. the hairs on the back of my neck stood up, my eyes were welling and for a brief moment - i was back
>>727349460Collette Green. She's the only survivor from Decay and her being the Combine scientist in HLA made sense.
>>727348338No, I didn't.
>>727348864I gave up when Epistle 3 was uploaded, but here I am getting excited again.
>>727349460>You get to bring one character from the Half-Life expansionswhy would i care to do that?
>>727349219The only good modes are the ones that tweak difficulty. Base HL2 is too easy to be enjoyable.HL1 was unforgiving and adhered closely to 'Run. Think. Shoot. Live.' mentality that made it so great and replayable. You had to outwit the enemy in order to survive, especially on Hard. Every weapon had its uses.In HL2 you only really struggle at Route Kanal and the RPG sequence. The rest of the game is a breeze. Combine Soldiers don't plan, they don't strategize. And they have the aim and damage of a pool noodle.
>in just a little over a year and a half, Epistle 3 will be as old as Episode 2 was when Epistle 3 was postedCrazy.
>>727349460Barney was missing in EP2 I actually don't like him that much.So, no Shephard uh... Doctor Rosemberg? At least lore-wise, more explanation of Black Mesa's history and the 7 hour war.
>>727349665You fool!
>>727344583I've played and completed every Half Life game except Alyx multiple times. I even own them on multiple platforms. I have the Steam, PC retail, and PS2 versions of HL1, and Xbox, Xbox 360, Steam, EA retail, and launch retail versions of HL2.>>727345469I bought The Orange Box on June 3rd, 2013; and I completed it shortly after. I bought the HL1 anthology, and completed HL1 and Blue Shift shortly after, though it took me a while to get to Opposing Force.Funnily enough, the first game I bought on Steam was Gary's mod, which I bought on December 26th, 2012.
>>727349887You are a filthy secondary whose physical collection does not change the fact that he is a secondary.I'm sorry you had to find out this way.
https://files.catbox.moe/l8wd4k.webm
>>727349870>these things, they take time was 12 years ago, and it was only 5 years after episode 2how
I feel like an outlier in these threads, because I care less about getting a conclusion to the story at this point, I just want another solid linear shooter with neat mechanicsNobody makes 'em anymore
>>727349219Mods that stick to HL2 assets and plot:Research and Development (for fun mechanics)Minerva Metastasis (for interesting story)Mission Improbable (for highest quality brushwork I have seen)Entropy Zero (EZ 1 is meh, EZ 2 is great, and also EZ Uprising for a more serious tone)Half-Life 2 MMod for improved gunplay. Has patches for a lot of other HL2 mods.Lot of others, but they're are a lot shorter, like Downfall or Year Long Alarm
>>727347031The Marines always play second fiddle to the army, so its pretty normal for them to have mismatch gear when they've just got a batch of new hand me downs from the army like they were getting at the time. If you look at footage of the gulf war, you can actually see guys wearing woodland patterned vests paired with desert patterned uniforms, so its not uncommon irl either.
What do people get out of gate-keeping? One of the most popular franchises of all time, at that.
>>727350053I do care about the story getting an actual on-screen conclusion but care more about getting to play another solid single-player FPS game.I felt pretty let down by Alyx in regards to both things I want out of Half-Life, and I'm a little annoyed to see a rerun of what I already saw happen in 2011, almost beat for beat.
>>727350014How many hours do you have in Hl1?
>>727345942trap town leaked gameplay
https://files.catbox.moe/zwgwon.mp4
>>727345401>>727350194seriously who's this bitch?
>>727349219Not a proper mod but the map labs contests have a fuckton of really cool little maps.
>>727350053Nah I agree. At the end of the day I want the game to be good in gameplay too. Single player FPS games in AAA capacity are so rare these days. There's nuDoom, Immortals of Aveum, and Metro but that's about it.
>>727349510>Otis is a grizzled resistance leader
>>727350324fucking kek
>>727350212I've beaten it five times since 2002, two of which were the Sierra release of the game. So, probably around 80-ish hours.I never played much Sven or Deathmatch.
>>727349573She's got a proper name and design so she's not Collette, but i don't see why they couldn't retcon that since the player never sees any of that.
>>727348338No.>multiverse shenanigans pre-Alyxhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rv5GFqWcOwk>purely visual storytelling>cryptic, but straight to the point>leaves interpretation to exactly what the fuck just happenedhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylyCY9srJGw>literally the biggest info dump in series, but still cryptic as fuck >one of the best VA performances ever, top 3 scenes in the whole series >20/10 cinematography, lynchianhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjTaIIoTY64>GMAN I KNOW THAT MAN>GORDON FREEMAN I KNOW THAT MAN>NUDGE, PLUCK, EMPLOYER, NUDGE>REMEMBER EPISODE 2? WHEN ELI DIED?>OKAY NOW UNDO THE CLIFFHANGER>EXTRAORDINARY VALUE, NUDGE, EMPLOYER, GRODON FREECHMAN, CROWBAR
https://files.catbox.moe/sfbsgi.webm
>>727348338No, I actually hate it even, it was detached from the rest of the game and it felt as if it was only done to cut Epistle 3 off from the story of the games in a way that just felt fanservicey.
>>727350324I like these dumb fucking things>>>/wsg/6042191
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>>727350324>727350324kino
>>727350625
>>727350343Some secondary waifufag's off-model OC
>>727351502Wonderful. You are still a latecomer and a secondary. Your autistic hyperfixation does not change this.
>>727350064I like Entropy Zero 1 more than EZ 2
Have you ever read autistic crossover fanfiction featuring half-life?
>>727349460I want Race X back
>>727350678>There was a time they cared nothing for miss Vance - when their only experience of humanity was a CROW-bar, coming at them down a steel corridormakes my balls tingle every time
>Half Life 3 is announced>it's a prequel
>>727351684What's your definition.
>>727351607and why does she have a beef with Gordon
>>727352076She's clearly the assassins he fights in that warehouse part of Half-Life
>>727350324They should add rebels using hacked kamikaze scanners to the next game.
>>727346296Same here but I'm a year younger.Spent untold amounts of hours on Sven Co-op with friends and between the countless mods.I fucking love Half-Life so much bros.
>>727352196but they are not le anime gals, that's not right at all
God I hope so.I've been waiting forever.
>>727341139>>727346052Real talk, the combine would give these girls mandatory mastectomies before turning them into overwatch soldiers.
>>727350678I honestly agree. HL:A in general was a sad departure from what I expected of Half Life.In broad terms, I think HL:Alyx is too silly and whimsical. Oh look, Combine is harvesting Vortigaunts for their green energy, oh look, Combine is milking the Antlions! A spectacle, nothing more. No interpretation required. It's still a great VR game, but compared to the bar HL2:E1 and E2 set for storytelling, it just doesn't hit the same mark for me. HL2 was like this to some degree as well, but at least that game had some good scenes; Triage at Dawn, or when you see the coast for the first time, realize that Combine has been draining water from Earth... and then mow down Combine goons by running over them with a jerry-rigged mario kart that looks like it's made out of rusted rebar.
>>727352764that would be really gay
>>727352848The combine banned straight sex and arrest anyone even seen talking to a woman.
keep the thread alive 90 more minutes
>>727341139That's, that's like a...a.. Zombine. Right?
>>727350194>gate-keepingThis is an anonymous imageboard. No one here is part of any secret closed club. Literally all you have to do to take part is talk about the game.
>>727350324Armed Forces of the Rebellion smoking Cigger scum
>>727341212Its an easy joke but I still chuckled a little
>>727350324Why is trap popular?
>>727347995the 7 hour war game, the true half life 3 we didn't deserve
Are you gonna stick around /v/ if and when HL3 gets announced or are you gonna leave to avoid the inevitable shitposting?
>>727352823Yeah, Half Life was a LOT of "show, don't tell" for worldbuilding, despite forced dialogue sections in 2. Alyx is the opposite. >FPS POV>Alyx still talks>also has a tutorial radio support friend
>>727354369I'm going to stay off the internet until I've beaten the game
>>727354369>staying off /v/ during the biggest video game happening of all timeare you retarded?
>>727354369Stay and hold the line. The True Citizen knows that duty is the greatest gift
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>>727352823>A spectacle, nothing more. No interpretation required.I really do hate to be such a hater, but yes. This sums up exactly why I've given up on expecting Valve to deliver a Half-Life game I'll enjoy.
>>727354369I'll be shitposting while I wait. When the first real leaks start to appear thats when I'll disappear.
>>727352823>In broad terms, I think HL:Alyx is too silly and whimsical. Oh look, Combine is harvesting Vortigaunts for their green energy, oh look, Combine is milking the Antlions! A spectacle, nothing more. No interpretation required.This is one of the most bizarre complaints I've ever seen anyone make for Alyx, I'm not even sure how to respond to it.
>>727354530You're delusional if you think modern /v/ will allow HL3 threads to be good
>>727353286ok
Today I will remind them
>>727354681It's basically HL: Reddit Edition
>>727354681it has no subltety or substance
>>727354681Memorable set pieces are bad. All games need to be bland and brown again.
>>727348338Extremely well executed but it feels like it falls flat as soon as Alyx takes Gordons "place", it's not even about Gman being a literal time traveler (he can already travel through dimensions) since it's easy to dismiss that as him being limited by the outcome he is looking for instead of him being physically/metaphysically limited in some way, what makes it fall flat is what it sets up for future games.Alyx has never seemed as capable or integral to the universe as Gordon in any measurable way and snatching her away as his replacement makes it seem like the writers are trying to set up a damsel scenario but that doesn't make any logical sense since there is no indication in EP2 that the Gman is losing his power over Gordon in a way that forces him to recruit her instead, especially when it's established early on that he just regained control over Gordon again as soon as the Vorts had to tend to Alyx.The only way forward for the story to not feel forced or shoehorned is to essentially turn Alyx into bait and have Gordon chase after her in a way that makes him do the things that the Gman always wanted him to do regardless as Alyx, even with what she accomplished in her game when Gman tested her abilities, still seemingly pales in comparison to what Gordon can do. It would be like if you traded a RTX 4070 for a RTX 4060, both does the exact same thing and can do them well, but one is still clearly better than the other.The worst possible scenario for this is if the writers essentially just pulls circular logic and reveals that the Gman only did this because the outcome demands it without ever explaining why.
>>727354681If you'll allow me to make a film analogy, going from HL and HL2 to Alyx felt similar to what I experienced going from 28 Days Later to 28 Weeks Later.
>>727355094>there is no indication in EP2 that the Gman is losing his power over Gordon in a wayYou could make the argument that Gman extracting a payment out of Gordon was suggesting an end to their transaction. Gordon delivers Alyx to WH in exchange for Gman saving him from Xen, and now they're square, relationship over.
>>727355081Not necessarily. What would you find more memorable; if a Barney told you that Combine was harvesting the Earth's oceans, or if you walked to the shore yourself, and saw it with your own eyes? They are both spectacles, at the end of the day, it's all about the way they're presented to you.
>>727341139Whatever HL3 is it can't really capture the charm of traveling through a Military Research Compound and seeing all the experiments and getting caught up by having to fix or circumvent the inner workings of Black Mesa to progress
>>727354681 I mean, I get where you're coming from, but it's kinda wild to act like Half-Life was ever some super subtle David Lynch-esque lore trip. HL1 had scientists yelling exposition and scripted Vortigaunt massacres every five feet. Alyx just added a layer of personality and some comedic timing to what was always a slightly goofy world under all the dystopia and headcrabs. The Antlion milking bit is dumb, sure, but it tracks with classic HL absurdity like rocket fuel lasers and barnacle elevators.
>>727354997The Antlion milking room is something easily missed that you only see through a tiny window in a door, builds upon the idea of Antlion extract being useful in EP2, and shows what special liquid the Combine is using to beat back the Xen infestation in the Quarantine Zone. How much more subtle and substantive does it need to get? Harvesting Vortigaunt energy in Alyx also has a key purpose in that it's a necessary component to hold the G-Man back in the Vault, which is a direct link to the Vortigaunts holding the G-Man back in EP1, and is also is a revisit to the HL2 beta idea that the Combine would harvest Vorts for their energy in special containment cells. Of all the things to criticize Alyx for, these read as nonsense criticisms made by people who are just looking for reasons to hate on Alyx.
>>727355672You just explained my point, those are all references and callbacks to previous worldbuilding. None of those are an original idea, they are callbacks to previous games, just like you said. Except they were all done with more subtlety and substance 20 years ago, and not just literally callbacks and references
I'm 34 and remember playing Half life 2 the week it came out ...One can hope.
>>727355672>Of all the things to criticize Alyx for, these read as nonsense criticisms made by people who are just looking for reasons to hate on Alyx.I wish more people who played video games were willing to critically engage with them.Most video game consumers are like you, people who take any criticism of their favorite toys as personal insults.We deserve the current state of industry because the majority of people who buy video games are people like you.
>>727349460colette, she is the only one that can do what condom seemen can.
>>727355983How were they done with more subtlety and substance 20 years ago, tell me. Because you're sure not explaining.>and not just literally callbacks and referencesI just told you how they had story importance to the fucking game, they're not literally just "callbacks and references"
>>727346906>A rare enemy humanoid that is slick, hard to hit, and takes some time to corner and put down probably didn't fit their new combat philosophy. They towned that BS down in Episode Two, Combine sodliers are placed more sparsely and smartly + they added HuntersExactly.
>>727354369It's already hard to discuss Half-Life on /v/ without encountering severe mental retardation, no way I am sticking around for the inevitable culture war nonsense and Tortanicfaggotry the HL3 announcement will bring.
>>727345091find something else than animation, be it japanese or western, to be passionate about holy shit
>>727355396Thing is, HL2 suggested that the G-man specifically needed Gordon to do things for a greater purpose. He apologises for an arbitrary imposition and says that gordon will some day understand.My thought process regarding Gordon's purpose and the G-Man was that somewhere in the distant future, the Combine would have expanded so far and consumed so much that the universe was about to collaprse, and the G-Man going back and picking up specific individuals and having them fulfil specific tasks to kill off combine influence over millions of years would eventually save them
>>727341139Lol
>>727357773What, did you not get the email? I'm playing it right now.
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>>727358653ain't no way it's happening...good things don't just *happen*don't make me feel these feelings
>>727344782for me, its repeating tetris over and over in sven coop
>>727357741> He apologises for an arbitrary imposition and says that gordon will some day understand.He seemingly was also fine with Alyx dying atop the Citadel in HL2, yet in Ep2 she retroactively became and investment that he actually saved from Black Mesa, which created a plot hole. Gman giving up on Gordon in HLA wasn't the first nor the most egregious "retconning" of his schemes. If there was anything in HLA that was for me worth being pissed about, it was bringing Eli back to life (since it shat all over the almost 20 year fan heartache of seeing him die), not Gman losing control over Gordon, for which seeds were already planted during Ep 1 and 2 in various ways. Alyx was recruited in Epistle 3, so it's likely they were playing with that idea internally anywayCan't comment on your 2nd paragraph since it's just headcanon. I don't know what Gordon's long-term purpose was for Gman
10 minutes left until nothing
the question is, will anons be able to accept hl3, or will they kneejerk reject it for not being the exact version of hl3 that exists in their heads
>>727359307the 3rd is a sexier date anyway
>>727346035You have a crowbar for a reason
>>727343961This is an anime website xer.
>>727347738>next time you start neutralizing or I'll neutralize you myself
GUYS HL3 JUST FLEW OVER MY HOUSE
>>727341139Bald middle aged valve fags are so laughably insufferable and out of touch with reality, even if Valve makes another game it will be woke trash same as every other game. Valve is no different, ti's literally filled with woke retards.
So...
>>727359561I thankfully don't have an idealized version of HL3 in my head.I probably won't like it if it continues on in the same vein as Alyx, but I'll still be eager to play it.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/723390/HalfLife_3/HOLY SHIT
>>727357118HL3 will only be good if it has impeccable enemy AI. What we got in HL2 was a crime.
>the Half-Life community making up dates and going insane when their fake dates don't result in anything
urrrrm... awkwarrrd
>>727360161>What we got in HL2 was a crime.Better than HL1 AI, but only so
>>727360212*holds up spork* xD
Imagine if HL2 had female Combine soldiers with massive breasts and asses and when you go near her, she releases a chemical that temporarily turns off the effects of the suppression field so male rebels get aroused and can't fight her.
>>727360285*holds up crowbar*>_><_<So I microwaved u a casserole...O_o"but I eated it...TT_TT
>>727360240At least HECU Marines didn't goomba rush you like Combine Soldiers do. AI in HL1 was based on RUN THINK SHOOT LIVE principles where the enemies wanted to live as badly as you. That's what I liked about HL1.
>>727359167Holy based.
[pain][pain]
>>727347532They got to pay to do that, and I just don't see Valve needing it.... but it would be fucking awesome if they did, maybe Geoff convinced them, who knows.
Destiny 2 banner on Steam. See you all tomorrow.
>>727360240Hl1 AI was great. The Hl2 AI is laughable in comparison.
>>727344782Thoughts on diffusion?I'm on ch2 and I keep getting blown away by the visuals. They're tacky, sure, cause they're done by some autistic slav like 99% of HL mods, but fuck me if they're not technically impressive. What the fuck do you mean there's specular maps and env_projectedtexture and a fucking driveable car that's not jank ass func_vehicle in there.
>>727360745Geoff would happily have HL3 be revealed there for free, he is a massive Valve fanboy
>>727359934What about handsome heterosexual valve fans?
>>727360507HECU half the time get stuck on corners or sit on their own grenades. I agree that Combine soldiers rush you, but only in open maps were there is no cover, which is mostly a problem in HL2, not the Episodes
>>727359307
>>727344782I liked Delta Particles.
>>727357129>find something else to be passionate about because i said so!!what are you passionate about, faggotdo you even have a hobby outside of video games
>>727361056It's been a long time since I played the Episodes, how were they back then?
>>727361396episode 2 was so fucking good
>>727361396They were both very good from what I remember. I haven't played them since 2012.
>>727361396Episodes have the best OST imo. Episode Two is peak Half-Life. They perfected the formula and really clocked what makes their players tick
>>727361396Ep1 is neat and way too short.Ep2 is so good it practically puts the rest of the franchise to shame.
>>727341139Where is it? only 4 hours till the end of the day
>>727351947There's FANFICTION?!I thought it was just a voice/model swap mod.
>>727341139HL3 trailer leak https://files.catbox.moe/x2lx4o.mp4
>>727361828I hope EP2 is challenging enough. I actually started playing through HL2 with a self-imposed permadeath rule and some difficulty mods to spice it up. Any of you tried something like that?
>>727361818Which is precisely why I'm so butthurt that Episode 3 never came out.
>>727362149EP2 is definitely harder than the other games, especially in the final battle
>>727361913Ive been reading it recently, the intro was great, strong character banter, but then the isekai thing happens and its been kind of a drag. Hopefully it gets better soon, considering its 120 chapters long.
>>727346296I still have old forum posts from '07 of me frothing about how much I loved HL2
>>727351947The only Half-Life fanfics I ever read were some guy's novelizations of the games. But that was a long, long time ago and I don't remember the details.Crossover stuff is just too autistic for me.
>>727362149MMod with higher Combine accuracy + my own custom skill.cfg where I increased by 50% the health and damage of all NPCs. Nova Prospekt turret sections and the generator plaza with Alyx are genuine cancer, and I love it
>>727362551I'm currently running through half life 1 mmod, texture filtering off of course.
Replayed HL2+episodes last years thinking I would deslike them and it was just a nostalgia. Nope, they are still great. The only moments I straight up disliked is running through the city with a squad of resistance npcs where you have to guide and command them and defending them at the end of EP1.I need to play one of those fan projects that attempt to recreate beta.
in 18 minutes the announcement drops on twitter/youtube, have fun!
>>727362829The only problem with the rebels is they get in your fucking way in those tight commie blocks. Such a simple fix, just remove the collision with the player but add a push force to their center of mass, like for teammates in TF2
>>727363138announcement of what?
>>727363138Anon...
>>727363242half-life 3 you retard
>>727363231they also run into mines and that's the part of the game where they give you plenty of them to use
>>727362829they're amazing in VR. frantically reloading while antlions bear down on me was awesome.and yes that npc section is easily the worst bit
>>727363304rude
look what they took from youhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYkjCatbcTY
RICHOCHET TWOOOOOOOO
>>727363372is there an official support for VR or only fan mods?
>>727363456I thank god every day that we got what we got and not this shit
>>727362551I might do a MMod playthrough after I do my permadeath run (HL2, E1, E2, in order, if you die, you go back to the beginning). Are there any mods to make enemies smarter? I know skill.cfg file fiddling, but how hard would it be to make Combine Soldiers strategize, try to lure you out, camp corners, maybe shoot from behind cover?
>>727360414lol i would kiss you
>>727363493it's just a mod but it's one of those ones you find on the steam store. you don't even need hl2 installed for it to work iirc.i think someone from valve gave it a "hell yeah" at some point, too. it has better VR than alyx (which sucks because i played hl2vr before alyx and it made alyx feel really 'cheap', albeit pretty looking).
>>727361908i need to get talent
>>727363493https://store.steampowered.com/app/658920/HalfLife_2_VR_Mod/i read that as 'onlyfans mods' and was real confused for a moment
>>727363761>>727363675Neat. I hope someone will make one for Black Mesa.
7 minutes until the new era of gaming starts!
This time for sure!
>>727363892it's doable but with more fucking around and you'd have to own black mesa
Should I replay Black Mesa or HL1?
>>727364030Both are good. Personally I'd rather replay original but I don't hate Black Mesa or consider it bad.
>>727364030The OG of course
>>727363892Black Mesa is a total mess under the hood
all remakes suck
Nothing ever happensWhen will you fags learn that already?
>>727364030hl1 then hl2, to feel the jump in technology, then to experience and compare it again with hl3
>no announcement this year>steam hardware gets delayed>price revealed in late spring 2026, scheduled release in early fall>no news other than some code strings about HLX all this time>very short HLX teaser with no gameplay or anything in summer>and then nothing>no new teasers, no trailers, HLX just gets forgottenRemember this.
>>727363138>>727363304well?
>>727364463I am forgetting this as I type this reply.
>>727363636>Are there any mods to make enemies smarter?Not any (finished) ones that I know of. NPC behaviour is hardcoded, so it would have to be a sourcemod seperate from the base game. MMod gives Combine soldiers a few new abilities, base soldiers can use the AR2 energy ball, the MP7 grenade launcher, and most importantly they can use any navigation node for jumping, rather than only specific hint nodes placed on the map. This means they can jump over small static obstacles, and is one of the reasons the 2nd Nova Prospekt turret section is so fucking hard; they can take shortcuts that the area was not designed for.> shoot from behind cover?They already can do that, but the hint nodes for cover have to be placed on the map. Not all of them have those. The generator plaza area is a good example, it has a lot of these nodes that both rebels and soldiers use.I know of one work in progress mod that is doing some interesting things with AI that no other mod I have ever seen the past 20 years attempted to dohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8T3w5wuBEnIhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWpgcFdRE08
>>727364030Black Mesa gives me something like a fucking headache every time I try playing it. Not only are the levels fucking saturated with details and shit lining up every wall, but the textures feel like they're grainy and weird probably cause they're too high rez and filled with specular details and stuff.
>>727364346Nothing ever happens?Put your money where your mouth is. If nothing ever happens, this is free money.polymarket.com/event/will-half-life-3-be-announced-before-2026
>>727364656Black Mesa removed MSAA and has no replacement for it, which means there's aliasing fucking everywhere
>>727346035>cuntit's not a real one
>>727348338Absolutely. They needed a do over. I thought Epistle 3 was absolute dogshit. I have no idea why people took it as gospel for the HL conclusion. The Dyson Sphere reveal was kino, admittedly, but everything else in the draft was just terrible. The ending basically just saying "Actually everything you did up to now was pointless because the combine are basically omnipotent and there’s no defeating them lol" is Star Wars sequel trilogy levels of retarded. As much as I didn’t care for Half Life Alyx, I'm kinda glad Valve opted for a do over with Alyx's ending.
>>727364030half life 1 had an amazing anniversary update 2yrs ago that fixed almost all of the bugs and modernized it in some ways like you can have unlimited FPS now (used to be limited to 100ish for physics reasons)
>>727341212>this is so fucking funny to valve's cocksuckers that they spam images over itJesus how old and depressed are you all that this is enough to make you happy.
>>727364915Really? I noticed aliasing looking like shit on cables and fences and such. Isn't there any fucking way to fix it?
>>727365041>Jesus how old and depressed are youDo you not see the irony in saying this while being so miserable that a silly classical joke makes you full of spite?
Also, personally I feel like they wrote The Combine to be far too powerful. Instead of the Combine empire spanning multiple universes, it would’ve been better if the empire was localized within their own universe and exploited the tear in our reality to invade. I also think it would’ve been better if most of the Earth wasn’t destroyed/most animals weren’t extinct. What’s the point of fighting for a planet that is damaged beyond repair?
You're gonna need a gun! Don't worry, it's unloaded,It's unloaded now...
>>727362773>half life 1 mmodhow is it?HL2 mmod + episodes was kino IMHO
>>727365259>What’s the point of fighting for a planet that is damaged beyond repairBecause it's our home and we have nowhere to go? People in third world countries fearlessly defend their mud huts and goat sheds.
>>727365259how can such a powerful eldritch sounding force have weak teleportation tech?
>>727365491Best explanation is that their home dimension has wildly different laws of physics, and it was much harder to develop efficient or local teleportation tech
>>727365636alright thenthe more you know about these fucks the scarier they are, fuck is a random egghead in an orange hazmat suit gonna do against that?
>BELIEVERSOH NO NO NO NO
>>727364529Sounds superb. I'll do anything to replay HL2 with smarter, more cunning enemies.
>>727365491Because the Combine is basically corporate middle management on steroids, a giant case of eldritch corporate bureaucracy where the left hand doesn't know what the right is doing
I'm confused.Was it ever implied where the crystalls came from? I know that it was G-Man who handed them but where are they originally from. I remember thinking that they're from Xen but Combine has access to Xen. Or it's not the crystalls themselves that interest them but the knowledge how to use them? Or both?
>>727365813If epistle is to be believed, not much. Earth's best hope is to hide.
>>727365813Hopefully nothing, I will rip my dick off and kill myself if HL3 will end with the Combine Empire eliminated through some Death Star/Mothership destruction sequence
>>727366000sounds scary
they're apparently finally planning on making a half life movie with jj abrams, ryan gosling staring as gordon, keeping the silent type character, barely talks, starts with the incident at black mesa
here's me being drunk and some other anon coming up with a fanfic version of Combine's endI like it
>>727364030Assuming you've already played HL1 and are familiar with it, Black Mesa is fun to try and see what's different.I couldn't imagine recommending anyone play Black Mesa over HL1 for their first time playing the game though, they're just too different and HL1 is the better between the two.
>>727366230Have you been in a coma for a decade?
So, the reveal?
>>727366230>HL3 will be a FMV gameKINO
>>727366027>>727366031It sounds like it's not gonna be a happy ending
>>727366230ana de armas as alyx?
>>727366508Yes.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKwtAC0h7TA
>>727341212lol
>>727366393>Combine is cut off from Earth, they will never find the planet again and will probably forget about it in a week since somebody lost page #6,739,210 of the Empire's 13,654th folder of Conquered Minor Worlds of Questionable Relevance>Earth is scarred permanently but not doomed, humans and vortigaunts rebuild civilization upon the ashes. At least climate change and flooding are no longer an issue>Gordon and Alyx make loads of triple mixed race babies, just like Eli always wantedDoesn't have to be all bad
>>727365470They remix the enemy placement a bit and all the guns are much more fun to use. Could do without the dynamic crosshair. I'd much rather have a dot crosshair or just off entirely since I'm firing projectiles now. Looks great, plays great and I'm having fun. Not much else to report.
11:41 AM in bellevue, still possible today?
>>727367212No, if it isn't announced at 10 AM PDT it isn't happening that day
>>727366972but they will still be loose right?
>>727367292fuck, im going to sleep
>>727363646:3c*notices sample*
>>727365259>What’s the point of fighting for a planet that is damaged beyond repair?Pretty much the entire point of EP2 taking place in a more natural setting was to show that Earth isn't actually completely fucked and nature is still chugging along just fine
>>727364030Just played & finished HL1 for the first time last week, it's perfectly fine even today. I've heard everyone bitch about the later levels that take place in alien world Xen but frankly they weren't even that bad. I wouldn't want to ruin my first impression of a game by playing a fan remake.
>>727365041
>>727368191which one of your successful highschool classmates caused this titanic wall of seething resentment?
>>727348338It was very cool up until the point where you time travel to save Eli. I don't care that much that it happened, but I wouldn't complain if Valve pulls an Episode 1-style retcon by ignoring the whole "Alyx saves Eli" sequence and just starting the game after Eli is dead.
>>727343927teenage alyx lip-biting in the corner kills me
>>727364719The damage you do to your soul is the price
>>727365902Reminds me of that one guy on /biz/ during the December 2017 bitcoin crash. He took out his tuition to invest in bitcoin and lost it all. He couldn’t attend the next semester.Autists shouldn’t have access to this much money.
>>727344540bronies are 4chan cultureweebs are not 4chan culture
>>727368671If you can't afford to lose money then simply don't gamble.
>>727344389>Windows 98>WebMPlayer::
>>727368778HL1 was updated with webm support for the 25th anniversary
>>727367806What was his problem?
>>727347560this is peak shitpost>waterless granola bar>water flavoured
>>727368883yeah but I don't think that 25th anni build supports Win98hell, I'm pretty sure no WebM library runs on W98
>>727369159humans like water
>>727369581Maybe its just the template taste
>>727348338meh, i kind of gave up on HL3 ever coming out, if it does? great, otherwise they'll probably just do more spin-offs like this whenever they feel they need to work on a gimmickthe ending was fine imo, i did love electrocuting the worm
>>727366230This is true. I am literally Ryan Gosling.
>>727366230
>>727366230if they ever actually do a half-life movie, they should just have it take place aside from Gordon, never show him on screen, but have the characters of the film encounter the effects of his exploits.
>>727345258>SHEEEI GORDAN WE WUZ SCIENTIS N SHIT
>>727345258so if Valve was never able to find a way to implement a melee weapon that they were satisfied with in Alyx, how are they gonna do it for HL3?
>>727371925Well, HL3 is not a VR game so that solves the problem
>>727371489>gordon fucked my daughterkino
>>727371489you can also do HL: Barney about CP's beating quotas and end the thing with Red Letter Day
>>727368698>tranny brony still trying to gaslight kek, love to see it
>>727344583I beat it back in 2005, when I got the HL2 Deluxe Edition box that required me to create my Steam account
>>727366230The deal with jj fell out like a decade and a half ago but people still think it's gonna happen lolStill, a movie set in the black mesa incident shot like Cloverfield would've made me cum instantly.
>>727373142anon, horsefuckery began on /co/ and /b/tranime is irrelevant off-site garbage
>>727347923I like to think all of the female assassins are Ivy league top-of-their-class grade As who picked by the CIA. And because I like seeing super educated women doing dirty jobs.
>>727343951honestly a "poor" eastern country is probably a better place to live in than my own country
>>727368328I just saved it from this 4channel website, don't be upset
>>727347560Chinese marines IRL eat things like this
>>727373784would eat
>>727345401>censored versioncringe
>>727374083why is he portrayed like that in these?
>>727355094Alyx has been typeset as going traitor for gman for a long time, and it was part of laidlaw's original script for EP3. That idea has likely never left valve team's head.
>>727374309>you now realize the idea of breengrub is from like 2001
>>727366972in the original ending alyx ditches gordon for gman to become a dimensional terrorist and freeman gets basically time dilated 20 years into the future when everyone he knew was dead. And the combine-on-earth does not actually die.it was bleak
>>727346343cool take on the HLA concept combine maskdesu i used to dislike the HLA combine style (eyes completely replaced by cybernetic optics etc.)but it's perfect. the artists who worked on this really thought the system through quite well. i used to wonder how do these soldiers deal with the fact that they look like this? you could say they're too drugged and brainwashed to care, but it's simpler than that: they can't even see their own faces without the faceplate off because optics are attached to it. even if a soldier managed to remove the outer armor plating of the mask and look into a mirror, he'd just see the same standard beige face plate.
I think the announcement is still happening today. Certain people are acting strange and I've been monitoring various places. Should happen within 1 hour and 30 minutes, if not then tomorrow
>>727344782>not posting the recently released hl mod of the year diffusionbaka
>>727374680>gets basically time dilated 20 years into the future when everyone he knew was dead. And the combine-on-earth does not actually die.so HL2 stasis but no Barney & Friends? No wonder they ditched that iteration of HL3
>>727374289Sharty hates anime so it fits
>>727365470It'd be perfect if they didn't fuck up the alien grunt AI. They lobotomized them and also made it that you can easily stunlock them, I don't know what they were thinking
>>727374686And it works perfectly with known Combine philosophy. The deeper into their ranks you go, the more dependent you become on them, until you literally cannot survive without them. Even if you wanted to defect, you can neither feed yourself nor even see without their tech
>>727361321yeah, I don't even play video gamesmy mine interests are dancing, programming, historical re-enactment, reading, not in that particular order
>>727374916More specific: Epistle 3 ends with gordon waking up in a field in the future far enough where nobody remembers his role in the fall of the combinewhether the black mesa insurgency actually succeeds in destroying the whole of the combine is left unclear - just ends saying there's a chance.
>>727348338The entire game was great up until the retcon, people arguing "it's been so long since episode 2" are retarded down syndromes and it's their own fault for being unable to replay(or rather actually play it for the first the time) EP2.
>>727375562>just ends saying there's a chance.(and gordon's basically irrelevant to whether or not that happens)
>>727341139Fucking loser.
>>727375829tick tock
>>727375985IN GRIM DARKNESS OF /V/UTURETHERE'S ONLY HOPEHL3 TEASER BEFORE TGA AND BIG TRAILER ON TGASCREENCAP THIS
Do we still not have a release date for the new hardware?
>>727374587>i turned myself into a grub, gordon>IM GRUB BREEN
>>727374686>how do these soldiers deal with the fact that they look like thisAren't they almost completely integrated into the Overwatch? All their personality has been stripped out to the point where their brains act as more of a remote processing unit for the Overwatch than anything.
>>727368328you're the guy in the picture aren't you?
>>727376178no, they have some clear human behavior in HL2 and a surprising amount of personality in HLA.https://youtu.be/DOHKQ3_NaZg?t=3they get the privilege of thinking for themselves in the field, but they have to download selective memory replacements over the air sometimes:https://youtu.be/hIz9TrxOjMs?t=112
>>727374686At this point, they lose everything that isn't vital to Overwatch's operation, which includes silly things like regrets and concerns about appearences.
>>727368191This is a bit too accurate.I really could've been a doctor, oh well though.
tyler mcnigger missed todays stream which means he knows the date and it is tomorrow, december 3rd screencap this
/V/ LOOK HALF LIFE 3
>>727344468They're some good Indians then
>>727347560that fucking filename
>>727347560>>727379648
>>727375829wow, you made this webm just to post it here? that's pretty cringe
>>727380447OC is cringe now?
>>727380531>samefagging with reaction images is OCkek
Anyone who doesn't believe that Half Life 3 is real will be turned in stalker aka golem tranny who will work for free as a /v/ janny for 300 years Glory to our Great Benefactors
>>727373784Nice.
>>727381292>will be turned in stalker aka golem tranny who will work for free as a /v/ janny for 300 yearswhy waste resources on stalkerization when forced moderation of /v/ is already a cruel punishment?
>>727373494>tranimelol kek schizo bronyfag didn't even do his homeworkone topic is a ban reasonthe other one is universal across all boardsYou lost, sharty
>>727381494Being a janny clearly doesn't seem too bad for our indian brethren who really hate these threads, stalkerization would be an improvement for them
>>727380447
People could've just teleported to Xen to "get busy" since the suppression field wouldn't work there.
>>727381732post more, I'm bored
>>727344550Adrian is so lucky...
>>727381751Have you seen whatever the fuck is happening in there? Xen STDs would be the LEAST of your problems
>>727381795>nooooooooooooooo, I posted the ragebait pic, why aren't you mad?
>>727381882Just have a trained security force stand guard and fight off the aliens while people fuck as fast as they can
>>727348338Kinda mixed. It all depends on how HL3 frames the ending as its opening. I'm actually fine with Eli being alive, I always felt that him dying was a wasted potential even back when I played Episode 2 in the 2000s, despite the superb cliffhanger. Eli knowing about G-Man and his intentions was too good of a plot point to pass up for me. With that being said, HLA ending's execution left a lot to be desired. While I like the idea of G-Man's encounter with the player character who talks, I feel that the execution falls flat. It also didn't communicate clearly on what was going on, whether it was Episode 2 Alyx that got abducted, or was it all a time-altering exercise.
>>727381539>You lost, shartysharty hates MLP and worships Lee, newfag
>>727347283>>727347031>>727344962better yet, they had HECU soldiers wearing gasmasks, but no proper skin protection like actual CBRN soldiersthey're still my favorite though
I really hope HLX allows things to be gibbed again. Shooting a rocket at a Combine soldier shouldn't have them crumple to the ground, they should be fucking obliterated
>>727381830jelly?
>>727349460>and it can't be Adrian Shephard.FUCK YOU>>727382682I was looking for this picture in my folders but ultimately lost it, thanks
>>727382145>sharty hates MLPproofs?
>>727347738>egg flavoredoh we got a high roller over here
>>727382843>proofs?/mlp/ is in state of constant and pathetically bad raid
>>727382843Well, sharty discord owner certainly loves brony content
>>727383016it could be that the low functioning autists that loved FiM grew up into shartoids too
>>727382452The best part about Black Mesa (and it's not even close) was keeping the gibbing and keeping it as goofy as it was in HL1. Every time I throw a grenade at a kleiner and he explodes into meatballs and femurs I feel like the food critic at the end of Ratatouille reliving the good old days.
>>727383161>proof #2frankie incident during MF2025>proof #3meetup map from /soc/ threads getting spammed with soijaks, Lee and other crap (threads were active in May of this year if you're interested)
>>727383214Black Mesa was a good remake (not remaster) of the first Half Life.There, I said it.
>>727383376>frankie incident during MF2025Context?
What are you bastards even talking about, this is a fucking Half-Life thread, holy shit kill yourselves
why are you faggots so obsessed with porn?
>>727383556>Context?shartycucks attended Mare Fair, /mlp/'s conventionaside from just being retarded soiteens they stole some fag's plushie and tore it apart on the dance floorlater some other guy picked it up and managed to fix it >>>/mlp/42815127
>>727383660Because it makes me hard?
>>727349460Gene Worm
>>727383432BM is great, it just can't replace HL1
>>727383432This is not a controversial opinion
>>7273446941998, 1999, 2001, 2004, 2006, 2007I hate being old sometimes
MCNEGROE STREAM IS ACTIVE
>>727384590>fartsHALF LIFE 3 IS REAL
>>727382452There are a ton of strings about destructible NPC parts so it might be a thing
>>727385013Probably just blowing off armor on combines or the legs on antlions, but I would be pleased to see full gibbing
>>727383798>they stole some fag's plushie and tore it apart on the dance floorlol what a bunch of insecure faggots >>727383938There's something so special about HL1 that I like so much, and I can't really describe it
>>727385356NTA but I heard all sorts of stuff about mutilating NPCs, right down to making them go deaf or blind. It sounds pretty crazy
it's insane how much better Ep2 is than the rest of the entire series and how much better it still is than most singleplayer shootersand it came out 18 years agoimagine how good HL3 could be
>>727385473Maybe that's what could be revolutionary about HL3, NPCs and environments with more interactivity
>>727385848It's been so long since then though. I'm hoping they don't have to relearn things.
Why hasn't anyone posted the miro?https://miro.com/app/board/uXjVINqBTwM=/Use your mouse to move around, there's a bunch of shit here
>>727386597post-truth era, facts dont matter, people will just ignore it
>>727386597It's not like there's any new info atm. People who wanted to know have already seen it at this point too I'd reckon.
So who is it?
>>727386846Chris Green, one of Source Engine devs.
>>727386846when did he start working previously?
>>727387107Hey you're right
>>727387107oh shit actual og boomer devs working on the game, im even more hyped
>>727386539haven't they rehired like two dozen OG hl1/2 devs for this?i'm not too worried anyway, alyx was incredible as someone who only watched a couple playthroughs and everything since Ep2 has been thoroughly great
>>727341197>>727341212can't believe you guys liked my jokeEdit: wow thanks for the upvotes!
A rebel Human instinctive BMRF scientist professor and theoretical physics doctorate was teaching a class on Gordon Freeman, known anticitizen"Before the class begins, you must get on your knees and worship Freeman and accept that he was the most opportunely timed being the world has ever known, even greater than Wallace Breen!"At this moment, a memory erased, patriotic, pro-universal union Overwatch soldier who had served 1500 tours of offworld duty and understood the necessity of the suppression field and fully supported all military decisions made by the Universal Union stood up and held up a model of a man."What's the greatest endeavor?"The arrogant professor smirked quite instinctively and smugly replied "our biological imperative and doing your part""Wrong. It's collaboration. If it is instinct, would we model ourselves on the Trilobite? Did the lungfish refuse to breathe air?"The professor was visibly shaken, and dropped his chalk and copy of Raising the Bar. He stormed out of the room crying those reactionary and fearful tears.The students applauded and all joined civil protection that day and accepted Our Benefactors as their savior. An Advisor named "Universal Union" flew into the room and perched atop the Combine emblem and shed a tear on the supply crate. Humanity's surrender was read several times, and Our Benefactors themselves showed up and enacted immortality across the species.The scientist lost his rations and was relocated the next day. He died of the preventable plague called age (when immortality is in our reach), and was tossed into a layer of broken plastic shards thinly strewn across a fossil bed, sandwiched between the Burgess shale and an eon's worth of mud for all eternity.Be safe, Be aware
>>727387773>He died of the preventable plague called age (when immortality is in our reach)every time
>>727349278lol
>>727343961newfag
>>727350324>year 20 of the three day Special Portal Operation
>>727368523kinda creepy, anon
https://voca.ro/1dWFUZMlfXXu
>>727389004ghost hominid?
>>727388852i found it funny not the other thing
Alyx remembers your deaths
>>727388852LoliGODS reign supreme, faggot.
>>727341212kek
>>727389516yikes
Tomorrow's the most likely day outside of the TGAMaybe it's ok to hope a little...
>>727390496Why do people keep saying it's tomorrow? Such a random date
Do you think they're going to stick with the new VA for alyx or get back the new one?
>>727348338Yes, it was kino. I don't mind the retcon either, both "canons" are really cool and have a ton of potential.
>>727341212Simple but a clever and funny joke
>>727391157The weird thing is we still have no clue why they switched in the first place. I think in an AMA they alluded to wanting to go in a "different direction" from Merle's performance (she's in the beta build that McVicker leaked like a retard if you're interested in checking it out), but that's just annoyingly vague. So who knows.
HOLY SHIT GUYS CHECK JOYSTIQ
>>727391464did you not get the final hours of alyx?they wanted a younger voice since it's in the past and they thought merle couldn't do it
>>727341139lmao at Tylor.
>>727341212Fuck you, you made my day.
>>72739108912/3
>>727392484>2+1=3NO WAY
>>727344468.......ok?
TURN ON STEAMIT DOESN'T MATTER WHAT CHANNEL
