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Zip · Post by **Zip** » Fri Sep 12, 2003 11:44 am

Anyone know when the Half Life 2 demo is out. I've fished around the internet, but can't find anything. The game is out at the end of this month surely the demo should be out?

rOger · Post by **rOger** » Fri Sep 12, 2003 11:53 am

Valve never releases any demos. There where none for HL and there will be none for HL2.

Zip · Post by **Zip** » Fri Sep 12, 2003 12:11 pm

Well I never! I didn't know that rOger, thanks

That's pretty sneeky by Valve. If they don't release a demo, no-one knows how the game will be (apart from watching the videos) and so the only way to find out is to buy it.

rOger · Post by **rOger** » Fri Sep 12, 2003 12:53 pm

I would like a demo not so much to know if the game is good, but to know if the game will be playable on my computer with my graphics card and so on.

Would hate to buy a game and the have to buy a new computer as well. Though I might do it for HL, as it seams to be so f**king cool.

Zip · Post by **Zip** » Fri Sep 12, 2003 1:06 pm

I've been drooling over it since i saw that 600mb presentation video. I've pre-ordered it, can't wait

Major Pain · Post by **Major Pain** » Fri Sep 12, 2003 1:59 pm

17th of September will be the release of the full version, right?

Guitarfan · Post by **Guitarfan** » Fri Sep 12, 2003 2:30 pm

in the netherlands: dimension plus (www.dimplus.nl) gets it on 30th september so I think that's the release date for the benelux

General Death · Post by **General Death** » Fri Sep 12, 2003 4:21 pm

Zip wrote:Well I never! I didn't know that rOger, thanks That's pretty sneeky by Valve. If they don't release a demo, no-one knows how the game will be (apart from watching the videos) and so the only way to find out is to buy it.

hmmm...full mod ability to do whatever you want giving gammers whatever they want....I think i can do without a demo

Zip · Post by **Zip** » Fri Sep 12, 2003 4:23 pm

Play.com also say 30th September.

Random · Post by **Random** » Fri Sep 12, 2003 6:20 pm

General Death wrote:
Zip wrote:Well I never! I didn't know that rOger, thanks That's pretty sneeky by Valve. If they don't release a demo, no-one knows how the game will be (apart from watching the videos) and so the only way to find out is to buy it.
hmmm...full mod ability to do whatever you want giving gammers whatever they want....I think i can do without a demo

Yeah i been staring at empty boxes on shelves for months now.

wacko · Post by **wacko** » Mon Sep 15, 2003 10:22 pm

planethalflife (and others) believe that a release even in 2004 is possible...

does anyone already know a forum where we'll meet when the HL2 SDK finally is released?

I'm still unsure whether I will keep on mapping for MOHAA when HL2 is released...
The change from worldcraft to radiant was rather confusing in the beginning and I expect that fighting with both at the same time might be too much for an old man that I am... So I might have to quit mapping for MOHAA and try to find my way back into worldcraft.

How about u? Who is thinking, he/she can manage to map for both? Who will stay with moh and who will "switch sides"? Or will u wait for Doom3, where things we can do will look probably similar to HL2 (dynamic lighting...) but which is using a editor similar to the gtk radiant?

small_sumo · Post by **small_sumo** » Tue Sep 16, 2003 12:37 am

rOger wrote:Valve never releases any demos. There where none for HL and there will be none for HL2.

ahem ........... the first game I played on my first pc was the HL demo. I kid you not.

Balr14 · Post by **Balr14** » Fri Sep 19, 2003 5:50 am

Wacko wrote:planethalflife (and others) believe that a release even in 2004 is possible...

does anyone already know a forum where we'll meet when the HL2 SDK finally is released?

I'm still unsure whether I will keep on mapping for MOHAA when HL2 is released...
The change from worldcraft to radiant was rather confusing in the beginning and I expect that fighting with both at the same time might be too much for an old man that I am... So I might have to quit mapping for MOHAA and try to find my way back into worldcraft.

How about u? Who is thinking, he/she can manage to map for both? Who will stay with moh and who will "switch sides"? Or will u wait for Doom3, where things we can do will look probably similar to HL2 (dynamic lighting...) but which is using a editor similar to the gtk radiant?

I hated Worldcraft. You can't manipulate brushes in 3D view. Fortunately, there was a version of Radiant that worked with HL. I'm going to give HL2 a try and if I don't like it, I'll switch to D3 when it comes out. D3 is another step up from HL2 though. Both in what it can do and in PC/graphics requirements.

wacko · Post by **wacko** » Fri Sep 19, 2003 7:12 am

I probably have suppressed all bad memories of Worldcraft and I must confess that I hardly manipulate things in the 3D view but LOD terrain...

Then, the GTK radiant wasn't much fun (even with MOHradiant experience) when I gave it a try for RTCW, and this will be the one to use for D3.
But, it's still unsure when HL2 is coming and then, when how long will it take until its SDK is available... D3's editor is integrated, even in that E3 demo. So, we'll see what's first and then start wasting our time with it.