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And why does it warrant a thread you ask? Well, they now have Mac support. Of course, that only concerns AJ, and as we all know, he's a muppet.

I made this thread to bring to light the new achievements in Half-life 2 and Half-life 2: Episode 1. This means that the two games are now likely on the Orange Box version of Source.
Edited by Hobbesy, 26 May 2010 - 22:54.

That's good news . And of course, those are great games but, I don't have original HL2. I got only Episodes pack sadly.

*Downloads*

*Installs*

*Wastes life all over again*

Happy days

Er wait what exactly has changed?

As for the Orange Box version of the Source engine, Valve doesn't say anything about that they include it for all of HL2 series (atleast i haven't seen about it):
Update.

And im too lazy to try HL2 to see if it have been updated.
It would be great tho if they update all of em.

Hobbesy, on 27 May 2010, 1:54, said:

Pretty sure that Alias also has a mac (probably before AJ had one I think)

I've had a Mac since before AJ joined here, but that has been almost completely replaced by my new laptop since February. If I had the cash I would've got another Mac, but I'm a poor arse uni student.

Damn you Valve! Damn you!


Reasoning: They released the update while I was playing CoH and it automatically downloaded it. Basically people were raging for my lag and instead of having 1GB of internet free to DL im left with measly 300 now. Thank you very much for nothing!

TehKiller, on 27 May 2010, 18:15, said:

You could've alt-tabbed and paused the DL

IF I knew there was a DL at all...and I did actually alt-tabbed eventually only to get greeted by the message "607 MB update. Click to see the changelog"
Edited by TehKiller, 27 May 2010 - 10:26.

Well it looks like I've got a good reason to reinstall the games now

TehKiller, on 27 May 2010, 11:15, said:

You could've removed the option to download while ingame (if it still exists)

Alias, on 27 May 2010, 11:08, said:

Indeed, I'm just more preachy nowadays....

It does run beautifully on the mac, btw.
Edited by AJ, 27 May 2010 - 12:04.

AJ, on 27 May 2010, 12:48, said:

It dies on the mac? I'm not suprised, source tech isn't exactly cutting edge, I would expect it to run on your overpriced mac

The good man has a point there, I managed to get HL2 running on my old PC, which was not even capable of running some older games...

Yes, but it's been ported to a completely new engine, and yet it as crisp and as responsive as it has ever been. Valve have done a genuinely good job in the titles they've sofar ported (Portal pun anyone? No?). They're genuinely doing a good job of this, and not rushing titles out with visible bugs/glitches.

AJ, on 27 May 2010, 13:38, said:

Its Valve, why are you suprised

OK, I give up. Aren't you supposed to be revising or something anyways?

AJ, on 27 May 2010, 13:44, said:

No, i've done all my exams but one, and thats basic A level chemistry that I already know
So essentially, exams over
Edited by Ion Cannon!, 27 May 2010 - 12:45.

AJ, on 27 May 2010, 15:38, said:

Tests on Anandtech show that the Mac ports aren't as good as the Windows version but the difference shouldn't really impede your gameplay.

So basically nothing changed? Mild disappointment. Though I guess I didn't expect anything to begin with, unlike the Lost Coast, which I hoped would've blown me away, but instead, done in 10 min.

Well, at least there's still the E3 'surprise'. I sure hope it's surprisingly good, and not surprisingly disappointing.

Lost Coast was never said to be a game, it's been presented as an additional level for HL² which use is only to give you some information about Source Shaders Technology. I don't see how you could've been excepting a thrilling game...

I didn't expect a full game, I expected something like half a chapter.

What I got was... well... nothing much at all.

Wait, why were you complaining already? The 'game' is free...
Also, if you took the time to read the infos about it before you've played it, you would've seen that it contained only one level (which is different from half a chapter ._.)

Lost Coast was really a graphical test for the updated HDR that came to Half-life 2 a few months after it was released. It also came with commentary to shed light on how VALVe works on games and designs levels for Source.
Edited by Hobbesy, 07 June 2010 - 19:05.