Xen delayed again

A delayed game is good eventually, a rushed game is bad forever

>>381270631
BF4 and Siege would like to have a word. Miyamoto

>>381270369
of course, once it leaves early access people will refund the piss out of it

>>381271056
ooh shit. thanks for the reminder. my bro looking out for me

HOLY FUCK ITS A SHITTY GAME FROM 2003 WITH SLIGHTLY UPDATED GRAPHICS, WHY DO YOU PEOPLE GIVE A SHIT

>>381271056
Are you retarded

>>381271981
um sweetie r u?

someone explain how

>>381270631
But the finished parts are shit already.

>>381270631
>A delayed game is good eventually, a rushed game is bad forever

No one cares about a delayed game eventually. Half-Life is horribly irrelevant series right now.

>implying Xen will ever be finished

How many years has this mod been in development at this point? It's neat they're doing technical things like working on dynamic lighting, but they seem to have the same problem that Valve had where they're more interested in adding technical engine gimmicks than finishing the fucking game.

>>381271969

Why are you mad?

>>381274778
Half life is not delayed. It has been literally over for half life for many years.

>>381270631
>A delayed game is good eventually, a rushed game is bad forever
>delayed for several years

A game that never comes out is none of these things

>>381275531
Approximately fucking forever. The free release took long enough to happen (I still remember the complete shitshow that was release day) and it's seen an additional five (5) years of development after that.

I haven't played Half Life in forever but why exactly are these Xen sections taking so long to reproduce? I don't remember them being too long or massive or anything.

>>381270631
A good plan today is better than a perfect plan next week.

>>381276148
The mod makers want to completely revamp it, because they have no respect for the source material. They fucked up the main game by taking sections out, too.

>>381275531
>How many years has this mod been in development at this point?
13 years
its been 5 years since non xen version came out in 2012

>>381277628
>because they have no respect for the source material

they can do whatever the fuck they want you loser

Man you fucking idiots are behaving like ungrateful children.

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>5 years for color correction
worth the wait, totally dosnt look like a 2010 game anymore

>takes 7 years just to remake stuff that wasn't even changed
>think its a good idea to remake sections from scratch next

cant wait to play xen in 2030

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>>381279561
You think thats bad?
Swap source renderer into a custom deferred one, but keep the god fuck awful source shading and material system and they will use the dynamic lights only in few locations ...

This one fucking lamp totally wont stand out right next to crappy lit regions like this >>381279176

Just play the original Half-Life, faggots.

>>381279884

Ya know, I fucking love dynamic lighting and shadows, and a decade or more ago I would have LOVED this gif, but today with a deeper understanding of lighting and global illumination, that shadowing is so fucking wrong. First off, the shadow would be significantly wider than that. Second, it would be a lot softer. Splinter Cell did a better job in fucking 2002.

>>381280306
Dynamic lights are overrated and they almost always looks very artificial. Very few games properly implement lightmapped global illumination. Updated source engine is one of them.

>>381280659
>Very few games properly implement lightmapped global illumination. Updated source engine is one of them.
You mean none?
Non shadow maps GI is a relatively new thing, and obviously an engine from 2004 wont support it.
What games doe have some gi solution? Quantum break? New mirrors age? ... Im drawing a blank here.

Nobody actually wants Xen

The Xen part was boring anyway

>>381270758
>Siege
Yo nice bate mane top shit!

>>381271969
1998/99, actually, and it revolutionized FPS games.

So like every mod ever. No mod this big has ever met it's release date.

>>381281045
I just said so, the Source engine does. When I said "lightmapped" I meant pre-computed.

Don't think GI is a new thing, it's not. It's the simplest and oldest method we know of rendering something. It's also the most expensive, by far. We use some form of raytracing/GI to render lightmaps since Quake 1. Source just happen to be better at it, CS:GO in particular.

It's not proper GI, as in no refraction/reflection, but those effects are very hard to implement anyway.
The Witness has some tasty GI, the programmer wrote an article on radiosity if you're interested
>http://the-witness.net/news/2010/09/hemicube-rendering-and-integration/
>http://the-witness.net/news/2010/03/graphics-tech-precomputed-lighting/

Also, any UE/Unity games that uses lightmaps.

>Xen-Literally the only reason that makes Half-Life worth playing
>And its STILL not out yet

>>381282782
>>381282782
>>Xen-Literally the only reason that makes Half-Life worth playing
Said no one ever

>>381276148
They're trying to flesh it out. Gabe said Xen had a lot of cut ideas and was mostly a failure so they're trying to put their own spin on it.

>>381270631
It's a port and it's running on Source engine, it shouldn't take this long.

>>381282057

in the same way that islam 'revolutionized' iran, sure

>>381270369
>even Valve fangames take forever to be finished
lmao

>>381283014
Not a port

>>381283182
Shit analogy /pol/

>>381283532

not really. they both made everything a whole lot worse.

>>381270369
At least it's being made unlike Half-Life 3.

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Post the screen shots next time op you lazy piece of white shit.

>>381282782
>>Xen-Literally the only reason that makes Half-Life worth playing
What?

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>>381283830

So what do we think of Xen 2.0?

>>381283830

what a bad aesthetic, looks more like an aquarium than an alien planet

>>381277628
>because they have no respect for the source material.

Who respects xen? They were terrible levels

>>381283926
how do you know what an alien planet looks like?

>>381285790

>2017
>not being an alien

>>381283917
ocean floor in space, it's really unimpressive. But expecting something amazing was retarded in the first place. Something taking way too long and being kept way too secret doesn't mean it's special.

>>381283917
Bloodborne ripoff.

>>381270369
Who cares. They somehow made their game worse when they put it behind a paywall.

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>>381282782
>Xen-Literally the only reason that makes Half-Life worth playing

Did they ever fix the jumping so that you didn't have to crouch jump for LITERALLY EVERYTHING? Because that's the one thing I didn't like about the game.