300mb dload.

Screenies coming soon

Thanks for the informative run down, it's like I was actually playing it.

interesting...

bah 300mb? f*** that

bah 300mb? f*** that

Why? Has the pr0n filled up all your free space eh?

not worth it

300mb for a 20 min level that really isn't "all that".

i think steam should be remembered for its physics engine which is amazing, but Hi def really isn't pushing the envelope

Why? Has the pr0n filled up all your free space eh?

no it has a little something to do with download cap u git.

Yeah, roll on the 1st... stupid dl caps.

Its a bit of a snore; looks sort of pretty but nowhere near as amazing as I was expecting from all their blowing over it

I was really looking forward to playing it, but the reccomended CPU speed is 2.9, i only got a 2.4.

I will still have a crack at it, see how i go.

no it has a little something to do with download cap u git

heheh I keep foregtting about "caps"

I'll try it out an see what it's like after I finish F.E.A.R, Quake 4 and Warhammer 40K's: Winter Assault expansion

but nowhere near as amazing as I was expecting from all their blowing over it

Sounds like every id release ive seen come out

lost coast? what is this? a mod?

lost coast? what is this? a mod?

Its basically just a map that shows off some new rendering thing called HDR (which apparently has been in Far Cry for about a year, or so I read elsewhere on the internets?)

last edited by trog at 15:18:00 28/Oct/05

a 300mb map? sounds hardly worth it. unless this is the greatest map ever made that is. pictures of people playing it will be enough for me. also is it free or do you have to buy it?

its free if u bought hl2

as opposed to pirating it? lol i bought the collecters edition so guess that means its free for me. might as well get it when my cap is lifted next month

HDR lighting adds an interesting touch to DoD:Source

Hey Hermi you play Winter Assault online?

if you want to go head to head hit me @ rolotomasi at hotmail dot com.

I am a bit of a Space Marine whore though :P

Holy s*** Internode must be gettting hammered, normally get 1.1mbits from it, 50kb sigh.

yeah i like the HDR stuff looks pretty good in dod source but it crashes my pc might need a better system or something o_O

read that next cs patch gonna have militia and nuke

I thought this was an expansion that was coming out?

read that next cs patch gonna have militia and nuke

omg militia and nuke!!1

They came out 6 years ago!

*watches Valve milk their customers with minor rehashes of cs*

Damn 10 mins worth of play i want my 300megs back ...lol.
its more a tech demo to show off hdr...

anyways some screen shots. :D

http://www.members.iinet.net.au/~fear./images/Lostcoast/lostcoast0001.jpg

http://www.members.iinet.net.au/~fear./images/Lostcoast/lostcoast0002.jpg

http://www.members.iinet.net.au/~fear./images/Lostcoast/lostcoast0003.jpg

http://www.members.iinet.net.au/~fear./images/Lostcoast/lostcoast0004.jpg

http://www.members.iinet.net.au/~fear./images/Lostcoast/lostcoast0005.jpg

http://www.members.iinet.net.au/~fear./images/Lostcoast/lostcoast0007.jpg

http://www.members.iinet.net.au/~fear./images/Lostcoast/lostcoast0006.jpg

EDIT: Updated pics using -dxlevel 95 and Just to compare with Psycho's Uber 1337 setup (slut :P) heres some 1028x1024 2x aa / 4x af pics :)

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last edited by 0z at 08:25:33 30/Oct/05

I managed to get across to the other side?


did anyone else manage this?

its a bit tricky :)

ok on 2nd thought, after seeing those screenshots i aint gonna bother with it. its nothing special. a modding group could of done that.

Those screenies look like complete ass. Everything looks pixelated.

Pixelated? this is on a x800XT PE, 1024x786, max details/models, 2x aa / 4x af, pulling about 80-100 fps on that.

last edited by 0z at 08:37:05 01/Nov/05

lol i had the same bug with the troopers freezing, i was gona send in a bug report to valve but later realised that they probabily got a million

Nah it does look pixelated.

If it were OpenGL (which HL2 does not use), I would have said that the texture magnification was set to GL_NEAREST, ie, no blending nor mip-mapping. Just simple, rough and ugly texel calculations.

Here's an example I just made from Quake3 to illustrate.

NO texture blending

http://www.powerup.com.au/~boldajis/images/q3a_nearest.jpg


Texture blending

http://www.powerup.com.au/~boldajis/images/q3a_linear.jpg

last edited by parabol at 09:02:58 29/Oct/05

i think lost coast looks pretty damn nice especially inside that church

Here's a few I just grabbed with some SLI (7800gtx) goodness. Let the game set the paramters which were 4xAA/8xAF all settings on high, Full HDR, but I upped the resolution to 1280x1024 and it was very nice and smooth.

I might run it again tomorrow with the 'SLI AA' modes activated and see if there is any diff.

*warning not for the bandwidth impaired.

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p.s make sure you look at them in the full res, firefox wants to scale them and they look ordinary at 86%.

:P






last edited by Psycho! at 00:26:08 30/Oct/05

ended up downloading it and it looks pretty friggin awsome. it chugs sometimes when viewing the whole area at the top of the map on my PC, but over all its pretty smooth

Did anyone get MASSIVE Graphic Card issues with that 'game'?
On my 6600GT if I walked backwards for more than a few seconds everything would go black (I assume it's somthing to do with HDR Values becasue certain objects had greyscale shades to them).

Also, don't get it; its arse.

I like it, looks nice and adds a little to the hl2 world

and you dont download the whole 350mb
you only download about 96mb the rest comes from the hl2 install

Also, don't get it; its arse.

its a free download, why the f*** not.
just because you had dramas doesnt mean everyone else is retarded

i think steam should be remembered for its physics engine which is amazing

What?

Yes just finished LC and well, to be perfectly honest it was free.

Some fanciness but overall a bit meh.
One thing that did strike me is that the AI is pretty average. I fell to my doom off the cliffs at the start, and as I splattered on the rocks the old fisherman started telling me to hurry up.
Well, I certainly would have liked to, but unfortunately my rapid descent due to gravity hampered all efforts to maintain a upward trajectory.
Stupid fisherman.

The Combine people, while on a good day I am sure perform their soldiering excellently, didn't really bring the pain either. I guess 'looking' is more the focus of this add-on/map/overhyped eye candy (that quite frankly isn't amazing, just impressive). The enemies were pretty lame.

The whole experience was over before I knew it...
... and the game didn't last long either ;)

Recommended for when you have to show a noob like your mum some 'cool graphics'.


BTW:

i think steam should be remembered for its physics engine which is amazing

Gamespy physics engine>Steam physics. You can tell just by looking.



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last edited by IncrEdible_vEgetable at 12:39:08 30/Oct/05

thought it was pretty good including the commentary. was very interesting to see how they do all the nice eye candy

It wasn't too bad, but my X800 Pro didn't run it as hawt as i thought it would :(

its a free download, why the f*** not.
just because you had dramas doesnt mean everyone else is retarded

CS:S is free and I see countless people constantly bitching about it. So Shut the f*** up and let me bitch.

last edited by AdamtehGreat at 18:07:24 30/Oct/05

STFU Adam ^_^

I ams teh smash you moo

Warhammer 40K's: Winter Assault expansion

Finished this in one afternoon (playing both Imperial/Eldar and Chaos/Ork.

wow, that was really really .... short. Looked nice though, i just expected more than 10mins of gameplay, hoping more for an hour or so given how long this has been in development but thats what you get for free. I thought the effects of HDR were a little excessive, as in not all that realistic but im sure HDR will be improved heaps a few years down the track, especially with next gen engines that'd have this kind of technology built into it from the ground up.

the steam engine makes battlefield look like ass - but i guess each engine is built for different gameplay, bf doesn't need the physics