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Half-Life 2 Lost Coast, Antlion Troopers 36

Posted by Zonk from the new-ways-to-play dept.
Ant writes "Antlion Troopers is a series of Half-Life 2 modifications where it puts you on the squad of a combine expeditionary force to fight off the antlion population. Just think of Starship Troopers movies. The sequel, Deuce, lets you interact with the squad members, set up sentry guns, etc."Additionally, Gamespot has a first look at the Lost Coast add-on for the main campaign. From the article: " You fight your way up a sheer cliff face, trading fire with those pesky Combine soldiers every step of the way. You'll occasionally have to deal with some of the more vicious sorts of headcrabs, and at the end you'll have to bring down a Combine gunship with Gordon Freeman's trusty rocket launcher. You'll have to solve a couple of light physics puzzles as well, which we won't detail for the sake of preserving at least a little of the surprise."
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  • torrent (Score:4, Informative)

    by QuantumRiff ( 120817 ) on Friday July 29, 2005 @06:35PM (#13199254)
    The torrent from there site is here [hl2world.com]

  • Half-Life 2 (Score:1, Insightful)

    by Anonymous Coward
    Is it just me, or is Half-Life 2 the most wildly overrated [gamerankings.com] game since Black & White? Granted, the engine is pretty nice, if you can tolerate the load times.

    Otherwise, HL2 is little more than Yet Another Generic Shooter. It's completely linear, almost as bad as those early rail shooters. "Go this way, now this way. Oh look, a scripted event trigger."

    The story is fine, but gameplay-wise it's just boring. For godsakes, it has ubiquitous exploding barrels and crates with ammo! It's a dull, cliche shooter

    • Yeah, it's fairly overrated. There wasn't a single enemy to defeat by problem solving, really. Handheld weaponry always seemed to do the trick, and one of Half-life's big claims to fame was that it broke this tradition in the first place. And maybe it was just my computer somehow, but graphically, it struck me that a lot of its textures were rather low. Sure, it speeds up the frame rate, but surely that's why you add another setting in the graphics options for people with cards that can handle it?

      At any rat

      • Re:Half-Life 2 (Score:2, Interesting)

        by Luigi30 ( 656867 )
        It auto-detects the DirectX hardware level of your card. High for a DX7 card would probably be low/medium on a DX8 card and low for a DX9 card. You need the latest in video cards to have the best graphical experience. I saw a major difference running in medium when I went from a GF3 to 6600GT.

  • Does it still give you motion sickness? (Score:3, Interesting)

    by sgant ( 178166 ) on Friday July 29, 2005 @06:47PM (#13199326) Homepage Journal
    I have no idea what the hell is going on. But Half-Life 2 gives me major motion sickness. Never had that before playing these games.

    I can play CS:S with no problems. Been playing Battlefield 2 everyday. Red Orchestra through UT2004 quite a bit. So just 3 nights ago, I thought I'd fire up HL:2 and go a little further and WHAM about 2 minutes in I begin to get queasy again. Breaking out in a cold sweat and very nauseous.

    No idea...
  • hl2? i run a cyber cafe. I have had a few people ask about hl2/cs. I explain what they want to charge me per month($10 per pc per month) and they say wtf?. I woulnd't pay that! I then have them try out bf2 or some other game that isn't limited to a map the size of your local shopping mall and never hear any further complaints. hl2 and doom3 are wonderful game engines but the game play isn't there. People have moved on past that. They try a game in the bf* series and forget about playing a game based in a h
    • I think people simply expect something other than the developers intentions. Comparing HL2 and Doom 3 to something like Battlefield 2 makes no sense. The first two are story driven single player games. The developers wanted players to have a specific, almost cinematic, game experience. So don't be suprised to be on a rail triggering scripted sequences. BF2 is trying to generate an entirely different experience for the player.

      Personally, I think both styles of FPS are completely legitimate. WHen I wan
  • I love it!
    I've enjoyed both similar situations in the game (in the prison, and when teleporting with Alyx), and this is way more fun.
    I don't know if it's just the simple pleasure of hearing the bugs die or what, but I can play this all day. (which is actually what I did today).

    Thanks RomeoGuy! I'm sure you and your team will be rewarded for your endeavor.

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