Xen delayed again

It keeps happening.

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

BF4 and Siege would like to have a word. Miyamoto

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

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

Are you retarded

um sweetie r u?

someone explain how

But the finished parts are shit already.

>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.

Why are you mad?

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

>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

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.

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

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.

>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

>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.

>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

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

Just play the original Half-Life, faggots.

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.

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.

>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

>Siege
Yo nice bate mane top shit!

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

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

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
>the-witness.net/news/2010/09/hemicube-rendering-and-integration/
>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

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

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.

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

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

>even Valve fangames take forever to be finished
lmao

Not a port

Shit analogy Sup Forums

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

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

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

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

So what do we think of Xen 2.0?

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

>because they have no respect for the source material.

Who respects xen? They were terrible levels

how do you know what an alien planet looks like?

>2017
>not being an alien

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.

Bloodborne ripoff.

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

>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.