Steam Releases Lost coast for Half life 2

[RickDaTuner]

go and get it... :thumbsup:

318mb....

Half-Life 2: Lost Coast Available Now
October 27, 2005, 4:10 pm · Alfred Reynolds

Half-Life 2: Lost Coast is now available for play for all Half-Life 2 owners.

Half-Life 2: Lost Coast, a single-player level custom-created to showcase High-Dynamic Range lighting (HDR) in the Source engine, is available now to all owners of HL2. As a technology showcase, Half-Life 2: Lost Coast's system requirements are very high. During installation, Steam will prompt you if your system does not meet the recommended configuration. We hope you enjoy it.

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[RickDaTuner]

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[RickDaTuner]

they are pretty damn smoking.. high, I'm not sure if my computer will play it

but here they are

System Requirements:


CPU: a 2.6Ghz Intel, or AMD 2800+
Memory: 1GB or better
Video: ATI x800 or better, or Nvidia 6800 or better

[B69]

anyone play it?

[treg50]

:eek:
Alright boys, no screwin' around now. I wanna see screenshots. Right here, in this thread. Make sure your machine and your setting are juiced up, even if it's unplayable! Just get some sweet screenshots up here... please! ;)

[darkbanana]

I'll have lost coast soon

try to post some screenies after

[RickDaTuner]

here let me get some for you in a bit, i just finished playing it ....

[darkbanana]

Pretty cool, super short though :thumbsdow


I was expecting a lot more out of this level, but it was free so hey I can't complain. Rick do you play source a lot?


http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y114/vcteg/d2_lostcoast0004.jpg

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y114/vcteg/d2_lostcoast0003.jpg

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y114/vcteg/d2_lostcoast0002.jpg

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y114/vcteg/d2_lostcoast0001.jpg

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y114/vcteg/d2_lostcoast0000.jpg

[RickDaTuner]

nah i dont play source to much.. I dunno i Kinda just left steam off to the side untill this was released.. still kinda lame how it ends

[b_t]

It looks brilliant, and it reminded me of how fun HL2 was.. but that being said, FEAR tops it in the gunfights. Its too bad that FEAR's story sucked and was completely uninvolving, and those stupid tryhard scary moments (its like the Ring except even more played out)... someone should take FEAR's combat and stick it into HL2. but DAMN. No screenies of the church? I will grab some tomorrow. The church looked amaaaazing.

[RickDaTuner]

here are some that I took...

its kinda cool actually, I like how they have the whole rolling cloud effect going, it really gives a sense of reality. Although its to bad the resolution cant be bumped up to the point of HDTV, or mabey i just need to play this with a CRT...

anywhoo Enjoy

http://www3.telus.net/duarpa/Beyond/hl1.JPG


http://www3.telus.net/duarpa/Beyond/hl2.JPG


http://www3.telus.net/duarpa/Beyond/hl3.JPG


http://www3.telus.net/duarpa/Beyond/hl4.JPG


http://www3.telus.net/duarpa/Beyond/hl5.JPG


http://www3.telus.net/duarpa/Beyond/hl6.JPG

[GQBalla]

wow good graphics!!!

[/////AMG]

^^ :werd: niice

[b_t]

Originally posted by RickDaTuner
here are some that I took...

its kinda cool actually, I like how they have the whole rolling cloud effect going, it really gives a sense of reality. Although its to bad the resolution cant be bumped up to the point of HDTV, or mabey i just need to play this with a CRT...

are you sure you can't run it at HD resolutions? I've played regular Half Life 2 in both 720p and 1080i and it looks fuckin AMAZING. Lost Coast should work too. You need to hook it up to your TV, set up your graphics card for HD resolutions (if it is an Nvidia this is easy) set your desktop to 1080i, then launch HL2 go into the video menu and set the aspect ratio to 16:9 and then you will be able to choose from ____x720 and ____x1080, but you can't play games in a higher resolution then your desktop is set to...

[RickDaTuner]

Originally posted by b_t


are you sure you can't run it at HD resolutions? I've played regular Half Life 2 in both 720p and 1080i and it looks fuckin AMAZING. Lost Coast should work too. You need to hook it up to your TV, set up your graphics card for HD resolutions (if it is an Nvidia this is easy) set your desktop to 1080i, then launch HL2 go into the video menu and set the aspect ratio to 16:9 and then you will be able to choose from ____x720 and ____x1080, but you can't play games in a higher resolution then your desktop is set to...

im playing it on my LCD laptop.. so it doesnt matter how high i throw the resolution, it still looks kinda blurry, and unfortunately I dont own a HDTV.. lol :thumbsup:

[BerserkerCatSplat]

Hahaha, I thought for a second there that they'd made a map of the island on Lost! (You know, the TV show!) :rofl:

I feel so let down, in an odd sort of way. :nut:

[Khyron]

When you say it's short, how short? I thought HL2 was short. :P

Khyron

[heinz256]

short as in you can finish the whole thing in half an hour even if you're slow. Its short, but then again, its just a demo released to show off the new graphics enhancements. Turn on the commentary in the game and it'l explain what they did and stuff.

[treg50]

Man that's pretty awesome. Graphics like that used to only for point and click adventure games like Myst and such. Having that in an FPS is a dream come true. The character model looks great. There's gotta be something wrong when you can shoot or smash character models that look that realistic and detailed :eek:

Okay, so the graphics exist, now about some REAL gameplay (not your standard shooter story) that actually lasts for a good bit of time (longer than HL2). Like Deus Ex or something, with these graphics a game like Deus Ex would have the complete immersion experience..