Yet another HL2 Thread....

[Paddy]

They did announce the 15th.. I guess that's one deadline that they've stuck to!

[Helevitia]

OK, so it has been confirmed that the RC has indeed gone to Vivendi for approval.

I'm assuming that they will take approx. one to two weeks to qualify it and it will go gold soon after

Time will tell...

[GT98]

Originally posted by Helevitia
OK, so it has been confirmed that the RC has indeed gone to Vivendi for approval.

I'm assuming that they will take approx. one to two weeks to qualify it and it will go gold soon after

Time will tell...

LOL and how many more Steam downloads to go? LOL

[Helevitia]

Originally posted by GT98
LOL and how many more Steam downloads to go? LOL

My guess is 2 more steam updates. One this week or next and one more when the game is ready for release.

[GT98]

Originally posted by Helevitia
My guess is 2 more steam updates. One this week or next and one more when the game is ready for release.

I read over on Anandtech that we won't see it till November the earilest, with it taking a week or two to find bugs, fix them then resubmit it, get it published etc.

Steam users wont be able to use it till the release date anyway

[Paddy]

I didn't think that submitting a RC to Vivendi wa part of the QA process? I thought it was just to get their seal of approval?

[Helevitia]

Originally posted by Paddy
I didn't think that submitting a RC to Vivendi wa part of the QA process? I thought it was just to get their seal of approval?

RC means that they are submitting what they feel is a stable, almost bug-free version of the game. At this point, their is a code freeze. This means that no more bug fixes are allowed to go into the code.

They give the game to Vivendi to test. I am assuming Vivendi has some kind of QA dept. that will test the game, or atleast a part of the game that still needs to be qualified. If they tst the game and find no bugs, the game will go gold. If they find minor bugs, it will probably still go gold. AT this point, I can only see a showstopper bug like a crash, stopping the game from going gold very soon.

I am fairly confident that there will not be a second RC.

[Helevitia]

Looks like Dutch/Belgian magazine PCGamePlay will have a full review of HL2 on October 5th

I can't read what they wrote, but apparently it says they have played through the full game.

http://www.pcgameplay.com/

[Maggi]

bad news ahead ?

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/09/20/2012208

[KeiFront]

Originally posted by Helevitia
Looks like Dutch/Belgian magazine PCGamePlay will have a full review of HL2 on October 5th

I can't read what they wrote, but apparently it says they have played through the full game.

http://www.pcgameplay.com/

I can confirm they have played through the game.

[Helevitia]

Originally posted by Maggi
bad news ahead ?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/09/20/2012208

Valve has already stated that they will release the game through steam regardless of the lawsuit.

[Paddy]

Where's TP when you need him!

[Helevitia]

Looks like the first HL2 review is this week. Based on one comment from another magazine and this cover, I predict they will give the game atleast a 98%. I'm not saying it will be a 98% game, but that is just my guess.

BTW, the comment I am referring to is from an email that someone sent to the magazine and this is what was said.

uziholda: ...was [Half-Life 2] what you guys expected?
Mark Donald: More

I know, it's not much, but let's hope it is close to true.

[The PIT]

Over at Anandtech it says it could be delayed further.

[Helevitia]

Originally posted by The PIT
Over at Anandtech it says it could be delayed further.

Where do you see that? I follow the HL2 saga pretty closely and I haven't seen any such thing. The game will be out on Nov 2nd. If it isn't, I'll eat a big hat

It will go gold on or before Oct 15th.