What do you think - is it worth buying the Orange box and paying a few quid more in the hope that TF2 is coming soon?
They've answered my question by adding a 'mac coming soon'. good on them. purchasing...
What do you think - is it worth buying the Orange box and paying a few quid more in the hope that TF2 is coming soon?
Portal performs perfectly well on my iMac...instead of whining and stupid complaints about Apple's "lack of support" for gamers (which is utter BS, of course), these guys prove that when political will and technological prowess are there, the Mac can be the BEST gaming platform that there is.
Congrats, Valve - YOU ARE DELIVERING.
I didn't read that as updates to the Mac versions you download, I simply read that as updates to Half Life 2 and it's two episodes on Steam itself, ie: changing it from Windows to both Windows and Mac.
It took a restart on Steam after someone posted, "It's here" for the games to show up in my Library.
Single-player
Steam Achievements
Steam Cloud
Captions available
HDR available
Controller enabled
Includes Source SDK
That's funny since a lot of review sites are showing that these games on the same systems all perform far better under Windows.
If you planned on downloading... wait until later today or tomorrow. I purchased the 3 releases of HL2 and their servers are overloaded and I can't download. Have been that way for half-hour now.
I will admit that has been my experience with Portal when comparing OS X to Windows versions, with Windows 7 on Boot Camp.
if I already own HL2 for PC, do I have to pay again to play it on osx?
I'm downloading at a whopping 2.4kbps, lol.
Looks like they updated the graphic engine for HL2, so all those people laughing about an outdated 6 year old game, just got owned!
God what a noob you are. It's updates to the engine, not some miracle graphics overhaul.
GG on owning yourself.
God what a noob you are. It's updates to the engine, not some miracle graphics overhaul.
GG on owning yourself.
Source is a lot like the Halo engine. It's continuously updated to keep it current. Halo Reach is the same engine as Halo 2 and Halo 3, and it looks so much better.
It seems that Valve backported these changes to HL2 and EP1 (which was something they had been promising to do), which should make HL2 look much more like a current game.
They didn't backport the higher polygon models they used in EP2, but EP2 should definitely look like a modern game.
Source is a very competitive engine. It's not the same code they had 6 years ago.
That's funny since a lot of review sites are showing that these games on the same systems all perform far better under Windows.
Good news is that for OS X games performance can go only up. Let's hope.