Just made my friend go there...pretty cool

 

we should contact Valve about this...I'm curious who put it there

it's cool

 

I had no idea what people were talking about at first. Then I could barely see it so I decided to use photoshop to brighten it up a bit.

 

In the words of a wise man to his pubescent son:
"If it is there, you will play with it."

 

Can't play Headcrab Baseball without a crowbar! :D

 

someone go and take a few more pics of it to make sure it's there... it's not like i don't trust the dude hwo posted this but it does seem odd for valve to put something like this there...

 

Very nice found... thank you.

 

Read the thread all the way and you'll see where several people confirm it. I may have to play the game again, um, just to see it. Yeah, that's why.

 

i guess i'll ave to see it on my compuer for myself to believe it... so WHERE exactally is it? which level?

 

That's pretty cool. Which map is it? How about a picture of the entire scene highlighting the area where the rotors are?

 

You guys should see what people in CS : Source spray on walls. Lol.

 

The map is d1_canals_12. Type in the command "map d1_canals_12" in the console to go to it.

Here's a sequence of snapshots to help you get some better perspective of where it's located.

 

thanks! sweet

 

i found it! heres the screenshot.

 

What Video card do you have?

 

6800gt!

 

It would make an excellent cs spray if someone could isolate it from the wall...

 

ATI Radeon Mobility 9600. The pics are at 1024 x 768 resolution with all the graphics settings at the highest level. I brightened them a little bit since people had a hard time seeing the original snapshot I posted. Hopefully they're easier to see.

If you're looking for the most powerful laptop in the world, get a Sager. Forget all those others. Sager's the fastest of them all. Go to sagernotebook.com or notebookforums.com.

 

can you change the graphics card on the sager laptop like you can on the alienware laptop?

 

Good question. I don't think with my model you can do it (8890). I think with the latest model 9860 you can do it since it's got a pci express interface. But don't quote me on it. Since I got my laptop last year, I'm not up to speed with the latest stuff right now. I seem to remember a while ago that there was some talk about newer Sager laptops being able to upgrade the video card but I haven't kept up with it.

The thing I think is really great about Sager laptops is that a lot of them offer RAID 0, 1 configuration and they're really strict on how many dead pixels they'll allow on their LCD screens. As far as I can tell, my screen has 0 dead pixels on it.

The biggest thing that drew me to the Sager laptop was how they offered the only 7200 rpm hard drive available for laptops and since the laptop I got supports RAID 0 configuration, I got 2 of them. It's amazing how much bottleneck is in the hard drive I/O alone. I think that's the biggest drawback with laptops in general because usually the hard drives are so slow that you can't even take avantage of the rest of the hardward since it will always have to wait for hard drive I/O.

Of course the laptop I got is also a monster so if you're looking for something more portable and quiet, then other brand name laptops will work for you. The worst thing about my laptop is the fan noise. But I've quieted it down significantly since I first got it by putting insulation between the fans and where they contact the circuit boards.

 

It's also near the very beginning of the game, right after you come off the roof and that girl (Alex?) saves you, you follow her through a door and to your left is:







Cool. Anyone else see this one?

 

i seem to have missed that one

 

Question about HL2: for how long do I have to drive that stupid airboat around!!!? I can only play for 10 minutes at a time because I get terrible motion sickness. I just can't handle looking one way with the mouse while moving in a different different direction with the boat. I'm really hoping to travel on foot again.

 

wow your gonna hate driving the buggy too then. Don't worry the airboat is just one level long.

 

Reading this thread and being a rotary, game and computer aficionado is finally motivating me to upgrade my PIII 800 with GeForce2 graphics. I'm looking at building an Intel 925X express platform with an Asus P5AD2 mobo, but I'm not sure about a decent PCIe 16x graphics card since the drivers are unproven. Plus, better to wait a while for the BTX form factor?