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Tag: fear

FEAR, HL2, AI, and only doing cool stuff when the player is looking

Oct 28, 2024

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joewintergreen

(gravis did a comment on my FEAR post so long he made it a post, and now I’m doing that with that post, and this ends up being about all kinds of things) Half-Life 2 (and maybe 1, but I don’t think so?) had a trigger type called trigger_look, which was like a regular trigger,…
f.e.a.r: first encounter assault recon rules

Oct 28, 2024

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joewintergreen

The video game called F.E.A.R: First Encounter Assault Recon gets a bum rap, even though everyone knows it rules. The bum rap is that everyone thinks it’s just the AI and the guyshoot that rule in F.E.A.R: First Encounter Assault Recon, when actually a ton else about F.E.A.R: First Encounter Assault Recon also rules.