{"id":1036,"date":"2006-04-06T21:37:21","date_gmt":"2006-04-07T01:37:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1036"},"modified":"2006-04-06T21:37:21","modified_gmt":"2006-04-07T01:37:21","slug":"weve-got-hostiles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1036","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;We&#8217;ve got hostiles&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcap\">P<\/span>laying the &#8216;elder&#8217; Half-Life has some entertainment values: first of all I wasn&#8217;t that amused <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1031\">seeing the Steam engine installed<\/a>. It crashes so once in a while too (a couple times already), plus it seems to update itself automatically to present me the latest stuff that won&#8217;t ever run on this hardware. Yeah!\n<\/p>\n<p>Bugs too: the most annoying one is in the elevator in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?hl=en&#038;q=elevator+bug%2BHalfLife%2BWe%27ve+got+hostiles&#038;btnG=Google+Search\">&#8216;We&#8217;ve got hostiles&#8217; level<\/a>: this is a bug that happens so consequently that it has to be a game core bug. There are a couple of ways to get by it: the hard way or the &#8216;I feel lucky way&#8217;. I opted to go for the latter, which comes all back to <em>timing<\/em>: before the &#8216;loading&#8217; text appears make sure you&#8217;re jumping. No joke. It works.\n<\/p>\n<p>For the rest it&#8217;s all the same (except I can play it on high resolution now, earlier I was never able to do it this way), which means I can&#8217;t wait to play the other ones (&#8216;Opposing forces&#8217; [which I played before] and &#8216;Blue Shift&#8217;).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Playing the &#8216;elder&#8217; Half-Life has some entertainment values: first of all I wasn&#8217;t that amused seeing the Steam engine installed. It crashes so once in a while too (a couple times already), plus it seems to update itself automatically to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1036\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}