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Lost Coast is a bonus downloadable level for owners of Half-Life 2. It was designed as a tech demo to showcase high dynamic range imaging in Valve Corporation's Sourcegame engine. Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Jump to: navigation, search Half-Life 2 is a first-person shooter computer game and the highly anticipated sequel to Half-Life, developed by Valve Software. ... A technology demo is a prototype or an incomplete version of a product, with the primary purpose of showcasing the performance, methods or features of a particular technology. ... It has been suggested that High dynamic range rendering be merged into this article or section. ... Jump to: navigation, search Valve Corporation is a Bellevue, Washington-based video game developer made famous by its first product, Half-Life, which was released in November 1998. ... Sources physics are demonstrated in this screenshot from Half-Life 2, with the body of a Combine soldier and his rifle hurled into the air after a collison with a dune buggy. ... Jump to: navigation, search A game engine is the core software component of a video game. ...
Previous statements have led some gamers to believe that Lost Coast is the first of several downloadable bonus episodes for Half-Life 2, which Valve has promised to release intermittently. However, there has been no official confirmation that Lost Coast marked the beginning of this release cycle.
A glitch in Lost Coast deactivates artificial intelligence when a certain set of circumstances are met. Jump to: navigation, search once they start thinking theyre human its time to pull the plug on those motherfuckers~ ...
LostCoast also demonstrates in general what the Source engine can achieve when system requirements are significantly increased from the games the engine was designed for, with high-resolution textures and models.
LostCoast features minor storyline details that were scrapped from Half-Life 2, such as a headcrab canister launcher, and takes about 15 minutes for experienced players to finish.
LostCoast is not the first title to include developer commentaries: a similar feature can be seen in the secret "Insomniac Museum" level found in Ratchet and Clank: Going Commando as well as in The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay.