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Half-Life 2: Lost Coast is an additional level for the 2004 first-person shooter video game Half-Life 2. Developed by Valve, it was released on October 27, 2005, through the Steam content delivery service as a free download to owners of the Windows version of Half-Life 2. Lost Coast serves as a technology demonstration, specifically showcasing the high-dynamic-range rendering implemented in the Source engine. The level was designed with a variety of appropriate environments to emphasize these effects. Lost Coast was the first video game developed by Valve to allow developers to explain various elements of design as the player progresses through the level.
Lost Coast follows Half-Life protagonist Gordon Freeman as he travels up a coastal cliff to destroy a Combine Headcrab artillery launcher in a monastery, which is firing on a nearby town, Saint Olga. The Lost Coast level was initially created for Half-Life 2, but was ultimately removed from the game. As a result, it has several minor story details that were not included in Half-Life 2. The level received a generally positive reception, and there was consensus among reviewers that the new features included in Lost Coast should be integrated into future games released by Valve.
Lost Coast uses the same first-person shooter gameplay as Half-Life 2. The player is equipped with weapons from Half-Life 2, including the object-manipulating gravity gun.
The chancel of the Byzantine Christian church in Lost Coast, which Valve artist Viktor Antonov called a “great showcase for HDR”
Like Half-Life 2, the player controls Gordon Freeman. Freeman must enter a monastery that enemy Combine are using to launch heavy artillery shells into a seaside town. The player encounters Combine soldiers and a few headcrabs before disabling the artillery launcher, and destroying an attack helicopter with RPGs. As the level ends, a fisherman congratulates Gordon on his victory, then exclaims that Gordon is “getting all fuzzy 'round the edges” as he teleports away
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive is a multiplayer shooter computer game developed by Valve and Hidden Path Entertainment. Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (CS: GO) is a sequel to the popular game Half-Life: Counter-Strike, which was released in 1999. Counter-Strike: Global Offensive was released on August 21, 2012.
The popularity and audience of CS: GO is constantly growing.
It is not the first year that a large number of sports tournaments, from amateur to professional, are held in the discipline The prize fund of the tournaments in CS: GO is constantly growing and amounts to $1,000,000 in some competitions. The game has a large number of weapon skins, they do not provide any additional advantage in the game, the price of which reaches several thousand dollars, and anyone can get them by playing the game or opening skins that also fall into the game. The finals of the major tournaments are broadcast on television, and bets on the outcome of the game are made by bookmakers, who talk about the further development and popularization of CS: GO.