[Official] TF2, Source, + Steam on Mac!
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I hope a steam iPhone app is in the works too. :3
The Gentlemanne
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How is this helpful?
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No, think about it. You could buy steam games from your iPhone for your PC/Mac and chat with friends/groups.
Worked with Xbox Live and PSN, could would well with Steam
maggotrain
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Good news.
Been waiting for this, good thing for tf2 community -> new players and mappers. Nowadays over half of my friends have changed to mac. They only complain about the lack of the games.
Been waiting for this, good thing for tf2 community -> new players and mappers. Nowadays over half of my friends have changed to mac. They only complain about the lack of the games.
Steff0o
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i have Gears, but its just a app that lets you browse on steam profiles
my dear €2,39 :O
You know what else this means, right? All their Mac games will be running on the latest version of Source. (You know, like how they planned for Source to work in the first place but changed their minds when it turned out to be too much work.) So things like multicore support and the new VPK file system will probably be available in Half-Life 2 and stuff. And I can't even imagine what they're cooking up for the SDK, seeing how they're having to build most of the tools from scratch and have plenty of opportunities to tweak and improve stuff.
They better port (or at least make the OpenGL renderers available) back to the Windows version, otherwise there will be uproar (again).
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How so? They have separate teams for everything.
TF2 Team =/= Portal 2 Team =/= Left 4 Dead Team =/= Steam Team
Apart from the occasional reshuffle.
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its widely known that the tf2 team was greatly involved with l4d. hence the delays in class updates last year.
Randdalf
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Actually, I read somewhere that Valve have the Mac code up and running at the same time as Windows one, all that changes is the rendering method AFAIK.
And the TF2 team, as did everyone in Valve, gets involved with polishing a game close to its release, to iron out bugs, fix any major issues, that kind of thing.
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It's just another platform like the 360 so it won't have that much of an affect on development times. Clearly they have a codebase which can be compiled and run under Windows, Mac, and the 360 without them having to fiddle around with anything. It's the same with a lot of engines nowadays. Sometimes it's a simple as hitting a button and letting the compiler do all the leg work for you.
Anyway, I couldn't care for Macs but this is some pretty big news that will surely bring other big games to non-Windows platforms. Maybe the OpenGL render path could lead to a Linux port as well. That would be fantastic.
Anyway, I couldn't care for Macs but this is some pretty big news that will surely bring other big games to non-Windows platforms. Maybe the OpenGL render path could lead to a Linux port as well. That would be fantastic.