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Half-Life 2: Episode 2: Statistics & Deathmaps from 467.000 sessions
Half-Life 2: Episode 2: Statistics & Deathmaps from 467.000 sessions
Last updated on November 17, 2007 - 02:59.
Valve Software has disclosed several statistics that they've gathered during a period of seven days from gamers playing Half-Life 2: Episode 2 via Steam. The survey compiles results from 467,613 play sessions, with an average session duration of 27 min.
Valve provides six graphs with detailed numbers on completion time (average 6h 11m), total play time (average 4h 42m), highest map played, average number of deaths, DirectX version and difficulty settings (only 9% played on Hard). They also introduce a Deathmaps feature, showing at which place of a map players died. Here are some interesting and amusing ones (sorted by level):
- ep2_outland_05: Didn't we all die at least once in that spot?
- ep2_outland_06: A lot of people didn't make it across the bridge.
- ep2_outland_10: What's with the spots in the top right corner?
- ep2_outland_10a: Quite a few deaths in the race against ... uhm ... Dog?
- ep2_outland_12: The whole map of the final battle is colored.
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Last updated on November 17, 2007 - 02:59
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Very interesting. I can't recognize the first map though.
You mean ep2_outland_05? You'll start out in the bottom left corner and, along Alyx and a Vortigaunt, move up to what's now the red dot. A little further up there'll be two Antlion Guardians on each side of the railway and that's where most players retreat to the little barricade with the Antlion repelling machine in the middle -- hence the red dot.
ah thanks, I didn't knew that the repelling machine works on guardians too.
Well, they were easy to circle strafe and there were enough explosive thingies lying around =)