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''Half-Life 2: Lost Coast'' is an additional level for Valve Software 's 2004 First-person Shooter Computer Game '' Half-Life 2 ''. It was originally slated to be a part of the ''Highway 17'' chapter of the game, but was dropped. ''Lost Coast'' was released on October 27 2005 . PURPOSES ''Half-Life 2: Lost Coast'' was developed as a playable Technology Demo , intended to showcase the new HDR lighting features of the Source Engine . ''Lost Coast'' also demonstrates in general what the Source engine can achieve when system requirements and detail levels are significantly increased over games designed to run on a broad base of computers, with high-resolution textures and models. ''Lost Coast'' 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. 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 may release intermittently. The renaming of the full expansion previously known as ''Half-Life 2: Aftermath'' to '''' is seen as further confirmation of this release strategy. DEVELOPER COMMENTARY Aside from visual fidelity and HDR, ''Lost Coast'' is also acting as a testbed for a '' commentary system '' where, when the option is enabled, additional items appear in the game world that can be interacted with to play an audio commentary. Players will hear the developers talk about what they are seeing, what is happening, why they chose to do it, what kind of challenges they faced, and so on. Commentary tracks are represented by floating speech bubbles. To listen to a commentary track, the player places his crosshair over it, and presses the use key. Doing the same again will stop the commentary track. Commands can be run when a commentary track starts and stops; in ''Lost Coast'' this is used to disable the AI while the track plays. Valve plans to make commentary standard in all of their future titles. ''Lost Coast'' is not the first title to include developer commentaries: a similar feature can be seen in the secret "Insomniac Museum" level found in ''''. RECOMMENDED SYSTEM SPECIFICATIONS
''Lost Coast'' is a 98 MB compressed download from Steam. Despite some claims to the contrary, ''Lost Coast'' runs on computers with specifications lower than that listed above, albeit without features such as HDR. EXTERNAL LINKS
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