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« Reply #25 on: November 16, 2004, 11:06:02 PM » |
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after playing for 3 hours its safe to say HL2 rocks!
I concur with that statement so far. I've played about 4 hours so far. The level of detail is pretty amazing, even in places you might normally just fly by on the air boat. I'm doing more exploring! |
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GamingLordX
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« Reply #26 on: November 16, 2004, 11:06:10 PM » |
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Good info GLX, but isn't Counter Strike a whole different game? Why are you being forced to install it and then remove it?
Counter-Strike: Source (which is the new version of Counter-Strike that was remade using the HL2 Source engine - if you didn't know already) comes included with Half-Life 2. No matter what. You cannot buy Half-Life 2 without getting Counter-Strike: Source included. You are suppose to have an option to skip the install of Counter-Stike: Source but because of a glitch you have to install it if you wan't to play Half-life 2. Why? No one knows. This glitch should be fixed with a patch in the near future. Besides, you don't have to uninstall Counter-Srike: Source if you don't wan't to. The link in my previous post was explaining how to uninstall Counter-Strike: Source if you absolutely hate the game and want it uninstalled no matter what. I know its seems really complicated, but hopefully I explained it good enough. Any other questions?  |
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GamingLordX
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« Reply #27 on: November 16, 2004, 11:09:23 PM » |
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The movie came out or the game came out for PC?
The Chronicles fo Riddick DVD just came out today. |
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« Reply #28 on: November 17, 2004, 12:22:10 AM » |
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pre downloading from steam weeks ago is the win! |
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« Reply #29 on: November 17, 2004, 12:31:49 AM » |
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movie rocks, it is the unrated editors cut. Blows away the version in the theaters I saw.
I am not dense GLX, you have to admit that HL2 has the screwiest install of any game ever.
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MrbLOB9000
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« Reply #30 on: November 17, 2004, 12:43:57 AM » |
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hehe, I didn't take it that he was mocking you. It is fairly bass akwards from the way you'd expect it to be, plus if you didn't know that steam was actually valve, then it'd seem even more messed up!
I will have to go buy the movie then! I never got a chance to see it in the theater, the only screen playing it within 45mins. was one that didn't have airconditioning... Summer in Ill. with no AC really sucks, so I didn't get a chance to see it.
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« Reply #31 on: November 17, 2004, 03:17:29 AM » |
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Downloaded a few days ago from steam without problems.
Got it activated thru steam 00:14 PST, so far so good.
I know its terribly frustrating when servers aren't working and you can't
play the game you spent your money on.
But I'll still back up Valve's steam activation process, if they fix this problem damn fast
and if it means fewer illegal copies of the game circulating.
I just hate game piracy !!!!
Anyone who steal from my Gods who create these wonderful games that
make my life complete should be fragged, with no respawn, faster than
a 41 year old fart (like myself) against a gang of teenagers in TFC.
//Xtian (Pure nerd, pure gamer, happily investing my hard earned cash on games.
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« Reply #32 on: November 17, 2004, 03:21:27 AM » |
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I am totally blown away by this game... where as I found Doom3 was a complete let down (still haven't played beyond the first 40 minutes) this game has (thus far) excelled ALL of my expectations. It is pure gaming bliss!
I am glad that I didn't feel the need to own a box and had it already pre-loaded. I restarted Steam at 08:01 GMT and waited for the 15 minutes for the game to unpack (whilst cussing my lack of RAID configd raptors!) I got to play for a whole 10 minutes before I went to work giggling like a girl.
I got home yesterday, slammed the micro-meal in the microwave and didn't stop playing till 11 (OK so I could have played for longer but I have to work... oh and City17 dreams are probably not conducive to sleep). It is sooooooo wonderful to be back in that Valve mind-set, the puzzles are just plain perfect, the graphics all-though not as cutting edge as Doom3 run fantastically on my 9700pro and the universe that they depict is just so believeable.
Forget work, forget friends, forget food, forget drink, forget mind-numbing drugs (till friday), forget every other game ever..... choose HL2!
Shite got to go to work.
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« Reply #33 on: November 17, 2004, 01:07:51 PM » |
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Well what a great deal of hassle. Ive spent several hours of my life WASTED trying to get my version of HL2 to register properly with Steam with no success. Now it appears that the Servers are down so I probably wont be able to get it sorted tonight. I don't see how this new fangled protection is going to last any longer than 5 minutes in the hands of the best hackers and yet it has managed to annoy plenty of legitimate customers who have bought this game.
Well all I can say is thanks to Valve for:
Wasting hours of my life,
Denying me access to software I have legitamately purchased,
Stressing me out.
All I can say is tommorrow I take the game back to the store and wait until a cracked version appears (F*ck you Valve!).
Wow thankyou everyone I was glad to get that off my chest. I couldnt be bothered to take the game back and the servers had calmed down this mornin so I managed to get it properly registered for offline play then! (Phew) guess that means I'm gonna be playing HL2 til 12pm 2nite instead! Maybe if it's good (as if there is ever any doubt) then I'll retract my previous comments re. Valve. |
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« Reply #34 on: November 17, 2004, 03:20:02 PM » |
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Well I finally got Steam to authenticate my purchase and all of that good stuff. Haven't gotten to play yet, but I saw the intro screen and it looks sweet! I tried for a while to play and it would try to connect me through steam, but you can play once you've been authenticated without being logged on. You have to choose to be in offline mode. I had to actually unplug my cat5 just to get it to give me the option, but it worked, so that's what i'll be doing to play. Can't wait!
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« Reply #35 on: November 17, 2004, 03:54:11 PM » |
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if this game is just looking to valve to see if it everythnig is valid, why can't someone just:
1. Use their firewall, capture the ip address and name it is connecting to
2. Edit their lmhost file so that the system will not connect to that IP
3. redirect that ip to their own machine?
I did this way another piece of software I have. I legally bought the software but did not like that it would not even run unless it connected to the net first and checked for updates. Not only did it do this but would also try and download extra goodies as well.
If you do not connect the software would not start.
Ever since the lmhost file trick it runs just fine 100% of the time without ever being tied to the net.
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« Reply #36 on: November 17, 2004, 06:13:42 PM » |
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Hi everyone
GeorgeBreese - Yeah i bought the game(retail) the day it came out in NZ and had the exact same "hl2.ico1" error - thought the disk was defective but as has been mentioned, just updated steam, included CS:Source in the re-install and everything was sweet from then on!
I know i'm regurgitating info from previous posts but just had to chime in - especially because of the extreme misery I felt when i couldn't play my damn game. All in all, despite server outages I quite like my first experience with Steam / Valve / HL2 - not too painful!
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« Reply #37 on: November 17, 2004, 09:29:29 PM » |
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I just installed and authenticated but never got the option for the ofline mode. Reboot my box for giggles and low and behold the game will not start cuz I am not online. Pure BS.
I have to turn on my cable modem before the game will start.
Thing obviously has some sort ofspyware or it would not be able to tell you that you vid drivers are old.
So far not impress with this aspect at all. Also not impressed that there is nothing in the box but 5 cds and an orange quick start card.
No documentation, no little story blurb to what is going on in the game, nothing.
So I start the game with zero clue and after about 10 minutes of playing you still have no clue to WTF is going on. Walking around and then all of a sudden being forced to the roof and being shot at.
I don't mind that but love to know WTF is going on in the story!!
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« Reply #38 on: November 17, 2004, 11:04:25 PM » |
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So I start the game with zero clue and after about 10 minutes of playing you still have no clue to WTF is going on. Walking around and then all of a sudden being forced to the roof and being shot at.
I don't mind that but love to know WTF is going on in the story!!
This is one of those games that is HEAVILY tied in with the previous game storyline wise. It probably would of been a good idea to play the first one before you played the second one to familiarize yourself with the story again. |
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« Reply #39 on: November 18, 2004, 06:50:06 AM » |
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Ahhh, bliss. Played HL2 last nite after I got home from work from 6pm til 1am with only a 10 minute interruption for dinner. Although graphics arent as good as Doom 3, the physics are amazing and the story is cool!!!!!!!!
Thanks Valve - All is Fogiven!!!!!!!
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« Reply #40 on: November 18, 2004, 08:13:32 PM » |
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The engine isn't as advanced as D3...but nobody can beat John Carmack so I can't fault valve  The artwork is fantastic and the physics engine is really cool The gameplay owns and it runs really well on my system Other than a crap install, it's a great game |
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« Reply #41 on: November 19, 2004, 04:56:32 AM » |
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The engine isn't as advanced as D3...but nobody can beat John Carmack so I can't fault valve
The artwork is fantastic and the physics engine is really cool The gameplay owns and it runs really well on my system
Other than a crap install, it's a great game
HL2 scales way better than D3 though. A friend of mine played it on his secondary machine that's a P4 2.5GHz with a PCI TNT2 32MB and it ran well at 1024x768 on medium detail! I will give you that from what I've seen the lighting seems to be better in D3. (havn't played HL2 yet) |
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« Reply #42 on: November 19, 2004, 09:54:21 PM » |
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The MOST annoying thing for me is that Steam deliberately and ONLY caches the game on your C: drive partition. I stopped using steam and completely uninstalled my legitimate purchased copy of Half-Life and all the add-ons because STEAM NEVER worked properly and I don't want it installed on my C: partition. This is not a friendly tactic for power users with multiple partitions. I want my software installed where I want it, not where steam wants it.  |
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« Reply #43 on: November 19, 2004, 10:01:04 PM » |
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The MOST annoying thing for me is that Steam deliberately and ONLY caches the game on your C: drive partition. I stopped using steam and completely uninstalled my legitimate purchased copy of Half-Life and all the add-ons because STEAM NEVER worked properly and I don't want it installed on my C: partition. This is not a friendly tactic for power users with multiple partitions. I want my software installed where I want it, not where steam wants it.
Not sure what you are talking about. I installed the whole thing under my "D" drive and nothing from the game is on my "C" drive. Like you I put nothing on my "C" drive but the OS and other common apps (Office, Winzip, etc...). Everything else goes on my "D" drive. |
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« Reply #44 on: November 19, 2004, 10:20:30 PM » |
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MTP,
steam caches GB's worth of valve game data on you C drive without you knowing..it's part of the install process. i.e. it doesn't tell you it's caching all this data to your C: partition, but it does...big time.
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« Reply #45 on: November 20, 2004, 12:41:36 AM » |
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MTP,
steam caches GB's worth of valve game data on you C drive without you knowing..it's part of the install process. i.e. it doesn't tell you it's caching all this data to your C: partition, but it does...big time.
Yoo'd have to tell me where you think that is going because it order for it to do that it would require generating a folder of some sort. The only folders on my "C" drive are related to the OS, drivers and like a said other apps. I actually watch the size of my "C" drive and it has never changed since I loaded everything. Out of 80G roughly 67G is left open. My "D" drive is nothing more than my stuff and I have only used 25G of a 160G hdd. Even the "My Documents" folder is nothing more that a redirect to my "D" drive. The only place I have anything "steam" is on my "D" drive. That is where the Steam excutable is as well as the HL exe. and all its folders. |
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« Reply #46 on: November 22, 2004, 10:38:08 AM » |
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Some interesting tidbits I found over the weekend...
* Hackers claim to have a way for it to run without Steam. Someone tried it and said, why didn't they work on removing the Securom CD check? I found a Securom-less copy of HL2.EXE in one of the GCF files. FYI, GCF files can be opened using GCFScape. Out of curiosity, I tried it on my installation, but Steam overwrote my extracted EXE with the Securom-protected one.
* My nearest CompUSA store wants US$79 per copy. My total bill at WalMart, including groceries, came to $60.
* The CompUSA store's display had a warning sign, which told about the HL2.ICO1 issue and the delays in activating the product.
* Tons of sites are describing an unusable method of enabling cheats. The one method that works is to modify the config.cfg file.
Between playing with the GCF files, and wondering where to get a working copy of filesystem_stdio.dll, and trying to find the cheats, and hanging out with my kids, I only had a few minutes in which to actually play the game. I'm barely past the point where I've been teleported, and it's annoyingly clear that I'm being herded in specific directions as tightly as previous HL games did.
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