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Posted by Tracer Bullet on Fri Nov 19th at 6:07am 2004

? quoting omegaslayer

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v255/drew2k/alyx_underwear.jpg

Has anyone noticed this?

That's pretty funny. I'm sure my video card doesn't render that.

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Posted by Pvt.Scythe on Fri Nov 19th at 6:23am 2004

Goddammit. It appears that there's no collectors edition in shops of Finland. Well I was going to buy the cheaper version anyway... I hope I'll get it today, otherwise I'm going to explode... [addsig]



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Posted by Crono on Fri Nov 19th at 6:33am 2004

? quoting Pvt.Scythe
Goddammit. It appears that there's no collectors edition in shops of Finland. Well I was going to buy the cheaper version anyway... I hope I'll get it today, otherwise I'm going to explode...


Neither the shirt nor "book" is impressive. The only difference is HL:S (And possibly DoD:S). I also heard some guy was porting over hl2 models to HL:S

However, I hear (courtesy of Vash) that the book "Half-Life 2: Raising the Bar" is awesome.

Also, be forewarned that buying the retail versions makes steam ask you for the f**king disc every time you go to run anything that may have come on the discs (HL2, CS:S, HL:S).
I'm fairly sure they'll patch it, but I think in some aspect they're just trying to be dicks. [addsig]



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Posted by ReNo on Fri Nov 19th at 7:15am 2004

Autolycus over at VERC said that the disc thing was Vivendi's decision as opposed to Valve's. Does sound pretty lame, I hate having to put disks in to play games, so fingers crossed they fix it for you.
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Posted by $loth on Fri Nov 19th at 7:40am 2004

? quoting Neural Scan

Left me with the same feeling I had completing the first one...

*whispers* I haven't completed the first one

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Posted by Crono on Fri Nov 19th at 7:52am 2004

? quoting $loth
*whispers* I haven't completed the first one


Do it, now.

ReNo: figures. [addsig]



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Posted by Finger on Fri Nov 19th at 9:16am 2004

Just finished the game, about 5 mins ago.

Seriously, I am speechless.

I see alot of people bashing Valve. Hype is a dangerous thing, and I was quite nervous when I started playing; wondering if it would deliver. There were a few bugs with my game, and the load times were somewhat of a pain. All that aside. This was a goddamn masterpeice! Honestly, I don't even think you can call this a game. It's much more than that. Valve truly did raise the bar.

Now.... I can't wait to go pick apart there levels. Anyone know how to decompile these things?





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Posted by Pvt.Scythe on Fri Nov 19th at 10:21am 2004

I would've bought it over the steam, but I'm lacking something very essential namely a broadband connection... Damn Vivendi. I hate it when the CD-RoM(or DVD-RoM) speeds up. Both noise and the delay... I would've wanted the HL:S. Oh well. All is not lost. I just wish I could get to the gameshop. grr... Downsides of living in a forest on an island.

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Posted by Crono on Fri Nov 19th at 10:32am 2004

? quoting Pvt.Scythe
I would've bought it over the steam, but I'm lacking something very essential namely a broadband connection... Damn Vivendi. I hate it when the CD-RoM(or DVD-RoM) speeds up. Both noise and the delay... I would've wanted the HL:S. Oh well. All is not lost. I just wish I could get to the gameshop. grr... Downsides of living in a forest on an island.


The thing is, it really is just a nuisance. It only checks for the CD at the very beginning of launching the game (about the time to steam window comes up that says it's launching). And after that, you can take the thing out, it never checks again only when you boot the program up, because it IS using the gcf files.

However, even if you install off a DVD/CD it takes a while for steam to go through and Authenticate them with your account. I have a broadband connection and it took about 15 minutes to authenticate HL2, CS:S, and HL:S.

By the way, when I picked up my copy, the store I pre-ordered from had a huge stack of CEs for sale to whom ever, but no regular versions, they were stocked out for pre-orders. [addsig]



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Posted by Pvt.Scythe on Fri Nov 19th at 10:41am 2004

Please tell me it needs to authenticate the files only once... Oh and if someone with a dial-up would tell me how long it took for them to authenticate it would be helpful. And I just heard from a friend of mine that they(the place I'm getting the darn new messiah of FPS games) have HL2 in stock. I shall shut up for now. Anticipation makes me too chatty(or s**tty)... [addsig]



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Posted by Crono on Fri Nov 19th at 11:04am 2004

? quoting Pvt.Scythe
Please tell me it needs to authenticate the files only once... Oh and if someone with a dial-up would tell me how long it took for them to authenticate it would be helpful. And I just heard from a friend of mine that they(the place I'm getting the darn new messiah of FPS games) have HL2 in stock. I shall shut up for now. Anticipation makes me too chatty(or s**tty)...


Yes, authentication only needs to happen once. (Thus the reason why the CD being in the drive doesn't make sense) [addsig]



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Posted by scary_jeff on Fri Nov 19th at 11:41am 2004

If it's vivendi's idea and valve doesn't like it, why can't valve just release an auto-download patch on day 1 that means you don't have to have the disc in?



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Posted by Orpheus on Fri Nov 19th at 11:44am 2004

? quoting scary_jeff
If it's vivendi's idea and valve doesn't like it, why can't valve just release an auto-download patch on day 1 that means you don't have to have the disc in?

i promise i am not making fun of you jeff, but when i hear/read questions like this an old commercial goes through my head "Why ask why?"

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Posted by Crono on Fri Nov 19th at 11:51am 2004

? quoting scary_jeff
If it's vivendi's idea and valve doesn't like it, why can't valve just release an auto-download patch on day 1 that means you don't have to have the disc in?


I've noticed valve likes to take sweet ass time. Which wouldn't be so bad if they had proper press coverage. Oh and for anyone's information, E3 is NOT proper press coverage and neither is every half year a representative giving a paragraph of information. The company is a complete recluse even on it's own network. [addsig]



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Posted by Adam Hawkins on Fri Nov 19th at 12:11pm 2004

Bah! UK Collector's version is released on 10th December. How come we always get the crappy end of the stick? [addsig]



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Posted by Crono on Fri Nov 19th at 12:19pm 2004

? quoting Adam Hawkins
Bah! UK Collector's version is released on 10th December. How come we always get the crappy end of the stick?


Because the company it's coming from is 5000 (?) + miles away from you?

But seriously, the collectors edition really isn't anything special. See when I first heard about it the WarCraft 3 gift set popped into my head. And this is nothing like that. I think the only real benefit with CE over the normal retail is it's only a DVD (however, I guess in Europe the normal retail will be a DVD too) and you're allowed to play HL:S (which people are messing with to make it HL2 looking)


Unless you guys are getting some amazing version that wasn't released here. [addsig]



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Posted by Captain P on Fri Nov 19th at 12:29pm 2004

Here, in Holland, the normal retail version is DVD. I got a T-shirt along with it too, although I expected that to be for Collectors Edition only.

Nevermind, I'm happy with the game and the T-shirt. Almost ritual, playing HL2 with a devoted T-shirt...

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Posted by Agent Smith on Fri Nov 19th at 2:31pm 2004

Well I've just finished it and what a ride! The game was excellent up to the last chapter, which I thought lacked somewhat compared to the rest. And that ending?!Could we have expected anything less from valve.

Over all one of the best games I've played. Not overly long like the first HL or Far Cry (what a marathon for such a s**tty ending, did get to shoot the bad guy though ), but not so short you feel ripped off. A perfect balance of action and suspense with an excellent, if somewhat plagarised, story. The gravity gun, what a work of art!

Now all we need is the full, finished SDK so we can start mapping with all the resources available.

While on mapping, has anyone downloaded the new modelling program? I have and I can't run the damned thing in anything less than the highest resolution available on my PC. The labels are so tiny I can't read them!





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Posted by $loth on Fri Nov 19th at 4:18pm 2004

? quoting Crono
But seriously, the collectors edition really isn't anything special. See when I first heard about it the WarCraft 3 gift set popped into my head. And this is nothing like that. I think the only real benefit with CE over the normal retail is it's only a DVD (however, I guess in Europe the normal retail will be a DVD too) and you're allowed to play HL:S (which people are messing with to make it HL2 looking)


Unless you guys are getting some amazing version that wasn't released here.

So what's included in the collectors edition?

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Posted by Crono on Fri Nov 19th at 7:18pm 2004

In America:

A XL black HL2 shirt, a BOOKLET containing exerpts from the Prima stragity guide and the book "Raising The Bar". and a DVD inside a jewel case... with a large misleading box. [addsig]




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