Quote: "p.s. like the comic strip raven commander keen rofl"
Hehee, Scott makes some funny strips. I like his recent one about Geforce/Radeon people, cracked me up.
Quote: "have you seen alyx on the half-life site, standing next to freeman?
bloody hell - that is what you call graphics!!!"
Those graphics might be even more amazing if they weren't photoshop CG from Sketches
Quote: "Will HL2 have the same silly system where, once you upgrade to have to be connected to the internet to play the game ?"
Like Half-Life (1.2.0.1) this is a choice of the user.
You can either start standardly via the Booter, or through steam.
Unfortunately if you wish to update HL2 you *HAVE* to log onto steam and let it do it's things, and online games again won't show up unless your logged in.
Personally I run HL via Steam anyways, because there are more graphics options; suchas 32-bit which can be a pain to all alter within HL itself. But it isn't necessary.
Quote: "Where'd you get that? Steam's offline mode is total crap! This is how it works. You have to log in (must be online to do so) to use Valve products. Whatever you do, DON'T signout. I made this mistake and wasn't able to sign back for weeks. Of course this isn't a problem for broadband, but for dialup its SCREWED!"
I've been using Steam since the Beta, never had a problem apart from when I tried to copy HL2 Cache directly into it updating with the Beta version... it DID NOT like that
Took me a valve engineer to figure out how to set it back up.
I kept hearing horror stories about Steam, each time I heard one I'd deliberatly log-in and try to break it how they claim it broke. Can't say that it has ever acted incorrectly for me. Don't understand why ook hate it so.
Quote: "Oh and don't be surprised when your windows settings change, your gfx card starts fizzling, or you can't use DirectX. You were warned, Steam is bad."
:: Has a library of 12 different Videos cards that change often from NVIDIA/ATI/S3 manufacturers and has never had a problem with Steam ::
Quote: "The only down side of Steam is at the moment they seem to experincing alot of Ddos attacks, which is bringing the whole network down. 100,000 very angry people."
This is nothing to do with Steam though, this has every to do with twats who want to attack a company on hear'say.
Quite frankly I'm personally getting sick and tired of hearing of these DDoS attacks or worse experiencing the aftershocks of them, it is something I'm taking extremely seriously with a new project of mine and have been investigating the legal possible application of a hunter virus...
If you don't know what a hunter virus, try a search for PolyMorph 'SweetJustice', one of the best virus ever created specifically for hackers to get a surprise.
