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The Ready Room => General => Topic started by: Vinegar Ninja on November 30, 2004, 11:04:38 PM

Title: who DOSNT it work for?
Post by: Vinegar Ninja on November 30, 2004, 11:04:38 PM: it dosnt work for me!
STUPID STEAM!
curses!
Title: who DOSNT it work for?
Post by: rad4Christ on November 30, 2004, 11:06:28 PM: Mispelled Titles FTW!
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Post by: Dark on November 30, 2004, 11:07:41 PM: yes really for the win though it doesn't work for nor does any other hl2 related game
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Post by: bacon_flaps on November 30, 2004, 11:55:23 PM: Works for me =/
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Post by: TheMunch8 on December 01, 2004, 12:45:57 AM: works for me tried out a game for a bit. Its *decent* but i am so used to advanced gameplay like NS, it gets kinda...boring fast
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Post by: Keyser59 on December 01, 2004, 01:05:44 AM: I got it working (at first), and the game is extremely good. Perhaps one of the best deathmatches I have ever played.

Even though the server I played on had 200 ping, all my shots hit and I could even hit people with the slow moving crossbow. Gravity gun works unbelievably well even in a 200 ping environment. Magnum is a bit overpowered, and the shotgun is a bit underpowered. You can nail people left and right if you can aim with the magnum.

But now I try to start it up and it doesn't load. Oh well.

But this release really excites me. After playing this, you get a glimpse of some of the amazing possibilities in the future.
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Post by: Sancho on December 01, 2004, 02:00:58 AM: HL2 doesn't work anymore for me.
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Post by: ANeM on December 01, 2004, 02:31:59 AM: Never got HL2DM working. HL2 and CS:S also broke along with the update.
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Post by: Dark on December 01, 2004, 07:16:30 AM: the games work for me now yays :D
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Post by: lolfighter on December 01, 2004, 08:28:07 AM: Quote
Never got HL2DM working. HL2 and CS:S also broke along with the update.
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The irony is killing me. One of the supposed strong points of Steam was supposed to be that "look, we can fix things in no time and you don't need to make a conscious effort to get those fixes!", and in the end it breaks stuff more often than it fixes it and you cannot make a conscious effort to avoid it.

(Or can you? It's been so long since I used Steam, can you turn off automatic updates?)
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Post by: Clashen on December 01, 2004, 10:25:26 AM: Quote
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Never got HL2DM working. HL2 and CS:S also broke along with the update.
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The irony is killing me. One of the supposed strong points of Steam was supposed to be that "look, we can fix things in no time and you don't need to make a conscious effort to get those fixes!", and in the end it breaks stuff more often than it fixes it and you cannot make a conscious effort to avoid it.

(Or can you? It's been so long since I used Steam, can you turn off automatic updates?)
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You can.
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Post by: Malevolent on December 01, 2004, 10:45:20 AM: Quote
I got it working (at first), and the game is extremely good. Perhaps one of the best deathmatches I have ever played.

Even though the server I played on had 200 ping, all my shots hit and I could even hit people with the slow moving crossbow. Gravity gun works unbelievably well even in a 200 ping environment. Magnum is a bit overpowered, and the shotgun is a bit underpowered. You can nail people left and right if you can aim with the magnum.

But now I try to start it up and it doesn't load. Oh well.

But this release really excites me. After playing this, you get a glimpse of some of the amazing possibilities in the future.
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I assume the magnum is as powerful as it is in single player, since it's as strong as hell in it.

And yes, a 200 ping is very playable, and would make me happy.
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Post by: Guspaz on December 01, 2004, 10:46:24 AM: Quote
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I got it working (at first), and the game is extremely good. Perhaps one of the best deathmatches I have ever played.

Even though the server I played on had 200 ping, all my shots hit and I could even hit people with the slow moving crossbow. Gravity gun works unbelievably well even in a 200 ping environment. Magnum is a bit overpowered, and the shotgun is a bit underpowered. You can nail people left and right if you can aim with the magnum.

But now I try to start it up and it doesn't load. Oh well.

But this release really excites me. After playing this, you get a glimpse of some of the amazing possibilities in the future.
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I assume the magnum is as powerful as it is in single player, since it's as strong as hell in it.

And yes, a 200 ping is very playable, and would make me happy.
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The magnum seemed like a one-hit-kill to me in HL2DM
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Post by: Sancho on December 01, 2004, 10:55:49 AM: My HL2 started working again lastnight.

And yeah, the magnum is ridiculous.
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Post by: Hopelessness on December 01, 2004, 11:37:50 AM: Quote
The irony is killing me. One of the supposed strong points of Steam was supposed to be that "look, we can fix things in no time and you don't need to make a conscious effort to get those fixes!", and in the end it breaks stuff more often than it fixes it and you cannot make a conscious effort to avoid it.
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Well, I think they just proved that they in fact are able to get fixes out rather quickly.
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Post by: devicenull on December 01, 2004, 03:16:50 PM: Can't confirm this atm, but it looks the like server cvar "sk_plr_dmg_357" should control the damage done by the magnum :)
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Post by: Leaderz0rz on December 01, 2004, 04:34:39 PM: its crazy powerful, BUT it is limited by its low ammo, and slow reload. I think if it took two shots to kill you without HEV armor then that would be fair.
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Post by: Legionnaired on December 01, 2004, 04:46:11 PM: The magnum SOMETIMES doesn't kill you in one hit, if you hit them in the leg of shoulder. Otherwise, you're done.
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Post by: Sir-Smoke-A-Lot on December 01, 2004, 05:55:09 PM: It's so odd that for so many people hl2 didn't work for them, and seemed to break their other games, such as cs:s. For me the transition to hl2dm couldn't have been smoother (Except every server at first was either full, locked, or laggy). All in all, hl2dm seemed like a successful release to me.
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Post by: bacon_flaps on December 01, 2004, 06:08:21 PM: Quote
Immediately after the release of HL2DM last night, users who run Source Engine games (including Half-Life 2 and Counter-Strike: Source) under DirectX 7 or who run with less than the recommended amount of RAM were affected by a game crash. This caused them to be unable to run HL2 or CS:S for a short time. Shortly after midnight PST, we released a fix which cleared the problem up.

I think a patch within 3 hours is plenty quick, LF.
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Post by: Anarki3x6 on December 01, 2004, 09:35:09 PM: only problems i had with it was that i needed to have steam re-check all my hl2 files then reboot to get hl2dm to work :) took a while but it works so its all good
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Post by: duherman on December 01, 2004, 09:49:05 PM: Why nothing ever happens to me. I never have issues with Steam, Only issues I ever had were with my Hardware. btw Should I get a p4 or a amd. Right now I perfer p4
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Post by: Mr.Bill on December 02, 2004, 06:58:40 PM: Only issue I had release day was that it took forever to connect to a server

once I found a decent one, I had great fun :-D