Half-life 2

[Nuketheplace]

So I booted up my computer today and started up steam.  Getting ready to play ns I was greeted with something different.  There was that little "Unlocking Game Files" thing that you saw when you first got Counterstirke:Source.  Then I look below the little status bar and see it says now unlocking Half-Life 2.  Will someone please tell me whats going on?

[ANeM]

They unlocked.. certain parts. Not quite sure why
Though I'm now able to browse the GCF files with gcfscape, which I can't remember doing before.

Edit: Congrats on 200 posts.. unless your postcount got edited previously.. in which case uh.. something.

[Isamil]

Yeah that happend to everyone.

[Grimm]

Except for those of us that didn't let it preload Halflife 2.

[bacon_flaps]

Because those people are weirdos.

[Satiagraha]

heeyyyy, I didn't preload HL2... :angry:

[Evangelion_2]

I read on some thread on the steam forums that it is like half of the key you need to unlock the files and when the game is released they send you the other part.

[Grimm]

I didn't preload HL2 either, but it doesn't make any of us weirdos. I just didn't quite care to have the files sitting there, taking up space without having any immediate purpose.

[Malevolent]

I didn't preload it either. I like to have a copy in my hands.

[Anarki3x6]

yeeeessssss, it unlocked some stuff for me when i went to play cs:s

[lolfighter]

Aye. Why waste precious bandwidth on preloading unless you plan on buying it online? If you buy the retail version, you don't need the preloaded files.

[Isamil]

Well, I bought it online.

[Seth]

same, silver pack.

last i heard it was nov. 16th-18th release date.  :ph34r:

[Dubbilex]

Aye. Why waste precious bandwidth on preloading unless you plan on buying it online? If you buy the retail version, you don't need the preloaded files.

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well, apparently most are preloading it even IF they buy it from the store.  they just simply want to have it already residing on their hard-drives, ready to be installed as soon as they can get a cd-key (freeing themselves from the cd-install hassle)

lazy, eh?

[lolfighter]

Ultra-lazy. And these are the people that will complain about bandwidth as soon as you post a few pictures in a thread or place custom user icons on your game server.

[Grimm]

I'll be buying it online, so eventually I'll be downloading it anyway. I just didn't see much point in downloading it two months in advance. Plus I may or may not be wiping my harddrive and reformatting it before the release, so it'd have been a waste to get it twice.

[That Annoying Kid]

grimm makes excellent points, and I am willing to sit thur a cd / dvd install

[Isamil]

I'll be buying it online, so eventually I'll be downloading it anyway. I just didn't see much point in downloading it two months in advance. Plus I may or may not be wiping my harddrive and reformatting it before the release, so it'd have been a waste to get it twice.

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Grimm, you just need to backup the GCFs on CD.  They also compress really well, you can do all the source ones in 3-4 CDs.

[Mr.Bill]

How can you make a shrine without the cdcase/box? HOW?!

[Grimm]

Gold version gets a box anyway, along with all the other stuff (although all I really want it for is the soundtrack CD).