HL2: Episode One "Official" Thread


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In anticipation of the game's release, being it is less than two days away, I am attempting to start this as the thread for everything and anything related to Half Life 2: Episode One (Y)

The Official HL2: Episode One Website with Countdown Clock.

Feel free to discuss absolutely anything and everything related to the game itself.

Your impressions, technical help, gameplay help, etc. etc.

Whatever it may be you want to post, hopefully this thread becomes the resource thread for everyone looking to respond about the game and/or members who are seeking any kind of help with the game itself.

Currently this is, as the title indicated, the "Unofficial" thread.

If enough people participate as I anticipate, I will change the title to the Definitive, and who knows, maybe even pin it if it really becomes a good resource.

Also, if you are curious about exactly what time it will be released in your area specifically...

Here are the timezones w/ the provided release time & date:

  • - 12GMT || 6:00AM (June 1st)
  • - 11GMT || 7:00AM (June 1st)
  • - 10GMT || 8:00AM (June 1st)
  • - 9GMT || 9:00AM (June 1st)
  • - 8GMT || 10:00AM (June 1st) (VALVe's Time)
  • - 7GMT || 11:00AM (June 1st)
  • - 6GMT || 12:00PM (June 1st)
  • - 5GMT || 1:00PM (June 1st)
  • - 4GMT || 2:00PM (June 1st)
  • - 3GMT || 3:00PM (June 1st)
  • - 2GMT || 4:00PM (June 1st)
  • - 1GMT || 5:00PM (June 1st)
  • GMT || 6:00PM (June 1st)
  • + 1GMT || 7:00PM (June 1st)
  • + 2GMT || 8:00PM (June 1st)
  • + 3GMT || 9:00PM (June 1st)
  • + 4GMT || 10:00PM (June 1st)
  • + 5GMT || 11:00PM (June 1st)
  • + 6GMT || 12:00AM (June 2nd)
  • + 7GMT || 1:00AM (June 2nd)
  • + 8GMT || 2:00AM (June 2nd)
  • + 9GMT || 3:00AM (June 2nd)
  • + 10GMT || 4:00AM (June 2nd)
  • + 11GMT || 5:00AM (June 2nd)
  • + 12GMT || 6:00AM (June 2nd)

The time table information above was taken from this thread located on the Steam forums.

I chose to do this for two reasons.

Reason #1:

First and foremost, I am very excited about this game.

I am sure just me myself will definitely wind up posting more than once about the game itself.

Reason # 2:

Hopefully we can all avoid having to read 20 different threads about the same game.

Usually when that happens, 18 out of those 20 threads made more often than not tend to get lost and overlooked.

Enjoy All. (Y) Hopefully the game is as good as I, and I think it is safe to say Everyone, hopes it is going to be.

Screenshot below taken (and resized) from The Official HL2: Episode One Media Page.

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Yep, hopefully the continuation to the greatest FPS of all time will be great. What the hell am I talking about. It's HL2... It's going to be good. I <3 Source.

I was looking at the newest screenshots for Crisys today and I have to say I am more drawn to the source "very detailed cartoon" style graphics. I dunno might be me, but I think games are starting to look too real.

Back on topic. This game is going to rock. I bought it a month ago and can't wait. there was no hesitation at all. Oooo look HL2 expansion for sale. -$$$. Anyway... 2 days to go.

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^yes... what are you talking about?

on topic, I CAN'T wait!! I'm thinking of skipping school just to play it.... but then I should't... o well.

I bought it with absoutly no hesitation at all, and I'm pretty poor, considering i'm 15, with no job, and a gf... oh well. :p

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^yes... what are you talking about?

on topic, I CAN'T wait!! I'm thinking of skipping school just to play it.... but then I should't... o well.

I bought it with absoutly no hesitation at all, and I'm pretty poor, considering i'm 15, with no job, and a gf... oh well. :p

Well I know this is the totally irresponsible thing to say, but I for one vote that you should take off of school.

Not the day it is released though, the day after it is released.

This way, you get home from school, do your thing, then start playing the game later that night. Take off of school the next day and finish the game that day!!!

Funny, I just went to go check the Countdown Timer, and it looks like today's lucky number is 1. :laugh:

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Anyone else trying to whizz through the HL2 single player one last time prior to episode one? I played for a couple of hours last night and got to Ravenholm, busy today though so looks like a marathon session tomorrow.

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I can't wait for this game either. I for one am a fan of Episodic content, i was skeptical to begin with but after playing SiN Episodes i think it can work out quite well.

I am looking forward to seeing if they're going to include the Hydra battle that was cut from the HL2 because it is was too tricky to program the A.I. for it.

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Woohoo! Got my retail copy in mail this morning. Cost me 13eur, 2eur shipping. Good to know they are also shipping HL2 Deathmatch and HL1 Deathmatch Source with it. I cant play it until later in the evening tomorrow. Also have a damn presentation to do. Timing couldn't have been perfect. Im going to reward myself when i get home tomorrow ;)

Possible Spoilers:

**D*O***N*O*T***R*E*A*D***B*E*L*O*W***

**D*O***N*O*T***R*E*A*D***B*E*L*O*W***

**D*O***N*O*T***R*E*A*D***B*E*L*O*W***

I think GMan

will also make an

appearance in EP1

since his pic is on

the side of the DVD

Game cover.

And if you listen

to teaser3, Alex

calls on gordon

to go get citizens.

Looks like he survived

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Woohoo! Got my retail copy in mail this morning. Cost me 13eur, 2eur shipping. Good to know they are also shipping HL2 Deathmatch and HL1 Deathmatch Source with it. I cant play it until later in the evening tomorrow. Also have a damn presentation to do. Timing couldn't have been perfect. Im going to reward myself when i get home tomorrow ;)

Possible Spoilers:

**D*O***N*O*T***R*E*A*D***B*E*L*O*W***

**D*O***N*O*T***R*E*A*D***B*E*L*O*W***

**D*O***N*O*T***R*E*A*D***B*E*L*O*W***

I think GMan

will also make an

appearance in EP1

since his pic is on

the side of the DVD

Game cover.

And if you listen

to teaser3, Alex

calls on gordon

to go get citizens.

Looks like he survived

Pics

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I don't understand why a thread isn't pinned after a major game is released anyway. Even Doom 3 had it's own thread for a while...

I was thinking about this too, and I agree.

I am going to go ahead and pin this thread once it is officially released, and change the topic name to read Official. Then just unpin it whenever it is suitable to do so. It just makes things easier for everyone involved. Members and Mods.

Right now the thread is kind of the calm before the storm so to speak, I figure let people get amped and give a friendly reminder it is almost here. I will pin it as soon as it is released and change the title to Official.

@ Saadu - That is seriously a form of torture there! I understand the whole Steam thing, but having the game and having to wait to play it is just downright unfair!

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I think GMan

will also make an

appearance in EP1

since his pic is on

the side of the DVD

Game cover.

Durrr...It says on the offical site stuff about how we'll learn more about the G-man.

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I can't wait to play it. Will be available at 1 PM over here, but I'm sure that I'll be too busy at that time to get into it... :(

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I can't wait to play it. Will be available at 1 PM over here, but I'm sure that I'll be too busy at that time to get into it... :(

I am with you, I cannot wait either. (Y)

Luckily for me these days, I work from home.

I am about to go to bed, but I decided to stay up this late working on stuff I have to do tomorrow, so when 1 PM rolls around, I take the rest of the day off, and just play the game.

Just 10 hours left. :yes:

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When I open Steam and click 'Purchase' (Half-Life 2: Episode One), I get a 'The page cannot be displayed' error :/

Internet Explorer seems to try and go to steam://purchase/79 but fails, and Firefox tells me that the steam protocol isn't associated with any program.

EDIT: Reinstalling Steam didn't help.

Edited by King Mustard
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Has anybody who purchased it online still pre-loading? Valve's servers are completely ridiculous, it's been pre-loading for the past eight hours. I'm only getting 15KB/s and it's only 65% done. (65%? Hmmm, that's what it said when it first started downloading!)

It's now 3AM I fear that I will not be done pre-loading by the time the game is released at 12PM today in my zone. I need to get to work at 1PM, damnit.

VALVE HURRY UP, please?

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I follow one simple rule when it comes to steam.

new stuff released, wait at least 48hrs before trying to download.

I know it sucks and i'm chomping at the bit too but if you want no hassle that's the way to do it. If you don't mind tearing your hair out then be one of the 1st

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