[DEFINITIVE] Half-Life 2 Thread

[ctomer]

Cool. Where in Leeds?

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Pudsey, not very far away from the Owlcotes Centre.

[Storm]

Ah cool :)

Im in Dewsbury, other side of morley, i go to Woodkirk high school :D

[Dotdot]

Ok need a wee bit of help from someone, whats the shortcut to preload Hl2 and CSS via steam, i know it poss but whats the path like "C:/Program Files/Valve/Steam.exe" -preload ?? etc thnks :)

[LiGhTfast]

Been buggin a few lads in ASDA all day to give me it earlier but they wouldn't

gonna be ?29.97 in asda if i remember. Only ?26.97 to me with discoun:p:p

[twiglet]

Ok need a wee bit of help from someone, whats the shortcut to preload Hl2 and CSS via steam, i know it poss but whats the path like "C:/Program Files/Valve/Steam.exe" -preload ?? etc thnks :)

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try steam://preload/220 for hl2

and

steam://preload/240 for css

[Phemo]

Yeah, I like the look of that - looks really cool.

[funaki]

its really nice. would use it for my hl2 copy also.

Thanks

[islanq]

Damn that is really nifty, don't mean to be a nag but perhaps you can do a little tutorial with screen shots about how to arrange your's backed up files so if you use your installer it will work smoothly ;)

[JimmyT]

Is Halflife2 in stores the bronze or silver edition? Does anyone know it the gold version will be available tomorrow?

[Sn1p3t]

so lets say someone (me) never got into half life that much, but is interested in the backstory, as this person (still me) is really excited for hl2. i got about half way through the first one, but then comp crashed. never got the ambition to start it up again i guess. too many other games took precidence.

so my question is: does anyone know where to secure a scropt or something for the origional half life?

and yes, i will be playing half life source, but i don't think i could go all the way through it before playing half life 2 :)

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I think Gabe said that they made the story so both HL vetrans and newbies would be able to play. The beginning of the game is going to be confusing for both parties.

[Co-ords]

Amazon.co.uk just dispatched my copy 4 ?33.26 incl VAT & delivery.... WOOOOOOT!!!!!

[Varsity]

I went into Game before I got the bus back. They had the empty boxes on display as usual, with the 'coming soon reserve yours now' sticker.

But wait...what's this below every coming soon sticker? Yup, it's the price tag sticker. Naughty naughty! ;)

[Daptonic]

Looks awesome. I'll definately use it if you release it. Great Job.

[Dotdot]

HALF LIFE 2 DVD FRONT END

Designed to aid steam users wishing to backup there Halflife 2 files to dvd. This provides a usable front end much like an auto installer. However this will only launch the install for steam and once then you may click the options to load Halflife 2 or borwes the disk for your own GCF files :)

DOWNLOAD HERE http://www.colicab.com/Hl2dvd.zip

[Larney]

Very nice, thank you (Y)

[Nexus-]

great but may i make a suggestion? have the top left pic of the combile soldier slowly fade to random screenshots and artwork in that "square"

[nobias]

Does this working with alternate locations, such as a second partition (IE: D:\Games\Steam\SteamApps\)?

[Dotdot]

yip it basically runs the steam insatller so once youve got that on there it,ll open up hl2 etc via steam shortcuts.

random screens yes i could do but well see, as i dunno i need to make a few diff ones and then code in the random selection code

[DWk]

Why no putting Gordon on the pics? He is, nonetheless, the main character :p

[G4M3R]

Very nice :yes:

[Nexus-]

yip it basically runs the steam insatller so once youve got that on there it,ll open up hl2 etc via steam shortcuts.

random screens yes i could do but well see, as i dunno i need to make a few diff ones and then code in the random selection code

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or you could cycle thru images (easier) im sorry for being a pain :pinch:

[AgEnTsMiTh]

The excitement is at full force now. In anticipation for even more posts on this subject, this will be the official thread to discuss the following.....

Post your in game screen shots.

Requests for help (computer related as well as Steam)

General Discussion.

If you are stuck at any point in the game, post for assistance here.

Also, please keep in mind, use the spoiler tag.

[JadeWolf324]

im not going into work 2morrow. im playing this first thing !

[vincent]

(Y)

[fishie]

farcry was the first to release a next gen fps. i have no interest in hl2. looks like every other game thats put out now, and some even look better.