[DEFINITIVE] Half-Life 2 Thread


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what i did get in the dvd case was a small leaflet which shows the ingame controls. and thats it :angry:

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Valve wants to make more money from the sale of their guide books. :happy:

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Is it mandatory to have login to Steam in order to play this game? I was thinking if I could install one copy of HL2 onto two of my PCs and play single-player mode for both of them. Is it possible?

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Unfortunately yes, you have to create a Steam account, register your serial with them before the game is unlocked and made playable both online & offline.

P.S.

There is NOT an unblocker program, that program that is going around is confirmed to be a Trojan (stealing your registration codes):

http://www.boomtown.net/en_uk/articles/art.view.php?id=6637

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Unfortunately yes, you have to create a Steam account, register your serial with them before the game is unlocked and made playable both online & offline.

P.S.

There is NOT an unblocker program, that program that is going around is confirmed to be a Trojan (stealing your registration codes):

http://www.boomtown.net/en_uk/articles/art.view.php?id=6637

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But Valve mentioned that gamers will only have to authenticate the game once and be able to play the game in "Offline mode" which I suppose is not logged into the Steam network.

If this is so, I can authenticate it on PC One first, and then authenticate it on PC Two.

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SUBSCRIPTION SUCCESSFUL

Finally, I got impatient and exited Steam (from the taskbar), reloaded Steam - selected Play HL2 and it worked :) right now it's unlocking the game for me to play...WOOHOO!!!

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But Valve mentioned that gamers will only have to authenticate the game once and be able to play the game in "Offline mode" which I suppose is not logged into the Steam network.

If this is so, I can authenticate it on PC One first, and then authenticate it on PC Two.

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That was my theory...but the only problem I forsee is that, once installed/registered/unlocked on both machines, can both machines play online at the same time?

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That was my theory...but the only problem I forsee is that, once installed/registered/unlocked on both machines, can both machines play online at the same time?

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I'm sure that both PCs will not be able to play online at the same time. One Steam account can only be used by one connection at a time. If a second user logs in, the concurrent user will be kicked out of the network.

My brother wants to play it too, but I can't afford to spend so much on another copy of HL2. :(

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I'm sure that both PCs will not be able to play online at the same time. One Steam account can only be used by one connection at a time. If a second user logs in, the concurrent user will be kicked out of the network.

My brother wants to play it too, but I can't afford to spend so much on another copy of HL2. :(

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In the same position as I am then. Oh well, that'll teach him to buy his own games ;) (then again I could get it for him for Xmas - can't think of anything else)

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:cry:  :cry:  :cry:

WHY WHY WHY :(

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I posted this 2 pages ago, but hey - the solution is on the same page as your post...scroll up and look for:

SUBSCRIPTION SUCCESSFUL

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