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[l337 Nurse Pedestrian]

OK I am so confused. I just bought HL2, and I want to play it. But how? It's so confusing with this Steam thingy. I already have my account, but i'm trying to play off line, but it says 'Not ready'. WHAT?????

Now I figure that you have to play online. And these guys have the balls to make me pay 55 bucks, to play single player game online.

DIE STEAM..


there is an offline mode though. How do I use it? (dial up)

[yukumura]

Dude good luck I had that same problem with couter strike with steam and I still haven't figured it out yet so good luck with that one

[Killer008r]

You had to connect to the internet so HL2 could be patched. (Also so Valve knows you have a legit copy, since alot of people are trying to steal it...dowload it...) When it finishes downloading, all you have to do is take the cable from your dial-up out and when it says "Cannot connect to the internet" you press Offline Mode.


And don't say it dosen't work. That's how I play on a LAN with 1 account.

[Jeigh]

if you have broadband steam is annoying but tolerable. if you have dialup I wish thee luck. I've gotten it into offline mode before when I was in places with dialup for awhile, buuuut it would randomly try to reconnect and freak out haha. Again, good luck and god speed :S

[abhiram]

You mean you can't even play the game unless you connect to the Internet and download their patch? That sux big time. I didn't know the HL2 developers were making it harder for regular users also to use their products. Isn't it even mentioned on the box that it is completely unusable unless you download the patch from the net?

[initial]

When you first register it, even though its a single player game, you have to be online for it to register. For safety precautions so people don't use same cd key and stuff, even though it is very annoying. Once you have done this you SHOULD be able to just play the game. But like as previously said, sometimes it checks to see if you're online. I think it's all rediculous. But once you've register just make sure you link it with your steam account, and all should be fine. Now only if you could buy DOD Source in a store...

[Darktide]

ew dialup

steam is very annoying.

[BitShift]

In order to play HL2 you have to verify the game through steam.

I think valve announced they are going to do this with all future games too.

So yea, if you don't have internet you can't play..which is pretty gay

Steam is ok once you know how to use it, ive had it for like 4 years now cuz ive played cs 1.6, hal life, cs:cz and cs:s

it takes forever to update each game wen you first install, even with broadband cuz the update is huge

[HellFire121]

I would say just make steam compulsary for online games, seriously what's the point in using steam for single player games? It isn't really doing much harm because online is where most of the fun is, so if someone downloads the game illegaly they would more than likely want to play multiplayer etc..

-HellFire

[grim reaper1666]

with steam the best trick is now just get the orange box and it will install it on that and you just use that on your steam account, you can save alot of time depending on your internet speed by which i mean the amount of time it would take steam to download it. i have got thinking from this though i might get smod tactical. another thing which you will need to remember is once your game is updated you do not need to have online to play single player half life 2 the only thing which is online is deathmatch and i do not think that you have anything to worry about there.

[jimmo12]

I personally use Steam in offline mode, all it needs is some nifty computing skills
and the ability of turning off auto-updates.
So yeah, follow my advice and everything will end up good

Edited by jimmo12, 27 May 2010 - 03:22 PM.