Half-Life 2 Steam Preloading
by Steve Gibson, Aug 19, 2004 9:52am PDTHalf-Life 2 preloading is set to begin on Steam some time today although you cant really do anything with the preload considering the game is a couple of gigs you might want to leave Steam running for a while.
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Erik
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Hey, we all want a good game and we'd rather have it be finished than rushed, but seriously, who else is is f**king pissed every time someone at Valve or Vivendi say something. It's bad enough that they made it a debacle with this Sept 2K3/Code Theft circus, but they keep give dates they can't deliver on.
They did give us CS:S beta when they said they would, I'll give them that, but just shut up with dates until the damn game is Gold. Just go hang with the DNF team.
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They're slowly gonna release parts of the game so that it won't kill their Steam servers on release day. They'll just release a 200 MB patch on opening day to finalize the game instead of the full however many gigs that the game will be.
One thing that I wonder is, if the Steam release will close to the going Gold announcement or will they force us to wait until the retail copies get to the stores. More than likely they will make us wait, just to be fair to the whiners out there who will cry about how unfair life is.
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Didn't Gabe say over a year ago that they realised showing speeds in kiloBITS a second was stupid and they were going to change it "soon"? It can't be that bloody hard?
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I think it'll be more like a month or so.
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CS: Source seems to have effected the download rate, but not really effected the number of players. HL2 preload doesn't seem to have any effect yet.
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Shortly thereafter we heard that people were receiving the subtitles to the cinema sequences thus revealing the story.
Now we're hearing that there is a preload set to start today.
Didn't the textures, etc already get preloaded? If so, what's preloading now, the engine? Does that mean the game is finished? Or am i missing part of the history here...
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http://www.steampowered.com/marketing/hl2_preload/english.html
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is your monitor moving? mine isn't.
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I mean, they wouldn't be sending multiple gigs of HL2 to every single person connected to Steam....would they?
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