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Half-Life 2 DM Released

by Steve Gibson, Nov 30, 2004 9:28pm PST

Related Topics – Half-Life 2, Steam, Valve

Valve's 'surprise' scheduled for this week is now listed as soon on the Steam news page. Before you know it you could be playing with toilets with way less mess! UPDATE: Half-Life 2 Deathmatch has been released! Go grab it and try it out. Tell us if it's hot or not!

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#396

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Well I just got done playing about 20 minutes or so. It's good to see they sharpened up the weapon accuracy - it takes a good time to kill someone depending on gun (it isn't like cs.) Reloading is quick, no need to switch to weapons to finish someone off. The gravity gun is of course, kick ass. You start off with a gravity gun, a pistol with 150 ammo, an smg with an extra clip. In gravity gun vs gravity gun fights you can catch or shoot back other items being thrown at you (secondary and primary fire functions.) Hitting something with pretty much anything is instant death. Rocks, radiators, barrels, carts, a cardboard box, etc Weaponry plays a crucial roll as items aren't always present (due to area or everyone using the props up) and they eventually respawn. There are health packs, grenades and other items to pick up and - oddly enough - health and armor recharge stations. Slow ones, that take time, and people usually die at them (because I shoot them in the back of the head) - that reminds me, I don't think there is head/chest/arms/legs location damage but not totally positive on that yet. It's a hell of a lot more fun than I was expecting.

Nov 30, 2004 10:23pm PST

Well I just got done playing about 20 minutes or so. It's good to see they sharpened up the weapon accura... : shotgun1

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how well are the physics going to work online?

in cs:source if you shoot a barrel, even with a low ping, it takes longer to respond than it probably should. may not be a problem in a slow game like cs source where you can't even use the objects.. but in HL2DM with the gravity gun and shit flying, will it be the same way?

is it all server dependant?

Nov 30, 2004 6:30pm PST

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ok, erase your gcf and your Half Life 2 DM folder. (you'll have to shut down steam to erase them), restart steam and get it again. worked for me

Nov 30, 2004 9:37pm PST

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ok, erase your gcf and your Half Life 2 DM folder. (you'll have to shut down steam to erase them), resta... : cawcaw
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- this works... : cawcaw
- I tried it, no dice. Maybe I'll do it again. : famine101
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  cool worked for me. thx : packav
  - where is this? dont see it anywhere under \valve\* : unklfukr
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  this seems to be working.. 1 minute to go.. : the stickboy
  - and.. no go : the stickboy
- yea i did that and nothing .... : cblguy82
- didnt work. : phobium
- what about the other games that don't work? : dumptruck
- I dont see any gcf files... ? : Havoc1c4
- no workie for me. : project13
- thats a negative ghostrider. it didnt work : judoka2
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  done twice. nada : pyide
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    Same here. Deleting GCF's and HL2DM folder in our profile doesn't work for some of us : famine101
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      it worked once for me, now im back to no worky : cawcaw
      
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      That's really odd. Why did you quite once you got in, anyway? : famine101
      
      general protection fault : cawcaw
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  Ok just played a round of DM. I was having a hell of a lot of fun with the grav gun... never before were... : cgh85
  - The magnum has always been the best gun in HLDM or HL2DM. Just gotta get used to it. : famine101
- well the thing is not just DM is fuxored, nothing works. We will prob have to redownload and reinstall e... : PumpRock

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omg. somebody post some screens. :(

Nov 30, 2004 9:52pm PST

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omg. somebody post some screens. :( : protoman
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- http://sarcastro.shackspace.com/MalformedAmmoHUDdm_lockdown0000.jpg and http://sarcastro.shackspace.c... : Sarcastro
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  First, an examination of Toilet Physics. http://sarcastro.shackspace.com/ToiletPhysics_dm_lockdown000... : Sarcastro
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    Crap! More pics http://sarcastro.shackspace.com/ToiletPhysics_dm_lockdown0002.jpg http://sarcastro.sh... : Sarcastro
    - hahaha sweet :D : sparkly

#354

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Is the A in HAlf in the title above supposed to be capitalized?

Nov 30, 2004 10:09pm PST

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Is the A in HAlf in the title above supposed to be capitalized? : dltrem
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- it's steve laughing at us :( : GrimmyD

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In case any valve employees are watching, here's a .zip of 5 of my debug files: http://www.gregb.info/debug_files.zip

Two are from HL2, three are from HL2DM. At least one of the HL2DM debug files is from after I deleted the HL2DM .gcf and re-downloaded.

Nov 30, 2004 9:48pm PST

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In case any valve employees are watching, here's a .zip of 5 of my debug files: http://www.gregb.info/deb... : sgtsanity
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- http://www.bit-shift.com/Debug.zip 2 from HL2, 1 from HL2DM. : boarder2

#287

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Mine works fine, first try.

Insert Nelson "Ha ha" here :)

Nov 30, 2004 9:46pm PST

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Mine works fine, first try. Insert Nelson "Ha ha" here :) : MR 9000
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  now find a good server :( : byorn
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    Just tired it out with a friend of mine at Gray Matter. The grav gun makes plain old DM so much more ent... : MR 9000
    - i played for about 5 minutes...the coolest was a guy carrying a explosive barrel....until it S'ploded : ajlead

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I love this, it's been out for what, 15 or 20 minutes and already the steampowered forums are nothing but bitching and flames about it on the first page. Runs absolutely fine for me here - no failures to load etc...

Nov 30, 2004 9:38pm PST

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I love this, it's been out for what, 15 or 20 minutes and already the steampowered forums are nothing but... : TabsAZ
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#356

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Surprise!!!

You can't play anything now!

Nov 30, 2004 10:10pm PST

Surprise!!! You can't play anything now! : PenicillinX57

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that was fun!
protip: find an 8 player server with low ping and just leave it on auto-retry. those 32 player servers are worthless.

Nov 30, 2004 10:07pm PST

that was fun! protip: find an 8 player server with low ping and just leave it on auto-retry. those 32 ... : smax

#294

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People with problems try using this:

steam://validate/320

Nov 30, 2004 9:49pm PST

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People with problems try using this: steam://validate/320 : phobium
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- it went through the validation., and still got nuttin. : judoka2
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  Use it how and where? : rotten element
  - paste it in a browser window : phobium
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    in IE...... : cawcaw
    - or in Firefox... : sgtsanity
  - Start>Run : laidback
- how did you learn that? any other nifty commands? : cawcaw
- doesn't help : PumpRock
- No dice. : Havoc1c4
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  am i gonna have to validate everything now too for it to work? Cuz nothing will start anymore. : coop801
  - I doubt validating is going to help. I'm pretty sure it's some kind of MD5 hash checker, making sure the ... : famine101
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  reminder to people who validate, restart steam afterwards so it can redownload what was removed in the va... : GrimmyD
  - Are you sure they remove stuff during validation? : famine101

#338

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I love the gravity gun kill icon. Toilets!!

Nov 30, 2004 10:04pm PST

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I love the gravity gun kill icon. Toilets!! : raija
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- envy :( :( : sparkly

#337

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Tried the erase, didn't work, tried the validate thingie, no workie. At best, I got a wrong cd error, (weird since cd 1 is in the drive...) and just refuses to run. Oh well, time for bed anyway, I'm sure it will be all sorted out by tomorrow.

Nov 30, 2004 10:03pm PST

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Tried the erase, didn't work, tried the validate thingie, no workie. At best, I got a wrong cd error, (we... : u sir name
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- Wait, if you buy HL2 retail, they require the disc in the drive when you play? Laaaame. Another rea... : famine101
- ditto, deleted cache + directory, redownloaded, didn't work validated cache, restarted steam, tried to... : GrimmyD

#335

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Well, it ain't bad. I miss the radar after playing halo 2 so much. I'm good for a magnum rampage when i can find one :)

Nov 30, 2004 10:02pm PST

Well, it ain't bad. I miss the radar after playing halo 2 so much. I'm good for a magnum rampage when i c... : thaperfectdrug

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someone set up us the server

Nov 30, 2004 9:54pm PST

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someone set up us the server : khaosman
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- i agree with khaos...and CHAOS TOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! : mankeroo

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Connecting to Steam... too doo loo doo doo

Nov 30, 2004 9:54pm PST

Connecting to Steam... too doo loo doo doo : esky

#313

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Let me just say: FUCKING LAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAG.

Please don't try to run a server on your 200mhz PII and 56k connection thanks bye.

Nov 30, 2004 9:54pm PST

Let me just say: FUCKING LAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAG. Please don't try to run a server on your 200mhz... : Priest77

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got it played it, THERE ARE NO SERVERS WORTH A FARK. That is all. Paging Ashkie........

Nov 30, 2004 9:54pm PST

got it played it, THERE ARE NO SERVERS WORTH A FARK. That is all. Paging Ashkie........ : arriviste

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If it won't launch, or crashes, it's probably because the files are still downloading.

By the way, there is a CS:S update too, I see that is updating as well.

Nov 30, 2004 9:44pm PST

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  When it says 95%, it really means 5% or something. That last 5% takes forever (at "431 kb/s"). : Barbarian
  - mine says 100% complete, "ready to play" and it wont launch. : unklfukr

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Woohoo! Minor bug, though. Anyone else's ammo display in the HUD not displaying properly? It's too high up and not fully visible.
http://sarcastro.shackspace.com/MalformedAmmoHUDdm_lockdown0000.jpg

Nov 30, 2004 9:43pm PST

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Woohoo! Minor bug, though. Anyone else's ammo display in the HUD not displaying properly? It's too high u... : Sarcastro
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- shhhh! Do you want Valve to cancel the release? : Barbarian
- Got the same, plus can't read the Aux Power display (similar prob). : Barnahog

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How is the add on guys?

download process 10%, 5kb/s

Nov 30, 2004 9:45pm PST

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How is the add on guys? download process 10%, 5kb/s : chemical3
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- borko'd. : laidback

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TDM K THX. COMBINE VS RESTISTANCEzdfskdmfsk OBJECTIVE BASED. wITH VEHICLES.

Nov 30, 2004 7:52pm PST

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TDM K THX. COMBINE VS RESTISTANCEzdfskdmfsk OBJECTIVE BASED. wITH VEHICLES. : kemical
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  - It would be cool, though =/ : sheff
- Plot for TFT2 : mojoald

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Well you'll have to cool your jets for a while. The dedicated server side requires a lot of files

Nov 30, 2004 9:45pm PST

Well you'll have to cool your jets for a while. The dedicated server side requires a lot of files : GorillaBiscuit

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Great, I restarted Steam and now I can't even log in!

Nov 30, 2004 9:44pm PST

Great, I restarted Steam and now I can't even log in! : Athlon7

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looks like the Steam Forums are now offline.

Nov 30, 2004 9:40pm PST

looks like the Steam Forums are now offline. : emocore

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i must lead a charmed life, works fine for me. Just need some decent servers.

Nov 30, 2004 9:40pm PST

i must lead a charmed life, works fine for me. Just need some decent servers. : johnny rotten

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Great...

Updated Steam and now none of the games will start. No errors, it just goes from "preparing to play ______" and then nothing. I was just playing CSS too...

Nov 30, 2004 9:35pm PST

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- same, WTF?!!? : unklfukr

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3 servers.. each with over 1000 ping - guess it will be a bit messy at first :/

Nov 30, 2004 9:37pm PST

3 servers.. each with over 1000 ping - guess it will be a bit messy at first :/ : re-verse

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ok it crashed, got some exception error and now it won't load when i double click.... argh

Nov 30, 2004 9:34pm PST

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ok it crashed, got some exception error and now it won't load when i double click.... argh : cawcaw
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- where's our valve rep when we need him : packav

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took 10 mins to get through to download the update.

Pulling 80k/s....

Tried to preload Codename:Gordon while I couldn't get HL2DM and it went right through.... use the whole system for major updates, come on valve.

Nov 30, 2004 9:24pm PST

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    - yea and valve could have given it to larger servers yesturday : cawcaw

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toilet'd lol

Nov 30, 2004 9:33pm PST

toilet'd lol : allowat76

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The best thing about this is... Valve listened.

When the fuck was the last time a developer LISTENED?

Nov 30, 2004 5:06pm PST

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The best thing about this is... Valve listened. When the fuck was the last time a developer LISTENED? : TastyWheat
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so tonight or tomorrow. is there a solid ETA?

Nov 30, 2004 5:57pm PST

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  - ....and hackers : get_navi
- I bet it will be here tonight : rosewood

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- I was getting the same thing when trying to play hl2 earlier today. A restart helped. : deadhorse

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Definately need some impressions of DM. I'm stuck at work for the next 8 hours.

Nov 30, 2004 9:17pm PST

Definately need some impressions of DM. I'm stuck at work for the next 8 hours. : deadhorse

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im getting an update, is this it?

Nov 30, 2004 9:05pm PST

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im getting an update, is this it? : cawcaw
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- i was right, and first. ITS OUT!!! : cawcaw
- Yup, it's out along with the FULL SDK and what looks like updates for HL2, CS:S, and HL:S in the monitor.... : TabsAZ

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Cool, HL2DM + SDK and it's available now. Can't get much better than that.

Nov 30, 2004 9:14pm PST

Cool, HL2DM + SDK and it's available now. Can't get much better than that. : deadhorse

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downloading hl2DM now!!!!!

Nov 30, 2004 9:06pm PST

downloading hl2DM now!!!!! : coop801

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HL2DM update is up on Steam

Nov 30, 2004 9:06pm PST

HL2DM update is up on Steam : Shadowdane

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update news shows me one entry from August, anyone have new news?

Nov 30, 2004 9:05pm PST

update news shows me one entry from August, anyone have new news? : cawcaw

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