Half-Life 2: Episode 1 Available for Pre-Loading
by Chris Remo, May 02, 2006 12:08am PDTValve just sent word that Half-Life 2: Episode 1 is now available for preloading through Steam. Whether you've purchased the game or not, you can download key files so that when it is officially released and you have bought it, there need be no delay to play.
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I'm in Germany and currently playing Half-Life 2 and it was in full violence mode up to Ravenholm and just when Episode 1 started preloading (I didn't even want Steam to do it) it switches my HL2 into low violence mode which was purchased before 09-01-2004 which Valve said would REMAIN in full violence mode.
I refuse to finish Ravenholm with green blood after all the gore I got used to until then.
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Old Crossfire: http://residual.upperbounds.com/hl1mp/crossfire_original1.jpg
New Crossfire: http://residual.upperbounds.com/hl1mp/crossfire0013.jpg
Old Crossfire: http://residual.upperbounds.com/hl1mp/crossfire_original2.jpg
New Crossfire: http://residual.upperbounds.com/hl1mp/crossfire0019.jpg
New Water:
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New Explosions:
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New Windows:
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New Skies:
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Pretty awesome since it is free with HL2: Episode 1 and you can play it now! Also, if you don't have HL2: DM, you get that for free with HL2: Episode 1. Quite a deal for only $18.
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In HLDM:S:
Map: stalkyard
Players: 1 / 32
Build 2733
Server Number 2
Initializing renderer...
DEBUG HISTORY IS ENABLED. Disable before release (in env_debughistory.h).
WHOOPS! Somebody forgot to do their job!
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I'm going to pass on this one and go with Sin EP1 instead.
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Is www.fileshack.com down?
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I tried to defragment my hd, but guess what, Defrag finished but said that it could not defragment any of the steam game data files.
I got the free command line 'Defragmentor Lite' http://www.defragmentor.com/dmlcl/en/howtouse.asp
Ran a defrag of just my steam directory. Oh my gosh, my hl2 data was in like 4000 fragments (my memory is a little hazy, might have been 1400) and it got it down to 76. Similar results with all of the steam-downloaded games.
I think that the pre-loading process or game downloading process is done in such a way that the resulting files become extremely fragmented.
Anyways, after that quick defrag of the steam folder Hl2 levels loaded in 1 minute instead of 10 minutes! Hitching was almost 100% gone! And to boot it made logical sense/ was something Valve was reccomending all along.
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but yeah, I hate those German laws, Switzerland isn't a big enough market so we get that censored crap forced down our throats, sometimes publishers even go out of their way to make even english versions automatically use low violence mode if there's only a German keyboard layout selected in Windows (eg. GTA 3/VC) :x
I think Aftermath was a better name. Or at least call Episode 1 Episode 2. Or even Episode 3 really. But then I guess there's Opposing Forces and Blue Shift for Half-Life 1, so they'd be Episode 2 and 3, and HL2 is really Episode 4, so this expansion shoud be Episode 5.
If you say 'Episode' over and over, it looses all meaning.
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Can't wait!
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Looking forward to the new SIn tho.....
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I understand the need to protect against CC fraud, but this is somewhat irritating..
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Anyone know if this has been fixed?
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:( fucking ordered
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^^^ That is an understatement of magnificant proportions.
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10% off if you buy a boxed copy with a pressed CD and probably a sliver of a manual ($17.99)
over steam $19.99
shouldn't this be the reverse?
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