Half-Life 2: Episode Two Pre-Loading

by Chris Faylor, Oct 03, 2007 3:09pm PDT

Related Topics – Steam, Valve, Games: PC

Valve has now started the pre-load process for Half-Life 2: Episode Two. Those who pre-purchase the game via Steam, either as part of The Orange Box or all by its lonesome, can now begin downloading game assets in anticipation of its October 10 release.

Episode Two's Orange Box buddy, the brain twisting puzzler Portal, began pre-loading yesterday. The other previously unreleased game in The Orange Box, the colorful team-based shooter Team Fortress 2, has been in open beta for pre-purchasers since September 17. Along with Half-Life 2: Episode Two, Portal and Team Fortress 2, The Orange Box packs the original Half-Life 2 and Half-Life 2: Episode One, both of which have been available to Orange Box customers since the package debuted on September 11. Those who already own either of both of the two games can give or sell away their extra copies on October 10 via The Orange Box gift program.

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By: thaperfectdrug x Show Full Post

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Johnson dismisses the idea that Steam Community was developed to combat Microsoft's own interests in GFW Live. Apparently, it's just coincidence.

"Honestly, I don't think it's influenced us a whole lot. We knew nothing about Games for Windows when we did the original design work on The Steam Community. We're pretty capable of shipping things as late as possible," said Johnson.

Candid. And funny!

Oct 03, 2007 5:53pm PDT

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Johnson dismisses the idea that Steam Community was developed to combat Microsoft's own interests in GFW : thaperfectdrug
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- heh.. Where was that from? : marcuri26

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Is this where we find the G-Man is Freeman... Freeman is G-Man?

Oct 03, 2007 3:26pm PDT

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Is this where we find the G-Man is Freeman... Freeman is G-Man? : Wolfanoz
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  The G Man is Freeman from the future, sent back in time to make right what once went wrong. : Freon
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  Alyx is Gordon after a sex change. : Vangoghs Ear
  - ^lol awesome post : marcuri26

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I haven't researched this too much, but other friends dont know of a way, so i figured if anyone does, the shack community would.

Is there a way to install steam games in specific locations? Or is it always in the location of the actual steam program? I prefer to have different partitions for individual games, but i dont see that being a possibility with tf2/hl2/hl2ep1&2/portals

Oct 03, 2007 3:36pm PDT

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I haven't researched this too much, but other friends dont know of a way, so i figured if anyone does, th... : sreyes22
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  You sir, are crazy. : famine101
  - Having one partition per game is crazy but wanting (or needing) to spread your games out over more than o... : nudel
- Nope, as far as I know : Schnapple
- Nope. That is one of Steam's biggest flaws and one of my major problems with it. : freshyk
- No, and separate partitions for each game is insane and you should be fired. : Sapiens
- What partitioning program do you use? : Jobos
- Why would you do this? : jodiuh
- This is hugely foolish my son. : Athlon7
- LOL. : crummynz
- you're hardcore!!! : doomed
- why so many partitions? i understand two or 3 or different drives.. but dude you're wasting your time. yo... : marcuri26

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I have a notebook now..

Intel Dual Core T2080 1.73 ghz
Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 950
1 GB DDR2

Do you guys think i'll be able to play these games ?

I played HL2 and EP1 on a desktop some time ago so i'm super interested.

Oct 04, 2007 3:28am PDT

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I have a notebook now.. Intel Dual Core T2080 1.73 ghz Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 950 1 GB DD... : doomed
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- Probably yes (I know that you can play HL2 on GMA950), at the very low settings (something like 800x600 r... : High-g
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  I think the term is 'run', rather than 'play', unfortunately : johnsto
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360 or PC, I'm still flip-flopping!

360+ A 40" HD LCD TV
360+ Better graphics and CPU than my PC
360+ Better sound system
360- More expensive to buy the game
360- Have to pay to play online

PC+ It's cheaper to buy the game
PC+ Keyboard and mouse
PC+ 'Free' online
PC- It's quite old

Oct 04, 2007 5:03am PDT

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360 or PC, I'm still flip-flopping! 360+ A 40" HD LCD TV 360+ Better graphics and CPU than my PC 36... : MaverickUK
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Those who pre-purchase the game via Steam, either as part of The Orange Box or all by its lonesome

Um... where the heck can you buy Episode 2 ONLY? I don't want to buy The Orange Box :(

Oct 04, 2007 2:14am PDT

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Those who pre-purchase the game via Steam, either as part of The Orange Box or all by its lonesome Um.... : SlamDunk
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  Steam ;) : Djsoulshot
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    Nope... nothing there. : SlamDunk
    - I'm guessing they will have them available on release day, as to not cannibalize their pre-order bundle s... : TrptJim

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So is episode two going to be the final episode of HL2's legacy? Or will there be more?

Oct 03, 2007 10:33pm PDT

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- No, according to this http://www.nofrag.com/2007/oct/02/26868/ Episode 3 is in the making : changeling

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They should build high res textures into the release. Mods like Fake Factory are great but playing through again to see the new models, not so much.

Oct 03, 2007 10:51pm PDT

They should build high res textures into the release. Mods like Fake Factory are great but playing throug... : Shai-Tan

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Saw the ORANGE BOX comericial on TV. Kewl to see a Half-Life comercial. Too bad it sucked and showed almost nothing. A person that doesn't know much about Half-Life or Portal or TF2 won't know what the hell it was.

Oct 03, 2007 4:13pm PDT

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Saw the ORANGE BOX comericial on TV. Kewl to see a Half-Life comercial. Too bad it sucked and showed al... : austere01
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    Ya that did nothing for it either. I luv Half-life 2 and Team Fortress is one of the most fun multiplaye... : austere01
    - ...and I totally can't see my typos because my text is always covered by other peep's comments. : austere01

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Pre-load party is the most overrated party ever. People going nuts when they can download the game before release. When the download is done they just sit and look at the Steam "Games"-menu while juice (in this case orange juice) is drooling from mouth.

And yes, I'm one of these people.

Oct 03, 2007 3:13pm PDT

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what kind of sys req are for the orange box? i have an older pc that ran HL2 and episode 1 just great, but im not sure if it will be able to cut it with ep2/portal/TF.

i have..
P4 2.8HT
1gig of ram
ATI X1600 512meg agp card

Oct 03, 2007 7:46pm PDT

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WooHoo!1 Preloading Baby!

yeah FTW FTW
!!

Oct 03, 2007 3:21pm PDT

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WooHoo!1 Preloading Baby! yeah FTW FTW !! : watcherxp
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  I just finished playing through EP1 and when i closed it there was a nice pre load message for EP2 on my ... : zeejay
  - Playing through EP1 the 2nd time i should say. : zeejay

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YEEES!! :D

Oct 03, 2007 4:34pm PDT

YEEES!! :D : warcrow

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