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Originally Posted by meepa
You have to authenticate through a Steam account at least for the very first time. You can apparantly rig it afterwords to play singleplayer in offline mode... Which means it will TRY to load Steam everytime, and upon failure, go into offline mode. At least I think that's how offline mode works.
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This is correct. At FngKestrel's LAN yesterday I played HL2 in offline mode before we had our switches hooked up. Simply choose offline mode and you can play to your heart's content. If you want to play online later (as in CS:Source) you have to exit Steam and then reopen it.