Undercover_Man

Hello!!! FINALLY Half-Life 2 has gone gold and will be released November 16, 2004. Here's the PROOF. I will most definately get this game. YAY!!!!!!!!!

- Undercover_Man

saut

Now, the question is -- do you opt for the $90 fanboy package?

Rdr4evr

The question for me is, where will I find the 2000 dollars to buy a new system.....Although another thread gave me the idea of taking out a school loan......hmmmm.

Rabid Bunny

Well it's about time.

Now, to find money to buy his game. Being a gamer and poor is not good times.

-Ever-

So I'm sure this question has been asked before, but where does a new Counter Strike mod stand? I've heard of CS-S but is that just a newer mod for the old Half Life? It must be seeing that HL2 and it's engine aren't out yet...

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Rabid Bunny

CS:S is the multiplayer portion of HL2. HL2 will not have its own multiplayer and will be using CS:S to stand in for HLDM.

NavySEAL

Damn, I can't wait for November... So much good stuff. I also got the GOLD package on steam also so I'm a HL fanboy.

blar

nice now i hope i can upgrade my comp before the release date since my current computer can't handle it

MMB737

Never played the first but 2 looks good. Should I play the first before getting 2?

jonjon42

I am prepared!
123fps on video stress test of CS: S at highest settings...

can't wait.

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Krycheck

wow, what res is that at? I get about 116fps on my FX53 X800 Pro at 1024x768 and 78 at 1280x1024.

Anyhow I can't wait...no I can't!!

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YaWhateva

you dont need $2000. A 9800XT and a gig of ram with a processor above 2.0 GHz will run the game extremely well.

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sailor

Bout 'effing time. Im looking forward to playing this one though...

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jamessh1

tell me about it, being a student with debt, a girlfriend, and a lousy part-time job makes the funds for gaming ever smaller. I'm hoping my gf's brothe will go halfers with me on the x-box version (since i live at my gf's 5 days a week).

-Ever-

So why did they release CS:S on the HL2 engine before HL2 was even released? Seems odd to do. Mods usually come after the game they mod... And even if it's just the multiplayer portion, I still don't understand the prerelease.

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NeverBorn

Bout damn time, now the sky will rain blood and signal the end

Rdr4evr

My processor is under 2.0 and I have 256 Ram. Rather than get new processor, ram and card, wouldn't be better to just buy a completely new system......I think it's time.

Kodega

It's because Half Life 2 got caught up in some legal matters having to do with Steam. So, they released CS:S now because it was ready to go out and didn't have the legal issues that HL2 was having. Now if it had been DOD:S I would have already ordered the Steam package, but I'll wait for acctual disks.

Frosstbyte

FINALLY! Now to buy more RAM and a new video card...

Hercules

The legal matters don't really pertain specifically to Half-Life 2, but I think anything with "Half-Life".
Vivendi was getting pissed because Valve was releasing Half-Life to Cyber cafes and not giving them a proper share of the profits since it was through Steam.

And I would bet Counter-Strike is the IP of Valve, whereas Half-Life is Vivendi's IP.
So Valve could go ahead and release CS:Source ahead of schedule since they held the rights to it, and had the proprietary software to do so.

And yes, I bought the Gold package immediately as it becamse available

YaWhateva

ya but dont get a pre-built, thats like wasting an extra $1000 that you dont have too. you could get a gaming rig that will play half-life 2 fine for 1000-1200 at the max.

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Ace_O_Spades

I didn't take out the loan TO get the computer

just used the excess to buy a few upgrades

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saut

If they make a TFC:S or TF2 (like they promised many years ago), THEN I'll be a truly happy man.

Rdr4evr

You didn't give in completely, eh? You put bad ideas in my head man , I think I'm going for the new system....thanks for the idea

iamtheone

I bet we will see a 40M patch the first week after it is released.


The GOLD version is out there today for download.

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Dungeon_Shade

What's this about Gold being ready for download today? That's interesting. I need to log onto stem to comfirm this, and as for the poster who asked if the first one should be played, I would say indeed. It is a great game, even by today's standards. Halflife Silver and Gold have it on the new engine though, so do waste your time buying the old one. Play the new version first, then play it's sequel.

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-Ever-

Think you mean't prequel, not sequel? The new one is the sequel...right?

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Rabid Bunny

I think he means play the Half Life: Source version that you get along with the silver package on Steam.

mkultra

They are in the process of making TF:2. They decided to forgo doing in on the original engine, and decided to do it on Source instead. Valve has said they will give out more info on when we can expect it after Half-Life 2 has been released. So its on its way, and will have awesome graphics as well.

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-Ever-

So you say that "they released CS:S now." How do I get my hands on it before HL:2 when a website I read said that the only way to buy CS:S is through a purchase of HL:2, which isn't even out yet? Can you maybe download CS:S already...?

Thanks for any info
-T

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pottsynz

That rules out alot of AMD users
/rant about GHz means jack these days.

Rule of thumb though, it'll be less resource hungry than Doom 3.
(and a damn lot more fun)

hwtf

Who here is waiting more for DOD:S than HL2?

Damnfinn

HooRah, my birthday and a present too.

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Hercules

Anyone that has seen the first screenshot of DOD:S is NOT waiting for it.
Half-Life 2 will be far better than DOD:S in all aspects, regardless of the fact they aren't the same genre.

Bratwurst

I have a p4 2.4, 1 gig of ram and a geForce fx 5600 ultra. Is that card good enough to really play hl2?

Looking forward to DOD:S. Wasted many nights with the old DOD.

-Ever-

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So you say that "they released CS:S now." How do I get my hands on it before HL:2 when a website I read said that the only way to buy CS:S is through a purchase of HL:2, which isn't even out yet? Can you maybe download CS:S already...?

Thanks for any info
-T

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Shirtninja

Time is passing to slowly... this game needs to come out!

stazen

-Ever- check out http://steampowered.com

NavySEAL

I'm pretty sure you will be able to play it good at ~40FPS with a decent resolution and detail at high, but no AA/AF. I have a P4 3.3Ghz, 1GB RAM, and a BFG 6800 GT OC and I got 101 FPS in the CSS stress test with 2xAA/8xAF.

-Ever-

Thanks for that. So when you buy it through Steam, do you just download the two games (HL/CS) or do they send them to you? It's pretty goofy that they're releasing them in this sequence and that you can buy both but only play one until the other is released

-T

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