Half Life 2 is playable!

[evoWalo]

If anyone downloaded the game... you can play it now! Die die die!

[Anile8er]

downloading and unlocking right now woohoo!

[DeMoN]

Need to upgrade computer = buy new one because this laptop can play it, but not how it should!

I got GeForce5 mx on this laptop but thats not good enough.

[twboy1999]

i need to purchase the cd key rite?? even after i donwload it from steam

[digo]

THAT VERSION I THINK IS A NUKE IS IT TURE?

[abbor]

Take your Caps Lock button off man!

No, its not a nuke or anything..

[5vz-fe]

Steam download is official, u just need to purchase the CD-KEY online or buy half-life 2 in a store and use the CD-KEY...all HL2 includes CS-Source

[styla21]

Geeeeez it's out! to those who have it, please post a personal review or some screenshots or something :P !

[gigdy]

you dont need to buy anything, the game has been fully cracked.

heres some screen shots. (not mine)

http://www.livejournal.com/community/gamers/1152102.html

[Minacious]

I will say one thing, this STEAM system is complete ass. The servers are so busy, they can't verify my Key yet. I noticed in the news section that many are having this issue with STEAM, among other things. So I have to be patient and wait. I am also not too happy with the fact that the only multiplayer aspect of the game is CS. Was hoping to play the actually game code in a multiplayer environment. I also hate the fact that if I want to have my own copy of the game I have to order one and wait close to 2 months to recieve it. By the way, I am using the key card that came with a Graphic card I bought a while ago which uses the STEAM or send off methods.

[5vz-fe]

you dont need to buy anything, the game has been fully cracked.

heres some screen shots. (not mine)

http://www.livejournal.com/community/gamers/1152102.html

comepletely cracked?..u mean for the online part too?

[possessed_beaver]

any news of a release of it on PS2?

and how #$%&ing long did it take them to make a sequal, and was it worth the wait?

[Ziploc]

YES!!!

[mindgam3]

i might just have to go out n buy it.... wasn't really a fan of the first half life, but this looks dam good!

[gigdy]

you dont need to buy anything, the game has been fully cracked.

heres some screen shots. (not mine)

http://www.livejournal.com/community/gamers/1152102.html

comepletely cracked?..u mean for the online part too?

if you mean the fact that you have to connect to their servers inorder to make the game playable then yes, as for online play i dont know.

[jamberl]

Im picking up my copy today. I'll post pics and a review if anyone is interested. I am fully expecting this to be the best game of all time! Yay!

[Anile8er]

man 8 hours into it and im just half way I LOVE THIS GAME!

[Anile8er]

WOOHOO BEAT IT!! muahhahahahahahaha great ending.. i wont spoil it. It took me almost 20 hours :mrgreen:

[jamberl]

Well so far, I must say its pretty good. Im impressed at the length- some first person shooters are only half as long!

[DeMoN]

any news of a release of it on PS2?

and how #$%&ing long did it take them to make a sequal, and was it worth the wait?

they did hl2 after 6 years of previous game... making it for PS2

I reallly doubt it.

[mindgam3]

well i went out and bought it today and have installed it..... only problem is steam wont even connect and let me create a steam accoung :(

I've configured my firewall to allow steam and hl but i'm on a university network so i fear their routers are the problem :( Any idea of how i can check out if this is the case or if its something to do with my pc?

Once/if I have registered do i need to connect to steam everytime i want to play offline :S hows it work?

ta

[possessed_beaver]

there have been problems with steam servers basicley 100000 people trying to create steam accounts all at once, that is highley a possability..

[mindgam3]

hmmm maybe but i think its more likely to be my uni firewalls/routers

I've heard http tunneling or something can let me around the network routers/firewalls?? Anyone know much about this?

Big bear/Dan? ;)


EDIT: hmmm seemed to have found the answer

http://www.dur.ac.uk/grey.jcr/discuss/viewtopic.php?t=1631&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=20&sid=219bb774af1bf5e6e8abcf15c1477544

post about half way down using sockscap and ssh tunnel, found a few other sites saying this method works too.

Like this one on halfelife.net:

There is a workaround, i posted on the steam forums months ago which uses HTTP Tunnel and SocksCAP to enable activating via port 80. Since thats not blocked at universities, it will allow those able to access it. I can't get onto the steam forums at the moment to actually link to it but its relatively simple.

Download HTTP-Tunnel from www.http-tunnel.com install that and connect. Download Socks-CAP from http://www.socks.permeo.com/Downloa...nload/index.asp and then configure sockscap to use 127.0.0.1:1080 as your proxy server. You then add Steam in as a program and launch Steam from within Sockscap. This tunnels all the traffic through port 80 (open by HTTP-Tunnel)

Simple. Get connected that way. It was tested ages ago on the Steam forums and people were connecting to Steam and downloading updates as well with it. Once they decide to take the forums back to life, i'll properly link to it.


Only problem is, i dont know how to set up a tunnel in the first place. Apart from the ports, what do i put for username, SSH host and password?

Help needed quickly, im dying to play this :P