The Iron Grip team is having a mapping contest with some very nice prizes
To find out more about the contest, check out the following forum thread:
http://www.isotx.com/forums/index.php?topic=2758.0
The Iron Grip team has released patch 1.21 fixing most of the issues reported with 1.2.
Changelog and download locations here
Feedback and bug reports are much appreciated.
He probably doesn't have a QWERTY layout on his keyboard. The '~' key doesn't work for me either because HL2 interprets it as '²' since I'm using an AZERTY layout. Anyway, you can add "-console" to the startup properties (right click on the game, select properties, click the launch properties).
Couldn't agree more. There really aren't any visual cues given on what to click. In fact I was staring at the main page for a bit thinking I was watching an intro sequence of sorts (and getting angry there was no option to skip it).