Recent content by Ghoti

Somehow, I find myself doubting the previous two posters' words.

They've been there on my menu since HL2 was first unlocked. Even after a reinstall.

Thanks, I'll try that when I get home.

From the leak? Hardly, I preloaded via Steam and purchased via Steam. Never touched the leak. And, as I've said in my original post, I did try reinstalling (thankfully, I didn't get the 'Servers are too busy' message). I submitted a support request which has thus far been unanswered, I was...

Take a look at this. Am I missing any options? Reinstalling did no good. Has anyone else seen anything like this?

The only time I've seen offline mode is when I booted my computer when my internet was down. It asks you.

Start steam in Offline mode. Play HL2. Simple as that.

In the very beginning, I threw a paper cup at a combine soldier form about 3 feet away, clocked him in the noggin. He fired up his taser and started chasing me down!

Doused Alyx (and Dog) with paint..

The first time I saw a Strider was just after I got off the train and was wandering around C17 before , near the playground. There's an alley where you go right, and to the left, some Combine are harassing some random schmoe, and a Strider was walking by. It was perfect; you just catch a...

Odd that they didn't same the same thing about Halo 2, given it's, shall we say, 'abrupt' ending.

They've always (oddly IMO) shut off the Steampowered.com fora at the time of a major release. Happened with Steam itself, happened with CS:S. I figure they'd just as soon use that extra smidge of bandwidth for HL2 itself. I hope it's not needed. I hope to be able to activate and play in...

Great read. Personally, the only parts of Xen that I didn't like were the smegging jumping 'puzzles'. Xen itself was pretty cool, partucilarly the whole mining facility.

Even so, LookOut and the Source source weren't on the same PC; they used that to set up a springboard to weed their way through Valve's intranet to the computer where the Source souce was.

Delayed indefinitely? Hardly. Slating it for a holiday release is a quite definite time frame. Even if they release it on Christmas Eve, it's not like they were crazy-nuts off the mark for the release date. Given the five year development cycle, and just counting days, it's only about a 5%...