'Official' Half-Life 2 Thread. Do Not Create New Threads (NO SPOILERS)

[munsterbuster]

The global activation would be 9 a.m. Tuesday CET. And I bet, that steam is ****ing down at the moment. ^^

[Grumpy]

@Tbaher
Hmmm yep could work? not a bad thought.

[t.foster73]

Could somebody with the originals please scan the disks and find out what protection (if any) HL2 has.

[howz_dis]

Originally Posted by t.foster73

Could somebody with the originals please scan the disks and find out what protection (if any) HL2 has.

yeh no probs m8 its securom 5.03.06.0002..do u no how 2 copy it by anychance?? as i burnt a workin copy from my mates orginal but im getting a emulator error msg..ok & thnks in advance

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[dalver]

My head has a problem with everything related to the HalfeLife engine. The first engine. All games that are made on that engine (like HalfLife 1, Counter Strike, Gunman Chronicles, Opposing Force) give me an instant headache. And I mean it in the biological way. Doesn't matter if I'm tired or not, if I play in the morning, at noon or at night. After 5 minutes MAX of playing I get a serious headache, complete with nausea and everything and it lasts, half a day.

That is the only engine that I have experienced something like it. It is very strange, because I play games, many games, different games - but only HalfLife engine has a headache incorporated.

Does anyone recognise this, has it happened to you?

[krondike]

Originally Posted by munsterbuster

The global activation would be 9 a.m. Tuesday CET. And I bet, that steam is ****ing down at the moment. ^^

Don't think so. In Sweden the Valve Nordic (or what they could) are gonna have a release party, MEANS that the game will be installed in numbered of computers and playeble around 18.00 16th November 2004 swedish time. And be sould in Sweden 16th November. Realy think the STEAM server should be up then!

[JoyBoy]

Who are Valve Nordic and what do they have to do with the development and publishing of Half-Life 2? The game is getting its Worldwide Release tonight at Midnight PST. Thats 8am GMT and 9am CET Tuesday Morning (like munsterbuster said). Read some Press Releases before making up some random bull****. Good luck to anyone who will be authenticating their release tonight/tomorrow. I can imagine the Steam Servers will be severly overloaded.

On another note, looks like the UK does get this game tomorrow (at retail). Its being advertised on UK television for the 16th. I'm amazed to see this game even get advertised on TV. Only EA Games seem to advertise PC Games on TV over here, and even then its only two titles. The Sims and Medal of Hono(u)r. I dont remember seeing a TV Advert for the other big PC Game of the year, DOOM 3.

Anyways, moving on. Does anyone know if Valve intend to release a demo of the game? I have held off placing an order, for fear of the game not even running on my hunk of junk of a PC. I'm also of the mindset that no game needs me wasting £300+ just so it will run on this piece of crap. Tools of the trade if you do that

[krondike]

The right company was "Vivendi Universal Games Nordic" its the nordic publisher!

[Luciel]

rofl yeah, valve nordic? AHAHAHAHAHAH rofl, aniways, Batty i mean JOYBOY also nfsu2 has been advertised on tv in the uk.

[munsterbuster]

Germany had an Doom 3 commercial running.

[GLH]

Originally Posted by munsterbuster

Germany had an Doom 3 commercial running.

...and also three different commercials for NFS Hot Pursuit 2.

(I have nothing to say about HL2!)

[JoyBoy]

Originally Posted by Luciel

rofl yeah, valve nordic? AHAHAHAHAHAH rofl, aniways, Batty i mean JOYBOY also nfsu2 has been advertised on tv in the uk.

Battyboy? Jesus, havent heard that word since the very early 90's. Used to love saying that when I was younger

The thing with NFSU2 is that its a multiformat title, so EA was bound to get behind it. I was just trying to point out that its very rare for a PC Exclusive title to get its own commerical on UK TV. Just been reading on the gamesradar forum that Tescos had it on sale today for £32.99. Looks like PC Games are starting to match the price of points of console games.

Oh yeah, one more thing. As the games coming out in the next few hours, Please dont start posting spoilers.

[Grumpy]

@ Joyboy (Really hope your not gonna stick with this nickname!)

Oh yeah, one more thing. As the games coming out in the next few hours, Please dont start posting spoilers.

Yes please dont spoil something we have waited so long for.
And PC games in OZ have always been $10-$20 cheaper than the console games.
And I like the way your wrote 'Hono(u)r'. In OZ I was always taught the English (UK) spelling at school, now my kids are at school they can spell words like Honour (Honor), Colour (Color) however they like! The schools here take into account alot of the kids learn how to spell from the Internet.
P.S: Still waiting to hear from the first person who actually activates HL2, that way I can pressure my shop to hand it over b4 tommorrow (Wednesday) morning! If others have it activated the shop wont have an argument on why they shouldnt hand it over.

[t.foster73]

Come on guys, enough chit chat. What protectionn do the disks use?

[Brainman2k]

any of you ran into the activation while installing/playing the game? how does it work?

everyone was waiting for this game to hit the shelves...but with that activation thing....i'm really into not buying the game because of that. same like with starforc3....dtm race driver 3 was the first and last game i bought with that copy protection.