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

[hijack]

It WILL and MUST connect to steam!

This is not a crack, it'll only allow you to play the game without the CD in the drive. Nothing more!

Just a nocd, as explained on the web page.

[ente]

I open the site with mozilla firefox

and loaded the side, my virusscanner says there where a trojan/browser hijacker on this site

[hijack]

Originally Posted by ente

I open the site with mozilla firefox

and loaded the side, my virusscanner says there where a trojan/browser hijacker on this site

Your virus detector is stupid. Did it panic when it found the word "hijack" on the webpage?

Everything is availiable to ensure there's no trojan: you can check the HTML source, the program source, build the source with Dev-C++ (free software) or something else and get hl2.exe from a friend you trust.

Grumpy: download it again or get it directly from the webpage (refresh it).

[Grumpy]

Ahh I see you added the hl2.exe after I had already downloaded the original package!! But guess what? IT WORKED!! Played without the CD!
You my friend are a legend in my views!!
At last we dont need the CD but as Hijack has stated it still needs to connect to steam.
Thankyou very much for that Hijack (sorry I doubted you but we are a suspicious bunch here)

P.S: You should post it to GameCopyWorld. Send it to here: http://gamecopyworld.com/cgi-bin/mail.cgi?sm_gcw

[Benlehot]

It WORKSSS

****ING NICE hijack !!!!

I love u

Make a release now, all people around the world need it!!!

[ente]

i am very sorry hijack

my virus scanner is at "high and bloodhound" adjusted.

This and your name and that your have only one posting thats make me paranoid

[hijack]

I sent an email to GCW already, but they haven't published it yet (maybe because I didn't include hl2.exe). Feel free to promote it. I'm tired.

I announced it on daemon-tools forums, they removed my post. I posted on Steam forums, they banned me. I finally found this place. It's a pity helping people is soo hard.

Anyway, I understand your fear about trojans. That's the main reason I published the source code.

[Grumpy]

It possibly wont get posted on GCW til sunday/monday depending on when Empire starts week 48.

[Floodblue]

AAAAAhhh,


so can someone now figure out how to get it to work without Steam verification. All these hackers have gotten to play the game, and I, who bought the game for 55$, have yet to see the title screen b\c I don't have internet at home. Even bringing my pc to work to connect to the net did not work, very frustrated...

[Big Country]

I doubt anyone is going to get around the steam verification anytime soon. I have a 3mb connection and it took 10 minutes to unlock all my files. If it took steam 10 minutes to do that and they knew what to do it will take someone else a year to figure it out.

[Grumpy]

Read your last post just before i went to disconnect so i left internet on but still got the 'Insert CD' message! But the thing I dont understand, the hl2.exe is not in the package? The other two files are there but not the hl2.exe?