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

[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.

[Bratmaxe]

@hijack

You Crack fix also work with the retail Version is protected by Securom

[Ice =A=]

Good Work!!!
However, let me put this straight: With hijack's modification, you don't have to put your DVD into the drive, but you have to be online EVERY time you start HL2 instead (NOT just only for the first activation)?!? Is that right?

(I really can't wait to buy that game, however I've sworn not to buy it till there's an offline activation and a nocd-patch! I just hate that steam nonsense!)