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

[Katz]

Originally Posted by cdkiller

i bet the 2 first questions will be:

1.) can some1 please make a crack for this game

Won't the crack for CS Source's exe (used as "HL2.exe -steam -game cstrike") work for this game too.

[Dimensio]

I ran hijack's fix through a virus scanner, and it came out clean. Tested it, and it works.

Thanks, hijack!

EDIT:
Hijack's fix works for offline mode, also. I unplugged my Cat-5, launched hijack's replacement Steam launcher, went into offline mode, and played HL2 with no DVD in the drive for about 30 minutes without a problem.