Nowhere near as fast. You'll get download speeds of around 50 - 55 kbytes/s.
With (optus) cable you can get upto 500kbytes/s and beyond. But cable is shared bandwidth (with othes on your block) so sometimes it can be slower.
As for pings, adsl should get you anywhere from 30 to 100...
Seriously. We need a 'user ban function' or something. As soon as someone gets 10 votes agaisnt them, they're gone.
Or at least a similar system for deleting posts.
"And wormstrangler please explain how "Valve will maximize profits" with Steam, it's an interesting theory..."
Subscription mainly. And the fact that it's highly likey to stop any pirated copies being able to play mp. Which is good, but Tribes 2 managed to do that too. If you haven't yet...
I find it has a pro. The rest cons.
Pros:
Auto-Update
Cons:
Everything else
Server browser? I use ASE. Just a whole lot better in every way. And it should be, because it's a dedicated server browser.
The chat thingy? I use Trillian Pro. But even then I don't chat much and why the...
I've played Half Like a couple of times (playing it right now, just beat the spider thing on xen) and I have never heard of The Administrator...the ****?
I know so little of the story. Which could be good. More to be un-revealed :)
It would be upto the mod teams whether they want to 'sell out'.
You can bet that alot of people out their will simply be making mods in the hope that theirs will be the hit and that valve takes them on.
Of course, making a decent mod is hard work. Becoming popular is even harder, so maybe...
It doesn't really bother me.
I played the original HL dm for all of 10minutes before moving onto mods.
HL is about single player.
A half decent multi-player will just be a bonus.
W,A,S,D
And then:
E = jump
Q = duck
Space = Use
I use numbers to change weapons. (sif use mouse wheel, too slow and too inaccurate)
Mouse 4 = Lean left
Mouse 5 = Lean right
Mouse 1, 2, 3 are usually left as their default (shoot and what not)
"and that 2/3 of those downloads will either end up being german pr0n or accidentally renamed version of Warcraft III"
Stop using kazaa or other P2P's then :).
"o god Xtasy0 is that trent renzor in your avatar, ya know he ditched ID games half way through Doom3 and set them back by...
HL1 was linear but it was damn fun. I'm replaying it now on hard to pass the time. I never usually play a game on hard, simply because games usually aren't designed to be played on that setting. It's still proving to be fun and after I finish it, I shall be moving onto OP4. Again. :)