I thought the noises when they die sound similar to the zombies from HL1....but that's probably just coincidence. I don't want to start some crazy "oh the combine must be highly evolved zombies in gas masks" topic.
Lol yeah I heard about that. Still.....it would have made sense to have some neutral aliens....it's not like creature every that happens to get teleported to Earth is going to try and kill you. Houndeyes never seemed like enemies really anyway.
Aren't they releasing a SP only game.....for people who don't have the internet?? That's what I thought.....surely they won't have to validate...there would be no point!
Select "always allow this program to connect to the internet".
You may want to change the strictness of filtering on your firewall.
No idea why it's trying to connect in the first place though! Didn't for me.
The manipulator is the gun that glows orange and picks up objects. The other one (blue beam) demonstrated the physics (i don't know whether it's in the final game).
This has been covered before....just search the forum.
(welcome btw!).