Over at the Team Fortress blog right now, you can catch an interesting look behind the scenes of the latest 'Meet The...' video.[br]
The article features animated story-boards for early scenes, and a very insightful look at how the body-less Blu Spy came to be:[br]
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With one 'Meet...
At some point tonight, halflife2.net will be going down for some scheduled server work. I'm expecting it to begin within the next few hours, and the downtime should be less than 3 hours.
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During this time, the website and forums will be completely down.
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Thanks to Rick at Limelight for...
Taken from steampowered.com.
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There has been an update to the steam client. Changes will be automatically updated when you next restart steam.[br]
Changes Include:
<li />Corrected problem preventing Asian, Russian, Thai, and Japanese Windows ME users from seeing proper text.
I used to play loads of hl mods, and was pretty good with all the net settings and rate (some of you might remember me from bygames :P)
I stopped playing probably around 18 months ago, and have only recently got back into it since CS:S came out, and I'm having problems remembering some of the...
Does anyone here play on 56k?
I've only really recently started playing CSS, but I don't get a very good ping, and it's not easy to play - I also seem to spike a lot.
To UK servers, I get around 200-300 (when in the old engine I got around 140 with very rare spikes).
I use net_graph 3...
Taken from SteamPowered:[br]An update to Counter-Strike: Source has been released. Steam will update itself automatically when you restart. Here is a list of the changes:[br]COUNTER-STRIKE: SOURCE CHANGES / ADDITIONS:
<li />Fixed server reliable buffer overflow errors
<li />Fixed...
I have 56k at home, and a very fast line at work, so obviously I'd prefer to preload HL2 from work.
The problem is that I need to do it out of office hours. I leave work at 5pm but others are here until 8, so I need to start it after then.
Is it possible to schedule steam to start...
This news has been taken from steampowered.com:[br]
An update to Counter-Strike: Source has just been released. Steam will update itself automatically when you restart. Here is a list of the changes:
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COUNTER-STRIKE: SOURCE CHANGES / ADDITIONS:
<li />Fixed various name changing...
Due to popular demand, we've brought back the video downloads page on the site.
The files were initally removed because the volume of hits they were getting was affecting the general performance of the site, so we had to take them down while we looked at a better way of hosting them.
We've...
Hi everyone, and welcome back to halflife2.net. The last few weeks have been a bit of a nightmare for us, but we've managed to get everything back up and running, and now with a nice new site design, and loads of new content.
When we went offline around 13th March due to a bit of a dispute...
Update (Munro): We have now resolved all 'problems' with our site. You should now be able to view the site normally. If you have any problems please contact us.
Apologies to anyone who saw all the racist/sexist posts by a certain person over the last half hour or so.
I've just cleared it up and banned the idiot.
their ip is 68.101.25.244 if anyone's interested :)
If they dont stop, I'm sure their isp would like to see copies of the stuff they...
Kamakiri has emailed Gabe Newell about the pay to play rumours floating around, and has received the following information:
Gabe confirmed the validity of this email in the thread below, and also gave the following further information:
For more information, see this forum thread
Firstly, we'd like to thank everyone who expressed an interest in becoming a news poster for the site. When we've asked in the past, we've only had a few people show interest, and we appreciate everyone who posted on the most recent thread for being willing to give their free time to help out...
We're looking for a few people to help out by gathering and posting news for this site.
Also, anyone thats willing to contribute things such as articles, interviews etc.. would be appreciated.
If you're interested in helping out, then please let us know by replying to this thread/news item...