Half-Life 2 Pre-Loading Phase 7

[Chris D]

So you wait ages for a significant Steam update, then two come along at once! Or is that buses? Either way, not only have we seen the release of the SDK starting today, but also you can now grab the seventh pre-load of Half-Life 2:

The seventh phase of the Half-Life 2 preload begins to Steam account holders today. This will allow users to download localized Half-Life 2 content and other content in encrypted form. No purchase is required to pre-load Half-Life 2, but is required to activate the game. The moment the game is made available, those who have pre-loaded and purchased the game via Steam will be ready to start playing.

Judging by its description there, this pre-load still doesn't bring us everything we'll need to play Half-Life 2 indicating that there will be more pre-loads in the future.[br]
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Please restart your Steam clients to get this pre-load.

 

[XbiosparkX]

w00t its comin!

 

[BillyJoBob]

yes!
123125

 

[Dr. Freeman]

great
almost there... just one or two more phases :E

 

[rocklegendfm99]

that was small,
it was probably the last phase.

 

[Vinnie_NL]

Woohoo! One step coser to Half-Life 2!

 

[deekey777]

"Zee German" language content is 746 MB big. Who cares!

 

[Hellbound]

I'm drooling at the same rate i'm downloading :rolling:

 

[meninblck]

i can pretty much guarentee that valve will protect from piracy by making the authentication, when you first try to play, load quite a few missing files...which wont do much in the long run, but will help early piracy prevention!

 

[Wraithen]

Yay, I'm no longer one of the people stuck at 88%!!!!

it's now stuck at 86%

 

[Mountain Man]

I can't believe how close we are!

 

[deekey777]

I can't believe how close we are!

~10 days to wait.

It's funny: U can play HL2(steam) in english, german (me german) or e.g. russian, the only one thing to do is to change the steam language. :cheese:

 

[h4vvok]

French too, hurray for moi

 

[Some_God]

I just wished they released HL2 earlier. Like today, which is friday. :E

 

[iamaelephant]

Why not give us the option to download localised content? I don't want Frnech and German languages taking up my precious hard disk space. And would it kill Valve to let us know exactly how many more of these ridiculous things we are getting? We have, after all, paid for the game.

 

[slayertx]

I want them to release hl1 source next. I actualy just finnished running through hl again(I had today off and just wanted to see how fast I could do it, took less than a afternoon)

I wish the source had updated modles thoe, I think thats kinda lame valve didn't just switch out the modles? how hard would that have been?

But while running through it I thought of several places source would be better.

It's like I am in some dream or somthing, valve screwed with my emotions so much that I almost can't belive that it's comming out in 10 days. it truly better be the best game I have ever played!!!

 

[zer0kewl]

w0000000000t
^________________^

 

[Ecthe|ioN]

This is great !! Off to work though ..

 

[henrym]

Why not give us the option to download localised content? I don't want Frnech and German languages taking up my precious hard disk space. And would it kill Valve to let us know exactly how many more of these ridiculous things we are getting? We have, after all, paid for the game.

I'm pretty sure Steam would've only downloaded the content appropriate for whatever language you have Steam set to.

ie you don't have French or German content taking up your 'precious hard disk space'.

 

[johnnypoopoopant]

another preload!!

 

[@licomb]

Noooooooooooooo's does this mean I will get french content, even though I am english living in France.

 

[DeltaBlast]

Just change your steam language to English...

 

[PlagueX]

Noooooooooooooo's does this mean I will get french content, even though I am english living in France.

Well I have only got the English content, so I don't think so
Even though i'm danish I prefer my games in english.
The danish versiones are pretty lame. Though we DO have some good games. Like Hitman 1 , 2 , and 3. Possible the biggest accomplishment of the danes :cheers:

 

[Kadayi]

Why not give us the option to download localised content? I don't want Frnech and German languages taking up my precious hard disk space. And would it kill Valve to let us know exactly how many more of these ridiculous things we are getting? We have, after all, paid for the game.

You can pre-load without buying the game.

 

[iamaelephant]

Way to edit the quote. Very mature.

 

[Kadayi]

Way to edit the quote. Very mature.

Well mocking your constant whining 'issues' with all things HL² and Valve related is a perpetual source of amusement for me.

 

[poofyfinger]

I am at 100%

Preloading is complete
When the game is officially released you will be able to play immediately.


I didn't have any updates... WHY !?!?!?!?

 

[Ansur]

Because you'll only get localized content when you change your language to something else than english.
If you only want english, don't change it, and you won't get the (unnecesary) update.

 

[mezz]

I'm in english but I DID get an update, it dropped down to 97%.
Do you think thats because I'm in England and not the US so the spelling is different?

 

[Dynasty]

10 days left ladies....10 days left....

gordon can see us through the window...and we can finally hear his footsteps...hold us...

 

[Ar.Pi]

for real, and btw does it mean the vocals also in different language or only text?

 

[kingomar]

for real, and btw does it mean the vocals also in different language or only text?

nope just text language (inclusive of subtitles), dont think they did any foriegn voice overs.

I cant wait for HL2 to get released.... :bounce: :bounce: :bounce:

 

[Wraithen]

nope just text language (inclusive of subtitles), dont think they did any foriegn voice overs.

I cant wait for HL2 to get released.... :bounce: :bounce: :bounce:

I seem to remember reading that there will be several voice over languages done for Half Life 2, and remember when they showed off G-Man talking in a bunch of different ones to show how easy it is to get the lip sync right.