Half Life Source without buying Silver Pack?

[FipS4FuN]

Hi Guys!!

Only have one question!! i want to know if i can get Half Life Source without buying HalfLife on Steam??? i mean i bought Half Life 2 in a shop next to where i life and now i also want to have HL:Sr??? can i buy HL:S sepperatly or must i buy HL2 Silver??? please help me!!


cya Fips

 

[Rossell]

Sadly you can't.

Unless Valve have a change of heart or someone cracks it, I'm afraid we're screwed.

 

[FipS4FuN]

oh ok! Thank you for answering

 

[urban]

this is a outrage to be honest......


we paid exactly the same but because vu and valve have issues we the consumer are forced to suffer...

 

[GetCool]

Yeah, I think this is ridiculous myself. I would definitely like to see HL:S sold separately. Who can we write to about this?

 

[O'Neill]

And what about DoD:S can't we buy that for 5 bucks either?

 

[FipS4FuN]

hmm in first game DOD was free or am i false?? maybe its free??? hmm hl:s should be sold sepperatly

 

[A True Canadian]

In the future, I'm sure you'll be able to download it for free. It is technically a Half-Life 2 MOD, and isn't avaliable in stores (aside from the Collector's Edtion).

It'll probably take a while though, once profits start declining with retail versions, and VU looses interest in producing more Collector's Editions, then it's possible Valve will release a free version. But that won't happen for another year or two (estimate), and by that time, the Total Overhaul projects would have been completed.

 

[who]

They cant be serious can they?
one of the reasons i bought hl2 was the hl2 source and dod source.
No one informed me that bronze would not allow me to get these sources at a future time
i didnt see any posts from hl2/steam about this either,
so what can i do to get these sources?

please help me

 

[GetCool]

They cant be serious can they?
one of the reasons i bought hl2 was the hl2 source and dod source.
No one informed me that bronze would not allow me to get these sources at a future time
i didnt see any posts from hl2/steam about this either,
so what can i do to get these sources?

please help me

They are serious. You just simply can't buy HL:S separately at this time.

I would wait a while, for two reasons:
(1) If and when a fan-made HL conversion is finished and released, it will probably be better than Valve's current HL:S. However, you can't rely on fan-made mods to come out for sure, much less come out quickly, so...
(2) With enough community feedback and time, I wouldn't be surprised if Valve released some kind of update for HL:S, whether it be a downloadable update or an inclusion in a future expansion pack for HL2.

Of course, if you wait for either of the above, you will probably be waiting for a long time. In the meantime, I'm just going to play the original Half-Life, because in all seriousness, it doesn't look that bad. It's definitely playable, and if, as I understand, HL:S doesn't improve any of the textures, then what's the point at this time?

 

[Kitfox]

A friend of mine who had ATI version which was only the bronze version got his key upgraded to include HL:source through steam. He had to pay 10+ extra.. it was an upgrade to sivler version.

 

[D€vIL²]

total overhaul?

In the future, I'm sure you'll be able to download it for free. It is technically a Half-Life 2 MOD, and isn't avaliable in stores (aside from the Collector's Edtion).

It'll probably take a while though, once profits start declining with retail versions, and VU looses interest in producing more Collector's Editions, then it's possible Valve will release a free version. But that won't happen for another year or two (estimate), and by that time, the Total Overhaul projects would have been completed.

whats total overhaul projects

 

[GetCool]

whats total overhaul projects

There are people talking about making a real Half-Life: Source. As in redoing everything in HL1 into the new HL2 engine. They're not official projects, so Valve has nothing to do with them.

Fan-made mods of this magnitude usually never get released unless the game has a huge community. Half-Life has such a community, so it's quite possible that a HL1>HL2 total conversion will eventually see the light of day.