HL2 Boxed Retail?

[chu]

I was wondering, will the boxed version come with all the steam software?

Because right now there is no way in hell I can download the 724mb file on dial up.

 

[RabidMeatloaf]

I would assume it would....

 

[Mjolnir]

Yes,you will only need to update HL2 through steam....Valve has said that everything you need for online play etc will be packaged with the retail versions...........

 

[Mother]

I think chu meant "Will HL2 come with Steam and all the cache files?"

To be honest chu, I don't think it will.

 

[UndeadScottsman]

I don't see why it would come with the cache files for Half-Life 1 and it's mods/expansion... they'll already have enough space taken up by Half-Life 2 itself, without adding 700+ megs of five year old games...

It'll definatly come with the Steam front-end though, as that is an integral part of Half-Life2.

 

[Cheetarah654]

i dont think it willc ome with steam, since its a free download. but hey, who knows

 

[||Diablo||]

so if it doesnt come with steam, what will i have to download? steam then? anything HUGE for us dial ups?
cuz it would suck if i had to download 74mb just to play hl2....then it would be delayed till sep 30th 3003 =[

 

[chu]

I wasn't worried about the cache files for HL1 and such, just the steam software itself.

And here yesterday I was all psycked up to play TFC, went to play "Out of date". went to dload the patch and it was 200 some megs.

 

[UndeadScottsman]

Steam itself is a 500kb application.. If Half-Life2 doesn't include it (Which I can almost garrentee it will, after all it's only 500KB) it will be a trivial download, even for someone on a 56Kb connection. Going at 6KB a second, you could get the file less than two minutes..