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First thing, what ever you read, don't trust it unless its an official source.
Lots of rumors, its important that you people with itchy fingures, and impatient stupid brains understand that a lot of people make up stupid stuff, so before JUMPING at some news, or FREAKING out, why dont you just go double check with something more solid?
Steam will not force online connection for single player, want to know why? there are so many reasons, ill give a couple good ones.
It would force customers with dial-up to be online, hence forcing a customer to pay an ISP to play the damn game, where is the logic in that? Steam would have to give free internet for gaming then. They wont do that. Not only that, but some people might not have internet. Some networks are private, or without internet access, what about firewalls?
Also, if your computer is too weak, an option would be overclocking. You could overclock your machine just a little, to where you dont need massive cooling, for example, my machine, amd 1700 (1.45ghz) would be as fast to even out perform a pentium 2ghz, and it was only $75.
The athlons process more information per cycle then pentiums, thats why. Now, a small OC for me takes me from 1.5ghz, to 2.1ghz, and all I have for cooling are some fans. Load temp at 45c max. STABLE. (tested with prime95). Not too bad for 500mhz+. See, so for $75, im above and beyond recommended, with additional fans ofcourse, still all WAY cheaper than Pentium processor, which burns holes in your pockets.
So if you need juice for cheap, get an athlon, and if you want more juice, Overclock some.
From the latest benchmarks test, obviously ATI is the better card as of right now for HL2, so if you dont have an ATI 9800pro or something, then you probably wont have the best gfx. Deal with it, or fork up the cash for a new card.
HALF LIFE 2 WILL BE OUT SEPTEMBER 30th, THAT IS ALL VALVE HAS EVER SAID, AND THEY ARE STICKING WITH IT.
Give them more faith, give them the benifit of the doubt. They have been workin on the game for freakin 5 years, they are showing demos, and doing benchmarks, you really think there is much if anything left to do? you really think it will be held back?
Other games are always late because they are pre-maturaly marketed, I think after 5 years, Sierra might know what they are capable of, if they are SUPREMLY confident about sep. 30th, its for a reason. So stop asking about that.
Everyone should read the sticky thread "Info from valve only".
Very good stuff in there. Thats about it... yeah.... ok, bye.
Lots of rumors, its important that you people with itchy fingures, and impatient stupid brains understand that a lot of people make up stupid stuff, so before JUMPING at some news, or FREAKING out, why dont you just go double check with something more solid?
Steam will not force online connection for single player, want to know why? there are so many reasons, ill give a couple good ones.
It would force customers with dial-up to be online, hence forcing a customer to pay an ISP to play the damn game, where is the logic in that? Steam would have to give free internet for gaming then. They wont do that. Not only that, but some people might not have internet. Some networks are private, or without internet access, what about firewalls?
Also, if your computer is too weak, an option would be overclocking. You could overclock your machine just a little, to where you dont need massive cooling, for example, my machine, amd 1700 (1.45ghz) would be as fast to even out perform a pentium 2ghz, and it was only $75.
The athlons process more information per cycle then pentiums, thats why. Now, a small OC for me takes me from 1.5ghz, to 2.1ghz, and all I have for cooling are some fans. Load temp at 45c max. STABLE. (tested with prime95). Not too bad for 500mhz+. See, so for $75, im above and beyond recommended, with additional fans ofcourse, still all WAY cheaper than Pentium processor, which burns holes in your pockets.
So if you need juice for cheap, get an athlon, and if you want more juice, Overclock some.
From the latest benchmarks test, obviously ATI is the better card as of right now for HL2, so if you dont have an ATI 9800pro or something, then you probably wont have the best gfx. Deal with it, or fork up the cash for a new card.
HALF LIFE 2 WILL BE OUT SEPTEMBER 30th, THAT IS ALL VALVE HAS EVER SAID, AND THEY ARE STICKING WITH IT.
Give them more faith, give them the benifit of the doubt. They have been workin on the game for freakin 5 years, they are showing demos, and doing benchmarks, you really think there is much if anything left to do? you really think it will be held back?
Other games are always late because they are pre-maturaly marketed, I think after 5 years, Sierra might know what they are capable of, if they are SUPREMLY confident about sep. 30th, its for a reason. So stop asking about that.
Everyone should read the sticky thread "Info from valve only".
Very good stuff in there. Thats about it... yeah.... ok, bye.
And change the title, it's slightly uninteresting and cryptic. something like "HL2 IMPORTANT INFO, PLEASE READ". 
