No More CD required to play?

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DuffBeer

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Seems like my CSS now works without my CD inserted. Any statements from Valve about this? I wasn't able to find anything!
 
Yeah if you check steampowered.com or the news on the front page here at HL2.net you'd see that the latest update included:

Half-Life 2, HL2DM and Source Dedicated Server Update Released
December 10, 2004, 12:16 pm · valve

Half-Life 2, Half-Life 2: Deathmatch and Source Dedicated Server updates are available and will be applied automatically when Steam is restarted. The changes include:


Half-Life 2

Solved disc in drive incompatibility error by removing Securom disc check routine



Half-Life 2: Deathmatch

Fixed players entering the game with a score of -1

Fixed combine ball tracking teammates

Fixed not being able to grab level designer placed combine balls with the physics cannon

Fixed players randomly spawning without physcannons

Fixed multishot pistol exploit

Fixed wrong footstep sounds while in team mode

Fixed last RPG shot not tracking

Added cl_defaultweapon -- defaults to weapon_physcannon but can be changed to any other weapon you spawn with

Added HUD string to print team name

Added model specific death sounds

Switching to the physcannon is now instantaneous

Toned down 357 damage

Updated dm_overwatch



Source Dedicated Server

Fixed "failed to load server.dll" error with 3rd party mods

Fixed linux dedicated server crash on some GLIBC versions

Fixed dedicated server error in certain localized languages


Good new huh? I hate all the CD checks they make you do when you have 6GBs worth of their stuff on your hard drive and you still need a CD in to play, I bought over Steam so I never had to worry about needing a CD but it is very nice that they have removed it so we don't have to go looking for No-CDs... I buy all the games I play but I can't stand putting in a CD just to play one of the 5-6 games I have on my hard drive right now.
 
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