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[Wollan]

I haven't tried Steam since HL2 released last year.
I thought I should try Lost Coast so I fired it up and wow, it's so much better!

The skin has been redone, it all works much smoother. It actually works!
Very cool. A pleasant surprise. I always hated Steam but this version definetly doesn't deserve hate.

Regarding HL2, when will Aftermath release my dear friends?

 

[FightyF]

Funny thing is that this is the first version I've run into problems with. (I'm talking about the Lost Level version 2 update)

 

[Ferny84]

friends list is still borked.

 

[ToyMachine228]

In general I like Steam. But I do wish the Friends List would work.

 

[Mason]

I wish it wasn't such a resource hog. I can have 10 apps open with no problem but as soon as Steam is open the system comes to a grinding halt.

 

[FFunit]

steam killed my pleasure for counter strike. Hate that unnececcary program.

 

[Late Stage Marxist]

Well thanks to steam I was able to purchase CS:S without directly supporting the abortion that is HL2.

 

[Wollan]

I just finished Lost Coast. Very interesting. I liked it.

Im surprised that it played smoothly on my pc:

2.53ghz
Radeon 9800 128mb
1gb ram

Settings where 1024x768
2x AA
Full everything else

 

[Yusaku]

friends list is still borked.

Has it ever worked?

 

[Scrow]

i wish there was a much more general, open and standardised alternative to Steam that all developers and publishers could release their games over. sort of like an iTunes thing for games, except not run by a single company with their own agenda. Perhaps run by an impartial organisation already involved with the video game industry. *shrug*

just thinking is all...

 

[AtomicShroom]

i wish there was a much more general, open and standardised alternative to Steam that all developers and publishers could release their games over. sort of like an iTunes thing for games, except not run by a single company with their own agenda. Perhaps run by an impartial organisation already involved with the video game industry. *shrug*

just thinking is all...

Yes. Kind of like Xbox Live, except with game distribution.

But then you'd have companies like, say, EA, that wouldn't be happy with it because they'd want to be directly in touch with their customers, and would start their own service.

 

[Andy787]

Well thanks to steam I was able to purchase CS:S without directly supporting the abortion that is HL2.

wut

 

[Takuan]

friends list is still borked.

Why is it giving them so much trouble? You'd think that'd be one of the easiest things to implement.

 

[Late Stage Marxist]

wut

u hrd me

 

[FFunit]

Why is it giving them so much trouble? You'd think that'd be one of the easiest things to implement.

they're compensating the lack of the Friendslist by giving you extra latency. Isnt that enough?

 

[epmode]

Why is it giving them so much trouble? You'd think that'd be one of the easiest things to implement.

According to Valve, there are several different versions of Steam running, depending on the user's platform and operating system. This is invisible to the end-user, but it apparently makes impossible for the friends system to work the way it should, so Valve disabled it.

They're now in the process of unifying the Steam versions and the friends list will finally work when they're done.

 

[Vormund]

friends list is still borked.

Yes but now instead of just pretending it works they actually say it doesn't work.

Such progress.

 

[Zensetsu]

Yeah, steam is great. Except for the other day when it decided out of the blue, that I no longer had half life 2 installed and kept trying to download it. Despite the fact that it was clearly still there.

 

[Scrow]

ffunit

http://img459.imageshack.us/img459/2385/avatarindestructablesmall7hh.gif

^^ as cool as that avatar is... it's fucking half a meg dude!

avatars are meant to be no larger than 150kb

 

[LM4sure]

i love steam too. ktnxbye