Offline Play Soon for Steam

[CSN NewsBot]

Over at the Steam website there is news of upcoming updates, the most notable being offline play! Head on over to the Steampowered news page or click on for the juicy details.[break="click here for changelog"]

There will be a number of significant Steam events in the coming days.



The first will be a long-awaited Steam client release. The highlights from this release will be:

• offline play
  
  
• account validation (via e-mail)
  
  
• a new half-life 2 hardware survey
  
  
• support for purchasing games through steam

There are a number of other small changes along with the ones listed above, as well as a number of changes planned out past the launch of Counter-Strike: Condition Zero.

[xm8]

whoa.

[ozmer]

I hope people will stop complaing about LANing now but with my third eye, I can foresee offline play not coming out bug-free on first realease.



I wonder if CZ will release on Steam sooner then March 23rd? I hope so.



But in reality, I could care less about Steam updates. I want CS updates!

[Simplex]

Email verification?



I used a hotmail account that I don't check. I can turn off the blocking so that the email goes through, but when will it verify my accout?

[gumplunger]

ozmer wrote..

I wonder if CZ will release on Steam sooner then March 23rd?

You're kidding, right? =)



Thanks for the offline mode Valve. This addition gets you +3 cool points and +23 armor. Do some more weapon balancing and you might just get a Sword of Anlarkian or a Rune of Superkillagepwnroflamingo.

[peagle]

<3 Erik, but his odd sentence structure leaves me wondering what he means by:



"There are a number of other small changes along with the ones listed above, as well as a number of changes planned out past the launch of Counter-Strike: Condition Zero."



So, there are forthcoming changes that won't take place until CZ is launched, but you're going to tell us about them soon, or they are going to be in the next update somehow?



*can't wait to fill that hl2 survey in *gibber*

[[+Duracell-]]

peagle wrote..

<3 Erik, but his odd sentence structure leaves me wondering what he means by:



"There are a number of other small changes along with the ones listed above, as well as a number of changes planned out past the launch of Counter-Strike: Condition Zero."



So, there are forthcoming changes that won't take place until CZ is launched, but you're going to tell us about them soon, or they are going to be in the next update somehow?



*can't wait to fill that hl2 survey in *gibber*

I believe he means that there will be more changes to come in the future to Steam and HL before and after CZ is released.

[Electronic Punk]

He means there will be other small changes before March 23rd as well as more cool stuff coming after Condition Zero is released.



I am sure he only means misc updates, but perhaps they are doing something in secret like working on a Half-life sequel or something.

[ozmer]

I think he is just reassuring people that Valve will still support CS even though CS:CZ will be released soon.

[marc___1]

im sure my integrated graphics with 8mb shared ram can handle hl2 :\

or not

[alex`]

How would I change my steam e-mail in order to verify it?

[a_russak]

you'll probably need a new account, I'm thinking the survey will be a hardware survey, like some companies do now, and maybe it'll take your internet connection/area..like a Demographics survey mixed with hardware specs.

[gobd]

Finally they fixed this bug that shouldn't have ever exsisted. Now I wonder if they will ever fix it and make it so echo will work again, if they can do that then I will have no problems at all with Steam but until then it's still a POS.

[gumplunger]

gobd wrote..

Finally they fixed this bug that shouldn't have ever exsisted.

Are you talking about offline play? That's not a bug. You know you sound like an idiot saying that if they fixing everything you want them to Steam would still suck.

[MaNko_CHiNkuBi]

PAAARRRAAAAAA UPPPDDAAATTEEE >>___<<



and radar opacity..



neeed...