Long Awaited Steam Update

[CSN NewsBot]

Finally, the Steam update we have been waiting for. Valve's Erik Johnson has stated that on Wednesday, Steam will be updated. This update will include the offline/LAN play addition, that LANs have been waiting for, for a long time. Also some other nifty things such as the ability to purchase games via Steam and a new Half-Life 2 hardware survey. Erik also mentioned that during this update, Steam will be unavailable for approximately three hours.



I knew Valve wouldn't let us fellow gamers down. Hopefully we will hear some information about CS:2 soon.[break="Erik J's statement"]

There will be an update to Steam this Wednesday beginning at approximately 6:00am PST. Steam will be unavailable for the duration of the update, which is expected to last three hours.



This update will include the changes previously mentioned:

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

The Steampowered.com website will be available during the downtime window, and will be updated as status changes.

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<3 Valve :)

[-:Nighthawk:-]

Good to see they got the LAN element working (or at least mostly... we'll see what it turns out like, heh). I'm still eagerly awaiting the radar fix, but in the meantime, gj VALVe. :)

[Take13|Invader Zim]

the offline play would be nicer if we had bots tho. :)

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Take13|Invader Zim wrote..

the offline play would be nicer if we had bots tho. :)

Thats what CZ is for :)



Also there are many third party bots around.

[Buddah]

That 3 hours of downtime might lead to the suicides of many diehard CSers. Then again 3 hours is time well spent waiting for this important update for Steam for the rest of us.

[Dirk]

If someone kills themselves because they cant play cs, they need to die.



-dp-

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Dirk wrote..

If someone kills themselves because they cant play cs, they need to die.



-dp-

/kills self in anticipation..

hehe

[shurcool]

I know, seriously, where's the promised radar opacity fix?



And I think they took away the bots from regular CS 1.6 to make CZ more appealing and worth the money. :|

[xlokix]

how fortunate people are to live down the road from a lan center..the nearest lan center from here is 2 hours :[

[CmdrFlesh]

Any word on how ppl without a steam-able internet connection will be able to get this update in order to be able to play without an internet connection?

[FLeK0]

CmdrFlesh wrote..

Any word on how ppl without a steam-able internet connection will be able to get this update in order to be able to play without an internet connection?

new steaminstall.exe maybe?

[CmdrFlesh]

FLeK0 wrote..

new steaminstall.exe maybe?

Now that would be great. <3 Valve (under that precondition)

[haGGard04]

whats a half-life 2 hardware survey?

[plastic_Fish]

haGGard04 wrote..

whats a half-life 2 hardware survey?

A survey done to see how good your computer speculations are to play Half-Life 2. Well that is what I had heard