Steam Downtime Complete - Update Released

[[+Duracell-]]

Steam worked perfectly for me. Of course, I was an idiot and tried to update while the servers and bandwidth was almost nil, but I got through it fine.



I did notice you had to update CS before you can play offline.



To activate offline mode, disconnect your PC from the internet, shut down steam by clicking Exit, not Exit and Logout, and restart Steam. It will ask you to either try again or go into Offline Mode. Nice implementation on Valve's part.



To respond to all the complainers about the content servers and such: It takes $$$ to run 12 servers and even more $$$ to hook up a large enough pipe to let the amount of users that are online everyday access the server. If the community placed their help in adding more content servers, we wouldn't have this problem right now.



About the validation e-mail: You will have to be patient. It won't come instantly. I told Steam to send me a verification e-mail and it didn't get to my Inbox till 3:30PM EST today.

[Shadow-Sniper]

So you can login and change your email before you ask for the comformation email?

[a_russak]

Yes

[marc___1]

good work offline mode

i started a game of HL single player

the loading bit between every map is a full sized like joining a cs game

and every time the map changes it connected to the internet :|

didnt even ask me

i kept clicking cancel and steam crashed after about 10 mins

[-:Nighthawk:-]

I did notice while playing online that it jumps back to a blank screen with the loading dialogue box at map changes. I don't remember it doing that before for me. Honestly, I liked it a lot, and map changes all went far faster for me while I was playing this last time than they have for quite a while. Maybe that's random and unrelated, but I liked it. :)