Half-Life 2: Episode 1

nero120 · 31 May 2006 at 12:32

The steam engine looks so dated now compared to fear and condemned.

Psyk · 31 May 2006 at 12:44

nero120 said:
The steam engine looks so dated now compared to fear and condemned.

There's no Steam engine. It's the source engine, steam is just the distribution system. And tbh I don't think it's dated, it's just different. It's less shiny.

FirebarUK · 31 May 2006 at 12:55

I prefer the source engine to the likes of fear etc. More realistic imo.

Mobius 1 · 31 May 2006 at 12:59

FirebarUK said:
I prefer the source engine to the likes of fear etc. More realistic imo.

Takes less pc power to run it really well, too.

Blackstar_solar · 31 May 2006 at 13:19

indeed, i've got mine running on full everything :cool:

..can't wait to see what ep1 look like

[SKR]Phoenix · 31 May 2006 at 13:59

3-4 hours? Where did you hear that?

From the previews I have seen, they reckon a decent gamer is going to get 6 hours out of it. Gabe reckons it took him 7!

Zacko · 31 May 2006 at 17:25

mark1 said:
Ravenholm is quite a bit before Nova Prospekt and the beach (i guess you mean the Highway one) is also before Nova Prospekt.

My mistake, I loved Ravenholm though it's great chopping up zombies :cool:

Lovejoy! · 31 May 2006 at 18:00

just purchased this ready for tomorrow :***)

Lovejoy! · 31 May 2006 at 18:06

what time's this being unlocked then?

oxygene · 31 May 2006 at 19:31

yeah what time? I got it brought already. Thought maybe 6pm today as america midnight is about then. But if its tonight at midnight I might stay up for it and play through. Any ideas?

DaveyD · 31 May 2006 at 19:47

I've heard 6PM GMT, so that'll be tomorrow.

That's 11am or something like that over in the US Pacific side.

Edit: Yup, I was right: http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid=442173

Street · 31 May 2006 at 20:12

Can't wait for this... Am finishing my preload as well speak

I've always been a fan of the HL series, and I'm even taking a break from Oblivion to play this (doesn't help that I accidentaly deleted my Oblivion save game after I'd been playing for around 70hrs :mad:

)

ray · 31 May 2006 at 20:13

There's a small preview of the game on gamespot:

http://uk.gamespot.com/pc/action/halflife2aftermath/news.html?sid=6151983

luminous · 31 May 2006 at 20:21

Can`t wait!,£11 is nothing considering the effort

TriedandTested · 31 May 2006 at 20:47

I'm poised to get this purchased...but will wait for some feedback from those here first. I can only imagine it being great though.

bilston · 31 May 2006 at 20:49

When I try to click preload or pre order in Steam it gives me "The page cannot be displayed" error

Any ideas?

bledd · 31 May 2006 at 20:55

do you have peerguardian enabled?

try turning it off, it blocks a lot of steam servers

also..
countdown is here

http://ep1.half-life2.com/

6pm sucks :mad:

sjt269 · 31 May 2006 at 20:59

bilston said:
When I try to click preload or pre order in Steam it gives me "The page cannot be displayed" error

Any ideas?

Yeah, I get that too. I was given a remedy to that on the previous page, didn't work for me though. Or I'm not doing it right, but a reinstall of Steam might help. I'm just too lazy to be bothered atm.

bilston · 31 May 2006 at 20:59

Nope nothing like that running. Still no joy after disabling literally everything then restarting Steam :/

Anyone else? Really want to preorder to get it cheap as possible, now that Im a student again

TriedandTested · 31 May 2006 at 20:59

bilston said:
When I try to click preload or pre order in Steam it gives me "The page cannot be displayed" error

Any ideas?

steam://preload/380

That't the shortcut to load HL2:E1, try pasting that in your browser...