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Half-Life 2: Episode One Preloads Soon

[Apr 14, 2006, 11:42 pm ET] - Share - Viewing Comments

A new Steam Update (thanks Frans) has some marketeering for Red Orchestra: Ostfront 41-45 and preloads of SiN Episode 1: Emergence before going on to say that Half-Life 2: Episode One preloads are just a couple of weeks off:

Meanwhile, here at Valve, we're frantically trying to put the finishing touches on Episode One for preloading to begin May 1st. The past couple of days have been spent with the team adding commentary tracks. Hopefully it will be interesting for people to gain some insight into our development processes. It's pretty hectic around the office, but it is always a lot of fun to be so close to shipping.

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Re: This is great news!

Apr 15, 2006, 11:50

War

>does that imply that even though it's a fraction of the size, the same kind of bugs will be present as a full game? Half-Life 2 came out almost entirely bug free for a game of that size. A tiny minority had problems with sound, and an even smaller had some activation issues on launch day, but those were little irrelevancies compared to, say, Dungeon Lords. The vast majority of H-L2 patches in the last year and a half were multiplayer fixes and technical improvements. >And how are they going to handle patches for episodic content? The same way as in full games. Each episode runs on the same engine and codebase, but is an independent game as far as everything else is concerned. It's not a 'mod' in the sense it'll have its own executable, DLLs etc. This comment was edited on Apr 15, 13:56.

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Comment [quote="War"Apr 15, 2006, 11:50]>does that imply that even though it's a fraction of the size, the same kind of bugs will be present as a full game? Half-Life 2 came out almost entirely bug free for a game of that size. A tiny minority had problems with sound, and an even smaller had some activation issues on launch day, but those were little irrelevancies compared to, say, Dungeon Lords. The vast majority of H-L2 patches in the last year and a half were multiplayer fixes and technical improvements. >And how are they going to handle patches for episodic content? The same way as in full games. Each episode runs on the same engine and codebase, but is an independent game as far as everything else is concerned. It's not a 'mod' in the sense it'll have its own executable, DLLs etc. [/quote]

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