Half-Life 2 Surprise = Deathmatch [Nov 30, 2004, 8:32 pm ET] – Share – Viewing Comments
A post by Valve's Adrian Finol to the
Steam Users Forums (thanks MonkeyBrains) reveals that Half-Life 2 deathmatch
is the surprise announcement they recently hinted about (story).
The post simply links to this
image, which says the proverbial thousand words about our upcoming
opportunity to throw more than just the kitchen sink at each other.
Well, it's running for me, but I couldn't join any games.
Half were full, and the other half just dropped me back to the browser with no error.
After enabling the console, I could see it had been erroring out with "This server requires that Steam be running" or somesuch, when (as it happens) Steam is running, because that's how I started HL2:DM in the first place. Firewall issues, maybe? Hrm. I wonder.
Took Steam forever to start the first time, though.
Probably for the best, anyway. The first release of any MP is always a laggy stack of JoeBob's running a 32-person server on their Celeron and DSL.
Half were full, and the other half just dropped me back to the browser with no error.
After enabling the console, I could see it had been erroring out with "This server requires that Steam be running" or somesuch, when (as it happens) Steam is running, because that's how I started HL2:DM in the first place. Firewall issues, maybe? Hrm. I wonder.
Took Steam forever to start the first time, though.
Probably for the best, anyway. The first release of any MP is always a laggy stack of JoeBob's running a 32-person server on their Celeron and DSL.
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