Link to STEAM http://69.22.144.190/steaminstall.exe
For yoouuuu :)
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Link to STEAM http://69.22.144.190/steaminstall.exe
For yoouuuu :)
n1 m8 :)
Cheers for that, now all I have to do is go throttle vale for being total asshats in their implementation of steam.
As an server admin it's a nightmare, every ban placed over the several years is null and void so all the muppets out there we've stopped are free again. Also half the admin tools no longer work like HLSW and the Databse with it is now 175,000 wonids without any use.
The very least steam could have done is run WONID alongside Steam ID for a while so that steam IDs could get matched to WONIDs and bans converted
Steam is a bit like communism. Great in theory, totally flawed in practice.
Valve have completely underestimated the load that would be put on the Steam platform by people updating CS 1.6. Not to mention the other problems like the bans, the fact HLSW etc won't now work with CS, the problems Retail CS users are having.
Need I go on? I'm not amused.
http://www.clourd2.com/slash/steam2.gif
problems with retail cs? you don't need half-life in any shape or form installed to play anything on steam...
--jo
Retail CS users are finding that it's not recognising their WON ID, so it won't convert to a Steam ID meaning you can't log in.
Steam is crap, it can't handle the demand and is poorly coded.. Why, oh why valve..
tum ti tum... downloaded the 1.0 thing, then it removed my old beta directory.. then started updating. it got to 40% and then i had to go cook a bbq for tea. come back, and its at 28% doing nothing.. cancel it. start again, comes up as 'updating 28%'. minimise it.. look again, just says 'updating' and is doing sweet FA. which tbh isnt at all useful.. i honestly cant see how they are going to be distrubuting hl2 through this... max i get is like 20k/s from their servers which is pitiful for 1mb ADSL.
ah well,
mark
why did they change 1.3? if they had 1.3 with VAC all would be well and good. there too botehred about making it noob friendly instead of listenin to the the problems. Reg is none existant, i look sh** with awp cos of it, and its a useless update so valve can take over the world!!!!!
Mine has been preparing to play cs for a while now.
well its 10-0 at the moment, 10 crashes - 0 complete's
gg wp Steam :(
I've not been able to download from Steam at all. It just crashes my machine.
Try this though - it's Steam bundled with CS 1.6
http://www.filemirrors.com/search.sr...size=397857244
Plenty of mirrors there. :)
lol who made that?
Users or Valve?
Valve :)
i finally managed to play some cs1.6 earlier, but they've changed all the stupid buy menus, which is frigging useless. I now have to workout my buyscript again, and memorise everything... initially i did 'b 1 3' expecting a Deagle. isntead i get a p228. what is the point of changing them, they were fine...
i'll go look on google to see if anyone has made a list of what weapons are what numbers or something.. i tried to buy some ammo and i bought nightvision instead. not useful.
90% of people cant play it, and the other 10% realise its **** and dont want to play it...
edit :: just found http://ss4life.free.fr/SS4Life3/cs16_binds_us.htm seems they made it alot easier to make buyscripts, as you can just write 'mp5' instead of 'buy;wait;menuselect 8;wait... etc' :)
off to play, and die again.
mark
Well I just downloaded the whole 380meg CS 1.6/Steam Bundle, installed it and guess what.
Steam won't ******* start now.
Valve, you've ****ed up a good en here. :mad:
Looks like it's time to pack CS in completely and play DC from now on...
steam = steaming pile of s***e. my brother downloaded it with the steam updater, crached every 5 mins, and the funny thing is, it tells u its download ing at 10X what it really is (we could check with netlimiter), or thats the total of every one downloading from there server, wouldnt be suprised tbh if it was only 30kb/s.
in the end he got the seperate download with steam and cs1.6, and can i say steam is patetic, i htink valve highered some volantry coders, that probly left half way through cos valve r so ****e. the game kicks him every few mins because of numerous bugs, its slow, the ui sucks, hlsw dont work with it....
and about cheating - why cant they go back to a slightly fixed version of cs1.3 WITH cheating death BUILT IN (none of that VAC crap)
valve have basicly killed cs now, time to find a better online game or for me to just stop playing compleaty, not found any decent games worth the effort of playing recently.
oh, any one seen the new maps, THEY LOOK S***E!!!!!!!!!
valve didnt think of server hosting companys, clans, gaming leages, or just normal players when they done this, after four years of being the most popuar online game, its going to be one of the worsed.
what i hate also, other than the maps seem to have been retextured and look complete crap, is the fact that you cannot use custom models (which i have for each model, as the standard ones look complete and utter pap)... all the servers seem to have some thing which inforces model integrity... what a load of donkey balls.
Finally got it working.
Had to delete the whole lot (old CS 1.5, Steam, manually delete all reg entries) then used the bundled Steam/1.6.
Thank God for that! :eek:
hmm for my, i copied the steamApps/counter-strike folder to my desktop, uninstalled the steam beta, reinstalled steam1.0, waited a few hours for it to do something, and then once i'd set up my account, copied back cs.. did some updatery crappage and it seems to work now :)
byebye
mark
What exactly is Steam for ? Is it a patching tool to automatically update Half Life ? Is it to download mods/updates ? Is it a tool for finding servers to play on ? what is it ? thanks :)
i havnt really played half life before
well, currently Half Life is a game, simple yes?
Then some clever clogs made a Mod of H/L called Counterstrike.
In the past you needed H/L to play cs, when updates were out, you would simply d/l the 100meg file to patch ur cs mod.
Now steam is the new version of cs (1.6). Its there so valve have complete control over every1 who connects to a server. You dont need h/l to play steam, as you can d/l it with steam (altho u dont need to). It is useful for updating, as they can update it little bits each week, rather than lots at once. You can search for servers and have your friends on a Buddy list.
But its crap :) the only good thing about it, is if any1 is cuaght cheating, there steamID is banned from steam, so you cant play steam without a complete re-install and a new h/l cd key :)
So what about any false detections of cheating?Quote:
Originally posted by Russ
But its crap :) the only good thing about it, is if any1 is cuaght cheating, there steamID is banned from steam, so you cant play steam without a complete re-install and a new h/l cd key :)
Like when the ATI dudes were all kicked + banned cos they were cheating..... :rolleyes:
I was seriously contemplating going back to CS when I get my shuttle..... but from reading this.... :confused:
Nick
no if ur cuaght with ogc or sumthin by vac, u'll be banned. if ur banned by a rand0m server cos they think u cheat u'll be ok.
one more thing, HL grpaics are really crap, they didjnt bring out a new version or something to improve them did they ? When i dl the CS mod, it said something about 2 versions, the mod for HL, and the CS retail. Is the Retail CS a new deign/engine ?
no retails cs is the same, you just dont need hl original to run it... i tried copying over all my custom models for cs (so that the weapons had more than 3 polys each :)), but every server had some crap where it inforced model integrity, so i couldnt connect.. the game looks crap tbh, and the shield is a joke.
byebye
mark
I think i will wait for CS condition zero to take it up, i assume thats a new engine/better graphics ? right ? because those graphics remind me of star craft .... :)
Well im still CS less :( Kin thing, installed the full bundle and tells me my blasted PC isnt connected to the internet..What a heap o junk.aint got for a few days to do a strip out and reinstall
a couple of points are being missed. Steam is NOT couterstrike, it's an alternative game distribution method. you run steam, pick a game from the list, and it'll download & run it for you (with things like levels being downloaded as & when needed). some games are on steam for free (counterstrike, half life, opposing force & a couple of other half life mods), and a payment system will soon come into play to allow other titles as well. your steam username & password dictate what you can or cannot play, so if you use a different pc but the same username, you can use any games you've paid for on steam.
whenever you run a game, it authenticates all the client files against the valve servers, to ensure that there are no discrpancies. this is used for, for example, preventing people from using models with x/z/y spikes through them. patches are done in the same way - you run the game, it determines your version differs from the server, and it replaces your files with the correct ones.
the biggest problem is bandwidth. every game you want to play through steam takes several hundred meg of downloading. do valve have the infrastructure for every CS player worldwide to update at the same time? no, they don't - hence the dreadful problems recently.
that and the steam client itself is a little on the buggy side. it's not 1.0 standard - it's worse than some 0.3 apps i run. but the idea is that they can send out minutge updates every time you run steam - every bug fixed one by one, and the insignificat download time won't even be noticed. again, that's the theory.
the final issue is that the heavy authentication-based gaming means a lot of server fiddles don't work. since Steam runs independant of the WON multiplayer network, WON ID's and CD keys are no longer applicable for server bans - new STEAM ID's need to be used. there is NO conversion process possible, as the ID's are independant. i play Half-Life at my girlfriend's place but have never bothered to bring any CD's - it's all via Steam. This same issue means Mods are no longer possible under Steam'ed HL. The mod files mismatch against the server, and won't run. Chances are that ocne Steam has matured sufficiently games may be available in a Lite (modless) or full (modable) version, for differing cost.
We shall see what the future holds, but be sure you are fully aware of what Steam is. Too many people see "Steam" and read "Counterstrike".
--jo
my bad, seems like latest steam supports both mods and custom models. if it was working properly, which with the state of valve's back end, it isn't.
--jo
Steam is currently turning down connections. Can't log in. :(
i couldnt log in earlier.. infact i still cant.. got a pretty error message tho : http://www.jgubby.com/~mark/steamerror.jpg
ive had way more problems with 1.0 than i did with the betas... ho hum
mark
yea, CS:CZ is state of the art. Although, that was 2 years ago when it was supposed to be released :EQuote:
Originally posted by Lexeus
I think i will wait for CS condition zero to take it up, i assume thats a new engine/better graphics ? right ? because those graphics remind me of star craft .... :)