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I didn't have to wait hours to get it validated. It took about 10-12 minutes or so but it still got through fine.

Now that I'm awake, time for more HL2 :D

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three cheers for crowded servers! Three cheers for not being able to connect to steam!!

HIP HIP!!...

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Are you guys serious? I have seen just as many, if not more, hackers on STEAM then I have on 1.5. If you honestly think that STEAM is helping deal with the hacker situation, you are Valve's tool.

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I finally connected and was able to play some CS:S. Wow, it looks so good. Too bad my bandwidth is so crappy. I wasn't able to do so well.

Still haven't gone back to try getting HL2 to work, but I absolutely love Source. The physics is so pretty.

And, Steam prevents people from cracking the game and gettting it for free. Steam sucks at stopping people from cheating, but they have to buy the game. That's all that matters to Valve anyways.

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Key word there is HELPING. if you said stops it, then i'd agree with you. However my view is somewhat different.

the hardcore guys that make cheats and do hacks and such are going to do it no matter what, your not going to stop em. They dont bother me. what bothers me is the little kid wanna be ones who find easy ways to hack something and then run around using it like no tomorrow. and every little bit of somethign helps to stop thoes kind. and personally i like that.

but steam does suck. :p

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Your reference to little kiddie hackers is commonly referred to as myg0t. If you dont know who it is, google it and you'll see what I mean.

But CS:S's physics are pale in comparison to HL2. I finally got the gravity gun today and its just awesome. Nothing funner then throwing a barrel of fuel/explosives at enemies :D

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It's the guy from the funny Counter Strike flash movie? "OMG! YOU %$&*(^()_^&&( hacker!!" ???

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myg0t is a CS clan that their goal is to only make people's game experience suck, ie: cheat, hacks, etc..

A recent example is in the last month, an exploit was found where if you put %n in your name in CS:S and joined a game, when you get killed, the server crashes out (thus, everyone else does also). They used that exploit EVERYWHERE on CS:S until Valve fixed it.

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My only complaint about the game so far:

I can't pick up dead bodies and fling them down the stairs... Watching a combine soldier dude roll down them is so fun! Weeeeheheheeeeh!

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but you can pick up bodies with the gravity gun cant ya?

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I've tried with the gravity gun and you can't but I'm gonna wait for a mod that can let me pick up just about anything with it. it can pickup alot of stuff but not things like cars or semi trailers.

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I've run into an irritating problem (well, more like an annoyance of sorts)... Not having to do with the game itself, I guess...

When I pump up the graphics a bit, the game runs perfectly smooth 99% of the time... The only thing is, when something sudden happens such as me turning around quickly to reveal a new something-or-other, an enemy popping out, or me shooting my gun after not having shot it for awhile, the game pauses for a split second and the audio loops, which is extremely annoying... So I have to dumb down the overall settings of the game just for those instances...

It makes me cry...

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Other people are having the issue also. I've heard that lowering the sound quality a smidge can help without a noticeable loss in it and someone else mentioned that if you enable the console (options>keyboard>advanced>developers tool (i think thats the name) check that), bring it up with the ~ and type cl_rate 25000. I'm about to try it as I have the same issue here and there

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thats odd, cuz in the demo they showed at E3 last year or the year before, they picked up a dead body by the guys foot and dragged him against the table.

but then again, the gravity gun looked different then too. it shot a beam out and grabed things. perhaps an upgrade later in the game? OR perhaps something they just never put in the game. interesting tho.


Anyone know a command to change crosshair colors?

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Yea same issue for me, as I said in the other thread. My only complaint so far though. Absolutley stunning game. The characters get me...they're so realistic, you really feel connected to them more than in other games because of it...