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Jonbo298 · 11-15-2004, 10:19 PM

Not really. The ONLY time you have to connect to the Steam servers for HL2 is to authenticate your copy. After that you can play in offline mode all you want as long as save account info is checked and I think something.

But HL2 has been out on the market since about Friday/Saturday and the install files are the same that people have preloaded from starting back in October I believe (maybe earlier). So by now it would've been pirated but no one really knows how its authenticated (plus, I'm guessing it needs that last 2 or 3 megs to make it work properly which hackers are all but impossible to figure out that last 2 or 3 megs needed)

11-15-2004, 10:19 PM	#21
Jonbo298 Freaky me Freaky you Jonbo298 is offline Location: In the Cornfields of Iowa Now Playing: Posts: 8,082	Re: Half-Life 2 Review Not really. The ONLY time you have to connect to the Steam servers for HL2 is to authenticate your copy. After that you can play in offline mode all you want as long as save account info is checked and I think something. But HL2 has been out on the market since about Friday/Saturday and the install files are the same that people have preloaded from starting back in October I believe (maybe earlier). So by now it would've been pirated but no one really knows how its authenticated (plus, I'm guessing it needs that last 2 or 3 megs to make it work properly which hackers are all but impossible to figure out that last 2 or 3 megs needed) __________________ Credit to Null for sig jonbo298.