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Game Forum / Action Games / Half Life / November 2005For all those he hate steam....
Re-installed my computer a couple of week ago. Re-installed games. Just had time to install HL2 before I went to bed, left it updating overnight, ready to play off and online. lovely. A couple of nights installed Battlefield 2, went to play it online and remembered that it was released bugged to f.ck and would not connect online. Fine, I'll just install the 1.2 patch I have, spent 20 minutes hunting out the patch then I go to play it. *still* can't connect, check online and I find out there is a new patch, a bollock breaking 175 meg! I start downloading and leave it since even with 1 meg broadband you are still talking close to an hour to download (assuming you can get a download at full speed.) I don't end up playing it since I go on to play HL2 because I can actually play that now without waiting. I go back to BF2 tonight and guess what? I start BF2 because I fancy a quick online match...... I start it up and guess what? A new patch! and guess how big this new "patch" is? *287 MEG*. No that isn't a typo, a "patch" that is *two hundred and eighty seven megabytes* in size and mandatory if you want to play online. The thing I love about HL 2 and Steam is that when I first installed Half Life 2 when it was first released until my reinstallation I never had to search out for patches and because I come in, switch on the computer go off and do whatever I have to do before settling down to play a game I never even noticed the patches being downloaded, hell I didn't even have to have the DVD to reinstall or play it! -- ButIstillneedtoknowwhat'sinthere! Thekeytoanysecurity systemishowit'sdesigned! Thatdependsonwhyitwasdesigned! Ihavetoknowwhatwhoeverdesigneditwastryingtoprotect! (Blakes 7, City on the Edge of the World - Vila in typical panic mode) > *287 MEG*. > > No that isn't a typo, a "patch" that is *two hundred and eighty seven > megabytes* in size and mandatory if you want to play online. I remember being similarly frustrated the day that HL 1.0.0.9 was released. the first version of HL to be released with TFC, and I spent several hours watching around 80MB trickle down my 56k modem.  SignatureBen Cottrell AKA Bench > Re-installed my computer a couple of week ago. > [quoted text clipped - 34 lines] > play a game I never even noticed the patches being downloaded, hell I > didn't even have to have the DVD to reinstall or play it! Whats the difference between downloading BF2's patch overnight and downloading HL2's patch overnight? > Whats the difference between downloading BF2's patch overnight and > downloading HL2's patch overnight? With BF2 you have to find a download not hidden behind some "premium pay me some money server" When finally have found a suitable download most likely it's incompatible with your download manager And most likely the download is invalid or crashes during the night When you finally have downloaded a patch which is valid most likely you have to uninstall BF2 and reinstall as you have had the demo installed and some registry settings is invalid And after you have patched the game you go out and buy BF2:SF and you have to add the same patch again! Thats the difference! Time elapsed for patching BF2 was just about the same it took me to install HL2 from the DVD and unlock it - and this was during the HL2 release date! Thanks to Google I managed to fix the many problems without going totally bananas - Peter > Whats the difference between downloading BF2's patch overnight and > downloading HL2's patch overnight? I think his point is that since Steam, all valve's patches have been tiny updates, released often. before Steam, a new patch would be a major chaotic event for the HL community which only happened a couple of times a year, disrupting online play for days while everyone catches up with the mammoth download. SignatureBen Cottrell AKA Bench >> Re-installed my computer a couple of week ago. >> [quoted text clipped - 37 lines] >Whats the difference between downloading BF2's patch overnight and >downloading HL2's patch overnight? because 3 times I've gone to play BF2 but had to update it with ever more stupidly big "patch" files. There is also the factor of automation, click one button and leave it and its all done, no having to hunt down the patch etc. -- ButIstillneedtoknowwhat'sinthere! Thekeytoanysecurity systemishowit'sdesigned! Thatdependsonwhyitwasdesigned! Ihavetoknowwhatwhoeverdesigneditwastryingtoprotect! (Blakes 7, City on the Edge of the World - Vila in typical panic mode) > Whats the difference between downloading BF2's patch overnight and > downloading HL2's patch overnight? Ummm, 42? Yer math is funky, it's 37 1/2... Go back to school..... On Tue, 29 Nov 2005 20:32:32 -0500, "HoneymOoneRS" <cybernetic at gamin dot com> wrote: >> Whats the difference between downloading BF2's patch overnight and >> downloading HL2's patch overnight? > >Ummm, 42? -- "I was wrong once... It was the time I thought I had made a mistake..." Jack Harney > >Ummm, 42? > Yer math is funky, it's 37 1/2... Go back to school..... The Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything is 42, period - Peter >> >Ummm, 42? > >> Yer math is funky, it's 37 1/2... Go back to school..... >> > The Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything is 42, > period Unfortunately James is the one that has it wrong..."Whats the difference between downloading BF2's patch overnight and downloading HL2's patch overnight"?.... 42. No James, it just doesn't work... sorry.... obviously related to the Golgafrinchians is our James... "Luke Curtis" <mfll78@dsl.pipex.com> wrote ... > I start it up and guess what? A new patch! > > and guess how big this new "patch" is? > > *287 MEG*. I don't get it - how is that a Steam issue? They just deliver the content - it's the game developers that determine what the content should be. Or am I missing something? > "Luke Curtis" <mfll78@dsl.pipex.com> wrote > ... [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > > I don't get it - how is that a Steam issue? Oh sorry - I get it now. You were being ironic... > -- > ButIstillneedtoknowwhat'sinthere! Thekeytoanysecurity > systemishowit'sdesigned! Thatdependsonwhyitwasdesigned! > Ihavetoknowwhatwhoeverdesigneditwastryingtoprotect! > (Blakes 7, City on the Edge of the World - Vila in typical panic mode) Vila, wasn't he the one who looks like a cross between Baldrick and Phil Collins? >> -- >> ButIstillneedtoknowwhat'sinthere! Thekeytoanysecurity [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] >Vila, wasn't he the one who looks like a cross between Baldrick and Phil >Collins? You mean the short fat leering cowardly alcoholic lock breaker? In short, yes. <G> -- ButIstillneedtoknowwhat'sinthere! Thekeytoanysecurity systemishowit'sdesigned! Thatdependsonwhyitwasdesigned! Ihavetoknowwhatwhoeverdesigneditwastryingtoprotect! (Blakes 7, City on the Edge of the World - Vila in typical panic mode) |
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