Half-life 2, mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm..... Options

[camsmith]

This appeared when I rebooted my machine this morning...



2 questions -

1) Has anyone actually seen a release date for it yet?
2) How long have Valve been using Polo as a male model?

[Murray]

It's not gone gold yet (the gold announcement yesterday was somone logged in as Gabe Newell's account on a forum) so this pre-load is just the shite that won't change (like textures, sounds) after they have cleaned up the engine from the bugs found in the CS:S beta.

But as soon as the game is released, you'll probably have to download a smaller file then boom you're ready to play on the same day, rather than having to wait for this download (it's about a gig i think) to play it.

It also means the Steam servers won't get arse raped on the day of release as much as they could have done.

No definate release date yet, but don't get your hopes up for anything earlier than late September.