CS 1.6 Tommorrow!

[cliftonite]

God damn it im still getting the could not load hw.dll please try again later error :| :|

 

[hdeck]

ok wtf. i get into the game, try and connect to a server, then it freezes at "validating game resources". ctrl+alt+delete says cs isn't responding. gay.

 

[etalns]

I got steam - but whenever I start it up it hangs at

"updating PLATFORM.dll to version 1. Please wait..."

the bar is full, yet it's not moving to the next screen

here is what the box looks like that it has been hanging at for 15 minutes plus

 

[chiwawa626]

damnit...i had problems connecting to servers, and it just disconnected me half way thru, so then i thought id logout of steam and log back in...now im stuck with the stupid downloading steam package thing that i got when i first installed lol...grr...It seems that when ur conneted thru valves own servers then it works fine for me, but when i was connected thru fileshack and some other one i couldnt connect to any servers

 

[silverpig]

It's odd. I was able to play this morning. I only played 1 or 2 rounds though as I had to go to work, but now I'm disconnected from every server I try to join...

 

[silverpig]

Originally posted by: chiwawa626
damnit...i had problems connecting to servers, and it just disconnected me half way thru, so then i thought id logout of steam and log back in...now im stuck with the stupid downloading steam package thing that i got when i first installed lol...grr...It seems that when ur conneted thru valves own servers then it works fine for me, but when i was connected thru fileshack and some other one i couldnt connect to any servers

Me too now. It's updating steam from version 0 to version 1 and updating platform.dll from version 1 to version 2... hmmm.

 

[zayened]

I PLAYED!!!!

so check it, right...after it updated my shiznit, it let me join a server, play 4 rounds or so (de_dust), then it said loading, but never loaded a new map. so i guess thats the freezing problem everybody has been having. good luck though, some people said the updates took up to an hour.

 

[NikPreviousAcct]

Originally posted by: silverpig
It's odd. I was able to play this morning. I only played 1 or 2 rounds though as I had to go to work, but now I'm disconnected from every server I try to join...

Same here. Even with current updates.

 

[placebo139]

Nooooo.... just as I was getting over my addiction...

Gotta dl soon now....

 

[silverpig]

Okay, I've done some reading on the steam forums and apparently valve has disabled all the accounts that were new as of this new release. So we're fux0r3d until the real version comes out.


Possible goodness for some of you:

If you have an old steam account, you can log in using that one and it will let you play. Too bad I can't remember my old login...

 

[dakata24]

Originally posted by: silverpig
Okay, I've done some reading on the steam forums and apparently valve has disabled all the accounts that were new as of this new release. So we're fux0r3d until the real version comes out.


Possible goodness for some of you:

If you have an old steam account, you can log in using that one and it will let you play. Too bad I can't remember my old login...

u sure about that? i was just playing on a account i made after 1.6 beta was released.

 

[silverpig]

Here's how I understand it from the other forums.

You make a steam account -> you get a steam ID
Valve stopped giving out new IDs, and has disabled all IDs made with steam 2.0 beta (used for CS 1.6 beta)
If you have an old steam ID, you can use that to play CS 1.6


Are you sure you've never used steam before?

I haven't been able to connect at all since this morning, nor have a LOT of people.

 

[dakata24]

Originally posted by: silverpig
Here's how I understand it from the other forums.

You make a steam account -> you get a steam ID
Valve stopped giving out new IDs, and has disabled all IDs made with steam 2.0 beta (used for CS 1.6 beta)
If you have an old steam ID, you can use that to play CS 1.6


Are you sure you've never used steam before?

I haven't been able to connect at all since this morning, nor have a LOT of people.

yup. positive i never used steam before. got a copy entity was serving.

 

[silverpig]

Okay, all that stuff I posted that I heard from the steam forums is BS. I just played on a number of different servers. Fun stuff

 

[chiwawa626]

Originally posted by: silverpig
Okay, all that stuff I posted that I heard from the steam forums is BS. I just played on a number of different servers. Fun stuff

yah true, but sometimes it just dosent connect, i asked other people playing and they say its a bug in steam .... well just keep trying and it will connect eventualy.

 

[silverpig]

Pretty much yeah. Sometimes I have a span of hours where I can't connect to anything, and then I'll have another span where I can play as much as I want.

 

[Furor]

so..I got to play some TFC for a little while basically just to see the new map(which I didn't get to do) and play with the engineer's teleporter, which is freaking awesome! You build a teleporter entrance wherever you want, then an exit wherever you want, and you can warp through the entrance to the exit..only one person can go through about every 5 seconds. After you go in, you glow blue! When there is an entrance and exit, both have cool particle effects around them. Unfortunately, they don't have much health and die quickly if shot, plus they are hard to repair. Other than that, these were just a great idea to bring more fun to tfc..they work great.

 

[silverpig]

rizzuh @ 2:18 pm - cstrike pc - read comments
Looks like we need another Steam 2.0 BETA topic for you guys to rant in.

First of all, it looks like Art of War Central will be providing content servers for Steam, as to help with the load. Who knows when the servers will go up, but it's a good sign. You can find a full press release over on AoWC's site.

No word on when the Steam 2.0 BETA will be officially released. Steam will allow you to download the BETA version of CS 1.6, which I have previewed here. VALVe did screw up pretty big by having so little bandwidth for so many users (story), but that's the past and now we have to wait for Steam to be fixed. Also, the chances of a cs16.exe download are zero, since this is the BETA version and not the final version.

In case you're wondering why CS-Nation and many other sites haven't posted the Steam 2.0 BETA, let me give you the inside scoop.

Right now, VALVe has a heart symbol drawn on some marker whiteboard. Inside of the heart is the proper noun "CS-Nation," and other sites like "FileShack." Outside of the heart would be sites like "Xxon's CS site downlaod steam hear !" And you have to feel sorry for sites outside of the poorly-drawn heart. It's a sad tale, because they won't get any loving from VALVe! Ahh, shucks: looks like another few months of the copy and paste routine.

Well, it's quite possible that I made that all up. The point is, we're not posting Steam until VALVe asks us to. Why? A few reasons:

» The program doesn't work 90% of the time, so there isn't a huge point in downloading it. A lot of players are patient (read: social experiment failures) and have waited hours to play the game for a bit. CS 1.6 is actually pretty cool so I don't blame them, but for the other people it's really not fun waiting for everything to download and then getting an error, etc.

» We don't want to sever any ties with VALVe by acting like idiots. The point is, if we were posting Steam's latest BETA left and right a preview like this might never happen for CS 1.7 and this page would be filled with baseless, unconfirmed rumors for CS 1.7 rather than facts. Of course, we weren't threatened with anything, but why even risk it?

The fact is that this site is better for not posting the BETA. That's right, better. It's the difference between, let me make a completely nerd analogy, CNET.com and "Alf's Microsoft SOFTWAREZ Leak Downloadzz & Newz." And I'm sure Alf gets plenty of hits, but who would you trust? After I earn your trust I am going to steal all your money, but that is besides the point.

New comment rules: anyone who posts a link to download the Steam 2.0 BETA will be banned. Also, if you even mention Steam in a news topic not related to CS 1.6 you will be banned too. I'm glad our comments system is so active recently, but please keep it civil.

 

[Imported]

Anyone know where on steams site you'd find how to get your old login info? I'm pretty sure I know the e-mail address.. but not the password.

 

[silverpig]

You don't need to know that. Download and install the new steam. Start it up. It'll ask you for your login and password, but at the bottom there'll be a "retrieve password" button. Click that, enter your old email, and you're done.

 

[silverpig]

Oh, and if you set it to autologin and you don't get the login thing anymore, go to your Steam/config/ directory, open the SteamAppData file and change the "Autologin" value to "0"

But it doesn't matter really. I use my new login and it works.

 

[evilmalum]

Official 1.6 release for regular cs is do out between late Jan. mid Feb. For all those like me disliking Steam. I play in it and I hosted the steam download for a while also, but Still don't like it.

 

[jinduy]

that sucks