Does Half Life 2 work without a Internet connection?

[Fireball77]

I am going to be moving, and i wont have my internet on for a few days, will i be able to play the game without the internet? I notice it logs onto Steam every time. Thanks for the help guys. And this is a legit version.

 

[Farmer]

start it in offline mode? i think thats it,

 

[MustISO]

If you store your password you can play in offline mode but every so often offline mode wouldn't work for me and I was forced to turn on network connection (I normally don't use this machine for internet access)

 

[Fern]

You should be OK for single-player missions.

When you boot-up and get the "Steam can't connect" window, hit the "play in offline mode" on the bottom right.

Fern

 

[Don Vito Corleone]

I've never been able to get Steam to start in offline mode. Is there some trick to this?

 

[effee]

When you first start initially I believe it requires a internet connection, subsequently i dont think so.

 

[Slogun]

Originally posted by: effee
When you first start initially I believe it requires a internet connection, subsequently i dont think so.

That is correct.

 

[Barfo]

As long as youdon't try multiplayer

 

[Fern]

Originally posted by: DonVito
I've never been able to get Steam to start in offline mode. Is there some trick to this?

No, at least not for me.

I shut down the PC overnight (unless running memtest etc.), so when I boot up and Steam tries to start I get the window/message I posted above.

All I must do is select "play in offline mode" (or wording similar to that effect) as I mentioned above.

My gaming rig is rarely conected to the net, last time was to install HL2. Since then it's been disconected and I've had no prob in offline mode. In fact, the game is working well and I dont wanna connect again for fear Steam will d/l some unneccessary patch etc ("don't fix it if it aint broke )

Fern