Wow,
I downloaded steam last night from fileshack in record times. Then I installed it in under 5 minutes.
This program is just an absolute dream for me. Why do I like it?
1. It allowed me to customize every setting for CS1.6 from a very easy menu setup. I didn't have to go searching for obscure commands, they were all present and accounted for in the steam system.
2. I could join and leave servers at the drop of the hat from the same interface. It is almost like every map is preloaded, the way it joins and quits so fast.
3. The new fonts and gui for CS1.6 were pretty nice, for defaults. In my old CS 1.5, I had customized everything, fonts, gui, crosshairs, etc. But the new CS1.6 has me pretty content with the default! The text was very readable.
4. While on a server, I could add friends instantly to steam from that server! Such cool inter-operability.
5. The application itself ran pretty slick, although it took about a minute to open after innitially clicking (guessing it does some funky stuff in the background?)
So yea, as you can guess I am pretty psyched about the application. I think the main reason is because I never really liked the main menu system in the half-life engine. Just changing settings was a task that would usually get me booted from a server.
If only Quake1 was on steam and ran as nicely as the new cs1.6.....I would be in heaven.
I guess I am in the minority, but I don't think people have been very patient with steam.
I downloaded steam last night from fileshack in record times. Then I installed it in under 5 minutes.
This program is just an absolute dream for me. Why do I like it?
1. It allowed me to customize every setting for CS1.6 from a very easy menu setup. I didn't have to go searching for obscure commands, they were all present and accounted for in the steam system.
2. I could join and leave servers at the drop of the hat from the same interface. It is almost like every map is preloaded, the way it joins and quits so fast.
3. The new fonts and gui for CS1.6 were pretty nice, for defaults. In my old CS 1.5, I had customized everything, fonts, gui, crosshairs, etc. But the new CS1.6 has me pretty content with the default! The text was very readable.
4. While on a server, I could add friends instantly to steam from that server! Such cool inter-operability.
5. The application itself ran pretty slick, although it took about a minute to open after innitially clicking (guessing it does some funky stuff in the background?)
So yea, as you can guess I am pretty psyched about the application. I think the main reason is because I never really liked the main menu system in the half-life engine. Just changing settings was a task that would usually get me booted from a server.
If only Quake1 was on steam and ran as nicely as the new cs1.6.....I would be in heaven.
I guess I am in the minority, but I don't think people have been very patient with steam.
