ehal256

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ehal256
ehal256 - - 5 comments @ L.U.R.K.

After applying the patch yesterday, I still have trader lag in the bar, and at the freedom base..

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ehal256 - - 5 comments @ Spas Model

It's not Blue Shift. :|

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ehal256 - - 5 comments @ Guard Duty

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No offense, but I think this is kinda a waste, just make an agreement with Black Mesa: Source, and you'll jut have to do a few models and maps, but whatever, I hope it turns out great. Too bad Blue Shift was kinda mediocre compared to HL1 :P

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ehal256 - - 5 comments @ Beyond Steam

I doubt Impulse is going to kic Steam's *** though for several reasons. 1) People already use Steam, it'll take a while before many people even know about Stardock's new DDP.
2) The most popular games are on Steam, and won't be cming to Impulse, for example, CS 1.6, CS:S, HL2, TF2, etc., which Impulse has Sins of a Solar Empire as it's main flagship title, and while it is a fantastic title, it's nature, as a strategy games, means that it will never be as popular as something like Counter-Strike.

I do excitedly anticipate Impulse's release this month (or next month :P) because I love a lot of the games totalgaming.net has.

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ehal256 - - 5 comments @ Beyond Steam

Do you not know how to copy and paste? Just copy the damn steamapps directory to your backup location. How is that "so entangled"?
Also, almost nothing is automatic in Steam, you can tell any piece of software installed in Steam to not update, if you wish. You can tell them not to survey your hardware, etc. You can run Steam in Offline mode, which precludes the need for internet access while running the software, which seems to be such a huge issue for you and others.

And what do you mean by "2) Games you can finally "manually install" without having to totally reformat whenever the installer "fails for no reason"."
Doesn't even make sense. If you need to reinstall a game with Steam, for whatever reason, just backup all your saves/data you need to keep, and delete the directory, then reinstall it. I don't know what you mean by "whenever the installer "fails for no reason" either because I've never once had a game install fail with Steam... Not with the SDK, not with any game's I've purchased through it.. Even if an installer "fails for no reason" (which, by the way, makes no sense, no software fails for no reason, there's obviously a problem which you have and no one else has, fix your own computer, don't complain about Steam) you can just use the extremely complicated copy+paste backup system which Steam forces you to use so you never have to reinstall any Steam software again. ^^

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