CS 1.6 Beta Realease date...

sheepy · January 16, 2003, 05:57:05 PM

the shield doesnt sound that good going on what i have read and talked about. it will only stop low powerd weapons ie pistols tmp, mac totaly, will reduce the power of rifle bullits [not by a great deal tho] and will have bugger all effect on weapons such as awm and para.
thats just what i have heard tho

FrEnZy · January 16, 2003, 06:17:15 PM

No sheepy the shield will stop all balistics (guns!

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sheepy · January 16, 2003, 06:24:04 PM

o.... thats crap

BaRt · January 16, 2003, 06:37:09 PM

ya thats what i read... i also read u can only use it ducking and people can easly run bhind and kill u

Anonymous · January 16, 2003, 10:34:06 PM

I've read "Lord of the Rings" and "Janet and John Go to the Fair"

sheepy · January 16, 2003, 10:43:27 PM

i take my hat off 2 ne 1 thats managed to read LOTR, far to big for me. i lose intrest after 5or6 hundred pages

albert · January 16, 2003, 10:57:23 PM

I just downloaded Steam v2.0. It's not on the US sites yet or the UK sites but I got it from a German site. Here's it is if anyone wants it:

//www.sonnet.eclipse.co.uk/steaminstall.exe

I installed it and once installed it startes connecting to the Steam server to update some files, but it must be pretty congested at the moment so it's taking a while.

OldBloke · January 17, 2003, 10:31:05 AM

Although I managed to get the Steam 2.0 installed early yesterday evening (thankyou CS Central for a working link) I've only just managed to get the thing to connect to a server. I've double-clicked the 'Counterstrike' link and a little box now tells me that my game will be ready to play in 247 minutes

albert · January 17, 2003, 11:27:39 AM

Yep sounds familliar, I got a connection at 08:30 this morning and now have 45 mins 21 secs left download time.

I got the software last night but I couldn't even get a server response so gave up. It worked this morning straight away but to hell with broadband requirements, I could be using a modem and get a better download.

Do I hear you say but it's the first day of launch, yeah my answer to that is it is always the launch date when we will actually want to use the steam so unless they expand their content network dramatically, CS will be taking 4 hours to download every time there is an update. Apparently they push updates out to user so if they have any sense at all they will schedule them carefully to avoid this congestion. 42 mins 20 secs now. Ooo I could crush a grape.

sheepy · January 17, 2003, 12:08:35 PM

u must type very slow there albert

albert · January 17, 2003, 12:25:49 PM

Quoteu must type very slow there albert

Nah, I'm ok, but slow when I want to spell the correctly (not teh :lol: ) There download clock was botched.

ANYWAY GOOD NEWS!!!!!

Steam with CS 1.6 does not over write your old CS directory at all!!!!!

A new cstrike directory is downloaded and used only when steam is your gateway onto the CS 1.6 servers!

Only problem is getting onto a server, I've not managed it yet

:wink:

OldBloke · January 17, 2003, 12:32:20 PM

We could ask that nice Mr. Blueball if we could use his server for testing 1.6.

albert · January 17, 2003, 12:38:51 PM

QuoteWe could ask that nice Mr. Blueball if we could use his server for testing 1.6.

Already mentioned it, to quote "I'm not touching the beta with a barge poll, it's taken long enough to get 1.5 the way I want it"

I may do a bit of a beta server build myself but I should really be studying for my CCIE exam just now, not playing Linux admin.

Anonymous · January 17, 2003, 12:52:19 PM

Given that I now know that 1.6 won't screw up my 1.5 install then why not :-) Of course you'll have to wait 3 years for me to get it downloaded and so far steam has screwed up 2 user accounts. I create an account, I log in. When I log out and try to log in again it says that either the account doesnt exist or the password is wrong!!! But "Remember my password" is ticked so how can it be!!!

I have tried unticking password memory bu it still loses account after one login. What KAK.

albert · January 17, 2003, 12:57:38 PM

QuoteGiven that I now know that 1.6 won't screw up my 1.5 install then why not :-) Of course you'll have to wait 3 years for me to get it downloaded and so far steam has screwed up 2 user accounts. I create an account, I log in. When I log out and try to log in again it says that either the account doesnt exist or the password is wrong!!! But "Remember my password" is ticked so how can it be!!!

I have tried unticking password memory bu it still loses account after one login. What KAK.

Yeah BB, I'm not sure how we go about getting a beta of the linus server binary. I've never used the windows version but it comes with the client doesn't it?

I see from the steam accounts window, you can subscribe to a dedicated server option, so I assume you get the normal start a server with the update but if you want to run a server yourself, dedicated you have to dl the update. Not sure how linux would work though.

If I were you I'd leave it alone :wink: at least until they sort out the initial teathing problems like loggin in (ffs loggin in!).