Will Ns 2.0 Be Steam Compatable?

USELESS-GunUSELESS-Gun Join Date: 2003-07-26 Member: 18443Members
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I have NS installed on steam 2.0 right now and I can't find any servers. Some people are telling me this is because NS is currently Steam uncompatable. I have a question is there any sort of workaround to get onto current servers with NS 1.0? Also will NS 2.0 be able to run via steam?

-ty in advance for a answer
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  • MrPinkMrPink Join Date: 2002-05-28 Member: 678Members
    edited July 2003
    To answer your questions:

    No

    Not for 2.0, The NS team originally said NS1.0 would be steam compatable but then it wasn't, I heard Valve got too busy with their own games or something. So it may be something you will see in the future, but not in 2.0. Check the news archives back to before 1.0 was released for more info.

    <b>And Welcome to the NS Forums!</b>
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  • CEldinCEldin Join Date: 2002-09-16 Member: 1323Members
    Steam is the buggiest piece of kaka I have ever used.
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  • GlissGliss Join Date: 2003-03-23 Member: 14800Members, Constellation, NS2 Map Tester
    <!--QuoteBegin--Stung256+Jul 26 2003, 02:24 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Stung256 @ Jul 26 2003, 02:24 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Steam is the buggiest piece of kaka I have ever used. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    Why? It doesn't seem that buggy.
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  • Bosnian_CowboyBosnian_Cowboy Join Date: 2003-06-07 Member: 17088Members, Constellation
    Considering that it's beta and that no one has ever tried something like this before (to my knowledge), it's ok.
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  • SuperBOBSuperBOB Join Date: 2003-02-21 Member: 13795Members
    Its the future =p
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  • moultanomoultano Creator of ns_shiva. Join Date: 2002-12-14 Member: 10806Members, NS1 Playtester, Contributor, Constellation, NS2 Playtester, Squad Five Blue, Reinforced - Shadow, WC 2013 - Gold, NS2 Community Developer, Pistachionauts
    They need to give contacting the ad server lower priority in their threading. It's really annoying not being able to use a window until the ad loads. I'm really excited though about what this will eventually mean for the broadband economy as a whole.
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  • th0r0nth0r0n Born again n00b Join Date: 2003-06-12 Member: 17313Members
    in my opinion I find Steam to be a useless piece of software that just creates over a gig of uncontrollable data files, I don't see anything wrong with actually downloading and installing stuff, the whole thing about "Streaming" application files is absolute bollocks, the whole file has to be downloaded anyway, you can't stream a binary.

    When I first used Steam is was a buggy piece of crud, not sure if it's changed anymore because I uninstalled it a week after using it, I hate Steam with a passion, I _really_ hate it, it's like "Oh, you want to run this new game? download THIS first and lose 20 gigabytes for useless crap!"

    It's not worth the bother of setting up, downloading all your files, creating a user account, logging into it, trying to start a game, downloading more files when you could just as easily be downloading a setup executable, whack the mod on your HD and be playing away within 5 minutes.
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  • StriderStrider Join Date: 2003-05-04 Member: 16056Members
    edited July 2003
    330 gig hard drive, 152 gigs free before steam


    104.2 gigs free afterwards
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  • AaronAaron vroom vroom der party startah Join Date: 2002-11-05 Member: 7020Members
    <!--QuoteBegin--moultano+Jul 26 2003, 05:36 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (moultano @ Jul 26 2003, 05:36 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->They need to give contacting the ad server lower priority in their threading. It's really annoying not being able to use a window until the ad loads. I'm really excited though about what this will eventually mean for the broadband economy as a whole.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    I like steam, but I'm sort of skeptical of the whole ad thing...I mean, are we supposed to think: "Ok, cool, now to launch my favorite game... WAIT A SECOND! AN AD FOR TOOTHPASTE! I BETTER STOP CONNECTING TO MY GAME AND IMMEDIATELY GO TO THE WEBSITE!"
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