Steam Rules

Confuzor · October 2003

<div class="IPBDescription">What were you guys whining about?</div><a href='http://www.somethingawful.com/articles.php?a=1703' target='_blank'>It scored 48/50!</a> And look at the scores for other software on that page in comparison, it's total pawnimation for Steam!

/downloads right now...

<span style='font-size:17pt;line-height:100%'><span style='color:041E2D'> LOL!!! </span> </span>

Quaunaut · October 2003

Steam has ALWAYS rocked. All the idiots(ya, I'm calling you a idiot if you did. Steam had -2 days- of not being good. After that, it was fine, and IS fine. So stop your bellyachin, nubs) that said it wasn't good are just jumping the gun because they never tried the beta, and haven't spent enough time playing with it to see the beauty. <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'>

Daza4 · October 2003

yeah i agree steam is cool

SkulkBait · October 2003

Must we rehash this same pointless argument again? Lock please?

torque · October 2003

Haven't we seen this thread before? ... like, several times?

Talesin · October 2003

Argument? I see no argument.

Steam has stabilized, and the 'OMGz0r!!! 5t34m 1z t3h 5U><><oRz!!!oneone!11!eleven!' type have been proven wrong. As was predicted by quite a few... in a couple of years, we'll likely be wondering how we lived with WON, with all the stuff Steam can do.

Confuzor · October 2003

I was hoping people would actually pay attention to the link...

Gliss · October 2003

The only problem, as far as I'm concerned, was taking a few seconds to boot up, and the Friends network crashing.

However, I like it. The sound bug is fixed, you can play 1.6, and it doesn't take up more room than regular. Overall, it's pretty good--even more than WON. And no one should say, "Yeah, <i>when it works!</i>. I've gone through Steam pretty much bug-free and crash-free. Except for Chess, for some odd reason. Another thing, it loads up faster than ASE or Gamespy.

Another thing: isn't there something with somethingawful.com that you're not allowed to post?

Comprox · October 2003

The Cons: Only works with Half Life mods, occasional framerate drops, <b>only comes with one skin.</b>
*cough*

Otherwise it sums it up nicely <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'>

Pulse · October 2003

Coyote399 · October 2003

<a href='http://www.somethingawful.com/truthmedia/' target='_blank'>http://www.somethingawful.com/truthmedia/</a>

this was auctually designed to get flames sent to them, but it sort of backfired because you guys auctually do like it, <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/marine.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='marine.gif'>

DiscoZombie · October 2003

rofl =P SA rulez. I still haven't touched steam. I installed it, but I dunno how to get it to work with NS so I'm not gonna bother trying until I actually have to. The all-seeing eye works for me.

Smoke_Nova · October 2003

My only problem with Steam is that I can't seem to find NS or filter for NS.

Help! I'm just a little too lazy to search!

Xiile · October 2003

I actually like Steam now that I'm used to it. Only problem is if I put the Pro-Steam thingage in my sig im afraid people will attack me with broken bottles and tar and feather me. :o

Gnatsum · October 2003

Im so overrun with...with...emotion now that i've seen this topic..

I.....i....

L...

L-L...

*looks away

lo..ve...steam

Talesin · October 2003

Honestly, I used to like SA back when they were classy. But then, I suppose you can only mock sites filled with <blink> tags so many times.

They garner no respect from me, for being outright intentional flamebait. Sure, there are stupid people on the face of the planet. Can't we (mostly, outside of presidential elections where somehow they got off their pork-rind dusted butts to go vote) ignore them and let them live their stupid lives in a modicum of peace?

If not, I can direct you to the nearest Down's home. They're much easier targets than your run-of-the-mill AOL user.

Xzilen · October 2003

No, I'm sorry, Steam does <i>not</i> rock. Especially for those who are already hard pressed for computer space.

I don't even have an extra gig left on both my drives combined, I just can't handle steam on my computer, even though its not too shabby rig either. A simple 1ghz geforce 2 512 ram but only 20 gigs of memory.

*Sigh*

Liger · October 2003

my only problem with steam at the present time:
You do need a network conenction to play single player half-life, and it's other campain mods.

Which **** me off to little end when my friend's cable went out... (god I hope it's just configured wrong, and you -can- play without a connection)

Edcrab · October 2003

To be honest, I haven't dared try Steam for an age- well, not on my latest machine anyway. I'll have to see if I can persuade the thing to acknowledge the existence of the HL CD sitting right next to it...

As of now, I've always felt Steam was an ingenius idea (if executed well). Currently my only real gripe is, as Liger pointed out, the need for a connection for LAN/SP gaming, and the continual worry that HL2 might also have a similar requirement for too long a time <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/confused.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='confused.gif'>

Fina · October 2003

I'm willing to reserve my judgement on Steam until I use it. Which has been a problem since I have never once got past the Unable to connect to Steam error. I've been trying since day 1. None of the so called fixes or patches have helped one bit.

ubermensch · October 2003

</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Talesin @ Oct 1 2003, 07:58 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> Argument? I see no argument.

Steam has stabilized, and the 'OMGz0r!!! 5t34m 1z t3h 5U><><oRz!!!oneone!11!eleven!' type have been proven wrong. As was predicted by quite a few... in a couple of years, we'll likely be wondering how we lived with WON, with all the stuff Steam can do.  </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> 
yep <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'>

before your brutal lockage.

Steam owns, PERIOD.

they forgot to mention the fact that your friends buddy list shows when your friend is in game, and allows you to join in by RIGHT CLICKING ON THEIR NAME AND HITTING A 'JOIN GAME' OPTION. do you REALIZE HOW AWESOME THIS IS???!?!?<img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/confused.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='confused.gif'>??

no more tediously exchanging IPs over whatever IM clients you use, just tell your friends 'ill be on in a minute find the server thru ur buddy list'

and, if the server is full, IT HAS HLSW STYLE RETRY UNTIL YOU GET A SPOT!!!!!! yeah, that is a pain in the arse, but hey, if you're bored while you wait, YOU CAN NOW ALT TAB WITHOUT SOME QUEER SOUND OR MOUSE BUG, or, YOU CAN PLAY CHESS WITH YOUR FRIENDS UNTIL A SPOT IS OPEN!!!

oh god STEAM OWNS BEYOND BELIEF

ubermensch · October 2003

</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Xzilen @ Oct 1 2003, 10:09 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> No, I'm sorry, Steam does <i>not</i> rock. Especially for those who are already hard pressed for computer space.

I don't even have an extra gig left on both my drives combined, I just can't handle steam on my computer, even though its not too shabby rig either. A simple 1ghz geforce 2 512 ram but only 20 gigs of memory.

*Sigh*  </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> 
wait.. this man doesn't have enough hard drive space.

Call it off. All of it. Forget about it, pretend Steam never existed.

MrMojo · October 2003

Steam is good when it works. That happens most of the time now.

Ello · October 2003

</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Xzilen @ Oct 1 2003, 10:09 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> No, I'm sorry, Steam does <i>not</i> rock. Especially for those who are already hard pressed for computer space.

I don't even have an extra gig left on both my drives combined, I just can't handle steam on my computer, even though its not too shabby rig either. A simple 1ghz geforce 2 512 ram but only 20 gigs of memory.

*Sigh*  </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> 
TBH Steam won't take much more room than the the half life install does. maybe 100mb more if that. The problem is that at the moment not all mods work with steam. So when WON is finally shut down you won't ned to have your sierra install anymore so that means the space taken will be almost the same.

Teufel_Eldritch · October 2003

STEAM runs on my computer just fine(save for being a little slow at times), however I dont see any real need for it. I dont need a 'friends' list(I dont get into all the ICQ/IRC/Net buddy stuff), I prefer the old style Quakeish takes-up-half-your-screen-console, I prefer ASE over the HL server browser, and I dont like the fog problem.

STEAM is not the greatest piece of software on earth, nor is it the worlds crappiest piece of software. To me it is unecessary software. Why fix something that's not broken? WON works just fine. I can live with STEAM and I can live w/o STEAM.

Trevelyan · October 2003

when i stop crashing before/after every round...

when my choke goes down to 0 again....

when a small ping spike wont get me booted....

when all half life mods are fully supported....

steam will rule.

Catpoker · October 2003

while i do like steam, i have to agree with Trevelyan in regards to NS

Bogglesteinsky · October 2003

steam is good, but, like anything (apart from me) it could be better.

end of discussion

Renegade · October 2003

Steam is the Shizzy! /sarcasm

In all reality, Steam is pretty good. I like the way you can see where your friends are playing and join them on the server that they're on. A truely winnaring feature (<img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'>). In any case. My only real gripe is the fact that I still have trouble with custom models (no need to post and links or FAQs, I know how to do it), but that aside it's probably only going to get better as the years come <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'>.

Trevelyan · October 2003

oh oh... can i update my list?

- Joining a server and not being able to switch weapons... yea, a gorge is so useful with spit only <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/confused.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='confused.gif'>

Scythe · October 2003

</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Liger @ Oct 2 2003, 01:10 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> my only problem with steam at the present time:
You do need a network conenction to play single player half-life, and it's other campain mods.

Which **** me off to little end when my friend's cable went out... (god I hope it's just configured wrong, and you -can- play without a connection)  </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> 
I can play offline.

I've loved steam since about an hour after I installed it. Initially I though exactly what all you steam-haters were thinking. Unrequired, bloated, buggy, unstable, imcompatable, etc... But after a while I began to explore all the features of it. I discovered some really nifty doovies.

I've not been without my troubles with steam. In fact right now my steam menu is showing "#SteamRoot.blah" on all the buttons and and headings. Steam is a very new and ambitious concept. It just needs development time and support from mod makers (Like Flayra already has) to mature.

Have patience!

--Scythe--

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