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HL2 updates, no longer do you need CD in drive - Gwarsbane - 12-11-2004
Seeing as how I can't sleep, I might as well post this here.
Not having to put the CD into the drive to play is good. Having that feature installed is pretty much useless anyway, most of the time its cracked with in 24 hours. Even with steam people were bypassing it with their legal versions that they thought.
I have always said this, CD protection on the actual CD is just plain stupid, there are always ways around it.
http://www.steampowered.com/index.php?area=news
Quote:Half-Life 2, HL2DM and Source Dedicated Server Update Released
December 10, 2004, 12:16 pm · valve
Half-Life 2, Half-Life 2: Deathmatch and Source Dedicated Server updates are available and will be applied automatically when Steam is restarted. The changes include:
Half-Life 2
Solved disc in drive incompatibility error by removing Securom disc check routine
Half-Life 2: Deathmatch
Fixed players entering the game with a score of -1
Fixed combine ball tracking teammates
Fixed not being able to grab level designer placed combine balls with the physics cannon
Fixed players randomly spawning without physcannons
Fixed multishot pistol exploit
Fixed wrong footstep sounds while in team mode
Fixed last RPG shot not tracking
Added cl_defaultweapon -- defaults to weapon_physcannon but can be changed to any other weapon you spawn with
Added HUD string to print team name
Added model specific death sounds
Switching to the physcannon is now instantaneous
Toned down 357 damage
Updated dm_overwatch
Source Dedicated Server
Fixed "failed to load server.dll" error with 3rd party mods
Fixed linux dedicated server crash on some GLIBC versions
Fixed dedicated server error in certain localized languages