HL2 updates, no longer do you need CD in drive

[Gwarsbane]

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

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