09-20-2004, 03:18 PM
Quote:As for the mod part...even HLDM is considered a Mod (valve directory) so not sure what you are driving at regarding making it easier to join games.
so you could just double click on a ricochet game in steam instead of having to open up HL and go to custom game. Or atleast thats what i had too do to get a fixed steam version. Since ricochet is supported by valve if you just tried to join a game of ricochet without it being a 3rd party mod it would look for the .gcf file...wait...did you put a ricochet folder outside your valve folder so it would be considered a game instead of just a mod? ...its hard for me to put this into words...driving me crazy not being able to test this stuff.
And as for that checksum part with maps, there used to be a counter-strike hack that allowed you to load your own custom maps...so you could take out walls and see through different areas...and youd be suprised how much half-life doesn´t load until it absolutly has too (ie: you couldn´t see player models until they were almost directly in your line of sight). Not sure what im getting at here...just some more useless info i guess.