If offline mode doesn't work, check your settings and make sure "Don't save account information on this computer" is NOT checked. If it's checked, offline mode won't work, and that might be your problem.

<3 The 'tock.

Heh.

<3 fish

and Cow, nah. My problem is, it'll ask me for offline mode, and then when I click "Go Offline" it complains it can't connect to it's server (duh) and closes.

But I usually don't need offline mode anyways so its not a big problem for me.

[QUOTE=The Mega-ZZTer]<3 fish

and Cow, nah. My problem is, it'll ask me for offline mode, and then when I click "Go Offline" it complains it can't connect to it's server (duh) and closes.

But I usually don't need offline mode anyways so its not a big problem for me.[/QUOTE]

this error?

lolol

There could never be a better use of the picture.

Go MaD CoW

My Steam just straight up won't connect anymore. It worked fine for about a year (in exclusively offline mode), and then I went to get an update and it hasn't been able to connect since. I've been pestering tech support for about 4 months now and the best advice they can give me is "Some sort of firewall, router, or AV software would be interfering with Steams connectivity on the following ports..." Best tech support ever. At least it's only a game, and I have plenty of other things to do. It just bugs me, becuase there is no difference on my machine before and after the update. It's their anal-retentive software that's the problem not my machine. [/rant]

I feel better already.

Perhaps one day I will be able to play HL2 again.

Do you have a personal firewall? An update to Steam may have changed the .exe such that it no longer recognizes it as the .exe it has a rule for.

Heh. This has become a Steam Tech Support Thread.

I go over this with them every two or three weeks since they don't seem to ever read the tech support history. Allow me (mostly for amusement) to present my (slightly exaggerated) account of the conversation. (And for the record, I honestly really respect whoever does the tech support job because I'm sure they have to deal with A LOT of crap day after day after day...)

Me: Steam pops up with an error that it is unable to connect and closes after trying to update [me attaches screenshot of error]

Tech: Is Steam Online? Can you connect to the internet?

Me: Yes Steam is/was online. Let me check about the internet as I send this EMAIL to you. [Gasp] It can connect to the internet. And just in case you were wondering, I'm not blonde, the computer is turned on, and I do have electrical power to the house.

Tech: Do you have a firewall installed? Is your router properly configured? <lengthy response copied and pasted directly from website about firewall issues that I already read>

Me: I do not have a personal firewall, because this particular computer is rarely connected to the internet. (I think the first time I actually connected it was to register Steam.) There is no router under my control involved with my connection to the internet because I am using dial-up.

TechSupp: I need more specific info on your computer. Please run x diagnostic and y test and send me the results.

Me: Fine. [runs test and attaches results]

Tech: [technobabble] How do you conect to the internet?

Me: [blink] Magic fairies.... Dialup like I said before.

Tech: This looks like an issue with a firewall. Yes definitely a firewall, router, or some piece of AV software blocking one of the ports Steam needs to use.

Me: What part of, "I don't have a firewall running" do you not understand?

Yes, and if it worked 100% when I want it on offline mode it would be quite perfect.

(I haven't needed offline mode at all this far, though)

so, who else is prelaoding it now? I can't wait until they actually release it.

I'll wait and buy it for the $20.00 it'll cost when I can actaully PLAY the game.

Ahh, but you see, I am only paying $17.95 since I'm preordering on Steam, so it is in my best interest to preorder and preload.

only issue I have with steam is their tech support...

For a while my games would crash after "verifying resources" when tring to join a server, they gave me these long winded excuses about check to see your resources are not corupt, or make sure you not banned from the server, or to try these steps (linked back to their database and i already tried that before sending the email.)

in the end, I found out that the problem was because I downloaded and Installed the IE7 Beta, and since steam games like DoD and CS use internet explorer to display the MOTD when joining a server, it crashed on me.

un-installing IE7 Beta fixed the crashing issue...

Bump!

Yes, I am preloading Episode One now as well. Don't forget you get Half-Life Deathmatch : Source with that too. Seems like lots don't realize you get it too *I didn't even know they were releasing one, but its just one more game to add on my list and its included in price*

OMG A WHOLE $2 IN THE BANK CHA CHING!

But if you know you're going to get it, might as well save the $2.

No. It just complains it can't contact it's servers. I KNOW how to read error boxes, I've been doing it for at least 12 years.

*ahem*

Oh, another Steam problem, also probably due to my strange network here... whenever I do that silly survey the results upload, and then it complains they couldn't upload. Uh huh. Then it tells me they were uploaded successfully... make up your mind!

In other news, I bought HL2:Ep1 this morning. Yay. I also bought one of these for good measure:



HLDM:Source is relatively uninspiring, just HLDM with prettier lights. I'll wait for Black Mesa: Source multiplayer (should they decide to include it).

[QUOTE=The Mega-ZZTer]HLDM:Source is relatively uninspiring, just HLDM with prettier lights.[/QUOTE]

Yeah, I saw some screenshots for it, and it seems that they just decided to just add the Source tag without any major updates. I thought they wouldn't pull that stunt after HL:S was ill-received.

exactly my point.

[QUOTE=The Mega-ZZTer]No. It just complains it can't contact it's servers. I KNOW how to read error boxes, I've been doing it for at least 12 years.
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I didn't mean to imply your incompetence, but it's something that many people (including myself) overlook when wondering why offline mode doesn't work for them, and the error as you had described it sounded like the same thing. Just trying to help.

HL:S and HLDM:S... wasn't that just a port of half life to the source engine, all they did was add some better water effects, lighting and add some phyiscs and ragdoll, it was more of a tech demo to show how easy it was to port things over to the source engine.

Yeah, the idea of the tech demo makes sense. The only problem is that for the most part it still looks like HL1.

I'd rather Valve keep spending time though working on new content for CS:S, DoD:S, and more HL2 stuff rather than spending tons of time redoing a DM in which very few people ever played. The fact they include it for free with the other packs is fine for me.

If I had to choose, I agree with you, but it's a bit dumb that they add advertise it as Source'd when the changes aren't that huge.

Steam blows.

'nuff said.