CS 1.6 gets LAN Version (Official this time ;) )

[Terran]

3 hours downtime for this update ???? are they kidding ???

I should cancel our clanwars for this week...

[Onno Kreuzinger]

hmm still no update, i bet it will start at 19:00 CEST so my mates and me will realy be reminded how nice CS 1.5 was ...

UPDATE (EDIT !!!)

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Erik Johnson:
Steam is currently down for maintenance while we get the next release ready.

This downtime should be complete by 9:00am PST.
Once Steam is back up, there will be a Steam update available.
Thank you for your patience.
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YEAH !!!

Ps.: For all german Users, 9:00am PST euqals 18:00 GMT (Mitteleuropäischer Zeit )

EDIT

www.Steampowered.com
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The maintenance to the Steam system is now complete.
When you start your Steam client you be automatically be updated to the latest version, which includes these major changes:

Offline Play
Account validation (via e-mail)
A new Half-Life 2 hardware survey
Support for purchasing games through Steam

There are a number of bug fixes in Steam included as well.
The Half-Life 2 survey will be updated throughout the day with the results tallied here .
Thank you for your patience during the downtime.
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I'm downloading Update right now and it seem to take a while ...
Or perhaps its just the traffic

When finished, I'll post how big/much/long it is/took me
[T-DSL !!!]

Update1:
looool, when looking at Steam Status says that "Bandwidth Available" euqals "Bandwidth Used" .... damn me that gonna SUCK ^^ 8o

[Terran]

As I said, I should cancel our wars...

Ok, i succeded t download Steamupdate (early in the morning 9_9 )

1. This Update took me about a maximum of 5 minutes to download (3x 100%)

2. You have to log in ONCE (!) to use offline mode, thats atm the biggest problem ... (don't dare to delete "clientregistry.blob" that would undo your login ... )


2. Once logged in you you can disconnect or what else you want and just restart steam (I advise you to disconnect, for otherwise steam WILL try to connect )

3. When starting Steam it trys to find Valve (*urks*) Content Servers and after a while it ask you to retry or work offline ...

So download have fun and play ... gl and hf @ all
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For the once having probs, ask me perhabs I can help you ...

What about Deciated Servers??? Or is this only on the client side?

[DreamLord34]

Think it's clientside as you can make dedicated servers LAN only.

[Pierre-Marie Baty]

I don't get the way Steam works on LAN. You exit Steam and so it disappears from the taskbar but it's still running as a daemon in the background ? What's the point of quitting Steam then ??? it's just as if our puters were running a little Steam auth service available to localhost ?

And what if I don't trust Steam and don't want this crappy service to run AT ALL ? well, I can't play my games then. Stupid thing.

[Terran]

Well, during the DDOS attack at steampowered I tried this LAN version.
The trick they do is simple:
If you used the "Exit" menu (and not the "Exit and Logout" menu) the steam auth data is kept on your disk.
The next time you start steam it tries to connect to the auth server. If it cannot reach it you'll presented a screen where you can select if you want to play on LAN or exit steam...
I also noticed the running steam process after "Exit" but it disappeared after some time...

[>BKA< T Wrecks]

Oh, that's just great. So if I wanted to play 1.6 offline, all I'd have to do would be a. run one storey down and shut off the router, which would cut all 3 computers in our house off the internet and disable the LAN interconnection between them, b. run back up and fire up STEAM, c. wait till it has finally realized that "STEAM call home" is not available right now, and d. answer that in this case I'd like to play offline, pretty please?

HOW STUPID IS THAT???? > > >

Would it be too much to ask that Valve offer a startup screen where you can select "go online and find 1.6 servers" or "play offline on LAN" ?
The sad thing is, I suspect it IS too much to ask...

But what if I installed my trusty old ZoneAlarm and told it in the "program control" section that STEAM always has to ask for my permission in order to access the 'net? In this case ZA ought to prompt me with a screen "STEAM is trying to access the internet. Do you want to allow that?", and if I answered "no", theoretically it should work, huh? Sure hope it does...