Right now I’m enjoying the installation process for Half-Life 2′s ‘The Lost Coast’ free expansion level, which, part way through the installation process, gives you the option to ‘Play The Lost Coast Now’. What it means, of course, is ‘download the Lost Coast Now, and play it in three to four hours time, you bummer’.
Anyway, since my attempt to procrastinate has failed I had better get back to work.
…
Sigh.
Okay.
Really going now.
Ooh, fireworks!
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October 29th, 2005 at 8:57 pm
Took me about twenty minutes. It’s only a 98MB download if you have Half-Life 2 installed.
October 29th, 2005 at 9:33 pm
The servers are shafted now though, running 800 bytes/sec.
October 30th, 2005 at 6:37 am
I wonder if there’s going to a bittorrent-esque content serving model… would certainly help with these heavy load periods.
October 30th, 2005 at 8:16 am
It’s probably too late now, but if you close Steam down and delete clientregistry.blob it’ll make a new and hopefully faster connection. It certainly isn’t the servers!
November 1st, 2005 at 5:48 pm
Oh man, LC is excellent. VALVe are masters of their game.