Will COD be a 'no-cd' start up

Originally Posted by zauii

Seems like a fine drm, and steam is excellent anyway, but wait for the awesome oldfarts to whine:

"Daem no!, Now I can't activate 8 times on all my 10 computers at the same day, and they must have a secret agenda.. installing files on my comp `n xxxx like that" - Whiners

nothing to do with old farts as you called us....my young and polite friend...probably with steam you can say goodbye to hyperloby and you know what that means....

[Kikuchiyo]

Originally Posted by Tvrdi

probably with steam you can say goodbye to hyperloby and you know what that means....

Yep.......means you get something extremely similar with Steam.

Originally Posted by Kikuchiyo

Yep.......means you get something extremely similar with Steam.

hah really? HP with all its simplicity and "easy to use/find room" vs st..t..t..eeaaaam....g...gg....gaaamm...eeerzzz

[Kikuchiyo]

Originally Posted by Tvrdi

hah really? HP with its all simplicity and "easy to use/find room" vs st..t..t..eeaaaam....g...gg....gaaamm...eeerzzz

Not really sure what you mean there. Steam lobby: invite friends, see lists of servers, play game (not necessarily in that order). Use built in voice chat.

Originally Posted by tintifaxl

I don't want to switch Steam to offline mode, because I do play online games with Steam, too. But when my ISP decides to crap out during my gaming time, I want to fly offline single player campaigns or missions.

If you lose network connection mid game Steam doesn't kick you out of the game. If you are on a MP server it will tell you that you've lost connection and drop you to the main menu. You would then just choose SP. If you quit out of the game you will have to go through the trouble of closing Steam, starting it back up, and when it says no network could be found you click the big button that says "Start Steam in Offline mode," play game.

Edit: I'm beginning to suspect a lot of the naysayers haven't used Steam much, or in about a half decade. It certainly had a lot of issues back about 5 or 6 years ago, but those issues have mostly been corrected.

[tintifaxl]

Originally Posted by Kikuchiyo

... If you quit out of the game you will have to go through the trouble of closing Steam, starting it back up, and when it says no network could be found you click the big button that says "Start Steam in Offline mode," play game.

Edit: I'm beginning to suspect a lot of the naysayers haven't used Steam much, or in about a half decade. It certainly had a lot of issues back about 5 or 6 years ago, but those issues have mostly been corrected.

When did they implement that? When I was playing TW:Napoleon I'm positive that I couldn't play without inet access. If this is working as you said, then of course I will rest my case, as that is totally acceptable.

Btw, I've been using Steam for many years now for my CS:S experience ...


Edit: But I do have a network available, albeit without internet, so maybe that's the reason for the behavior experienced by me?

[Kikuchiyo]

Originally Posted by tintifaxl

Edit: But I do have a network available, albeit without internet, so maybe that's the reason for the behavior experienced by me?

Yes it is referring to your ISP's network not your local LAN. I can see how that might have caused some confusion for you. Likely you should set Steam to offline mode if you have no internet connection. I can't say I know how NTW handles LAN games.

[zauii]

Originally Posted by Tvrdi

hah really? HP with all its simplicity and "easy to use/find room" vs st..t..t..eeaaaam....g...gg....gaaamm...eeerzzz

Tbh , hyperlobby is a mess for the untrained eye, its a great 3rd party platform but lets face it , its dated, its old, its ugly , it sounds terrible and you can probably mod all that away in a heartbeat, still Steam would be way easier, more clean and fluid.

Because a product uses steam does not mean that the game will/won't have certain features.

[Falke]

You guys high-jacked the thread... I'm not sure I got an answer to the original question, so I'll ask again. Does anyone know if COD be a "no cd" start up?



To Skoshi Tiger - (From first page)... Skoshi, I have 1946 too and have never needed the DVD to start up... Just installed it, put the DVD in the box threw it on the shelf and played away... Strange.

[Kikuchiyo]

Originally Posted by Falke

You guys high-jacked the thread... I'm not sure I got an answer to the original question, so I'll ask again. Does anyone know if COD be a "no cd" start up?



To Skoshi Tiger - (From first page)... Skoshi, I have 1946 too and have never needed the DVD to start up... Just installed it, put the DVD in the box threw it on the shelf and played away... Strange.

If it uses Steam (as seems to be the case) yes.

[Skoshi Tiger]

Originally Posted by Falke

To Skoshi Tiger - (From first page)... Skoshi, I have 1946 too and have never needed the DVD to start up... Just installed it, put the DVD in the box threw it on the shelf and played away... Strange.

Weird, maybe something to do with the region, mines a securecom message. (i'm patched to 4.10)

Cheers!