Half-Life 2 Source Code Leaked, Seriously

Yoda9864 · 10-10-2003, 11:29 AM

Yeah, I've heard that "playable builds" of the game got leaked from the stolen code. I've even talked to someone who "has one of the playble builds" of the game. I didn't believe him for a sec that he had one.

But I thought it was official that it is delayed til April. I mean, that's totally fine by me because by april, the prices of ATI radeons will have gone down. There's no way I'm playing this game on an Nvidia card

. Especially not my Ti4200, but not even on a good fx card. ATI's cards just blow them out of the water now.

Ace195 · 10-10-2003, 01:49 PM

Hmm.. I wouln't mind a playable build. But ofcourse I still want the real game. But I have to update my computer just a little bit to play it

Like a new vid card. But you would think that a place like Valve would have hardware firewalls that are nearly inpenetrable

Jonbo298 · 10-11-2003, 07:33 AM

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Originally Posted by Ace195

But you would think that a place like Valve would have hardware firewalls that are nearly inpenetrable

The reason the source got leaked was because of Microsoft and their hundreds of thousands of security holes in Outlook (Express). The hacker(s) exploited it easily because MS doesn't understand the meaning of security.

But part of the blame can be put on a Valve employee for opening the thing that allowed the hacker(s) access to Valve's network. So any firewall Valve has wouldn't stop the hackers because they would be able to grant themselves full access to Valve's network by telling the firewall they have that kind of access.

Ace195 · 10-11-2003, 12:28 PM

Jon if you worked anywhere close to microsoft you would know it's much more secure than anything eudora or even netscape provide just because of your seething hate for microsoft I'm going to go over to your house and format your harddrive to get the evil "microsoft" on there and put linux BSD on there and watch you whine like a baby because you don't under stand how to setup a firewall on it and you keep getting hacked :P

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Oh and another thing jon. The e-mail software runs on port 25 and 110 you would have to wait for the program to be open for those ports to be open. | |) | 0 7

Jonbo298 · 10-12-2003, 02:25 AM

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Originally Posted by Ace195

Jon if you worked anywhere close to microsoft you would know it's much more secure than anything eudora or even netscape provide just because of your seething hate for microsoft I'm going to go over to your house and format your harddrive to get the evil "microsoft" on there and put linux BSD on there and watch you whine like a baby because you don't under stand how to setup a firewall on it and you keep getting hacked :P

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Oh and another thing jon. The e-mail software runs on port 25 and 110 you would have to wait for the program to be open for those ports to be open. | |) | 0 7

Outlook is not secure even with the thousands of security updates that come to it. How many viruses have resulted because its so easy to just open an attachment, then the virus scans the address book, sends itself out, and ****s your computer in the process.

And go ahead and "try" to format my HD. My processor has been shot for a good week if you can even remember. Also, you trying to think I don't know s.hit about computers. You are quite wrong. I speak FACTS, not stupid ****. "I'm gonna get a hard drive with 8 gigs of cache". That's the funniest damn thing I have ever heard, and who did it come from?

And by the time the person or persons opens the virus in Outlook and tells the FIREWALL that they have access, the hacker can do what he/she feels like.

So keep speaking your stuff. I must read it.

Ace195 · 10-12-2003, 11:05 AM

Jon for the program to open the port. which is a really facinating thing. If you watch the little corner of your screen it actually communicates with the server for about 20 to 30 seconds depending on your connection. And then it downloads your mail. Jon if you got a virus in your e-mail I'm sorry that you can't get an antivirus program like PCCillin because that scans e-mail. And just to inform you outlook defaults to block all attachments that might possibly contain a virus.

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Originally Posted by jonbo298

"I'm gonna get a hard drive with 8 gigs of cache". That's the funniest damn thing I have ever heard, and who did it come from?

That came from me as a joke at wei's party.

GiMpY-wAnNaBe · 10-12-2003, 01:17 PM

i'd like 8 gigs of cache....

buuuuuuuuuut, back on topic, i'm really starting to believe this is all just made by valve as an excuse to push back the release date

Jonbo298 · 10-13-2003, 02:06 PM

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Originally Posted by Ace195

Jon if you got a virus in your e-mail I'm sorry that you can't get an antivirus program like PCCillin because that scans e-mail.

Let's see, I have Norton installed on my comp. So if I was to download an attachment, Norton would immediately tell me its a virus. Plus, I hate Outlook (Express) because it has way to many security holes. My main email provider for the past 5 years or so has been Yahoo. And within the past year or so, they installed a thing that scans attachments before you download them, so if I was to get a virus, I wouldn't get it.

So don't try to say that I don't have any ways to stop my computer from getting viruses.

thatmariolover · 12-04-2003, 03:22 PM

Well, I've decided to revive this topic after actually getting ahold of the beta (more like an alpha) leak.

The Havok physics are all in place (almost everything works perfectly), most of the graphics are really impressive. However, I have one really big drawback. I have a GeForce 4 MX420, so I don't have pixel or vertex shaders. So I get either no water, or this really silly metallic looking stuff.

Even in alpha form this "game" runs at full speed on my 2.3 GHZ P4 with that MX420. All in all, very enjoyable. Although I don't condone what was done, I'm still going to take advantage of it.

I'll still buy the full game. This really is crap in comparison.

I haven't yet converted HL1 onto the HL2 engine. Apparently the improvements are lighting, shadowing, water, and havok physics. So pretty cool. If I get that up and running I'll tell you.

Did anybody else get this?

Null · 12-04-2003, 03:37 PM

how big was the file?

Jason1 · 12-04-2003, 08:25 PM

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Originally Posted by thatmariolover

Well, I've decided to revive this topic after actually getting ahold of the beta (more like an alpha) leak.

The Havok physics are all in place (almost everything works perfectly), most of the graphics are really impressive. However, I have one really big drawback. I have a GeForce 4 MX420, so I don't have pixel or vertex shaders. So I get either no water, or this really silly metallic looking stuff.

Even in alpha form this "game" runs at full speed on my 2.3 GHZ P4 with that MX420. All in all, very enjoyable. Although I don't condone what was done, I'm still going to take advantage of it.

I'll still buy the full game. This really is crap in comparison.

I haven't yet converted HL1 onto the HL2 engine. Apparently the improvements are lighting, shadowing, water, and havok physics. So pretty cool. If I get that up and running I'll tell you.

Did anybody else get this?

I wouldnt know where to look...I wouldnt mind giving it a try, just to see how well it perfrorms on my P4 2.66 with Radeon 9500pro. Im kinda surprised it ran that fast on your crappy graphics card. Where did you get the file from?

Null · 10-10-2003, 05:29 PM

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Originally Posted by Yoda9864

Yeah, I've heard that "playable builds" of the game got leaked from the stolen code. I've even talked to someone who "has one of the playble builds" of the game. I didn't believe him for a sec that he had one.

But I thought it was official that it is delayed til April. I mean, that's totally fine by me because by april, the prices of ATI radeons will have gone down. There's no way I'm playing this game on an Nvidia card

. Especially not my Ti4200, but not even on a good fx card. ATI's cards just blow them out of the water now.

not sure if it was offical, might have been. havnt been keeping up on it
And in all honesty bro. it matters not which one of the newer GFX card brands one gets. ATI's are more powerful right now. but the differnece is when both are already in the 100 FPS range. you can notice nothing if either is higher above like 60 or something. Lot depends on the drivers too. each company keeps making new drivers to make it run better on certain games.

All boils down to personal preference. i might grab the ATI GFX card when they package HL2 in with it for a nice price =)