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You have valid points, I know. You can't argue with better load times and menus. But it won't matter for many, plus there's cool UIs in steam mods as well.
Hello TWHL, thank you for hosting such a great source of information and community, I am very glad to have found you, and to have started modding my favourite game of all time (only now ...).
Someone said in the chatbox to make a WON thread, so I did.
How about we stop complaining about the poor port which is vanilla Steam HL and play singleplayer maps and mods on the older (better) half-life, which had much cooler menus, better loading times and less bugs and problems. When I first played HL steam I only liked it because I didn't have music on my old cracked hl, and I was glad to have bought it, until I played Blue shift and I realised the attention was moving towards Half-life 2 and it's new familly, and all the other new games.
I started playing half life multiplayer late, long after won died, on WON2, playing hldm on some bulgarian server (I thought they played so fast because they had their mouse sensitivity up, and tried sensitivity 50 and got used to it, and got pretty good actually ...). It was fun, especially tfc. I continued playing tfc on steam on conc servers and si and th and other mods, mostly mp. Whenever I wanted to play an old mod, I installed the sierra version of HL, and I encourage you to do so as well.
Wall of text TL;DR: Hi, I'm new here, nice to meet you, use WON hl if you don't like steam, much cooler, maybe we could play/set a server there for nostalgia's sake.
Someone said in the chatbox to make a WON thread, so I did.
How about we stop complaining about the poor port which is vanilla Steam HL and play singleplayer maps and mods on the older (better) half-life, which had much cooler menus, better loading times and less bugs and problems. When I first played HL steam I only liked it because I didn't have music on my old cracked hl, and I was glad to have bought it, until I played Blue shift and I realised the attention was moving towards Half-life 2 and it's new familly, and all the other new games.
I started playing half life multiplayer late, long after won died, on WON2, playing hldm on some bulgarian server (I thought they played so fast because they had their mouse sensitivity up, and tried sensitivity 50 and got used to it, and got pretty good actually ...). It was fun, especially tfc. I continued playing tfc on steam on conc servers and si and th and other mods, mostly mp. Whenever I wanted to play an old mod, I installed the sierra version of HL, and I encourage you to do so as well.
Wall of text TL;DR: Hi, I'm new here, nice to meet you, use WON hl if you don't like steam, much cooler, maybe we could play/set a server there for nostalgia's sake.