Portal 2 has been released!

Steam Forums are pretty much getting DoS attacked because of all the refreshes and spam posts and all that crap.

 

Hehehee

See you on the other side of the portal



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woot! A long weekend of gaming pays off to get in the game 30 minutes early. lulz.

Congrats either way.

 

yeah.

golden potatoes are now getting it early (and the valve complete pack)

Have fun vicious

 

The problem with the Valve Complete Pack is that most people own pretty much all their stuff. I know I do.

 

Heh, I'd be mad if I won that, since I literally own every game in that pack. Maybe they should do something else, like a certain amount of Steam credit.

 

Lulz. Potatoes hovering around 60,000. tell me this isn't rigged.

 

ze potatos have multiplied

 

It's a perpetual potato machine. McDonald's has nothing on GLaDOS!

 

I have a fear that we would be seeing another Potato Famine in the world because of GLaDOS....

PS: At 9:30PM PST... Portal 2 is RELEASED!

Good Job Valve! Sumeragi Lee Nor- I mean... Cave Johnson out!

 

Restart Steam if your preload hasn't started decrypting

 

BTW Decryption is very slow. Just a note to most of the masses out there.

 

it also hangs at 12/13/14/15%, 32%, and 64%



I'm at 32%

 

Portal 2 needs to update.

Awww hell nawwww. When your download speed is 100KB/s on Steam... it's gonna take a while.

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and i was right. got up to make myself ready for work, and countdown just dropped to zero. really? how am i supposed to work concentrated today??

 

Meanwhile, I am still stuck at 32% decryption. This is a sign that I need to get a Quad i7.

 

It took quite a while on my desktop i5-2500K. Pretty sure it's a single-threaded decryption routine

 

Just played a little bit. Good that they get you used to it like in the original. Haven't played much yet though. Hopefully get a couple hours in tomorrow.

 

Now the game is currently unavailable... The hell?

 

GlaDOS just doens't like you.

 

Is that a good think though? I don't need to get myself killed.

 

But, no cake..

 

This time it's pie.

 

ssshht.. still loading here!

 

and just for random statement of the day: if everything would've worked out last weekend, i'd have played the glados song as my set-ending on a big party with around 2000 people.. sadly, my computer most likely was GlaDOS infected, too. It restarted on stage doing windows updates while I was playing...

 

Try an average 20KB/s with a tethered 3G phone connection. I'll be lucky if it's done by this time tomorrow

 

Well. I've been having fun. I hope that your connection manages to get it down as quickly as possible Mastershroom.

BTW, decryption took a while on the i7-720QM as well.

 

I had the "incomplete installation" bug.

had to verify cache, get the error again, try again a few times, and then the steam servers weren't so overloaded that it was able to activate my game.


game looks impressive. I can max it out on my system (minus AA and Vsync).

seem to get a minor bit of fps drop here or there (to the 30s or so) but eh. Push come to shove I'll drop something down but for now maxing out

 

They have an in-game store. Stupid stuff costs $1-$7.50 each. You can buy everything in the store to start for $35. Sorry not interested in spending money to play Mr. Potato Head.

 

apparently if you pre-loaded it, you get those items for free

my backpack has all of those items, including the beanie

 

Dammit. Seems there's a glitch. Some people are getting them and some aren't. I pre-ordered and bought the 2-pack and the potato sack, and pre-loaded and even had a few potatoes. Didn't get anything.

All Portal 2 items are free and unlockable NOW! - Steam Users' Forums

 

I got all the items ._.

 

Of course. I get stuck with nothing... Sigh. I gotta go to bed.

 

Damn, im at work so i cant do science, Aperture style.
But when i get home its decrypt and launch. :O!

 

Well ran out of time need to go to work, got to chamber 19/22 its starting to get pretty challenging now, that last one #18 was the first that had me stumped for a bit.

Cant believe they have bot customizing for co-op and even a store to buy items, its TF2 all over again but maybe worse.

Edit: just caught up on the thread.

I have 0 items in my backpack and the store was closed when I tried to look at it.

I hope that the 2 pack is not the reason for not having items, that would be super lame, but I would consider that a bug and think they would honor those who pre-ordered via 2 pack and not just those who got a single game. Esp since they dropped the price to $40 for the single game, same price as the 2 pack split between 2 people.

 

stuck at 32%...

 

no items, didn't order the two pack.

so *shrugs*

 

Apparently the items are being removed for some people. I think VALVe might be fixing the glitch and removing the hats that you guys didn't buy or something.

 

I wasn't aware that they are pulling a TF2 in this as well. What is next? A L4D2 MP Store?

 

Portal 2 is overrated.

Yeah, I said it. *waits for flames*

 

Oh. You did NOT just say that.

 

The game runs very well, I guess it should've been obvious given it's still running on Source. But yeah looks great and runs smooth on my 2011 MBP. If anyone cares here's my gameplay video of it.

First ten minutes of gameplay, so yeah I guess *spoilers* possible.

YouTube - Portal 2 MacBook Pro 15" 2011 i7 quad 2.3Ghz hi-res first ten minutes gameplay AMD 6750 OSX

 

Enjoying it so far, think ill have the game finished in one day. Almost one sitting.

Im in Chapter 6 now and there cant be much more left.

In terms of money SC2 was a much better investment it took a lot longer to beat and the online game is constantly evolving and changing. New maps/games/modes all the time.

Portal 2 has the new co-op feature, this can really extend the life of the game, and it seems they have intentions of doing so with a full blown trading outlet, a store, and all these accessories for the bots.

Its insane $35.00 it cost to buy all the current "accessories" almost the cost of the full game just for some minor cosmetics that honestly dont even look that great. Totally new models would be a better purchase rather than just a little makeup.

So my thing with co-op is that portal 2 is not a game with huge replay value, the first time you do a puzzle is the only "real" experience with the game, once you know how to do it and have done it before there is little reason in doing it again.

Thinking co-op will work the same way, playing with randoms and friends will add a small bit of varity but still you will only want to do the same maps so many times before it feels pointlss. Consitering I see all this stuff with the store and bot customizing I hope this is a sign that they plan to also be adding new maps/puzzles and not just new gear.

I also hope we can have player made maps show up and playable easily between multiple people like you would any other comptuer game (mostly FPS, just join the server and DL the map) my fear is this PS3 cross play is going to ruin this option. Already it states that if you have skins that people playing on PS3 cant see them. If the PS3 cant even download a skin, how is it supposed to be able to play new levels?

Maybe they should keep things like this exclusive to PC honestly I think its better for the games life in the long run due to how so many old games carry on a new life through the mods and efforts of the community, and if its on console lockdown its like putting a dead end sign out in the road ahead of time.

 

Good morning everyone!

Instead of decrypting, I simply deleted the exe file and some other weird files, and started I verified the integrity of game cache. Stuck at 32%



Bah, I will re-download it...

 

It stays at 32% for a LONG time, depending on your CPU. Mine went to 32% for a good ten minutes maybe then all of a sudden it was done.

 

Mine was slow but not too slow, it happened in the background while I was talking with HT and done before I know it.

I had SSD though and a quad core i7 doing the job so I am sure it was faster than some other machines.

 

Yeah quad and SSD here and did not take long here either.

 

Don't redownload. Decryption will be stuck at 32 for a while (10 mins) then it will speed through. Started the game last night btw. I like the sharper graphics but vicious is right about the game being relatively short lived. Perhaps some sort of online/ctf/team based multiplayer could help with this.

 

Don't forget, VALVe is renowned for free DLCs. Ever since Left 4 Dead 1 they started releasing DLCs (I think) so I am expecting a few from the devs on top of the user made contents.

 

Actually re-downloading made it faster. 30 minutes and am playing as we speak!

God, this game is worth 100€! The music, the gameplay, the graphics, the optimization, the FUN...! GOTY for sure.