Half-Life 2 RC sent to Vivendi !

Fri Sep 17, 2004 12:00 am by Neo_Kuja

I have personally confirmed it with Gabe and so have a few other people too. From here on I'd like to urge everybody not to contact Gabe for anymore confirmations. There's only so many times in one day you can reply "yes" to an e-mail!

UPDATE: I have now also confirmed with Gabe Newell that the Counter-Strike: Source and Half-Life: Source release candidates have also been sent to Vivendi.

- A quote from Halflife2.net

Check Here ! - "Chris_D's" post, second from the bottom !

Yes, I know, after the last bit of info on Half-Life 2 being a hoax, everone's sceptical about posts by "Gabe Newell" on HL2Fallout.com. Fortunatly, after MANY e-mails flying through cyberspace, it has been confirmed by Gabe and al the other people at Valve, it HAS been sent. Finally !

Edited by - Neo_Kuja on 9/17/2004 1:01:30 AM

Fri Sep 17, 2004 6:43 am by -------

Whoop-de-freaking-do. That doesn't mean the game has gone gold. THAT will depend on whether Vivendi approves the RC or not. If not, than Valve has to send in another one, to get approved. But as always, I will believe it when I see the final product on store shelves.

Fri Sep 17, 2004 4:39 pm by Indy11

I'm new to following this sort of thing. What could Vivendi Universal possibly do to delay the process? What are they reviewing? Content and rating?

Fri Sep 17, 2004 6:03 pm by Neo_Kuja

A release candidate (RC) is a disc of Half-Life 2 that Valve Software (Creators of HL2) considers the final version. Vivendi, being the publisher, will check the RC for any bugs, and if it finds any major ones, they'll send the disc back to Valve, with instructions on what bugs there are. The bug checking process takes about 72 hours to do, and after that, it will take about 2 weeks to publish.

A Vivendi spokesman has been heard saying that Valve has gone through a serious de-bugging of Half-Life 2, so the first RC SHOULD be accepted (which is in itself quite rare).

meezookeewee - Yes, but as I said before, Valve went through a long testing and de-bugging test of HL2, and most bugs have been wiped out ....

Fri Sep 17, 2004 7:16 pm by Indy11

@Neo,

Thanks. I had no idea that Vivendi actually had people who could do that sort of thing.
Goes to show you what I know about it.

*listens for Jeopardy Theme music*

Fri Sep 17, 2004 9:10 pm by Wolf_Demon

yea, lol i thought it was a person...

Sat Sep 18, 2004 3:36 am by Esquilax

*Channels Taw* Wake me when something happens

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Fri Oct 01, 2004 2:49 pm by Locutov

Sorry to rtevive this, but this appears to be legit, all PC agmer magazines (at least ones that I have seen) have announced a review in their magazine of HL2, so I think could be it.

again, sorry to grave dig this one

Fri Oct 01, 2004 9:35 pm by The Ninja

So HL2 is not far away? hmmm.... maybe i should pay off the preorder...

Sat Oct 02, 2004 3:35 am by Esquilax

Well they are saying that Vivendi is about to release the date. The dates posted were Nov. 26 and Nov. 23. I cannot recall which countries they were though; one of them was for the US

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Sat Oct 02, 2004 11:49 pm by The Ninja

teehee! christmas release! one more thing to add to the list...

Sun Oct 03, 2004 2:12 am by Esquilax

Don't get too excited little fella

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Oh, and here is that information I mentioned. Meh, I'm not holding my breath - yet

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Mon Oct 04, 2004 12:20 am by The Ninja

Me? Excited? never!

I have to admit, i am a bit of a Half-Life Fan-boy, I chose a side in the HL-2/D3 debates at my school, and Im still waiting to be vindicated...

Mon Oct 04, 2004 3:11 am by freighter fighter

the us gets hl2 on the 23rd november, europe is the 26th

Mon Oct 04, 2004 5:12 am by Esquilax

ff - I'd wait for the official word if I were you

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