Counter-Strike Source Beta Debuts In CyberCafes

orion024 writes "From the official Half-Life 2 website - the Half-Life: Counter-Strike Source beta '...will be playable [starting tomorrow, Wednesday] at all cyber cafes that subscribe to the Valve Cyber Cafe Program. Later this month, the beta will be extended to owners of Counter-Strike: Condition Zero; and ATI Fulfillment Coupon holders.' Hopefully, this beta, using the Source engine Half-Life 2 is built upon, will ease those HL2 jitters many fellow gamers are experiencing." We previously reported on some friction between cybercafe owners and Valve - as for CS:Source, IGN PC also has an updated preview on the title, which sports "the same specs that Doug Lombardi mentioned for Half-Life 2... minimum system requirements appear to be a 1.2 gigahertz processor with 256 megabytes of RAM and a DirectX 7 video card."

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halflife2 requirements

[Sicnarf]

why post minimum system requirements? why not post the recommended system requirements since I wont be playing in 640x480 resolution!

Re:Does anybody have a list of Valve "CyberCafe's"

[fluor2]

Official Valve Cyber Cafe Directory

http://www.steampowered.com/?area=cafe_directory

or at your place: http://www.steampowered.com/?area=cafe_directory&c ountry=US&state=NY

Re:Hopefully I will get more enjoyment than Doom 3

[WhatAmIDoingHere]

You're waiting for a game that is out and under $20: Link

Re:are there any _actual_ enhancements?

[bigbigbison]

I've seen in a couple of the clips floating around that there are the same physics in this as in HL2, so that would have some change on the gameplay, especially if people are used to specific tactics on specific maps. (I remember seeing some barrels blown up in Aztec for example)

I also seem to have heard rumors that boosting has been taken out, which has some people mad. But the riot shield is also gone, which has just about everyone happy.

But remember this isn't "CS2" it is just the equivelent of when Valve release Deathmatch classic which was supposed to be Quake deathmatch with better graphics.

Re:Does anybody have a list of Valve "CyberCafe's"

[Anonymous Coward]

Official Valve Cyber Cafe Directory

or at your place

please mod the idiot parent down and this post up.

ATI Fulfillment Coupon Holders

[DeadBugs]

It's kind of sad that people who bought an ATI card hoping to get HL2 and play it on (what they thought) was the best card available, now have a card that is outdated and still no HL2. ~ ATI has already released its next generation of cards (X800)

However I did buy a NVIDIA 6800 that came with Far Cry (an excellent game) for those who want to buy a video card that comes with a game and not a coupon.