Forum Overview :: Reviews :: Early versions and HL1.1 fiasco

[quote name="A fag"][quote name="Weyoun Voidbringer"]I remember the first time we ever really played AHL was after Valve released the new powerful netcode to make mp actually playable for people like us on our dial up shitty connection way back then. The "A Team" immediatly whined about how valve ruined their sacred program and that someday somehow, they were going to slowly/painfully murder everyone who worked at valve and anyone who didn't hate valve as much as they did. SO in the meantime, they allowed their mod to rot with incredibly simple easy to solve bugs.[/quote] Yeah, that update completely broke AHL and many other mods aswell, I might add. The whining was not really done by A-Team, but fans and it was more about forcing everyone to update to new version in order to play online than about the patch itself. That langames thingy that allowed bypassing won and playing older HL versions online didn't exist yet back then. A quick interim version was thrown together and then they concentrated on really fixing the dives. Shortly after this, a new HL patch broke the spawns. They really should have fixed that one as soon as it appeared, but they were still concentrating on beta 4 with all bells and whistles. Too bad this took months to complete. However, beta 4 was still a major success... it was only afterwards when it really started to get downhill. Many people, including me, think that AHL was at its best at beta 2.5-3 (late 1999-summer 2000) period. I just think it's still good and the reason to keep HL installed on my hard drive.[/quote]