Valve have released some news but, as was expected, that has to do with the status of their beloved Steam Network, in view of the upcoming Condition Zero launch rather than with H-L 2.
As far as the steam news is concerned, Valve insist that the network will hold and that they will be able to meet bandwidth demand, with the introduction of lots of new content servers and plenty of bandwidth, come CS:CZ launch. In order to demonstrate the efficiency of Steam, Valve also mention that... over the (last) weekend the number of simultaneous Steam users in-game reached an all time high. They do however, forget to mention the actual figure so there is no objective way of seeing how efficient the service was, in real world terms.
The company claims that about 50 per cent of the community has switched to Steam and that the, very big, issue of users using cheats, has been dealt with and that bans and CD-Key checks are now up to date. Another big announcement is that soon you will be able to play without being connected to the Internet since... work on offline/LAN play is now nearing completion.
So it seems that, in some fronts, there are hopeful messages that Valve is getting its act together and the results may be visible soon.
