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When you buy Half-Life 2, are you able to download Counter-Strike Source and Day of Defeat Source off Steam, or do you buy them separately? I already have Half-Life, Counter-Strike and Day of Defeat, so if I were to download Source would it overwrite the originals?
Gee while since I bought it but I'll do my best.
Okay, there are (or were when it was released and I assume still are) three different packages of Half Life 2: bronze, silver and gold. I bought it off Steam which if you have a high speed connection and lots of HDD space is by far the most convenient way to go (you can then write it to a CD/DVD image via a tool in Steam and burn to physical media if you so desire)
I *think* that any of those will let you get CS:S for no extra. I bought silver because I wanted DoD:S as well, and gold gives you some stuff you'd have to be a total geek to want. Or something.
I believe however that the boxed version is the equivalent of bronze and if you buy that then you'll need to buy and download DoD:s from Steam.
And no, you can have HL, CS and DoD installed in parallel to HL:S, CS:S and DoD:S with no problems.
I'd advise you to just buy everything from Steam really if at all possible, it's far easier and you can see the different packages.
Okay, there are (or were when it was released and I assume still are) three different packages of Half Life 2: bronze, silver and gold. I bought it off Steam which if you have a high speed connection and lots of HDD space is by far the most convenient way to go (you can then write it to a CD/DVD image via a tool in Steam and burn to physical media if you so desire)
I *think* that any of those will let you get CS:S for no extra. I bought silver because I wanted DoD:S as well, and gold gives you some stuff you'd have to be a total geek to want. Or something.
I believe however that the boxed version is the equivalent of bronze and if you buy that then you'll need to buy and download DoD:s from Steam.
And no, you can have HL, CS and DoD installed in parallel to HL:S, CS:S and DoD:S with no problems.
I'd advise you to just buy everything from Steam really if at all possible, it's far easier and you can see the different packages.
When you buy Half-Life 2, are you able to download Counter-Strike Source and Day of Defeat Source off Steam, or do you buy them separately? I already have Half-Life, Counter-Strike and Day of Defeat, so if I were to download Source would it overwrite the originals?