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fanatic Joined: 18 May 2005 Posts: 611

Is here:

Open Beta
Quite beta actually. Anyway, I've fixed the updater tool a little.
It will get you AHL2 EP2 beta.
It will update your game to the latest version every time you run it.
It wont get you a life, but we're working on that.
Sykes should have a server running with the same version as downloaded by this updater. Knowing sykes however, this is not true. Bug him about it!

Updater
It's a small tool that compares your game directory to a server file list. Files that do not exist will be downloaded. Files that have changed will be overwritten with a new version, if and only if, they're marked read only.
All downloaded files default to read only... so youre bound to unset that if you're editting anyway.
The updater will also notify you of updates to itself.

Also, if you've used previous updaters, please remove your mod dir before using this version. Theyre not compatible, sorry.

Download

Get KetchUpdater 2.0 (Exe)

Also
This tool has been tested by myself... it works here. If it doesnt for you, let me know and we will sort it. It will need Microsoft.NET 2.0 and a working internet connection.

Good luck,

The Management.

Awesome!

insider Joined: 27 Dec 2004 Posts: 35 Location: UK

Not a massive bug but the updater seems to crash if you run it on a different partition to your steam directory. Just so you know

insider Joined: 27 Dec 2004 Posts: 35 Location: UK

Not sure where this goes and I assumed the in-game bug report feature sent the details to valve and not you guys.

Throwing knives - Attempting to throw a knife just seems to take me back to the mod's main screen (the one with 'Find A Server', 'Options', etc.)

In-game Menus - The character and weapon selection menus don't give any real indication that your selection has been accepted. More of a niggle than a bug I suppose.

Running - Now this could be my net connection because it seems like lag but I'm pretty sure it's not. Every time I try to run somewhere I end up warping, you know the whole 2 steps forward, 1 step back kind of thing.

Gun Placement - Another niggle I guess but the guns (akimbo pistols mostly) seem to be positioned so far off screen all I can really see are the tips of the barrels just poking out the sides of my field of vision. I dunno if it's intentional but I just feel like I'm playing the entire game through a window in my character's chest. [EDIT] Not sure if this matters but I'm playing on a 4:3 monitor.

Anyhoo, keep up the good work, and the rest of you join me on the server so I've got something to shoot besides barrels ><img src=

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Outsider Joined: 12 Jun 2009 Posts: 5

Fibbles, that one about partitions may just be you.

On Windows 7 64bit, run from a folder on my desktop, it worked flawlessly updating to my steam install on another hard drive all together. Was smooth and easy.

Haven't played though, because there are no servers running.

insider Joined: 27 Dec 2004 Posts: 35 Location: UK

Perhaps it only affects certain OS's Ace? Or I guess it could just be me, I'm running Windows XP SP3 and it's been kept in pretty good order, though I haven't formatted for quite a while now. It's not exactly a critical bug though, just thought I'd mention it.

fanatic Joined: 05 Jan 2005 Posts: 119 Location: Earth

I ran the updater and it installed HL2_Orangebox. Is this correct?

fanatic Joined: 18 May 2005 Posts: 611

AHL2 Orangebox, yes...

I just added new compiles for the dlls, and added ilki's maps. This means the download is a little hefty now

insider Joined: 27 Dec 2004 Posts: 35 Location: UK

I just ran the updater and it said it had 6 new files to download. It got through the first 4 no problem but then crashed. Now every time I run it to try and grab the last 2 files it crashes.

fanatic Joined: 05 Jan 2005 Posts: 119 Location: Earth

Same here, getting this error in debug:

c:\program files\steam\SteamApps\SourceMods\ahl2_orangebox\bin\server.dll' is denied.

fanatic Joined: 18 May 2005 Posts: 611

Ah sorry. Ive updated the updater. Run it again, you should get a notice about a new version being available. Hit ok, hope the magic happens.

Let me know if it works, and thanks for the quick error report!

fanatic Joined: 05 Jan 2005 Posts: 119 Location: Earth

Works like a charm, thanks.

fanatic Joined: 18 May 2005 Posts: 611

Again updated. fixed a bug with selecting akimbo colts. Thanks kissamies!

fanatic Joined: 16 Sep 2005 Posts: 178

orangebox?!

keener Joined: 07 Jun 2009 Posts: 58

I leeched a completely fresh install via updater yesterday, and today when I try to run the updater again, it says, and rightly so, 6 files to download. When it comes to actually downloading them, it stops with the following message:

Downloading new and changed files...
Error writing \maps\ahl2_badlogistics.bsp: Die Datei "c:\games\steam\SteamApps\SourceMods\ahl2_orangebox\maps\ahl2_badlogistics.bsp" konnte nicht gefunden werden.

translates to "(file)...could not be found"

I created empty files with the same name and tagged em read-only, then it worked. Something with the updater not having the right permissions I guess?

Might want to make the updater not end the whole routine on the first error occurance?

fanatic Joined: 18 May 2005 Posts: 611

Ill do some more fixes tonight. Might've screwed something today, too. Basicly I fixed something, but forgot to include the fix I did before that. So you might all get errors and stuff now, sorry for that. Will fix tonight!

keener Joined: 07 Jun 2009 Posts: 58

Don't beat yourself up over it, you're way above and beyond the call of duty already.

kewl

nice to see some new stuff

worked flawlessly so far

here some feedback

IMPORTANT

Guest

Why is there no uninstaller?

I'd hate to delve into it, but I'm rather certain that's an unlawful practice.

fanatic Joined: 28 Dec 2004 Posts: 161

Deleting you steam/etcmoomooblah/sourcemods/ahl2_orangebox dir should completely remove it.

fanatic Joined: 18 May 2005 Posts: 611

There is no installer, so there is no deinstaller? All it does it download files into a directory... there are no registry traces, global dlls, etc etc or anything.

keener Joined: 07 Jun 2009 Posts: 58

Got bored and found a bug:

You get disconnected from the server if you do the following:

select knife, set to throw, select another weapon (fire it or don't, doesn't matter)
select knife again and hit fire

this only works if you only have one last knife in your inventory

And I can't seem to access the team or weapons menu ingame.

Fibbles: Weapon are weirdly positioned here as well, playing on a 16:9 monitor.

fanatic Joined: 18 May 2005 Posts: 611

The knife crash thing is known, its an entity networking thing. The weapon view being weird for some guns has been explained before I think,

Working on a bug tracker we can use... give us a few weeks or so

thanks for fixing the stunt stuck bug duncan