Good news for those who use "offline" mode in Steam

Archived from groups: alt.games.half-life (More info?)

The latest Steam update makes it much easier to get into offline mode in
Steam


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Steam, Source Engine, and Half-Life Dedicated Server updates are
available and will be applied automatically when Steam is restarted. The
changes include:

Steam
* Pressing the cancel button while Steam is loading will bring up
the offline dialog
* Fixed 100% CPU use on startup
* Fixed use of quoted parameters in "-applaunch" command lines

Source Engine
* Fixed exception info spam in debugger output window for SDK users

Half-Life Dedicated Server
* Enabled support for new query protocol (fixes HLTV server not
appearing in the server browser)


Update - Fixed command line parameters being ignored when using desktop
shortcuts for some games

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Ben Cottrell AKA Bench