Any problems with Steam downloaded SE V?

[Dogboy]

I'm about to host an SE V game for a group of friends. We've patched to 1.71 and installed the latest Balance Mod. One of them downloaded SEV via Steam. We see that the directory structure is a bit different. Has anyone used this version in a multiplayer match, and did it cause any problems?

Thanks!

[Suicide Junkie]

The install location of SE does not matter, if that's what you mean. The internal directory structure should be the same, however.

[Randallw]

There will be a problem. Steam automatically patches when you start it. If everyone else patches manually then you would normally keep the same version until everyone can patch there's. The person with Steam will find he suddenly can't play because Steam has patched his game without asking.

[Fyron]

You can turn auto-patching off in Steam pretty easily. I don't recall the exact procedure, but a quick search should turn it up.

[Randallw]

It's been a problem in my PBW games, but I suppose in those cases they didn't know to turn it off. I have Steam, but only for my copy of Portal. I made sure it wasn't going to effect SEV.