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Kissaki, do gaming w Half-Life 2 Anniversary Update

Half-Life 2 is currently free on Steam

From now through the weekend (until November 18th at 10am Pacific) Half-Life 2 is free to own , so if you’ve never played before, grab it now and keep it forever.

Zoop,

Thank you so much for commenting this! I wouldn’t have known otherwise.

Midnitte,

(Also includes Episode 1 and Episode 2 - sort of… “DLC”)

sic_semper_tyrannis,

Well not forever since Steam has DRM. Buy from GoG and download the game DRM free to actually keep it forever. Of course HL2 won’t be there

Kissaki, do gaming w Half-Life 2 Anniversary Update

Huge update, with a lot of changes, and workshop support. Valve does it again. Quality update for a very “old” title.

Kissaki, do gaming w Half-Life 2 Anniversary Update

Haha, go to the bottom an grab the gravity gun - really cool gimmick

maniacalmanicmania, do gaming w Half-Life 2 Anniversary Update
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New commentary for HL2 if anyone’s looking for an excuse to play it again.

Midnitte, (edited )

Also workshop and graphical updates - pretty neat

Don’t forget deathmatch exists too. 🚽

TWeaK, do gaming w Half-Life 2 Anniversary Update

I sure hope they don’t plan on having more than 2 anniversaries.

maniacalmanicmania,
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New commentary for HL2. Gonna have to play it again.

bjoern_tantau, do gaming w Half-Life 25th Anniversary Update - Half Life Uplink, New Multiplayer Maps, Updated Graphical Settings, SteamDeck Verified and More
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Which reminds me, what did we get for the 25th anniversary of Unreal, another super important game from 1998 whose engine nowadays even powers movie production?

Right, Epic pulled it from all stores…

Arkham,

I’m also still incredibly salty about this. The Quake 1 and 2 remasters also are a huge contrast to how the Unreal franchise has been handled.

I recently got my gog copy of UT2004 running on my Steam Deck. It was a huge pain in the ass that I could have circumvented by buying a Steam copy… but of course that’s no longer an option. I guess Epic doesn’t want easy money from their old games.

mctoasterson,

I’ve still got the original UT2004 DVD ROM physical release. How big of a pain would this be to get running on my Deck?

ascagnel,

Significant — you’d need to either get the old Linux build working (not an easy task today) or you can install it on Windows, copy the files over, and run it via Proton (but you’d need to manually add the registry key with your CD key to the Proton prefix’s registry).

Chickerino,

cant you just run the installer with wine which is like 2000% easier?

ShitOnABrick, do games w Half-Life 25th Anniversary Update
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Honestly this is an awesome update shame they didn’t implement real time shadows like nvidia did with quake 2 as that’ll go hand in hand with the new steamdeck

MeanEYE,
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nVidia did it to promote RTX cards. No other reason.

Pulptastic, do gaming w Half-Life 25th Anniversary Update - Half Life Uplink, New Multiplayer Maps, Updated Graphical Settings, SteamDeck Verified and More

Does this mean I can play Portal on my Mac?

WarmSoda,

This is a new version of Half Life 1

Luvon,

Doesn’t portal already run on the Mac since forever?

Pulptastic, (edited )

Last I checked no, the game engine was 32 bit but the Mac won’t run 32 bit apps anymore. Or something like that. My hope with this refresh was 64 bit support.

Luvon,

Have you actually installed and run it? I know there were quite a few games that steam claimed couldn’t be run because of that and still did. I don’t remember if portal is one of them though.

Battleblock theater for instance says it can’t but still does.

Muffi, do games w Half-Life 25th Anniversary Update

Between this and the awesome Quake remaster, who needs new games?

curiousPJ, do games w Half-Life 25th Anniversary Update

Hmmm… Kind of surprised there isn’t an ARG to go along with this.

tigeruppercut, do games w Half-Life 25th Anniversary Update

It says it has new content-- anyone have any idea what that might entail?

LucasWaffyWaf,

New levels, better HUD scaling, old content that hasn’t been released in bloody ages, new death match models and skins, and most importantly, you get to be Ivan the Space Biker in death match.

Also there’s an option to turn off texture filtering, and thank GOODNESS for that.

owiseedoubleyou,
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It would be good if valve ported many of these changes like HUD scaling to their other GoldSrc games as well.

PopShark,

why turn off texture filtering?

LucasWaffyWaf,

It makes everything look like it was smeared in crisco.

JoeKrogan, do games w Half-Life 25th Anniversary Update
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I’m on my first play through of black mesa. Just grabed this, HL2 , HL2 ch1 & HL2 ch2 for less than 3 ducats. Can’t go wrong there.

9715698,

Opposing Forces for HL1 is amazing as well. Worth grabbing.

tegs_terry,

Blue shift is ok too, despite lacking a final boss.

setsneedtofeed,
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Am I the only person who mostly liked the Blue Shift models?

Rokin, do gaming w Half-Life 25 Anniversary Update

25 years, still getting updates!

grue,

Anything to avoid making Half Life 3, I guess.

JokeDeity,

Why do people still insist Alyx isn’t 3? It’s clearly 3, it’s the continuation of the story.

ampersandrew,
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Alyx is an interquel, if we're going to say that's a real word, and it released on a platform most of the audience just won't ever have. Also, it doesn't so much continue the story as it does promise to continue the story. They admit that they've got work to do.

danque, do gaming w Half-Life 25 Anniversary Update
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So is Half-life: source now the old one or is Half-life the old version? Or did they revamp both? It is a bit unclear in my library.

vhj,
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The one just named “Half Life” is the definitive version now, the one that got the big update yesterday.

Source is the same messy version as it was before and they haven’t touched it. Though it will still be in our libraries for legacy versions.

Valve themselves recommend you ignore Source exists now.

JokeDeity,

IMO Black Mesa is now the definitive version.

slaacaa,

What is their reason for abandoning the source version? I would assume it looks better, and it would be easier to fit for today’s gaming needs

vhj,
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If you ask me, the Source version didn’t include any QoL improvements or anything that might make the game more modern feeling.

The “upgrades” are mostly new textures and effects that bugged out half the time. Plus all the gameplay bugs that it introduced.

Even before the update most people were recommending the OG above the Source version, so it makes sense that they would update that one.

DAMunzy, do games w Half-Life 25th Anniversary Update

Meh. I’m so over Half-Life. Even if GabeN released 3 right now I wouldn’t care.

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