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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.

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

Wow. This update is a huge blessing for all 12 of us deathmatch players lol

SnugZebras,

Servers looking pretty populated right now

rip_art_bell, do games w Half-Life 25th Anniversary Update
@rip_art_bell@lemmy.world avatar

Cool. I remember a buddy showing it to me in his college dorm room. I was more interested in Unreal Tournament (which released a year later) at the time and probably couldn’t afford to buy another game anyway. But I was positively obsessed with Half Life 2 a few years later…

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

I am old.

MoogleMaestro, (edited ) 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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Does anyone know if this affects mods like CS?

Edit: Idk if it's just me on linux, but it seems like CS1.6 no longer launches on the new update. A bummer, but I had a lot of fun play HLDM just now so I think they'll fix it eventually.

WarmSoda,

It says if something relies on the source version you can still use that.

JohnEdwa,

There is a beta branch you can roll back to if mods break because of the changes.

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

Seeing Ivan the space biker, proto Barney, too much coffee man, and the skeleton models were a really hard hit of nostalgia I wasn’t prepared for.

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?

funnystuff97, do games w Half-Life 25th Anniversary Update

tfw half life 1 gets an update before team fortress 2 does

In all seriousness, very excited to hop in and see what’s new, I’ve never had the opportunity to play some of this content.

woelkchen,
@woelkchen@lemmy.world avatar

tfw half life 1 gets an update before team fortress 2 does

Wouldn’t be surprised if TF2 is currently getting a Source2 port.

ExcursionInversion,
@ExcursionInversion@lemmy.world avatar

Oh nice. Anything concrete or just source 2 conspiracy like CS had forever?

woelkchen,
@woelkchen@lemmy.world avatar

Anything concrete or just source 2 conspiracy like CS had forever?

I just said that I would not be surprised. That’s it. Valve did not hint at anything, it’s just me thinking that it would make sense that they don’t want to maintain two completely different engines and rather unify everything on Source2.

ExcursionInversion,
@ExcursionInversion@lemmy.world avatar

Wasn’t trying to be a dick. Just curious if anything had leaked out like in csgo.

themusicman,

I suspect Neon Prime will be the spiritual successor to TF2

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

Cue misplaced hope about Half Life 3.

Vodulas,

I’d argue that Alyx was HL3.

PonyOfWar,

At least about 2 minutes of it were Half-Life 3.

julianh,

Look it’s two minutes more than we had for 13 years.

Telorand,

Maybe it’s time to see other games…

Vodulas,

Why only 2 minutes?

PonyOfWar,

Spoilers: >!Most of the game is a prequel to HL2, but in the final few minutes, you get sent into the future, right to the time and place where Episode 2 ended. So it does advance the Half-Life plot forward, but only by a few minutes.!<

Vodulas,

I got ya. That makes sense. It is not a story sequel. I haven’t finished it yet, but it felt very much like the direction Valve is pushing and a story sequel to HL2 probably won’t happen.

andrew,
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Alyx was 2.75 because we know from Valve math that the limit of half life only approaches 3 as t goes to infinity.

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

Grab the crowbar at the bottom and attack the enemies on the page

tenchiken,

Even mobile version… Cute

woelkchen, do games w Half-Life 25th Anniversary Update
@woelkchen@lemmy.world avatar

This time the clicking to get the free version actually worked for me. Even though I still got the invalid URL error, the game showed up in my library.

store.steampowered.com/app/70/HalfLife/

Molotov,

Thank you!

ensignrick,
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Thanks. I lost access to my original steam account from like 2005ish over a decade ago that had this… Awesome!

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