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

Half Life 25th confirmed

marco, 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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Direct link to the documentary www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbZ3HzvFEto

pezhore,
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Documentary by the For-profit side of Noclip!

They’ve been hush-hush about this for months on their Patreon, it’s delightful to see what all the secrecy was about.

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?

kryllic, do games w Half-Life 25th Anniversary Update
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We now consider this anniversary version of Half Life to be the definitive version, and the one we’ll continue to support going forward. Therefore, we’ll be reducing the visibility of Half Life: Source on the Steam Store. We know Half-Life: Source’s assets are still being used by the Source engine community, so it’ll remain available, but we’ll be encouraging new Half-Life players to play this version instead.

Wow. Didn’t think they’d ever acknowledge HL:S again but here we are. This is such a cool update.

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.

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

Was anyone else floored that Half-Life came out 25 years ago? I mean, of course I can do the math, but it hit me hard how long ago that was.

I remember reading a preview article in PC Gamer about the revolutionary AI in the game, how enemies would follow you if they could hear you and set up ambushes.

Then the first time I played it, having the story told right in the game with characters doing actions that you can look around and see and interact with … It was clear to everyone at the time that this was the future of storytelling in first-person games.

I’m definitely going to need to try this on my Deck when it arrives and see if the gameplay holds up.

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

Love stuff like this.

lazynooblet, do gaming w Half-Life 25 Anniversary Update
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My phone really struggled to render the web page. Looks great though

spiderkle, do gaming w Half-Life 25 Anniversary Update
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just play “black mesa” to enjoy HL1 in HL2 graphics

kurcatovium,

Or play both and pick your favourite.

apprehensively_human,

Black Mesa is a good game with nice graphics, but it does not scratch that nostalgia itch the same way.

ASeriesOfPoorChoices, do gaming w Half-Life 25 Anniversary Update

And it’s free!

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.

olosta, do gaming w Half-Life 25 Anniversary Update

Relaunched it to replay the demo : “uplink”, it really lived up to my memory. A self contained half hour of half life fun, with an original map that show off diverse game mechanics. This was really a great demo back in the day.

dpunked, do gaming w Half-Life 25 Anniversary Update
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There is a nice easter egg on the page, it has to do with the crowbar at the bottom!

MeatsOfRage,

Hah fun

grue,

Nice, I just

spoilergot the achievement.

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.

mctoasterson, do gaming w Half-Life 25 Anniversary Update

How to tell someone they’re old in as painful and indirect manner as possible.

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