Valve’s seminal shooter Half-Life 2 is now twenty years outdated and to have a good time, the corporate has launched a brand new documentary alongside an enormous replace to the sport itself.
Half-Life 2 launched on November 16, 2004. Now, 20 years later, Valve has up to date the landmark first-person shooter and added new options, mounted outdated bugs, improved some visuals, added extra choices, and built-in the Steam Workshop into the basic recreation. And for those who someway don’t personal Half-Life 2, effectively, it’s free to seize over the weekend.
Maybe the largest new addition to the 2004 shooter as a part of this replace is that Misplaced Coast (a small free side-game), Episode 1, and Episode 2 are actually included as a part of the total Half-Life 2 package deal, so you possibly can play all of those video games inside Half-Life 2.
Talking of Misplaced Coast, ever since Valve launched that small expertise it has included developer commentary in its video games. Nonetheless, Half-Life 2 lacked this characteristic, and that’s now been rectified with this replace. Valve obtained the ol’ gang again collectively and recorded almost 4 hours of commentary for the FPS. In addition they did an enormous documentary about Half-Life 2 and spilled the beans on Episode 3‘s growth and cancellation, too.
One other massive characteristic included on this replace, alongside improved gamepad controls and auto-aim, is the inclusion of Steam Workshop help. It will make it simpler than ever so as to add new ranges, weapons, and mods to the extraordinarily moddable PC recreation. There’s principally 20 years’ value of mods on the market that may now be migrated to the Workshop and made simpler than ever to entry.
Valve additionally up to date a ton of smaller components of Half-Life 2, together with fixing outdated bugs, including new graphical choices for blood splatter, tweaking HDR settings, and extra. Fortunately, for those who don’t like these adjustments or have a mod that depends on the outdated model, Valve isn’t eradicating the OG HL2 from Steam. You possibly can nonetheless obtain it and revel in all of your mods and outdated recollections.
And better of all, Valve has made Half-Life 2 (which now contains all of the Episodes) completely free for the following three days. You’ve till November 18 to seize Half-Life 2 on Steam for $0 and you need to. It’s probably the greatest video games ever made, and the mods alone will preserve you busy for the following 20 years.
If this appears acquainted, that’s as a result of again in November 2023, Valve did the same massive Anniversary replace for the unique Half-Life to have a good time 25 years of the franchise. Subsequent up, Portal got here out in 2007. I hope Valve has some enjoyable deliberate for that anniversary, too!
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