A brand new replace for Valve’s first recreation, 1998’s beloved first-person shooter Half-Life, has fastened an previous, small, and annoying animation glitch present in one of many recreation’s most memorable ranges. And followers, myself included, are very enthusiastic about it.
The unique Half-Life has loads of memorable moments all through its marketing campaign. However probably the most well-known must be chapter six, “Blast Pit.” On this stage, gamers are launched to an enormous alien tentacle in a still-impressive set piece during which it crashes via a window in a missile silo and drags away a helpless researcher. Nonetheless, for a really very long time now, an animation glitch has made this second look wonky and damaged.
Final week, Valve launched a big Twenty fifth-anniversary patch for Half-Life that added in previous lower content material and new maps, fastened quite a few glitches, and even made the sport verified on Steam Deck. It was a terrific patch! Nonetheless, even after that huge replace, the Blast Pit animation bug remained. Even after two smaller patches have been put out by Valve to repair some minor points created by the Twenty fifth-anniversary replace, the Blast Pit bug was nonetheless within the recreation. It taunted gamers, myself included, who went again to replay the sport for the one hundredth time. A developer who labored on Half-Life even not too long ago commented on the damaged animation and joked that it wanted to be fastened. And now it lastly has after many, a few years.
On November 22, Valve launched one other small patch for Half-Life designed principally to repair a couple of extra issues the massive replace launched. And within the patch notes, I noticed a word that caught my consideration:
- Fastened timing for the sequence the place a tentacle grabs a scientist in Blast Pit.
May it’s? Had Valve lastly fastened this tiny error that had lingered for many years at this level? I rapidly hopped into Half-Life, loaded up Blast Pit, and watched that helpless scientist get grabbed and pulled away. However this time, he was truly linked to the tentacle and never floating a number of ft in entrance of it. I might need whispered, “Wow.”
Over on the Half-Life subreddit, gamers are additionally celebrating the fastened animation. “These loopy bastards did it,” one consumer replied. “That little bug aggravated me a lot for some cause, so I unironically think about Half-Life a greater recreation now that it’s lastly fastened lol,” posted another person.
Whereas I’m comfortable Half-Life is getting a lot love from Valve proper now within the type of all these updates and fixes, I’m additionally curious as to why. Positive, it’s the sport’s Twenty fifth anniversary, so it is sensible to replace it.
However issues like this make it really feel as if a bunch of devs, or possibly even only one Half-Life superfan inside Valve, are on a mission proper now, simply digging into the sport and fixing long-standing bugs. And Valve appears to be okay with it. And what, I’m okay with it, too! I salute whoever is answerable for bettering Half-Life all these years later.
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