A completely free and extensive community-developed update for Half-Life 2 featuring beautiful lighting, countless bug fixes, and a brand new Community Commentary Mode. With Half-Life 2: Update, there’s never been a better time to revisit City 17.
Complete lighting overhaul including enhanced lighting, more detailed world shadows, and full High Dynamic Range Lighting (HDR).
New particle effects and improved fog. Countless bug fixes, correcting both visual and game-based issues.
An extensive Community Commentary Mode featuring the voices of well-known Youtubers, including Caddicarus, Brutalmoose, Ricepirate, Balrog the Master, ProJared, and Ross Scott from Freeman's Mind .
Retains the iconic Half-Life 2 visual style and gameplay.
All available in one free standalone download!
Basically HL2 was updated with the HL2:Ep2 engine and assets for the PS360 releases.
Years later when they ported the game to Mac, Valve did the same with the PC version, only not as good (bugs, broken lighting, etc).
Then years later when they ported the game to Linux, Valve fixed a bunch of those bugs, but it's still not perfect.
There are plenty of bugs and visual anomalies and this mod 1) fixes all those and 2) updates the first released in 2004 game to properly take full advantage of the 2007+ engine, going further than Valve did for the console remaster. So don't expect 2015 graphics, but expect an HL2 that was made in 2007+ rather than 2004.
In other words a significant enough update.
See for yourselves:
Basically, this should be the version of HL2 everyone plays from now and on. edit: releases tomorrow.
TWIN PEAKS is "something of a miracle."
"...like nothing else on television."
"a phenomenon."
"A tangled tale of sex, violence, power, junk food..."
"Like Nothing On Earth"
"Update" is great and fixes everything. I finished it this way and it was a flawless experience
3080 | ps5 pro
Sin317-"im 31 years old and still surprised at how much shit comes out of my ass actually ..."
SteamDRM-"Call of Duty is the symbol of the true perfection in every aspect. Call of Duty games are like Mozart's/Beethoven's symphonies"
deadpoetic-"are you new to the cyberspace?"
it's subtle but kinda fixes the game look to be more like we remember it.
ep2 engine update in 2007 have broken original hl2 in some small ways
3080 | ps5 pro
Sin317-"im 31 years old and still surprised at how much shit comes out of my ass actually ..."
SteamDRM-"Call of Duty is the symbol of the true perfection in every aspect. Call of Duty games are like Mozart's/Beethoven's symphonies"
deadpoetic-"are you new to the cyberspace?"
It's not meant to be "impressive" but it has the same look the original game did but better.
You can't say that about CM. At best you can say it is looking different (and better) and at worst distracting (and worse). Very inconsistent.
TWIN PEAKS is "something of a miracle."
"...like nothing else on television."
"a phenomenon."
"A tangled tale of sex, violence, power, junk food..."
"Like Nothing On Earth"
TWIN PEAKS is "something of a miracle."
"...like nothing else on television."
"a phenomenon."
"A tangled tale of sex, violence, power, junk food..."
"Like Nothing On Earth"
• Modern VR headset support
• Motion controller support
• Updated effects, textures, models & maps
• A 3D, made for VR GUI
• Realistic weapon interactions
• Multiple VR locomotion methods
Half Life 2: VR will be distributed free of charge,but requires that you own the normal desktop versions of Half Life 2, Half Life 2: Episode 1 & Half Life 2: Episode 2 on Steam. Half Life 2: VR is a mod and was not created by Valve Software.
Half Life 2: VR will be distributed free of charge,but requires that you own the normal desktop versions of Half Life 2, Half Life 2: Episode 1 & Half Life 2: Episode 2 on Steam.
So if I want to use it with VR I do need to own the two episodes? What if I want to play just the main game?
Half Life 2: VR will be distributed free of charge,but requires that you own the normal desktop versions of Half Life 2, Half Life 2: Episode 1 & Half Life 2: Episode 2 on Steam.
So if I want to use it with VR I do need to own the two episodes? What if I want to play just the main game?
The vr mod uses assets from the two espisodes, hence you have to own them aswell
Half Life 2: VR will be distributed free of charge,but requires that you own the normal desktop versions of Half Life 2, Half Life 2: Episode 1 & Half Life 2: Episode 2 on Steam.
So if I want to use it with VR I do need to own the two episodes? What if I want to play just the main game?
The vr mod uses assets from the two espisodes, hence you have to own them aswell
More like hl1 and fear enemies are much more interactive, they create the illusion of good AI.
They "talk" to each other, and move fast and frequently.
Thats about it.
Yes, hl2 enemies just stand around, and less talk.
• Modern VR headset support
• Motion controller support
• Updated effects, textures, models & maps
• A 3D, made for VR GUI
• Realistic weapon interactions
• Multiple VR locomotion methods
Half Life 2: VR will be distributed free of charge,but requires that you own the normal desktop versions of Half Life 2, Half Life 2: Episode 1 & Half Life 2: Episode 2 on Steam. Half Life 2: VR is a mod and was not created by Valve Software.
Sin317-"im 31 years old and still surprised at how much shit comes out of my ass actually ..."
SteamDRM-"Call of Duty is the symbol of the true perfection in every aspect. Call of Duty games are like Mozart's/Beethoven's symphonies"
deadpoetic-"are you new to the cyberspace?"
I just noticed that Half Life 2 has no protection on it?? I finished building a retro PC quad core 8GB ram and a GT 1030. I copied my legit steam version of HL2 and put it on a usb stick and copied it over to the new build. I was going to crack it and thought I would just double click the game.exe too see. It fired right up with no problem. Thanks Gabe!!
They have script checks or some such. I remember back when it first came out, there was a well known instance where you are on an elevator as part of a story sequence and on the pirated version the AI would just stop at that point, so you couldn't continue. Maybe they have stripped all that out by this point, but don't be surprised if there are issues.
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