Just like the original Half-life Last year – Valve celebrated the groundbreaking first-person shooter’s 25th anniversary with a major update, documentation and a 100 percent discount – celebrated what was arguably an even more influential game Half-life 220th anniversary with, you guessed it, an update, documentation and a 100 percent discount.
Valve made the announcement and explained all the changes in detail a new website for the game. Notably, this update includes the usual mix of bug fixes and graphical improvements, as well as a developer commentary track – a practice that all Half-Life and Portal games adopt post-release Half-life 2 benefited from this – as well as improvements at the Steam platform level in the form of Steam Workshop support and the new Steam game recording.
“Every card in Half-life 2 “Valve level designers looked at it to fix long-standing bugs, restore content and features lost over time, and improve the quality of some things like lightmap resolution and fog,” Valve explains on the website. Scroll Way down for a much more detailed list of all changes.
A major improvement to the game is the inclusion of Half-life 2episodic extensions, Episode 1 And Episode 2. Remarkably and unfortunately, this does not include confirmation of any conclusion in the form of those never published Episode 3although Valve points out in the two-hour documentary that it failed to deliver that ending.
“We could have shipped it. “It wouldn’t have been that hard,” says Valve’s Gabe Newell, showcasing a new trick while sending an entire generation of gamers into a dark spiral. “My personal failure was being caught off guard. I couldn’t understand why Episode 3 was pushing anything forward.”
And if you somehow haven’t made it yet Half-life 2 in your Steam library for the last 20 years, first… Congratulations? This actually seems difficult. Secondly, you’ll be happy to know that it’s currently on sale for the low price of $0.00, upgrades and all, until November 18th, just two days away. Add it permanently to your library go here Click the green “Download” button and pass it on to your grandchildren.
Speaking of downloads, Valve’s anniversary page also contains links to historical videos of the game, such as high-quality recordings of previously unavailable E3 demos, as well as a variety of new wallpapers and links to download or listen to the various soundtracks.
