Half-Life 2's 20th Anniversary Update Is Pretty Cool

A quick look at the 20th Anniversary Update for Half-Life 2.

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[Mad_Kirby]

On the first hours of the workshop three of the top of addons were
1. Gman "go fuck yourself" intro
2. Half life 2 pp
3. Fart reverb for explosions

[Detah_]

Finally. Full life. What has me excited is in some of the promo material you can see updated models of Gordon and alyx. So I think they might be cooking

[_.aurora._]

i love playing half life 2 as whatsapp gordan now, thanks to the workshop addition

[boomdonuts]

Honestly the Episodes being bundled into the full game was the last thing I expected. Still cool though, like the workshop

[SyRose]

Man. Valve really hit the spot when it comes to preserving their games and updating their games. It's a miracle that Half-Life and Half-Life 2 still support modern hardware. Same goes for all the mods and games coming out of these two, maybe some GoldSrc games have been lost since they predate Steam, and that may have been for good reasons, like the game is just undesirable or something.

No need for a remake or remaster when you can just do this kind of thing. The original will stay playable on any hardware capable of running Steam. Allows them to focus on either Steam or their completely new games.

There is the dread that Steam will disappear or go to shit, I hope Valve never goes publicly traded.

[orchid]

I find it wild that Kleiner's lab existed back in 2000 and survived all the way till the release. They showcase models there. I just love how designer of crab synth was like "yeah, the thing wasn't supposed to move, they weren't able to animate it lolz so it was cut"

[DrasticElevation]

The weapon sway on the SIGGRAPH demo is actually the one used in Half-Life 1, its present in the WON version and in the current 25 anniversary build

[Ooysy]

Crazy to think the channel is 20 years old! Keep it up Radislav!

[TheExcarlos]

If only kitty0706 was here to witness all of this. He would've made some funnny as workshop stuff 😂.

[UsurperEntropy]

Slight correction about the beginning, Episode 1, Episode 2 and Lost Coast are still available to play in your library if you bought them, however for some reason they're now located in tools so you still keep your achievements, saves, ect.

[denifnaf]

It even comes free with 3 episodes

Episode1
Episode2
Lost coast

[TalleyBellum]

One thing I'm excited for is the workshop support
I can't wait for older mods to get archived on there. I also can't wait for the slop

[JohnBaud]

Oh, please. "Pretty Cool" is an understatement.

[HalfLifeCrowbar]

Can't believe that HL2 has been out for 20 years already, it's been a part of my life for almost 8 years now, HL2 is what got me into gaming and mapping in hammer.

honestly I wish I had someone to talk and theorize about HL2 lore stuff with.

[Taxes_Collector]

hell yeah, i love that valve finally came back with the milk

[Randomstuffs]

If Valve had any integrity, they would have made Hunt Down the Freeman canon.

[phoenixtheceikraill]

20 years... I was only 2 months old when this game released. Time does fly doesn't it? Happy birthday HL2.

[TheRealClaylex]

Whats really gonna drive newcomers to play this is the now Steam Workshop/mod support

It'll be now MUCH easier to implement mods into HL2/EP1/EP2!

[darkbrumoment]

i screamed when i saw the game updating and got a noise complaint

[North]

I'm so happy about this new update! I wish L4D have the same treatment :)