• @xXxBigJeffreyxXx
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    1047 months ago

    Grab the crowbar at the bottom and attack the enemies on the page

  • Andi
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    807 months ago

    If anyone happens to remember half-life.fortunecity.net , I was your floating admin (I literally floated around the Map during death matches)

    At it’s hayday, it was the 1st/2nd most popular server in the UK.

    If I can remember, my little PC managed to handle 20 players, all on a 2mbit line, sneakily hosted in my server room at work in circa 2000…

    Yeah, I’m that old.

  • kryllic
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    557 months ago

    We now consider this anniversary version of Half Life to be the definitive version, and the one we’ll continue to support going forward. Therefore, we’ll be reducing the visibility of Half Life: Source on the Steam Store. We know Half-Life: Source’s assets are still being used by the Source engine community, so it’ll remain available, but we’ll be encouraging new Half-Life players to play this version instead.

    Wow. Didn’t think they’d ever acknowledge HL:S again but here we are. This is such a cool update.

  • @funnystuff97
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    487 months ago

    tfw half life 1 gets an update before team fortress 2 does

    In all seriousness, very excited to hop in and see what’s new, I’ve never had the opportunity to play some of this content.

    • @woelkchen
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      217 months ago

      tfw half life 1 gets an update before team fortress 2 does

      Wouldn’t be surprised if TF2 is currently getting a Source2 port.

      • @ExcursionInversion
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        107 months ago

        Oh nice. Anything concrete or just source 2 conspiracy like CS had forever?

        • @woelkchen
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          97 months ago

          Anything concrete or just source 2 conspiracy like CS had forever?

          I just said that I would not be surprised. That’s it. Valve did not hint at anything, it’s just me thinking that it would make sense that they don’t want to maintain two completely different engines and rather unify everything on Source2.

          • @ExcursionInversion
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            37 months ago

            Wasn’t trying to be a dick. Just curious if anything had leaked out like in csgo.

      • @themusicman
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        17 months ago

        I suspect Neon Prime will be the spiritual successor to TF2

  • @shalafi
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    357 months ago

    HL was game changing. Look at these specs:

    MINIMUM: 500 mhz processor, 96mb ram, 16mb video card, Windows XP, Mouse, Keyboard, Internet Connection

    RECOMMENDED: 800 mhz processor, 128mb ram, 32mb+ video card, Windows XP, Mouse, Keyboard, Internet Connection

    I didn’t even have min specs and it rocked out. I think I had 400Mhz, 32mb RAM and an 8gb card? It won’t run on a potato like Doom, but it was a shocking step back from the ever-increasing specs required at the time.

    • @[email protected]
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      147 months ago

      500mhz must be updated for what ever they’ve done to it- I remember playing it in 1999 on a 133mhz pentium on Windows 98 (and I also remember testing in on NT4 and it actually worked!)

    • @bus_factor
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      97 months ago

      It was running on a pretty old engine. It was based on the Quake 1 engine, but some features of the Quake 2 engine got tacked on along the way. There was some more eye candy added as well, but something with that basis isn’t going to be as power hungry as Unreal.

  • @JoeKrogan
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    197 months ago

    I’m on my first play through of black mesa. Just grabed this, HL2 , HL2 ch1 & HL2 ch2 for less than 3 ducats. Can’t go wrong there.

    • @9715698
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      57 months ago

      Opposing Forces for HL1 is amazing as well. Worth grabbing.

    • LucasWaffyWaf
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      237 months ago

      New levels, better HUD scaling, old content that hasn’t been released in bloody ages, new death match models and skins, and most importantly, you get to be Ivan the Space Biker in death match.

      Also there’s an option to turn off texture filtering, and thank GOODNESS for that.

      • owiseedoubleyou
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        It would be good if valve ported many of these changes like HUD scaling to their other GoldSrc games as well.

      • @PopShark
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        27 months ago

        why turn off texture filtering?

        • LucasWaffyWaf
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          17 months ago

          It makes everything look like it was smeared in crisco.

  • @Spacecraft
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    117 months ago

    Seeing Ivan the space biker, proto Barney, too much coffee man, and the skeleton models were a really hard hit of nostalgia I wasn’t prepared for.

  • @A_Very_Big_Fan
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    67 months ago

    Wow. This update is a huge blessing for all 12 of us deathmatch players lol

  • @rip_art_bell
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    67 months ago

    Cool. I remember a buddy showing it to me in his college dorm room. I was more interested in Unreal Tournament (which released a year later) at the time and probably couldn’t afford to buy another game anyway. But I was positively obsessed with Half Life 2 a few years later…

  • @curiousPJ
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    37 months ago

    Hmmm… Kind of surprised there isn’t an ARG to go along with this.