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It even has the sound of the crow when you walk outside, I love it.

*Train also has MAJOR HL Alyx vibes. I love Valve SM.

The 20th anniversary is almost upon us, here's what i'd like to see in this update:

All in one exe: i know that the episodes use different branches of the source engine, but i'd really love to have all half life 2 content in one exe, to make downloading and adjusting settings much easier, yes the size would be much bigger but it would streamline the process.

Visual fixes: because the games changed branches multiple times, some visual features were broken such as: decals, grass in a few maps, the elites in EP2 don't have the dirt overlay etc, etc, it would be awesome for these visuals to be fixed.

Greater rendering distance: espcially in the original game, since hardware is more powerful than it was 20 years ago, Valve could allow for a better rendering distance so we don't see big buildings and props appear out of nowhere, it served its time but its beginning to show its age.

Backporting models: for better conistency across all titles i think it'd be neat to back port models from the episodes back into the main game, for exmaple: the stalker in EP1 back in Half-Life 2. Or the EP2 advisors in EP1 and Main game, and the EP2 hunter in the transmision of EP1.

Episode 2 flashlight: I gotta be honest. i Don't like the flashlight in the main game and EP1, i vastly prefer the mechanic in EP2, plus it would make things consistent across titles without strange explanations like "the suit changed to a back up power supply". "But" i hear you say. "Wouldn't the EP2 flashlight ruin the chapter Lowlife?" And you're right, it would. So i suggest having an option like MMod where you can choose between the EP2 flashlight or the original.

Workshop support: how awsome would it be? the ability to download and launch Half-Life 2 mods directly from steam? it would be so frigging cool.

A digital rerelease of Rasising the Bar: Be honest, who wouldn't want that?

And that's about it, what do you guys think? are these good suggestions? or am i just insane?

Allow me to elaborate,He is only seen when u leave the ravenholm mines and even then he stays far away from the mine entrance,even though he knows he is far more powerful he is still afraid or at least creeped out by ravenholm,same way humans are afraid of spiders or bugs,this could be because of the loneliness of the town,zombies, or the far more mysterious Father Grigori

Hello I am looking for Half-life 2 (ep1&ep2 included)mods that work in 2024 either from steam or from modb or Ruthinkshootlive or gamebana or even from another site that I don't know please let them work but this is the main thing

In a similar vein I hate how you can’t carry that guard in Power Up to the cart and take him with you on your way to On A Rail!

Hello ladys and gentlemans. I have a problem I'm working GUI interface of OF to restore it close as possible to won. But have a problem. Well many of you know that the Won menu of Opposing Force use the font " Stencil" or "Stencil Std". But there is cach isnt actualy regular Stencil. The menu butons of the game are actualy in bmp image format and after concusion isnt the actual Stencil font. Its more like this one from the image above. I searched hardly but cant fint the font used in the Won version. This image its from custom font from Etsy that isnt free. Firstly idk to buy its something from this site secondly I cant actualy to buy it. Also I have card I dont wana risk to give my information to this site. Secondly I thinked firstly that the font use din won menu ist actualy custom one. But westerday I found this. ... and I'm here to ask for help. If you know were to find free version of the Stencil that looks like that I'll be very tankfull guys and will bring you full restored WON look for Opposing Force to Steam version.

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If you have pictures of random people and you can Photoshop and/or other photo editing programs, you can make different combine propaganda. And if any of you guys have good ideas for who could be the puppet of the combine, leave it down in the comments down below with a picture.

Sure : New lightning effects Likely not : Remastered Soundtrack Not at all : Barney DLC

I understand that later when he was recognized and the whole plot was set in motion people saw him as the hero, but at the very beginning of the game, in the apartment complex, citizens risk their lives by failing to comply with the overwatch for someone who is to them completely random stranger... It doesn't really make sense to me.

Recently Id software have released anniversary updates to both quake 1 and quake 2 each time with extra content and also an entirely brand new episode. Valve seem to be working on something for the 20th anniversary of HL2 so could they have seen the success of the quake releases and have been secretly working on a new episode. I think it's a possibility.

It seems the wait command is disabled.
I set the sv_allow_wait_command to 1 and even after starting a new game, it does nothing.
I have a few silly scripts i'd like to run, but requires the wait function to work, which it does not seem to do.

Wait,
Wait;wait;wait
Wait 1000
None of them works.

Am i shi7 out of luck, or is there another way to do this?

this was the only place i could find info on this command: https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Wait

I remember playing around with the wait command MANY years ago in CS:S, making chat messages as form of taunts, using Wait command to make sure they appear in the chat in the right order and such.
It also worked great in Gmod before gmod v9+ came out.

Yes, I loved the Xen levels in half life 1. No, Not Black Mesa (haven't made it there yet) But I loved the Xen Levels so much as a young kid, I would play them so much. Some of you may be wondering "Ehh, why!? The levels are so boring and empty." And as a young kid who loved FPS at that age, I loved the idea of going to a whole different alien world. The idea of going to the alien's world (which I would realize it was the border world) was so cool to me. Seeing how they would operate in the factory and actually fight their leader was such a cool ending for me.

I loved the ending of Half-Life 2 too but as a kid, I wished we could of gone to the Combine's world similarly. As an adult, I am cool with HL2 ending now.

I still do love the Xen levels, even though they were rushed during the most stressful point of the game's development.

Do anyone else enjoy the Xen levels? They are not perfect or not the best part by any means but I still enjoy them. Love the atmosphere and tone and the final boss is honestly great to me still.

i cant find my save files that i made like 2 months ago, the game also shows old ones. please help the one it didn't delete is only 4 hours into and I've made 12 hours of progress on my last one

Hi, I'm playing Half Life 2 chaos mode and I wanna play the whole game shooting grenades instead of bullets :D :D it's fun as hell but in the chapters of the game where Alyx or Barney are your companions you have to keep an eye on them the whole time, because that many explosions at once can kill them so it's way less funny. Is there any way to make them invulnerable? Or are there some console commands that can make specific npcs resistent to any kind damage? Thank you :)

1 or 2 (rare and rarest specimen) as a reference to the gnome in EP2? Sure

One for bringing that one gas canister to the gonarch's layer? A bit much, but you at least don't have to carry it around ALL the time because of that one teleporter

But carrying a pizza box to the end of the game as well? Bro come on 😭 that hitbox is so janky and you have to bring it to the end of the game as well. Straight up torture lmao

Picture this: Rather than sending in the HECU to massacre the country's brightest minds and destroy a multi-billion dollar research facility, the U.S. government attempts to actually evacuate their scientists and use their knowledge of the facility to try and stop the alien invasion. How would this change the original invasion as we see it in HL1?

In my opinion, the story's over way quicker obviously. HECU arrive, their takeover of the facility meets no resistance since the guards aren't fighting back now, Gordon Freeman is probably escorted to the Lambda facility along with any other scientists trained to use HEV suits. The invasion is over by the time Apprehension would be taking place.

And then, you know, the Combine invade and literally nothing changes by the time Half Life 2 rolls around except that Freeman has slightly less PTSD.