Half-Life 2 is getting a huge 20th anniversary update

Half-Life 2 is getting a major update successful solemnisation of the classical title’s 20th anniversary. In summation to Steam Workshop enactment straight wrong the game, Valve has fixed bugs and restored immoderate content, added caller graphics settings, updated gamepad controls, and a full batch more. You’ll besides beryllium capable to get the crippled for escaped on Steam for escaped done November 18th astatine 1PM ET. After that, it volition outgo $9.99.

Valve is besides present including the Episode One and Episode Two expansions with the basal game. They’ll beryllium accessible from the Half-Life 2 menu, and Valve says that “you volition automatically beforehand to the adjacent enlargement aft completing each one.” You’ll besides beryllium capable to entree the Steam Workshop wrong the Extras menu, which means you’ll nary longer person to permission the crippled to alteration mods.

Valve says it besides made monolithic updates to Half-Life 2’s maps, which volition hole “longstanding bugs, reconstruct contented and features mislaid to time, and amended the prime of a fewer things similar lightmap solution and fog.” There’s a caller enactment to play with the archetypal motorboat time humor and occurrence effects arsenic well, and Valve has updated Half-Life 2’s gamepad controls to “match” last year’s Half-Life 1 day update. Valve added 3.5 hours of caller developer commentary wrong the game, too.

Like with past year’s 25th day solemnisation for the archetypal Half-Life, Valve has besides released a escaped 20th day documentary astir Half-Life 2 that you tin watch for escaped connected YouTube. Here’s what you tin expect, according to the documentary’s YouTube description: “we’ve gotten members of the HL2 squad backmost to speech astir the game’s development, however we astir ran retired of money, what it was similar erstwhile we were hacked, what happened erstwhile we were sued by our publisher, the birthplace of Steam, and overmuch more.”

Now however astir Half-Life 3?