Half-Life 2 News

Half-Life 2: Remastered Collection coming from modders with Valve's consent

Fans of Valve's iconic Half-Life series were excited to spot the sudden appearance of Half-Life 2: Remastered Collection on Steam this week. While sadly not an official Valve product, it is in fact the next version of the excellent Half-Life 2: Update mod from the same team - which will presumably include all the Episode DLC too.

Half-Life 2: Update initially launched in 2015 from community member and modder Filip Victor, and was good enough to get its own Steam page and support from Valve. It featured a complete overhaul of the game's lighting system, new particle and fog effects, many bug fixes, and even a fun Community Commentary Mode - all without sacrificing Half-Life 2's visual look.

Filip Victor's next project is this new Half-Life 2: Remastered Collection, which was spotted on SteamDB and sounds like it was originally meant to just be a major patch for Half-Life 2: Update that incorporated Valve's two episodic expansions. Presumably, the creator has decided the update is big enough to justify its own standalone release, and it'll apparently put the previous Update "to shame".

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Half-Life 2: Remastered Collection coming from the team behind Half-Life 2: Update

With Valve's blessing, it seems the Half-Life 2 series is getting a full update from the team that made Half-Life 2: Update in the form of the Half-Life 2: Remastered Collection.

Read the full article here: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2021/07/half-life-2-remastered-collection-coming-from-the-team-behind-half-life-2-update

Here's all of Half-Life 2 loaded at once in someone's browser

Ever wanted to see what Half-Life 2's levels look like stitched together as one, continuous path? Noclip.website creator Jasper has you covered, using the web-based map viewer to put together a full picture of City 17...
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Check out every Half-Life 2 level lined up together as one mega map

If you're not familiar with Noclip (the website, not the documentaries), I have a treat for you. Coded and maintained by creator "Jasper", Noclip.website contains versions of game levels that you can fly around in 3D to take a closer peek at. The site features a heck of a lot of Nintendo games (and some Dark Souls), but Jasper has also shared a bit of toying with Half-Life 2's levels. They've recently stitched together (almost) all of HL2's levels to do a bit of a flythrough showing off how they look all lined up in space together. Surprisingly decent, it turns out.

When visiting City 17, don't forget to check out the Citadel. You can't miss it: it's a massive black alien structure in the center of the city, looming over the remnants of the human race with Dr. Breen's cozy office occupying the top floor. Half-Life 2 begins at the foot of the Citadel and ends on its roof, with a slight detour to everywhere else in between...
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