Half-Life News

Why Half-Life ruined videogames for me forever: a Christmas story

Sometimes it isn't just the game you're playing, it's all the surrounding factors that determine how and why you're playing the game at that exact moment. The idea that external factors might affect enjoyment levels isn't something people often concede in game criticism, nor in pub arguments, because if you admit it that judging one game against another is anything other than a scientific process, the whole house of cards falls down. Personally, every time I think about Half-Life, the greatest game I have ever and will ever play, I see that house of cards levelled in front of me.

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Half-Life update released

An update for Half-Life is now available:

Fixes and Updates

Fixed cl_autowepswitch setting not being respected after respawning
Fixed "cl_autowepswitch 1" causing the crowbar to be auto-equipped after spawning
Fixed viewdemo command crashing for certain demo files
Security fix to client disconnect handling
Security fixes to console command handling
Security fix to client/server communications
Security fix to model loading
Security fixes to BSP loading
Added "Leave game" menu option when in a single-player game to exit back to the main menu
Setting cl_autowepswitch to 2 will now enable auto weapon switching on pickup of a better weapon except when holding Primary or Seconday attack

[h3]Note: This was updated with additional changes:[/h3]

Security fix to client launching
Security fix to sound file verification

Half-Life: Absolute Zero mimics Half-Life's original vibe, run on Linux with Xash3D FWGS

The original Half-Life turned out to look and feel rather different than what originally shown before release. This fan project seeks to give players a different experience more inline with that original design.

Play Now For Free - Half-Life Series

Half-Life: Alyx is coming in March, and we are celebrating early by making all games in the Half-Life Series FREE to play for Steam users, from now until the day it launches!

If you already have Steam installed, you can click the following links to start playing now!
Half-Life
Half-Life 2
Half-Life 2: Episode One
Half-Life 2: Episode Two

If you don't have Steam, you can download it here.

Half-Life: Alyx is set before the events of Half-Life 2 and the episodes, but the games share characters and story elements. The Half-Life: Alyx team believes that the best way to enjoy the new game is to play through the old ones, especially Half-Life 2 and the episodes, so we want to make that as easy as possible.

Half-Life Update Released

A small Half-Life update is now available that fixes some issues identified after the last release.

General

Fixed mods not loading when they use certain GameDLL paths
Fixed some resources not downloading properly through FastDL
Fixed gl_texturemode and gl_ansio not updating properly when enabling/disabling Low video quality mode