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Opposing Force is quietly one of the best Half-Life games. I like the simplicity of Blue Shift. On the contrary, the overarching plot and the action set pieces of the Half-Life 2 saga still feel fresh 20 years later. Alyx has the tech. The original Half-Life is the original Half-Life. But Adrian Shephard's story is the funniest, the most spectacular, and it has an M249 SAW gun. We haven't seen or heard from the unfortunate HECU corporal since 1999, but now, at last, he's coming back. A complete Half-Life Opposing Force remake has just been revealed, and it looks just as thorough and professional as Crowbar Collective's Black Mesa.

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New Half-Life Blue Shift remake is way bigger than the original and playable now

The Half-Life Blue Shift remake, built using Black Mesa, is finally back

'New' version of Half-Life discovered with cut content and secrets

Given how much time has passed since Gordon Freeman first rode the automated transit system into our hearts, I think we're all comfortable now with admitting one unassailable truth: every single moment spent in the original version of Xen is a nightmare. Half-Life 2 is 20 years old. Valve has marked the occasion with a revised and tweaked version of the FPS. But historically, it's modders who have fixed the very worst part of the iconic shooter series, first in the superlative Black Mesa, and now in its spiritual successor. An unofficial remake of Half-Life Blue Shift is available to play right now, and it's just gotten a new chapter that makes Barney's excursion into the alien border world actually enjoyable.

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Short, grounded, and with regular beer-owing guy Barney as its hero, Blue Shift could be my favorite Half-Life game. Half-Life 1 gets points for originality. Half-Life 2 has excellent set pieces in the form of City 17, the coastal road trip, and Ravenholm. But Blue Shift - like Opposing Force - is so tight and focused, and rounds out the resonance cascade story so well, that I think it takes the metaphorical crowbar. As HL2 gets closer to its 20th anniversary, the idea of a Half-Life 3 feels both closer and further away than ever. Valve might be keeping quiet about the future of its FPS, but modders are hard at work. The unofficial Half-Life Blue Shift remake, built using the fan-made masterpiece Black Mesa, is finally coming back.

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• Fixed HLTV startup crashes and incompatibility with 25th anniversary maps.
  
• Fixed memory leak that caused a crash after repeatedly changing brightness or gamma.
  
• Enabled /LARGEADDRESSAWARE to support mods with large memory requirements..
  
• Miscellaneous mod compatibility fixes.
  
• Miscellaneous security fixes.