Half-Life News

• Fixes for joining games through invites and Steam friends list.
  
• Miscellaneous UI fixes for Dedicated Servers.
  
• Fixed an occasional crash when opening the scoreboard.
  
• Fixed camera movement after death in multiplayer.
  
• Fixed crash when creating a server if the server creator's Steam name was entirely non-ASCII characters.
  

• Fixed crash when modifying certain video settings in a multiplayer match.
  
• Fixed server browser issues after modifying video settings.
  
• Fixed local player not showing up in player count on a listen server using Steam Networking.
  
• Fixed rare corrupted lighting rendering bug in some maps.
  

• Fixed lighting rendering issues on some AMD GPUs.
  
• Fixed mods with their own localization files not loading default strings from updated localization files in Half-Life.
  
• Fixed one dying scientist in Half-Life: Uplink saying incorrect dialogue.
  
• Added "Use shaders" checkbox for the video options. Servers can over-ride this setting with sv_allow_shaders.
  
• Fixed weapons with secondary ammo (like the MP5) not being deployable if there is no primary ammo remaining.
  
• Miscellaneous Steam Networking fixes.
  
• The Half-Life dedicated server application (app 90) has been updated with latest server code and updated windows and linux binaries. Updating dedicated servers is recommended.
  

Half-Life recently received a big update to celebrate its 25th birthday, but a significant bug remained. In a famous scripted sequence during which a long, green tentacle busts through a window and drags away a scientist, the scientist and the tentacle would be mis-aligned, making it look like the scientist floated out of the window of his own volition.

Not anymore. After over twenty years, Valve programmer Ben Burbank has fixed the bug - and explained how he did it.

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