Listen man I love Valve but those people are lazy at updating their games too, the map going fullbright if you played without hdr and missing was plagued since 2010 until now finally being fixed.
@@myblaonga not only that, but valve updating their games have actually caused to make them worse in some cases. Just look at how Steamworks updates made HL:Source rot into an unrecognisable mess before it was put down.
Why is it that people cant have fun with one thing without trying to put another thing down? you obviously dont really enjoy something if the only way to find joy with it is to complain about something else
Dont you know, the developers of Left 4 dead and left 4 dead 2 were fired so they made a game themselves called "back 4 blood", you can say it is left 4 dead 3 , try it
@@kadamboysultanmuratov2929 the people behind back 4 blood didnt make left 4 dead, most of the main dev team where valve, they just helped a bit. back 4 blood was shit at launch anyways
@@kadamboysultanmuratov2929 lol right sureeeeeee definitely a left 4 dead game that loves saying they made l4d and has zero players or any quality and even broke their promises is a left 4 dead game sure man sure.
Valve: our 20 years old game is so dear to us, we will update it and give it free to anyone who don't play it yet. While other game companies: our games is 20 years old? Well time to put it down, never to be touch again. Nobody get to play this shit no more
I played a HL2DM server for like ten years until everyone got bored and left. Makes me sad to think about. I can't believe they would remove the yo-yo! Bad move.
Edit/Disclaimer: Water CS2, this comment is not intended to spread hate or shunt your videos or content. This is supposed to be constructive criticism which you can take or not, your choice. I'm just a guy who voices his opinion on things and tries to maybe help you make your future videos better by pointing out things I believe to be incorrect and so on. No hate but dude, you're reading patch notes from the screen and keep using the wrong words. Like "props" instead of what Valve wrote, "pops". I mean come on... that's early Tyler McVicker videos level of misreading stuff out loud multiple times and mixing up context. Just saying..
@@SanAntonioJoker nah this is just me. I just don't like it when someone puts misinformation out, or reads things out of context. Not that this video's creator does it by intention, not at all, but at least re-watch your video before releasing? Also he read the whole release notes and missed some fixes/changes during the readout. Then why read everything at all? A simple "link's in the description if you want to read the whole thing yourself" would suffice to 99% of the audience, and they would receive the actual, correct information, plus the guy would still get his clicks. But since TikTok (or Tyler?), people seem to not care about the information presented being legit or not anymore.
This is why Valve is the best gaming devs out there. They’re fixing a game and adding commentary as a bonus. Remasters these days charging for full freaking price just to add new lighting and calling it a day.
finally workshop support i dont need to go through the trouble of figuring out where tf to drop my files and thank god they havent completely unlisted the episodes cs2's release completely screwed me over when it came to mounting csgo
@@foto-nio2913 and any other company would do absolutely nothing at all. but I guess there's always something to complain about when you're miserable in life
Valve coming back and updating HL2 like this is the same thing as when running with scissors came back and updated Postal 2 to be the masterpiece that it is today.
Updating 25 and 20 y.o. games as love letter to fans, and making it free givaway instead of putting "absolute legendary definitive omega edition" and selling it for more than original game cost. Valve just know that keeping their players happy would profit way more than quick cashgrab to make investors pleased in the next quarter. Benefits of being private company.
You can't click on the titles on the menu to make them disappear anymore ! They broke the game... anyway on the website the 13th phone wallpaper isn't present for some reason, but its url still exists.
still kinda sad they didnt fix some of the oldest bugs in the game like the 9mm not ejecting casings, music just stopping when you go to the next map (which doesn't happen even in HL1) and minor but noticeable stuff like bullet wounds disappearing when you shine your flashlight at them
I held off on buying Half Life 2 because I knew it'd be free on 20th anniversary. I got Half Life 1 for free last November, as well I can't wait to finally experience HL2 for the first time on my Steam Deck OLED! :D
Honestly pretty underwhelming. I was hoping we would get more like the beta version of the day. This just seems to be a bunch of quality of life improvements which is cool and all but not enough to make me want to revisit the game for a thousandth time lol. I’ll wait for the RTX version aswell
@@jacobross735 not sure if you played the original 2004 version but Valve backporting stuff from the original release is huge! It's simple things, but huge things nonetheless. Why would they release "beta" content if 1) they never thought of it as "beta" content and 2) there's literally nothing you can do with that content. It's just internal playtest or tech demo content. That would be like them releasing the full beta version of HL1, which although it being a real beta version, there would be no "real" content. What would be the benefit to them or the players? Nobody would seriously play that game or love its content.
@@jacobross735 why would they rehash content that was scrapped for design and feasibility reasons, while also having not one, but several fan projects that either fix the leaked builds or polish a certain era of beta (RTBR, Dark Interval) without actually changing what HL2 is? I'd be pretty pissed if suddenly retail hl2 crammed in random beta stuff for the sake of it being there
@@jacobross735beta nerds are so annoying… it’s out there if you want to play it. Valve would absolutely never release the scrapped builds. Any company would be stupid to release scrapped code and assets. They were scrapped for very good reasons!
The fact that the got the OG team back together to record commentary is so dope to me. Those are some devs with passion, right there. Based Valve, never stop winning.
its crazy to think that a game made 20 years ago now still gets updates, thats like taking your victory trophy and just polishing it every 5 minutes even though its already shining after the 5th coat
I'm hyped for the developer content. With 36 years I have spent a considerable amount of my youth and adult life in source engine games. HL 1 has been my all time favorite game but with the commentary, I will self evidently play through hl2 and the episodes again!
I was playing episode 1 and 2 today and when I paused, I was confused for a minute because usually the music still plays even when the game is paused. funny how that got fixed in this update lol.
@@cheebadigga4092 thing is you can still launch them from a "big green button on Steam" to keep episodic content compatible with sourcemods and the likes, it's just in the tools section now so this guy is just complaining over a non-issue
Might for a day but honestly the workshop support is going make modding easier so don’t sweat about it, besides if it does just do the half life update mmod, it’s honestly how I play the game.
Finally... full life
Full Life 2: Electric Noogalio
almost life 2: the ballad of the g-mans
Consequences will never be the same
RUDE JACK ART ITS YOU
Half life + half life 2 = full life now ( 25th ann for original and the now new anniversary for the sequel )
Activision: Stop updating games after 2 years.
Valve: Continue updating 20 year old game.
Listen man I love Valve but those people are lazy at updating their games too, the map going fullbright if you played without hdr and missing was plagued since 2010 until now finally being fixed.
@@myblaonga not only that, but valve updating their games have actually caused to make them worse in some cases.
Just look at how Steamworks updates made HL:Source rot into an unrecognisable mess before it was put down.
@@ThatOneDudeWhoPostsStuff HL Source was never good
Counter strike is updated mote often
"updates a game 20 years later everyone loses their minds"
Do you see this, Bethesda? Fix your old fuckin' games.
Just give up on Bethesda already
"It just works"
nah the unofficial patches are better than what bethesda woud do
Bethesda is just like Rockstar and Take Two as a whole. They shit on the classic games they made themselves in the name of greed.
Why is it that people cant have fun with one thing without trying to put another thing down? you obviously dont really enjoy something if the only way to find joy with it is to complain about something else
HL1 anniversary : kill headcrab in website
HL2 anniversary : ruinning the website
Rasising the bar with that
What are you yapping about
HL Alyx anniversary: browse the website using VR
@@rei3951okay this was a good one
Seeing this activity from Valve for Half Life 2 and 3 I am hopeful for the Left 4 Dead Franchise one day to revolve/update to modern day.
I'm sure it already has what it needed with The Last Stand update
Did you forget about The Last Stand update?
Dont you know, the developers of Left 4 dead and left 4 dead 2 were fired so they made a game themselves called "back 4 blood", you can say it is left 4 dead 3 , try it
@@kadamboysultanmuratov2929 the people behind back 4 blood didnt make left 4 dead, most of the main dev team where valve, they just helped a bit. back 4 blood was shit at launch anyways
@@kadamboysultanmuratov2929 lol right sureeeeeee definitely a left 4 dead game that loves saying they made l4d and has zero players or any quality and even broke their promises is a left 4 dead game sure man sure.
"FREE CRAP!"
- Scout TF2
Valve: our 20 years old game is so dear to us, we will update it and give it free to anyone who don't play it yet.
While other game companies: our games is 20 years old? Well time to put it down, never to be touch again. Nobody get to play this shit no more
Fr
Looking at you Sega
Nintendo lol
Also activision: raises the price of their 20 year old game to 40$
I wish I could get Minecraft for free😢
I played a HL2DM server for like ten years until everyone got bored and left. Makes me sad to think about. I can't believe they would remove the yo-yo! Bad move.
Same man i have like 600 hours on anitalink dm runoff that shit was 🔥
Made so many friends yeah like 12 years ago through HL2DM and other source mods. Maybe I should fire this up again sometime.
@@laroeteI loved Anitalink. Is there no revival?
@ i don’t know, haven’t had time to Google stuff yet since the rerelease
Finally got half life 2!
Half Life 4 ?!
Sadly the episodes are broken for the German version, only getting an engine error
Thats sucks, i hope they notice fix it
I love being an American
I also got a Crash in hl2 commentary mode when I got in the elevator with Alyx. It didn't happen again on a relaunch though.
@@DATBOI-n9t me fr
@@DATBOI-n9tAmericans 3 - Germans 0
Edit/Disclaimer: Water CS2, this comment is not intended to spread hate or shunt your videos or content. This is supposed to be constructive criticism which you can take or not, your choice. I'm just a guy who voices his opinion on things and tries to maybe help you make your future videos better by pointing out things I believe to be incorrect and so on.
No hate but dude, you're reading patch notes from the screen and keep using the wrong words. Like "props" instead of what Valve wrote, "pops". I mean come on... that's early Tyler McVicker videos level of misreading stuff out loud multiple times and mixing up context. Just saying..
the source community's finest
🤓☝️
@@SanAntonioJoker nah this is just me. I just don't like it when someone puts misinformation out, or reads things out of context. Not that this video's creator does it by intention, not at all, but at least re-watch your video before releasing? Also he read the whole release notes and missed some fixes/changes during the readout. Then why read everything at all? A simple "link's in the description if you want to read the whole thing yourself" would suffice to 99% of the audience, and they would receive the actual, correct information, plus the guy would still get his clicks. But since TikTok (or Tyler?), people seem to not care about the information presented being legit or not anymore.
@@cheebadigga4092 nobody reading allat
@@cheebadigga4092 Shut up nerd
Half Life is one of a kind. So much love and detail is given to it.
i finally got hl2. officially
Haha same. Played the pirated version so far years back
Now I get to play it officially
me too
I remember being completely blown away by that E3 2003 demo, shakey cam and all.
And this'll run on my 486?
That physics demo was crazy. The shakey off screen camera made the game look photorealistic.
This is why Valve is the best gaming devs out there. They’re fixing a game and adding commentary as a bonus. Remasters these days charging for full freaking price just to add new lighting and calling it a day.
Valve still has its problems though
But they're getting better and better every day @@foto-nio2913
they print money so they can afford to do this stuff for free, but yeah, still nice for us.
They should have added the Multiplayer (HL2: DM) to the menu as well, it's a shame it's missing as it was a ton of fun.
finally workshop support
i dont need to go through the trouble of figuring out where tf to drop my files
and thank god they havent completely unlisted the episodes
cs2's release completely screwed me over when it came to mounting csgo
Valve fixing TF2 and Half Life 2, this is a company that actually cares about their games
No they don't, they only do it for us to shut up
@@foto-nio2913 and any other company would do absolutely nothing at all. but I guess there's always something to complain about when you're miserable in life
@@foto-nio2913 ok Mr tinfoil mcmiserable
I still have the Krystal mod on my game, still great
Same. Love that mod. It's very well done
nice
Noice
Person of culture🍷
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So... They still didn't fix that damn cursed harpoon that was broken forever ago? Well, I guess it was never meant to be
Broken harpoon are canon event
The madlads actually put the entire saga together
Orange box 2024
Valve coming back and updating HL2 like this is the same thing as when running with scissors came back and updated Postal 2 to be the masterpiece that it is today.
Updating 25 and 20 y.o. games as love letter to fans, and making it free givaway instead of putting "absolute legendary definitive omega edition" and selling it for more than original game cost. Valve just know that keeping their players happy would profit way more than quick cashgrab to make investors pleased in the next quarter. Benefits of being private company.
i lost my achievements for the episodes, once they made everything as one game
me too... man, what a piece of crap... i'm in rage right now..
just update and go in-game, you'll get all achievements back...
Bruh
Launch the game you'll get them back
i think you can go back to the steam_legacy version
for any hl2 fan who has sat in nearly 15+ years of obscurity this is a godsend
Took a note from halo digsite I love it
You can't click on the titles on the menu to make them disappear anymore ! They broke the game... anyway on the website the 13th phone wallpaper isn't present for some reason, but its url still exists.
still kinda sad they didnt fix some of the oldest bugs in the game like the 9mm not ejecting casings, music just stopping when you go to the next map (which doesn't happen even in HL1) and minor but noticeable stuff like bullet wounds disappearing when you shine your flashlight at them
They did fix the music stopping, he just didn't read it
I held off on buying Half Life 2 because I knew it'd be free on 20th anniversary. I got Half Life 1 for free last November, as well
I can't wait to finally experience HL2 for the first time on my Steam Deck OLED! :D
It is free?
Oh hell yeah, it's time to replay all of it
I'm gonna be waiting for the RTX version.
Honestly pretty underwhelming. I was hoping we would get more like the beta version of the day. This just seems to be a bunch of quality of life improvements which is cool and all but not enough to make me want to revisit the game for a thousandth time lol. I’ll wait for the RTX version aswell
@@jacobross735 not sure if you played the original 2004 version but Valve backporting stuff from the original release is huge! It's simple things, but huge things nonetheless. Why would they release "beta" content if 1) they never thought of it as "beta" content and 2) there's literally nothing you can do with that content. It's just internal playtest or tech demo content. That would be like them releasing the full beta version of HL1, which although it being a real beta version, there would be no "real" content. What would be the benefit to them or the players? Nobody would seriously play that game or love its content.
@@jacobross735 why would they rehash content that was scrapped for design and feasibility reasons, while also having not one, but several fan projects that either fix the leaked builds or polish a certain era of beta (RTBR, Dark Interval) without actually changing what HL2 is? I'd be pretty pissed if suddenly retail hl2 crammed in random beta stuff for the sake of it being there
@@jacobross735beta nerds are so annoying… it’s out there if you want to play it. Valve would absolutely never release the scrapped builds. Any company would be stupid to release scrapped code and assets. They were scrapped for very good reasons!
4:22 best comeback of the year
the valve's anniversary patches are soo good that I'm already hyped up for the 20th anniversary of tf2
An update?! Finally!
HL2 AND L4D2 updates what a time to live
they updated l4d2 ? i thought it was just a free weekend
I lost my Episode 1 and 2 achievements though
the damn grub hunt one is gonna suck hard
Just seen the documentary, amazing, how open and everything they included. Greatest game of all time.
love how open they are getting about the cut content and getting concept art shown to people, i wish more devs were able to do this Kind of thing
IM SO EXCITED HAPPY HAHHWBEBE
FREE TV!! GET YOUR FREE TV!!
The fact that the got the OG team back together to record commentary is so dope to me. Those are some devs with passion, right there. Based Valve, never stop winning.
its crazy to think that a game made 20 years ago now still gets updates, thats like taking your victory trophy and just polishing it every 5 minutes even though its already shining after the 5th coat
We have risen and shined 20 years ago.
I'm hyped for the developer content. With 36 years I have spent a considerable amount of my youth and adult life in source engine games. HL 1 has been my all time favorite game but with the commentary, I will self evidently play through hl2 and the episodes again!
I honestly understand why they never fully released the episode 3. Glad they did this great anniversary documentary.
Hehe added it to two of my libraries alr3ady
Same, but no regret!
Half life 3 confirmed?
@@ishipcrimsonandcerluean nope... but its getting warmer...
Gordon freeman still cant talk😔🙏🏻
Me
Id like to hear the new audio as a video
Valve making the game free for a limited time is so generous
It’s free to own
@@NormalHuman2004for a limited time. i.e: this weekend
@@supersonic20091 nah, you can get it for free for unlimited time, the same way as they did on the half life 1 anniversary
@kachsonek Nah. You have until Nov 18 to claim it, then it won't be free anymore.
ik but for a couple days
it would've been nice to see half life 2 on consoles again for the anniversary
Really wish they realsed those old builds as playable demos or just dumped the files on the internet for modders and mappers to make content out of.
If HL2: Ep1 and HL2: Ep2 are included in Half-Life 2, how would this affect Garry's Mod?
I was playing episode 1 and 2 today and when I paused, I was confused for a minute because usually the music still plays even when the game is paused. funny how that got fixed in this update lol.
I wish if they added adaptive trigger support.
bro thank you for reminding me that valve actually made the game free til nov, just "bought" it in time rq.
THIS, IS HOW YOU SHOW LOVE TO A GAME.
I never thought I would see the day of hl2 getting a workshop
They didn’t fix AR2 😅 Gordon still holds it with one hand 💪🏻
4:51 added what .5 hours of gameplay
Holy fuck
Half life is gmod now
>increased lightmap resolution
omg. does this mean the baked shadows are less blocky now?
I almost forget about hl2 anniversary and missed out on the greatest deal. Good thing the algorithm recommended me the free tv video by valve
And it also a good thing that i wait and not purchasing the game earlier
Im looking forward to playing though it again but im gonna wait for the RTX Remix version to release.
One day we’ll get Portal and Tf2 20th anniversary editions
TF1 anniversary didn't happen and you expect TF2 lol.
Compared to this Activision is still selling Cod 1 that came 20 years ago at a fantastic price of $30.
EActivision.😅
Finally.
Something that my steam walket can handle.
I love this update, though, I wish the episodes were still separate downloads. I paid for them as games NOT tools....
If you already own them they are still launchable just like they were before
How is an in-game button that launches specific content different from having a big green button on Steam that launches specific content?!
brainless take when it comes to the episodes
@@cheebadigga4092 thing is you can still launch them from a "big green button on Steam" to keep episodic content compatible with sourcemods and the likes, it's just in the tools section now so this guy is just complaining over a non-issue
@@cheebadigga4092 because now they put the episodic content inside HL2 yet the store pages of the episodes still exist
After 20 years, it was worth the weight
Happy birthday to you happy birthday to you happy birthday dear half-life 2 happy birthday to you
I’m gonna finally do a Half-Lifethon
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Heya quick question, i saw that hl2 is free rn. Does this include the episodes?
all the episodes are included in the base halflife 2 now, including lost coast!
everything
@@InitialAADeathmatch?
I wish games like Sonic adventure, Splinter Cell would receive such love like Half-Life
Re-releasing all those demos is amazing
This is a big day for us gamers.
Was they counted as a bug a worsened ep1 pc effects they did in time of console ep1 release? Especially gravi vortex in citadel beginning.
Now, we love Gabe again!
Yup, this wrinkles my brain.
HL3 is getting warmer guys 😘😘
Keep dreaming buddy
The dev commentary is great getting off the train at the start and gay ben is there to talk to me
I hope to See a portal 2 rtx remaster in the near future, it still looks great to this day but all the New effects could make it look like a 2016 game
"The commentary was from the original Half-Life 2 team, as *_they got them back together_* to record these tracks." * wink wink *
Wait so green eye gman isn't canon?
stop worrying about canonicity mate just play the game
can we make the crosshair larger?
I wonder what all this means for the hl2vr mods.
Will they become one single game launcher? will workshop content work?
i found the video that valve doped the blurb that the G man seas is in Vortigese
Would you please talk about the dev comments, like maybe upload video of did you say you could give the audio files? Thanks!
Does this conflict with downloading MMod and such you think?
Might for a day but honestly the workshop support is going make modding easier so don’t sweat about it, besides if it does just do the half life update mmod, it’s honestly how I play the game.
@ gotcha, appreciate it
@@HeinzenHistory What about HL2 update?
All these updates and they still didn't update the engine to render on Vulkan or DX11/12. Missed opportunity.
I was wonder if they would do that. Maybe another time.
It's source 1, i don't think it will ever support it
@@ickydev Unless they let you launch it and click Source 1 or Source 2 engines.
The final version of dx 11 would actually be good as it is heavily threaded
is the half life 2 20th anniversary included with half life 2 rtx on steam store? or i need to wait half life 2 rtx release?
Meanwhile, I'm stuck with The Orange Box. At least is as good as it always was I guess.
-fix the game
-gave it for free
praise lord GabeN
cant wait for DeSinc video on it
Thanks bro for reading all updates😅
I play now some of the game and I feel they did rebalanced guns and redone some enemies locations, am I tripin?
Does if make community “HL2 update” obsolete?
Very excited. Hope they do this with portal i want the still alive map pack officially on pc
Well, looks like I'm playing HL2 again!
We got a half life 2 update before GTA 6 wow
I got a bug where loading campaign maps through the console prints an error that their not valid BSP files
I'm defenetly gonna get the cut beta Units and models Downloaded from the workshop
I was hopeing for giving us half life beta stuff files.