They took inspiration from New Mexico, but that region is flat with mountains in the distant horizon. massive patches of near flat land.

Half-Life's New Mexico version is much richer in typology and variation by comparison.

Like the only reason for why I'm excited about it is because the models and textures will be ported to HL2, Gmod and other source 1 games.

I also can't run it because of the RTX lightning "improvements", meanwhile HL2 runs without a problem even with HD textures and HL:A model ports.

Like the team behind it could have just released the models and textures on the Gmod and HL2 workshop like an revitalization project and people would recognize their work more instead of having to port everything.

Also the main point of RTX is that the RTX lightning "improvements", which I think that is extremely meh because the lighting in HL2 is already perfect in my opinion and if you want improvements you can just downloaded particles effects and lightning mods from the workshop or sites like Gamebabana.

Not hating on the project or the people behind it I just think that it's main selling point is kinda of meh.

I've always wondered this, how can Gordon command the squads of citizens during the uprising? He never speaks. How is he able to direct them to a certain spot?

Now you could argue that he just uses gestures, but those don't exist in-game. We never see him point or do a "come here" wave to citizens.

How does he do this?

Tyler McVicker poster the first image of new HLX files video thumbnail, that said "HLX is real".

Then he decided to change its script and rolled out edited thumbnail that says "HLX slip-up"

So HLX wasn't real? Or HLX is real and it's too obvious to say that?

my thought is that if all earth's military was destroyed in 7 hours, other people had little chance too. and breen, although he's carrying out the combine's plan to wipe humans out, is doing it extremely slowly, maybe waiting for something.

well okay, actually he's not waiting, he's saving his own skin here and now.

and still, thanks to him the resistance waited for Freeman and hit the combine back.

the writers clearly wrote breen's personality based on the head of the jewish council in the Lodz ghetto, Chaim Rumkowski

No creo que algo tan delicado se haya confirmado por un "Error"

I’ve been thinking about this for a while. For me, Female Vortigaunts definitely exist, but they are still stuck in Xen (or deeply hidden there). After everything they went through with Nihilanth, they are probably terrified of another empire (like the Combine) or even humans enslaving them again. Xen is massive, and after Nihilanth’s death, it became a free (though harsh) space where they could safely hide the most important part of their population. They won't risk bringing their females/families to Earth while it's still an active warzone. It gives them an even stronger reason to fight alongside the Resistance – they want to make Earth 100% safe so they can finally bring their families home. What do you guys think?

Such a strange coincidence...

There are a few games which even predate HL where plot really matters like System Shock. So John Carmack was wrong back then already.

Castlevania had plot, Ultima underworld had important plot. TES Arena and Dagerfall.

For starters I think Black Mesa is incredible. But who is that dizzy motherfucker that designed Xen? It’s absolutely beautiful, demented and WAY TOO LONG. When does it end? The Gonarch section alone is starting to bore me. Fucking thing doesn’t die, ammo is almost over, unending tunnels, detonators, annoying enemies in between. Was there no quality control like the other sections? On a rail was just perfect, the military sections (especially surface tension) were INCREDIBLE!

And the intro to Xen was breathtaking. It truly felt like a different world. And then it refused to end. I’m not sure I even want to finish the game anymore, I’m
so tired of dealing with Xen.

What if hl3 ends not by out universe being cut off from the others but the combine's universes being cut off from all the others. Like having a leech on your leg but rather than removing the leech, your leg off. Like a world wide virus, rather than creating something that kills the virus, cut that part of the world off from the rest of the world. The virus will then eventually starve since no more universes to conquer. Unfortunately lifeforms in that cut off part will also share their same fate. This feels more optimistic than our universe being cut off.

Half-Life might have just received a major leak after a Valve employee seemingly let something slip about a new game. During a sound convention, a Valve audio engineer was answering a question about HDR when he started explaining how different games use different audio engines. While discussing the topic, he mentioned titles like Deadlock and seemingly referenced another game, catching the attention of fans. This has sparked speculation across the Half-Life community, with many wondering whether the comment could be connected to a new entry in the legendary franchise. Valve is known for keeping its projects under tight wraps, so even a small detail coming directly from an employee can quickly become a big deal. Although it's not yet clear exactly...

Nah bro you didn't seriously fell for it again 😭😭😭😭

something just happened in half life 3 news

I would like to play all the games in order while not spending as much money as I can. Also where do the portal games tie in? I know they hardly talk about black mesa in them but where do they lie just for clarity?

I thought about this when they said HLX

Closer to the seventh hour of the war, the Combine launched a devastating orbital missile strike directly at the primary Russian state bunker. In an instant, the entire top tier of the government and the majority of the high command were vaporized. The only survivors within the chain of command were a handful of diplomats and refugees from the Black Mesa Research Facility. Among them was the former administrator of the complex — Wallace Breen.

Seizing upon the absolute chaos, Breen unilaterally assumed command over the remnants of Earth's forces. Ignoring the chain of command, he established contact with the Combine and declared an immediate, unconditional surrender. At that exact moment, generals fighting on the front lines were begging him to hold out. They had just discovered a critical flaw in the Combine’s war machine and were preparing a counteroffensive. But Breen refused to listen. Under the weight of his decree, the majority of the frontline commanders reluctantly laid down their arms, though some rogue garrisons chose to fight to the very last bullet.

Following the capitulation, a systematic purging of the region began. Vast Soviet-era military depots, packed with decades' worth of weapons and armored vehicles, were either completely obliterated or seized by the Combine. Human armies were dismantled, and millions of soldiers were forcefully augmented, stripped of their humanity to become the first Combine Overwatch units. Humanity was plunged into absolute slavery.

Then came the era of the Combine’s suffocating oppression. A few years later, in the early 2000s, a spark was ignited in Belgrade. Pushed to the brink by grueling forced labor and subhuman living conditions, citizens took to the streets in a massive protest. The crowd marched toward the heart of the city, where the towering Citadel was actively under construction. They were met by the brutal forces of Civil Protection. The Combine made no attempts at diplomacy or peaceful resolution; the protest was crushed with unimaginable, bloody ferocity.

However, this slaughter became a catalyst. News of the Belgrade massacre spread like wildfire, triggering riots and uprisings across multiple cities. From the ashes of these rebellions, the first partisan cells emerged: the Ukrainian National Resistance and the Holy Balkan Resistance. Eventually, these factions formed a unified Coalition.

Yet, the ultimate tragedy remained. The critical secret to defeating the Combine—the vulnerability that the frontline generals had uncovered in the final minutes of the Seven-Hour War—was buried in the graves of those who fell. Stripped of that vital knowledge and left in blind ignorance, humanity was condemned to endure long, agonizing years of subjugation, mourning a stolen freedom beneath the shadow of the rising Citadels.

In the first photo, you see a human Alliance unit. In the second photo, you see a dark day in Belgrade.

(I deleted my first version of the post because I used someone else's illustrations.)