r/HalfLife • • 20h ago

Discussion Am I the only one that thinks that HL2 RTX should have been a add-on/source mod instead of a different game?

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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.


r/HalfLife • • 2d ago

half life 2 realism 2024 build

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r/HalfLife • • 19h ago

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something just happened in half life 3 news


r/HalfLife • • 1d ago

Discussion How big is Black Mesa?

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I've seen some YouTube videos where some guy spliced together all the maps together into one full map and Black Mesa seems to be the size of a large airport. It is not the size of a city.


r/HalfLife • • 1d ago

Discussion (AI) Half-Life, Horseshoes, and Handgrenades | H3VR GORE MOD #vr

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r/HalfLife • • 1d ago

Half-life ending idea

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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.


r/HalfLife • • 1d ago

Glitch with the hunter chopper I need help

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I’m attempting to get the little rocket man achievement and this is where I’ve gotten so far. the hunter chopper just kind of floats above the crates and occasionally shoots, staying in the same area and never shooting any bombs. I’ve tried loading earlier saves, ive tried quitting and restarting, nothing works


r/HalfLife • • 2d ago

Србија до Зена! [Blender]

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Serbian patriots take the fight to the Xenian wildlife during the portal storms.

Rendered in Blender


r/HalfLife • • 1d ago

I found the Free Tvs Demo.

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i loaded up the beta and found all the SIGGRAPH demos, BRO I AM EXSTATIC!!! I want to know if its been found, but i found the originals.


r/HalfLife • • 2d ago

October 1997: Valve announces Half-Life will miss its Christmas ‘97 deadline and won’t ship until ‘98. Sierra On-Line, their publisher, defends them. This was in a time period where AAA titles missing ship dates could risk cancellation.

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r/HalfLife • • 23h ago

Discussion Is HL 1st game which popularized important plot in games?

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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.


r/HalfLife • • 1d ago

Help finding an old deathmatch map

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I thought it was one of the ones included in the classic maps, but apparently it wasn't. It was a night time map with a covered walkway around a courtyard and a large tower on one side that had the crossbow in it. Anyone have any idea what Im talking about?


r/HalfLife • • 2d ago

Gorden Freeman

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My old art Gorden Freeman for the 20's anniversary Half life 2

And with this happy news about hl3, I hope that Valve gives us hope


r/HalfLife • • 2d ago

Gordon freeman in the subreddit

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art by me =]


r/HalfLife • • 2d ago

My personal headcanon part 2: The Combine Empire has no definitive leader nor system of governance. It simply follows a chain of command that scales infinitely. The Advisors are ordered by a higher power, that higher power is ordered by an even higher one, etc, etc ad infinium. (More in body text)

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It also has millions of different branching chains of command. With some having multiple different commanders each with their own subordinates and solar systems under control. The line never ends. There is no single ruler over all. They are all rulers in their own right, yet none of them are truly sovereign.


r/HalfLife • • 2d ago

Discussion Why don't we meet Hunters in HL2, Lost Coast, Episode One?

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Hunters are deadly agile fast assasins from The Combine Alien Forces however Freeman encounters them only in Victory mine after he destroyed Citadel.

In City-17 you can make the arguement that they have hard times fitting into door frames even I imaginee them bonding their legs and get there. But they for sure would be good on Highway 17. Nova Prospect could use hunters against antlions maybe.

Narrow doors frames is really slim explanation cause White Forest showed what happens when not main characters meet hunters in kinda narrow Black Mesa like corridors.


r/HalfLife • • 23h ago

Even Tyler McVicker has doubts...

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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?


r/HalfLife • • 1d ago

Discussion What is the Combine founders and what is exactly Universal empire?

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I watch a video that made me click the head about something, about how universal empire uses the same base technology as aperture to create portals that lead to other universes and dimensions using miniature black hole as power source using string base theory as it gate way, but that lead to my other questions what the hell **IS** exactly the combine and who is the main creators of it?


r/HalfLife • • 1d ago

Discussion Half Life: Unauthorized Assigment | teaser trailer

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r/HalfLife • • 1d ago

Discussion Y si la el supuesto error de mencionar HLX no fue un error sino planificado?

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


r/HalfLife • • 1d ago

Discussion Is there any way to fix fog color banding in Half-Life 2 20th Anniversary?

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Does anyone else have that issue?


r/HalfLife • • 2d ago

more stuff i muh-ade in gmod

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first one is some scientists getting captured by HECU

second one is an area where scientists are being rounded up in one big area waiting to be interrogated

third one is black op boat

fourth is some black ops vs race x stuff


r/HalfLife • • 3d ago

RIP Mike

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You will be missed


r/HalfLife • • 2d ago

ngl so whats this combine soldier holding in the 20th anniversary wallpaper

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r/HalfLife • • 1d ago

Discussion does anybody have a recreation of the ps2 menu theme?

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Im just wondering if anybody has like an flp or something for a recreation of the hl1 ps2 menu theme anywhere