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Play Half-Life in the Browser

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Re: Play Half-Life in the Browser

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Post by Agentlien »

protoster wrote: post #4

Some browsers will not be able to run the game correctly. If this happens, use Firefox instead. Now that made me do a double take.

I tried it in Chrome and it just worked. The mouse position was off but that could be worked around. Once past the menu everything worked very well.

Re: Play Half-Life in the Browser

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Post by antihero »

Agentlien wrote: post #22
protoster wrote: post #4

Some browsers will not be able to run the game correctly. If this happens, use Firefox instead. Now that made me do a double take.

I tried it in Chrome and it just worked. The mouse position was off but that could be worked around. Once past the menu everything worked very well.

Tried Hazard Course on iOS Safari and although I couldn't do anything, it loaded and rendered the level

Re: Play Half-Life in the Browser

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Post by MayeulC »

ironhaven wrote: post #6

If you want try out some real gameplay, before you launch select "hazardcourse" in the dropdown menu and click "new game" from the in-game main menu.

Works extremely well, until I try crouch-jumping (space-ctrl-W). Firefox interprets this as ctrl-w and asks me if I want to close the tab (and the mouse pointer doesn't get re-confined again).

I'm not even using a QWERTY layout, so I have to contort to press W... It's a common issue with US-made games.

Re: Play Half-Life in the Browser

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Post by jafoi »

ironhaven wrote: post #6

If you want try out some real gameplay, before you launch select "hazardcourse" in the dropdown menu and click "new game" from the in-game main menu.

There is also "uplink", which is Half-Life: Uplink, the demo of the game. Those are several levels that were originally part of the retail game but were cut and then used as a demo.

Re: Play Half-Life in the Browser

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Post by jacobmischka »

antmldr wrote: post #19
mbawg wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I tried all the browsers. Wasn't able to start the game in any of 'em.

Make sure you're trying to get into the game mode you downloaded when prompted with "Select game data source" - if it was HLDM, only multiplayer is going to work.

Thanks! I was confused by the UI and what all the options meant (took me a while to even see the "Launch!" button you need to press).

Re: Play Half-Life in the Browser

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Post by chupasaurus »

MayeulC wrote: post #24
ironhaven wrote: post #6

If you want try out some real gameplay, before you launch select "hazardcourse" in the dropdown menu and click "new game" from the in-game main menu.

Works extremely well, until I try crouch-jumping (space-ctrl-W). Firefox interprets this as ctrl-w and asks me if I want to close the tab (and the mouse pointer doesn't get re-confined again). I'm not even using a QWERTY layout, so I have to contort to press W... It's a common issue with US-made games.

And OS maybe, had no problems on KDE.
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