Half-Life 25th Anniversary Update • Hacker News Board

Re: Half-Life 25th Anniversary Update

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Post by pynappo » Fri, Nov 17, 2023, 11:08 PM UTC

knodi wrote: post #155

madspindel wrote: post #127

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This. Valve was my favorite game developer but now I don't really care about them anymore.

I think steam is been such a cash cow for them that they gave up on game development.

Artifact (2018) released to terrible reception, and DOTA: Underlords (2019) eventually just died off. Half Life: Alyx (2020) is one of the highest-rated single player VR games. Counter Strike 2 released 2 months ago, and has very active development.

Valve also allegedly has a game named Neon Prime in development and apparently slated for announcement soon(tm) [1]

[1]https://youtu.be/Fm1VUo6NYaw

Re: Half-Life 25th Anniversary Update

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Post by TedDoesntTalk » Fri, Nov 17, 2023, 11:11 PM UTC

ta1243 wrote: post #58

haunter wrote: post #9

It's also free until Monday (as in free to get, not just limited free play) https://store.steampowered.com/app/70/HalfLife/

Interesting. I do have a steam account, haven't used it for a long time, it doesn't seem to be in my password manager So I went to reset my password, but got thwarted by the captcha. To email me a password reset link. I think Ill just torrent it.

There have been CAPTCHA problems with Steam for at least a year. Search "steam captcha broken" and you'll see endless Reddit threads about it. Last week it took me two days to get it to work - the only solution was to solve the CAPTCHA from a mobile device in order to do a password reset. CAPTCHA just did not work on MacOS or Windows at all. After solving the CATPCHA on mobile and resetting the password, I was able to use it to login via Windows and MacOS.

To add to the problem, there are numerous "solutions" about flushing DNS caches, disabling IPv6, using the audio CAPTCHA, and other tricks that just did not work for me. I tried every "solution" in a dozen threads until the mobile suggestion finally worked.

EDIT: I was not using a VPN or proxy

Re: Half-Life 25th Anniversary Update

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Post by SXX » Fri, Nov 17, 2023, 11:19 PM UTC

bombcar wrote: post #163

pacifika wrote: post #157

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What’s the benefit of doing that please?

Most engine reworks like that (Doom, Age of Empires, Heroes III, etc) offer significantly improved performance and scaling for modern computers. There are often other enhancements, too, including native support for Mac, Linux, etc.

As one of authors of Heroes III one I could say Xash3D is amazing project worth to check for Source 1 game fans.

Valve support for their old games is outstanding and they all have native support, great performance, constant updates. It's like extremely rare for old games to be supported that well.

Re: Half-Life 25th Anniversary Update

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Post by jhawk28 » Fri, Nov 17, 2023, 11:20 PM UTC

solardev wrote: post #64

reubenmorais wrote: post #62

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Is Dota 2 not actively developed?

Oh, I didn't realize Valve did that! I remember it as a Warcraft mod, and didn't realize Valve acquihired them. Edit: maybe just acquired

Dota 2 is a complete re-implementation that Valve did independently. Dota is a Warcraft 3 mod. Icefrog was the main persona of someone who balanced the game. Valve was able to bring him over from Dota to work on Dota 2.

Re: Half-Life 25th Anniversary Update

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Post by hmottestad » Fri, Nov 17, 2023, 11:24 PM UTC

canadianwriter wrote: post #19

At the bottom of the page is a crowbar... maybe you should see if it's useful!

Steam deck got an upgraded chassis from the sound of it.

Re: Half-Life 25th Anniversary Update

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Post by Matl » Fri, Nov 17, 2023, 11:36 PM UTC

pacifika wrote: post #157

nolist_policy wrote: post #153

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Its worth it for the assets alone, you can play hl with the open source xash3d engine.

What’s the benefit of doing that please?

bypassing Steam I presume?

Re: Half-Life 25th Anniversary Update

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Post by OliveMate » Fri, Nov 17, 2023, 11:41 PM UTC

As someone who first played a CD copy of Half-Life before picking up the Steam version, it's amazing to see that they brought back features which were neglected from the Steam release – most notably the viewroll when moving left & right and a semi-recreation of the old main menu.

Many of the QOL changes are greatly appreciated (especially grenade physics), the changes to technical limitations (and addition of func_vehicle) will be a godsend for modders, and I'm surprisingly over the moon that Valve have acknowledged the psyched out Barney from the alpha.

Re: Half-Life 25th Anniversary Update

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Post by smcl » Fri, Nov 17, 2023, 11:42 PM UTC

haunter wrote: post #9

It's also free until Monday (as in free to get, not just limited free play) https://store.steampowered.com/app/70/HalfLife/

Oh damn, I still have my original Half Life CD key committed to memory. I wonder if that still works.

Re: Half-Life 25th Anniversary Update

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Post by crooked-v » Fri, Nov 17, 2023, 11:44 PM UTC

rPlayer6554 wrote: post #120

ta1243 wrote: post #102

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Presumably the same captcha nonsense.

Is it ok to steal from a liquor store because they require a license shown to buy it and for some reason you can't get yours?

This is more like them requiring a license, but then also refusing to actually check yours.

Re: Half-Life 25th Anniversary Update

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Post by OliveMate » Fri, Nov 17, 2023, 11:48 PM UTC

smcl wrote: post #178

haunter wrote: post #9

It's also free until Monday (as in free to get, not just limited free play) https://store.steampowered.com/app/70/HalfLife/

Oh damn, I still have my original Half Life CD key committed to memory. I wonder if that still works.

IIRC redeeming a Half-Life or Counter-Strike CD key on Steam grants you the Half-Life 1 Anthology pack[1], so it's worth giving it a shot!

[1] https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/237/HalfLife_1_Antholo...