Valve Releases Half-Life 2 20th Anniversary Update

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Valve Releases Half-Life 2 20th Anniversary Update

In commemorating twenty years since the release of the highly acclaimed Half-Life 2 game, Valve today released the Half-Life 2 20th Anniversary update with various fixes and other refinements. Half-Life 2 is also being made free-to-own through November 18th for those that never experienced this legendary game...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Half-Life-2-20th-Anniversary

[bachchain]

The previous version of the game has been archived to a publicly visible Beta branch named "steam_legacy", with the description "Pre-20th Anniversary Build."

No, no, no, no. They're doing this all wrong. What they should've done is make the existing version completely unplayable and re-release it as "Half-Life 2 2" with half of the content removed.

[muncrief]

Ha! The update broke native compatibility on Steam Play. Half Life games always used to play on Linux without Proton before, but after the update to Half Life 2 I had to force it to use Proton experimental. What a mess. Sheesh.

[cend]

Slightly questionable for a technical news site, but considering how much Valve is doing for desktop Linux...

Anyway, free download is free download, so taking as granted

[pieman]

Ha! The update broke native compatibility on Steam Play. Half Life games always used to play on Linux without Proton before, but after the update to Half Life 2 I had to force it to use Proton experimental. What a mess. Sheesh.

its native for me... opengl and all. no .exe, no proton running.

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[grung]

Slightly questionable for a technical news site, but considering how much Valve is doing for desktop Linux...

Anyway, free download is free download, so taking as granted

It is refreshing to sometimes get unrelated news - this is my childhood - I love it

Btw little life hack - you can always skip the news...

[Luke_Wolf]

Slightly questionable for a technical news site, but considering how much Valve is doing for desktop Linux...

Anyway, free download is free download, so taking as granted

It's not a technical site, It's a technology news and benchmarking site focused primarily but not exclusively on Open Source. It fits perfectly. You want purely technical go read the ISO briefs or something.

[kpedersen]

Because of the DRM inflicted by the Steam DRM Platform, this is also an unspecified time limited demo. No thanks!

[Developer12]

Ha! The update broke native compatibility on Steam Play. Half Life games always used to play on Linux without Proton before, but after the update to Half Life 2 I had to force it to use Proton experimental. What a mess. Sheesh.

This is actually SIGNIFICANTLY better, if true. Before the update the "native" capability absolutely fucked up sourcemods which are a HUGE part of playing HL2 these days. If you tried to load a sourcemod that included DLLs the game would just crash because on linux you need to compile them as SOs. No mod devs do that, so you're screwed.

[varikonniemi]

Am i getting it right that they grant access to it for free, but will remove said access when the promotion ends? If so that would be absolutely disgusting. When rockstar did similar promotion fro GTA 5 they granted ownership to the title to all who registered during the promotion time!