Half-Life 2 simply received a patch that fixes a progress-blocking teleporter bug and makes a practice simpler to race

Final 12 months, Valve introduced the unique improvement staff again collectively for a twentieth anniversary Half-Life 2 replace. It built-in the post-launch episodes, added a brand new developer commentary monitor, introduced in Steam Workshop help, and added a heap of map and gameplay updates. All of which was nice—apart from one progress-blocking bug it launched to the Entanglement degree.

Close to the tip of Entanglement there is a setpiece the place you employ turrets to defend Alyx whereas she resets a teleporter, then leap in together with her to flee the waves of Mix troopers flooding in. Which labored wonderful, till the anniversary version. Probably because of mentioned replace fixing an present bug that might make the teleporter depart early, a brand new bug meant that generally you would not be capable to enter the teleporter after Alyx—and when you raced to get inside first, she would not observe you.

Ingenious options to this downside concerned leaping onto Alyx’s head, maybe by dropping a grenade at your ft or leaping off one of many turrets. Now, you will not need to do both—or open up the console and fiddle with cheats—as the most recent patch ought to have the sequence working as meant as soon as once more. It additionally prevents enemies from having the ability to shoot by means of a few of the degree’s partitions.

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The opposite change on this replace is a tweak to the practice setpiece on Freeway 17. The place initially, when confronted with an oncoming practice whereas driving the buggy, you had a selection between reversing the hell out of there or flooring it and escaping by means of a niche between it and one other practice (or dismounting the car solely, when you’re a buggy-hater). Successful the race turned a lot tougher when the muscle-car physics from Episode Two had been retroactively utilized to the buggy.

This one wasn’t truly all the way down to the anniversary replace, however an earlier patch. Should you performed Half-Life 2 at launch you most likely discovered it straightforward to beat the practice, however after it was patched you wanted to be on-point along with your boosting to face an opportunity. Now Valve has “Restored velocity of the practice close to the tip of Freeway 17 to raised match the unique shipped problem.”

I believe Half-Life 2 continues to be top-of-the-line first-person shooters round, although whether or not that is as a result of it is a timeless traditional or as a result of it is all been downhill since then is a matter of how cynical I really feel on any given day. Nonetheless, good to have an excuse to replay it once more.