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

Final yr, 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 observe, introduced in Steam Workshop help, and added a heap of map and gameplay updates. All of which was nice—aside 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 soar in together with her to flee the waves of Mix troopers flooding in. Which labored superb, till the anniversary version. Presumably because of stated replace fixing an current bug that might make the teleporter depart early, a brand new bug meant that typically you would not be capable to enter the teleporter after Alyx—and when you raced to get inside first, she would not comply with you.

Creative options to this downside concerned leaping onto Alyx’s head, maybe by dropping a grenade at your toes 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 newest patch ought to have the sequence working as supposed as soon as once more. It additionally prevents enemies from having the ability to shoot by means of among the degree’s partitions.

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

This one wasn’t really all the way down to the anniversary replace, however an earlier patch. Should you performed Half-Life 2 at launch you in all probability discovered it simple to beat the prepare, however after it was patched you wanted to be on-point together with your boosting to face an opportunity. Now Valve has “Restored velocity of the prepare close to the tip of Freeway 17 to higher match the unique shipped issue.”

I feel Half-Life 2 remains 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.