Half-Life 2 major update!

Pocket

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Well, ladies and JENTELMEN, the day I've been predicting has finally arrived. As we speak, my computer is furiously sucking data from the Steam servers that according to Valve will do the following:

Updates to Half-Life 2, Half-Life 2: Episode One and Half-Life 2: Episode Two have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include:

Half-Life 2
  • Added support for Mac
  • Added Steam Cloud support for save games
  • Added new achievements
  • Improved graphical effects

Half-Life 2: Episode One
  • Added support for Mac
  • Added Steam Cloud support for save games
  • Added new achievements
  • Improved graphical effects

Half-Life 2: Episode Two
  • Added support for Mac
  • Added Steam Cloud support for save games

Note: Save games for Half-Life 2 and Half-Life 2: Episode One will go through a transition. The current level you are on will be saved, but not the exact position in the level.

If I understand this right, it means that Half-Life 2 and Episode One have been ported to the Orange Box engine, if not Source 2009, and we're getting all the benefits that come with it. For one thing, people who only own Half-Life 2 will be able to play Black Mesa when it finally comes out, because it's an Orange Box mod. I can finally get all those achievements that my Xbox-owning cousin has had for months now. And of course, Mac owners will now have access to the series. AND they're on sale for a third of their previous price (30% off a permanent price drop), in case anyone still doesn't have them.

BUT WAIT, THERE'S MORE! Remember when Steam/Source for Mac was first announced, and Valve released six teaser images parodying Apple's own ads? One of them was a parody of Apple's infamous "1984" Super Bowl ad, featuring Alyx and Dr. Breen. Well, this has now been turned into a full shot-for-shot recreation of that ad called "Free Yourself." The official version can be seen in HD on the Steam store.
 

Nutomic

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Yeah, missing achievement descriptions suck :(

HL2 and Ep1 are now both source 2009, just like tf2.

However, i thought Black Mesa was on the old source 2006 engine? :O
 

Omnomnick

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If anybody wants the HL2 and Ep1 achievement descriptions right now, check out an Xbox achievement guide for the Orange box, those versions got the achievements back in 2007.

I already know most of them because I've got the Orange box on both PC and 360.
 

YM

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Yeah, missing achievement descriptions suck :(

HL2 and Ep1 are now both source 2009, just like tf2.

However, i thought Black Mesa was on the old source 2006 engine? :O

no it's been on the orange box engine since... well... not too long after the orange box
 

DjD

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Yep xbox and pc achievements seem the same

Gosh look at this one:

The One Free Bullet
Beat Episode One firing exactly one bullet. Grenade, crowbar, rocket, and Gravgun kills are okay!
 

Micnax

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Yep xbox and pc achievements seem the same

Gosh look at this one:

The One Free Bullet
Beat Episode One firing exactly one bullet. Grenade, crowbar, rocket, and Gravgun kills are okay!

That one bullet has to be used to open a gate (or something, I can't remember again...) to progress.

So no killing enemies with that bullet! :O
 

Pocket

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By the way, has anyone else seen this?

chapter14.jpg
 

Dr. KillPatient

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Getting home from school early today, I'll check the ending and see if it's any different. Doubt it would be though because it has to link into Ep1 flawlessly.

By the way, I wonder if Valve will do the same for CSS...
 

Nutomic

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Getting home from school early today, I'll check the ending and see if it's any different. Doubt it would be though because it has to link into Ep1 flawlessly.

By the way, I wonder if Valve will do the same for CSS...

The beta is already running, you forgot? :p
 

Pooluke41

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Getting home from school early today, I'll check the ending and see if it's any different. Doubt it would be though because it has to link into Ep1 flawlessly.

By the way, I wonder if Valve will do the same for CSS...

what make a gravity gun for it....
 

Pocket

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Chapter 14: The Credits

Oh, fie. So it just lost the data that said I finished the game and that's the credits? Well, it was fun to think about, anyway.
 

DjD

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That one bullet has to be used to open a gate (or something, I can't remember again...) to progress.
So no killing enemies with that bullet! :O

YOU ARE KIDDING ME RIGHT?

dammit I just played through half the game to get that achievement. And now u tell me that? NOW? I already I killed a combine with a nice pistol headshot.

dammit dammit dammit :O
 

Trotim

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YOU ARE KIDDING ME RIGHT?
Certainly not! /kleiner

Anyway... being the achievement whore I am, I'm going to play through HL2 and Ep1 again and try and get as many of these as possible. Yay!