Named Game of the Year by over 50 publications, Valve’s debut title, Half-Life is celebrating its twenty fifth Anniversary, and to commemorate it, Valve has unexpectedly launched an replace.
The replace incorporates loads of additional content material, such because the mini-campaign Half-Life Uplink, initially launched as a CD unique for magazines and {hardware} producers.
It comes with 4 new multiplayer maps constructed by Valve’s stage designers. The maps are Contamination, Pool Party, Disposal, and Rocket Frenzy.
With the brand new content material comes restored content material, just like the basic Valve brand video with its unique music, and the corporate reskinned the menu to match the 1998 construct. The unique heroes from the alpha construct, Ivan the Space Biker and Proto-Barney, at the moment are obtainable as multiplayer skins. It additionally comes with a lot of the content material from Half-Life: Further Data, a disc launched at retail in 1999.
Other restored content material contains the multiplayer maps Double Cross, Rust Mill, and Xen DM alongside two multiplayer fashions from the Half-Life: Further Data CD, together with the fan-favorite Too Much Coffee Man.
With up to date graphics settings, you may play the sport the best way it seemed when launched in 1998, however on a contemporary monitor. The replace provides a widescreen discipline of view, the choice to disable texture smoothing on the GL renderer, lighting fixes together with the long-lost GL Overbright assist, software program rendering on Linux, crisper colours, animated water, and unfiltered textures. Included is UI scaling for higher-resolution screens.
It additionally helps controllers, Steam Networking, and may be performed on Steam Deck.
Valve even fastened loads of bugs, made gameplay adjustments, balanced the multiplayer, made engine enhancements for mod makers, and extra. You can look over the changelog by way of the official Half-Life web site.
Even higher, is the truth that you may seize a replica of Half-Life without cost on Steam by way of November 20. So, there is no excuse to not give it a whirl.
