Half-life 2 & Episode 1 Updated With Achievements (Steam Play)

C'mon, they've made more than 120 updates of Team Fortress 2 ... I being realistic.
 
blackout said:
source? or are you just being optimistic? (I agree, don't worry, but I'd be good to know if valve have responded)
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Honestly, Polaris is completely right. How long do you need to use Steam / Play Valve games for before people realise that Valve do fix things and release updates frequently.

Some of the issues with this updates are quite big and some I'd imagine wouldn't require masses of work to fix. We'll see patches in the coming days for certain. After all...these are new games to Mac users and leaving things broken wouldn't bode well for their transition into Apple land.

Calm. Just enjoy. Believe in the Newell, the Lombardi, the Holtman, the Cook, the Walker & the rest of the clan.
 
We will now ask you to roll up your sleeve to be imprinted with the official believer mark.
 
traditionally the mark of the beast goes on the forehead, so instead I roll up my fringe.



actually I'll give that a try. . .
 
Yeah Ravenholm etc was completely boring when you can see everything coming a mile away.... plus the problem hasn't gone away on later levels like Highway 17.
The good news is, I got the gravity gun only achievement! It was most tricky at the place you 1st get the shotgun, but I breezed through the rest.

Also found a new route past the headcrabs in the mines at the end, you don't have to touch the ground at all!
 
kupocake said:
So, are the colour-coded shotgun soldiers in yet? For some reason, they are essential for my participation.
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Yes they are! You can play now.

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Do you have to have steam running or be connected to the internet to play half life games? My computer has internet problems so I cant stay connected for a long time...so I dont know if I can get the updates downloaded or even get the game running.

How long do you guys think it will take valve to fix all the glitches?

Also by the screenshots it looks like Valve is trying to give the game a darker atmosphere which is what they initially had planned during the early days of HL2:sniper:
 
BillNyeGuy said:
Do you have to have steam running or be connected to the internet to play half life games? My computer has internet problems so I cant stay connected for a long time...so I dont know if I can get the updates downloaded or even get the game running.
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Steam needs to be running, but it has an offline mode you can either manually set or get shunted over to if your connection goes down. Won't work if you haven't updated the game to 100% though. Stuff like achievements may not work properly in offline mode (not sure), but people played the games for five and a half years without that bothering them before.
BillNyeGuy said:
How long do you guys think it will take valve to fix all the glitches?
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Either a week, or two years.

Hooray for Terry's Shotgun Combine.
 
ríomhaire said:
Breen's broken animation is pretty damn funny.
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glad i'm not the only one who got this

having a blast so far, reminds me back when i first played it on a pc all those years ago on release, only now it's a mac and it's much better graphics than the rustic box i was using then. a few hiccups when something major happens (major being the collapsing chimney and the gunship crashing on highway 17 right next to where i was standing) that result in the sound dropping out for a second but so far, excellent.

is it wrong to be rushing through an already great game just to get to the even greater games, i.e. episode 1 and 2? well, i say rushing... it's more like i can't stop playing it because it's always such a pleasure to play through.
 
Just beat the game. Looks like there's a secret achievement for when you do it.
1 Lambda stash still missing!
Damn!

Edit: never mind, found it.
 
Another free update? :D
Valve is the most awesome company ever.
That's why I've never pirated Valve.
Unlike EA games.
 
you're a little late.

no seriously, what's the secret achievement? does it have anything to do with EP3 or portal 2 n' shit?

TELL ME! before I kill another hostage!
 
I think both the submissive (put the can in the trash) and defiant (throw the can at the cop) achievements are secret. You might have one but be missing the other.

kupocake said:
Steam needs to be running, but it has an offline mode you can either manually set or get shunted over to if your connection goes down. Won't work if you haven't updated the game to 100% though. Stuff like achievements may not work properly in offline mode (not sure), but people played the games for five and a half years without that bothering them before.
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Achievements are not registered while offline. You can't even get achievement progress. I like that TBH because it gives you a way to play without having to worry about achievements distracting you (basically the first time you play when you want to be as immersed as possible).
 
SgtSpamBoy said:
I just want to point out that this update was completely free, so it's all gravy! Don't take for granted Valve's generosity in continually providing regular free content and upgrades to their games.
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OK, as psyched as I am by this update (I am now replaying HL2 for the first time in ages and it looks SWEET, and I'm gonna do an achievement run on Ep1 and Ep2 afterwards, and I've got almost all the achievements in Portal too, oh gosh), you're not entirely right.

Half-Life 2 was not free, in fact it was quite expensive when most of us here got it (compared to current price), and this update has, for some people at least, broken the game a little. Seeing as the game was not free, and the update is mandatory, it's really not OK that it breaks stuff.

Of course, this being Valve, it's gonna get fixed. I'd be worried if it were any other company but really who else would release a significant upgrade for a 6 year old game?
 
If its broken for us its probably broken for the Mac users too. Don't forget the Mac users are buying these games now, NEW. It doesn't look good when you buy a new game which is really buggy. Steam Play dictates consistency and compatibility between the versions, therefore...expect fixes soon. Happy days!
 
Hectic Glenn said:
If its broken for us its probably broken for the Mac users too. Don't forget the Mac users are buying these games now, NEW. It doesn't look good when you buy a new game which is really buggy. Steam Play dictates consistency and compatibility between the versions, therefore...expect fixes soon. Happy days!
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actually that's worth seeing, I'm a macfag as well as a PCfag. I'll have a look.

Edit: that's interesting, it was fine on my macbook?
 
After the update, I get stuck at the very end of entanglement in Kleiner lab. Alyx won't move. Anyone has the problem?
 
I've been waiting for this update for a fairly long time. I might wait a little seeing the amount of issues it has :/ Wasn't expecting this many complications with just a engine upgrade.

Wait a minute, no.. there would be plenty of issues, but seeing as they didn't take the time TO TEST THE THING.
 
Im running a bug report thread here . . . feel free to report any bugs. Hopefully Valve will get the issues sorted as quickly as is possible!

Dont know why, but this bug is the one that really just makes me "LOL".:D
 
They can't possibly fix all of those bugs. They have to bring back some of the old code.
 
blackout said:
you're a little late.

no seriously, what's the secret achievement? does it have anything to do with EP3 or portal 2 n' shit?

TELL ME! before I kill another hostage!
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It's just an achievement not on the in-game list. No big deal.
 
Grunka-Lunka dunkity dingredient, you should not ask about the secret achievement.

(Tell them I hate them!)
 
Am I the only one not having any of these graphical bugs? So far all I've seen is one scripted event that didn't trigger.
 
I'm surprised nobody hasn't yet responded like "hey, they took their time to do this but there's no news about EP3 yet?!? WTF etc."

In the meantime, I'm off happily hunting for achievements. Missed quite a few of the lambda caches, but after getting a guide, I still can't get lambda cache 18 on my PC version of HL2... Anyone had problems with that as well?

Also, it sucks that Valve has to do this right now... I mean, I have an exam coming up, so actually I have to study... :(
 
Frits said:
I'm surprised nobody hasn't yet responded like "hey, they took their time to do this but there's no news about EP3 yet?!? WTF etc."
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I think that's been offset by the fact that this update has been promised for exactly the same length of time. Or perhaps people are actually looking at the massive lead times for every other Half-Life game in history and drawing sensible conclusions for once.
 
I hope that there's not an Ep.3. It even makes sense in some respects that it will just be HL3 instead, everyone's got the orange box by now (who wanted it anyways), Portal 2 is apparently going to be stand alone, it's been 2.5 years since Ep.2 came out...So it's either HL3 on the same/somewhat improved engine, or a really long episode. Or a same length episode in which case
/rage
 
Since the update to HL2 I've played just past the first stop of the underground railroad (the vort and man in the trailer watching tv). Functionally it's not that bad so far; the Breen animation, the first CP you see after you have the gun (on the stairs) just stopped and stood there and the vort that's supposed to give you a "jolt" doesn't do anything. It goes through the sequence, you see him charging your suit, but the Suit value doesn't change.

As far as visually, I think it's a lot worse than the original HL2. And this is with everything set to high/highest settings (apart from AA which is at 4x) at 1600x1200. Looks so drab and not in a good way, like it were done intentionally for atmosphere. In one area you look at the sun and you can tell there's a bloom effect working, get a little farther along in the map and no bloom effect. They could at least make things consistent.
 
I think what this teaches (if not already learned), is that updates to non-MP games should be optional, or selectable among the available.
 
ChiliFan said:
Am I the only one not having any of these graphical bugs? So far all I've seen is one scripted event that didn't trigger.
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No bugs for me, but I only played the first half of the game.
 
Frits said:
Missed quite a few of the lambda caches, but after getting a guide, I still can't get lambda cache 18 on my PC version of HL2... Anyone had problems with that as well?
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Found it, but now it seems I still missed one... Oh, in case you didn't know: achievements are off when cheats are on. Obvious, I know, but still I thought noclip for faster backtracking would be OK...
 
Just a screen from my title screen... a bit busy to get to an area to show off graphical fidelity, but definitely an improvement:

All settings to max at 1440x900... for the few minutes I played, no hiccups.

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