It appears that a team of modders is currently working on Half-Life 2 Remastered Collection with Valve’s approval. According to SteamDB, the team responsible for this Remastered Collection is the same one that developed Half-Life 2: Update.
Now in case this rings any bells, it’s the same remaster we mentioned back in 2020. However, it appears that its scope has been expanded. This mod will now cover the main game, as well as Episode One and Episode Two. However, it will NOT feature any of the upcoming fan games/mods for Half-Life 2: Episode Three. So, don’t expect to be playing Project Borealis or Boreal Alyph.
Unfortunately, we don’t have any other details about this mod/project. For example, we don’t know whether it will bring Half-Life 2 to Source 2 Engine or not. We also don’t know whether it will feature any major graphical improvements (like new high-resolution textures or Ray Tracing effects).
Now if you can’t wait for this remastered collection, I suggest giving Half-Life 2 Update a go. Half Life 2 Update is a completely free and extensive community-developed update for Half-Life 2. This mod features beautiful lighting, countless bug fixes, and a brand new Community Commentary Mode. Half-Life 2 Update comes with a complete lighting overhaul including enhanced lighting, more detailed world shadows, and full High Dynamic Range Lighting (HDR). It also has new particle effects and improved fog.
Stay tuned for more!
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Will they fix HL2’s sh**ty pacing with awful chapters like Route Kanal and the one where you’re driving up with coast in a sh**ty controlling car? Probably not. One of the most overrated games of all time, man.
Thankfully, everyone can express its opinion, even when such opinion is full of shlt!
Half-Life 2 : one of the greatest games of all time (my opinion)
without a doubt and thats a fact
Imagine enjoying the long, awful vehicle sections in HL2. I guess that your fetish is masochism!
What i hated most about HL2 was fighting the alien chopper, i didn’t mind vehicle sections that much.
And you just proved that with your sh1tty opinion.
Well… I find the HL franchise as having its merits on advancing believability or realism in a way (for the time), but it never felt enjoyable or fun while playing it…
So in a way, for me, it is overrated as much as it’s not.
valve: “as long as it can generate money for us then we’ll approve. but you’ll get 30% and we get 70%”.
Still better than just taking it down and sue the modder and his dog just as every publisher does, and you inverted the 70/30, just saying in case it wasn’t a joke
No, he didn’t, you idiot. The modders who actually create all of those hats and skins for Valve’s games like CS:GO, TF2, and DOTA 2 only get 30% while Valve takes 70% even though Valve didn’t do any work on them. It’s the same thing with commercial mods like this. Valve doesn’t do a d@mn thing, and keeps 70% of the money generated.
Correction: The revenue share on DOTA 2 items is now only 25% not 30%. See https://steamcommunity.com/workshop/about/?appid=570 I guess Gabe needed some more cheeseburgers.
Every publisher doesn’t do that. Even Electronic Arts allows mods of its games like the ones for the Command & Conquer series. Valve is just a bunch of greedy, exploitative @ssholes starting at the top with Gabe. And, Valve wouldn’t be able to get away with that cr@p if sycophants like you didn’t excuse and support it.
Ok idiot, just mention one publisher that allows people to create a game/content from scratch based on their IP and engine and make money with it (Black Mesa)
Ok idiot, just mention one publisher that allows people to create a game/content from scratch based on their IP and engine and make money with it (Black Mesa)
Even though you just moved the goal posts since you lost the previous argument, I will respond anyway and smack you down again, fool. But, I will not spoon feed you in doing it. So, Google “Make Something Unreal”, and read about the history of Epic Games paying modders for content for its games and engines over the past two decades with its contests and similar efforts. That’s just one example from one company by the way.
Dude the modders for “Makes Something Unreal Contest” didn’t sell any of their mods in a store to the public. They won money in a contest that Epic, when they used to be cool, provided. They competed for that money. Not even the same thing. What are you retarded? You go on about ”
Valve doesn’t do a d@mn thing, and keeps 70% of the money generated.”
. Guess what? They made the damn game. They wrote the code, and they made and mantain Steam the platform where this MOD is going to be distributed, They also hold the rights of the game. Without Valve making Half life 2 and creating Steam these modders wouldn’t be able to even get 1% of the money. So stop making yourself looking like the real idiot here.What are you some kind of stupid Socialist?
LMAO you angry idiot, Red Orchestra and Killing Floor are not Epic Games IPs you stupid Epic shill, your dodging abilities are as poor as your IQ.
Read carefully if you can, and try again, paid game using a publisher’s IP like Black Mesa
No, he didn’t, you idiot. The modders who actually create all of those hats
and skins for Valve’s games like CS:GO, TF2, and DOTA 2 only get 30%
while Valve takes 70% even though Valve didn’t do any work on them.
It’s the same thing with commercial mods like this. Valve doesn’t do a
d@mn thing, and keeps 70% of the money generated.
Correction: The revenue share on DOTA 2 items is now only 25% not 30%. I guess Gabe needed some more cheeseburgers.
Every publisher does NOT do that. Even Electronic Arts allows mods of its
games like the ones for the Command & Conquer series. Valve is just
a bunch of greedy, exploitative @ssholes starting at the top with Gabe.
And, Valve wouldn’t be able to get away with that cr@p if sycophants
like you didn’t excuse and support it.
i mean it’s their IP and they could easily have the mod taken down if they want, but they are allowing the modders to continue working on it, while (i assume be able to make money on it). nintendo on the other hand would shut it down in a heartbeat
Nintendo is Nintendo doing Nintendo things. That’s normal.
Last time I heard they are selling games on cartridges.
Wouldn’t know what to expect from it… And there are mods that update the looks of the game already, so…
Unless they port it to Source 2…
Would also be great if they included proper VR support with the remasters. I mean, people are going to the effort of adapting Alyx to pancake-mode, so why not adapt HL2 to VR? Best of both worlds.
Well… Adapting it to work in VR is entirely another body of work and they may not be focusing on that here… But of course it would be nice to have that too.
Wish they’d fix Half Life 2 VR implementation.
Sad when you see how much games have changed since that awesome Orange Box was released. And even more sad when you know that such changes were for the worse.
Episode 3 would be much more welcome.
Half-Life 2 still looks fine.
Shows how much Valve cares about the franchise that even the process of milking it dry is left to modders…