• Andi@feddit.uk
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    1 year ago

    If anyone happens to remember half-life.fortunecity.net , I was your floating admin (I literally floated around the Map during death matches)

    At it’s hayday, it was the 1st/2nd most popular server in the UK.

    If I can remember, my little PC managed to handle 20 players, all on a 2mbit line, sneakily hosted in my server room at work in circa 2000…

    Yeah, I’m that old.

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    1 year ago

    We now consider this anniversary version of Half Life to be the definitive version, and the one we’ll continue to support going forward. Therefore, we’ll be reducing the visibility of Half Life: Source on the Steam Store. We know Half-Life: Source’s assets are still being used by the Source engine community, so it’ll remain available, but we’ll be encouraging new Half-Life players to play this version instead.

    Wow. Didn’t think they’d ever acknowledge HL:S again but here we are. This is such a cool update.

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    tfw half life 1 gets an update before team fortress 2 does

    In all seriousness, very excited to hop in and see what’s new, I’ve never had the opportunity to play some of this content.

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      tfw half life 1 gets an update before team fortress 2 does

      Wouldn’t be surprised if TF2 is currently getting a Source2 port.

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          Anything concrete or just source 2 conspiracy like CS had forever?

          I just said that I would not be surprised. That’s it. Valve did not hint at anything, it’s just me thinking that it would make sense that they don’t want to maintain two completely different engines and rather unify everything on Source2.

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    HL was game changing. Look at these specs:

    MINIMUM: 500 mhz processor, 96mb ram, 16mb video card, Windows XP, Mouse, Keyboard, Internet Connection

    RECOMMENDED: 800 mhz processor, 128mb ram, 32mb+ video card, Windows XP, Mouse, Keyboard, Internet Connection

    I didn’t even have min specs and it rocked out. I think I had 400Mhz, 32mb RAM and an 8gb card? It won’t run on a potato like Doom, but it was a shocking step back from the ever-increasing specs required at the time.

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    I’m on my first play through of black mesa. Just grabed this, HL2 , HL2 ch1 & HL2 ch2 for less than 3 ducats. Can’t go wrong there.

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      New levels, better HUD scaling, old content that hasn’t been released in bloody ages, new death match models and skins, and most importantly, you get to be Ivan the Space Biker in death match.

      Also there’s an option to turn off texture filtering, and thank GOODNESS for that.

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    Seeing Ivan the space biker, proto Barney, too much coffee man, and the skeleton models were a really hard hit of nostalgia I wasn’t prepared for.

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    Cool. I remember a buddy showing it to me in his college dorm room. I was more interested in Unreal Tournament (which released a year later) at the time and probably couldn’t afford to buy another game anyway. But I was positively obsessed with Half Life 2 a few years later…