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  • 2pt_perversion@lemmy.world
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    6 hours ago

    Half Life 2 still holds up really well, honestly better than a ton of modern first person shooters. The only places it’s lacking from a non-technical aspect is enemy variety. If valve did a remake just updating the graphics and gun play that would be my only knock on it and that says a lot for a 20 year old game.

  • MunkysUnkEnz0@lemmy.world
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    6 hours ago

    There is also a VR mod on Steam that works perfectly With Half-Life 2, No need to jump through hoops, it just works. One of the best VR experiences out there.

  • Unleaded8163@fedia.io
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    10 hours ago

    HL2 is peak first person shooter. More recent games have added a lot, but after playing through HL2 recent, it’s really nice to strip all that extra stuff away.

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      10 hours ago

      I can see why people didn’t like some parts (boat, car) but they’re so iconic to me.

      Except episode 2 (1?) car shit with the buckeyballs. Fuck that.

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        I disagree, I cannot see why people dislike those parts—the tension is fantastic in both

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      I was totally fine playing HL1, and HL2, and HL2 episode 1… but I never finished episode 2 because of motion sickness. The problem isn’t really with episode 2 though. The problem is just that I got old, and now I get motion sickness from FPS games that didn’t affect me before.

      But I do know that not every FPS makes me sick. I think mouse-look smoothing helps. I’m not certain what else, but I’d try messing with the field-of-view angle and stuff like that.

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          Have you tried enabling and opening the developer console and changed the sv_friction value to something higher than the default of 4? Perhaps 6? Might get rid of the sliding of the character movement and help with your motion sickness.

  • blackstrat@lemmy.fwgx.uk
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    10 hours ago

    FYI, that’s roughly 50x the normal average over the past 3 months. And also the highest ever concurrent users was 4 hours ago. Not bad.

    • datavoid@lemmy.ml
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      6 hours ago

      Is there formatting on this post? It seems to have broken voyager slightly

    • Ashtear
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      5 hours ago

      If you’re into the nuts and bolts of game development at all, the commentary is fantastic.

    • Baggie@lemmy.zip
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      9 hours ago

      The full list is on steam, the main thing is it’s bundled all hl2 games in one package, integrated workshop for mod installation, and added new developer commentary for hl2. Also a bunch of misc fixes etc.