Half-Life 2 is getting a community-made patch tomorrow; updates visuals and squashes bugs

[General J]

I like the subtlety of it, and the enhanced/changed background vistas. That was actually one of my bigger complaints with HL2's age.

[écuyerq]

[QUOTE=Boilrig;47410678]I honestly prefer the fakefactory version of maps over this update.[/QUOTE]

you must like bridges a lot

[General J]

does this tune anything besides the visuals?

feels like I'm sprinting hella faster than before

[MadPro119]

[QUOTE=Dr. Evilcop;47410728]Using "patch" made it sound like Valve was going to release it as an update to HL2.

Differences are pretty minor, to be totally honest. As was mentioned previously, I'd be struggling to notice the changes if not for the side by side comparisons. I'll stick with the original, but it's nice to see people other than cinematic-mod guy taking an interest in updating the visuals.[/QUOTE]

Back in the old day "community made patch" would not suggest it was going to be released by valve.

Now with steam and auto updating/patching it seems more like it would.

[BloodShot12]

Honestly if there's one thing this thing does really nice it's the lightmaps.

The baked shadows are a lot higher res and more detailed and I think it's a really nice visual boost, and plus stuff like this is fixed

[t]http://puu.sh/gSouJ.png[/t]

Really though, Ideally I'd love it if some team would remake the maps up to the same quality of BM's maps

Then mix that with these

[video=youtube;2_2zZOMZR0E]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_2zZOMZR0E[/video]

And I'd be a nice HL2 "remaster"

But remaking maps to BM's quality for HL2 would take a lot of time and effort that no one is probably willing to do

[gk99]

[QUOTE=Bloodshot12;47412421]But remaking maps to BM's quality for HL2 would take a lot of time and effort that no one is probably willing to do[/QUOTE]

All I'd be asking for is making the extremely dull looking parts of the game that I could make in 5 min with Hammer look somewhat more interesting.

[Deathtrooper2]

If half life 2 was made with the original storyline, things would've been way more extremely brutal, the scenes in the retail version where the metro police barge into the civilian apartment was kinda brutal, but if it was the original beta version of Half life 2, it would've looked like the Ghetto liquidation scene in Schindler's list, people literally getting lined up in public and shot apart by Combine Soldiers and Metropolice. While Cremators burned the corpses en mass.

[BloodShot12]

I wish the existing beta mods weren't so all over the place or lacking in technical quality

A modernized HL2 with the beta storyline and better gunplay would be ace