Valve has now released a new patch for Half-Life 2, just a month after the game received a major update. This new patch addresses a number of issues with the Half-Life 2 game.
Along with fixes, it also reverses a fix the update made. This has been done to please the gaming community.
Valve released a major update to the game to celebrate the 20-year anniversary of the game. In this major update, the developers added a number of things like brand-new commentary, a documentary, and Steam Workshop integration, and they also fixed many things as well.
With this new patch, Valve tried to fix audio and display issues encountered by the players. In this, problems with music and commentary not playing correctly during or following level loads have been fixed.
They’ve also fixed the gamepad sensitivity; it can now be adjusted with a slider. Now, the gamepad buttons should no longer get stuck after saving. This way, players should see fewer crashes while changing episodes.
The most standout update is that they’ve removed the collision from an underwater tube.
Gamers noted that an underwater tube in the sewers of the Route Kanal sequence had been blocked off with collision. This prevented them from competing with established records using the pipe. This invisible wall was always present in the Xbox 360 version of the game, but not present in the PC version.
Well, updating a 20-year-old game would certainly break more things than it fixes. However, a patch is something that players expect from a good developer like Valve.
However, it is refreshing or surprising to see a legitimate fix be undone in order to please a portion of the Half-Life 2 fans.
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