It has an Overwhelmingly Positive rating on Steam and is largely considered to be a baseline requirement if you want to play Half-Life 2 with mods.

įilip Victor is known for his rather in-depth work on the Half-Life 2 Update mod which featured a ton of corrected and reworked lighting, bug fixes, and more to smooth out most of the rough edges throughout Half-Life 2. The Half-Life 2: Remastered Collection is coming soon to Steam. Such was also the case with Victor’s previous work on a major Half-Life mod, as well as the fan-made Half-Life 1 remake project, Black Mesa.Īccording to the team that brought us Half-Life 2: Update is working on a further update and remaster of HL2 & the Episodes, with Valve’s consent. That said, it would also seem that Valve has no notable intention of snuffing the project out at this time. According to McVicker, SteamDB confirmed to him that this Half-Life 2: Remastered Collection was an unofficial project being developed by modder Filip Victor rather than Valve itself. The Half-Life 2: Remastered Collection was recently discovered on SteamDB, as shared by content creator Tyler McVicker. A fan-made Half-Life 2: Remastered Collection is in the works for the base game and episodes. Fortunately, it looks like one such crew is up to something big for the beloved classic, Half-Life 2, and it’s a modder that’s done quite some good previous work with the game.

So, it often falls to the modding community Valve has nurtured and amassed to take on such endeavors.

The company focuses on either Steam, maintaining its ongoing online games, or developing something new. Valve isn’t exactly the kind of company that’s chomping at the bit to go back and do new things with its old games.

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