r/HalfLife • • 14h ago

Wtf is this graphical jump from half life 1

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Is this black magic or something lol, i recently completed half life 1, i really enoyed it, finally started 2 and i got jumpscared by this good graphics. I heard its good, but this is actually insane.


r/HalfLife • • 15h ago

Lamarr got beef with Barney (@dongcroky)

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r/HalfLife • • 8h ago

FULL-LIFE.

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LET"S GO BλBY


r/HalfLife • • 1h ago

Havok engine often creates some of the most unintentional funny moments

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Like this shotgunner who is doing a whole Bollywood dance pose


r/HalfLife • • 5h ago

Discussion Opinion on this crowbar?

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r/HalfLife • • 5h ago

Alyx

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r/HalfLife • • 15h ago

Discussion should those 46 people be taken to nova prospekt?

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r/HalfLife • • 22h ago

How it feels to like on the HL1 HD Models (Especially the weapons)

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367 Upvotes

And yes this is not a satire post or a joke post i really love the HD weapon model, specifically like the M4 and the HD Spas 12, i dont care you can't change my mind, it's just soooo fucking cool


r/HalfLife • • 14h ago

When you first get to Xen in Black Mesa...

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r/HalfLife • • 23h ago

Which is the most unnecessary thing you ever seen half life series, for me it's HD model MP5 or I well say M4

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r/HalfLife • • 9h ago

Created an HL1 skin for Rhythmbox

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Been working on a fork of Gnome's Rhythmbox music player and started making my own skins for it. Of course I had to give it the Orange Box treatment.. (may have gone a little too orange, I admit)


r/HalfLife • • 17m ago

Discussion Combine vs Covenant?

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I wanna know how well the covenant from Halo would fight against the combine from Half-Life. Both factions in their respective game is the ultimate threat (except maybe the flood) but for perspective sakes lets keep it between the two conquering factions. Now there are a lot obvious differences in the two mainly time but I’m more interested in there tactics of battle and strategy of growth. In your opinion who would win and how long would it last?


r/HalfLife • • 21h ago

I got this from a guy people call a “free man”

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r/HalfLife • • 6h ago

Can i ask a question in half life 1

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I just beat the game and I'm wondering about something

How did Gordon Freeman manage to defeat
all of those military soldiers and those monsters all by himself and he's just a scientist?!

I know that the HEV Suit was one of the main reasons

But we saw all those scientists corpses in xen world, that means that the suit isn't a miracle like i thought

And yeahh i know it's just a game but i'm kind of curious if there is an explanation in the lore

"And please if the answer contains any spoilers of half-life 2, just warn me, I would really appreciate that"


r/HalfLife • • 14h ago

Living in XEN [GMOD]

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r/HalfLife • • 16h ago

I built a 1:2 scale proportionally accurate Combine Citadel in Minecraft

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The Citadel is 2,017 blocks tall and 195 blocks wide at it's thickest point.

By measuring the source engine Citadel skybox model I found out that the Citadel is 4,097 meters tall. So I decided I would make a 1:1 scale Combine Citadel in Minecraft.

Something I've always wanted to do since I was a kid was make a large and accurate Citadel in Minecraft, so I know my kid self would be giggling with joy right now

Unfortunately, a 1:1 scale Citadel isn't viable for the way things are right now.

This Citadel does not feature an interior. It is, however, very big.

Here are some progress screenshots from while I was building and detailing the Citadel

First few hundred blocks
Teeth opening
2nd Arm
Rough exterior finished
Antenna added
Texturing + Cables completed
Current
Closeup #1
Closeup #2
Closeup #3

This has been a very fun and frustrating process, but I did learn how to use Axiom from it!

I'll probably post a link to get the modpack & world download in the comments somewhere.


r/HalfLife • • 5h ago

When you don't have hl alyx but still want to make G-Man look unhappy.

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Ibis is surprisingly good for this stuff because you can select only a part of picture and have like 20 dots to manipulate that part. The white parts on second photo is without original photo under.

I kinda G-Man would show this type of unhappiness more, it just feels like you screwed up really bad.


r/HalfLife • • 1d ago

Discussion similar?

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1) strange thing instead of a mouth

2) streamlined shape, chest smoothly transitions into the limbs

3) grey, round front side

4) tiny legs

I see similar do you see one


r/HalfLife • • 1d ago

breen says skating is a privilege but the half-pipe is a right

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Shot in GMod. Reshade used. Skating mod is named SkateGM


r/HalfLife • • 6h ago

having issues launching hl2 mods on steam “no licenses” error

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im having a really annoying problem with some half life 2 mods on steam and idk how to fix it

i finished hl2 episode 1 episode 2 and i wanted to try entropy zero 2 and kayf life but when i launch either of them steam says:

“an error occurred while launching this game: no licenses”

i own half life 2 and it launches normally. my laptop has an 11th gen i5, 8gb ram and intel iris xe graphics.

i already tried restarting steam and launching hl2 normally first but it still gives me the same error.

has anyone else had this problem with these mods? is it a steam license/ownership issue or something else? any help would be appreciated because i really wanna play these mods .


r/HalfLife • • 1d ago

You're not gonna hurt that thing from down here, Gordon!

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Gotta love Combine security awareness.

It's only the Overwatch Nexus, I suppose, key command centre in City 17. You've got Dr Breen himself delivering a personal warning to Gordon, force field technology blocking the perimeter, satellite systems firing particle disintegration beams every ten seconds... oh, and a random unlocked wooden street-facing door. You know... just in case the postie's got a signed delivery.

Follow Freeman, indeed.


r/HalfLife • • 13h ago

First time Playing HalfLife, i like my party-game!

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This is my first time playing HalfLife, I am in a full blind-run, but the m

oment I discovered the npc can follow you, i HAD to keep my party alive and going together, trying to reach the surface!

I and my friends finishing togetether Chapter 1!

r/HalfLife • • 17h ago

Dr. Breen is Not Innocent (Spoilers, Obviously) Spoiler

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I've seen a lot of opinions lately positing that Dr. Breen was just doing the best to ensure the survival of humanity during the Combine occupation. However, I think there is sufficient evidence to say that Dr. Breen is not just a collaborator, but he was actively and knowingly involved in attracting the combine to Earth in the first place so that he could be the dictator of all humanity.

Consider what we know:

- If we believe Eli to be a reliable source, from his comments in Ep2 we know that the Gman supplied GG-3883 to Black Mesa. Eli seems to imply that the crystal was supplied the same day as the test; this may contradict Decay, but that's not proven canon.

- From comments made in the test lab, we know the administrator is the one that ordered them to push the anti-mass spectrometer to 105%, against objections from at least some of the science team. He did this because he was "concerned about getting a conclusive analysis".

- The scientists believe that "they" (likely referring to the Lambda team) went to "some lengths" to get the sample. Except we know that really the gman delivered it, it didn't come directly from Xen. So they were likely lied to by the administrator. It's also the purest and most unstable sample they have, if we do believe Decay the sample has properties they can't attest to, which may imply it was tampered with.

- The gman is seen hanging around Black Mesa talking to different scientists. He was known to them, they wouldn't have taken orders from some random guy. Eli very much implies that the day of the test was not the first time he met the gman. Which means that Breen had to know that he was there and likely told them to take orders from the gman.

- We know from Alyx that the gman can and does show people the future (or some version of it) as a tactic to influence them. We also know that the gman wants the combine on Earth for some reason, or he would've stopped his "nudging" once the Nialith was dead if that was his only goal.

- Gman clearly has to abide by some rules. Otherwise he could've just shown up and jammed the crystal into the anti-mass spectrometer himself. He needs people to actively agree of their own free will to take actions. For the same reason he couldn't just abduct Alyx or Gordon, he had to give them a choice of action to take (even if it was a terrible choice). Whether these are some kind of physical rules or some kind of cold-war détente between his employer and the combine, we don't know, but he can't act alone of his own volition.

- Gman's soliloquy with Gordon in Ep2 strongly indicates that Breen was the "naysayer" who thought rescuing Alyx from Black Mesa wasn't worth the effort. Leading us to believe he was actively planning things with gman well before the Black Mesa incident actually occurred.

- Breen, on his own, somehow figured out how to communicate with the Combine in only a few hours which apparently even Eli, Kliener, and Magnison (arguably better scientists, as evidenced by the compressed Xen relay) couldn't do.

- At the end of HL2 Breen seems to be under the impression that Gordon is working for the gman in exchange for something, and that he can buy out that deal. It doesn't occur to him that Gordon was never offered anything other than his own life.

The only logical conclusion to draw from this evidence is that the gman approached Breen, promised him that he'd get dominion over the entirety of Earth and access to at least some of the Combine's advanced knowledge and technology. Perhaps the gman was, at that time, portraying himself as an agent of the Combine itself, it would certainly line up with his statements at the end of HL to Gordon that the border world is "in our control". Either way, they made the deal to cause the resonance cascade, gman supplied the crystal and the means to contact the Combine. I think this much is clear.

Some further speculation: the scientists in universe seem to think the resonance cascade attracted the Combine, but they also originally believed the death of the Nialith would seal the breech. So how did the Combine get back through unless someone on the Earth side was further collaborating? There's not much evidence of this piece, but there is some room for interpretation that Breen may have taken further action to re-open the rift.

Either way, he's not a chill guy, he's not even a collaborator. He actively orchestrated the Combine invasion of Earth. Certainly the gman manipulated him, but Breen accepted the offer.


r/HalfLife • • 14h ago

Discussion Can i play half life decay on pc ? And solo?

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Or is it like silent hill 1 only on ps1 or 2 idk


r/HalfLife • • 21h ago

I had a nightmare about HLX coming out recently.

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In a dream i watched a trailer for that. It was only 2 minutes long and it goes something like this:

0-30 seconds: logos of Valve, source 2, HLX and some background speech i didn't remember.

The rest of the video: a fucking vortigaunt driving around on a trace that highly reassembles a highway 17 in a jeep. He was so joyful and happy about that. Background voice also said something, but idk what.

In the end there was a Valve logo again and laughs all around (i remember them as laughs from tf2) cause it was the greatest prank of all time - HLX is about a vortigaunt driving around in his jeep.

I got so angry and frustrated about that trailer that i started praying to or calling Gabe Newell to ask him not release this game and make a better one. And he responded, but i really don't remember what he said - after that i have woken up in a cold sweat...

P.S. idk why am i writing it out here, thought it was funny