r/HalfLife

Hey everyone!

​We’re officially four days away from Valve’s 30th anniversary on August 24th. The hopium in my veins is reaching dangerous levels again, but I’m trying really hard to keep my expectations grounded so I don't end up wearing a clown nose on Monday.

​Personally, I feel like hoping for a Half-Life 3 / HLX drop right now is pure, unadulterated copium. I definitely wouldn't bet money on it, though there's always that tiny 0.1% part of my brain whispering "what if?".

​Realistically, I think we're mostly looking at a big Steam anniversary sale and maybe a new documentary from the Secret Tape team—which honestly would be amazing after what they did for HL1 and HL2. As for the rest of the year, Tyler McVicker mentioned we probably shouldn't expect any HLX announcements in 2026, but Valve is Valve. Plans change all the time, and who knows what might pop up in Source 2 code updates later this fall (and maybe soon we'll get some updates for CS2/Dota 2/Deadlock?).

​What’s your take on this? Are you expecting just a casual sale, hoping for a documentary, or fully OD'ing on hopium for an actual HLX tease? Let’s hear your theories! 🧳λ

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ITS OUT

today while playing Half-Life 2 for the first time i realised that the Poison Zombie has the Poison Headcrabs sitting on it's head AND back, which contradicts with the name of the creature; HEADcrab, this is false advertising and i will be contacting my lawyers, i will be demanding $2.7 billion in damages for emotional distress

I have 2 problems with HLS:
For some reason i cannot enable the developer console even though i have it enabled and all the stuff enabled.
Any tipps or ways?
Second minor problem:
The title of the game isn’t showing up. It looks ugly and i want to fix it. Any tipps?

THIS IS NOT A DRILL

It's unknown if he actually sees him or if it's only Gordon, but in all current G-Man appearances in the series he appears visible to everyone. Alyx chooses to not look directly at the monitor.

We as players only know that Barney has seen G-Man only once in the series before this, and he was not helped by him unlike Gordon, Alyx and Shephard.
Barney has seen some shit in 20 years, I wouldn't be surprised if he already somewhat knows something about the G-Man. No one seems to mention him besides Eli and the Female Scientist from HLA. He is even seen on the TV Boxcar Joe and the Vort are watching in Route Kanal but yet again not acknowledged.

Could have the G-Man told him about Gordon? G-Man has talked to Cubbage before, presumably making sure he'll teach Gordon to use the Rocket Launcher conveniently before a Gunship attacks NLO. He could've done the same to Barney to save Gordon from Nova Prospekt and who knows to how many more characters like the Sandtraps vort, Grigori, or the Episode 2 Station 21 rebels with the car radar.

This could obviously just be an oversight, but this doesn't seem too far-fetched.

maybe it is a sign?

I already have the original version but I was thinking about buying hl source for shits and giggles or whatever

1 - new, 2 - old
I think the headcrab should be removed, as it’s too close to original?

The game is not modified, nor any cheat codes were entered. Any thoughts? TIA!

This is a gift from a friend for my birthday and i’m loving it! Fully 3D printed, looks amazing!
P.S.
I love the quote (funny inside joke)

A video gave me this idea, I added more people in the elevator.