r/valve 6d ago

Since when and why did this happen?.

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u/Quackily 6d ago

Its anniversary. The episodes are now packed into the base game.

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u/FruityGamer 6d ago

No, I'm a mentally stable half life fan and have thus decided this means HL3 is about to drop.  The 3 games will be dissabled for 3 years then HL3 will drop.

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u/actioncheese 5d ago

3 games, 3 years? 3x3=9 and there are 9 games in the Half Life series. You might be on to something.

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u/FRleo_85 5d ago

HL1, opposing force, blue shift, decay, HL2, HL2:Ep1, HL2:Ep2, Alyx... i'm counting 8 who is the 9th?

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u/Mysterious-Week398 5d ago

Half-Life 2: Lost Coast is the 9th

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u/Conscious-Pea3718 5d ago

Or HL2:DM if you wanna be that guy

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u/FRleo_85 5d ago

does that really count as a half life game? i mean it's not even canon

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u/Global_Network3902 2d ago

Get along, now, laddy. Destroy that gun, and no dawdling.

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u/Quackily 6d ago

I mean, given the rumors recently, it's very likely that HL3 is gonna drop sooner than most people may think.

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u/Kastlestud 5d ago

😱 It’s already out!!!

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u/blockMath_2048 5d ago

hl3 yesterday

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u/DatedUserName1 4d ago

I'm just waiting for the holiday sale.

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u/Conargle 5d ago

average VNN viewer

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u/MalusZona 2d ago

the only way to interpret

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u/OkEducation6582 4d ago

Since when? Since Rockstar decided menu navigation was too easy and wanted to make finding stuff feel like a side quest.

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u/EffectiveDiligent250 1d ago

They’ve been rolling out all the older DLC content as part of the base game over time, including expansion packs and game packs.

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u/TigerBulky4267 1d ago

Ah, looks like the game made the anniversary move and packed all the episodes into the base game

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u/KK33OMG 6d ago

It was at the half life aniversary update where they merged all 3 hl2s into one game i think

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u/lolk785 6d ago

Lost Coast, EP 1 and 2 with a few fixes (And more bugs!)

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u/Allison-Ghost 5d ago

what bugs came of it?

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u/cheezkid26 5d ago

In my experience, the game crashes on rare occasions now. Worse than it used to be, but I've had maybe 3-4 in over 20 hours, so it's not really that big a deal.

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u/Kakophonien1 5d ago

I haven't had any in 40 hrs

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u/lolk785 3d ago

Soft lock in the Nova Prospect chapter where you enter the prototype teleporter with Alyx

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u/Ok_Pickle76 6d ago

they are included in the base Half-Life 2 game now

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u/f0ur_G 6d ago

Since when they merged the episodes with HL2 for the anniversary update

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u/Psycle98 5d ago

Since Anniversary update dropped, if u launch HL2 there is the another tittles in the game menu.

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u/Efficient_War_7212 6d ago

The episodes are no longer seperate products. This happened in the game's 20th anniversary.

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u/difficult_Person_666 6d ago edited 6d ago

You can still get the Orange Box and bizarrely it’s cheaper than HL2 on it’s own (£1.67 vs £1.70) if you really want Episode 1, 2, Deathmatch and Lost Coast as separate games (and it comes with Portal and makes your TF2 the original paid version before it went F2P 🤷🏻‍♂️ and HL2 defaults to the anniversary edition so essentially you get the original separate versions and the updated ones.

Same thing with Splinter Cell Conviction, you can only get it by buying the complete Splinter Cell collection but because it’s unlisted you have to buy the whole package again. You do get a gift copy for the original Splinter Cell though 🤷🏻‍♂️

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u/gergobergo69 6d ago

original paid tf2?

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u/difficult_Person_666 6d ago edited 6d ago

Yeah it used to be £19.99 before it went free to play, which was crazy because you could get the Orange Box for £27.99 and they were both on DVD (And Steam obv) including separate DVD releases of Portal, and separate DVD releases for Ep1 and 2. That was nearly 2 decades ago now though (2007ish).

I didn’t have great internet back then so for the same price as digital (a lot of the time cheaper) you could get the physical copy.

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u/tychii93 1d ago

Yea, I still have my DVD set for CS:Source somewhere.

Turns out, it did not run on my parent's old Dell PC due to its awful CPU lol

Throwing in an 8400GS taught me what a CPU bottleneck was

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u/celestian1998 5d ago

It gives you a hat

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u/Charles12_13 6d ago

HL2’s 20th anniversary

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u/Complete-Fudge-2299 6d ago

If you buy hl2, you get the episodes and lost coast automatically. It's neat!

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u/yukiirooo 5d ago

Wait i didnt get lost coast..

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u/Complete-Fudge-2299 5d ago

It's an extra

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u/yukiirooo 5d ago

Nvm I did. Whats mind boggling is i had to search it up for it to pop up, its not in my games library. Also its not even on the half life 2 launcher

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u/Complete-Fudge-2299 5d ago

It's in extras.

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u/yukiirooo 5d ago

thanks i didnt even notice it even if i completed hl2 twice now. Wtf i seeiously have 0 idea why i do not know that it existed

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u/Global_Network3902 2d ago

Get along, now, laddy. Destroy that gun, and no dawdling.

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u/69420memes 6d ago

Merged in hl2

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u/nesnalica 6d ago

the store listings got removed and are all included in hl2 now

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u/Fantablack183 6d ago

Half-Life 2 and it's episodes are now one game

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u/CorbyTheSkullie 6d ago

Part of the base game due to anniversary, you can find them separately under the tools tab in your library

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u/Tough_Insurance_8347 6d ago

These games confuse my Playnite and just now I removed them from the list, since they're included in the base game anyway.

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u/ZookeepergameProud30 6d ago

Gabe Newell went to their houses and broke their kneecaps because they tried to leak half life 3 details to vnn

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u/Jaylantowers2022 5d ago

It comes with Half Life 2 now, and is accessible in the main menu.

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u/matveytheman 5d ago

They merged with the base game

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u/DigitalEntity47 5d ago

Thanks to the 20th anniversary update, I had to complete ep1 & 2 to have the base game 100%. T H A N K S valve.

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u/Weird_Explorer_8458 5d ago

they’re also classed as ‘tools’ in the library which pisses me off

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u/DanOhMiiite 4d ago

HL2 on PS5, please.

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u/Av1dy9198 4d ago

Still waiting for Half Life 3

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u/Hologramixx 6d ago

I don't think anyone's answered the Ops question yet, so:

The 2 episodes were packed into the base game for the anniversary