Great anniversary gift.
Edit: Free or free for 2 days?
Edit2: They just removed the 'Play for free! Ends in 2 days'. Did they mess up? Is it going to be free on the 16th?
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Sorry editing date.
It's free for 3 days, or to put exactly 2 days and 21 hours.
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Does that mean free to claim or free to play? Also, 21:00 UTC was an hour ago, no? Is it life for you guys?
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They have both on. Free to Play and Free to Keep.
The license included here is only the Free to Keep part.
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For some reason Episode One and Two got delisted
Nvm they transferred them to original game.
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Don't forget the free soundtrack
!addlicense ASF s/50865
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Although the soundtrack can be added without the Base Game, so probably many already have it in that way, but adding to thread just in case.
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It also includes everything from the franchise. All in one with achievements in the main Half-Life 2. Maybe because path tracing is coming? Or Half-Life 3? Who knows.
Half-Life 2: Episode One
Half-Life 2: Episode Two
Half-Life 2: Lost Coast
Half-Life 2: Deathmatch
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I can't claim it, there is no button for it. Is there another way to add it that is not ASF?
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Friend of mine in Germany has the same problem. Also gets 'AccessDenied/InvalidPackage' in ASF. So that doesn't help either.
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Yeah, I used a VPN in some browser and could see it fine, but as soon as I logged in, the ability to get is disappeared. I then noticed I also am not offered to buy the Orange Box, and the Half Life Complete bundle does not include HL2.
It seems Valve doesn't like Germans to have their game :(
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If you're from Germany, I noticed Valve had been trying to block Germany somehow in some SubIDs, so not sure if that's the reason why you can't see anything.
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Valve also announced HL2 RTX. And this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCjNT9qGjh4&ab_channel=Valve
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I owner original Half-Life 2 and just received 2 gifts -
Half-Life 2
Includes 2 items: Half-Life 2, Half-Life 2: Lost Coast
Half-Life 2: Episode 1
Includes 4 items: Half-Life 2: Deathmatch, Half-Life 2: Lost Coast, Half-Life Deathmatch: Source, Half-Life 2: Episode One
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Half Life 2 Ep1 and Ep2 as stand alone was removed from my library (as stand alone), i know that now are all in the same game bu stil i dont like that they removed something from my library without warning.
Update: HL2 EP1 and EP2 are under TOOLS category (not under GAMES at it was in before)
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The episodes 1/2 and the lost coast are in the main half life 2 game now along with the achievements. No need seperate games thats why they removed from the games menu.
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Thx!
The items still are in the library (if you owned previously i guess) but as Tools not as Games
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Yes there is a massive anniversary update from valve today for the half life 2 franchise and they mention the other individual games will go to tools. Check the main page of the game with the update. Massive changes overhaul many graphics etc etc and all the changes they made.
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There are more mods on steam:
https://store.steampowered.com/mods/420/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbHy290tTTs
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Too bad they didn’t wrap half-life 1 source into it and make it one big game
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i mean, they delisted it last year. kinda feel like they want to forget it ever existed
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They added Ep1 and Ep2 achievements to HL2, did anyone test if they are unlocked by loading a near-end savegame for each episode? (Or are the savegames even transferable)?
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I downloaded and installed HL2, and when I started it up, all my EP1+2 achievements popped in it. I didn't have to do anything, just getting to the menu unleashed a flood of notification popups.
I didn't try loading any savegames, though.
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Thanks, I'll try it!
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Ok, so it partially worked, that is - all achievements for Ep2 were unlocked, but none for Ep1.
On that note, I seem to have all (a lot, anyway) savegames from Ep2, a few from HL2 and none from Ep1, so that's probably why.
When I launch Ep1 directly (from Tools), I can see savegames and achievements just fine.
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When I launched HL2 again after launching Ep1, I got all achievements and can now see Ep1 savegames.
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no achievements from just launching hl2, but when i chose ep2 from the menu gnome alone popped! that's the only one i didn't have in ep2, though i think i did it after they added achievements but it didn't register. installing the episodes and getting both to the menu and then starting hl2 again brought in the rest and i'm 69/69 -- nice!
oh, it also gave me gnome alone in episode 2!
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Don't forget the free soundtracks for both episodes:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/323150/HalfLife_2_Episode_One_Soundtrack/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/323160/HalfLife_2_Episode_Two_Soundtrack/
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Don't sleep on the 20th anniversary documentation:
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This is a great community. i never would have found these awesome VR mods without you. Thanks!
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Huh, interesting that the mods (Evacuation and Project Borealis) aren't here:
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Community-Made Mods:
If you played half-life 2. These mods are worth checking!
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Half-Life 2:
https://store.steampowered.com/mods/220/ -
Half-Life 2: Episode One:
https://store.steampowered.com/mods/380/ -
Half-Life 2: Episode Two:
https://store.steampowered.com/mods/420/ -
Some more cool ones:
- Evacuation: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2224920/
- Project Borealis: Prologue: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2215490/
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Why wouldn't it be? It is.
https://steamdb.info/sub/1187615/apps/
And it got improvements, as per the announcement.
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Doesn't launch from HL2 like EP1/2/Lost Coast now so I got confused.
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Have already (of course :) But sent to some friends.
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I just want to add an amazing remake mod made game of Half life endorsed by Valve, worth the price.
If you want to play Half Life 1 again, play this: (-75% atm)
https://store.steampowered.com/app/362890/Black_Mesa/
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20 years, huh? Back then, I got a physical copy to play some HL 2 Death Match with friends. Had to create that Steam account in order to do so. Now we're here.
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Half-Life 2
🎁 https://store.steampowered.com/app/220/
⏰ 2024 Nov 15 21:00 ~ Nov 18 18:00 UTC
💡 Announcement
From now through the weekend (until November 18th at 10am Pacific) Half-Life 2 is free to own,
so if you've never played before, grab it now and keep it forever.
💬 Megumin's Words
At first they enabled license 1187613, later switched to 1187615.
So for people wondering why it worked previously and not now, that might be the reason.
The 50865 is the Soundtrack that could be added without the Base Game (Probably that's why you have it already)
But added to command in case people didn't add them yet.
And the numbers after that are all Mods for the Game.
💻 For ASF (ArchiSteamFarm) Users
!addlicense ASF s/1187615, s/50865, s/797507, s/793560, s/779716, s/779713, s/772452, s/186375Comment has been collapsed.