Valve releases new patch for Half-Life 2, celebrating its 20th anniversary this month
Today, 04:21
Recently, a new patch for Half-Life 2 was released, bringing various fixes and improvements to the game. It's remarkable that Valve continues to support their project even 20 years after its initial release.
Patch Highlights:
- Enable support to keep music playing during level transitions throughout the base Half-Life 2 campaign (no convar needed);
- Added support for displaying an active Workshop campaign name in your Steam friends list;
- Added a slider to the settings menu to allow scaling stick sensitivity for gamepads;
- Fixed issue with overlapping commentary tracks if a commentary track was playing between level loads;
- Fixed issue where gamepad buttons may be permanently stuck pressed after saving the game;
- UI fonts updated for better support in Cyrillic languages;
- Fixed Thai font rendering on Linux;
- Added initial support for Ukranian and Vietnamese;
- Various crash fixes when switching between episodes;
- Fixed soundscape playback for the Citadel menu background map;
- Removed collision from an underwater tube that speed runners enjoy;
- Updated localization files.
It's worth noting that this is the second update for the game this month. Previously, Valve released an anniversary update and held a free giveaway of Half-Life 2 on Steam.