After 18 years, a surprise Half-Life 2 update makes it once again possible to beat a honking train on Highway 17

I've trained a agelong clip for this

Say what you similar astir Valve, they marque the trains tally connected time. Eventually. Half-Life 2 got a tiny astonishment update yesterday which changed the velocity of a bid successful the 2004 shooter's driving series (the level called "Highway 17"). This alteration volition fto you erstwhile again bushed said bid successful a crippled of chickenhearted that it has been winning against astir players for astir 2 decades.

"Restored velocity of the bid adjacent the extremity of Highway 17 to amended lucifer the archetypal shipped difficulty," the somewhat belated spot notes read, alongside a mates of different fixes.

The bid successful question approaches the subordinate head-on during a tense infinitesimal successful the dune buggy level, and you perceive its whistle done the fog earlier you adjacent spot it coming. In the archetypal release, you could easy boost connected towards the train, and nip retired of its mode conscionable successful time, arsenic you tin spot here.

But erstwhile the driving physics were updated alongside the merchandise of Half-Life 2: Episode Two backmost successful 2007, that feat became much, overmuch harder (though not impossible). The strategy past became reversing and waiting until the bid passed. It's apt if you've lone played the shooter since then, you'll deliberation of this arsenic the lone mode to progress. But present we know: you were ever meant to bushed that train.

A emblematic worker astatine Valve. | Image credit: Valve

There were a mates of different corrections to the beloved FPS. "Fixed missing collision that was allowing NPCs to sprout done immoderate walls successful Entanglement," the spot notes continue. "Fixed contented wherever Alyx could obstruct the player's way erstwhile boarding the teleporter adjacent the extremity of Entanglement."

I don't cognize astir wallhacking Combine soldiers, but the second bug regarding a stubbornly unmoving Alyx is not a long-standing bug, but a trickling hangover from Half-Life 2's large 20th day re-jig past year. While I similar to ideate determination is simply a lone caretaker employed solely to springiness the venerable manshoot laughably nitpicky tweaks and bugfixes agelong aft its debut, it's much apt that these are conscionable the past fewer tidy-up jobs pursuing the day update.

After all, it isn't the archetypal clip we've seen the crippled get re-tweaked due to the fact that of its day makeover. We antecedently reported however 1 invisible partition successful a sewer tube was removed due to the fact that it annoyed velocity runners. I wonderment however these latest fixes assistance oregon hinder specified sprinters.

Still, it is amusive to ideate that 1 dedicated idiosyncratic astatine Valve, whether they beryllium oregon not, who goes to enactment each time frustrated and disgusted astatine the missing collision walls of the tenth level successful a shooter from 20 years ago, who regular boots up the Radiant level exertion to fiddle with its Windows XP-era interface conscionable to hole a occupation fewer different souls attraction about. Godspeed the invisible Half-Life 2 caretaker.