Next, right-click on the Half-Life 2 entry in your Steam library and select ‘Properties’. Set a shortcut link on your desktop (or anywhere else you wish) so that you can run Half-Life 2 without booting Steam. A fresh install is recommended, though you will be able to import any existing save data if you so wish. Once that process has been completed simply follow the instructions below!īegin by installing Half-Life 2 direct from Steam.
However, Half-Life 2 utilises the same player profile system as Team Fortress 2, and so VRFocus recommends that you follow the process outlined in the Mod of the Week: Team Fortress 2 article before beginning with Half-Life 2. Despite the age of Half-Life 2 it still plays fantastically and acts as a wonderful showcase of what this new age of Virtual Reality can achieve.ĭue to the fact that Half-Life 2 has been retroactively updated by Valve themselves, preparing the videogame for use with Oculus Rift is a very simple process. Presumably, the creator has decided the update is big enough to justify its own standalone release, and it’ll apparently put the previous Update “to shame”.Much like Valve’s Team Fortress 2, the critically acclaimed Half-Life 2 has received an official update from the in-house development team to make the videogame compatible with Oculus Rift. It featured a complete overhaul of the game’s lighting system, new particle and fog effects, many bug fixes, and even a fun Community Commentary Mode – all without sacrificing Half-Life 2’s visual look.įilip Victor’s next project is this new Half-Life 2: Remastered Collection, which was spotted on SteamDB and sounds like it was originally meant to just be a major patch for Half-Life 2: Update that incorporated Valve’s two episodic expansions.
Half-Life 2: Update initially launched in 2015 from community member and modder Filip Victor, and was good enough to get its own Steam page and support from Valve. While sadly not an official Valve product, it is in fact the next version of the excellent Half-Life 2: Update mod from the same team – which will presumably include all the Episode DLC too. Fans of Valve’s iconic Half-Life series were excited to spot the sudden appearance of Half-Life 2: Remastered Collection on Steam this week.