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NVIDIA releases new Half Life 2 20th Anniversary Tribute video with "Half Life 2 RTX" Steam page now live

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Half Life 2 is one of the highest praised videogames of the new millennium, and many people worldwide have fond memories of the game, with many still replaying it and modding it to this day.

Many modern developers grew up with HL2, and it was the love for it that brought a group of them together creating Orbifold Studios, and with the brand new release of the RTX Remix technology by NVIDIA, Orbifold Studios announced a year ago a brand new remastered project for the original Half Life 2 titled "Half Life 2 RTX".

Today, NVIDIA's YouTube Channel released a brand new tribute video in celebration of Half Life 2's 20th Anniversary, in which the development team behind the remaster talk about the different aspects and implementations that they have worked on to bring this new project to life, which will be added to the original Half Life 2 as a free DLC upon release.

NVIDIA said:
November 16th marks the 20th anniversary of Half-Life 2. Back in 2004, Half-Life 2 left an unforgettable mark on a generation of gamers. Learn more about the development team at Orbifold Studios and their challenging journey to bring full ray tracing, remastered assets, and DLSS 3.5 with Ray Reconstruction to one of the greatest games of all time.

Half-Life 2 RTX is developed by Orbifold Studios. The modders are rebuilding materials with Physically Based Rendering (PBR) properties, adding extra geometric detail and leveraging NVIDIA technologies including full ray tracing, DLSS 3.5, Reflex, and RTX IO to deliver a fantastic experience for GeForce RTX gamers to this classic.

Half-Life 2 RTX is early in development and is a community effort looking to excite talented modders and artists everywhere. If you are interested in joining the project, we encourage you to apply via the Half-Life 2 RTX Project website: http://www.hl2rtx.com/ or follow the project at: /hl2rtxofficial
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Alongside the 20th Anniversary video, the Half Life 2 RTX Steam page is now live as well for those that want to wishlist the free DLC, although the RTX free DLC still doesn't have a set release date.

:arrow: Half Life 2 RTX on Steam
:arrow: Half Life 2 RTX Official Website
 
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In the meantime, Valve is making updates basically everyday to their locked testing branch of vanilla HL2, so there is a high chance that something akin to the original Half-Life's 25th anniversary update will happen. Fingers crossed.
 
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It does look a lot better than that awful portal rtx thing that they did. Although for me rtx is one of those things where it's most noticeable when it's done poorly.
 
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So sad that Valve isn't really making games anymore. They make many billions selling other people's games, making their own games probably seems like a gamble by now. I guess it was all just a job to them, a means to make money, rather than a passion for making great games.
 
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So sad that Valve isn't really making games anymore.
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I mean they have to be pretty much the only developer who still updates the games they released in the 2000s, and then there's Half-Life Alyx and Deadlock...
 
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This looks a lot more respectable than Portal RTX. I'll still probably play the original though. The lighting in Valve games is always very deliberate and I don't trust a third party company to update it.
 

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