After Five Years, Half-Life 2’s NPCs Can Finally Blink Again

[Tsing]

No one at the company may give a **** about Half-Life 3, but Half-Life 2 is still going strong in the minds of Valve employees. The 15-year-old classic (and its episodic spin-offs) received a patch yesterday that fixes some strange, old quirks, such as NPCs not blinking.

That issue materialized nearly five years ago and resulted from the transition to a new distribution system. "The opening sequence of Half Life 2 is a good example of this, the G-man doesn't blink at all, and the Citizens encountered afterward don't blink either."

Half-Life 2's NPCs had struggled to blink for five years after Valve moved all the Source engine games to the SteamPipe contribution distribution system. This is why NPCs across all the Half-Life 2s were affected by dry-eye.

 

[Grimlakin]

This ladies and gentlemen is how you BURN MONEY. WTF?? We're talking about updates to a DECADE old engine... that they haven't bothered to develop any IP on.

I mean really... At this point a Half Life 3 sequel would just be reintroducing HL3 to a new market.

 

[_k_]

Remember people at valve only work on things that they want to.

 

[ThreeDee]

Remember people at valve only work on things that they want to.

..and dog gone it! .. That's how life should be ...

 

[Terminus]

Nice to see Valve really has their finger on the pulse of their pc gaming community...

 

[geok1ng]

This ladies and gentlemen is how you BURN MONEY. WTF?? We're talking about updates to a DECADE old engine... that they haven't bothered to develop any IP on.

I mean really... At this point a Half Life 3 sequel would just be reintroducing HL3 to a new market.

old phellas have money to burn on old IP games

 

[Grimlakin]

old phellas have money to burn on old IP games

Old Folks like me already have the game. And really how clunky it looks now I have no desire to go back and play it again.

 

[Eduardo_Domingot]

I had no idea this was even an issue... I beat it on release.