New Half-Life 2 Beta Branch Brings Bug Fixes, Increased FOV, and Ultrawide Support

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The team working on Half-Life 2: Remastered Collection has shared a new beta branch for Half-Life 2 and its two episodes. As Valve continues to develop its Steam Deck platform, the process has added a new verification feature. The program lets Steam Deck owners know the level of hardware support a game may have with the portable gaming system. Among the listed titles is a new beta branch that includes bug fixes and numerous improvements for the 2004 game. There are no official patch notes for the new beta branch, but a number of updates are easily seen.









UI scaling has been modified to correctly display on the Steam DeckHUD has been updated so that it will now scale to any resolutionUltrawide resolution support with FOV up to 90-110Abililty to...
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The Half life games were simply to promote their engine. Sort of like what ID did with the early Doom games.
 
Grimlakin said:
The Half life games were simply to promote their engine. Sort of like what ID did with the early Doom games.
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I think it hit a lot of points. That was also how they kick-started Steam. And the HL series was a pretty popular game in and of itself.

Valve could have chose to go in a lot of different directions with that, they obviously decided to leverage the storefront angle, eventually semi-retired the game engine, and the IP, and it's done very well for them. Now they are dabbling in consoles again (I use the term console loosely).

Kinda interesting how Epic, ID, and Valve all had similar roots but diverged as companies.
 
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