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Half-Life: Source is a "digitally remastered"^[1] port of the critically-acclaimed and best-selling PC game Half-Life to the Source engine, enhanced to include physics simulation, Source engine graphics & effects, and more bugs, while retaining most of it's original textures.

Initially, the remaster received mostly positive reviews when it was launched, with little to no technical issues at the time, but some players were disappointed because the game's graphics didn't look too much different outside of 3D skyboxes and Source's physics, graphics and effects being added. Because to this, a fan remake of Half-Life, called Black Mesa started being worked on shortly after HL:S release.

Beginning in 2013, with the SteamPipe update, the game has been improperly updated to the Source 2013 engine, which introduced more bugs and other issues not present in previous version, which led to more negative reviews on Steam due to Valve ignoring this game and not fixing those bugs even as of today. Most of these bugs has been unofficially fixed by the modders, however.^[2]

10 years later, Valve has unlisted Half-Life: Source from the search result on Steam in favor of promoting the original version as the definitive edition of the game and to avoid confusion.^[3] However Half-Life: Source is still available for purchase likely because the assets is still being commonly used in third-party Source games such as Garry's Mod.

We now consider this anniversary version of Half-Life to be the definitive version, and the one we'll continue to support going forward. Therefore, we'll be reducing the visibility of Half-Life: Source on the Steam Store. We know Half-Life: Source's assets are still being used by the Source engine community, so it'll remain available, but we'll be encouraging new Half-Life players to play this version instead.

— Valve, 25th Anniversary Update changelog

Note:As mentioned in the description above, much of the bugs introduced since 2013 were not present in the original 2004 release (and as well the Source 2006 version) of the game.

See also

• Black Mesa - Similar concept, but on a more advanced version of Source with completely new graphics and design.
• Half-Life Deathmatch: Source - Multiplayer counterpart of Half-Life: Source.
• Configuring Hammer for Half-Life: Source
• Half-Life: Source FGD
• Half-Life: Source Bugs

Trivia

• The Steam store page for Half-Life: Source shows the wrong release date of the game. This game was released at the same time with Half-Life 2.

References

References

1. Half-Life: Source on Steam Half-Life: Source is a digitally remastered version of the critically acclaimed and best selling PC game, enhanced via Source technology to include physics simulation, enhanced effects, and more. 2. Most of the Half-Life: Source bugs are unofficially fixed by both of these mods: Half-Life: Source Fixed and Half-Life: Source Fix Pack v5. Retrieved May 07, 2024. 3. Half-Life 25th Anniversary Update. Steam - News. Under "Notes" section: We now consider this anniversary version of Half-Life to be the definitive version, and the one we'll continue to support going forward. Therefore, we'll be reducing the visibility of Half Life: Source on the Steam Store. We know Half-Life: Source's assets are still being used by the Source engine community, so it'll remain available, but we'll be encouraging new Half-Life players to play this version instead. Retrieved May 07, 2024.