CVG writes: Valve has released yet another patch update for the Half-Life 2 games (that includes Episodes 1 and 2) and everybody's favourite, Portal.
The Half-Life 2 update slaps around 46MB of data on your hard drive, while Portal's patch takes up a further 68.1MB-worth of 1s and 0s. These are the second round of updates to be released in the space of a week.
The full change list is below - nothing to get excited about. If you want excitement you should be licking your lips in anticipation of Valve's teased Portal 2 surprise coming next weekend.
Today, Portal with RTX is being upgraded with DLSS 4 with Multi Frame Generation, multiplying framerates, as well as the transformer model for Ray Reconstruction and DLAA, enabling even better image quality. Portal with RTX is also adding RTX Neural Radiance Cache (NRC), a neural shader that improves indirect lighting, as well as a bevy of performance optimizations.
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Hot damn that's a good list. The only one i never played is AOE2 and i never finshed Chrono Trigger but it was damn good.
Speaking of what's old but holds up amazingly well and plays like a dream.. i played Symphony of the Night for the first time in 2019.. yep that's right. It became one of my favourite games of all time that i replay almost every year. I couldn't believe how good it was. That is almost impossible for me with newer games let alone older ones. Truly a special gem.
The only one I’d disagree with is doom. It shows its age badly I think. After 5 minutes of play these days you put it down.
Half-Life 2 art director and Dishonored designer Viktor Antonov has died aged just 52.
One of my biggest art heroes. His work and vision were truly one of a kind, and he’s been a huge inspiration to my own work. Such a heartbreaking loss.
Remember seeing Dishonored for the first time when it released, fell in love with the art style straight away, so striking! And because of it, still holds up and will for years to come, RIP Viktor
Yep I remember seeing some of the earliest concept art for Dishonored and hearing that the art director of Half-Life 2 was working on it and being excited.
And you are absolutely right, each of those games (HL2 and Dishonored) has a distinct art style that stands the test of time.
So sad to hear this. I absolutely love the Dishonored series and love the world and art style. It looks great and unique. I'm still hoping for a Dishonored 3
Wow another HL2 patch. This game is old (but still the greatest ever) and gets another patch, probably because after all these years people like me still play it regularly.
HL2 was recently updated to a newer game engine.
But this has introduced a ton of bugs. The Steam forums are filled with reports. So Valve is gonna have to fix these asap because one of the best games ever is currently "broken."