Half-Life 2 Devs Thought About Fixing Bugs Speedrunners Use To See How They Would React

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There’s a giant and energetic speedrunning neighborhood round Half-Life 2. And Valve is conscious of this and through a latest IGN video defined that at one level that had thought of patching a few of the in style bugs speedrunners use to see if the runners would love having to seek out new methods to beat the sport shortly.

Although they did like the thought of fixing the speedrunning meta across the sport, they by no means patched the speedrunning bugs, as a result of they didn’t wish to upset gamers who used them for runs.

This little bit of knowledge got here from the newest “Devs React To Speedruns” video from IGN. Adrian Finol, Robin Walker and David Speyrer had been all programmers who labored on Half-Life 2 and within the video, they watch as a speedrunner makes use of bugs, glitches and exploits to be the whole sport in lower than an hour.

As a longtime Half-Life fan, I discovered rather a lot about *HL2′*s growth that I didn’t find out about earlier than.

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For instance, Half-Life 2 at one level was going to have life like physics tied to the participant. However the first time they turned this featured on a dev ran right into a wall and died.

One other story talked about what number of messy fixes exist within the Half-LIfe 2 and Supply Engine code. At one level a stage wouldn’t load correctly and so they simply added some code that pressured the sport to do it. A few of this code is coming again to hang-out Valve. Robin Walker defined that, whereas engaged on Alyx, some elements of Supply and Half-Life 2 had been ported over and the nasty code fixes they used again in 2004 came to visit too. One of many devs within the video explains that everybody was too nervous to the touch the code, in any other case, one thing would possibly break.

And likewise, the devs agree, the airboat part from the beginning of Half-Life 2 was too lengthy.

The entire video is price watching simply to listen to these builders freak out whereas a speedrunner breaks their sport in methods that they had by no means seen earlier than.