Half Life 2 RTX - Gamescom 2024 - 50 Minutes of Gameplay Showcase

[@ygalion]

"it is like playing a new game"... nah! this is how i remember it

[@davidpeladobocha]

Literally XD

[@colbyboucher6391]

The thing about Source Engine is that it could do baked Global Illumination really well, so the lighting of these maps was already generally pretty convincing.

[@HionV]

@@colbyboucher6391 which is also why models that represented lightsources generally didn't have any physics properties, since that would shatter the illusion. The only thing that generally lacked in the source engine was the resolution of the baked lightmaps, but while just focusing on the gameplay that generally goes unnoticed. Source 2 made major strides in that regard but over on that side, if you try to bake lightmaps using your cpu this process took hours to days for the final quality bake, which is why for the cs2 tools they disabled that functionality through the GUI (still accessible through the commandline) and now you need a raytracing capable GPU to bake lightmaps.

[@Taras195]

The crossbow bolt must be glowing red hot, illuminating the room brighter than gravigun, that's the point of the "bzzzt" sound on reload. The grenade red dot is still just a particle effect, not a glow source. The revolver smoke is too obnoxious.

[@AlexQuidditch]

I think they should use MMOD as reference for everything about weapons

[@vouchets2043]

Me pone nervioso lo mal que juega

[@bshap495]

It looks like the crossbow hasn't received a new model yet. That would also explain why it's so shiny.

[@Kysuhnw]

Yeah this needs a lot more work, so far it's just revamped assets with pretty lighting on top of an old game, looks so uncanny

[@mrcyanman5251]

@@Kysuhnw have you not noticed the new pbr textures or what

[@Zenzuu]

Doom 3 or FEAR with RTX would be bonkers.

[@FatheredPuma81]

My friend really wants FEAR with RTX but the game's OpenGL and apparently a ton of work to get working properly.

[@j4mbi_]

Doom 3's code is opensource so hopefully someone implements it.

[@FatheredPuma81]

@@j4mbi_ Doom 3 being opensource makes very little difference... Also someone already has it working.

[@AlternateKek]

Doom 3 with RTX would be insane considering I was just playing it heavily modded and its still amazing looking.

[@VibnWavez]

I really thought the head crabs were frozen Turkeys when I was a kid 😂

[@gorgeousfreeman2240]

Bro! Same thing! 😂

[@Danuxsy]

yes i also thought they were frozen turks

[@Ploobster]

Don't worry bro, when I was a kid, for some reason I thought Sonic the hedgehog was a fucking washing machine.

[@dionis6602]

​@@Ploobster what 💀

[@gvidobarscausks9272]

Oh god, i am being attacked by frozen turkeys

[@bassram3337]

the original game was already designed so well that even the RTX mode doesn't add that much

[@elektra81516]

Wrong

[@ApertureAce]

Every time you passed by a Nova Prospect Combine soldier model and didn't look at it up close I lost of year of my life

[@DeltaNovum]

I also wonder why he didn't turn off/on RTX remix a couple of times. He said you'd have to take a look at the trailer, because when you're able to see the difference you'll know how much it actually improves. Why not show it?!

[@alexanderbohlen5923]

Longest Nova Prospect run

[@darthjump]

"So how many of you remember this level?" Me looking at my other open tab: "half-life veteran plays hl2 3⁶th time"

[@elliottprehn6342]

1:25 man petrified by shadows and forgets the word defined 💀

[@cubaichik]

smoke when shooting should be removed, add lighting for grenades, it would be atmospheric, otherwise everything is not bad 👌. I can't wait to play this masterpiece again

[@gomerjomer9209]

Gun smoke is a cool idea but it should definitely be a togglable option for those who don't want it.

[@Caleb-ew8bm]

Yeah the smoke is a bit much, they aren't using black powder in the HL universe.

[@NovaProspekt19]

There can be a little smoke but damn in this its like a fog machine

[@isokessu]

@@Caleb-ew8bm I was a while in military but not long and I shot like 11 bullets. I notice that when I twist some hole or what ever in AK style rifle, grey smoke came through and I blew air from my mouth to it like in the western movies they blow that colt revolver smoke. so nothing has changed. I always wonder if the machine pistol in HL2 is Swedish or Israeli design. It's kind of funny that aliens in Half Life universe use human technology still so much. Maybe they don't trust Dr. Breen to give him too much technology. The so called AR 3 rifle is alien technology but mixed with human technology

[@BoquinhaSK]

Where is Gordon's shadow?

[@wingstar3048]

Cus remake sucks also this letsplayer

[@hk_asa0pvp]

pretty sure it's because gordon has no real model he's literally just a solid block shaped like a man with concrete texture

[@Caleb-ew8bm]

Gordon doesnt need a shadow, Gordon does not give a f***

[@UltimateEnd0]

Where's Alyx RTX bootay?

[@i.m.pressive]

He is vampire

[@thealmightyone1818]

Isn't the crossbow suppost to have light coming off the re-bar since it's heated up by the battery?

[@spenmac]

"Physx", er no matey boi. HL2 used the Havock physics engine, talk about drinking your own kewl-aid.

[@MagnitudePerson]

Havok* Source 2 uses Rubicon

[@Kysuhnw]

​@MagnitudePerson your mom drinks rubicon

[@v-14415]

@@Kysuhnw your mom drinks physx

[@mnomadvfx]

@@MagnitudePerson Rubicon being another way of saying Valve's in house physics engine. Much as Chaos is Epic's in house physics engine for UE4/5.

[@ricky_pigeon]

@@Kysuhnwyour mom drank dr breens water

[@Leopardipzg]

i hope that smoke plume from revolver gets toned down, so you can actually see enemies being blown to bits

[@Dl.CurMurdar]

That gun smoke is unrealistic and annoying. Especially the cringey smoke rings on the revolver.This isn't 1800s and those are not flintlocks. Modern guns and ammo don't make so much smoke if at all.

[@wasaw_gaming]

taking a quick look at ur channel i can already say ur the perfecg husband for me

[@Arch3an]

I hate the gun smoke too.

[@scoopone]

That super fake video game smoke lol. It needs to be more for realzzzzz

[@dud5606]

your opinion is wrong and gay

[@wasaw_gaming]

@@dud5606 we are inside your walls

[@Just-A-Clown111]

im still not impressed the original HL2 looks so good that i don't even notice that big of a change

[@Kysuhnw]

Yep

[@AlekDjRo]

Will this mod be given for free for us to play?

[@Kysuhnw]

@@AlekDjRo its in their passion to make the game look better and i believe they would love feedback, such a baseless point

[@AlekDjRo]

@@Kysuhnw i asked...if they will give this for free to play what you talking about? what baseless point dude? i know its about the passion..thats why we all here arent we? :))

[@AlekDjRo]

@@Kysuhnw and why you commented yea if you are on the developers side... You must be a twisted bipolar mf or somethin'. 😂🤦‍♂️

[@gorofujita5767]

04:00 I noticed the red LED from the grenades doesn't emit any light. A bit immersion-breaking and against the spirit of this remake tbh

[@voodles1166]

hopefully it's something that just isn't yet implemented

[@InvaderGirrable]

The crash at 37:19 was amazing lmao that was nostalgic. Me and by buddy use to bop our heads like I was Trap Music

[@hstefan]

Very cool however not the groundbreaking visuals I was expecting... Honestly I don't know what I was expecting but this looks decent. I'm really curious how the game looks in more well lit areas like the train station or City 17 center. Hope this gets a release sooner rather than later.

[@pman56789]

Honestly looks so much better and more faithful than Portal RTX. That one was alright, but it really deviated quite a bit from Portal's original artstyle.

[@johntipeti4597]

even till this day the ai and physics are top tier

[@zefko]

Why Gordon does not cast a shadow ?

[@marcooppici9509]

Because it nevere rendered a model in 3d space, it was always a point wandering in the space. I think they could improve this

[@SonicSidewinder]

Cus Gordon been listening to some OASIS!! kzbin.info/www/bejne/pmObhntmm75gbbs

[@hiliktmal]

i like the way they turned the turrets into gamer rgb shooting robots lmao

[@BarberForCatholicTalkingHeads]

Phenomenal. Brings back the feeling of watching that tech demo from 2003 showcasing the physics engine.

[@TJLeBozo]

Half-Life 2 RTX More like Half-Life 2 but how people saw it in 2004 (I’m excited for this project)

[@deimos2k6]

1:38 No, it doesn't. there's a point light source in the distance, the shadow should be equally defined and sharp. The effect you describe happens when the light source has a bigger diffusing area than a single point light. I don't understand why they made such a mistake like that.

[@IBeforeAExceptAfterK]

Am I crazy or is the flashlight not a proper ray-traced light source? Like the red LED on the grenades, it looks like it's still behaving the same as it did back in 2004.

[@dud5606]

It has to be because basically everything is path traced on this engine. It may just be that they faked the effect so well in the original that it looks pretty much on par with the real thing.

[@R3TR0--93]

the gravity gun view model is clipping through the world geometry

[@bastianrekiem2925]

2:53 pequeño consejo para esto, la barra de cobre que lanza la ballesta esta en modo emoción debe generar luz fuerte en corta área y asi iluminar los barrotes, acá no ocurrió, supongo que es por que las armas están en otra escena pero deberían colocar alguna mini fuente de luz en la capa/escena del jugador que se active al colocarse la ballesta.

[@Fujimori_y_Zelensky_ratas]

Hl2 with new effect and models, nothing more

[@kitsune7919]

Cant wait for my rtx 2060 to shit its pants trying to render this

[@DannyFile]

when u r a fan of half-life, u always have to wait for something for many years

[@maya_gameworks]

17:32 you need to work on blood effects. It needs to be dark crimson with purpulish tint and have complex normals for interesting specular highlihgts. Yes I understand that the lighting conditions were special in this case, blood effects still need work.

[@jlyn8228]

I can't wait til a pvp releases with shadow casting being a gameplay factor.

[@marcooppici9509]

The glow on neon fixture stays still while the lamp oscillates 😅 and i can tell why. It is a different entity placed in the map editor (that i used for fun) and not related or grouped with the neon model. Dunno if they can fix it without the uncompiled file and recompile it. Probably not, maybe they could kill the glow sprite and replace it attached to light source?

[@markgruner5812]

This is how I remember the game looking as a teenager lol.

[@fernandosu9804]

Headcrabs looks like a plucked chicken.

[@SD-R_IC-0nSimp]

Question:Will the remixed versions of the music appear in the remaster?

[@n8n8n8n]

This looks so much up to date! Can't wait to put my hands on it!

[@joapguitar]

Is there an estimate when this HL2 RTX will be released?

[@LostCalibre]

So everything casts a perfect shadow Except Gordon Freeman ?

[@lenship2]

tbf gordon freeman literally doesn't have a model in base hl2

[@eineatombombe]

he doesnt have a model in original half life 2. all rtx remix does is change graphics after they have been sent to gpu, so they would have to mod the original game to add it

[@andreagaeta4392]

Basically, Half life 2 remaster

[@gomerjomer9209]

No, more like a remastered texture pack.

[@Kingstantin]

Alright then, developers of Half-Life 2 VR, you know what to do.

[@Slamboni4k]

All they need is lingering dust and it would be perfect

[@sobachkinygnadeya45012]

I really want episodes with RTX.

[@midnitdragoon]

Gordon Freeman doesn't cast a shadow?

[@stefancelmare21]

I wanna see some outdoor levels with watter and grass. Curious how much that is improved.

[@WeSUMMERx]

Now it looks similar enough to Half Life Alyx

[@sebastianandmusic]

Does RTX modification have ultra-wide 21:9, 3440x1440 monitor support? Please answer. Thank you.

[@CHALECOPH]

HALF LIFE 3 confirmando o jogo existe e já está em uma fase avançada de desenvolvimento confirming what many expected: the game exists and is already in an advanced stage of development

[@LadyBits2023]

... The original actually looks better... That's how incredible the lighting design was

[@gameworkerty]

Half Life 2's atmosphere is unmatched, and it would take a ton of skill to take that atmosphere into this style. They did pretty good but it really is missing a certain raw quality, everything looks very soft in this and not really quite there.

[@bastianrekiem2925]

3:54 en una mochila cilindrica que comprime la materia sale solo en el multijugador

[@ricky_pigeon]

I was playing through this part of the game earlier, can't notice anything different except more detailed shadows that fade out after a few feet/meter into ugly blurry shadows. if there was more it might be interesting but when you're in the middle of a fight or figuring out where to go, shadows are the least interesting thing, they could be turned off.. i feel like most of the emersion comes from the textures, level design, sound and music. shadows and im guessing better reflections? come last.

[@notsogrand2837]

Hopefully this runs somewhat nice on AMD.

[@mnomadvfx]

It's running on RTX Remix, so my first thought would be don't hold your breath.

[@notsogrand2837]

@@mnomadvfx Figures.

[@TheMentalgen]

Should be okay-ish on the higher end 7900 series cards.

[@TheCascadeKing]

The creator of the portal with rtx amd mod confirmed that they will make a hl2 rtx amd mod

[@troublemaker9043]

I hope they make mmod for this version

[@bkrcovers2906]

finally, Full-Life 2

[@bunnyfreakz]

They have anything casting a shadow but not Gordon Freeman. Kinda immersion breaking.

[@UniDeathRaven]

Half Life 2 looks even better than it was in original form, what an upgrade!!

[@therojer]

It is just marketing of Nvidia to sell more gpu. Hl2 has stunning graphics without rtx and everything this game need is only new assets. Just look at Alyx by the way! This game also made with great level of shadows so games like that don’t need rtx

[@noxmore]

I'll admit, seeing real-time global illumination for static geometry greatly hurt the optimization part of my brain (i'm a gamedev) Source 2 bakes it all ahead of time, making something of similar quality while being like 50 times faster to render Still, seeing real-time shadow penumbras was cool, it's a neat novelty, and i agree that for Nvidia this is just them trying to sell more GPUs.

[@mattc7420]

Half life 2 textures were 256p and every effect was a flat PNG.

[@Gonz-o8j]

You know when gaming peaked when we are only adding ligth effects to a 20 years old game.

[@HenriqueRck]

Will this run on AMD Radeon cards?

[@Polengue]

I believe so, but running on amd cards doesn't mean it will run well (just look at Portal RTX on amd graphic cards)

[@FreeguyHl]

Good video bro, you deserve more

[@xpoint9629]

So when is this out?

[@DefiniteRicardo]

I am worried about the performance, I did saw a lot of dips especially in some shadowed areas

[@noxmore]

Yeah, while it's a neat novelty, using real-time global illumination for static geometry is REALLY overkill. Source 2 gives similar results while baking static lighting && global illumination, making it much much cheaper to render This is mainly just Nvidia trying to market their cards

[@Finger112]

Now Black Mesa and Half Life 2 are now more on par with each other now! Now Black Mesa needs an RTX mode added to the game!

[@S1nwar]

cant wait to see the new nova prospect escape teleport

[@AmaroqStarwind]

Since this requires an Nvidia card, maybe they should add PhysX as well.

[@BigDipLip]

RTX makes sense for the lighting, but adding 8 times the textures is only going to make it run like a potato. Remember portal RTX?

[@petresculucian7111]

The new headcrab looks like a fresh chicken 🤭

[@stephanodigiorgio1090]

STUNNING!!!

[@chasch333]

I'm sorry but there is NO WAY that 0:11 - 0:14 is just a matter of RTX being off and then on. That is a whole asset rebuild with textures and geometry etc. RTX is for lighting, shadows and reflections.......no way just switching RTX = on rebuilds entire assets of a game. It isn't magic and this is horse crap.

[@adrianthe402nd]

And? What's wrong with touching up assets for an old game?

[@noxmore]

RTX is just the branding for their cards containing path tracing and asset swaping tech It seems like you've synonymized RTX and path tracing, which is understandable considering that was a big part of their marketing strategy imo

[@BitCrusader]

No RTX isn't lighting, it's a brand. Which includes the asset replacement feature they're showing off here

[@illybee3]

yes, it literally said there are new models and textures. why are you getting so upset about a remake just because of the branding? lol

[@ImmersiveGamer83]

I really like it, I wish it worked in VR but it doesn't and won't be able to be added according to wormslayer

[@N.o.t.h.i.n.g.n.e.s.s.]

how many frames does it cost with raytraysing compare to the original??

[@orbital808080]

This guy really gets on nerves..I could only watch 8 minutes.

[@Kysuhnw]

Why

[@samuelsherman5513]

Is this just “Half-Life 2”, or is it also including Episode 1 and 2

[@maximshevtsov6373]

13:33 Look at the reflections on the floor. There is no reflection of the windows! Instead, omni-lights are reflected there. This is not realism. The RTX works, but the remaster is poorly made. After all, it was possible to twist the light so that it shone realistically with quadratic attenuation.

[@TheCascadeKing]

It’s still in development

[@Wizen29]

Can't wait to not being able to play it on 3xxx like portal RTX :( (i mean it was possible but at low framerate)

[@GearSounds]

This looks great! I can't wait to play through this.

[@Taijan1]

This is certainly a good start, I hope they add more detritus and stuff like they did in Alyx, made it feels so much more lived in. (Small rant incoming) Personally, and this is just a me thing, I love it if they revamped the weapons to be more in line with the weapons they had in Alyx. Like certain weapons like the spaz12, the crossbow and the revolver have always felt out of place me and we're only put in because they were in Half Life 1 where they made sense. Like I wish the civil Protection used a sort of Combine Blaster side arm that secondary fire would be the equivalent to a magnum shot, then you swap out the smg with the Combine SMG from Alyx. The spaz 12 was not a widely adopted shotgun, especially so in northern Europe so there's no reason it should be anywhere. I really like the Alyx shotty and would love a full size Rifle version. Instead of a Crossbow it would've been better if the resistance made some mocked up Tau cannons that fired rebar, I reckon that would have made more sense as to why the rebar would become superheated. With the combine smg being the Dark energy Repeater that would have its own version of a grenade launcher, there wouldn't be much use for the pulse rifle so turn that into some kinda of Gatling gun equivalent, or a modified Gluon gun that uses dark energy. It would've made alot more sense to me if the resistance had to manufacture their own weapons because as it states in Alyx, the combine security lock their weapons so making weapons that use combine energy resources and ammunition would be perfect.

[@mnomadvfx]

The problem is that it is still just the Source engine with RTX Remix bolted on.

[@gomerjomer9209]

These are interesting ideas but I don't agree with them in the slightest. I do agree that it's weird that the combine have normal ass human guns as their assigned weapon but it makes sense because the lower ranks have the pistol, smg and shotgun, and only the high ranks have the combine made pulse rifle. because the combine forces are human the closer to the combine they are the more they are trusted with combine technology. I also like the smg and the shotgun as they are, I like that the smg is different from the pulse rifle so it's easy to tell them apart and they have their own identities. Also I don't have an excuse for why the combine is using mass produced shotguns not made near where the game is set but the spas is an awesome looking shotgun and it doesn't really matter at all so I personally like the shotgun. I also really like the pulse rifle, it has great balancing with the way lower ammo count than the smg and imo since it's the design is alien it feels equally like a assault rifle and a sort of large gatling gun. I also like the pistol and revolver on their own as separate guns, even if that means you won't use the pistol that much late game. But I do really like your ideas even though I personally wouldn't replace the originals with them, and I do think they would be really cool guns that would be fun to use in game. Also ignore any toxic comments if you get any.

[@xbl4ck7]

Any release date on this

[@geraldoh9090]

Is this made on the source engine? if it is, i can imagine this beaing a herculean feat.

[@Cookieman01010]

this is an old build not an full release

[@farp3]

bros glazing so bad i dont even know why this vid exists

[@void7837]

isn't this literally a remaster, its still running on source 1 right? he even says so at 9:30 lol also the cricled smoke coming out of the guns is way too cartoony and mismatched

[@madsomsilvacorretor]

Aonde baixa?

[@newblacksouls]

А где тень Гордона Фримена?

[@NukaKokaCola]

А что нибудь существенно поменялось? Этот чел как будто дум 3 играет и удивляется теням

[@deeposv]

Есть убогое колечко дыма, при каждом выстреле из револьвера..

[@CommandersReview]

Улучшенные текстуры, улучшенные модели, улучшенное освещение

[@mattc7420]

Do you have eyes?

[@NukaKokaCola]

@@mattc7420 у меня то есть глаза, а у тебя мозгов нет похоже, раз не понял мой коммент

[@the100ways6]

Can i play it or its in alpha ?

[@NULUSIOS]

...yet the character has no shadow

[@redvoiddd]

RTX on AI off 11:20

[@Caleb-ew8bm]

too much smoke from the magnum man, tone that shit down.

[@MrSongib]

3:24 the donuts kinda obnoxious. xd

[@VALLANCEGAMING]

No avatar shadow tho so eh

[@KappaCow]

nice, more footage of the thing that will never release

[@bastianrekiem2925]

2k, pense que se alocarian con un 4 o 8k, que bueno, mas alla del 2k es inecesario

[@bennettwaisbren]

I neeeeeed it

[@spun6461]

This will be half life in 2013

[@Maevsky_Official]

+ if u want Half Life real Movie

[@evgenim1]

Oversharped and shinny textures are awful.