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Half-Life 2 Just Got All Messed Up, And People Are Freaking Out

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbY-D7l6nwI

Normally, when a game is updated and things break, it’s cause for concern. When a Valve game updates and things get weird, though, people get excited

Ever since Portal 2 was announced via updates to Portal 1, people have paid extra close attention to any changes made to Valve games, and after a big one to Half-Life 2 this morning, those people are going a little crazy.

A patch sent out over Steam earlier today – for some people hundreds of MB in size, for others over 1GB (sometimes even over 3GB) – has made some weird alterations to the game. Many people’s versions, for example, now feature Korean audio, even though their game settings specify English. Like mine. I can’t even change the language, it’s stuck on Korean. Some people are also reporting broken save game files

https://lastchance.cc/kotaku-timeline-half-life-2-episode-three-5952823%3C/a%3E%3C/p%3E

It’s probably an error, and we’ve contacted Valve to be sure. But when it comes to Valve games, there’s always hope stuff like this is something more, even if it is a fool’s hope…

UPDATE – While we’re yet to hear back from Valve, the game, like other Source Engine titles, was recently converted to the ā€œSteampipeā€ file system, so it’s likely an error with how that handles your update downloads.

UPDATE 2 – Valve tells us it ā€œshould be fixed nowā€.

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