Blue Shift and Opposing Force Steam Update!

Half-Life Series
#1

I guess Opposing Force and Blue Shift were given the Steam Pipe treatment, because when I went to run Blue Shift, I got the “Content needs to be updated!” message like Half-Life 2 and the episodes. When I ran Blue Shift, however, I was surprised to hear that the original soundtracks are back and they played in the game now. I tried Opposing Force, and it also updated, and the songs are back there as well!

Also, the Blue Shift hud is now blue… I don’t THINK it was before (I could be mistaken).

So, sorry if this is old news, I don’t think I’ve seen anyone bring this up…

PS: It’s also cool that Half-Life was updated, and now the songs play through level transitions… Now only if they could do that to Half-Life 2

#2

I thought I would bump this thread a little for some action the HL sub forum. Also, I just played through the Original HL series under OSX. Thanks valve!

#3

The BS HUD was not, in fact, previously blue. Awesome that they fixed the music, too.

#4

Actually the hud was blue from the beginning.

#5

But not in the Steam version, that’s what they mean.

#6

Yeah, the Steam versions of the HL games have always been a little buggy. I wonder, did they fix the thing where you push a box and it goes rocketing off?

#7

awesome I might reinstall the steam version again

#8

Last time I played it sure didn’t seem like it.

…If they do that, and let songs play through transitions for BS and Op4, they’ll be back to their full glory!

#9

BS is running as it supposed to be, but OP4’ music is still not fixed for real. Tracks are not in the original order.

#10

The blue HUD in Blue Shift never existed in the Steam version, although was in a non-Steam version.

#11

The music did seem unfitting in most of the situations…

Well, it does now! :smiley:

Speaking of Blue Shift… I wonder how Skyms is doing… :expressionless:

#12

Actually, Op4 had its own specially-composed soundtrack. Somebody has ripped the songs off the cd, and put them on the internet, all renamed so that Op4 on steam will play them at the correct times.

#13

Op4 and BS use the same soundtrack
I know because they have the same songs on the discs

#14

Right, Chris Jensen composed the soundtrack for Gearbox when they were making Op4, and then they used it again for BS.

#15

I think he was saying that they just play out of order, since that’s literally what he said.

#16

And I was disagreeing: Steam versions of Opposing Force and Blue Shift (for whatever reason) use the wrong sound track, the regular Half-Life soundtrack, inserted into the same places where the Op4 soundtrack, which is made up of entirely different songs, was intended to go.

#17

I think he’s saying that it was changed, just now, to the original soundtrack, but the new songs play out of order.

#18

Ohh, if that’s what he was saying, then I take back my last comment. I haven’t checked what the songs are since the update.

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