Why does half life 2 come included with half life 1 source?

[CJMaster]

The Hl2 game files are taking up space and when i delete them half life 1 source wont work but half life 1 death match source will work


Edit: 2 years later I'm apologizing for being a dumbass as this was around the time when I was first getting into pc gaming (I was a console gamer for the entirety of my life before 2020) and I'm keeping this post up just to preserve the argument in the comments

[Lychy]

Because its basically a mod for half life 2

[Mλrtin2H]

redownload HL Source it should download all the files it needs from Half-Life 2

[Cat]

Not the smartest idea to delete the HL2 files if you wanna play Half-Life Source.

[Ikagura]

Originally posted by mactera spawn:

Because its basically a mod for half life 2

No, it's not.

[Lychy]

Originally posted by Ikagura:

Originally posted by mactera spawn:

Because its basically a mod for half life 2

No, it's not.

How so

[Ikagura]

Originally posted by mactera spawn:

Originally posted by Ikagura:

No, it's not.

How so

Because it's not a "mod" of Half-Life 2, actually you don't even need to buy HL² at all to play Half-Life Source.


It's a port of the first Half-Life at best, not a mod.

[Lychy]

Originally posted by Ikagura:

Originally posted by mactera spawn:

How so

Because it's not a "mod" of Half-Life 2, actually you don't even need to buy HL² at all to play Half-Life Source.


It's a port of the first Half-Life at best, not a mod.

In a technical way, it would be considered a mod since it runs right off of Half-Life 2's engine and its resources, if you were to type into the launch options of hl2 "-game hl1" , half life source would play

[Ikagura]

Originally posted by mactera spawn:

Originally posted by Ikagura:

Because it's not a "mod" of Half-Life 2, actually you don't even need to buy HL² at all to play Half-Life Source.
It's a port of the first Half-Life at best, not a mod.

In a technical way, it would be considered a mod since it runs right off of Half-Life 2's engine and its resources, if you were to type into the launch options of hl2 "-game hl1" , half life source would play

That's because of how the Source engine works, most of the assets came from HL2 but the game is still its own thing.


You cannot convince me to believe that Portal 1 and 2 are Half-Life 2 mods.


If you wanna be really technical then Half-Life² is a Quake mod.

[Lychy]

Originally posted by Ikagura:

Originally posted by mactera spawn:

In a technical way, it would be considered a mod since it runs right off of Half-Life 2's engine and its resources, if you were to type into the launch options of hl2 "-game hl1" , half life source would play

That's because of how the Source engine works, most of the assets came from HL2 but the game is still its own thing.


You cannot convince me to believe that Portal 1 and 2 are Half-Life 2 mods.


If you wanna be really technical then Half-Life² is a Quake mod.

Portal 1 and 2 cannot be mods since they run on different engine versions than Half-Life 2, Quake cannot be a mod either since the engine is mostly overwritten, a mod would not mess with the engine in any way. HLS is a mod since it does not mess with the engine and lives in the same directory as HL2

[Ikagura]

Originally posted by mactera spawn:

Originally posted by Ikagura:

That's because of how the Source engine works, most of the assets came from HL2 but the game is still its own thing.

You cannot convince me to believe that Portal 1 and 2 are Half-Life 2 mods.

If you wanna be really technical then Half-Life² is a Quake mod.

Portal 1 and 2 cannot be mods since they run on different engine versions than Half-Life 2, Quake cannot be a mod either since the engine is mostly overwritten, a mod would not mess with the engine in any way. HLS is a mod since it does not mess with the engine and lives in the same directory as HL2

You can't just change the rules about what is a mod or not.

Gunmen Chronicles isn't a HL mod either.

[Lychy]

Originally posted by Ikagura:

Originally posted by mactera spawn:

Portal 1 and 2 cannot be mods since they run on different engine versions than Half-Life 2, Quake cannot be a mod either since the engine is mostly overwritten, a mod would not mess with the engine in any way. HLS is a mod since it does not mess with the engine and lives in the same directory as HL2

You can't just change the rules about what is a mod or not.

Gunmen Chronicles isn't a HL mod either.

What rules have been changed? Why wouldn't gunman be a Half-life mod?

[Ikagura]

Originally posted by lychy:

Originally posted by Ikagura:

You can't just change the rules about what is a mod or not.
Gunmen Chronicles isn't a HL mod either.

What rules have been changed? Why wouldn't gunman be a Half-life mod?

HL:S is a port of Half-Life to the source engine at best, Portal isn't a HL mod either despite being included in the Orange box and Gunmen Chronicles is also its own retail game (unless you're refering to the mod version available on ModDB because the game is basically abandonware).

[Lychy]

Originally posted by Ikagura:

Originally posted by lychy:

What rules have been changed? Why wouldn't gunman be a Half-life mod?

HL:S is a port of Half-Life to the source engine at best,abandonware).

Yep, and it's also a mod for Half-Life 2, if you were to create a mod for Half-Life 2 and port Half-Life 1's assets, you'd make Half-Life Source

[Ikagura]

Originally posted by lychy:

Originally posted by Ikagura:

HL:S is a port of Half-Life to the source engine at best,abandonware).

Yep, and it's also a mod for Half-Life 2, if you were to create a mod for Half-Life 2 and port Half-Life 1's assets, you'd make Half-Life Source

Then Counter Strike 1.6 should be considered as a mod for Half-Life then.

[Lychy]

Originally posted by Ikagura:

Originally posted by lychy:

Yep, and it's also a mod for Half-Life 2, if you were to create a mod for Half-Life 2 and port Half-Life 1's assets, you'd make Half-Life Source

Then Counter Strike 1.6 should be considered as a mod for Half-Life then.

It technically is