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What is Minor Improvements and Fixes?
As suggested by the title, this is a collection of many different workshop items I have found that provide additional fixes and improvements to HL2 and its episodes with minimal performance impacts. I do not own any of these addons, if you are the creator of any of these addons and you'd like me to remove them for any reason, please discuss that with me through the comments section or a DM.

This collection includes "slight touchup" addons that do minor changes to game assets such as fixing UV issues to in-game models like Kleiner and the HEV Suit, animation fixes to models like the crowbar, the shotgun and more. The collection also includes other touchups including:
  • Adding in/fixing missing or broken assets like the addition of the light bridge sounds and properties from Portal 2, the Advisor sequences in EP2 and more.
  • Improvements to gamplay mechanics or tech such as bringing back the original ragdoll physics that were altered in future updates, increasing the FOV of the flashlight so it has a wider range it can light up, etc.
  • Sound remasters such as replacing some of the Metrocop voicelines that have inconsistencies with their voice filter.
  • And many more

BEFORE YOU DOWNLOAD ADDONS PLEASE READ THE FOLLOWING
This collection has been set to allow you to subscribe to any of these addons and not all of them, so you can tailor your experience to how you want it, if you want to use HL2:MMOD weapon models and sounds, then you can choose every addon except for weapon fixes since that would conflict with your addon of choice.
That being said some addons included in the collection have alternative versions that conflict with one another so you need to choose which one you'd like to have over the other, an example being the 2 zombie addons 'Zombie Animation Improvements' and 'classic zombie model fixes' where you need to choose between having better looking models or better looking animations. The footstep addons also have this same thing, you have to choose between having touched up versions of the original HL2 footstep sounds or having them replaced with high quality versions of the footstep sounds from HL1.
Items (33)
(Slightly) Improved Kleiner
Created by ChalkyMalky
A not so significant tweak mod I made after being bothered about his hand's UVs and color inconsistency. Disclaimer: This mod replaces Kleiner's model to fix the UVs so this won't be compatible with any other mod that tweaks his model, also for full disclo...
Advisor Barn Fix
Created by THG
Fixes missing sounds during the barn sequence in Episode 2. Reupload of a reupload of a decade old fix. Thanks to Dr. SourceCode for their GameBanana mod and video showcase. Originally fixed in 2013 by https://gtm.steamproxy.vip/id/ajmartins12...
Bloody Rebel Texture Fix
Created by Jsen
fixes bloody rebel texture...
Cargo Container Bumpmap Fix
Created by Mr. Someguy
Fixes the bumpmaps for the Shipping Container in Half-Life 2. Many years ago Valve broke the bumpmaps on the all the shipping containers resulting in a very flat bland texture. This is a fixed model, which properly displays bumpmaps to add proper depth to ...
Citizen Finger Animation Fix
Created by Texas Steve!
Tired of your fellow rebels constantly having tea drinking finger poses while gesturing or aiming their weapons? Then this fix is for you! I went through hopefully almost all of the animations that had missing poses for the ring and pinky fingers which inc...
Enhanced Glass Shattering
Created by 󠁳⁧⁧ Nai
Replaces old glass shatter texture into the newer high quality one. Ported to Half Life 2 from: https://gamebanana.com/effects/4534...
Crowbar "Miss" Animation Fix
Created by MaximumADHD
This fixes a minor issue with the crowbar where the "miss" animations end in a pose that is slightly different from the idle animation (likely due to them being recycled animations from the 2002 crowbar) It's a nitpick, but it was irking me enough to do so...
Dark Source - dark theme for your HUD!
Created by Lonlox
Will the old white menu blind your eyes? Then this mod is for you. Dark Source changes the menu color from white to dark! I really hope that there will be fans of the dark theme like me) Tip: The mod will only work when entering the map. Because mods are l...
Enhanced Combine Forcefield
Created by 󠁳⁧⁧ Nai
Replaces old combine forcefield with the newer one. Provides new high-quality sound, completely different forcefield blur effect. ...
EP1 Hunter Fix
Created by RobinVista
Ported from GameBanana: https://gamebanana.com/mods/523062 Essentially replaces the old EP1 Hunter model with the EP2 Hunter Model. Credits: Blue_Lambda0125 for uploading the original mod on GameBanana. Me for uploading the mod to the workshop....
Fixed Combine Thumper
Created by Wolƒe Strider
The emissives were broken on the Thumper so I took the texture from Half-Life 2: Update and created this workshop addon. The texture that is changed is: materials/models/props_combine/combinethumper001.vtf...
Fixed Default HEV Suit Texture
Created by Ultimatum
I took a shot at fixing the HEV Suit's arms texture! I really like the final result, plus I added some minor texture improvement for the rest of the suit! No brand new HD stuff here, this is just meant to improve the DEFAULT quality texture of the HEV suit...
EP2 Health HUD fix for Steam Deck and GamepadUI
Created by xdshot
Restores missing Health numbers block in Episode 2 and camapaigns based off EP2. This fix is intended for Steam Deck version and -gamepadui. The error is caused by typo in ep2/ep2_pak_dir_vpk/scripts/hudlayout.res Will keep it around there until Valve push...
Fixed foostep sounds
Created by Ste4lthHunt3r
Fixed some footstep sounds which contained a high frequency noise in their recording. These are for metal, wood and concrete footsteps. Additionally rubber footstep sounds from Garry's Mod has been ported over to lessen the annoyance of rubber floors...
Half-Life/Goldsrc HD Resampled Footsteps Replacement
Created by VoidLeak
This addon replaces the default Footstep sounds with their counterparts from Half-Life/Goldsrc, in HD! All these sounds have been resampled by the one and only Senn! All thanks to them for the sounds! I have been given permission to use these sounds in add...
HD Video Feeds (Black & White)
Part of my Half-Life 2 Touchups Collection: https://gtm.steamproxy.vip/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3367711703 Ever taken a look at the video feeds in Kleiner's lab and said "Huh, I wonder where those are from?" So did we over at Wolfcl0ck Productions. So m...
Horse Statue Tail Fix
Created by Scoman!
Muh-hade this back in 2016, never published or distributed it anywhere... now it's here! KISS MY ASS...
Hunter Minigun Audio Fix
Created by Gabriel ML
Heyo! Have you ever noticed that when the Hunter fires at you the minigun is quiet af, but when you're far away from him, the minigun is loud? Well this happens because the "ministrider_fire1.wav" file has the Left (Close) and Right (Far) channels inverted...
Jiggly Physgun Hand Fix
Created by Bunslinger
A small bug/oversight that I'm pretty sure only I notice and care about. For whatever reason, a portion of the back of Gordon's hand shares a vertex group with the needle on the gauge on the back of the gravity gun, so when it jiggles, so does the back of ...
Light Bridge Footstep Sounds
Created by Qwerbey
It's always bothered me that Combine forcefields use the default, concrete footstep sounds, so, back in 2020, I made a quick little addon to change it. This addon ports the Hard Light Bridge surface property from Portal 2, and adds it to the Combine forcef...
Metrocop texture fixes
Created by webslinger052
This mod fixes Metrocop's poorly textured glove and adds a boot sole onto the texture that was completely missing before https://gamebanana.com/mods/385200 gamebanana version...
Metrocop Voice Consistency "Fix"
Created by ChalkyMalky
This mod replaces the leftover beta metrocop sounds (which has a different sounding filter used) with refiltered versions (courtesy of the leak having the raw unfiltered versions of these sounds) using Dr_Al_'s filter which sounds closer to the final game'...
Missing Decals Fix
Part of my Half-Life 2 Touchups Collection: https://gtm.steamproxy.vip/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3367711703 Simple mod. Reimplements the two missing decals from City 17. As far as I can tell, these are the only missing textures in the game. If you find a...
ORIGINAL REFLECTIONS FIX
Created by VavaL1Xx
This addon brings back the original reflections on weapons and the HEV suit, which were broken in the current version of the game. These reflections are, of course, present in the game, but in rather small proportions....
Pistol Shell Ejection Fix
Created by sneed
Fixed 9mm Pistol shell ejection....
QoL: Larger Flashlight Fov
Created by chief
QoL | Quality of Life This addon makes flashlight FOV larger, which increases from 45 to 100. If you want to disable this addon, simply bind the flashlight key back to F. Requires Script MultiLoader by Hds46....
Script MultiLoader
Created by Hds46
This mod solves a problem with loading multiple scripts at the same time by replacing skill_mainfest.cfg and game.cfg files. So you can download and use other script mods from workshop without them conflicting with each other. Up to 1000 script slots are c...
Shotgun Reload Fix
Created by hl1x
im annoyed valve hasnt fixed this in the new update so i did it myself DISCLAIMER FOR THE GUN ACCURACY PEOPLE OR SMTH IDK "where the shell is going is not what this fixes the insert shell was missing a command in the qc so it blended with the idle making i...
Soldier/Police Finger Animation Fix
Created by epicplayer40
Allows custom Combine Soldier/Metropolice models to have 5 fingers animated instead of the usual 3 that HL2 allows. This addon works with both base Half-Life 2 and episodes. This replaces the animation files for the soldiers and police, so if you have any ...
Zombie Animation Improvements
Created by THG
Collection of improvements to zombie animations built from original sources. This mod needs priority over other zombie mods including model replacements because they're incompatible otherwise (this probably has the animation features implemented already.) ...
classic zombie model fixes
Created by webslinger052
This mod edits the classic zombie models to fix a small issues like headcrab missing teeth and a few uv issues. this also fixes big issues like the zombie torso being incredibly messed up....
Combine Soldier Voice Consistency Fix
Created by PostScript
This is a mod that replaces the pain and death sounds for the Combine Soldier with re-filtered versions of the unfiltered recordings (cs_pain1-4.wav + cs_pain7.wav and cs_pain10.wav). This mod was partially inspired by ChalkyMalky's Metrocop Voice Consiste...
Half-Life Audio Remaster | HEV VOX
Created by +jump
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Vh1UkCPXLA Also includes lines for HL2:MMOD (drag and drop vpk into 'custom' folder) Volume can be changed with 'suitvolume' command (0.4 by default, 1.0 max)...