Half-Life 2

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Half-Life 2 Better — collection of mods from the steam workshop designed to preserve the original aesthetics of Half-Life 2 and improve and fix some details.

Update 1.1:
Episodes Support!
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[gb reup] gravgun and crossbow selfillum fix
Created by goobert
reuploaded from gamebanana, originally made by Alfa33 im willing to remove this mod if the original creator requests so...
[Official] Definitive HL2 Fixes Community Edition
Definitive HL2 Fixes Community Edition — this is a mix of weapon fixing mods from different authors to try to recreate what we get in the original mod by m416__ender Original WIP mod: Definitive HL2 Fixes Build base: Half-Life 2: Vanilla Fixed Weapons Addi...
Alyx TV Static Reskin 'fix'
Created by [CIA] Phobos
Replaces d1_town_05's TV static of Alyx Vance when she speaks to Leon with pure, blank static. This is a 'fix' intended to be used with custom reskins of Alyx that forget to replace this....
Alyx's Enhanced Multitool
Created by Sirgibsalot
A facelift for Alyx's multitool model, with a more detailed mesh and texture that still keeps within HL2's art style and level of detail. This is modified from a model found in Half-Life 2: Survivor, a version of the game specially built for Japan arcades ...
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...
Combine Advisor from Episode Two
Created by XRGM1267
This is intended for Half-Life 2 and Episode One. So, I recommend that if you switch to Episode Two, disable the addon if you don't need it. Here is one of my Half-Life 2 addons I created uploaded to the Workshop (with more to come eventually). It is the C...
Combine Button Fix
Created by ctwoafiveb
Always bothered me how the combine buttons glow red even though 99% of them use colored sprites to indicate their status, the green ones obviously not playing especially well with that texture. Here I've corrected this oversight by replacing the red with a...
Dynamic Fire Glow
Created by Hds46
Adds dynamic light to burning objects Will apply dlight mostly for zombies, headcrabs and some flammable props. I've fixed an issue with NPCs blindness, it should work as intended on any map. This addon requires enabed Episodic behavior which has following...
Dynamic Light (Projectiles)
Created by Hds46
Adds neat dynamic light for projectiles: grenades, rpg missiles, combine balls. I recommend to install Leet Rebake - HL2 Maps Remaster as well which fixes some issues with my dynamic light mods and adds a lot of fixes and improvements to the game. Semi com...
Edited / Fixed Airboat
Created by Theplayerthatexists
Edited airboat model by Alfa33. Upload comes with the shorter cage version. - Re-enabled specular reflections, the alpha mask and materials settings have been tweaked using the Scout Car as a visual reference. - Fixed part of the steering column turning wi...
Edited Scout Car
Created by Theplayerthatexists
Improves the default scout car. Works nicely with this mod: https://gtm.steamproxy.vip/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3369790010 - Cleaned up clipping at the rear of the car. - Removed the floating "radio" pieces at the back. - Replaced the generic "box" in t...
Eli Combo Shirt
Created by ChalkyMalky
Combines the HL2/Ep1 Harvard shirt's logo on the Ep2 Checker pattern. This is an updated workshop port of this gamebanana mod I made....
Enhanced Alyx Model
Created by 󠁳⁧⁧ Nai
Replaces the old low quality Alyx Vance model with the newer one with high quality texture and model. Reupload of specified mod: https://gamebanana.com/skins/135258...
Enhanced Blood Textures
Created by 󠁳⁧⁧ Nai
Completely overhauls blood texture by replacing old blood textures with newer ones. ...
Episode 4 Grigori (Black Shirt)
Created by Theplayerthatexists
This mod makes Father Grigori look like the one from the cancelled half life episode. This is the black shirt variant. Original Upload: https://gamebanana.com/mods/182704...
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...
Fixed Grenade World Model Texture
Created by Aarik
Fixes the world model texture for the active/thrown grenades so they have proper lighting and aren't fullbright (also results in the shadowing/AO for non-existent spoon not showing up as well like intended!). Other Fixes: Fixed Pistol Bullet Casing Ejectio...
HL2 | Extended Citizens
Created by Fortress_Bucket
CREDITS: I DID NOT MAKE ANY MODELS OR TEXTURES, ALL I DID WAS SIMPLY REMOVE CERTAIN MODELS AS THEY WERE PREVIOUSLY BROKEN ALSO PLEASE DO NOT SUGGEST NEW MODELS OR RNG AS THEY AREN’T POSSIBLE FOR ME TO DO SADLY Black Mesa Security Officer on Steam: -Model &...
Improved Vehicle's Textures
Created by ArgyBargyGuy / Can
"I made these vehicles look more dynamic and sensible. By modifying the .vmt file and using some components from hla." https://gamebanana.com/mods/550924 From: The Necrotic ...
Interloper
Created by Dolphin
Adds the interloper (umbrella man) himself to Ravenholm. Texture recreation made by me. This mod is incompatible with other mods that change d1_town_01....
Lore Friendly Post-Ravenholm Early Morning
Created by UnknownPleasures
A small but useful patch that changes the timeline of the last Ravenholm chapter map from day to early morning, to be more logical. There was a short period of time when you was going through the headcrab infested mines, so it makes sense it should be earl...
Moving Foliage
Created by Jay0Jantern
Moving Foliage, windy day huh? Socials https://imgur.com/0y8ca0j.png Welcome! Heyo! This mod makes most foliage textures sway with the wind, this is the Windy version of the original mod here. It works with retextures but not remodels It causes almost all ...
H.U.D Classic Retouched
Created by Gabriel ML
WARNING, i didn't made this mod. This is a Gamebanana reupload. The original author gave me the permission to upload this (This also means that any bugs are not fixable by me, since i didn't make any of this) Heyo! Have you ever wanted the HUD Weapon icons...
Restored Episodic Hunter-Chopper Bomb
Created by JustARegularGamer
Original Creator: https://gamebanana.com/members/3840901 & Valve for the BOMB (you want it? its yours's my friend as long as you have enough rubies!) Original gamebanana Mod: https://gamebanana.com/mods/569826 Gamebanana description: Something that I've ma...
Restored Fire Color
Created by Taehl
HL2's campaign maps were lit for the old fire effect that was really yellow, and the new fire effects don't look right in them. This has bugged me for so long I finally figured out how to fix it. This is not a retexture, and should be compatible with mods ...
Retail Styled Misc Synths
Created by Mr Ant-Tenna
oh hey little bob! you like your crab synth looking like the beta since it's barely all that's left from it? let me just STRIP IT AWAY FROM YOU AND CRUSH IT IN FRONT OF YOUR EYES. this mod is just a little "improvement" for people that didn't really like h...
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 ...
Lowered Weapon Sprint
Created by 󠀡󠀡
For this script to work after subscription, it is needed to bind the key via commands of the developer console. In this case, SHIFT is used and could be changed to any: bind shift +sprint For the weapon to be lowered while sprinting, the view model must in...
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.) ...
Wall Chargers with AO
Created by Crowbar_XL
From: https://gamebanana.com/mods/460082 Original desc: Ambient Occlusion. Made as a request Mod adds fake shadows around health/suit chargers. Features: Is a model replacer Works with re-textures Does not work with custom re-models and re-animations Porte...
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...
Afternoon Sandtraps [Map Replacement] (UPDATE!)
Created by MNC
https://files.catbox.moe/xkcbdb.png Now updated with adjusted sun positioning for all maps! Highway 17 is a... bit of a long chapter, isn't it? Not as long as Water Hazard and especially when you're not even exploring everything, but where's the fun in tha...
Kleiner Lens Restored
Created by NikoBellicFromGB
I wasn't a fan of Kleiner's glasses looking like the lens was empty so I fixed it using the beta lens texture and restoring the lens envmap mask too. :)...
AR1 Consistency Patch
Created by [DATA EXPUNGED]
For those who wanted it. So called "AR3 believers" want you to think that there are THREE guns in the AR line up. I don't believe in that SISSY crap... everyone knows there's only TWO ARs... AR1s & AR2s! This add-on RIGHTFULLY LABELS the Emplacement Gun wi...
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...
Grenade Tweaks
Created by julian
Various tweaks to the default grenade. See the preview video for a demonstration. -Adjusted animations so that Gordon pulls the pin before throwing the grenade -Added a new sound for the pin detaching (there was no such sound previously)...
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