This month, Valve celebrated the twenty fifth Anniversary of Half-Life with a reasonably main replace to the unique recreation. The recreation now has higher assist for contemporary screens, resolutions and PC {hardware}, in addition to brand-new content material within the type of new multiplayer maps. The replace might be thought-about a hit, pushing the sport to a brand new all-time peak concurrent participant rely.
As well-known and common because the Half-Life sequence is, the unique recreation does not usually have too many gamers, which is comprehensible for a recreation over 20 years outdated. Typically, the sport averages lower than a thousand concurrent gamers per thirty days. However, following Valve’s twenty fifth Anniversary Update, the numbers have soared.
Steam Charts‘ monitoring now exhibits that Half-Life has hit a brand new all-time peak concurrent participant rely of over 33,467, which is nearly 650% increased than October’s peak participant rely for the sport. The common variety of gamers has additionally elevated considerably, leaping from 517 gamers in October to simply shy of 4,000 gamers in November.
Taking a fast have a look at the sport’s multiplayer exhibits that these aren’t all single-player lovers both, with loads of lively and well-populated multiplayer servers to be discovered. With all of that in thoughts, now is a good time to offer the sport an set up, even whether it is simply to have just a few rounds on a few of Valve’s brand-new multiplayer maps, which had been designed to push the sport’s engine to its absolute limits.
KitGuru Says: Have any of you revisited Half-Life this week following the twenty fifth Anniversary replace?
