Steam community makes popular shooters blossom after 17 years

The lambdageneration, a well-known Half-Life community, has recently called for an interesting event. Many fans of the shooter series followed the call and breathed the shooter of Valve new life again.

Steam: Half-Life 2 rises in unimagined heights

Although not very long, Half-Life 2 was reflected in the form of unusually many accesses on SteamDB after many years after many years. But what happened? Simply expressed: the influence of the community has happened.

The idea: Let us try if the game can break through the current mark of 6,882 simultaneous access. Said and done. As part of the so-called breaking-the-bar events, which was organized by the lambdageneration, the game was able to set up new records within a short time with the help of numerous fans.

On the one hand, the current accesses were raised by 9.219 to 16.101 simultaneous players, on the other hand, the previous record of 12,953 players could be banned .

Gongrats to Everyone for Breaking The All-Time Peak in Half-Life 2!

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Age of Half Life 2 restricts Steam Tracking

Since the old-established ego shooter has been on the hump for several years, the tracking of the access numbers are more difficult . Many of the tracking features does not support the game. In addition, there is a fact that many players Half-Life 2 have set aside as Valve began to pursue and analyze accesses.

Thanks to the successful community action and the rain rush, but certainly the is likely to have found one or the other players who did not know the story about Gordon Freeman and the man with the briefcase and now fancy more got. Incidentally, the next action for Portal 2 is already planned for September 4th.

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The skillfully told Story enemies deep into the game and helped the franchise to become a milestone of the shooter genres together with a clenched charge.