Half-Life 2's anniversary update broke a simple speedrunning strat that was in use for 20 years, so Valve has now fixed the 'fix' in a new patch
The 20thꦦ anniversary update included some annoying✅ changes for speedrunners

Speedruns are often reliant on the most random, funnily obscure quirks in any given game. You don't need to look further than the recent 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Half-Life 2 20th anniversary update for proof, as Valve added a fix to the two-decade-old game that acciden🌼tally broke a small speedrunning strategy, and it's now had to fix its 'fix.'
Valve could have probably messed with spꦿeedrunners by rejigging any square inch of Half-Life 2, but this time it added an invisible wall to a giant sewer pipe in the Route Kanal section of the game, which you can see in the playthrough video below. As explained by , Valve seemingly always wanted the pipe to be blocked up until the player completed a puzzle, flooded the room, and was able to swim through it.

Regardless, the rest of Valve's hefty update has locked some speedrunners out of various other strategies, big and small,💛 meaning it's probably best to play Half-Life 2 on an older build if you're planning to whizz through it as fast as possible. For now, as of earlier this week, Valve has at least "removed collision from an underwater tube that speed runners enjoy," as it writes in its latest .
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