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Half-Life 2: Year Long Alarm is a fan-made single-player modification for Half-Life 2: Episode Two.
Initially released on April 24, 2012, it was later given a Steam release on November 16th, 2018.
General information
- Steam Community Discussions
- Run Think Shoot Live page
Availability
Essential improvements
Run as Half-Life 2 mod
- Install size can be reduced from 6.3 GB to 226 MB by sharing assets with Half-Life 2 and it's episodes, or Source SDK Base 2013 Singleplayer, rather than being installed standalone.
Move yearlongalarm folder[2]
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- Install Half-Life 2: Year Long Alarm normally, via Steam.
- Navigate to
<path-to-game> .
- Move the
yearlongalarm folder to <Steam-folder>\steamapps\common\Half-Life 2 or <Steam-folder>\steamapps\common\Source SDK Base 2013 Singleplayer .[Note 1]
- Uninstall Half-Life 2: Year Long Alarm via Steam.
- Add
hl2.exe from the Half-Life 2 or Source SDK Base 2013 Singleplayer directories to Steam as a non-Steam game.
- Add the
-game yearlongalarm command line argument to the newly created shortcut.
Note
- Alternatively, download only the mod from Run Think Shoot Live, and install as a Source Mod.
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Game data
Configuration file(s) location
Save game data location
Video
In-game general video settings.
In-game advanced video settings.
Input
In-game key map settings.
In-game mouse/gamepad settings.
Audio
Audio feature |
State |
Notes |
Separate volume controls |
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Game volume and music slider. |
Surround sound |
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4.0, 5.1 and 7.1 surround sound. 7.1 output may require DirectSound3D restoration software. |
Subtitles |
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There is an option to enable subtitles, but no actual subtitles are present. |
Closed captions |
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Mute on focus lost |
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Under a check box in the Audio menu. |
Royalty free audio |
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Localizations
Language |
UI |
Audio |
Sub |
Notes |
English |
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Other information
API
Technical specs |
Supported |
Notes |
Direct3D |
9 |
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Executable |
32-bit |
64-bit |
Notes |
Windows |
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Middleware
System requirements
Windows |
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Minimum |
Recommended |
Operating system (OS) |
XP |
7 |
Processor (CPU) |
1.7 GHz
| Intel Pentium 4 processor (3.0GHz, or better) |
System memory (RAM) |
512 MB |
1 GB |
Hard disk drive (HDD) |
7 GB | |
Video card (GPU) |
DirectX® 8.1 level Graphics Card (Requires support for SSE) DirectX 8.1 compatible
| DirectX® 9 level Graphics Card |
Notes
- ↑ Running via HL2 requires HL2, HL2:Ep1, and HL2:Ep2 to be installed. Running via SDK Base 2013 SP only requires SDK Base 2013 SP to be installed, as it includes both episode's assets.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in
~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/747250/
in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (747250) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.
- ↑ When running this game without elevated privileges (Run as administrator option), write operations against a location below
%PROGRAMFILES%
, %PROGRAMDATA%
, or %WINDIR%
might be redirected to %LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStore
on Windows Vista and later (more details).
- ↑ Tested with Xbox One Controller.
References