The amount of people being ♥♥♥♥♥ in this thread is pretty pathetic honestly you can play half life or any game on the pc with a controller if its allowed. You are allowed to do so just because you want to use a controller doesn't make you any less of a pc gamer. People need to serisouly grow up. Simple. Hello Everyone!In this video I will show you how to enable a developer console and it's actually pretty easy. This method works in almost all source engine g You should play through Half-Life 2 to get the story, but no, you don't need to own the base game at all. #3. The author of this thread has indicated that this post answers the original topic. Nathan Aug 28, 2022 @ 12:25am. You absolutely do need to OWN Half-Life 2 on steam in order to play it, it's a mod that's free and requires it because it Copy all the DLL's from the "MS\x86" directory of dgVoodoo2 into the "Half-Life 2\bin" directory of HL2. The directory path is probably the most important part as its non-standard. It initially threw me off and I've probably installed DLL's into hundreds of game directories for these types of "wrapper" utils. Twitter: @Nutritious_B_CInstagram: @nutritious_bag_circlesHopefully this helps anyone wanting to get into playing the many wonderful and great mods that the Open the Steam Client, select "Games," then double-click on "Garry's Mod." Click on "Play Singleplayer" on the Main Menu. Click on the "Icons" tab, then scroll down to "Half Life 2" and click on the "+" symbol to expand the maps for "Half Life 2." Double-click on the first map to start the "Half-Life 2" campaign. Become Gordon Freeman, pick up your crowbar, and immerse yourself in the world of Half-Life 2 like never before! Grab and throw objects with your hands, physically climb ladders and play catch with Dog as if you were really there. Fight the Combine in the streets of City 17 while manually reloading your guns. Open the Steam Client, select “Games,” then double-click on “Garry’s Mod.”. Click on “Play Singleplayer” on the Main Menu. Click on the “Icons” tab, then scroll down to “Half Life 2” and click on the “+” symbol to expand the maps for “Half Life 2.”. Double-click on the first map to start the “Half-Life 2” campaign. Install Garry's mod and half life 2 in the same steam folder and run Garry's mod to make sure the half life 2 maps loaded in. After this exit Garry's mod and enter the steam workshop. Look for VR mod and subscribe. In the description of the mod it also lists a GitHub link. Go here and download the files. To install, extract the Garry's mod file To play with friends, subscribe to the collection, select Half-Life Co-op gamemode in the bottom right and just start hls00amrl map ( Half-Life Resized Maps category) through Garry's Mod menu. To start up a dedicated server, add the following line to srcds launch properties. +host_workshop_collection 1477402092 +gamemode hl1coop +map hls00amrl. 1mQgHWX.