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Clean-room implementation of Half-Life 2 on the Quake 1 engine

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Rad-Therapy II

The original port of Half-Life 2 (2004) to Quake(World).

The game is not playable from start to finish. You can play deathmatch and other odd modes.

Requires both hl2 and hl2dm directories in order to function. Any copy will do fine. If you're on a case-insensitive filesystem and you're running pre .vpk data files you might want to put them in a .zip and name it 'pak0.pk3'. It's generally easier to just use the latest data from Steam.

Playing/Installing

Run FTE like so:

fteqw.exe -halflife2

It will then automatically attempt to install Rad-Therapy II - when run from within your Half-Life 2: Deathmatch directory.

Building

Git clone Nuclide first, run make update and make fteqcc , then clone the repository inside the Nuclide-SDK:

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