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Half-Life 2just got a small update, mostly to fix a long-running music bug.

Valve have now corrected that, removing the offending blocker and restoring order to the universe.

Oh, you clever little speedos.

The player faces a large sewer pipe in Half-Life 2, lit with a red light.

As you’re free to imagine, this made the usual speedrun trick impossible.

It won’t be quite enough to entice record holders to switch to new version, says Peng.

But it’s a decent gesture to novice speedrunners.

An image of the Route Kanal pipe in Half-Life 2 as viewed in a map editor.