{"id":219252,"date":"2017-07-11T15:57:59","date_gmt":"2017-07-11T13:57:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=219252"},"modified":"2017-07-11T16:00:10","modified_gmt":"2017-07-11T14:00:10","slug":"half-life-gets-a-new-patch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gaming\/219252-half-life-gets-a-new-patch.html","title":{"rendered":"Half-Life gets a new patch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Valve has <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/steamcommunity.com\/games\/70\/announcements\/detail\/1439314053820431619\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">released a patch<\/a><\/strong> for Half-Life, almost 19 years after it was launched.<\/p>\n<p>The last time the game received an update was in September 2013. It &#8220;fixed crash when loading maps with malformed entity data.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Half-Life launched in November 1998 and is regarded as one of the greatest games of all time.<\/p>\n<p>Its sequel, Half-Life 2, is the best-rated PC game of all time.<\/p>\n<p>The latest patch includes:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"bb_ul\">\n<li>Fixed crash when entering certain malformed strings into the game console.<\/li>\n<li>Fixed crash when loading a specially crafted malformed BSP file.<\/li>\n<li>Fixed malformed SAV files allowing arbitrary files to be written into the game folder.<\/li>\n<li>Fixed a crash when quickly changing weapons that are consumable.<\/li>\n<li>Fixed crash when setting custom decals.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gaming\/219108-valve-bans-over-40000-steam-accounts-after-summer-sale.html\">Valve bans over 40,000 Steam accounts after Summer Sale<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Valve has released a patch for Half-Life, almost 19 years after it was launched.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":208970,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[42922,18208],"class_list":["post-219252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gaming","tag-half-life","tag-valve"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219252"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219252"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":219264,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219252\/revisions\/219264"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}