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Simple Tut: How to load custom maps for Half-Life 2

By Post-Ironic Dingus

A simple tutorial explaining how to load custom maps into Half-Life 2, or any other source game or mod.

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Category: Gameplay Basics, Maps or Levels, Modding or Configuration

Languages: English

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10 May, 2013 @ 10:55pm

15 Sep, 2020 @ 1:52pm

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Guide Index

Overview

Finding and placing maps

Using and playing the map in-game

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Finding and placing maps

To load custom maps into Half-Life 2, you would need to download the map, of course. Good places to download these maps are places like GAMEBANANA.com and Garrysmod.com (if the map only has Half-Life 2 content in it). Once the map is downloaded, copy it to this folder C:\Program Files\Steam\Steamapps\common\half-life2\hl2\maps. This is the location for the maps if you have already "Steam-Piped" Half-Life 2 or any of the episodes.

Using and playing the map in-game

Then, start the game and press the tilde key (~) to open up the developer console. If the console does not come up, go to your options and go to the keybindings tab, and press the "Advanced" button. A small window opens up and check the box that says "Enable Developer console". Now you will be able to open the console.

Once you open the consiole, type in "map" and then put in the file name of the map after that (excluding the .bsp extension).

There you have it, now you can play any custom map for any specified Source game.

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OwlMomo43 10 May @ 6:58pm

this does not work. don't listen to him guys. he is lying. I tried and it still did not work. I typed in "map best_hl2_map_ever" and it would not work. do not listen to this tutorial.