Hello fellow Freemans!

I guess all of you wondered if the great Half-life Update mod maps can be played in VR, because lets be honest - who plays vanilla after the Update was released?

And guess what - it is indeed playable, but it requires some installation steps.
1. Install HL2 Update mod. https://cs2bus.com/steamstore/app/290930/HalfLife_2_Update/
2. Open both "Half-Life 2 Update" and "Half-Life 2 VR" folders in your "steam/steamapps/common" folder
3. Create a "HL2_Update" folder in "Half-Life 2 VR/hl2/custom"(if you don't have a "custom" folder - create one manually)
4. Copy ONLY "maps" folder from "Half-Life 2 Update/hl2" to "Half-Life 2 VR/hl2/custom/HL2_Update"
5.1 Delete all maps that have "Background" in their name from "Half-Life 2 VR/hl2/custom/HL2_Update/maps" - you may leave them be, but prepare to see weird backgrounds not optimised for VR in the main menu.
5. Download a GFCScape from https://gamebanana.com/tools/26 and install it
6. Navigate to "Half-Life 2 Update/hl2" folder and open the hl2_pak_dir.vpk with the GFCScape
7. Extract ONLY the materials folder from it to "Half-Life 2 VR/hl2/custom/HL2_Update"
8. Navigate to the extracted materials folder and delete folders "hud","sdk","vgui", "vr" - if you don't do it - prepare for messed up gui ingame.
9. (Optional) Install 4x upscaled textures from https://gamebanana.com/mods/35640
10. Launch the game and play it. The Update maps automatically take over the vanilla ones, so you don't have to launch them using console or whatever - just play the game as you would normally. You older saves on vanilla maps though will not work because of the changed maps, so restart the game or a chapter.

P.S. So far I only ported maps and textures aspects of HL2 update, porting of everything else requires further testing and will mostly likely introduce problems because of the differences in engine.

P.P.S. So far I only checked the Route Canals chapter - and I've seen zero errors or problems. But there might be issues in other chapters. So be warned.