how to play multiplayer

Half-Life 2131 views4 favorites1 min readby ddogsaysUpdated Oct 26, 2025View on Steam ↗

step 1

go into the settings of the game and go to launch options

step 2

add -maxplayers [number] to the launch options what do I mean by number just set it to how many people you want to play with in the game

step 3

now load into a map using changelevel command

step 4

get a friend to join you through the connect command

that's it

this is it but warning some maps crash your game when you get to far in them but the lost coast map has 0 crashes maybe
but background maps are the best to play in
but avoid ep2_background_02 because I think that the one that crashes the game the only one that crashes the game of the background maps

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