{"id":21234,"date":"2013-04-30T11:00:52","date_gmt":"2013-04-30T18:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/?p=21234"},"modified":"2013-04-30T10:24:32","modified_gmt":"2013-04-30T17:24:32","slug":"minerva-returns-with-shiny-new-directors-cut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/2013\/04\/30\/minerva-returns-with-shiny-new-directors-cut\/","title":{"rendered":"Minerva returns with shiny new director&#8217;s cut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"fancybox\" rel=\"21234\" href=\"http:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/metastasis_3_5.jpg\"<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/metastasis_3_5.jpg\" alt=\"metastasis_3_5\" width=\"600\" height=\"375\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-21235\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Adam Foster has posted a director&#8217;s cut version of his Half-life 2 mod <a href=\"https:\/\/hylobatidae.org\/minerva\/\">Minerva<\/a> to Steam for everyone to easily enjoy. No more fumbling with separate pack downloads! It&#8217;s still free but Foster has tweaked puzzles, fixed bugs, and given the whole thing a nice coat of polish. The mod made waves when it was first released for being one of the best (and first) user-made singleplayer add-ons for Half-Life 2 that followed Valve&#8217;s design sensibilities. In fact, it&#8217;s so good, the mod got Foster a job at Valve!<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ll need to own Half-Life 2: Episode One on Steam to play Minerva. You can find the mod <a href=\"http:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/235780\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1684,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Minerva returns with shiny new director&#039;s cut - Quarter to Three<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/2013\/04\/30\/minerva-returns-with-shiny-new-directors-cut\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Minerva returns with shiny new director&#039;s cut - 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