Half life is censored after buying german Counter-Strike

Solution 1:

OK, I did it!

Step 1: Uninstall everything based on goldsrc, just to be sure (though I think you will only need to remove games using HL1's assets).

Step 2: Install just Half Life 1, make sure it works properly, and then copy the whole SteamApps/common/Half-Life folder to a different location.

Step 3: Install the other goldsrc games, and you will see that HL1 needs to update, which is when it gets censored (a good way to check is map c3a1b, the HECU soldiors/robots are just round the corner).

Step 4: Copy you backed up Half-Life folder to SteamApps/common/, and tell it to merge directories and replace files where necessary.

Step 5: ???

Step 6: Launch the game; Profit!

PS: The game cache files like to mess up while doing this, so check them from the properties menu before copying Half-Life back.