Translating Half-Life 2 Subtitles

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First, you will need to locate the English subtitle file. This file can be found at:

By Default:

 C:\Program Files\Valve\Steam\SteamApps\[your username]\half-life 2\hl2\resource\closecaption_English.txt

With custom installations:

 [Steam installation directory]\SteamApps\[your username]\half-life 2\hl2\resource\closecaption_English.txt

Once you have found the closecaption_English.txt file, you may translate the captions into the language of your choice. When you are done, save the file as "closecaption_[name of language].txt" under the /resource/ folder.

To enable the new language subtitles while in-game, enter the console and set the cvar "cc_lang" to the name of the language you specified when saving the close caption text file.