AHA-Lambda
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What's the blue circle thing under the product images?
I recognise DOTA 2, Steam and I assume Source 2, what's the other one?
I recognise DOTA 2, Steam and I assume Source 2, what's the other one?
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Source 2 and Left 4 Dead 3 accidentally confirmed by Valve tour group of dev floor
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Dusk Golem
A 21st Century Rockefeller
I hope they change things up for L4D3 as opposed to doing what L4D2 did and simply expand the concept but still feel pretty much the same but with 'more'.
I remember a video of Source 2 of them showing off a huge flock of crows years ago. I wonder if they could make super swarms of zombies, or hell, I'll take flocks of zombie crows.
I mean, we're already 6 years there.
I remember a video of Source 2 of them showing off a huge flock of crows years ago. I wonder if they could make super swarms of zombies, or hell, I'll take flocks of zombie crows.
I mean, we're already 6 years there.
But it's titled '3', so we gotta multiple the amount of time between the original and the sequel by 2.
Dusk Golem
A 21st Century Rockefeller
Gordon Freeman teaming up with three others survivors and fighting off zombies confirmed.
Robot Pants
Member
Wait, what?
A former Valve artist uploaded a showreel to YouTube, which included this tech demo, but it was never confirmed as Source 2 footage.
Nutrition Facts
Banned
lololololololololol
But do these last 3 years count since TF2 is still in active development?
It will be interesting to see what Valve decides to do with TF3. The easy way out would be to make a direct sequel to TF2 and port over the maps/weapons/hats/modes to Source 2 and add new content. I don't see Valve taking the easy way though.
I could see Valve wanting to go a different direction. Will they keep the same art style/character designs? The TF2 characters have pretty much become Valve's mascot characters thanks to the videos and comics they do and I can see how they wouldn't want to change them.
The reason of the lack of HL3 leaks is the same reason of why info regarding the Roswell UFO crash has never leaked in the past 67 years.
ashecitism
Member
Are Doug Church and Clint Hocking still at Valve?
Exactly, could be Ricochet 2, I'm assuming CS:GO is the little globe icon cause you know it is global, so IDK.
The globe is referring to web development (l4d blogs, tf2 blogs, dota 2 blogs, valve software website, international website, etc. globe AND steam app icon refers to work on their web API)
Sapphire Dreams
Member
Makes sense, L4D was a huge hit on the 360 as well as the PC, so of course they're gonna make a new one for the next generation.
EatChildren
Currently polling second in Australia's federal election (first in the Gold Coast), this feral may one day be your Bogan King.
Yep and yep.
This is all but guaranteed, which is good news for gamers everywhere. Everyone needs a little L4D3 in their lives.
EatChildren
Currently polling second in Australia's federal election (first in the Gold Coast), this feral may one day be your Bogan King.
Given that Source 2 will assuredly tackle Source's awful data streaming (or lack thereof), Left 4 Dead would be pretty good franchise to explore larger, more open world-like levels and chapters. I could see it being a frontrunner for the engine.
The entire franchise is built on short destination hopping runs between fixed locations with reprieve between them.
CassidyIzABeast
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One huge level that has safe houses, but no loading, maybe there are paths that cut out the safe houses but obviously failure would send you much further back.
EatChildren
Currently polling second in Australia's federal election (first in the Gold Coast), this feral may one day be your Bogan King.
You could achieve that with smart safe house positioning.
Erik Wolpaw implied as much when he said that "We're going to fix [the need for loading screens] eventually" during his Q&A at NYU a couple of weeks after Portal 2 released.
I see Left 4 Dead as an extremely linear game where most of its balance is adjusted around very specific sightlines, paths, and small side areas. I'm not sure what value opening up the world brings to a game like this where you are supposed to scrape by from checkpoint to checkpoint. Why should players go one way over another? What is going to keep players bound together if the environments open up to much? The complications don't really seem worthwhile to me, but I guess I also don't really know how else they would differentiate a third entry into the series in a valuable way beyond changing things for the sake of change.
FlutterPuffs
Member
You mean there's a huge cover-up by the Illuminati on Half Life 3?
Robot Pants
Member
Obviously that's what he meant.
He wouldn't be so dumb as to insinuate that HL3 isn't in development when Gabe confirmed it (as indirect as it was) many months ago.
Heavy's Sandvich
Member
I'm just hoping the The Director is actually good this time around and that levels are altered accordingly.
The Parish's "changing" paths were a bit of a joke.
That is the thing I'm looking forward to and hopefully that can be delivered in L4D3.
The Parish's "changing" paths were a bit of a joke.
That is the thing I'm looking forward to and hopefully that can be delivered in L4D3.
This shit needs to die, Valve are much bigger now, things have completely changed. The Orange Box was an anomaly.
Portal 3 could be a full $60 game, I'd pay it. It could be a full $90 game infact if it's as good as Portal 2.
TF3 doesn't need to be made.
Left For Dead, considering the long long long tail of ongoing support is probably going to fetch at least $40 US at launch, if not a full 50 or 60$ US
I was one of the bitter as fuck people over L4D2 (long story, no point re-hashing it all, many people had their reasons) - it's been a reasonable amount of time, L4D1 was amazing. L4D3 could fetch mad money.
Unless "Orange Box 2" is $100 US - this kind of bundle isn't going to happen again.
The changing paths in general were a joke. They were praising it during the development of L4D2... but eventually we just got a route that rarely opens up in Dead Center, some minor obscure difference in the graveyard of The Parish and... that's it, I think? Oh, no, a door and an alley that may or may not be blocked in the first chapter of The Parish.
Backfoggen
Banned
Please no more weird long loading and stuttering in Source 2 pls.
How'd you need a gamepad for it? And how is it better than more precise controls via mouse or an improved motion device?
What if Portal 3, Hal-Life 3, Team Fortress 3 and Left 4 Dead 3 are the same game
Portal 3 and HL3 could be at least close - they've tied the universes together a little bit. However there's an element of playing it smart - tie them loosely together, let the audiences imagination wonder - no need to actually write any more than that, just fleeting references. I bet Portal 1/2/ Aperture gets a few nods in HL3 too, but very, very little - just enough to wet appetites, smart way to play it.
I don't think that's the case as having multiple large-scale projects under the one tag would get messy rather quickly -- note that Dota 2 has its own tag rather than being lumped under a more broad Source tag, for instance. More likely is that it refers to Source 2 development in general and whatever Carson was working on incorporated L4D3 in some way.
Also are we all forgetting this pretty much confirmed HL3 here?
http://www.valvetime.net/threads/up...h-more-found-on-valve-project-tracker.243580/
http://www.valvetime.net/threads/up...h-more-found-on-valve-project-tracker.243580/
John Caboose
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No, I thought of that too and this corroborates that they're working hard on L4D3 right now. They might use it as the poster-child for the Source 2 engine with the majority of employees moving over to HL3 after L4D3 is finished. Haha, who am I kidding, they'll work on Portal 3 instead.
Good, a sequel to the best game they've ever made sounds alright to me. Although it'd be difficult to top.