So DOTA 2 itself is now running in Source 2?
So DOTA 2 itself is now running in Source 2?
Does this mean something is getting announced soon that uses Source 2?
No. Dota 2's financial model is driven by user-generated content, so this "soft launch" was spurred by a desire to capitalise on that by making things easy as possible for content creators. Even assuming L4D3 is a Q4 2015 title, it'll be at least 5-6 months until Valve teases/announces it.
Wasn't there something with Black Mesa will get a paid release with new engine beside the free release?
Yeah they are porting over to another version of Source (not 2 though) last we heard. The new version is being sold as well.Wasn't there something with Black Mesa will get a paid release with new engine beside the free release?
Wasn't there something with Black Mesa will get a paid release with new engine beside the free release?
Wasn't there something with Black Mesa will get a paid release with new engine beside the free release?
Is this real life?
Yeah they are porting over to another version of Source (not 2 though) last we heard. The new version is being sold as well.
I don´t get it - why is this exciting?
I think the decision to include a version of Dota 2 running on Source 2 is to not break compatibility of all the user created maps when Dota 2 is inevitably updated. Which will probably happen much closer to now than late next year. Hammer 2014 is backwards compatible anyway so it's all cool.
I wonder if Valve will do this to another game, but that might be impossible now.. looking at the amount of UGC on L4D2 etc. It'd all be incompatible (probably). Would be cool though - we saw those internal things that Valve was actually porting L4D2 to Source 2 for test purposes.
New engine = New games = HL3
I don´t get it - why is this exciting?
It means new games, the old Source engine is very old and It started to get dated.
It means new games, the old Source engine is very old and It started to get dated.
WHERE'S THE THIRD INSTALLMENT OF MY BELOVED SERIES, VALVE?
I don't think there will ever be a third one, they just keep evolving it. And don't you think releasing Dota 3 now would be a bit too early?
I don´t get it - why is this exciting?
Because Valve engines spawn a breeding ground of creativity for amateurs developers. After GoldSrc released we got Counter Strike, Day of Defeat, Natural Selection, The Hidden, They Hunger, Sven Coop. With Source we got Zombie Panic Source, Gmod, Stanley Parable, Black Mesa, Synergy, Insurgency, The Ship.
We'll need a big tentpole game for all this to rally around, but having one aspect of that ecosystem already out is great.
So they finally scrap that heavily modified Quake engine?
Hammer that doesn't look like a QW editor, what is the world coming to?
Can you still compile BSPs that will load in Quake though?
It's backwards compatible with Source 1, so probably?
edit: from facepunch
https://i.imgur.com/TceFevd.png