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Valve soft launches Source 2 with Dota 2 port, Dota 2 Xbox reticule found, L4D3 refs
- Thread starter ashecitism
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The version that includes the authoring tools
James Coote
Neo Member
Making maps for HL1 back in the day is what got me into game development. Kinda disappointed it's for DOTA, since I used to love telling stories and guiding the player on a journey through the levels I made for HL1&2, and you can't really do that in the same way with DOTA.
Edit: What I meant to say was "Where's the sci-fi dystopian playground of my childhood damnit!?"
Edit: What I meant to say was "Where's the sci-fi dystopian playground of my childhood damnit!?"
Wasn't there something with Black Mesa will get a paid release with new engine beside the free release?
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.
Hammer finally got the long long overdue update it needed. It's beautiful.
VisceralBowl
Member
Yeah they are porting over to another version of Source (not 2 though) last we heard. The new version is being sold as well.
ashecitism
Member
That was an updated version/branch of the Source Engine.
Keyser Soze
Member
It's not even half that
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.
Ampersands
Member
New engine = New games = HL3
exmachina64
Banned
This is why I don't sleep.
Well, yes, of course, but what I'm saying is that there's no doubt the decision to move the game to Source 2 came about because Valve wanted to further facilitate the creation of user content.
CS:GO and TF2 if they think those games can benefit from the change of engine. But like you said, they need to decide if the loss of the massive amount of user created maps is worth it (and the uproar).
GlamFM
Banned
Arcanine55
Neo Member
It means new games, the old Source engine is very old and It started to get dated.
GlamFM
Banned
I highly disagree that this means new games - at least from VALVe.
They are also in the engine licensing business - see Titanfall.
Not saying that there wont be any new games from VALVe, but I don´t see why we should get excited just now. I mean VALVe....
Well presumably they are already working on new games (L4D3). Just because the community now get's a hold of it does not mean Valve is just now starting to make/announce new games.
ashecitism
Member
lol
NumberThree
Member
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?
Pretty sure he had TF3 in mind.
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.
lol
... Is this real?
scytheavatar
Member
Had spawn a breeding ground of creativity. With Valve seemingly no longer giving a bloody damn about the Source engine anymore and competition from UE4/Unity 5 I am not sure why people expect much from Source 2.
CecilRousso
Member
*reads thread*
*thinking about what it means*
Well I'm off to preorder Portal 3.
Not jumping any Guns there. Nope, not at all.
*thinking about what it means*
Well I'm off to preorder Portal 3.
Not jumping any Guns there. Nope, not at all.
RecursiveFault
Banned
This has really high potential. I'm excited to see if this really means new games at GC.
ashecitism
Member
shacklesmcgee
Member
Woah this is pretty exciting! If they release this to indies, unreal mught have some competition...though they'd have to match Epic's support and such too.
The_Player
Member
Gamesadict
Member
Oh yes!! I like Source, but the tools were pretty bad, except for Hammer (eh, good enough for me). The improved tools are something the world will appreciate.