Who here is buying Half-Life 2 in Source 2?

File: 05MASSEY-facebookJumbo.jpg (63KB, 1050x550px) Image search: [Google]

63KB, 1050x550px

>>379261276
Hype?

dis reel?

If it comes with a SDK I would.

File: 06032017.png (1MB, 1270x550px) Image search: [Google]

1MB, 1270x550px

Valve intends this as a research project from what I understand, getting to grips with the Source 2 by training some of the original HL2 developers to port things to it.

File: 06032017(02).png (953KB, 1270x550px) Image search: [Google]

953KB, 1270x550px

All I can post for right now. Willing to answer questions though.

>>379261936
Whats the release date?, also is it only pc?

>>379262065
I've already said that this is a research project done by Valve most likely, could be wrong on that front. Would release on consoles if it did come to fruition though.

>>379262065
Currently though they are treating it almost as if it's a full project, they have a lot of the remaining dev team that worked on Half-Life 2 working on it.

>>379261936
So what is this?

The alley scene recreated in a new engine?

I'm down to play ball with you if you got some time to kill.

>>379262167
I can't give specifics from where I got the project and image, all I can say is that this is official from Valve and this is in a version of Source 2.

>>379262226
Why is Valve doing this all of a sudden?

>>379262305
As I previously stated, they are training their dev team to use Source 2.

>No NPCs or anything
>Just environments
>SFM has had Source 2 since forever
All aboard the ruse cruise

Is there any gameplay changes?
Or is it just putting grease on cameras lense?

File: 1494271028123.png (231KB, 500x372px) Image search: [Google]

231KB, 500x372px

>>379262351
What else are they using S2 for? TF3? PORTAL 3?

>>379262358
Very early prototype, only stage I could find was the courtyard. Basic gameplay ideologies are being put into place however, there are flight paths for pigeons, some notes, etc.

>>379262431
Neither of those are currently being worked on from what I understand. Left 4 Dead 3 is though, development has slowed down as the project seems to be wrapping up and is currently in the bug testing phase. No idea why they haven't announced it yet though.

>>379262226
That's fine. But let's deconstruct the photo if you don't mind.

So the lightening in many ways looks great. Very dynamic.

The thing that catches my attention is that everything seems very flat.

Sure I understand it's just demonstration of the lightening ability of the engine. But wouldn't a demo that's main focal point be it's ability to showcase different types of maps features?

((I.e. transfer, spec, metallic and etc.) I don't know how this shader system is set up so I'm not trying bullshit and pretend to know the art pipeline)

With no pun intended, are you able to shed some light on that?

Death stranding is actually half life 3

>>379262506
What else can you say about LFD3?

>>379262551
This is because all of the textures are directly from Source 1. Normal maps are in place, but speculars and things like that haven't been put in place yet.

>Literally just the original HL2 levels slathered in glare and fog
>No new assets
>Not even using Ansiotropic filtering or AA
>Normal maps arent even working

Fucking christ I hope no one falls for this

What does this mean for me, the layman?

HYPE
HL3 WHEN

>>379262606
I'm not a big Left 4 Dead fan and I don't currently work on the project nor focus on it. I can say that the game does have some seriously cool VR elements though. For example, in one VR stage players are in a Minecart type thing and one player pushes the Minecart around while the others get to shoot the zombies. Gets pretty strategic from what I've seen.

>>379262551
It's just a straight port of the content into the engine.

File: 1494211297903.jpg (45KB, 639x960px) Image search: [Google]

45KB, 639x960px

>>379262710
>VR

>>379262626
It is using Anti-Aliasing and Anisotropic Filtering. Textures I got were taken using Source 2's in-game screenshot taker which downgrades a lot of the quality and I had to lower the resolution of the image to fit on 4chan.

Only if the guns won't suck.

File: file.png (11KB, 29x273px) Image search: [Google]

11KB, 29x273px

>>379262769
Explain this then

>>379262769
So what actually is Source 2? Just Source 1 but with more beef, or something else entirely? How easy has it been to port over the game so far?

>>379262814
I just explained it, from what I understand Source 2's screenshotter downgrades the image quality for whatever reason. It's probably not finished.

>>379262616
Interesting.

I didn't know they had normals back then. I always thought they only had diffuse and used Specs for detail as well as light definition.

(Funny that we're talking about this. I'm playing though half life 2 series for inspiration for my job. Love the flow and pacing of the games.)

So what can you say that Source 2 features that makes it unique?

Like id Tech 4 featured amazing Dynamic lighting (at the time) and UE3/UE4's kizmit/blueprint features node based scripting.

>>379262861
Source 2 is to source what source is to goldsrc, and what goldsrc was to quake.

>>379262889
No.
That happens when you have no anti aliasing and you've downsampled your image to try and make it look less shit.

>CSGO still isn't on Source 2

just fucking make a new game already if you're going to fuck around this much in porting it over

>>379262861
It's an entirely new engine with Source 1 elements like Hammer. Maps can be ported over within a day. This map was ported over a week ago and the screenshots were taken a few days ago. Dota 2 isn't fully using Source 2, just some elements from it. Weird how it works. CSGO might be the same, but I've heard rumblings from the team that it may indeed be a FULL port.

For fuck sake guys, he don't have any proof or any shit to confirm his source. Fuck off OP you fags. Yet people are still falling for it, fuck.

>>379262710
it would make sense for valve to focus on releasing a new L4D, it appeared the most commercially successful and will give the new engine the momentum it needs. I had no idea they were even working on games, I thought they were still sperging out with HTC over VR

>>379262971
Favorite thing from the Valve lunch room?

>>379262898
It's a lot like Unreal Engine 4 with the standard Source features. An interesting part of it is that Hammer is an updated version, but it's actually built into the engine and can send stuff over without having to import the map.

>>379263021
Beef Jerky they get from a locally sourced place, was actually added about a month ago. Delicious.

>>379262861
Source 2 is actually the DOTA 2 version of Source and OP is a giant flaming faggot.

>>379263132
Wrong. Dota 2 doesn't even fully utilize Source 2. LFD3 will likely be the first fully Source 2 game, other VR projects use Unity and one uses UE4.

>>379261750
>>379261936
bloom and blur everywhere, this just looks like some garbage cinematic mod ripoff

next thing you'll show me is a bunch of ferns and fully modeled vaginas that can only be achieved in the "next-gen engine that is source2"

>>379263117
Brand? I'd love to get some for myself.

>>379263043
So un guessing it reads in whatever file type/export?

That's pretty cool if you ask me. But I find it a bit hard to believe.

Why focus so much on older content when other time and effort should be placed into optimization.

But that's just me. I'm no engineer. Just a silly designer.

Can you talk about what languages it utilizes? Any node base scripting at all?

I doubt it would though. I've never touched source but it always seemed to be one of those, you know it or you don't engines.

Have you physically for your hands on a Source 2 build of a project? Or just played an export?

>>379263245
>next thing you'll show me is a bunch of ferns and fully modeled vaginas
almost made me spit out my drink

>>379263234
You can literally google this shit, it's in their VR portal shit, DOTA and CS:GO

>>379263252
Stewart's Meat Market I'm pretty sure. Not sure if you can order online.

>>379261276
they need to put l4d on it and just add a few maps.

Guess you never notice how shitty hl2's geometry and textures are until you expose them to improved lighting effects

File: 1494203207041.png (56KB, 300x263px) Image search: [Google]

56KB, 300x263px

>>379263339
http://www.stewartsmeatmarket.com/store/beef_jerky.html
Looks nice. I'll order some in the morning.

>>379263281
I don't do coding, I mainly do things like lighting (to keep it broad and hide my identity). Uses C++ like Source 1 though. I have dabbled around in Source 2 and played games made in it.

>>379262927
Pff, they wish.

>>379261276
What were all those strings related to HLVR in previous game-files?

>>379261750
The fuck? That looks horrible

>>379263553
"They wish" what, the engine is out retard

>>379261276
>>379261750
>>379261936
clearly you imported HL2's intro into 3dsMax and did some renders

>>379263589
HLVR is a very, very, very strange thing. You remember all that fucking zipline shit from the code that was shown a while back? It's that. You travel from building to building on a zipline. I'm not a big fan of it honestly.

>>379263635
Ha! I wish I knew how to use 3DSMax! Maybe then I wouldn't be getting paid the lowest at Valve! Pretty sure Janitors make more then me!

>>379263486
(I've gotcha bud. Ice used /v/ as blind test to get people's reaction in games I've made. Just keep it discrete and such. For the most part, /v/ can be helpful. Other times just toxic and waste of time)

Gotcha. I only know enough coding to get by with basic scripting. Hate it. I'll model, unwrap and bake textures all day.

Comes to coding, fuck it. I'd rather have jury duty.


Well thanks for sharing man. You going to E3 this year?

Sadly I'm not. Last 3 years were so boring that I didn't bother renewing my pass.

>>379263664
So that's all it was, it never became a real game or anything?

>>379261276
>>379261750
>>379261936
How do I know this isn't somebody's unreal engine 4 project like the already publicized apartment remake?

>>379261276
Nice try
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a32GBI22_Vc

>>379263631
And I don't see the same graphical leap, buddy.

>>379263713
Not going to E3 as Valve won't have a presence there.

File: 1466527276047.gif (791KB, 300x168px) Image search: [Google]

791KB, 300x168px

>>379261276
Wait, have I missed out on something? What's going on?

>>379263737
anon will believe anything

TELL ME ABOUT TF2 VALVE-KUN
WHAT IS THE CURRENT STATE OF THE DEV TEAM HOW IS VALVE HANDLING IT
IS VALVE DOING ANYTHING WITH TF2, ANY UPDATES, ANYTHING AT ALL

>>379263737
I wasn't aware I showed any Apartments? I would have loved to if I had seen the map.

>>379263852
There's like 5 retards working on it I'm pretty sure, I haven't spoken with them once so don't ask me.

>>379263792
Don't need to have presence to go. ESA let's devs in for free.

Ever done GDC?

>>379263928
I've been to GDC, but I have no real interest in going to E3 especially with the public there this time. It'll be fucking packed. Went in 2014 to E3 and GDC though and it was great.

>>379263709
>Ha! I wish I knew how to use 3DSMax!
you clearly don't, the renders are amateur and have less technical fidelity than the earliest presentations of source

>>379261276
valve should just release half life 3 under a different name and a ghost company
its the only way they wont disapoint people

>>379263993
Love GDC. Hoping to running a booth for the first time next year.

Plus the parties.

This year and last year I was chased by hookers at 2 in the morning.

Nothing beats GDC man!

If we ever run into each other, I'll buy you a beer. Deal?

>>379264137
Half-Life 3 is pretty much dead. Sad to say, but it's pretty much dead. Not for the reasons that the idiots over at "The Know" say though like "Developers were forced onto different projects" most people working on Half-Life 3 quit or refocused themselves onto different projects. To keep it brief, it died because of a lack of innovation and fun in the game. It felt like they were just making a new version of Half-Life 2 with new maps. There were some interesting new ideas for the game though, like it being done for a large part in the helicopter (this was probably the most recent iteration and had some VR support). Still just wasn't that fun to play though.

>>379264150
Sure, hope to be there next year :)

>>379264137
>le nothing can live up to the hype ever meme
>le it's been so long it will definitely disappoint meme
Tf2 delivered. Hl2 delivered. Doom delivered. It's been done before and by Valve no less.

>>379264291
Should just release the story as a book or someshit, I couldn't care if another Half Life game gets released, just as long as they actually finish the story (I wanna know who the G-Man actually is).

>>379264427
It's been thrown around a bit and shot down. Valve would rather just keep the story if they someday want to do it again.

>>379264427
Long ago I accepted Half Life 3 was dead and I adopted a similar expectation that they should just release book or comic or something to tie the loose ends.

I mean c'mon, we're officially in the 10th year of no comment on it so it's safe to say that ship has sailed far and long.

>People are STILL falling for this shit

how many years is it going to take before you idiots realize that Valve has given up on anything half-life related

File: recovered.png (1MB, 1270x550px) Image search: [Google]

1MB, 1270x550px

Found a screenshot I originally thought I lost.

>>379264664
this doesn't look much better than hl2 already does, t b h

File: 1486773905924.gif (2MB, 459x358px) Image search: [Google]

2MB, 459x358px

>>379262940
Why would you want CS:GO to be running on Dogshit 2?

File: fuck.jpg (394KB, 1920x1080px) Image search: [Google]

394KB, 1920x1080px

>>379264725
Not defending OP, but it kinda does.

>>379261276
Do you have any pictures of Valve's new HQ?

>>379264664
>Volumetric fog + lighting
Dayumn son

>>379265147
Nope, but they've been pretty stingy in regards to taking pictures. It's not as decked out as the old office yet either. I could try and snap a pic, but I work remote 4 days a week and go in once, so I'd have to post it on Friday.

>>379261276
WHO CARES ABOUT 2 GIVE US HALF-LIFE 3 REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

>>379261276
You know what I would play in Source 2? HALF LIFE FUCKING 3!! No one wants to replay Half Life 2 again. We've had the game for over 14 years now and it's been done to death. They even upgraded it already in the Orange Box I have little to no faith in Valve anymore. They just want money and care more about their game distributing software.

>>379265029
Technologically yes, but not necessarily artistically. Hl2 has this perfect mixture of "just good enough" textures and static lighting that prevents it from aging too much. And stuff like hl update helps too.

>>379264664
This one looks a LOT better than the other ones.

File: 1460633562344.png (12KB, 429x410px) Image search: [Google]

12KB, 429x410px

>>379265408
>Technologically yes, but not necessarily artistically

>>379265408
wat

Anything at E3?

>>379261276
>HL2 Source2

no. I want Black Mesa 2

>>379265408
hl2 textures are still the best
i've only seen equal or maybe better on the new wolfenstein

>>379265769
Nope. LFD3 and the other VR projects will be shown at Valve Dev Days.

>>379265910
"Other VR projects" - Care to elaborate?

>>379266006
I'm not involved with the VR teams. Although I know one is HLVR and one is a space-sim other is LFD3.

>Source 2
Source and what gimmick will be in it?

>>379266095
They are mainly focusing on VR, graphics, improving physics, and AI as Source had the crappiest AI on the planet.

>>379266230
And community creation shit for Dota 2 and CSGO as well.

File: want.png (303KB, 580x450px) Image search: [Google]

303KB, 580x450px

>>379266086
>space-sim

>>379266230
>>379266547
>that fucking leaked concept art a few years ago

>>379265518
He's right. Viktor Antonov's art direction for Half-Life 2 is fucking incredible. This new lighting engine on top of it, however, muddles what he was going for.

>>379266230
>and AI as Source had the crappiest AI on the planet
Combine soldiers simply died in seconds after encountering Gordon, it's not that their AI was bad.
Other enemies, like zombies and antlions, ran towards the player in a straight line because they're supposed to be mindless animals.

>>379261276
What are the features of source 2?

>>379266741
Mainly talking about the companion AI.

>>379265518
>Old abandoned warehouse in some ex-soviet shithole after an alien invasion
>with a lighbulb as bright as the sun
He is not wrong.

>>379261276
Knowing Valve it will be a free upgrade.

>>379267215
>Random light sources from fuck knows where when outside is dark and cloudy
>Zero shadows that aren't pre-baked
Wew lad, original is best

>>379261276
RP this for me - does Valve have even one AAA-level actual game project in the works except LFD3? So far it seems that the only things they're working on are either supporting their multiplayer games or irrelevant bullshit that noone wants or needs, like SteamOS or that Steam controller abomination.

>>379267510
Why would you want to play trAAAsh?

>>379265029
>>379264664
>same exact textures and other assets
fuck off, it's obvious this isn't real. why are you all nu-/v/ tards falling for this shit

File: tmp_3720-news22698037262.jpg (178KB, 1600x600px) Image search: [Google]

178KB, 1600x600px

>>379267612
Yeah, because Valve's NEVER ported an old game to a new engine with mostly the same assets before. Dumbass.

>>379268050
Right looks better

>>379268101
If you're blind, maybe. And even if you think so, that's not the point I'm making, the point is Valve's done this exact same thing before so the idea of them doing it again isn't farfetched at all.

File: this fucking mom.png (148KB, 330x256px) Image search: [Google]

148KB, 330x256px

>>379268050
the original looks way better. Half-life source is such a fucking cheap project

>>379268231
>if you're blind maybe
>I have absolutely no eye for aesthetic

File: 870.png (485KB, 500x529px) Image search: [Google]

485KB, 500x529px

the textures and lighting look great but those models do not translate too well into s2
You're gonna have to fix that buddy

>>379267510
Valve has three titles in development they describe as "AAA VR titles." They even say this themselves in their March interviews

Looks worse than the original, released 13 years ago.

>>379268050
Kek, did they keep all the original meshes and even textures from the looks of it and just inserted source engien lighting and water?

>>379268672
>You're gonna have to fix that buddy
Thats where you are wrong.
>>379268050

>>379268668

>2008
>get a cheap ass notebook
>install hl1 and play it on my free time while on the campus
>"friend" asks me what am I playing
>I pass him the game
>days later I ask him if he has made any progress
>"Yeah but I installed a better version of it"

Fucking plebs.

>>379261936
Still brush and BSP based right?

wtf looks like shit...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJzguNJsivM
WOAH, OP, YOU BOUGHT A PLUGIN FOR UNREAL 4 TO EPIC PRANK

>>379271393
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bldDKTdMTbQ

So this is fake?

IT's strange the OP admitted HL3 is dead. When every other Valve employee has refused to admit the game is dead or alive.

Can you share any other details on the game's development?

>>379271393
OP btfo

>>379268668
Is this Sam Hyde or the antifa kid /pol/ calls ugly?

>>379271393
OP EXPOSED

>>379272691
it's sam hyde in "moms"

>>379271393
Unreal Engine really has become the best game engine.

>>379261276
>buying HL2 in 201X

The game is fucking boring, they would have to do more than a graphics overhaul for me to buy this shit.

>>379276919
Have you seen the fucking dev tools? Shit's nuts. Why WOULDN'T you use UE4