What is Valve working on these days?
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War Peaceman
You're a big guy.
Uhh there's a new Dota 2 update happening...
blurredvision
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They haven't announced or shown anything...it's past the middle of November, they've already lost Christmas.
Oh my bad i truly didn't see that thread... glad to see that i'm not the only one wondering these things though.
Valve stopped announcing games sans an on-track release date with L4D2 in 2009, so despite the evidence that L4D3 exists the fact that Valve hasn't spoken about it makes sense since it hasn't been formally announced. What's different about Half-Life, and frustrates fans of the series, is that Episode Three was announced all the way back in mid-2006 but Valve hasn't spoken about what's next in a direct manner since late 2008, presumably because it was later decided that Episode Three would be increased in scope and become Half-Life 3. Even just confirmation that Episode Three was canned in favour of "something bigger" would put a lot of minds at ease.
Palculator
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I hope they'll broadcast a Source 2 tech demo similar to the Source tech demo they did where most of the tech was shown using Half-Life 2 assets just with Half-Life 3 this time around. Would be a nice way to show off the engine and how that stuff is used in the upcoming Half-Life 3.
FriedConsole
Banned
The realized making money by making games was dumb. The better plan was to have other developers make games and take a percentage of their revenues.
ashecitism
Member
Their ongoing games apparently don't have that many people on them. Most at this point are probably on L4D3, some on VR, some others on HL3 and maybe other unknown projects. Oh and Steam stuff.
You mean like it has been for years from Dell, HP and every other PC maker that offer both pre-set and customizable options online? Nothing special about these machines besides wanting shelve space to what is already out there that you can do with SteamOS right now.
ashecitism
Member
You can already tinkle around with Source 2 though. Alpha version, but still S2.
BibiMaghoo
Member
There in my basement right now, trying on hats.
I don't have a basement
There was the 'what has Valve been doing' thread as well, before the 'what about half life' thread.
The former ended up as a 'Valve doesn't make games and Dota and CSGo don't count' Thread
Orthogonal
Member
I guess I am at the point where I just don't care about Valve products anymore. I used to consider them the best in the business, but I have run out of patience. They have terrible communication with their customers and ridiculously long time to market for any project.
Just be a download service with awesome sales and I will be happy.
Just be a download service with awesome sales and I will be happy.
A new Dota 2 hero comes out this week, with some major new cosmetics and a comic.
http://www.dota2.com/oracle/
They also continue to update CSGO and TF2. Other than those, they just aren't ready to talk about anything.
One day they will be ready, and we will rejoice.
http://www.dota2.com/oracle/
They also continue to update CSGO and TF2. Other than those, they just aren't ready to talk about anything.
One day they will be ready, and we will rejoice.
Schweinehund
Member
Have they posted anything new since diretide? I haven't been keeping up on it, been busy with WoW, only played a handful of games recently.
I'm guessing most of their effort right now is getting source 2 to be the best it can be on all operating systems and devices. Until that happens I doubt we'll see any new games, most likely they'll premiere L4D3 on it within the next year.
Palculator
Unconfirmed Member
So what makes other manufacturers so special that Valve can't aspire to share shelf space with them? And the whole vibe I got concerning Steam machines was that those are the machines guaranteed to have the best compatibility, while everything else will be able to run it too with the occasional hiccup due to the vast amount of hardware configurations out there. I never thought they were to be as dominant in stores as the Xbone and PS4.
blankempathy
Member
Never understood why people get upset about them not releasing games on schedules other publishers do. Personally when the next valve game comes out I'll still be around to play it hopefully. In the meantime I have other stuff to play.
Raptomex
Member
So just because they have terrible communication you won't play their games? What if their next game is amazing? What's the difference if the games are still good?
Form factor is a matter of no low importance for some people, then one other thing is also how those things are marketed. But then again in the long run Steam Machines are almost irrelevant as they are built to attract and gather new people into the PC gaming ecosystem.
Ok phew! thanks! thought I was going crazy lol. Too early to be dealing with Agents.
ashecitism
Member
Yeah, Dota has gotten some updates since. Hero wise they released Legion Commander, Terrorblade, Phoenix, Techies, Oracle is coming next week, Shadow Fiend got a redesign, Skeleton King got turned into Wraith King, workshop tools alpha is out and running on Source 2 etc
corrosivefrost
Member
Sure... so long as they fix their "terrible communication" with regard to the download service. Customer support is currently an atrocity.
ashecitism
Member
PartTimeWarrior
Banned
Living off that Dota money baybeeeee
Goldenroad
Member
Sharpening those pencils for the xmas sale.
There was no Diretide this year. The last major update was Rekindling Soul a couple of months ago, which brought the long awaited Shadow Fiend remodel, new features, and most of all balance patch 6.82, which brought many crazy changes to the game.
Schweinehund
Member
yeah I see the oracle post now. I like 6.82 a lot more then 6.81 but my fav heroes are still not that great right now. Oracle's skillset looks so imba. I phrased that wrong, forgot no diretide this year. So I guess since 6.82b I haven't played much.
Sorry I seem to be getting all these threads mixed up. Merged.
that1dude24
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i wouldn't be surprised if the latest mechanic patch(es) were influenced by edit
lay! testing done by valve either.ashecitism
Member
To my knowledge Valve don't do focus groups/tests or barely. They do a lot of play testing though.
But can you explain what you mean?
ashecitism
Member
Oh, so you're visiting today?
Wanted to ask that for a while.But wait, what crunch time? They're not releasing the headset...
Oh, so you're visiting today?
But wait, what crunch time? They're not releasing the headset...
We are not visiting today... because of crunch time
Valve isn't releasing a headset, but they have numerous VR projects being prepped for release.
Oh, so you're visiting today?
But wait, what crunch time? They're not releasing the headset...
Maybe still working in collaboration with Oculus?
alexandros
Banned
Gamers who don't care about PC gaming may find a console-like device that gives them access to the vast PC games library appealing.
Gamers who care about PC gaming might want a secondary gaming PC for the living room or to stream gameplay to their TV.
that1dude24
Member
oops, thats what i mean. especially the latest numerical patch seems to favor lategame in public matches, where both teams eventually get to a point of being fleshed out in xp and net worth. dying after streaks is a risk, glyphs refresh after a t1 falls. this makes comebacks more common and early game crushes less, both of which probably increase player satisfaction, but seem like a huge tonal shift in how games used to feel. i won't pretend to know for sure though.
So like I guess everyone forgot that Valve announced this unifying VR API back in January. "The direct X of VR headsets" and all that jazz. The one being build into Source 2 and the next generation steamworks API. That lets developers write code for 1 API to talk to numerous manufacturer-independent VR headsets (including Oculus and others not-yet-announced).
They also doing experimental VR game development.
I hear the same thing regarding Nintendo and they have significant PR every couple of months.
It seems if you aren't in front of a camera shouting about yourself and releasing cutscene trailers every month then you might as well be dead.
Some companies go years without saying anything about what they're doing. That's software development. It takes time.
It seems if you aren't in front of a camera shouting about yourself and releasing cutscene trailers every month then you might as well be dead.
Some companies go years without saying anything about what they're doing. That's software development. It takes time.
Professor Renegade
Banned
I can tell you what they're not working on.
ashecitism
Member
F-Stop? Stars of Blood? New Day of Defeat?
Death Metalist
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machemachete
Banned
Ricochet 2
Orthogonal
Member
I am not opposed to buying their next game, if they ever release one. I am just not going to worry about anything they are working on because it's not worth getting hyped about and if they don't ever release another game it wouldn't bother me because I have moved on.