Timestamps for those who wanna know exactly what is discussed in the video:

00:00 - What happened in Valve community?
01:22 - The mystery of republishing the book about the development of Half-Life 2.
02:14 - Do Valve hold HLX until the release of Steam Machines and Steam Frame?
03:29 - Why we don't see all strings related to HL3
04:05 - All direct mentions of HLX
05:12 - Dynamic physics and gravitational anomalies
06:00 - NPC navigation in altered gravity
06:47 - Realistic weapon ballistics
07:30 - Physical and thermal smart surface properties
08:47 - Voxel density and object deformation
09:30 - Interactions with characters and facial animations
10:24 - Mood system for NPC
10:53 - Volumentic game events
11:42 - Optimizing the crowd and background characters
12:08 - First mentions of crawl state for NPC
12:44 - Dynamic physical collisions and ragdolls
13:06 - NPC damage and destruction system
14:14 - Switch to VDATA game modifiers
15:10 - Vehicles created based on VDATA configs
16:21 - Interactions with liquids and weather conditions
16:56 - Dynamic wind and airflow systems in HL 3
18:14 - Interaction between wind and voluminous grass, foliage, and hair
19:08 - Graphics and dynamic, volumetric fog
19:54 - Ray tracing with supersampling and ray reconstruction
20:15 - What's happening in the Half-Life 3 development team

I hope HL3 comes with a new GPU and RAM.

Valve always works on half life 3... this is nothing.

Its just their testbed.

Maybe one day we'll get an actual hl3 but reading "HL3.exe" in the dev files shouldnt still be fooling people in 2026

I am actually watching the X Files right now, so this would make a great episode

It's 100% coming, just a matter of when.

The Alyx engine is too good to just be used on a experimental game.

My PC is ready!

pick it up