Tyler McVicker: The Final Stages of HL3's Production Are Here
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MrTroubleMaker
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HL3 CONFIRMED
Magic Carpet
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Maybe it's all a ruse and they announce Portal 3 instead.
John Bilbo
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Valve gonna throw a curveball and delete all Half-Life games off of Steam.
GrayChild
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Hunt Down the Freeman 2, but developed in-house.
Halo is Back
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Magic Carpet
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Delete Half-life games and replace them with complete remakes using the same tech going into HL3. NO loading screens.
Still waiting for my refund.
analog_future
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first Half-Life, 3 screen-shots
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TintoConCasera
I bought a sex doll, but I keep it inflated 100% of the time and use it like a regular wife
What happened with the 197 thing? Did they ever got to post another tweet?
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MagusMajul
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ozz ex machina
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Tyler really does suck for valve stuff. Gabefollower is the man to follow in my opinion these days.
Do you also still believe in santa and get hyped as shit each year? Or did you just transfer that infantile excitement over to your favey vidyagamey announcements?
I do get confused by this sort of comment in what I assume is a forum for people a bit more invested in the industry than being some fanboy "geeking out". Like people pissing their pants about "spoilers" before a conference lol.
Do you also still believe in santa and get hyped as shit each year? Or did you just transfer that infantile excitement over to your favey vidyagamey announcements?
I do get confused by this sort of comment in what I assume is a forum for people a bit more invested in the industry than being some fanboy "geeking out". Like people pissing their pants about "spoilers" before a conference lol.
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a'la mode
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The way I see it, if Valve were working on HL3, I think it'd stay hidden for a long, long time. Deadlock stayed under wraps for a long time with no internal leaks, and it took a journalist with early access and no NDA to leak it. If Valve were serious about suppressing leaks, they would've surely had NDAs and more limited access.
I'm not saying I'm in the HL3 is real camp, but just that if it was actually being worked on, I'd think Valve would certainly have it in them to suppress leaks until the big day.
Soodanim
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Man, I wish I was as cool as you. If only.
TintoConCasera
I bought a sex doll, but I keep it inflated 100% of the time and use it like a regular wife
What Life Who Now?
ShaiKhulud1989
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I'm tired, G-man
balls of snow
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Seeing news like these and absolutely nothing on Valve officials. Are they gonna just going to shadowdrop the game on steam one day in 25/26. I wonder.
phant0m
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Imagine next TGA Valve drops "The 3 Pack" as a shadow drop:
- Half-Life 3
- L4D 3
- Portal 3
I mean if they are working on it, and it's nearly done, they're not going to hold on to it for no reason. HL:A was announced when it was basically done.
StereoVsn
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It's somewhat plausible to release alongside Deckard.
peronmls
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Says the user with a Family Guy avatar. Go watch Family Guy. Go watch Peter fight a chicken or something.
LordOfChaos
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Fresh leaks suggest Half-Life 3 development may be nearing completion
Early 2025 saw a bevy of newfound speculation over signs that the long, long wait for Half-Life 3 might soon be over. Now, data contained in some new Valve game updates suggests that the project known in Valve engine code as "HLX"—and widely assumed to be Half-Life 3—might be reaching the final stages of production.
In a new video, longtime Valve watcher Tyler McVicker goes into detail on a bevy of new variables and strings found after spending hours datamining the latest update to Dota 2 (the first update for that game since mid-December). The strings suggest a wave of behind-the-scenes Source engine changes dealing with the kind of "optimization and polish" that "happen at the end of a game's production cycle," McVicker says. "This is getting to the point where it does feel as if Valve is nearing completion of the production of HLX."
Those changes include a set of new code in a file called AI_baseNPC.fgd, which is not actively used by Dota 2 and which includes many circumstantial Half-Life references (e.g. "machinery," "alien blood"). The specific code in this latest update deals with letting the engine scale the level of an NPC's AI simulation based on its distance from the player, a refinement that McVicker says is "absolutely... optimization work" and an apparent sign that "Valve has hit the optimization and polish phase" on HLX.
McVicker also makes note of a February 25 update to Deadlock which includes a new variable suggestively named "hlx_fsr3_min_reactiveness." That's being taken as an apparent sign that AMD's AI-powered FidelityFX Super Resolution upscaling is in use in a current HLX development build, which would be another sign that HLX "legitimately is nearing the end of development," as McVicker puts it. "You don't use FSR until you're nearly done with a game. Those AI post-processing systems are not supposed to be used for development."
Don't you dare give me hope
The newly discovered engine updates are a particularly good sign for the HLX project after credible reports that the game had gone into a friends and family playtesting phase at Valve near the end of 2024. While many Valve projects have seen major changes after that kind of testing, McVicker says that these new engine updates are "confirmation indeed that HLX survived the holiday break, does not seem to be going through any form of reboot, and [that] an announcement seems to be inching ever closer."
arstechnica.com
Early 2025 saw a bevy of newfound speculation over signs that the long, long wait for Half-Life 3 might soon be over. Now, data contained in some new Valve game updates suggests that the project known in Valve engine code as "HLX"—and widely assumed to be Half-Life 3—might be reaching the final stages of production.
In a new video, longtime Valve watcher Tyler McVicker goes into detail on a bevy of new variables and strings found after spending hours datamining the latest update to Dota 2 (the first update for that game since mid-December). The strings suggest a wave of behind-the-scenes Source engine changes dealing with the kind of "optimization and polish" that "happen
Those changes include a set of new code in a file called AI_baseNPC.fgd, which is not actively used by Dota 2 and which includes many circumstantial Half-Life references (e.g. "machinery," "alien blood"). The specific code in this latest update deals with letting the engine scale the level of an NPC's AI simulation based on its distance from the player, a refinement that McVicker says is "absolutely... optimization work" and an apparent sign that "Valve has hit the optimization and polish phase" on HLX.
McVicker also makes note of a February 25 update to Deadlock which includes a new variable suggestively named "hlx_fsr3_min_reactiveness." That's being taken as an apparent sign that AMD's AI-powered FidelityFX Super Resolution upscaling is in use in a current HLX development build, which would be another sign that HLX "legitimately is nearing the end of development," as McVicker puts it. "You don't use FSR until you're nearly done with a game. Those AI post-processing systems are not supposed to be used for development."
Don't you dare give me hope
The newly discovered engine updates are a particularly good sign for the HLX project after credible reports that the game had gone into a friends and family playtesting phase at Valve near the end of 2024. While many Valve projects have seen major changes after that kind of testing, McVicker says that these new engine updates are "confirmation indeed that HLX survived the holiday break, does not seem to be going through any form of reboot, and [that] an announcement seems to be inching ever closer."
Fresh leaks suggest Half-Life 3 development may be nearing completion
Datamined engine updates suggest long-awaited sequel is in “polish and optimization” phase.
arstechnica.com
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Hollowpoint5557
A Fucking Idiot
Why do people like to hurt themselves like this?
thatJohann
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Hope we see this before 2030
od-chan
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Youtube-Clicks, clout.
Bulletbrain
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Ok, so there is enough there to say "HLX" is a real title of some sort.
But is it actually HL3?
But is it actually HL3?
Unknown?
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It'll be like Shenmue 3, super hyped and then forgotten. It cannot live up to the hype.
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EverydayBeast
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How many console gamers have played a half life game? There's zero access to half life games for console gamers.
