Back in August we informed you about a tech demo that was under development for the Half Life 3 unofficial game, Project Borealis. And today, we are happy to report that this tech demo is available for download.
According to the developers, the Project Borealis performance test is a comprehensive analysis of a system’s performance under its current working environment. This test shows the progress on performance so far and the team hopes to make more progress before releasing the Ravenholm tech demo.
What this ultimately means is that this first tech demo does not feature any meaningful gameplay sections from the game. As such, the Ravenholm tech demo will be more representative of the game that the team aims to create, though we don’t have any ETA on when that demo will be released.
Still, it’s good knowing that the Project Borealis team is dedicated to this project and may actually complete it (I mean, even if we don’t get the full Half-Life 3 fan game, we will get a proper tech demo).
Those interested can download the performance tech demo for Project Borealis from its official website.
Have fun!
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Stop calling it Half-Life 3 and using the Half-Life Logo. This has nothing to do with Valve or Half-Life.
It was so obviously a throw away script for Episode 3, which is not happening so they could turn Episode 3 into a full game as Half-Life 3. That plot outline was a piece of sh*t that Mark Laidlaw wrote for EP3, and I have not a single idea why anybody cares about that excuse for a plot outline. People need to get over it, because it’s one of the worst things I’ve ever read in my life. A middle schooler could come up with a better plot outline than that bullsh*t.
That’s how desperate people are to play Half Life 3. They’re willing to sit through a completely awful fan made game to have even a remote chance to play it before Valve is ready to develop it, which if people legitimately believe they’re not working on it in some form, I have a bridge to sell them.
I do not care if it takes ten more years to get Half Life 3. I’d rather wait for Valve than play some horrible excuse for a stand in that a bunch of wannabe excuses for game developers could come up with.
“if people legitimately believe they’re not working on it in some form, I have a bridge to sell them.”
So either Valve is developing Half Life 3 for 10 years without having nothing to show for it (only discarded builds around the time they where messing around with episodic DLC), only somehow showing cryptic messages for conspiracy theorists such as yourself, Or at some point they decided to not bother anymore and maintain radio silence. I’ll take the Occam’s Razor bridge
You realize they’ve been building a new engine since 2004, which still isn’t actually a completely and totally finished engine right, which the old one they used and launch the last Half Life as the main game for it? That’s still working on the game. Unless you happen to think they built Source 2 for nothing.
Not one fu*king idea what “conspiracy theories” you’re talking about.
Lmao 10 years developing a engine then, the game will be out in 2030 called Half Life Forever
That would be interesthing, except that most people don’t care that much at this point, unfortunately.
For you, $3.50
Every time i see that logo my heart stops for a second.
This is just a bunch of UE4 demo assets
?alf Life 3 from Lidl.
This article should be corrected to call it “the Half-Life 2: Episode 3 unofficial game”.
From the fans of the game already have a demo
Half Life 3: Project Borealis :
https://projectborealis.blogspot.com/
I doubt we’ll see proper gameplay within a year, if ever. Can’t bring myself to care about fan projects.