As promised, Gabe Newell has answered some questions during his Reddit AMA. As you’d expect, a lot of people asked great Gabe about Half-Life 3 and as you’d imagine, they did not get an answer. Half Life 3 confirmed… NOT. But anyway, during his AMA, Gabe talked a bit about the Source 2 Engine, so time to see what he had to say about this new engine.
When a fan asked about the improvements of Source 2 Engine, Gabe had this to say:
“The biggest improvements will be in increasing productivity of content creation. That focus is driven by the importance we see UGC having going forward.”
Moreover, Valve is currently working on making Source 2 Engine compatible with Oculus Rift. According to Gabe, Source 2 Engine will work well with VR.
Last but not least, Newell confirmed that Valve will not be developing any exclusive game for SteamOS, meaning that most – if not all – of its title will be multi-platforms.
And that is that. Obviously not what most of you were hoping for. As always, those who are optimistic will claim that Gabe did not deny Half-Life 3 which obviously means that it’s already under development. On the other hand, those who are pessimistic will say that Gabe did not talk about Half-Life 3 because there is no HL3.
We’re leaving you with a special video dedicated to Gabe Newell. Also, do note that the header image is not from Source 2 Engine (it’s from the Half Life 2 Cinematic Mod).
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Sounds like very good news to me. On a personal note take your time with Half Life 3, Can’t rush greatness.
Knew they wouldn’t do SteamOS Exclusive Games, would be a dumb idea consider their main player base is on Windows.
OR maybe cause Valve is not like Sony and Microsoft. Valve maybe thinks is good for a game to be on any platform as possible!!
Gotta love Valve, spreading out Half Life, giving it time to grow into something as fantastic as 1 or 2, anyyone else and we would’ve had half life-12 by now.
What the heck did they do to Alyx’s nose??? lol
Not just her nose. Fakefactory changed her model wholesale to a totally different person.. Instead of the original Jamil Mullen she’s modeled after Laetitia Casta in the cinematic mod.
“As
always, those who are optimistic will claim that Gabe did not deny
Half-Life 3 which obviously means that it’s already under development.
On the other hand, those who are pessimistic will say that Gabe did not
talk about Half-Life 3 because there is no HL3.”
Quote of the year!!
Quote of all these (long waiting) years I guess. xD
Damn this Cinematic Mod. It could be the best thing ever if not for all those horrible character designs and the lore breaking map changes.
so whats so special about steam OS then?, it looks like more of an obstacle than a step forward in gaming.
So if anyone can explain to why SteamOS is beneficial to PC gamers?
because fck ms
It only gives us an alternative to Microsoft Windows, nothing else. Valve isn’t happy about the built-in store in Windows 8 [which sells games as well]; they saw this as a threat and as a response decided to support another platform.
Although, why SteamOS instead of another GNU/Linux distributor? Most like because they wanted to give developers a common set of libraries that they would find on all the clients.