Valve News Network has shared a video, giving us a glimpse at the cancelled Dust 2 map remake of Counter-Strike: Global Offensive in the Source 2 Engine. While this remake was never officially announced, Valve News Network has a few different pieces of evidence that hint towards such a project.
Source 2 Engine was officially announced in March 2015 and the first game that uses it is DOTA 2. Artifact, the upcoming card-game from Valve, is also said to be using it. There were rumours that a new Left 4 Dead game or remake would be using it, however Valve has not announced anything yet. In January 2018, however, Gabe Newell revealed that Valve is working on some unannounced game that will be powered by this engine.
Still, this cancelled remake of the Dust 2 map is quite interesting. This video also features some in-engine screenshots from this remake, so be sure to watch it. Now since these screenshots were released in 2013, I’m pretty sure we won’t see this map released to the public. Unless of course one of Valve’s unannounced games is a new version of CS:GO.
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This guy needs to stop throwing around terms he doesn’t understand. There aren’t any spotlights or pointlights in any Source map ever from Valve. From amateur maps? Yes. Like god awful Prospect for Insurgency.
He knows a lot more than you ever will. Also a lot more intelligent. Go eat something lardass.
The dude honestly doesn’t have a clue what he’s talking about. He just runs a garbage YouTube channel
Why don’t they just call it Dust 3?
Ugh VNN, Tyler is a god d*** idiot who consistently baits HL3 releases and misinterprets just about everything he finds about the game. Please stop using him as a valid news source, he may have found this but wait until he classically puts up another video about Half Life 3 again.
He’s partially responsible for all the “HL3 is never coming out!” fiasco that circled around the internet because he misinterpreted Mark Laidlaw putting up a completely god awful and more than likely failed to be used “story” for how Episode 3 would have ended. Gabe Newell himself said that Episode 3 was becoming HL3 and would be extended out into a full game but it didn’t stop him from making a completely dumbfounded claim that it was never coming out now.
I partly agree, but then again he’s usually very active in terms of news about valve, i couldn’t find someone as active as he is, so well…
It’s true, I just wish he would vet his information better before making bait title videos like he does.
Yeah that’s also true.
So when is HL3 ever coming out?
I don’t know? It doesn’t mean that it never is though.
I’d imagine the game will come out around when ever Valve manages to make a massive game changer such as the physics system of the source engine when HL2 was announced.
At this point it’s pretty much dead. Most people involved in HL have left Valve. It would have to be a new team and who cares about an HL3 from a different developer?
Hahahahaha, oh its dead now? I didn’t realize I was speaking to a Valve developer or somebody that has amazingly inside information about HL3 being dead.
It’s public information that most of the people responsible for making the Half-Life series what it is have quit Valve. If part 3 is made by different people is it really HL3 in anything but name?
Ahhh, what public information? What Mark Laidlaw put out? That incredibly bad “ending” for Episode 3 which isn’t even being made any more?
Valve has let so many opportunities to make HL2 Ep3 go by that it’s not credible to believe that anything could make them develop the game at this point. The biggest opportunity they let slide was when Newell was afraid that MS was going to create a walled garden with Windows 10 and hurt Steam sales. They were pushing Steam OS and Steam Boxes pretty hard back then. Bringing HL2 Ep3 and making it a Steam OS exclusive would have helped them to get more people using Steam OS but they passed it by.
They also could have brought the game to promote their new engine and they passed. I think if they passed on those opportunities then there really isn’t anything to cause them to make that game. Steam is a huge money maker and Valve is pretty much set financially as long as they take care of that. I like Newell but at the end of the day he is just about business and business is about making money.
This guy needs to stop throwing around terms he doesn’t understand. There aren’t any spotlights or pointlights in any Source map ever from Valve. From amateur maps? Yes. Like god awful Prospect for Insurgency.