![]() ![]() It's interesting to see everything collected in one place, and it does a good job of explaining where the data came from and raises the question of whether we'll get any sort of official announcement about the technology, or any of these sequels, at Gamescom. The video contains information about Half-Life 3, Left 4 Dead 3, and the Source 2 engine itself, collecting all the tiny hints and various leaks that have taken place in the past few years. This video is a quick, five-minute look at the history of Source 2 engine leaks, hints and teasers, including information given out when people just kind of showed up at the Valve office. Would Valve just kind of release a new engine in a huge game in this manner, without telling anyone? It's possible, and the company certainly has strange ways of getting news out. "The general consensus around the Source reverse engineering community is that this is really Source 2." "It's all the Dota assets and code ported over to Source 2. "Everything in this package is a new game," wrote RoyAwesome on the Dota 2 subReddit, a user who has been collecting evidence so far. I’ve embedded it below.It appeared as if Valve had soft-launched the Source 2 engine in a recent update to the massively popular Dota 2, but the company has yet to confirm if the game is running on the new engine, or is simply benefiting from the work being done on the new engine, or if we're just grasping at straws. I wouldn’t read too much into that, just yet.įinally, YouTube user rilezfp put up a video of the new Hammer in action, and it’s a bit special. It includes Valves Source 2 Engine, custom games, overhauled UI, tons of behind the scenes improvements, and so much more. There are a few mentions of Xbox in the code, but I suspect that’s both a bit of a legacy from Source, and to do with the fact that Source 2 games will likely end up on consoles. Oh, and there are quite a lot of mentions of Left 4 Dead 3. If Custom Game functionality and custom maps actually hit base Dota 2 anytime soon, I’d wager it’s not going to be too hard to craft something workable. There are 2 types of heroes, core and support. It is very important for team to chose right heroes and know its strengths, weaknesses and abilities. Dota 2 provides very strategic gameplay which involves team play, tactics and knowledge of over 120 heroes. webm video of creating a map by just painting with the tilesets, which is rather neat. It was built using Source 2 engine made by Valve. What it does mean is that Source 2 is presumably now at a point where Valve are comfortable rolling it out so that content creators can actually get used to it.Įxcellently, the Hammer editor is also less terrible. It doesn’t mean we’re going to get a super-gorgeous, visually updated version of Dota 2 anytime soon it also doesn’t mean that Valve are on the cusp of announcing a brand new Source 2 game. This might also explain why the Workshop Tools are so system-hungry, requiring 64-bit Windows and a Direct3D 11 GPU – it’s because Source 2 probably isn’t all that well optimised yet. ![]() There’s a lot of evidence for this – most of the files that would share a name with a Source file are appended with a “2”, the Hammer editor has the option to search for “Source 1.0” files in addition to the ones it prefers, there are repeated mentions of Source 2, the whole thing has some serious improvements over what Source previously did, etc. ![]() As in, they’re running Dota 2 as ported into Source 2. Those Dota 2 Workshop Tools that hit earlier? Apparently, they’re running in the Source 2 engine. I might’ve misunderstood this because I am terrible at engines and there’s nothing officially announced, so bear with me.Īlso, let’s get the credits out of the way quickly: we found this on Reddit, and then NeoGAF showed up and also started investigating. I don’t know where to begin with this, so let’s start with “ Dota 2‘s Workshop Tools seem to be using Source 2″. If the new Hammer editor is much simpler than the original, it should have the slogan “You CAN touch this.” Dota 2 in Source 2 runs better on older laptops, and at the same time further increases performance on current desktops. ![]()
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