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Half-Life 3 is the game fans are eagerly waiting for but it has not yet been announced or confirmed by the series creator, Valve.
If you're looking for 'lighter' gaming-related entertainment, try! The goal of is to provide a place for informative and interesting gaming content and discussions. Submissions should be for the purpose of informing or initiating a discussion, not just with the goal of entertaining viewers. This video is a bit long, a lot of it is exposition, most of which you probably know or can assume if you've been following the story in the last couple days. So I'm gonna highlight the most relevant bits in regards to the maps. He starts talking about the maps around Basically they were partially constructed versions of what appears to have been Half Life 3 beta maps (and not EP3 maps, the video suggests, judging from the somewhat recent dating 2012-2014) sourced from an Episode 1 and 2 Beta leak that occurred earlier in this year.
Some modders finished them up themselves and made them publicly available. You can download the mod.
The YouTube video also mentions to 'make sure to have Source Engine 2013 Single Player, and set it to the upcoming beta. ' You can find the Source SDK Base 2013 Singleplayer under Library Tools on Steam.
You can set it to the upcoming beta by Right Clicking Properties Betas Select the beta you would like to opt into: -upcoming Bonus: The link to GabeN's about money. Sitting currently at over negative five thousand points. By far the most downvotes I've ever seen in the history of Reddit. EDIT: You need Episode One and Two installed and working.
Wish that was made a bit more obvious in the video description. Also this is in the mod's description, but just for the sake of lazy redditors: What is included in this release:. 11 levels created by Valve between 2012 and 2013, intended for Half-Life 3.
Keep in mind that these levels were gameplay experiments, not actual storyline based levels. 4 demonstration levels created by Lever Softworks to show various functions and NPCs not seen in those levels. weaponproto1, a Combine laser-gun that shoot through walls, intended for Episode 3.
hl2ebweaponproto1debug, a command which toggles the Developer Console spam created by weaponproto1. npccombinearmored, an Armored Combine Soldier, intended for Episode 3. npcwpnscanner, a City Scanner with a laser gun, intended for Episode 3. EDIT 2: So I've opened it up and played maybe halfway through already. The first three clean levels you might consider just noclipping around just to scout it out since there are no enemies and all scripted events have been removed. To noclip: Esc Options Keyboard Advanced Enable developer's console Hit ` (to the left of 1) type svcheats 1 type noclip (and again to toggle off) The 'Dog Gates' Hub Map and the Resource Gathering Prototypes seem like they will be the most interesting maps by far, as the other ones seem most only to exist to showcase the feature of randomized enemy spawn location and type. Which is, y'know, cool, but not all that groundbreaking.
For the Dog map, it looks like the developers forgot to spawn you a crowbar so. This was horribly incorrect, as stated. I looked a little harder and found a crowbar. (EDIT 3) Conclusion: The Dog Gates map feels like it was a precursor to grounding the resource gathering and upgrading mechanics inside the frame of the game. The level design easily feels like it could have been from Half Life 2. The Prototype is a much more open map with reused buildings, clearly to showcase the mechanics themselves.
It's rather straightforward - you get organic resources for killing most enemies, mechanical for manhacks and crates, and Energy mostly from Thumpers. It's pretty grindy, especially the Energy, but not soulcrushingly so. The only other real note is, as TheMAZZTer mentioned, the game will crash within about 20-30 seconds if you're not right next to Dog when he starts to harvest Energy from the Thumpers.
It drops about 50 props with lightning particle effects, and will start lagging pretty badly. They might not pick up at first, but as long as you're next to Dog when he starts it should be fine. Oh, and the new weapon in the testing section is pretty unique. Absorbing props for ammo seems like a cool mechanic, as well as penetrating shots and having a radar to see enemies through walls. Shame we won't get to use it in a campaign. So it's not Half Life 3, obviously, or even Episode 3, but for a couple custom maps with a few unique features to entertain for about two hours, it's not bad.
Just feels like a level designer and a couple programmers spitballing ideas. About on par with some of the other shorter HL2 mods. The money comment. He's not wrong, but we were hoping Valve was different from the other money hogging companies out there. We hoped that because they were at the forefront of so many developments in game design, they would continue their trend.
That they would continue being world builders and game makers out of love of what they bring into existence, and the experiences they create. I think with the several recent debacles surrounding Valve, it is fair to say they aren't that much different from the other bunch unfortunately.
It is as if you were slowly watching your favorite superhero shift into, not their evil twin, but a regular person instead, watching the action from the sidelines. I understand that the outside world can see Valve as a company just making VR headsets like Facebook or Samsung. That's what so frustrating.
It's that complete disconnect with reality that makes it hard for me to even open VR related threads or articles on generic subreddits or websites. Valve hasn't even released an HMD. They created a technology that solved tracking elegantly and they give it freely to anyone who wants to make an HMD.
They're currently working on the most advanced VR controllers ever made, and those were originally shown in a very prototype state (I only stress that because another reply to me said they intend to be sole proprietars of VR and won't show any products until they're 100% polished in order to do so. Also, they're giving a lot of their resources and brain power on helping develop free and open XR standards, but I digress.). Saying that they are just a 'company making VR headsets' makes me cringe in the same way hearing your mom call your Playstation a Nintendo would. I know this is a case of me following the industry way closer than most people. I own that I'm getting frustrated over semantics. I take your point that what I'm finding irking is what people see who aren't entrenched in the reality of the technology and its market. It doesn't make it any less frustrating when I see someone inferring that Valve made the Vive, or that they haven't released any important software/games outside of steam updates and Dota in a long time, or that they have no intention of making more games, or that they've given in to being a greedy, overreaching company.
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All of those things are ridiculous to anyone following their movements in VR closely. The only thing I see is a company creating VR headsets no different from Facebook or Samsung. Oculus (owned by Facebook, but really not at all involved with them aside from cashflow for now) essentially stole insider secrets from Valve.
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The Rift would not exist (or would be much, much worse off) if not for Valve's development of the Vive. Samsung is piggybacking off of that with Gear VR, which is a mobile peripheral and isn't close to comparable to roomscale VR like the Vive. Also, how does Valve not have a huge reach for VR? They have a supermajority of market share for selling PC games, and SteamVR is the framework for a LOT of VR functionality. Facebook and Samsung may have a lot of money, but Valve has the actual market and technical know-how when it comes to VR. Also, Valve actually cares about VR, unlike Facebook or Samsung, who are just pumping money into it hoping to grab a piece of the 'next big thing' pie.
Ya I mean I'm desperately hopeful, but also possess some pretty cold logic. Valve is utilizing tried and true micro transactions to fund their VR development. They want to release their own hardware and be the soul proprietor of VR and the future of entertainment. If they're to reach Microsoft levels of market domination they're going to want to make sure they have all their shit 100% polished and ready to drop on consumers before they even apply for patents. Just my opinion on the matter but if I were trying to do something ground breaking, I would need capital to do so, gabe isn't elon musk with billions literally in liquid cash, he needs to run his business in the black to stay afloat.
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Micro transaction and steam are low effort cash cows that fulfill that purpose.