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Valve are devils aren't they! They have recently updated Dota 2 to include new Workshop tools that seem to be based on Source 2!
You may be wondering why this is news. Valve's Source game engine is rather dated now, and for Valve's own games to keep up with the latest trends they needed to get to work on a newer engine.
Source 2 was already confirmed to have native OpenGL and Linux support right in, so no DirectX to OpenGL layer included. This should speed up performance for Source based Linux games.
Check out this reddit post for a bit of a rundown. For reference here is an image from editor clearly showing "source2" in the path:
It is currently Windows only, but with Valve no doubt working hard on it we should see it sometime this year. I look forward to trying out Dota 2 in Source 2 to see if it isn't so damn sluggish at loading.
It would be even more interesting if Steam Machines launched along side a Valve game made in Source 2 like Half Life 3 or Left 4 Dead 3. That would help the hype for Steam Machines as they could talk up how good they are with their new Steam Controller.
Interesting stuff eh? What do you think? Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
You may be wondering why this is news. Valve's Source game engine is rather dated now, and for Valve's own games to keep up with the latest trends they needed to get to work on a newer engine.
Source 2 was already confirmed to have native OpenGL and Linux support right in, so no DirectX to OpenGL layer included. This should speed up performance for Source based Linux games.
Check out this reddit post for a bit of a rundown. For reference here is an image from editor clearly showing "source2" in the path:
It is currently Windows only, but with Valve no doubt working hard on it we should see it sometime this year. I look forward to trying out Dota 2 in Source 2 to see if it isn't so damn sluggish at loading.
It would be even more interesting if Steam Machines launched along side a Valve game made in Source 2 like Half Life 3 or Left 4 Dead 3. That would help the hype for Steam Machines as they could talk up how good they are with their new Steam Controller.
Interesting stuff eh? What do you think? Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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Quoting: laveinstead of an exclusive release they could bundle halflife3 with their first generation of steamboxes
Now that I can get behind ;)
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Quoting: abelthorneMaybe they won't need this because HL3 and L4D3 will be free2play? ;)Please tell me there isn't any actual evidence of this
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Quoting: SnevI wonder if the new Hammer of Source2 supports linux!Nope. Not yet, in fact. I guess it will in the future as Valve made Source 2 in OpenGl with the goal to be Linux-friendly, so I guess the dev tools will come to Linux when there more stable. But now, they don't.
Quoting: stssWell, there have been rumours. At some point, HL3 was supposed to be a single player game with elements of multiplayer and free to play with possibility to buy stuff. But it has probably been scratched, it was years ago. And it may have been a false rumour at the time.Quoting: abelthorneMaybe they won't need this because HL3 and L4D3 will be free2play? ;)Please tell me there isn't any actual evidence of this
Yet, I wouldn't be surprised if future Valve games (HL3, L4D3...) would be free2play, as it seems that they make more money with this kind of games, like TF2 and Dota 2. But maybe it wouldn't work for solo games like HL3.
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Quoting: HadBabitsQuoting: EKRboiWell that's awesome. Ill just be over here in my corner waiting for the official announcement of source2 and that HL3 will be a linux/steamOS exclusive.While I assume this comments not too serious, I have seen many penguins put forth this very idea and it perplexes me. Linux enthusiasts are supposed to be about openness not exclusivity. Platform exclusives are one of the reasons I stay away from consoles nowadays; it's anti-competitive and bad practice imo. I think Linux will continue gaining popularity through it's own merits as a platform. :)
No not really serious. I know how it feels to be left out in the cold in the gaming world.. but I would still have a good laugh IF they did do it.
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Interesting. I wonder how the tooling and especially cross platform support will be, which pretty much was bad in the past source engine. And .. modding support of course. We all know that Source had modding, but the implementation was very limited.
Can't wait for what Valve is going to bring up with Source2 - since they obviously worked quite some time on it.
Can't wait for what Valve is going to bring up with Source2 - since they obviously worked quite some time on it.
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