[STEAM] Fresh leaks suggest Half-Life 3 development may be nearing completion

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Early 2025

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over signs that

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might soon be over. Now, data contained in some new Valve game updates suggests that the project known in Valve engine code as "HLX"—and widely assumed to be Half-Life 3—might be reaching the final stages of production.

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, longtime Valve watcher Tyler McVicker goes into detail on

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found after spending hours datamining the latest update to Dota 2 (the first update for that game since mid-December). The strings suggest a wave of behind-the-scenes Source engine changes dealing with the kind of "optimization and polish" that "happen at the end of a game's production cycle," McVicker says. "This is getting to the point where it does feel as if Valve is nearing completion of the production of HLX."

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Tyler McVicker goes over all the new datamined evidence that "HLX" development is wrapping up. Those changes include a set of new code in

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, which is not actively used by Dota 2 and which includes many circumstantial Half-Life references (e.g. "machinery," "alien blood"). The

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deals with letting the engine scale the level of an NPC's AI simulation based on its distance from the player, a refinement that McVicker says is "absolutely... optimization work" and an apparent sign that "Valve has hit the optimization and polish phase" on HLX.

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