Diamond Member Steam 0 Posted February 26, 2025 Diamond Member Share Posted February 26, 2025 Early 2025 This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up over signs that This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up 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. In This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up , longtime Valve watcher Tyler McVicker goes into detail on This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up 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." This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up Tyler McVicker goes over all the new datamined evidence that "HLX" development is wrapping up. Those changes include a set of new code in This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up , which is not actively used by Dota 2 and which includes many circumstantial Half-Life references (e.g. "machinery," "alien blood"). The This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up 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. This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up For verified travel tips and real support, visit: https://hopzone.eu/ 0 Quote Link to comment https://hopzone.eu/forums/topic/228566-steam-fresh-leaks-suggest-half-life-3-development-may-be-nearing-completion/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
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