What’s being sold as an “as-complete-as-possible … content server dump” of Steam’s defunct “Steam2” server architecture from that time period is now circulating around via a BitTorrent tracker that Valve seems unlikely to ever completely purge from the Internet. The massive collection includes thousands of “depots” representing what seems to be every version of every game uploaded to those old Steam2 servers. That includes public release builds, of course, but in many cases also covers previously unseen pre-release, prototype, and playtest versions of popular titles published by Valve and third-party Steam publishers.

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[–] 3 points 2 months ago (1 child)

12TB is surprisingly small, even if it only is up to 2013. Wonder if it's compressed?

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago

    Holy shit, sounds like a real jackpot of a leak

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    [–] 15 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    Hooray, a headline that doesn't oversell it!

    Some articles were heavily clickbaiting about HL2 ep3, and while there is like one early/experimental weapon model from it in this leak, it's something fans have already known about and seen in some previously leaked testing footage.

    As far as I understand it, most of this is just some additional data on things already known, and different builds of things we've already seen. Still awesome, but not "omg HL3 leak!"

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago

    fantastic news for game preservation

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