“Everybody I’ve talked to are still adamant,” even after previous rumors didn’t pan out.

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[–] 37 points 10 months ago* (1 child)

BS. At this point it's just clickbait

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  • [–] 28 points 10 months ago

    Rumors coming from a guy with a bad history of fake claims.

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  • [–] 11 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    My nuts cannot get any more tickled

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  • [–] 6 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    I think we'll get a Half-Life, but it won't be numbered

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago*

    Yeah. But if they did, they'd best surprise us with a 7 day countdown appearing or something, so everyone has time to replay Episode 2 to remember wtf was going on.

    It wouldn't really be something you could enjoy by watching a recap video. And everyone under the age of like 25 wouldn't know wtf is going on without a recap video of ar HL1/Opposing Force/Blueshift/Decay mashup into HL2 and episodes recap. "Ooooooh, so that's what Half-Life is and where we're at."

    A new title would be most likely, for new generations to start with.

    Then they too can get hooked and wait two decades for more.

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  • [–] 6 points 10 months ago

    My friend that let me borrow his copy of Half Life 2 back in the day would probably say the same thing. And he's probably just as credible at this point. If it ain't coming from Valve directly there's really no reason to believe it.

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    The hardware itself is probably already a loss leader.

    If they wanted it to launch with Half-Life 3, they would have had to start working on it like five years ago.

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    [–] 107 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    So the steam machine won’t be launching then, got it.

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  • [–] 40 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    ram prices are absurd, so probably

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago

    ... You... don't think they already locked in at least an initial tranch of component supply, retooled their factory and warehousing spaces, and have been churning some number of these things out... for some weeks or months already?

    You normally don't uh, instantly assemble tens or hundreds of thousands of computers, the week before product launch... you work out an entire time line of prep for sourcing, assembly and storage, you do that quarters before hand, and then start doing assembly, and then release when you think you have enough to sate initial demand.

    And you'll even do parts of that before the design spec itself is totally finalzed in all ways, often times.

    Also....the Steam Machine uses LPDDR5 RAM, as the Steam Deck does.

    Its already, literally physically soldered onto the mainboard.

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  • [–] 46 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    The most rational explanation I can think of is that it's a planted leak to figure out who's leaking.

    Either that or just extreme wishful thinking.

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  • [–] 43 points 11 months ago* (2 children)

    THIS JUST IN: Person says thing, gives no evidence.

    We'll be back at 11 for your evening updates!

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Not the first time I've heard this. There was a leak that was very quickly deleted where it mentioned Valve were using some type of custom GPT for calculating physics (instead of for LLMs). So instead of doing actual complex physics calculations for environmental destruction, a GPT type AI would be doing it.

    Obviously its to go in tandem with their current physics, just offloading specific stuff to the AI. It's apparently very good.

    Source is trust me bro, but we'll find out soon enough I guess.

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  • [–] 25 points 11 months ago

    Silly reporter thinking Valve can count to three.

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  • [–] 25 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    I hereby pledge to donate 500€ to ablegamers if HL3 becomes a launch title for the Gabe Cube. This is not a joke.

    Still pretty sure my money is safe and it will be released after Winds of Winter. Which in turn will be released after the heat death of the universe.

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  • [–] [S] 10 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    If it does come out, you should post a screenshot shot of this message and your donation receipt in pcgaming.

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  • [–] 20 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Just to be clear, I down voted this because it's an article about rumors originating from unnamed sources being talked about by a gaming journalist via his podcast. May as well just print the article out and wipe your ass with it.

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  • [–] 15 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    There were so many suggestions and prediction about Half-Life 3, that I cannot take anyone doing it seriously anymore. There were suggestions Half-Life 3 could be announced at the Summer Games Fest in example. I don't expect the game to launch with the system, despite it would be the "perfect" opportunity. But someone said it could, so people start believing it will. And off course they will write articles about rumors, because that generates hot link of clicks.

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  • [–] 10 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    The hype for so long, even if it ever comes out it's going to be nothing like we have built up in our heads for decades

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  • [–] 15 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (17 children)

    So what would the major innovation be? Running native under Linux? That seems too little focused on the game itself.. Would it be the vr? That doesn't seem novel enough given Alyx..

    Edit: Oh no. Is it going to be AI of some sort? AI dialogue or something?

    Edit 2: Co-op vr campaign? With a game director like in l4d, but then much more sophisticated

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    From the Source engine updates analyses, I think it’s going to be voxels (thus deformable world), a physics engine to support voxels, fluid stimulation, fire simulation, acoustics simulation, NPC AI emotional simulation and adding senses like smell to NPCs.

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  • [–] 10 points 11 months ago (4 children)

    Story wise this could make sense. There was a ship stuck in ice right. Perhaps destroying, removing or deforming the snow and ice is going to be part of it?

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  • [–] 8 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    voxels

    Gaben here. Today we are proud to announce Minecraft in Source 2

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  • [–] 7 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    Okay you know what, I think I'd be equally excited about that. Give me that non-Microsoft Minecraft in a beautiful hackable Linux supported engine

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    I've played a fair bit of Luanti! I've found myself rather obsessed with Vintage Story lately though which isn't quite as free as Luanti but its source-readable (as in the code is available but the license restricts its usage for anything) and has a modding framework

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    Gameplay that can support wiiU esque format with a steam deck and a steam machine? And a steam frame? I dunno

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago*

    Steam consistently have been pretty anti-AI, not banning it, but heavily suggesting not to play games which use it.

    So very much doubt AI.

    If anything it would be Source Engine updates, HL1 was an elaborate tech demo, at its heart. As was HL2, to a lesser extent.

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  • [–] 11 points 11 months ago* (3 children)

    Y'all expect HL3 for the SM while I am predicting Alyx 2 for the Frame.

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  • [–] 11 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    nope they will release Ricochet 2

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  • [–] 5 points 11 months ago*

    Ricochet 2 will be sort of Valve's Smash Brothers with all the characters from Half Life, Portal, Team Fortess and Left4Dead... and it will be cannon tied in a single Valve's Multiverse.

    Still not "3" for any of them tho.

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  • [–] 8 points 10 months ago

    This is your reminder that there were more credible leaks for HL3 when the Xbox 360 was the flagship console.

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago

    Sweet. So that means the steam machine is fake too.

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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago

    Fuck so I definitely need to replace the broken graphic card :-/

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    [–] 9 points 11 months ago (5 children)

    The devs explicitly stated in the HL2 commentary that HL3 was not being worked on and that they had no plans on resuming development.

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  • [–] 17 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    The HL2 commentary...? From 2004?

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  • [–] 6 points 11 months ago* (1 child)

    They have repeated that line in more recent interviews, also. The last big news that had any official statements about it was that the writer had some ideas, but the way Valve operates he can't get enough interested team members together to actually do anything. Nobody else really wants to work on it; they have other interesting projects they would prefer to work on.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago

    No three for you!

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago

    You just 3 more years to it's release date

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