12 TB of Valve's data from 2003-2013 has leaked online, and Episode 3 content isn't off the table yet

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• who@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  There’s also a very good chance that early Half-Life2: Episode 3 builds are in there, but at the time of writing, nobody has found anything related to the legendary sequel that never came. There’s 12 TB after all, so it’s going to take a long time for the community to sift through all the data and work out what it all means.

  In other words, this headline is pure speculative click bait.

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  • rtxn@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    But it is a reasonable possibility. More plausible than most predictions. Valve employees have stated that Episode 3 was in some stage of development when it was cancelled, and that several unsuccessful attempts had been made to continue the series. There’s a very good chance that related material is in the leaked data, even if it isn’t the next mainline game.

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  • Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    They never even started HL3. They’ve said so themselves in multiple interviews. I’m not even sure where the rumors about it started unless somehow HL2:Ep3 was just called “HL3” by someone once and it caught on, since the episodic DLC was supposed to be a trilogy but they only ever released 1 and 2.

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    • rtxn@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Half-Life 3 was in development between 2013 and 2014, but dropped because Source 2 wasn’t ready, according to Geoff Keighley’s The Final Hours Of Half-Life: Alyx. It sounds like it never got further than an early gameplay concept, but saying that it was never even started is incorrect.

      web.archive.org/…/half-life-3-left-4-dead-3-detai…

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    • ripcord@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Both the headline and the comment you replied to only mentioned episode 3.

      …Which they did do a lot of work on, then abandoned to work on HL3. HL3 was very specifically a thing and a different thing

      But the context here is EPISODE 3 which had a fair bit of development.

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  • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Ooo, 2013 episode 3? So half life alyx early builds?

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  • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Hasn’t the source engine been quite considerably updated since Half-Life 2, so it’s not going to contain anything Half-Life 3 related because 2013 is too early for the new engine.

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• hperrin@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Oh shit. My friends will find out that I play NSFW games. I mean, they already know, because they see it in their feed, and they get a popup every time I start playing one. But, now they’ll know even more…

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  • sundray@lemmus.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Well if I’d known my friends were going to find out I play gooner-games, I wouldn’t have bothered texting them about it.

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  • Arcane2077@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    TIL there are ai engagement bots on lemmy.ca

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    • hperrin@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      ?

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    • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Do they want to know what gooner games we all play too?

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• catalyst@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The framing of this is so funny. We haven’t found it yet but it isn’t off the table. You could say that’s true for a lot of things.

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