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[Badlucktroll]

my guess is that valve has been working on it this entire time and its big innovation will be totally 100% destructable environments

 

[Drake]

Let it go. It's not happening. When Laidlaw released the plot of the game a few years back it gave me the closure I needed. At least I know how it would have ended now.

 

[Romulus]

Alyx made a believer. Before that, I didn't expect them to have that same magic. If anything, they seemed to have improved over the years somehow.

 

[darrylgorn]

You can view the results of the poll without voting.

Just saying.

 

[xrnzaaas]

I think they have something HL-related cooking for Steam Machines 2. I highly doubt it's Half-Life 3, even though it would probably sell quite a few copies if they were crazy enough to make it an exclusive.

 

[Buggy Loop]

It's 3:18

Seems to be a bug with youtube as if you refresh 3:17 shows up quickly and if you put the video at the end, it's 3:17.

spotify doesn't fuck up

 

[Krathoon]

Oh yeah. HL3 is totally coming out this year. It sounds like Valve is already playtesting it.

It is going to be one of the biggest surprises of the year.

 

[DonkeyPunchJr]

My white uncle works for Valve, he confirmed HL3 is coming this year and it’s going to far exceed everyone’s expectations. Trust me, you think you know but really you have no idea. Nuff said.

 

[simpatico]

I'm not sure about 2025, but I fully believe there is a fully playable HL3 build that exists as I post this.

We've never had this much verifiable smoke.

 

[SF Kosmo]

I think there's too much smoke for their OS/controller/console/deckard aligning for this year for HL3 to just miss the boat.

I definitely think it's in development and probably will make it to release, I just don't think it's going to hit 2025 based on when I seems to have hit full production.

 

[mopspear]

There were two contrails making a lambda in the sky a few weeks ago.

 

[TintoConCasera]

1+9+7=17

As in, City 17

 

[Buggy Loop]

my guess is that valve has been working on it this entire time and its big innovation will be totally 100% destructable environments

We know Valve has partnered with RealBiomes for some procedural environment

RealBiomes | Forest & Desert Biome Environments for Unreal Engine 5

Elevate Your Quality with Beautiful Procedural 3D Biomes for Games, Movies, Automotive and more. Realistic Forest & Desert Environments for Unreal Engine 5.

www.realbiomes.com

HLX leaks have also hinted at

• Dismemberment
• Water physics
• Gravity manipulation
• Vastly improved AI
• Voxel destruction
• Semi-immersive sim gameplay
• Return to Xen
• Not open world (phew!)

If we go with Deckard rumors and their patents then it goes a lot more wild

 

[Wonko_C]

The game that will finally make people buy VR headsets.

 

[TintoConCasera]

We need a reaction emoji in preparation for the game's reveal.

 

[Buggy Loop]

The universe is based on 197 ffs

 

[ozz ex machina]

The game that will finally make people buy VR headsets.

All but confirmed to not be a VR title anymore

 

[TintoConCasera]

All but confirmed to not be a VR title anymore

Nah, it must be VR or at least VR compatible. If not the experience would be a downgrade coming from Alyx and specially HL2 with the VR mod. That shit's a game changer.

 

[OGM_Madness]

Can we please get some ports of the Valve titles in modern consoles? Portal on Switch was nice, but why not PS5 ports? With Portal RTX, I was hoping to see a port with a mode that focuses on Ray Tracing.

The Orange Box was peak Valve and I’m hoping they can go back to releasing games on a regular basis and a new version of the Orange Box or a Orange Box 2 might be enough to remind everyone what they can do with games.

 

[Carmen Winstead]

I WANT TO BELIEVE GABEN!

 

[Boss Mog]

At this point I kinda want Portal 3 more.

At least give us a modern port of Portal 2 for fuck's sake.

 

[Moses85]

At this point I kinda want Portal 3 more.

At least give us a modern port of Portal 2 for fuck's sake.

 

[Davesky]

197 in Gematria is Angel Gabriel (Gabe)

 

[Hawk The Slayer]

About time it happens! The Alyx gold 2 engine is the perfect engine for it so I never once believed they’ll only use it for Alyx only. I just hope Half Life 3 won’t be VR only and make Race X and other Xen alien return. Or even new aliens cause Combine is boring.

 

[Hudo]

About time it happens! The Alyx gold 2 engine is the perfect engine for it so I never once believed they’ll only use it for Alyx only. I just hope Half Life 3 won’t be VR only and make Race X and other Xen alien return. Or even new aliens cause Combine is boring.

Isn't HL:Alyx running on Source 2?

 

[Bert Big Balls]

LMAO, this post got a hearty chuckle out of me, good job

So... to add fuel to the fire, valve has 196 tweets on their official twitter, what does this mean? What will number 197 be?

what the actual fuck

 

[Stafford]

If this is ever happening I wonder what the big new thing will be. In 2 it was the awesome grav gun, right? And the cool physics. We need something truly new and great in this genre.

But breh, I've been waiting for this for forever, I'm into my 40s now, I've given up.

 

[Hudo]

If this is ever happening I wonder what the big new thing will be. In 2 it was the awesome grav gun, right? And the cool physics. We need something truly new and great in this genre.

But breh, I've been waiting for this for forever, I'm into my 40s now, I've given up.

I am hoping for a more dynamic AI or something along those lines.

 

[lordrand11]

Mainly the community of Half-Life went totally insane with the Mike Shapiro tweet, the voice actor of G-man.

This tweet



#Valve #Halflife #GMan #2025

The image he's showing is an album cover for his music. WTF? Ok dead end. Done and gone.

Now, before we continue, put on your tinfoil hat

The album cover is this



See something in the window?

197

• The song is 3:17 minutes, which is 197 seconds

• The previous release window between the previous Mike Shapiro song was... 197 days

• 197 on the periodic table is ... Gold 197 is the ONLY in the list of 41 isotopes of gold that has no Half-Life (stable)

Isotopes of gold - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

• Mercury -197 has an HALF-LIFE OF 3 DAYS

• The lyrics of his 3:27 song, Best long dog

Spoiler: Lyrics

Among the best long dogs known to man
Among the best long dogs ever known
When your nose is wet you can paw the world
When your back gets busy there's no end to you
When your eyes get shiny and your coat is black,
You're the best dog known to man
The best dog in the world
There's a siren song from the cabin
When it's locked tight, long dogs will flop
Have chugged remains and a nod on ball,
That's the work of the best bad dog of all
Sure the best dog, dog known to man,
Can't tell a dog paw from a man hand
Foot starts stomping and the roots don't grow,
Cause the best dog known knows a do-si-do
You're the best dog, best dog known to man
Best not to be a squirrely red hand
You're the best dog, best dog known to man
Every dog around getting with the same plan
Your eyes get shiny and your coat is black
You're the best dog known man
The best dog, dog in the world
There's a siren song from the cabinet
When it's locked up tight, long dogs will fret
Half chewed remains and a knot on ball
That's the work of the best bad dog in all
But you're the best dog, dog known to man
Can't tell a dog paw from a man hand
But it starts stomping and the roots don't grow
Cause the best dog now knows it does, you know
You're the best dog, best dog known to man
I listen up to these squirrels here and here
The best known, best known, I'll go to me
Every dog around, I'll get you in the state of mind
The best dog, I would say to me
The very best known to man, dog
Yeah, talking about the best dog

What is the word at the 197th word?

Spoiler: buckle up

Among the best long dogs known to man
Among the best long dogs ever known
When your nose is wet you can paw the world
When your back gets busy there's no end to you
When your eyes get shiny and your coat is black,
You're the best dog known to man
The best dog in the world
There's a siren song from the cabin
When it's locked tight, long dogs will flop
Have chugged remains and a nod on ball,
That's the work of the best bad dog of all
Sure the best dog, dog known to man,
Can't tell a dog paw from a man hand
Foot starts stomping and the roots don't grow,
Cause the best dog known knows a do-si-do
You're the best dog, best dog known to man
Best not to be a squirrely red hand
You're the best dog, best dog known to man
Every dog around getting with the same plan
Your eyes get shiny and your coat is black
You're the best dog known man
The best dog, dog in the world
There's a siren song from the cabinet
When it's locked up tight, long dogs will fret
Half

• Last but not least, what happens if you put 1 9 7 on a clock ?

Spoiler: Trigger warning

Now why would Mike Shapiro do this?

He did hint in the past he would announce a game he's been working on via twitter (during Alyx promotion, so another game)

His 2020 USGamer interview



And his 20th anniversary speech ".... waiting for the moment to speak"



And Valve has done ARG marketing campaigns in the past, "Alternative reality game" promotion. They did it for Portal 2

Portal ARG

On March 1 and March 3, 2010, Portal was updated to feature parts of an eventually highly successful alternate reality game (or ARG) to promote its sequel, Portal 2. The ARG was created solely by Portal 2’s development team; there was no marketing team behind it. While it mostly promotes their...

half-life.fandom.com

What do you think? Join me in full copium mode?

 

[Unknown?]

It'll end up like FF7 Remake, The Last Guardian, and Shenmue 3. Well it probably won't suck like Shenmue 3 but it won't live up to any of the hype like those three games.

 

[Cyberpunkd]

This thread is on a roll.

 

[KU_]

This might be the best thread I’ve encountered in my 13+ years of surfing these forums. It’ll be even better when HL3 is announced.

Needless to say, I am in 100% in.

 

[poodaddy]

I think you're all nuts.....

 

[V1LÆM]

i want HL3 to come out so people shut up about it. i'd give it a shot to see what the fucking fuss is.

 

[Magic Carpet]

Gabe did not walk out on stage during the Nehvidia presentation to announce Drivers or anything. My hopes dashed.

 

[Toots]

It's kind of sad that no real conspiracy will ever be as good as what the conspiracy theorists manage to pull out of whatever caught their attention five minutes before posting.