IT'S ACTUALLY FUCKING HAPPENINGhttps://files.catbox.moe/4yvnck.mp4
2 more weeksTyler McViker said so
Watch it be a fabricated nothingburger from Gaben to trick weak-minded saps like you and Tyler
how does that confirm anything?
>>750146837I guess HLX is supposed to be the title of a mystery HL game?Unless that means something else.
At some point when it is officially announced I will assume it's another fake release.
>>750146407>its happening>for real this time>really, not like last time>well it didnt happen but im sure one day it willHLfags are pathetic. These threads are actually worse seeing than another gooner gachaslop thread
>>750147091>I guess HLX is supposed to be the title of a mystery HL game?i assumed it was that VR gamewasn't the chick name something with X?
>>750147292Alyx
Apparently there is evidence to suggest Valve has been using HLX assets in S2FM and is likely preparing a trailer to show during the TGA
more like scatbox lmao
>>750147498what a retarded ideawhy would Valve ever pay to announce something at TGAfucking retards back then were saying GTA 6 was going to get announced at TGA tooValve isn't going to pay Geoff to have him shill for themThey don't need it
>>750147705Didn't he do the anniversary documentaries and reveal previous valve releases?They probably don't have to pay, he will do it for free.
>>750147705I dunno, maybe because Alyx was planned to be shown at the TGA and the only reason it wasn't cause it got leaked in advance?Just because they don't need it doesn't mean they wouldn't rather reveal it to a crowd rather than posting a random tweet
>>750147239This is exactly how every Valve product works, retard. It's known about in vague terms for a long time, then something slips or a leak happens, which usually means the product is actually going finally release. Team Fortress 2 released nine years after they announced it, but we never heard anything about the version we actually got until about 14 months before release.
>>750146407>HLXthey call Half Life Alyx - HLX because HLA means Hot Lesbian Action ya dummy
>>750147705I feel like any stage would gladly give Gabe a free pass to announce Half Life 3 there.Much to the chagrin of every other game being announced there because holy shit, talk about an overshadowing.
>>750146407what's to stop some anon from just vibe coding episode 3 at this point?
>>750147498please stopi hear this for every game festival and eventi don't want to believe anymorei'm going to be sick
I'm laughing my ass off, that was a total nothingburger, hopium schizo tier.
>TGAbait used to be believable
>>750147498Why the fuck would they do a conference? Valve will just put up a trailer and a full front page Steam ad once they're ready to start taking pre-orders.
>>750146407
>>750148650Because they want to nigger>>750147991
>>750146407Couldn't care less. Valve games were shit anyways
>>750147705>>750148650They've always had a close relationship with Geoff Keighley. They might let him announce the game at his big fancy show just because they like him.
>>750146407everyone knows what hlx is, cs2 is hlx, it's like the framework thing they use for first person games starting with cs2, deadlock and dota have their own etc, even if they're cooking the engine in the back doesn't mean they're releasing anything necessarily, it's just annoying to try getting people excited for nothingburgers
When was this.?
>>750148047you cretin, the "leak" has happened for HL3 a million times now. It's not happening.
>>750146407Fuck these cry wolf fagots.
What makes Half Life 3 so special? HL games are good but it's not like the entire industry depends on HL3 coming out. Even if it does release, people will play it, form their opinion, and move on after a few months.
WHERE'S YOUR HEAD AAAAATT
>keep spamming "dood half life any day now" for years>valve finally releases a new half life game>SEE? I WAS RIGHT ALL ALONG
>>750149072Half-Life was never a relevant franchise. Was quickly forgotten and only remained relevant because of the Counter-Strike mod. Most of the copies of Half-Life were sold to play Counter Strike, not HL.Half-Life 2 WAS A SCAM. Why? Simply put, it was created for Steam, and it required Steam to run. Its sole purpose was to force as many people as possible to install the Steam client. Gabe Newell even used a highly dishonorable marketing tactic,a massive publicity stunt,that being the 2003 "Half Life 2 leak" by a "hacker".Suddenly, Half-Life 2 became the most anticipated game ever, covered by every gaming website and magazine of the era. Gabe used HL2 as bait and successfully lured everyone into installing Steam. Imagine requiring gamers to install additional software and authenticate online just to play a singleplayer game in 2004. Gabe did it, and everyone praised him, thinking they were about to play the best game ever.Therefore, Half-Life 2 was never relevant outside of marketing, hype and brainwashing. The game is a tech demo, but not the kind you are thinking of. Half-Life 2 was a tech demo for the Steam platform, meant to benchmark its servers, infrastructure, user experience, scalability, DRM...etc. "but what about the physics simulation in HL2?!" dumb zoomers, the physics were handled by Havok, a physics sim engine already found in Xbox and PS2 games.If not for the CounterStrike mod's popularity, Gabe would be fucked. If not for the Dota mod, he'd be fucked again. He got so damn lucky with the modding community literally handing him the holy grails of online gaming.For Gabe, HalfLife 3 would only make sense as a SteamMachine exclusive to force idiots to buy his gaming PC, though that would likely backfire and outrage the community. It's safe to claim that HL3 has no purpose for Gabe other than pleasing delusional gaymers. Gabe is an entrepreneur. He is here for the money, not to please you. You ignorant fools must stop asking for HalfLife 3.
>>750149072Half Life games are true bar raisers. The gaming industry changed forever with HL1, then again with HL2.Not to mention the fucking 20 year old cliffhanger...We need HL3.
UPDATE DOTA 2 INSTEAD
>>750149386Cope post
>>750146407"Cough… cough… h-hah… you want to know… where I hid it?”“Half-Life 3…”“The flash drive… containing the game… I hid it somewhere on Earth…”“Cough… it could be at the top of the highest mountain… buried beneath the snow… or at the deepest part of the ocean… where no man has ever reached…”“It could be buried beneath the sands of a thousand deserts… locked inside a forgotten tomb… or sitting in a fucking drawer somewhere… I DON'T REMEMBER.”“COUGH… COUGH…”“BUT IT EXISTS.”“And someday… someone… SOMEONE… will find it.”“And when they do…”“The servers will awaken… the Steam store will tremble… and the number… the sacred number…”“WILL FINALLY BECOME THREE.”“HAHAHAHA… COUGH… COUGH… HAHAHAHA…”[FLATLINE][SOMEWHERE ON EARTH, A FLASH DRIVE REMAINS UNDISCOVERED]
>>750146407>tfw Gabe's now gonna have a talk with you both because the cunt next to you dared to namedrop the codename
>>750149387what would even be a bar raise? make everything destructible down to a pebble?idk seems like there's nothing they can do to make it unique
>>750149072>b-but what about the industry?!Nigger I want the third and final game in my proposed trilogy>Even if it does release, people will play it, form their opinion, and move on after a few months.It's a Valve game. The modding scene will keep it going long after everyone has played the game and experienced the story.
Half-Life was never good.It literally killed FPS by introducing boring ass cutscenes and the story is not even good or original.
>>750149387>bar raisers>>750149447>Cope post
>>750149649HL Alyx is the only VR killer app.
>>750146407this century for sure
>>750149620The only thing I like about half life 2 is the lack of iron sights. While the industry, with their true next gen games, was already moving to iron sights and scopes, HL2 was still being retrograde, and I liked it.
>>750146407WHO GIVES A FUCK
>>750147498he literally said the same thing a year agohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKR-G1EuYyg#t=15m48s
>>750149725based
>>750146407HL3 is never happening, get over it already
>>750146407Was this deleted or what? Catbox doesnt want to load.
>>750149545full dive VR + every female being FULLY MODELED
>>750149545The only truly innovative game post 2010 has been Dark Souls. I think it definitely could go in the seamless co-op direction.Resident Evil 6 also has a feature where you see other players playing through their campaign in real time and influence the outcome. That could also work.You are right, however. We truly are spinning our wheels in tech and have been doing so since like 2010.
new leaks from tylers stream todayhttps://litter.catbox.moe/4nnewidqtdxdzcb8.webmhttps://litter.catbox.moe/fpzy6su3b5bq9z56.webm
>>750146407FUCK YES A NEW SHOVELWARE RENTALGAME CAN'T WAIT
>>750146407BUY MORE KNIVES TO FUND HALF LIFE 3
hlx just means half life alyx the x is short for alyx
>>750147705>why would valve announce at the biggest game related show in the worldyou're a 4chan drone, you have no basis for reality. this echo chamber is your entire reality
>gameSOUNDcon>no sound
>>750149072Half Life and Half Life 2 both completely changed the industry, Anon. Half Life 1 was the first First Person Shooter that had a more than superficial story that actually unfolded in-game, facilitated by scripted events. Before Half Life 1, your story came in the form of FMV cutscenes plopped between gameplay that was more similar to Doom and Quake than anything that came later. Puzzles were rare, NPCs that weren't enemies were basically nonexistent, and environments that felt like they actually connected to each other were practically unheard of. And Half Life 2 pushed the boundaries even further. NPCs with advanced facial animations and textures for the time, AI that actually tried to be strategic. Lights, particle effects, and sounds were all far more advanced than anything anyone else had done. An NPC talking on the other side of the room would actually sound like they were further away and off to one side or the other. Objects actually had momentum and weight and buoyancy. Going from a dark place to a light place would blow out your screen for a second as Gordon's eyes adjusted, and he'd take a second to acclimate to the dark going the other way, too. Everything you take for granted in video games today was pioneered by Half Life in some way or another. That's why, for the longest time, they didn't want to make Half Life 3 unless they could do it again.
>>750147091>>750147292It's not. Alyx was codenamed HLVR. HLX is a project that's been in development since Alyx released. Every time a Source 2 game gets an update, there's strings referring to HLX.
>>750149545>voxel technology like Dong Bananza
>>750149072It's a very famous game franchise and it's been 20 years since the last mainline entry
>>750147239>>750149064Half Life 3 has never been in active development for 6 years straight before. There's good reason to believe this time is different.
>>750150303lol fuck off jeff
>>750150439>t. delusional life of a pathetic pcbro
>>750150852>pcbrovalve_drone
>>750149275>see constant leaks that Valve is working on a project called HLX>talk about it on a mongolian horse archery forum>the project turns out to be real (shocker!)>some retard thinks you just got luckyKys faggot.
>>750146407What in that 13 second video is even remotely related to Half-Life 3 being a reality?
>>750147705jeff keelee's ESRB produced event has more people that watch it annually than the fucking super bowl and infinitely more people that went or watched E3 so you tell me if it's worth announcing a next gen flagship title during it, it'll be our little game. whats your answer anon?
>>750151005HLX or something idk honestly
Apologize.
>>750150260Why have they been working on Alyx for 6 years after it released? Why change the codename from HLVR to HLX?
>HL>HL2>HL2:EP1>HL2:EP2>HLX
>>750151147They can't count to 3 so they X out the 3.
>>750151024>i don't care about politicsgets blown up>i do care about politicsgets blown uphmmmmmm
Perhaps 'HLX' is just some kind of generic placeholder name?
>>750147705bro you fucking retard valve literally streamed the geoff show in fucking steam and gave out 1000 free steam decks to people who watched it are you retarded
>>750151223Kinda. It's the codename for HL3.
>>750146407It's going to be mediocre and you know it.
>>750151319So just like every Half Life
>>750151223>>750151294The X stands for Xen cause they're finally gonna do it right this time and Black Mesa's Avatar world is gonna get BTFOd
>>750146407I knew it. Believerchads win again.
>>750150852>>750150921cope post
Give us L4DX instead
>>750146407>This time for sure!HLfags is unironically the most delusional fanbase out of all form of media.
>>750151083Tyler McNigger, gomenasorry!!>>750151147it's actually Half-Life 10, if you count all the episodes and spin-offs like blue shift and lost coast
>>750149545100% something to do with Ai.
half life 3 just flew over my house shouting tylermcnigger
I hope it's a roguelike deckbuilder about depression with a marketplace for trading custom wooden logs.
>>750150852All of those came out AFTER HALF-LIFE. NOLF2 is a descendant of Deus Ex terms of gameplay, and it's a step below HL2 in terms of animation and scripting, and cutscenes are still separate from gameplay. MOH Frontline was sparse on story and relied on simple level geometry to make its ally AI work. And on top of that, it looked rough and was split up into separate missions instead of flowing Naturally.Halo had impressive character models and environments, but it wasn't particularly advanced in terms of animations or scripting.NOLF2 is the only game that really deserves to be in the conversation here. It's a good game that innovated in its own ways, and it looked really good for the time, too. It should get more credit today, but it's absolutely not a technical peer to Half Life 2.
>>750152145The first level of MoH Frontline makes HL2 look and feel like it's a generation behind.Kys, redditspacenigger.
Announce and shadow drop it the day before GTA 6 launches just for maximum trolling
>>750151223presumably, yeah.Which means actually it's more likely to be another VR game or some kind of crazy spin-off.Otherwise they would just say HL3, wouldn't they?
>>750149545>what would even be a bar raise?it isn't really a secret what is happening for HLX. one of the blue chip features is extremely good physics, far beyond what Havok was capable of, coupled with gameplay that highly emphasizes physics.https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Rubikonof course it'll be networked too. rubikon was developed from the start to be ideal for networked games.what is a secret is: a Source 2 SDK will arrive at the same time as HLX or shortly after.there will also be a store section in Steam dedicated to source2 mods and mod-games, and eventually it will have some unique monetization regimes - for example, you can F2P your mod and Valve will pay you a commission on player engagement. in essence Valve/Steam pay for the game instead of your players, and in exchange you cut Valve a percentage on ingame purchases etc. the source2 platform is also planned to have an asset store on Steam where you can buy assets for your mods/games, and can pay from your sales.
>>750146407hl alyx ending already confirmed we will have a continuation to the story
>>750152473also HLX's singleplayer campaign has hybrid multiplayer features, it is not a strictly singleplayer game but can be played that way
>>750146407>NuValve>Retconned Story>NuValve>Gman is lame now>NuValveNo-one cares. The only people pretending to be le hyped like you are zoomer redditors thinking your part of some group getting excited for something. Its actually fucking sad and pathetic.
>>750149545>destructible down to a pebble?teardown already did it (and audiences showed up). there are performance issues with actually going much smaller and there wouldn't be much point repeating it as the game already explores all of the novel gameplay ideas it enables quite well. there probably aren't many more flashy physics things left to do, VR is still scuffed so absolutely room there to make a killer app but I kind of doubt it will exist outside of "full dive"
>>750152473Horse shit, Valve ain't gonna pay you for your mods when you could bot the fuck out of them retard kun.
it annoyed me that faggot gave only saw the half life games as tech demos and that's why they just fucking dropped it. What a lame ass faggot reason.
>>750152314A big, empty, gray field with a bunch of these guys and a few featureless gray boxes is better than Half Life 2? This dude's neck is twisted like the knot in a balloon.
>>750151223There's no HL3 in the future. Try another alternate reality where it was released in 2012.
>>750152695there are already protections for this, people try to bot games on steam every day, especially during free weekends. it is easily detected
>>750152473Rubikon is past. Ragnarok is the future> On the Valve side, Rubikon continues to evolve and Dirk has developed optimizations (similar to those in Box3D) in a new engine called Ragnarok. Look for that in future Valve games.https://box2d.org/posts/2026/06/announcing-box3d/
>>750146407Would be so fucking funny if HLX is just non-VR port of Alyx
>>750152881I can't wait for the HLX .exe to release so I can decompile ragnarok and use it for my porn games
>>750152761s-shut up!
>>750152448>Otherwise they would just say HL3HLX is just a codename and Mike saying it was a slip of the tongue. Alyx was called HLVR too.
>>750153118why wouldn't the codename be HL3?It's not like what people don't know what HL is. If it's supposed to be a secret, it's not a very good secret.
>>750151083little reminder about tyler mcniggers teeny tiny contacts with valve insiders and shit (this is from the tf2/csgo leak period)https://files.dartpower.xyz/pub_f/Code/__SRC_2020_NEED/games/csgo_tf2/vnn_chatlogs.txt
>>750146407we already know hlx exists, but we don't know if it's hl3 or anonther spinoff or whatever.
>>750153285https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tT3v5dd0SFU
>>750153285Not sure. Maybe they want to keep some level of deniability or simply don't want to attach the number to it until they're sure it's actually finished.We do know the main character uses an HEV suit and crowbar. Combine that with the ending of Alyx and it's pretty clear it won't be a spinoff.
>>750151763>mcniggerHe's not even Black though. Are you so uncreative that thats the best you could do? Moron.
>>750150468>>750147292It's Artifact 2: Artifact Harder
soon
Checked the first threads when Half:Life Alyx was announced, and then the trailer and finally the game. Either pure excitement or doomposting.I expect the dose of doomposting to be this time twice as big then in 2020. unless we don't get another vr spinoff
>>750146407does anyone still give a fuck about half-life in 2026? it wasnt even that good of a franchise to begin with desu
I mean, Valve still have devs that aren't working on Deadlock, DOTA or CS2 right? so I guess they are working on something.
>>750149545>>750151818Pretty sure they were working on some sort of procedural dialogue for the sequel, though I'm not sure where I'm pulling that from the banks of my memory
>>750151083he looks jewish
>>750149386We live in a society
>>7501554651 guy is part time on TF2 curating workshop content20 of them are working on hardware5 of them are working on implementing the new german regulations into the storefrontand 1 of them is sitting on a yacht
>>750147239There's a big fucking difference between a string in a source game being named hlx, a seemingly half-life ARG website releasing (remember that shit a few years ago), birds forming a giant lambda logo in the sky etc and a valve developer literally namedropping HLX in a prepared public presentation
>The only truly innovative game post 2010 has been Dark Souls.The state of /v/ in 2026 is grim
>>750156235>post 2010 has been Dark Soulsthat's not how you write Outlast Trials
>>750146407valve doesnt make good games anymore though
>>750154904Release the HLX files!
reminder that they could've just released it years agohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=135aqsBR4uk
fucking NOBODY gives a fuck about episode 3 nobody
>>750155140It's just one of those things. I would really like an Orange Box 2 with Portal 3, Half Life 2 episode 3, and Half life 3
https://store.steampowered.com/app/723390/HalfLife3/Holy shit
>>750157791>He says after a whole thread of people giving a fuck about itWhere do you people come from? Is this what microplastics do to the youth of today?
>>750158435
>>750157604It's hard to buy this after episodes one and two really were just "story instalments", not even attempting to add a new weapon to your arsenal.
>>750151223kek @picrel
>>750157791we cared about it 18 years ago. Now people want a full game or nothing. You can't just release episode 3 at this point.
>>750158598>It's hard to buy this after episodes one and two really were just "story instalments", not even attempting to add a new weapon to your arsenal.That applies to ep1, sure, but ep2's whole gimmick was the weird nonlinear car stuff.
>>750147239You doomtroons had your time before Half Life Alyx dropped, but now you seem more clueless and pathetic than Half Life fans.>sure they changed the ending of episode 2>sure they teased the next game by making you "play" as gordon at the end>sure the devs that clearly don't work on Deadlock, Dota or CS openly said that they want to make more Half Life>sure they made two 2 hour documentaries for Half Life just because they felt like it >sure Mike Moraski accidentally namedropped a game two times because he had a vision in his dreams or whatever
Nope
https://youtube.com/watch?v=5nR6GfshoYwIT’S UP
>>750160384Ayy lmaoo
>>750160384Glad to see this is confirmed by Tyler, his voice is important to all things Valve and HL3.
what does the X stand for? half life x files?
>>750146407>IT'S ACTUALLY FUCKING HAPPENINGit's never happening. just give up millennials
>>750162010It's just a code name. I guess they're being a little cheeky by going "Oooh what's this? What does the X stand for? Could it be a number maybe? Maybe the one that comes after 2 hmm? You know the one. We're not gonna say it though."
>>750146407it looks like he wasn't meant to say that, the guy next to him mutters "good work"
>>750163389https://vimeo.com/1234454770?share=copy&fl=cl&fe=ci#t=3466.489you can CLEARLY hear the guy muttering "nice work" after snapping his head 180 degrees as soon as he hears "HLX"this is an unironic slip up lmao
>>750160384>They're making a trailer>They're doing a fuckton of commits>But it's totally not getting announced this year!No way it's not getting shown off at the TGA at this point. Tyler's just trying to cover for himself so no one gets mad if he's wrong.100% we'll see HLX in a month and a half
>>750146407>open world>gordon uses his big yacht to sail the world and fight aliens>also uses subs to fight them underwater and explore wildlife>final boss is tim sweeney
>>750153748>capitalizing bl*cknow who's the bot
>>750156401>orange boxheh
I don't want Half-Life 3. I want Artifact.Valve screwed over the Artifact fanbase by cancelling the Artifact 2.0 beta without even allowing users to invite friends like they said they would in January 2021 and does not deserve your financial support for these gross consumer-unfriendly practices.
>>750163472>after snapping his head 180 degreesDid he survive?
>>750163472timestamp?
>>750166589BarelyThey say he only lives half a life now
>>750149064holy shit retard, huge difference between random niggers pointing at shit on reddit and a developer directly mentioning a project codename that is 110% known to be related to half life
>>750149386Why'd you put this much effort into shitty bait?
>>750155126It'll be doomposting. Tortanic niggers literally can't resist the idea. Don't worry, you'll see them coping and seething that the game was "actually bad" for years in any half life thread, just like they do with nu-doom.
>>750149072who gives a fuck about the industry you faggot
>>750146407>People still falling for the Half Life 3 meme in 2026
>>750146407>HLXFINALLY!HALF LIFE TEN!
>>750171657hl1opposing forceblue shiftdecayhl2deathmatchepisode 1episode 2alyxand hlx makes ten so it checks out
>>750146407OH FUCK
