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New Valve Game Engine Files Found in Filmmaker Program
A post on Eurogamer today reports that a new game engine from Valve, the “Source 2,” is currently in development. The evidence comes from Valvetime.net, whose users found and posted lines of code from within Valve’s Source Filmmaker that make reference to Source 2…such as this bit of broken English:
“Return an str with the current engine version. If key doesn’t doesn’t exist, assume ‘Source’, otherwise invalid — assume next-gen ‘Source 2.’”
The original Source engine—still in use in Valve’s games today—debuted in 2004, and has been continually tweaked and upgraded with subsequent releases, says the post. But the code above hints at a new version of the engine on the way from Valve soon, since the Filmmaker was released only about a month ago.
A description on Valve’s own website describes the current Source engine thusly:
“We don’t like to brag, but Source is considered the most flexible, comprehensive, and powerful game development environment out there. And it’s about to get even better.”
Interesting.
It’s easy to forget that developers like Valve are often hard at work making new things and innovating new products, even when we don’t hear about them. Gamers call for Gabe Newell’s head because they still don’t know when Half-Life 3 will show up, but it’s not as though the guys at Valve just sit around eating cheeseburgers all day laughing at their customers.
And I’m not saying that the Source 2 is a sure sign that you’re going to get that next installment of Half-Life any time soon, either. But don’t be surprised to hear about some new exciting stuff sooner rather than later.
What do you think? Excited by the potential of Source 2? Or do you just want that next Half-Life already, engine be damned?
Via Eurogamer
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I think a new source engine or at least a major visual upgrade is probably on it’s way. Not to say the visuals on the source engine look outdated, I think Half Life 2 still holds up particularly well, but Valve I’m sure know even the best engines have an end.
Personally though, I don’t mind. Valve know what they’re doing, they do it well and I hope something new emerges from this.
My body is ready, half life 3 ahoy!!!
I don’t think we’ll witness a major Source overhaul for some time — the engine itself is being used in just about every way imaginable by Valve and its community. Granted, it’s certainly beginning to show its age, as it’s no more than code that’s been updated for years and years on end, but Valve is not one to up and make a new version of something very quickly.
Unless you count Left 4 Dead 2, in which case, well, I’m horribly incorrect.
half life 3 will not be released because the hype is too big.
valve knows they cant live up to the hype so i dont see HL3 happenin
I would love to see a new visual update to the engine. In particular better lighting and higher res textures standard. I need to put my money pit of a PC to the test on more than just Battlefield 3!
I’d like to see a new engine some time in the future, maybe when the next generation of consoles comes around. But that’s still a couple years away. I’m also willing to wait for HL3, if it’s planned on coming out around the next generation of everything, it should be amazing. Playing through the HL games right now and still can contain myself to wait for HL3. Let’s not push Valve, they’ve already done amazing things for us and are still doing amazing things for us.
This sounds exciting, yet it’s also disappointing. They’re currently working on Dota2 (one of my favorite games) on the source engine, and if I hear that it could be improved with the new source engine 2, i’d feel like we’re getting something that could have potentially been better. I’m not saying current source engine sucks, but it’d be lame if they release this current up to date engine right after just finishing Dota2.
Well in the past, older source games have benefited from new enhancements to the engine.
As much as I want Half-Life 3 ((Episode 3?)), I want Valve to continue Gordon’s story in the same level of innovative quality that the previous installments have given us. That being said, if that requires Valve to build a new game engine on which to build the next leg of Dr. Freeman’s journey, then I am more then willing to wait.
Looking forward to what valve is going to put in the table with this next engine but I’m pretty sure its going to be a long way off just beacuase of CS:GO; it dosent make sense foe valve to make a game in the old engine as a beta release and release the full game with the old engine and then reveal the new engine. So its either going to take a bit to get out or CS:GO could be with this new tech