New HL3 is Real - Huge Leak / Everything You Must Know

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In this video, I'll talk about HL3, also known as HLX, and shed light on what we know about this mysterious game, based on leaks and analysis of files from other Valve games, such as CS 2, CS2, and Dota 2. We'll discuss how the successful release of Half-Life: Alyx became the starting point for the development of HLX and how other Valve projects, such as CS:GO on Source 2 and Deadlock, helped bring the engine to readiness. You will learn that HLX is most likely a direct sequel to Half-Life: Alyx and will take the place of Half-Life 3, Half-Life 3, HL3 in the chronology of the series / Gabe Follower
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[@gabe.follower]

I was too tired to voice this video myself, so I used AI trained on my voice dataset. You can find my HLX finding here - pastebin.com/tNWGU7Nx

[@vp999]

I did notice your voice lacked your iconic accent in this video :)

[@nutmeg605]

@@vp999 haha yeah I thought the voice was good but i miss the accent

[@pepidav]

i thought so

[@ruzgar1372]

It's incredible that's AI

[@felixcsgocs2]

why is all games coming in 2025 LIKe GTA6 first of all mafia old country the wolf among us 2 life is strange double exposure half life 3 and many good names like uncharted unknown territory LAST OF US 3

[@kamez1049]

Honestly, I wouldn't have recognized that this vid was voiced by AI if it weren't for the comments

[@GabagoolOvaher]

Yeah your right it is pretty spot on, however the accent switching is kinda what makes it weird

[@maximipe]

@@GabagoolOvaher wait till you hear AIs voicing non english vids

[@lapis8339]

I mean i didn't figure out it was ai, but i did notice there was slightly less accent in this video

[@lyratulia]

I started to realize i didn't need subtitles to understand all of what he said and now i know why lol, I'm glad this was disclosed though

[@jfk7261]

Huge dead giveaway at 6:07 when "Half-Life" and "Alyx" are in separate sentences

[@CorruptedSpider]

It's official now. Half Life 3 is coming earlier than Yandere Simulator.

[@alvwik08]

they gonna name it half life xen to avoid the forbiden number

[@BlaireSnorlax]

​@@alvwik08 If that's the truth, then it'll be confirmed that they will truly do anything to avoid counting to 3.

[@Omnisix]

And the former will be much better than the latter.

[@DistortedDebaser]

@@BlaireSnorlax Most hilarious thing if they did.

[@peluchefps]

Yandere-dev has been real quiet since this video.

[@ruzgar1372]

"Valve can't innovate with HL anymore" All these stuff that I'm hearing sound pretty innovative to me. I'm hoping that they will do the real time moss for the shits and giggles.

[@birdothegreat]

There is still endless ways developers could innovate. Problem is, the gaming space hasn't seen much innovation after the release of live-service games. Lack of any real innovation thus gives gamers the illusion that innovation has hit a dead end, while the real issue is lack of effort and prioritising profits over anything original.

[@TheStrayHALOMAN]

Half-Life is only made to innovate. Really if they made something as interactive as HL2/Alyx or Duke Nukem Forever 2001 and then did something new on top of that then the game would crush the industry yet again.

[@HerbaceousM8]

Valve can't innovate with (anything) anymore. you play Deadlock yet? it feels like if you made LOL with TF2 instead of with warcraft 3.

[@Ideasquevalelapenadifundir]

no one ever said that

[@objectionablycurious]

@@HerbaceousM8 i still don't relate to hating deadlock. I genuinely have a good time with the game.

[@teuqueiroz3377]

Leak: "HL3 is likely confirmed" Valve: Half Life Alyx 2

[@UselessZero]

I'm okay with this. HLA is very good and VR in general is at least worth to experience.

[@teuqueiroz3377]

@@UselessZero Yeah, HLA is a good game, but I don't believe Valve learned to count to 3 this time

[@zbigniew2628]

HL:A 2 EP1

[@official4theDrawer]

@@UselessZeroYeas so cool. I cant continue the fucking game without spending a couple hunderd more. For fucks sake lemme complete the game and hopefully with the same pc and not with a 1K priced pc😭🙏

[@danieldeleon1270]

hlx - Half-Life: Xen

[@hawyadoin1175]

I’m about to have my second heart surgery since episode 2 released. I better not die before this comes out.

[@MazdaMiataMX-]

has it been done yet? everything go alright?

[@hawyadoin1175]

@@MazdaMiataMX- not until the end of September. Everything went alright last time, so hopefully it goes the same this time. The heart valve has just run it’s life expectancy so I need a new one again.

[@BrotherOrlok]

Good Luck with it.

[@TheCreator1337]

Good luck, I hope your surgery goes well!

[@nix98zlcy]

Best wishes brother

[@medic_gamnig_savetf2]

Rest in peacs people of those who unfortunately died while waiting for Half Life 3. Especially kitty0706

[@Antiscog]

🙏🙏🙏

[@AntiStruts]

COUSIN

[@Mucdaba]

why "especially"? its like saying kitty0706's death was more important than others... no death is more important than another

[@BrenoAgmL]

​@@Mucdaba Womp womp

[@AntiStruts]

@@Mucdaba idk not putting anyone else’s death down but him and others like DasBoSchitt got me into Valve games

[@lukebelvin4900]

The secrecy of Valve is what really sets them apart from all the AAA devs - that and being a private company that isn't owned by Blackrock.

[@hobosnake1]

They haven't exactly done a good job with the secrecy, no? We know quite a few specifics about hlx. We also knew a TON about Deadlock for like the last 3 years now

[@lukebelvin4900]

@@hobosnake1 yes but for games of their caliber it’s nowhere near the shitty money grab strategy of the other AAA companies, not to mention their stuff is unique and extraordinary.. and gets leaked only through crafty data mining.

[@hobosnake1]

@@lukebelvin4900 I definitely agree. The secret sauce Valve uses is simply just playtesting. They do an insane amount of it during development and always have. It's why they're able to suddenly make a god-like VR game despite it being their first.

[@HappyBirthdayMrPresident]

What is BlackRock

[@Dr_Hax]

@@HappyBirthdayMrPresident an investment company, they put money in companies that eventually come back thanks to the growing of the market.

[@aquiles846]

it would be so funny that all this leaks end up being some HL2 remake on Source 2 for the 20th anniversary

[@mozzeralleh]

do not jinx it

[@Mate_Antal_Zoltan]

that would still be pretty good

[@SlimbTheSlime]

With HL:S levels of quality

[@adman4t]

HL2 RTX might come out then if we're lucky

[@SilviaDominguez-dy9jf]

Too much effort for a source 2 port. Don't think so

[@callmetony1319]

They're doubling-down on physics, NPCs, and realism: the things that made the first two installments so great. Fucking awesome

[@c1borgen]

finally some devs that are not obsessed with ray tracing and eye candy shit

[@tontsar91]

It is crazy how Half Life 2 still has better physics than many games releasing today.

[@kel_ski]

LETS GO HOLY SHIT

[@Abdelrhmananimaion]

OMG KELSKI IT'S YOU HELL YEAH

[@blackcat-zw5im]

Bros cooming

[@Combine_elite3651]

KELSKI I LOVE YOU!!!

[@costa8509]

HELLO KEL

[@ANDREA57ITA]

AMABATUKUUOOUUUUOOMMMM

[@yuukiayanami]

This sounds like Valve is *trying* to set my computer on fire

[@DuneJumper]

Immersion for the fire scene

[@duccc]

That's the neat part, they won't. HLA is super well optimized. It looks and performs great despite low hardware requirements.

[@dean_l33]

@@duccc Hard to believe without Bonelabs, HL Alyx would've been a completely different game

[@icravedeath.1200]

​@@dean_l33wdym, did it influence the move to vr?

[@icravedeath.1200]

​​@@ducccyeah, I jokingly asked for suggestions of vr games to test with my steam deck on a discord server and I was surprised at the responses I got, half life alyx being one of them. Love my steam deck, things a fucking beast for its size and price.

[@plasmatic3223]

It would be crazy if they left us on two cliffhanger endings in a row

[@BizzMRK]

ironically even the exact same one they left us with a decade ago. They moved the plot forward about 30 seconds.

[@RainlessSky]

three

[@raasco1]

Bring back real Max.

[@EUGENKECK]

Fuck the Ai! Max ftw!

[@mothwhomightnotbetrustworthy]

Sam as well

[@Puxi]

He is from some Balkan Country so her name is spelled differently. I guess Maks or Makxsilov.

[@Antiscog]

You first said he and then her​@@Puxi

[@Puxi]

@@Antiscog A lot of gamers are trans. That's why. 2024 by the way. My husband was a girl until he made his decision I am very happy with him.

[@HistoryOnPaper]

A half life style open world game doesn’t sound that bad lambda caches have always made half life 2 feel like a semi open world game, especially in episode two, and half life 1 always allowed you to back track pretty far depending on where you were in the game.

[@miguelpereira9859]

I am thinking that something in the vein of the original Crysis would make perfect sense for a Half-Life 3, maybe even a bit less linear than the missions in Crysis

[@Dr_Hax]

a bit of OT but i love the way the combine soldiers move in Alyx, that game really makes them look like they are "heavy"

[@derekfurst6233]

It's the momentum and leaning into turns

[@Aviiven]

16:07 >Casually shows a mention of L4D3 in the bug reporter without saying anything about it

[@tcntad87]

Yea it could be L4D3 instead?

[@Fabi42069]

It's probably only listing every project ever found in it. We know valve worked on l4d³

[@DysprosiumMr]

We've known about the L4D3 branch for many years now. It seems to have been abandoned.

[@sh4rpys]

Afaik that has existed for like 10 years now and has since been cancelled

[@hobosnake1]

Would be cool if they one day went back to left 4 dead. Or even if they add l4d to cs2. Terrorstrike!

[@superkobster]

I didn’t even know this was an AI voice until the comments pointed it out, I thought it was just someone who didn’t have English as their first language 😭😭

[@THECOSMONAUT100]

Yeah if you listen closely it has that raspyness that's present in most AI models.

[@RobertoFantaFans]

@@THECOSMONAUT100 yeah

[@Franshela]

I mean, Gabe follower is russian. It's his voice tho (not sure if it's AI or not but is HIS voice)

[@berechet.m]

That's just his russian accent, if anything he has less of an accent in this. Also you can kinda tell by the intonation

[@dragorin284]

Yep. Gabe Follower is actually Russian. And this is his voice. And this is AI. He recorded his voice for AI Voice company (Can't remember their name), and use it for his English videos.

[@de-ment]

if they don't bring back real-time moss growth from HL2, I'm not playing They could make gman gap a crevasse, grind on some combine railings and then kickflip onto the borealis but I AM NOT playing if I can't stare at a seaside rock for 4 hours watching moss grow btw just now noticing the voice is AI from the comments, I mean the voice was definitely off, it felt like you were attempting a mock british accent for half of every sentence and then finishing it off with how you normally talk but it makes complete sense now!

[@RokeJulianLockhart.s13ouq]

very important functionality

[@zbigniew2628]

They should make it an achievement - "touch moss ".

[@sometimesidreamaboutcheese]

Mossman growth

[@de-ment]

@@sometimesidreamaboutcheese MY growth when I see Mossman.... ...would be inverse ):

[@Beans_in_toasts]

Wait, was that an actual thing in the game or like, just a meme...? This is the first time I've heard about it!

[@barrybondz4483]

To me Half Life isn’t even about innovation anymore. I just want more answers to the story. Who is Gman and what the hell is his goal actually.

[@Minister-Peter-V1-Church]

Yep, and I want a chell / Gordon freeman team up.

[@user-pq9js4ty8l]

​@@Minister-Peter-V1-Church thank God you don't work for valve

[@turaychu]

@@Minister-Peter-V1-Church chell is NOt coming back dawg

[@welflew]

The G-man is a manifestion of the writers into the story. His employers are Valve. He is a plot device to tie the story to the ever evolving goals of the developers.

[@eggi4443]

​@@welflew love that

[@gumballegal]

came for hl3 leaks, got a small lesson in hair physics 🪼

[@Zinox_ex]

0:23 Source 2 trauma is real, imagine ue5 trauma.

[@mermelada9172]

It took me 3 minutes to realize it was an AI voice haha! Honestly don't mind it, at first I tought man his english got super good lmfao

[@Viilmo]

Wait thats an ai?

[@hikaru_e]

no waaayy it's too realistic

[@phwn]

@@hikaru_e Most AI voices are poorly implemented, but he went out of his way to use an expensive service where he had to read hours of lines, which turned out great. I'd say good investment.

[@furious5508]

he said he has always used AI for his english videos to make it easier

[@davidddo]

It sounds so Ai tho

[@ground-beef]

Please revert the AI to the older one, this odd mix of accents is really horrible! I much preferred your older voice!

[@gabe.follower]

I will

[@ground-beef]

@@gabe.follower cool 👍

[@Creativezitinho]

i didn't even notice until i saw your comment, holy crap.

[@jnthjackson]

Yeah i noticed the shift and accents and came down in the comments to verify. AI trying to hard to speak english english

[@davidandersson1838]

YES! I can’t focus on the actual content.

[@whynotll83]

I don't think white sands name is related to white forest, but white sands in New Mexico. half-life Alyx was "Jamiroquai", Jamiroquai made the song "Virtual Insanity".

[@cgrado]

The number of people that don't make the White Sands->Black Mesa connection (real vs HL univ versions) is sad, especially considering Oppenheimer came out last year, so people should be colloquially familiar with Los Alamos and White Sands.

[@MazdaMiataMX-]

i guess we goin black to back mesa then

[@GatoPaint]

what if , Gorila its a codename to secretly work on Dog’s behaviour with the player since Alyx won’t be in the game anymore

[@tartoflan]

6:49 that's an attitude from developers I never understood. HL is scifi horror, always has been. Why toning down the horrific parts of it just to appease some playtesters, when that's the kind of things that are part of your universe in the first place? It's like the Capcom devs removing giant spiders from the RE2 remake... simply lame.

[@BossKnight]

Well it is a Sci-fi horror, theh most likely didn’t want horror to be the pain point snd potentially take away from gameplay because of the immersion of VR

[@satyamedh]

I am playing half life alyx like now, and have gotten some pretty bad jumpscares, almost broke my controllers....

[@masterofthecontinuum]

Don't forget the playtester that kept going in circles choosing the same path in the antlion hive instead of taking the other path just once.

[@papichulo8749]

@@masterofthecontinuumthe DSP of playtesters😂which reminds me Santa Monica idiotically used DSP as a showcase of the average player!!💀💀💀These devs I swear, thank the idiots n clueless devs who listen to em for why games r the way they r now, n the lack of progression in the medium as a whole

[@Scrum_Master_Revolution]

Because if its too scary it becomes not fun, if its not fun not only is Valve not satisfied but people are more likely to quit playing the game without finishing it which is not acceptable to them.

[@papryhproductions]

WATCHED THE WHOLE VIDEO AND ONLY BY THE END WHEN I CHECKED COMMENTS I REALISED THAT IT WAS VOICED BY AI. BRO LIKE WTH WHY IT BE SOO GOOOOD

[@brzk_]

You dont have to scream, damn 😂

[@robotequine]

FR LIKE WHATTTTTTTTT

[@Twat2024]

It's actually him but he uses a service to translate the video, the original one is posted on his russian channel, very impressive

[@PhillipAmthor]

Pls dont scream in chat my ears bleed

[@ju_scy]

Picture somebody learning and focussing all day everyday just on one single task and that on a very high level of efficiency. That is AI and thats why it's so good.

[@lukebelvin4900]

It would make sense that we can talk to NPCs because Gordan is mute it would fill that void using your voice instead.

[@gambrytube]

that would be cool but seeing that half life games always appealed to teenage boys I do not think valve will let something like that happen

[@frankmills1917]

@@gambrytube Teenage boys from 20 years ago, yes.

[@thecreatorofallviolence]

@@frankmills1917 Fr, at this time they could do a very explicit game tbh

[@botezsimp5808]

Huh, what are you talking about? Half-Life is for grown ass men. My dad played it and thats how i got into it. My dad is 60 now.​@@gambrytube

[@internetmeta]

White Sands is also a military test base in New Mexico, the same place that Black Mesa is at.

[@noonespecial270]

Gabe Newell have 9 letters, and 9 is only divisible by 3. HALF-LIFE 3 CONFIRMED

[@TylerMcVicker1]

Shoutouts HL

[@BigOuterHeaven]

WHERE'S THE VIDEO TYLER????? COME ON UPLOAD IT PLS I CANT WAIT MUCH MORE

[@TylerMcVicker1]

I’m honestly working as quickly as I can. 14 hour days and I’m still not close to covering everything!

[@Codys42303]

Indeed! 😁😁

[@keatonwastaken]

It is John Half Life himself, cant wait for your infodump!

[@prorussianman]

So when someone shows actual info, you start making the video? I hate your info hoarding, you only share it all with your Discord buddies

[@Swagster-b8x]

WAIT A MINUTE. HEAR ME OUT HOT TAKE "BURBANK SUIT" WHICH IS THE LAST NAME OF TRUMAN.THE TRUMAN SHOW WHERE TRUMAN LIVED IN A WORLD WHICH WAS NOT REAL. HALF LIFE 3, IS NOT REAL THATS WHAT IT MEANS!!!!

[@sammynaron5166]

ooor it could be a reference that Gordon is like Truman in the sense that his every action is being watched

[@Swagster-b8x]

@@sammynaron5166 yeah

[@dralezero]

3:55 - 4:05 shows the ending of Alyx

[@Clazzette]

This better be top comment. Spoiler guard right there.

[@funkieishere]

@@Clazzette its been out for 4 years bruh damn

[@TwskiTV]

​@@funkieishereVR is still not accessible for many people.

[@Mate_Antal_Zoltan]

@@TwskiTV those people either watched a let's play or installed the no VR mod

[@TehMorbidAtheist]

​@slavi8433 It doesn't matter when the game came out. Human population isn't static. There are people that are only now staring to game because they were too young to do so in 2020.

[@foxkiller41]

🪼ଳଳଳଳଳଳ there is no jelly fish emoji. i think

[@TactileNoseButton]

Now is the question... will it be "We got Half Life 3 before GTA 6" or vice versa?

[@Ashraf-Hrira]

you are the only trusted source of info about valve news I trust

[@arpeggiatorful]

Yeah Tyler mcvicker is cringe af compared to this channel.

[@Twiddle_things]

​@@arpeggiatorful tyler mcdicker

[@gloryowner1970]

@@Twiddle_things I remember when he posted a video about a new "half life leak" about a year ago, he spent 10 minutes yapping about tf2 and cs2 and then ended the video with about 2 minutes about a "Supposed" leak relating with HL3.

[@williamfrederickson1702]

@@gloryowner1970 I was annoyed when he posted the video breaking the news about the leak and then he said nothing about the leak and basically told us to check back in a couple of weeks for the video...why waste the time with the initial video, then?

[@Ashraf-Hrira]

@@SableLakeGames I trust his info based on his history in publishing accurate news and leaks now stay quite little bro and find someone else to troll

[@alexandermeneses5688]

AI noticable at ~6:07 (when it says Half life: Alyx) but otherwise not really noticeable.

[@the_not_real_bigboss]

All of this technology would be SO GOOD in a Sandbox like GMod

[@lolTech44]

s&box is a game Garry Newman is working on that is a sandbox game and uses Source 2

[@the_not_real_bigboss]

@@lolTech44 Yeah but it isn't really GMod, like using HL2 assets & stuff

[@martin_isla]

I have good news for you: S&box by Garry himself has been in development since Alyx was released! He's one of the very few people (if not the only one) outside of Valve who's allowed to use the Source 2 engine.

[@marwan7614]

@@martin_isla nah its more like Roblox in Source2 than Gmod 2.

[@IR-MaNu]

@@marwan7614 Garrys mod itself is Roblox? You make gamemodes that others can play? are we talking about the same Gmod?

[@tonydiiuorio3453]

Alyx is such a boss VR game, they've got to keep it up. No other VR title out there can match the tightness and robustness, the number of objects, and combat accuracy. It would be a great shame if Valve did not continue pushing the VR envelope.

[@OS-Gmod-machinemas]

THERE AINT NO JELLYFISH EMOJI YOU GOSH DARN COLLABERATOR

[@Ebbytron]

🪼

[@OS-Gmod-machinemas]

@@Ebbytron dear God.....

[@nishanpokhrel1043]

i think i liked your ai generated russian accented videos instead of whatever this is.

[@Second_M69]

NO HOPE, PLEASE DO NOT GIVE ME HOPE, I CAN'T TAKE IT ANYMORE.

[@johnb1145]

Honestly....I don't think "half-life" should literally be 2d anymore. It just fits vr so much. The level design in hla was amazing as well. It truly was "half-life".

[@Sans-iv1wy]

the day half life 3 releases the world turns into a black hole

[@medvejonka746]

flashbang at 3:46 hit hard

[@S1mp2469]

Yup I'm "blind confirmed"

[@DaedalusDM]

>"new HL3 is real" >almost 20 minutes of speculation based on datamining

[@VaqueroCoyote]

You are the only smart person here, this video was literally nothing

[@CombineWatermelon]

​@@VaqueroCoyoteevery half life 3 video is cope

[@UselessZero]

​@@CombineWatermelon we are on a cliffhanger for 17 years.

[@PhillipAmthor]

This is how its been for a decade and so it will continue for the next century!!!

[@lazymansload520]

I’m sorry, but I’ve been burned too many times. I won’t believe half life 3 is real until I can put my finger in the spot where the centurion pierced it

[@adrianhouser7406]

If it's not Gordon Freeman, it's not Half Life 3. We all like Alyx, but she is NOT the protagonist that we care about.

[@cmos905]

Don't do this. Don't give me hope...

[@MichaelRaphaelDHSithFuhrer1316]

HL3 is indeed confirmed

[@teobaldolendario8880]

HL Alyx ending already gave all the hope you'd need tho.

[@100Wilbur999]

I just hope it feels like a new game, like the skip from half life 1 to half life 2. We don't want half life 2 episode 3, we half life 3!

[@extraordinaryrock2013]

a lot of people still want it, but we have no clue what this next one will look like, especially after HLA ending

[@Mate_Antal_Zoltan]

I imagine they're saving a proper ending to the story for when they release the Steam™ brain-computer interface

[@gottalight3574]

Source 1 was the engine of the golden age of valve, this is why valve is taking their time to replicate that era with source 2. We already got a glimpse with hl alyx and that game was a masterpiece. We just have to be patient.

[@Legojake94]

I want more games with fully destructible environments so badly

[@tontsar91]

One of the reasons why they arent more common, I am afraid, is the same reason as to why things like good physics in general and good AI is lacking in many games. It is easier to sell games that look good on the surface but lack depth, Cyberpunk is one of the best examples.

[@ricardorodriguez7275]

HL3 is pretty much the only game that would get me to buy a new gaming computer

[@DoctorPlato]

Fantastic video, and its actually insane how good this AI voice sounds lmfao

[@TheJayson8899]

Written by AI, description by AI, voiced by AI... god I hate the internet

[@brendanwiley253]

20 years. This meme has been going on for 20 years

[@mattcy6591]

I was hoping for VR but releasing a flat game is probably the best move. I hope they add a VR update for post launch content though.

[@kajmak64bit76]

What half-life 3 needs to be is the major push for Triple A VR gaming It needs to be a VR first but compatible with standard / flat way to play the game If it ever comes out like Alyx did... i will surely wait until i get some VR stuff going and experience the game properly Seriously... playing Half-Life Alyx without VR is really bizzare uncanny feeling... everything feels so small and stuff So VR is a must for next Half-Life... that's what half-life is all about... some huge innovation push forwards... look at what Half-Life 1 did to gaming lol it still holds up even today... before Half-life there were basically no games that did anything what Half-life did So yeah... half-life 3 needs to be VR first and foremost and maybe have a bundle sale where you can buy it packaged with Valve Index or something a big promotion like that... We need more people to get onto the VR so VR stuff gets developed faster and stuff to get cheaper so more people can get into it

[@BizzMRK]

@@kajmak64bit76 because forcing people into buying an at this point outdated 1000$ vr setup clearly has worked so well in the past with HL:A. Thats just delusional. I own a Index myself and played HL:A but demanding them to make the next major HL game VR only locking out the vast majority of the fanbase again is just crazy. There is a reason why the flatmode mod was more popular than the game itself. Nobody is spending 1000$ to play one game, hasn't worked with HL:A and won't work with HL:X. All it does is lock out the fanbase that has waited for over a decade at this point. Tripple A VR mainstream gaming simply doesn't exist as much as I dislike that fact and even Sony seemingly has given up with PSVR since they opened it to PC and cutdown the price since nobody bought it with Meta barely scraping by by making everything quest exclusive they can get their hands on and even their department is burning money like crazy.

[@YutaCurse]

​@@kajmak64bit76 no way in hell will valve release hlf3 in vr, sorry but no

[@extraordinaryrock2013]

@kajmak64bit76 @BizzMRK you cannot design a game to work well with both VR and Non-VR. Like you said, the Half-Life Alyx no VR mod feels uncanny because you're interacting with the game in a fundamentally different way than it was designed. A lot of stuff gets lost in translation HLX has removed all of the VR components from HLA, so most likely not VR. maybe someday someone will make a cool VR mod like they did for HL2 I'd like it if Valve kept making both VR and Flatscreen Half-Life games, they're both fun you don't need $1000 to play Half-Life Alyx, I played it on a secondhand oculus rift S, it was pretty cool

[@tonistinson9261]

And how do you know hlx removed all the VR compoments of Alyx?

[@alternate_lands2453]

8:55 HALF LIFE 3, the rts.

[@redenginner]

So basically BM_STS 2?

[@SpaceKadet1454]

I think it would be super cool if they brought the Portal story a little more into Halflife 3.

[@pulkitsukhija]

i guess that's definitely on the cards, considering the introduction to the borealis

[@PhillipAmthor]

Gabe really tries to trick me into thinking i could die in peace

[@Yourlocalwordrobe]

Fun fact: Todays on Lambdas Generation's Shifting the bar event (event where the HL community tried to break all time peak of Half-Life Blue Shift, VALVe said that they plan something special on 20th anniversary of HL2. I know this propably isnt HL3 but still. HYPE

[@randomcatdude]

what? where?

[@sharp14x]

I don't think so.

[@kingdast8558]

Use Black-Mesa's vox system instead as an A.I voice...

[@BreadTeleporter1968]

“Dr. Freeman. get. outside.”

[@MazdaMiataMX-]

a beyblade with three bit-beasts has been found

[@ToastyDoasty]

I kind of feel like White sands could be a Half Life remake atleast in my mind "White Sands" reminds me of something being built up from scratch again with sand being something we've all seen before and the fact that white sands corelates with New Mexico which is where Half-Life 1 takes place

[@kajmak64bit76]

Doesn't necessarily mean it can be a remake Left 4 dead code name was Hotdog i think

[@extraordinaryrock2013]

that would be nice, but I don't remember any gorillas or cars in Half-Life 1. plus, Black Mesa already fills that market, love it or hate it

[@sharp14x]

@@extraordinaryrock2013 And Valve love it.

[@shane7051]

White Sands is a military test site.

Black mesa is already a remake, so why the fuck Valve will do another?

[@Big_lencho]

I think it's a Half-Life 2 VR remake with the new retconned ending

[@orbglorb-zingalorg]

hoping the hl3 reveal is just gabe walking out on stage at whatever big convention, looking around at the crowd for like a good minute and just going "half. life. 3." and walking off with some trailer going

[@ilikecheese4518]

they should call it half life 4 just to fuck with us

[@bomnlalki1330]

Omg Gabe follower made video bout hl3 yep it's confirmed :)

[@GlebyGlobster]

hlx could mean half life: xen

[@trynox4fun259]

And it will be im from the future, trust me

[@AYDR000]

@@trynox4fun259 cant wait for the replies to be "this aged like fine whine" or "this aged like milk" when it is half life xen

[@SuperWiiBros08]

I never lost hope that Half Life 3 could happen

[@LOL666PX]

crazy how even after 20 years, hundreds of old employees working on hl3, and thousands of people tracking every valve move, not a single screenshot of the hl3 beta leaked

[@surge3158]

If this is true, the last 6 months in gaming have been the most exciting in over a decade. Helldivers (before they ruined it), Black Myth Wukong, Delta Force, and now maybe Half-Life 3??? Please please please HL3 break the fucking mold and change the way games are made. We are in desperate need of it.

[@derkatwork33]

It’s not April fools day. You might want to wait until then to release this video.

[@marcus_as]

16:02 wait its this left 4 dead 3 😢

[@pauliewalnuts5868]

we can only hope

[@ShawnColeman01]

If Half Life 3 is VR only I'm going to turn into a lizard and just bake in the sun for the rest of my life.

[@ElectricityTaster]

11:08 _and for the first time since forever, there'll be music, there'll be fun_

[@MrSwallows]

Please don't. Please don't give me hope.

[@XnatorLive]

We're even getting Half Life 3 before GTA VI 😭

[@nexusoflife]

I wish. GTA VI will release before Half Life 3.

[@StarsingerOG]

If they don't act like Entropy zero is cannon, I'm gonna be so disappointed.

[@nocturno7660]

6:55 I remember playing half life alyx for the first time, VR is somethign else and I had little experience with it, the first time I had to go near a corpse it was so tense, nothing like playing a fps, in VR its right THERE, feels like it can touch you, and don't get me started on the headcrabs latching onto you, or Jeff ...

[@1x3x23]

Damn we might finally be getting a true sequel to half life 2 episode 2 that pushes the story by more than 30 seconds like half life alyx's ending.

[@typicalbacon4302]

Let's go they are learning to count more than 2

[@Antiscog]

Vacnet 3.0

[@mozzeralleh]

half life 2.9 + 0.1

[@legoflashgamer]

Half Life: Alyx episode 1

[@prrish]

The AI voice sounds fantastic, don't mind the comments Max

[@duffinthemuffin5792]

"Don't" "Don't what?" "Don't give me hope."

[@STMGame1]

I think they are trying to make it perfect, as every game they had.. so its no longer if.. its when.. and when it does come out, its going to be real thing.. perfect

[@sljb_alt]

when hl3 releases im gonna have a fucking heart attack

[@EdwardKenway824]

rent is due,

[@LedZedd]

The rent, The Rent!

[@SkeleTonHammer]

Everyone seems to be saying White Sands is word play on Black Mesa. This isn't really how Valve's project names work, they tend to directly reference more information about the thing the project is named after. It's more literal. So I thought the more obvious connection was that White Sands was where they did the *Trinity* test, detonating a *bomb* . You know... Trinity, as in 3. Dropping the big "3 bomb."

[@MrBubbaalex]

Was that a non vr playthrough of half life alyx i saw at 0:53 if so what is it?

[@Smoochy1074]

It's just a console commands you can use in game, still unplayable without VR tho

[@Superazzid]

@@Smoochy1074I’ve played through on steam deck with no VR😂 theres mods for it

[@paullavery8894]

If Half-Life 3 is actually in development I wouldn't be surprised if it's another VR game.

[@derekfurst6233]

Imagine if going forward, all gordon freeman games (run and gun) were non vr, and alyx games (slower, more puzzles) were vr. Theb half life 3 is a gordon game with an alyx vr section as free dlc showing her trying to escape the gman

Mouth movements based on your voice is already in Half-Life 1 since 1997. CS1.6 also has this kind of technology because CS was a mod of Half-Life. The new tech will be better for sure but nothing new in Valve’s games.

[@Mate_Antal_Zoltan]

That just detected whether a character was making a sound or not, and flapping its lips accordingly. Which resulted in Half-Life NPCs beeping and booping with their mouths whenever they interact with a retinal scanner. And micspammers in 1.6 playing songs with their mouths. This one is specifically designed for dialogue, and will probably be baked into the map like lighting.

[@filip9564]

”Calculating using 1s and 0s was done 4000 years ago, computers are nothing new or crazy”

[@alvwik08]

i feel like they would name the game half life xen in order to avoid the forbidden number

[@Cepillin2099]

>open world It's over

[@facundoayosa8052]

If I believe this, I'll be overdosing on copium. Fuck it. I was brought to this world for a good time, not a long time.

[@JBroMCMXCI]

We really getting HL3 before GTA 6 💀

[@letmefeelthevibes]

I don't believe. Valve don't make games anymore. They have infinite money glitch from CS 2 and Dota 2. I doubt there is still any game developper left in this company. They can't even make a functional anti-cheat.

[@extraordinaryrock2013]

they made half life alyx dont forget the infinite money from steam! there's a few game devs left VAC Net 3.0 just came out, we'll see how it goes

[@dieselgeezer18]

they do make games. They made HLA and deadlock is confirmed

[@BreadTeleporter1968]

They made CS2, Half Life Alyx, and Deadlock. Also they make the majority of their money from steam.

[@Glitch5970]

Need official VR support day 1 or no buy. Makes no sense to go backwards and also not deliver on a promise again, they promised us 3 VR games.

[@extraordinaryrock2013]

lmao non-vr is not 'backwards'. It's just two different, equally good avenues. like how console and handheld used to be.

[@tonistinson9261]

Nah. Its a huge step backwards, he's right.

[@dieselgeezer18]

Going non-vr is not going backwards. They are going the right direction. Every Half life game was on PC, and most people still play on PC anyway. VR is a niche market. No everyone wants to buy a 1000$ headset that requires effort to set up, can give you nausea and has a very limited game library

[@tonistinson9261]

@@dieselgeezer18 there is no need to buy a 1000$ headset, indeed, 400 and 500$ headsets are a much better option than a 1000$ Index (I have now a Pico 4 and its much better for PCVR than Index, wich I had before my Pico) and you can even have VR for just 200$. What you are saying is just missinformation. And yes, its a step backwards. The thing that in pc there are more players is a different story, but in terms of gameplay, VR is in a superior level. And you are wrong about the library. Half Life Alyx Metro Awakening Behemoth Alien Rogue Incursion Batman Arkham Shadow Lone Echo 1 & 2 Asgards Wrath Stormland Wilson's Heart Skyrim VR Fallout 4 VR Tons of mods... I dont know what some people have against VR, but no Matter what you want; its the future.

[@dieselgeezer18]

@@tonistinson9261 still terribly small library. yes maybe i was off with the price but also i need a good headset and idk if a 200$ one is a good one. VR is not a superior way to play games. Its a different way to play games. It can be clunky, tiring, and does not allow very fast paced action

[@512TheWolf512]

i am honestly worried for deadlock more. VALVe should ABSOLUTELY invest into a standard marketing campaign, because they need a new audience, the existing one isn't much interested in that game.

[@derekfurst6233]

How do you figure? A game in alpha has like 300k players. Valve has 3 of the top ten games on steam. Sometime tells me they know how to keep a multiplayer game alive

The game is yet to announce. And don't worry, will have a marketing campaign for the game, soon.