You must be retarded to think that Valve will make a new engine when the last works perfectly well just because it’s now Half-Life 3 instead of 2.
Unless Source starts falling really far behind the competition and can no longer be updated to graphical standards, Valve WILL NOT make a source engine 2, regardless of whether or not it’s Half-Life 3 or Half-Life 6: Modern Science 2.
If Half Life 3 would look like that, it wouldn’t be possible with the current version, require new technologies which could not be included, you can push an engine to his limits but if you want more performance you need something more capable…
You are not developer at Valve to know how the engine will evolve
Half Life 2 ended with episode 3, and as always happened they immediately began working on next project;
after release of HL in 98 they already had in mind how Half-Life 2 will look like; had already prepared the storyline, if they haven’t started work yet on HL3 they will…in a few months
I may not be a Valve dev and I may not know how the engine will evolve, but neither are you. Portal 2 looks very impressive. I see no reason to believe they can’t keep upgrading source like they have. Besides, Source 2 would be a bad move. If it were different, people with source 2 games wouldn’t be able to play source mods, and vica versa. It’d get annoying. And they’d have to put tons of work into recreating source sdk.
Eventually the old code will bog the engine down enough to the point where they would gain more out of making a whole new engine. There is a reason why we are all not still using windows 98.
Yeah, eventually it’s just easier to make a new engine with fresh new code.
I have no idea how Source is structured, but it is entirely possible to code an engine to be modular, and load different versions of, say, the lighting system, depending on what game you’re playing.
I don’t know how difficult it would be, but that’s basically what I did with most of the shit that I made in my first programming class.
The Source engine is supposed to be like that but as hardware gets more and more powerful and new features are created, Valve eventually needs to start a fresh new engine to support all the new features properly.
Yea, of course there is, instead of updating whats already there… Microsoft knows that they could make more cash by putting out a new product… if they did update it like Valve updates source, maybe we would still be using win 98.
Thank god MS decided to make completely new OS’s, because I always fucking hated Windows 98.
So, you are agreed with a possible new engine? not updated
Everything’s possible but in the meantime Valve can still get some impressive stuff out of their good old engine for a couple more years.
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