http://lambdageneration.com/posts/dota-2-client-leaked-including-actual-hl2-episode-three-code/


Any thoughts ? Is this real? Is it real and a PR stunt ?

I don't think it's real. Why would episode 3 stuff be in DOTA 2? And why would they take this long for episode 3? I really think the episode format wont show up for the next half life, and that it'll be a full on sequel with the new major source engine update.

LOL... just because some stuff is named ep3, it doesn't mean Episode Three... Nice bait for some hits there.

For all we know that could be the location for some TF2 weapons.

I've seen this happen before in other areas, and honestly, I think it's this blog just making a huge mountain out of a molehill. The weapon names could just be (and probably are) placeholders and the "ep3" could mean anything, given the context. Bungie made references to pirated betas of Windows NT and Mac OS in Marathon; does that mean that they used confidential pre-release Microsoft and Apple OS code in a first person shooter? Of course not.

I'm not ruling out code-sharing, of course, between DOTA and the Source engine. But you're likely to find real hard evidence of that in the actual code itself, not in file path names.

Until there's anything to show me otherwise, I'm going to take the jaded approach to this and say that the blog's owners and writers shrewdly wrote an overly sensational hack piece for the purpose of link-baiting to either get publicity or revenue from web traffic. And it seems to be working.

Even if it is real, it might be there just for fun. Releasing ep3 after so many years would be beyond pathethic and Valve devs know it.

Being late didn't stop Duke Nukem Forever... ;)

Yea but everyone knew why Duke was so late. Because it killed all the developers it got passed to until it was just dropped for several years. (Until Gearbox picked up that trainwreck)

Valve on the other hand has no reason or excuse.

I dont think we will ever see half life 2 episode 3 as was stated somewhere that the episode format in valves eyes did not work.

Shame i would have loved to see episode 3 as well as sin episodes continuing sigh.

What's that. Valve are taking their sweet bloody time making something!? The bastards, well they certainly should just never release it now because. Urm, never releasing it will make people feel better about it? Yes definitely.