Other Source games also get the Half-Life 2 anniversary update treatment.
  • inverted_deflector@startrek.website
    69·
    2 days ago

    Will be very neat to see the community reaction to this. To this day dooms open source engine is prolific. I imagine this will be amazing for fan and indie games

  • ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.orgEnglish
    53·
    2 days ago

    Not free as in FOSS because it’s limited to non-commercial projects, but they’re Valve. Devs will probably be able to strike deals if their monetization schemes aren’t exploitative.

    • Risc@feddit.onlineEnglish
      9·
      2 days ago

      IIRC, the price for a Source engine license is $50K, Valve also has been picky about who gets them these days because people kept leaking stuff.

  • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.socialEnglish
    19·
    2 days ago

    I’d love to see someone make a “TF2 Classic” where it’s the game as it was on release, but with all the current QOL and fixes; none of the unlockables and hats and all that bullshit. Just pure fucking fun. Oh, and also give us back all the scripting commands they needlessly took away because some players are too dumb to type shit into the console or download someone else’s config and were claiming that they were unfair.

    • Baguette@lemm.ee
      4·
      1 day ago

      demoknight and direct hit soldier are like some of the most fun loadouts though

      Even trolldier is fun (granted I suck at it)

  • verdigris@lemmy.ml
    15·
    2 days ago

    Putting the game out to pasture after years of neglect… Sad that they’ll never restore the actual game to its pre-matchmaking glory days. Hopefully this will result in a proper vanilla experience, but it’s pretty painful that the actual game (which will always attract the most players) is being left to rot like this.

    • happydoors@lemm.eeEnglish
      12·
      2 days ago

      Look into TF2 Classic. It’s essentially ~2011 tf2 with just a few different items and game modes. No stupid hats, manageable and balanced weapons. I love it! Been playing for years now with no bot issues. I believe it will be added to the official steam store sometime soon

      • LukeZaz@beehaw.orgEnglish
        6·
        1 day ago

        I believe it will be added to the official steam store sometime soon

        Assuming nothing explodes, yes. The devs have confirmed they’re working on porting TF2C to use the newly-released codebase and plan to release on Steam now that they’re legally allowed to do so.

        Might not be “soon” though. I suspect porting will take a lot of work.

      • verdigris@lemmy.ml
        4·
        2 days ago

        Yeah I’ve touched both TF2 Classic and Open Fortress in the past. They’re certainly better than post-2016 TF2, but a) they have very low player-counts, and b) they’re definitely not trying to be vanilla TF2. Each has their own unique vision and balance.