@norm@nullenvk like, if a CS2 update comes out that has new code that does not make sense in CS2, but would make sense in another game, one can suspect that Valve is working on another game
@wolf480pl@norm Pretty much this. Valve's games are developed alongside their in-house engine - Source 2. I don't think I have to explain how rare of a situation that is (especially in the age when 99% of larger studios just use Unity or UE5), and how that leads to some interesting implications.
Most games get developed on their separate branches of S2 (or at least I hope they are), but engine-level features often get backported to already released titles like CS2, Dota 2 or Deadlock. Datamining Dota 2 pretty much let us figure out all gameplay elements of Half-Life Alyx even before the game got released. And for the past few years, that's what the community's been doing with Deadlock and CS2 (i'm not sure whether we still get any significant info from Dota 2 anymore) - datamining all leaked references to HLX and engine features that don't fit into existing games.
@nullenvk@wolf480pl I mean this isn't the first time I've heard of leaks from datamining Source 2 games, and I guess it's likely HL3 is coming sooner than later, but it definitely wasn't going to be this early
@norm@wolf480pl wdym "this early"? the game's been in development for nearly 5 years. I'm not stupid enough to claim that they're going to release it on some magically chosen date in near future, but it's pretty clear that it's coming soon.
