Valve Finally Launches Source 2, Makes It Free For Developers

[exfileme]

Source 2 has finally arrived, and it will support Vulkan.

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[TechyInAZ]

Nice! And with roomers of Portal 3 also, i hope the source 2 engine will make portal 3 a lot nicer looking than portal 2!

 

[closetwhisperer1]

Well I had hoped since this was on 3/3 at 3pm would mean something. Im suprised Gabe showed up.

 

[macer1]

CS:GO revamp in a year would be nice along with new Half Life, LFD & Portal.

Yummy

 

[An AFK User]

This sounds great! Can't wait for all the user-developed madness!

 

[TallestJon96]

I expect/hope for an announcenent at or before E3 (Portal 3, HL3, New CS), it seems that with steam mavhines, VR, and a new engine this would be the perfect time.

 

[everygamer]

"The catch is that Epic requires a 5 percent royalty fee after the resulting product -- whether it's a game or an animated film -- brings in $3,000 per quarter. Previously, developers were required to shell out $19 per month to use the highly-popular game engine."

I would like to say that this seems a bit miss-leading the way it is written, when Unreal Engine 4 was a $20/month subscription they still charged a royalty when something was produced and revenue was generated. The royalty is not relevant to the change in monthly cost to free, but the way this was phrased makes it sound like it was not there before.

 

[venuswewewew]

HYPE TRAINNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN

 

[chicofehr]

Source 2 = Half Life 3 or HL2 Ep3? I was disappointed when they didn't release an episode 3 for HL 2 as the story obviously didn't stop in Ep2.

 

[dstarr3]

They need to make Half-Life 3 before the fans do it themselves.

 

[lancelot123]

I don't understand why there are no tech demos of this new engine. Why announce it and then not show it off?

 

[alidan]

the real question with source 2 is if its as much of a nightmare to work with as source was... god the horror stories that i have heard about source...

 

[tomfreak]

u guys dont get it? valve dont like 3.

u wont get half-life 3, instead u will get a remake of Half-life 1 using source engine 2. XD

 

[bustapr]

Source engine 2 =ricochet 2

Im calling it!

 

[kawininjazx]

Always been a fan of the source engine.

 

[Merry_Blind]

Sooo..... Source 2 vs Unity 5 vs Unreal Engine 4?

 

[eklipz330]

I know what's valve is up to... They'll be pushing their vr headsets with the new half life

 

[quilciri]

We have reached the 10 year mark. Valve can no longer make Half life 3. The HL pedastal is too high now and expectations have reached Nukem proportions. HL3 would have to be the greatest game of all time in order to avoid going down in history as "not as good as HL2"

 

[clonazepam]

It took me years, but I finally finished Ep 1 and 2 last week. I'm ready for the rest of the story, or playing through the entire HL1 thru HL2+ in a brand new engine as a remake.

 

[antilycus]

If I cant CODE and COMPILE In Linux, I could care less

 

[Andrew Gurklies]

"Half-Life 3"..."announced"...

 

[Andrew Fox]

"Valve Finally Launches Source 2, Makes It Free For Developers"

"For a long while we've wondered when Valve would finally release the second generation Source engine. That day finally came this week during the Game Developers Conference 2015."

Cool it's out!......

"As of this article, Valve has not released any information about when the Source 2 engine will be available"

Whut. Editor plz.

 

[shrapnel_indie]

We've been waiting for HL3 and HL2:Ep3 for a long time. So long we've started seeing it as vaporware instead of a real product. I'm not holding my breath for them.

Interesting that Epic has decided to go back to a more UDK type distribution... except maybe source code? I didn't notice mention, at least here.

Unity 5? Nice to see it finally released.