Today on Valve News Network, we take a look at all of the proposed balance changes headed our way in Team Fortress 2. Will Tf2 ever be the same? Yea probably, just with some new weapon ideas.
Today on Valve News Network, we take a look at all of the proposed balance changes headed our way in Team Fortress 2. Will Tf2 ever be the same? Yea probably, just with some new weapon ideas.
Valve is pushing the boundaries of game physics and interactivity like never before. In this video, we explore recent discoveries from data mining HLX updates that point toward revolutionary gameplay mechanics—possibly for Half-Life 3. Learn about the new surface attributes affecting material behavior, the sophisticated NPC AI developments, and how Valve's hiring spree of top industry veterans plays into this. If you're as excited as I am about the possibilities, join me for an in-depth analysis of what could be the next big leap in gaming.
In this video, I dive into the latest updates on Project Borealis, the fan-made continuation of Half-Life 2: Episode 3, based on Marc Laidlaw's Epistle 3. After four years of silence, the team has released a teaser for Project Borealis Prologue, but is this small demo enough to reignite confidence in the project? I explore the tech demo, concerns about the team's progress, and what this means for the future of the game. Let’s discuss whether this ambitious project can deliver on its promises.
Links to Project Borealis social media and more are in the description.
Valve Software is busier than ever, but what exactly is happening behind the scenes? In this video, we dive deep into Valve's latest projects, including the explosive success of Deadlock, the development of Half-Life 3, and the future of Counter-Strike 2. Plus, we explore Valve’s unique approach to hiring, how the team behind Risk of Rain 2 fits in, and the cancellation of In the Valley of Gods. Get all the inside scoop on Valve's current projects, rumors, and leaks that are shaping the gaming industry. Don’t miss out on the latest Half-Life 3 news and everything you need to know about the future of Steam Deck, Valve's Deckard VR headset, and Team Fortress 2.
#HalfLife #HLX #HalfLife3 #ValveI Cant Believe Half-Life 3 Is Happening - Letting off Steam Q&ATyler McVicker2024-09-01 | Send any questions you have to tylernewsnetwork@gmail.com
Half-Life 2's 20th Anniversary is approaching, and Valve seems to be up to something. So I've dove the recent leaks, rumors, and secret updates that hint at the future of the Half-Life, including HLX. But wait, is Valve working on TWO Half-Life Games?
11:35 - DOOM SNES ROM Direct Quote: "Our current plans for the ROM are for it to be sold on cartridge only. Unfortunately, unlike the PC versions of DOOM, there is no way for fans to modify the cartridge as it will be published. The specs, documentation and sample code for the rumble support will, technically, allow other controllers to be created, although that doesn't seem likely. Our primary goal with sharing that information is for people to add rumble support to existing titles. You can indeed include the information in your video and have permission to do so." - Randy Linden
It’s time. It is finally time. These last few days have been filled with leaks and new information coming to light about Valve’s next single player game, codenamed HLX. All evidence, including datamined strings from CS2 and DOTA 2, along with accidental leaks from former developers on the game, point towards this game being Half-Life 3.
#TF2 #teamfortress #lostmediaThe Return of Quickplay - By The Best in the CommunityTyler McVicker2024-06-22 | SPONSORED BY - Go to https://TryFum.com/TYLERMCVICKER or scan the QR code and use code TYLERMCVICKER to get your free FÜM Base when you order your Journey Pack today.
It's apparent that Valve does not see this as an issue worth solving. So if you want an improved experience, you need to look to those most talented in the community, and Mastercoms is one of those people.
They have remade quickplay, and it works really well.
I had to remove the discord link per the request of server managers and such.
After nearly a week of deep search through all Deadlock related leaks, myself and my community seem to have a good grasp on the deep-lore before Valve's next game.
This is a good one, in my opinion, and I really enjoyed making it.
#valve #deadlock #loregasmDeadlock - All Leaked Footage, Cleaned-Up & OrganizedTyler McVicker2024-05-24 | Until Valve says something to be true, everything discussed about possible Valve products should be taken with a grain of salt, and seen as SPECULATION. This video is an attempt to archive what has already been passed around the internet, not to make an announcement or statement for Valve Software themselves.
All of this footage has leaked from various sources around the internet, and has been shared enough for me to feel comfortable sharing it. I will not be sharing the sources of these leaks, as they have devolved into chaos in the midst of key sharing.
The frag movie edits that have been shared around were omitted as I did not feel comfortable re uploading someone else's hard editing work without credit or compensation.
Valve's next major video game is called DEADLOCK, which is just a new name for Neon Prime, the game we've been speculating about for years.
Once called Citadel, this third-person shooter, MOBA, team-based, class-based, tower defense shooter game is set to showcase Valve's abilities to experiment in the established space of the major competitive games of the day.
#valve #teamfortress #lostmediaThe Half-Life-ification of Boomer Shooters - Phantom Fury OverviewTyler McVicker2024-04-22 | Check Out Phantom Fury: sbx.gg/tylermcvpf Thanks to 3D Realms for the Sponsorship!
"Shelly “Bombshell” Harrison is back in this highly interactive mix of first person action and road movie adventure. Embark on an adrenaline-fueled journey around the USA. Use an enormous arsenal of weapons and skills to battle treacherous soldiers and vile mutants, all while trying to save mankind.
Taking place many years after her fight against Jadus Heskel, Shelly “Bombshell” Harrison awakes in a new world, pulled out of a coma at the behest of an old colleague, with a new bionic arm. Tasked with securing a highly dangerous artifact, the legendary Demon Core, Shelly embarks on an intense journey around the US, as she tries to overcome her own past to save mankind’s future"
#valve #halflife #cutcontentWhat Even is Half-Life: Raising The Bar Redux?Tyler McVicker2024-04-03 | Play War Thunder now with my link, and get a massive, free bonus pack including vehicles, boosters and more: https://playwt.link/tylermcvicker
War Thunder is a highly detailed vehicle combat game containing over 2000 playable tanks, aircrafts and ships spanning over 100 years of development. Immerse yourself completely in dynamic battles with an unparalleled combination of realism and approachability.
Welcome to my new favorite Half-Life 2 mod of all time. Raising the Bar Redux is an attempt to make a full game based around the leaked Half-Life 2 Beta & Alpha assets, and it does it better than anything else attempted to date.
#valve #halflife #HL2What Even is Half-Life 2: RTX?Tyler McVicker2024-03-24 | SPONSORED BY RIDGE - Use my link ridge.com/fixthebotsvalve to get up to 30% off through April 1st.
"Our goal with Half-Life 2 RTX is to deliver a new way to experience Valve's classic, using cutting-edge rendering tech to bring the game to life in a way never before possible. At the same time, we'll be remastering all of the game's assets, to be made available to the community for free. With Half-Life 2 RTX and the release of its assets, we hope to ignite new passion within the community to explore the potential of RTX in remastering classic mods, or making new mods with RTX in mind!"
A member of the Team Fortress 2 Classic production team was given a tour of Valve Software by Eric Smith, the sole remaining TF2 team member. What ensued was a wealth of new information and insight into the state of the game, Valve, and how the two interact in 2024.
#VALVE #TF2 #teamfortress2Valve’s Next Flagship Video Game - Everything KnownTyler McVicker2024-02-22 | 🔥 Get Wanted: Dead with a HUUUGE DISCOUNT of up to 67% off and check out the latest patch: bit.ly/WD_TylerMcVicker1
Valve Software's next video game is something called Neon Prime. Under the code name Citadel, this project has been in the works since early 2018, and the time for the public to see the game is getting closer each day.
We are discussing nearly everything that I've been able to learn about the game over the last year, along with some speculation on what Valve may be thinking with regards to the public's reception to this new, experimental idea for competitive multiplayer gaming.
#VALVE #NEONPRIME #CITADELTF2s New Game Engine is Here, and Its Not What You ThinkTyler McVicker2024-01-31 | 🕹 Get a browser that’s literally better at everything: operagx.gg/TylerMcVicker4 Sponsored by Opera GX!
Valve has pushed a new beta branch for Team Fortress 2, completely porting the game into a new engine framework. This 64bit version of Team Fortress 2 comes with a significant number of low-level improvements, and I've got the details right from the experts.
#VALVE #TF2 #SOURCE2the KOTH game that awakened my current sniper obsessionTyler McVicker2024-01-20 | SPONSORED BY STRIKE RUSH
It's really that I was able to get sponsored here, as I am now able to make some larger videos I always wanted too. Thanks to Skonec Entertainment for the sponsor.
Today is a sponsored look at an upcoming VR FPS Hero Comp shooter, Strike Rush. I played 18 round of this game to get a feeling of what it offered, and although it obviously needs more polish, the core has potential, and I look forward to where this game ends up.
Valve has taken down Portal 64 and Team Fortress 2: Source 2 today. Valve has allegedly also been doing some other related actions behind the scenes for months now. Things have changed, and things aren't great for creators.
#VALVE #DMCA #TF2AI Write a Valve News Network Video, and FailsTyler McVicker2023-12-28 | Get 4 months extra on a 2 year plan here: nordvpn.com/tmv It’s risk free with Nord’s 30 day money-back guarantee!
I tried to see if AI could write my videos, and it failed. It not only got most of the facts semi-wrong, it doesn't really seem to understand *how* to write a video essay.
AI wrote a video about Gabe Newell and the history of Team Fortress 2. Both are awful.
"The easiest to use and most flexible NoVR mod for Half-Life: Alyx! This mod allows you to play Half-Life: Alyx without a VR headset, not needing specialized drivers or anything like that. It allows you to play the game in any way and anywhere you like from beginning to end! We developed the only NoVR mod that allows you to play in a very easy way, with many VR interactions preserved in some form for a flat screen."
New Blood released an update to DUSK to allow for the automatic conversion of Half-Life engine game maps to be played within DUSK, complete with all enemies and weapons converted over as well.
This comes for FREE with the release of the other FREE DLC, DUSK HD.
From the Steam Page;
"Five years.
It's been five long years since we launched DUSK v1.0
Even longer than that if you count Early Access and the two years of development that started in 2016.
And throughout all that time, we always promised to make DUSK as open and moddable for you as we possibly can.
But what we didn't promise you was a full remaster of the game only 5 years after its release. And that's what we've somehow done. What started as a fun way to beef up the DUSK Steam Workshop soon evolved into a full blown visual remaster thanks to the hard work of a group of very talented developers at New Blood under the supervision of David Szymanski, myself (Dave), our QA Lead Cam, Dev Support Lead Scott, and the rest of the New Blood crew. And the result? is DUSK HD"
Black Mesa: Blue Shift is a full, from scratch remake for the Half-Life expansion pack, Blue Shift. Created by the HECU collective, this (almost) fully playable campaign has been released episodically over the last few years, each release covering a chapter of the original game. Focal Point, the Xen chapter from Blue Shift, is the next release meant for release in summer of 2024, but a lot has been teased through media releases on ModDB. We've spoken to the devs, collected all the information and played the game. What have I learned?
Another year nearly over, another holiday celebration brought to you by Mann Co. This years Smissmas brought the goods by introducing 10 new maps ranging from traditional experiences all the way to entirely new gamemodes, and we are here to discuss them all.*
Valve accidentally leaked the engine code to the original Left 4 Dead prototype. Back then it was called Terror Strike, and now we have it, fully playable.
#LEFT4DEAD #VALVE #L4DHalf-Lifes 25th Anniversary Documentary & Update Watch PartyTyler McVicker2023-11-18 | We are watching the new Half-Life documentary together, on top of checking out the new content added in this new update.
Today was awesome. Only two days before Half-Life's 25th anniversary, a lot of interesting things happened. It seems that beta branch was worth paying attention too after all, because it turned into something larger than I originally thought.
#HALFLIFE #VALVE #HL1What is Valves Latest Half-Life Chicanery?Tyler McVicker2023-11-16 | Play Enlisted for FREE on PC, Xbox Series X|S and PS®5: https://playen.link/tylermcvicker Follow the link to download the game and get your exclusive bonus now. See you in battle!
I am not crazy! I know Valve swapped those free games!
That AppID! Are you telling me that a company just happens to make a game free like that? No! They orchestrated it! Valve!
Completely unrelated story to what we talk about in this video, but in the weeks before the launch of Half-Life Alyx, Valve made the entire Half-Life series free to own.
On topic, Valve has made the first Half-Life game free, or at least they did for like, 12 minutes. They also have four active, yet unused, Half-Life related branches or Steam appIDs, along with strange references in some recent updates.
So again I ask, You think this is something? You think this is bad? This? This chicanery? Valve's done worse.
With Half-Life's 25th birthday coming up, no one expected Valve to do anything. Something crazy must have happened, because that doesn't seem to be the case anymore.
We're playing a Half-Life Cut content recreation mod, Half-Life: Absolute Zero, with one of the original level designers from Valve Software, Brett Johnson. Mr. Johnson worked at Valve from 1996 until 1999, and was responsible for most of the design of Anomalous Materials, Unforeseen Consequences, Surface Tension, the multiplayer map Stalkyard, among many other things. We play through his sections of this recreation mod, judging it's accuracy, and telling stories of what Valve was like back in the 90s.
Neon Prime is the name of Valve's next big game release, a competitive third-person shooter. Due to some rumblings going on in the community, and through some people I've spoken with, it seems NP is getting quite close to release, but when, why, and exactly what is this Half-Life inspired project?
Valve is likely going to release a TV console using the same software as the Steam Deck, with a focus on wireless streaming VR games to a new headset, yet unannounced.
#STEAM #STEAMDECK #VALVEThe WILDEST Team Fortress 2 Experience Yet MadeTyler McVicker2023-08-30 | SPONSORED: Play War Thunder now with my link, and get a massive, free bonus pack including vehicles, boosters and more: https://playwt.link/tylermcvicker
War Thunder is a highly detailed vehicle combat game containing over 2000 playable tanks, aircrafts and ships spanning over 100 years of development. Immerse yourself completely in dynamic battles with an unparalleled combination of realism and approachability.
Fortress Obscura is a TF2 mod that aims to bring experimental and sometimes even downright chaotic new gameplay features like 3Team and 6Team to the world of TF2.
Thank you to Bethesda & id for supplying me with early access to this release.
A full remaster of QUAKE II has released on August 10th 2023, and I've played everything this new game has to offer.
From the press release: "Enjoy the original, authentic version of Quake II, now enhanced with up to 4K* and widescreen resolution support, enhanced models, improved animations and gore, improved and restored AI behaviors, enhanced cinematics, dynamic and colored lighting, anti-aliasing, depth of field, and the original, heavy rock soundtrack by Sonic Mayhem.
Go beyond Quake II with both original mission packs, “The Reckoning,” and “Ground Zero,” as well as “Call of the Machine”, a brand-new, full-length Quake II experience from MachineGames. In addition, every level from Nintendo’s classic Quake II 64 is included."
This is the best example of a classic PC game being remastered in the modern era, complete with all preiously released content, brand new content that exceeds the original in quality, and for the first time ever, an attempt to archive the production history of the game through a new feature called the 'id Vault.' This is no joke.
Timeline 0:00 - Intro 0:15 - The Press Release 1:27 - It's SO MUCH MORE 2:00 - The id Vault 3:05 - General Thoughts 3:35 - QUAKE 2 Thoughts 8/10 6:32 - The Reckoning Thoughts 4/10 7:09 - Ground Zero Thoughts 9/10 7:54 - QUAKE 2 64 Thoughts 7/10 9:28 - Call of the Machine Thoughts 10/10 11:17 - Multiplayer Thoughts TBD/10 12:08 - What's Missing? 12:48 - Outro
#QUAKEII #FPS #QUAKECON2023From the Grave to Glory: TF2s Eternal ResurgenceTyler McVicker2023-07-28 | Install Raid for Free ✅ IOS/ANDROID/PC: t2m.io/TylerMcVicker_Jul23 and get a special starter pack with an Epic champion ⚡️Drake⚡️ Available only for new players
I have a lot to say about Cyberpunk's new expansion - Phantom Liberty. My reaction was emotional, to say the least, and a followup should be released soon.
This is my some of what I've learned about the project over the last two years. If you want more discussed in a future video, let me know!
Valve News Network (VNN) is now Tyler McVicker, the Passionate Gamer.
The Last Worker seems like Portal 2 mixed with that episode of South Park where they play '16 tonnes' over footage of the Amazon town. It's good, but I feel the VR would be way better.
#sponsored #ad #thelastworkerAdopt Chickens in Counter-Strike 2: TERROR HUNT (Now on iOS!)Tyler McVicker2023-04-03 | SPONSORED BY: SELLYOURSKINS - sellyourskins.com/ref/TYLER Promo Code 'TYLER'
I spent 35 hours meticulously combing through the data-files of the day zero build of Counter-Strike 2, resulting in nearly a hundred pages of findings.
In this report, I will summarize the most interesting strings and code references, in my opinion.
Adoptable chickens, equitable pets, a new game called "Terror Hunt," details on Neon Prime's AI path-finding and dynamic level systems, and much more.
For more information, I've attached the full documents for further analysis.
A bunch of new information, content, footage, and more has been discovered from id Software's cancelled DOOM 4 project, including a full explanation of the games story. Absolutely crazy stuff.
Valve News Network (VNN) is now Tyler McVicker, the Passionate Gamer.