Valve – No New Source Engine Needed
Valve CEO, Gabe Newell, spoke with Develop magazine about the future of their Source Engine used in their video games. According to the man in charge himself, Gabe has said Valve has no plans on releasing a brand new Source Engine 2. The current Source Engine has been in development since 2004. Over the years it has been improved upon in what Newell calls an “incremental update model”. The idea behind it is to continually fix, improve, and polish the current game engine instead of rewriting one from the ground up.
So far the Source Engine has been holding its own over the years. Left 4 Dead 1 and Left 4 Dead 2 both used improved versions of the Source Engine and their graphics have been satisfying. Sure the Source Engine will not give us Crysis-like graphics, but not everyone can run Crysis on their computer. Valve uses their Steam software to track what hardware all of their users are using. You can see the latest Steam hardware and software survey here. I can’t see Valve ever releasing a game engine that pushes the latest graphic card limits. It’s not in their business model. They want to appeal to casual gamers because there are more of them than the hardcore gamers who spend big bucks to keep up with the latest hardware.
What does this news mean for Left 4 Dead 3? Should we see L4D3 in the next year or two, you can forget about it being developed on a new Source Engine. Left 4 Dead fans can expect to see L4D 3 on the same Source engine as L4D1 and L4D2, but more polished and improved. Don’t discount Left 4 Dead 3, or any other future Valve game because it uses the same old Source Engine. Maybe their engine is capable of producing Crysis-like graphics but it is held back because not many people can run those settings. Only Valve knows what their game engine is capable of and when it has reached its max potential. Until then, we will continue to fight the zombie hordes on the same Source Engine Gordon Freeman used to fight the Combine.
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1.) I agree we need to be able to customize our survivor – that would be awesome
2.) I dont care so much about the game engine – although i can afford a massive gaming beast and have one built – it doesnt make the game. a good game makes the game
3.) more special infected ! customizable AI and difficulty, not just bigger hordes
4.) more weapons of all types – flamethrower anyone?
5.) more chatter from the survivors when not in combat – i love the interaction.
I think that we should be able to go around the world killing zombies and I think that we should be able to make are own characters
I think there should be a screecher that summons the horde or special infected by making a high pitch screech that disorents the charactors vison and speed and also is like a tank but cant get shot with a molitove or incendiary ammo or it will blow up
For the map it should be in New York City and they should add animals like dogs crows and lot more zombies cars to drive around instead of walking tru the hole map
i think that in l4d3 they should have Ellis nick Rochell and couch meet the l4d3 characters. and there should be a little more story line to it i think so then you could see couch or nick someone from l4d2 die to. needs more conversation between the characters. Needs more suspense on each level. like the end of each level have someone maby from l4d1 die or 2 just a little more suspense for it. and A LOT LESS CURSING ITS NOT COOL!!!!!!!
i think i love this games becouse this is more fun
you have to look at it from valve’s stand point of view when l4d2 came out only a year after the first one just as many people who loved it criticized it if they rush l4d3 like they l4d2 they will lose more money then what they can make if they wait they will lose more fans and they wont attract new people to the game if they just put 1-2 new zombies and diff campaign and characters making a video game is not some high school algebra….. look at halo 2 to halo 3 it took 3 years in between releasing halo 3…. mass effect to mass effect 2 took three years….. dragon age orgins was in the making for 9 years before release modern warfare 2 to 3 little less than 3 years and the multiplayer is basically the same… if valve is coming up with a new source engine its gonna take them a while to make but in the long run it should make l4d3 way better than the other 2 (hopefully)
Just make left 4 dead 3 and or more dlcs for l4d1 and 2 i will buy it either way
All I care about is for them to bring bill back or to give him a better death because the one in the sacrifice was pathetic.
Not gonna happen. Face it, we saw his BODY. Looked pretty dead to me.