Half Life 2 Source Stolen!

[Plisco]

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Will it affect the release date? If anything release may be brought forward IMHO, your thoughts and views?

 

[Remote]

Hopefully it shouldn't make to much difference, watched a high res trailer yesterday and Half Life 2 looks nothing less of stunning..

 

[Stezo2k]

it wont make any diff, it was 30mb that got stolen i heard, btw you have 1337 posts remote

 

[Malcolm]

it was the SDK (software development kit) which included some code samples that are going to be given away at release time anyways.

they got the same stuff that mod developers are going to get for free later on anyways, no big deal

 

[joel_029]

Actually Gabe Newell has identified it as the actual source code. However it was an older version.

 

[flow``]

it's just the [partial] source, no game content (textures, models, etc etc)

hl2 will be hacked like a mf'r though
stupid valve, oh well. life goes on eh?

 

[AlphaWolf]

From what I read of Gabe's post, it was the entire game engine source, which is all that realy matters to anyone who wants to do anything with it. (not having the game libs, e.g. graphics and sounds, won't make any difference, so no point in the attacker grabbing those)

Gabe also said that the reason they were able to penetrate valves network is because the attacker took advantage of an exploit in outlook express...now you see what happens when you use that crap software

 

[pandamoan]

is this karma for valve not releasing a linux port?

ouch!

jamie

 

[Veracity]

it's just the [partial] source, no game content (textures, models, etc etc)

hl2 will be hacked like a mf'r though
stupid valve, oh well. life goes on eh?

Not true at all

http://www.coe.uncc.edu/~dmarkham/HL2Images


quote from isonews forums

"So...so far, we have:

HL2 source
HL2 alpha
HL2 development tools (worldcraft, model viewer, poser, 3dmax plugins..)
CS and HL1 adaptations to Source
CS: Condition Zero"

And that is just what they HAVE so far. The annonymous leaker is leaking new stuff constantly, and no one can even guess how much he has. I am still in disbelief

 

[Remote]

There's probaly even more, from what I've seen Hl2 beta + beta patch + Condition Zero are spreading over common p2p networks very rapidly.. Perhaps a better veiw on betas will come out of this, so that companys releases official betas to avoid inncidents like this. A official beta with restrictions can never be as bad as a complete leak of it all...

 

[AlphaWolf]

I was almost certain that valve had discontinued CS:CZ, much like they had discontinued TF2. Believe it or not, valve is a company that produces a LOT of vaporware. If you look at valves official CS:CZ site, it still says that its due out on store shelves sometime during summer of 2003. Valves official TF2 site still says its due for release somewhere around winter of 2000. Both of these games were supposed to be in their final stages, just getting ready for release...yet neither has surfaced anywhere. You'd almost wonder if valve only intends to make money off of press releases boosting their stock value, and this whole stolen source thing was the result of a disgruntled software engineer who works at valve and is tired of this whole vaporware thing? And now valve is using this as a reason for why they are delaying the game further?

Well, its a long shot, but I am allowed to take wild guesses! arty:

 

[2fast4u]

i find it rather comprehensible that valve needs to push back hl2 for this matter. the first reason is copy protection and, as furthermore pointed out by Tim Buckley in an earlier news post the possibility of cheating devices for online matches being released very quickly was raised rapidly with the source leak ... which would prolly turn a hl2 game online into a game of diablo2 in open battle.net just to pull a comparison.

 

[Stezo2k]

just a note guys, i have the beta (alpha), and its not really worth downloading, it's pretty buggy, and lags quite a bit on my mid range system, seems a good game though, i'll wait for the full release to play it more

 

[pj64er]

I was almost certain that valve had discontinued CS:CZ, much like they had discontinued TF2. Believe it or not, valve is a company that produces a LOT of vaporware. If you look at valves official CS:CZ site, it still says that its due out on store shelves sometime during summer of 2003. Valves official TF2 site still says its due for release somewhere around winter of 2000. Both of these games were supposed to be in their final stages, just getting ready for release...yet neither has surfaced anywhere. You'd almost wonder if valve only intends to make money off of press releases boosting their stock value, and this whole stolen source thing was the result of a disgruntled software engineer who works at valve and is tired of this whole vaporware thing? And now valve is using this as a reason for why they are delaying the game further?

Well, its a long shot, but I am allowed to take wild guesses! arty:

http://csnation.counter-strike.net/articles.php/article_170 see date.

 

[flow``]

didnt cs:cz just go gold this past week?

"And that is just what they HAVE so far. The annonymous leaker is leaking new stuff constantly, and no one can even guess how much he has. I am still in disbelief" which is why my post was outdated =p

the leaker does make some pretty bold statements.

this should be quite interesting to see how things go with hl2/doom3 since their release dates seem to be closer and closer together.

 

[pandamoan]

http://csnation.counter-strike.net/articles.php/article_170 see date.

alphawolf, that is a conspiracy theory. that is not reality. quit being such a paranoid liberal.

jamie

 

[AlphaWolf]

Well, I wasn't serious about my conspiracy theory, just noting how valve has handled their vaporware.

http://csnation.counter-strike.net/articles.php/article_170 see date.

Press releases like these were showing up everywhere just months before the supposed season that TF2 was going to be released during, yet TF2 never surfaced.

Look at the bottom of the official cs:cz page:

http://www.cs-conditionzero.com/overview.html

It still says "summer of 2003".