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HL2EM Discussion / The future
« on: January 09, 2020, 01:16 PM »
It has been nearly five years since HL2EM development was officially halted.
The Facepunch Forums have closed, erasing most records of the work that was ever completed for this project. Archival efforts were successful, but they captured the thread in a converted state, so it was missing things like images and ratings.
Some Source mods have included features this project intended to include, such as MMOD including extra weapons and HEV voicelines from HL1. Over the years many of the retail HL2 assets in source file form have been leaked, including some models and all campaign maps, even those from the Episodes.
The future of Source Engine is uncertain; Valve maintains Counter-Strike Global Offensive but support for everything else is either minimal or nonexistent. Even TF2 seems to be on hold these days.
The community has largely left, many forums and fansites have fallen by the wayside. Interlopers, ValveTime, LambdaGeneration and PlanetPhillip are all abandoned. Any surviving groups have moved to Discord or Knockout.
It seems that hope for Half-Life has been lost. Just in time for Valve to announce a new game in the series.
Half-Life Alyx and the release of tools for Source 2 in some form mean that there is a -small- chance that a project like this one might have some real meaning to it. Is there a hope to make a Half-Life 2 remake on Source 2, largely in the vein that Black Mesa remade Half-Life 1?
The Facepunch Forums have closed, erasing most records of the work that was ever completed for this project. Archival efforts were successful, but they captured the thread in a converted state, so it was missing things like images and ratings.
Some Source mods have included features this project intended to include, such as MMOD including extra weapons and HEV voicelines from HL1. Over the years many of the retail HL2 assets in source file form have been leaked, including some models and all campaign maps, even those from the Episodes.
The future of Source Engine is uncertain; Valve maintains Counter-Strike Global Offensive but support for everything else is either minimal or nonexistent. Even TF2 seems to be on hold these days.
The community has largely left, many forums and fansites have fallen by the wayside. Interlopers, ValveTime, LambdaGeneration and PlanetPhillip are all abandoned. Any surviving groups have moved to Discord or Knockout.
It seems that hope for Half-Life has been lost. Just in time for Valve to announce a new game in the series.
Half-Life Alyx and the release of tools for Source 2 in some form mean that there is a -small- chance that a project like this one might have some real meaning to it. Is there a hope to make a Half-Life 2 remake on Source 2, largely in the vein that Black Mesa remade Half-Life 1?
