With all of the hopium-fueled hubbub about Half-Life 3 lately, it is price remembering the place nearly all of that hype has stemmed from – new Supply 2 code being datamined from updates to the likes of CS2 and Impasse. With Valve notoriously hush about upcoming tasks, just about every part we have heard about ‘HLX’, because it’s referenced, has come from datamines. But it surely’s not the one thriller mission that is been noticed this 12 months, as a brand new department for one thing titled ‘TF’ has emerged too, seemingly in reference to Crew Fortress. Now, some new TF-related code has been highlighted by notable Valve sleuth Tyler McVicker, which he says is “successfully direct affirmation” that Crew Fortress 2 is being ported into Supply 2.
All these years later, Crew Fortress 2 nonetheless goes toe-to-toe with a few of the greatest multiplayer video games on Steam, and Valve continues to roll out updates each massive and small. It is not precisely in determined want of rejuvenation, then, however you possibly can argue that CS:GO wasn’t both when it was upgraded to Counter-Strike 2. The point out of this new TF mission inside Supply 2 has had Valve aficionados and sequence followers stroking their metaphorical beards (and possibly actual ones in some circumstances too) about what it really pertains to. Theories vary from an all-new sport based mostly on Crew Fortress 2, to a CS2-style enhanced port, to some type of TF2-themed demo for Valve’s upcoming {hardware} slate.
Even with the brand new info in McVicker’s newest video, we’re nonetheless none the wiser on what this TF mission is strictly, but it surely does shed extra mild on what the devs are as much as.
A brand new datamine exhibits that on October 14 of this 12 months, some new strains of code had been added to Supply 1 import strings, that are after all used for shifting issues from Valve’s older engine over to its newer one. It exhibits a mechanic particularly present in Crew Fortress 2 was being ported into Supply 2, which is displayed within the datamine as ‘func_respawnroomvisualizer.’ Whereas previous finds corresponding to this merely steered that mission TF was associated to Crew Fortress 2, McVicker feels much more assured now.
“This seemingly confirms that TF is referring to Crew Fortress, and it is also revealing that they’re porting Crew Fortress 2 maps into Supply 2,” he says. “With most multiplayer-related entities which might be unique to Crew Fortress 2 now being taken benefit of, that is successfully direct affirmation that sure, there is a workforce at Valve that’s for some purpose engaged on porting Crew Fortress 2 into Supply 2.”
As I alluded to earlier, although, this does not verify what Valve intends to do with these ported TF2 parts. “Are they making an attempt to do a CS2 factor, the place they nearly remaster Crew Fortress 2, or is that this a sequel?” McVicker ponders. With Impasse nonetheless being constructed alongside its group, this mysterious HLX mission seemingly within the works, and naturally its help for Crew Fortress 2, CS2, and Dota 2, I really feel like a full-blown sequel could also be optimistic. Given the primary point out of this TF mission solely appeared this 12 months, perhaps it truly is TF3, however simply the very early foundations of it – a sport we would not see for a few years to come back, more than likely. But when it’s a CS2-style improve, that is one thing we could be taking part in loads sooner.
After all, as with something that Valve hasn’t formally introduced, all of this may very well be placed on the shelf and by no means see the sunshine of day, and compared to HLX, not a lot work in any respect seems to have gone into this mysterious Crew Fortress mission but. That does not cease it being a really fascinating one to regulate, although.
