HL2 SDK

Good news for people waiting up for some HL2 mods, or making one; the full SDK will be released next week along with a "surprise for the community."

Source: http://www.steampowered.com/?area=news

The surprise is probably DoD: Source.

I doubt it. They're way behind on that. It's probably just some new maps and player models for cs source.

If that's all it is, then **** valve.

most popular rumour is hl2 multiplayer

yes i have heard that,,, but i have also heard taht it could be Half Life 3...

reason being:

about 3 months before a game is released, they start on teh next version of the game,,, Half Life 2 was planned to be released 1 year ago, so basically, i think among with others, that they originally started making Half Life 3, 3 months before HL 2 was MENT TO BE released but then the gaint leak happened, so not only were they RE-building HL 2, BUT building HL 3 at the same time as redoing HL 2

thats what i think, dont count me to it, but it does make sense if i am right

let's hope that the sdk isn't something like 800mb, that will be a pitty for the 56k connections...........not that i have that problem ^_^

yea, Im pretty confident that its just a couple new maps and css models, They could at least show support for hl2 multi, And try and give us the files we need to make HL2 maps.. (I cant make HL2 maps with my hammer 4 Says textures are missing...)

I doubt the surpise is the CSS stuff. Most every one knows that the CSS stuff nextweek is 2 new maps, 2 new player models.....not much of a surprise......

or they could decide to activate the bots early!

Well i've had a lot of practice on Hammer v4.0 using the unofficial FGD for now, but i'm glad to see their releasing the full SDK now. Can't wait to start some real maps for HL2 and then any DBZ mods that come out for it.

Hopefully the surprise won't suck, but if it's anything related to DoD or CS then i'm sure it will. HL3 seems extremely farfetched, Multiplayer has been proven possible so hopefully it's that. Or a site full of mapping tutorials would be nice too.