
Half-Life 3 hopefuls now have cold, hard code fueling their hopes in new data mine

After a few months of painful silence, Half-Life fans finally have something to grasp. Recent major updates to Dota 2 and Deadlock added numerous lines of code to the Source 2 engine, all indicating significant progress on a game we know only as HLX.
As per Tyler McVicker and GabeFollower, who compiled the new strings of code and analyzed them, Half-Life 3, or more precisely Half-Life X, is allegedly seeing significant development, with signs indicating that the game could potentially be revealed in the near future. Most of the new lines of code are characteristic of video games that are in the final stages of development, with technologies like AMD’s FSR 3 upscaler appearing in the code. Heavy optimization is also implied in the code, with this part of development relegated to the very end of a game’s production. There are a ton of other technologies in the data-mined files, including advanced AI, hair and light rendering, realistic physics such as buoyancy, joint elasticity, destructibility, and so on.