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Half-Life 3 totally, absolutely confirmed by h >

Kyle Orland – Oct 12, 2015 4:05 pm UTC

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Guys. GUYS! It’s really happening this time. Half-Life 3. Really! It’s coming, and I have the proof right here!

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But just search through the files for the latest update to Dota 2 on your hard drive. See the file labeled “hl3.txt” in the core/tools/help/fgd folder? That’s right, “hl3!” Do you realize what “hl3” could stand for?

It could stand for Half-Life 3!

Still not convinced? Well just look through the contents of the file, why don’t you. Look, there’s a bit that mentions a “Combine Pulse Ceiling Turret.” And another that mentions quest members that are “Neutral to Combine and [don’t] take damage.” Do you know what famous video game franchise has an organization called The Combine? Do you?

Oh man, Half-Life 3 is going to be so great. Just look at all the features alluded to in this file. Squads full of citizens that can participate in combat! A “VR chaperone” to guide players through virtual reality! Invincible hunters! “Facial expression override!” OK, that last one isn’t that exciting, but still.

Why are you still looking at me like I’m crazy? You say that the mention of DirectX 7 (“DX7”) in this file means it’s probably roughly a million years old? You say that most of the references to internal Valve map-making functions are so generic as to be meaningless? You say that the file could be completely unrelated to Half-Life or intentional trolling on Valve’s part?

Why? Why do you insist on denying the truth when the evidence is right in front of you? Half-Life 3 is real, and it is coming, and it will be amazing, and it will be worth the wait, and GabeN will redeem us all through the glory of his beneficence. Oh great Newell, heed not the unbelievers. They know not of how awesome Half-Life 3 will be.

Not me, though. I want to believe. I want to believe!

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• borzwazie Ars Tribunus Militum jump to post

I’m sitting here waiting by the mailbox for my Half Life 3 to arrive! The website said it would be here along with my PowerBook G5 next tuesday!

You know how Game of Thrones is slated to be a seven-book series? You know how Half-Life was promised to be a trilogy, or the episodes to have yearly releases?

Imagine that George R. R. Martin puts out Book 6, and it ends on a HUGE cliffhanger, and then just stops. For the next few years, he noncommitally mumbles “I’m working on it, yep.” and puts put a few sample paragraphs.

And then he opens a hat store. The hat store becomes WILDLY successful, much more so than the books. And readers waiting for Book 7 are still asking questions, and the fat man just stops answering, and starts flat-out ignoring this story he didn’t finish.

And then book industry apologists start calling them “entitled readers” and tell them to stop complaining, the market isn’t right to release another Game of Thrones book.

Half-Life 3 totally, absolutely confirmed by h >

Kyle Orland – Oct 12, 2015 4:05 pm UTC

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Guys. GUYS! It’s really happening this time. Half-Life 3. Really! It’s coming, and I have the proof right here!

Further Reading

But just search through the files for the latest update to Dota 2 on your hard drive. See the file labeled “hl3.txt” in the core/tools/help/fgd folder? That’s right, “hl3!” Do you realize what “hl3” could stand for?

It could stand for Half-Life 3!

Still not convinced? Well just look through the contents of the file, why don’t you. Look, there’s a bit that mentions a “Combine Pulse Ceiling Turret.” And another that mentions quest members that are “Neutral to Combine and [don’t] take damage.” Do you know what famous video game franchise has an organization called The Combine? Do you?

Oh man, Half-Life 3 is going to be so great. Just look at all the features alluded to in this file. Squads full of citizens that can participate in combat! A “VR chaperone” to guide players through virtual reality! Invincible hunters! “Facial expression override!” OK, that last one isn’t that exciting, but still.

Why are you still looking at me like I’m crazy? You say that the mention of DirectX 7 (“DX7”) in this file means it’s probably roughly a million years old? You say that most of the references to internal Valve map-making functions are so generic as to be meaningless? You say that the file could be completely unrelated to Half-Life or intentional trolling on Valve’s part?

Why? Why do you insist on denying the truth when the evidence is right in front of you? Half-Life 3 is real, and it is coming, and it will be amazing, and it will be worth the wait, and GabeN will redeem us all through the glory of his beneficence. Oh great Newell, heed not the unbelievers. They know not of how awesome Half-Life 3 will be.

Not me, though. I want to believe. I want to believe!

Promoted Comments

• borzwazie Ars Tribunus Militum jump to post

I’m sitting here waiting by the mailbox for my Half Life 3 to arrive! The website said it would be here along with my PowerBook G5 next tuesday!

You know how Game of Thrones is slated to be a seven-book series? You know how Half-Life was promised to be a trilogy, or the episodes to have yearly releases?

Imagine that George R. R. Martin puts out Book 6, and it ends on a HUGE cliffhanger, and then just stops. For the next few years, he noncommitally mumbles “I’m working on it, yep.” and puts put a few sample paragraphs.

And then he opens a hat store. The hat store becomes WILDLY successful, much more so than the books. And readers waiting for Book 7 are still asking questions, and the fat man just stops answering, and starts flat-out ignoring this story he didn’t finish.

And then book industry apologists start calling them “entitled readers” and tell them to stop complaining, the market isn’t right to release another Game of Thrones book.