There's a good bit of misinformation and pure speculation in this thread. Here's my attempt to corrected it: (mostly facts but a few of my opinons as well :P)
* The source code is 99% if not 100%. It compiles to the same files found in in the beta.
* The source code contains the half-life engine, halflife, counter strike, the Source engine, half-life2, team fortress 2, and various dev tools(ie hammer) and sdks(ie havok). The source extracts to ~160MB of mostly text files... if your a programmer think about that.
* The E3 levels are mostly 'smoke and mirrors' and not really made to be played. They were obviously made for E3.
* The party that leaked the source code is different from the party that leaked the beta. BUT they both originally came from the same group of hackers - the same hack into valve.
* The game is far from finished, look at the source, look at the levels in the beta.
* HL2 will still rock when it comes out. Most likely in 2004 some time.
Shirow
This comment was edited on Oct 8, 21:17.
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