Bad news Half-life fans... HL2 Delayed again!

**Payback** · October 7th, 2003, 11:24 AM

1 third of the source code was stolen by a hacker and spread all over the net, forcing Valve to rewrite the code that leaked.

April 2004 is the new release-date.

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.j...toryID=3568878

http://www.gamershell.com/news_BHalf...yeduntil.shtml

**bRyaN** · October 7th, 2003, 11:35 AM

This definately does suck huge goat testicles....

Been looking forward to that game and the many mods that will surely come...

Fuckin lamers have to ruin it for the rest of us..who have been patiently waiting..

**jemstone** · October 7th, 2003, 02:34 PM

I'm still irritated by Sierra's whole "Half Life's cross platform network code doesn't work (Even though the programmers say they've never heard such news)" debacle from a few years ago, and had hopes that Valve would remedy those issues. Now with the code being stolen, the extra costs are going to come right back to us, the consumers. Friggin' thieves don't realize who they're really hurting. :bash:

-JEM

**dustystylus** · October 7th, 2003, 03:41 PM

There's a pre-release demo doing the rounds now as well.

Valve could cut their losses a bit by releasing a small demo soon, something like "Uplink" (which I played to bits before buying half-life).

It would stop alot of people downloading fake and possibly harmful binaries off the internet.

**sic1** · October 7th, 2003, 04:23 PM

While I'd much rather have had HL2 on Sept 30... on the bright side, if you're making an HL2 mod and you suck at art, this gives you even more time to work on your skills. Not that I'm basing this theory off myself, or anything