• New Valve IP "SOB" Found in Dota 2 Leak

    Discussion in 'News' started by Hectic Glenn, Sep 20, 2011.

    As people continue to sift through the gigabyte or so of data leaked, more interesting things are being found. Under a directory game/client alongside other folders such as cstrike and ep3, is 'sob' with the filenames indicating a potential new IP. Perhaps a space shooter of sorts?
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    What do you think it could be and what could SOB stand for? Here is a pastebin of files provided by HL2.netter, Barnz.
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Discussion in 'News' started by Hectic Glenn, Sep 20, 2011.

  1. Acepilotf14
    Sisters of Battle FPS confirmed.
  2. Dandan
    Sons of Bitch's Space Odyssey
  3. Cyber$nake
    Anyone remember the sci-fi concept art that was on a wall in Valve that got uploaded from a tour a while ago? There was a spaceship and some humanoid characters in futuristic armor. Could be related.
  4. Ennui
    Does seem an awful lot like some kind of space based shooter. I pray that it's a 6 degrees of freedom title (like Descent)... but that's too awesome to even hope for.

    Anyway, seems like a lot of code relating to player and NPC ships and ship movement, as well as nebula, particle effects, and stuff...

    Not a clue what SOB might stand for.

    edit: Cyber$nake, you're right. I had forgotten about that... does anybody have it easily accessible on their hard drives somewhere so we can take a second look?
  5. Dandan
    what was that game that had a western theme in space? it was crazy and wild and I can't remember it, also had dinosaurs and it was a game like mod but Valve didn't produce it
  6. Nick-The-Cajun
    Gunmen Chronicles, good game, sadly didn't get the attention it deserved
  7. Dandan
    YES! I loved that Game :D

  8. Overwatch Sector
    If they are making a completely new game, this is what im really waiting for. Yes, I do want my Half Life 3. But we really didn't need another CS game, Portal 2 was great though, Dota 2 I do not consider new from Valve since it is a sequel. But Valve hasn't made a completely new game franchise since Left 4 dead.
  9. MaximusPM
    Sons of Borealis
  10. Ennui
    That's it! I'm willing to bet those concept art pieces are related to this new IP...
    Gunman Chronicles? It was a HL1 engine game. I only played the demo from some PC Gamer disc back in the early 2000s, but it was pretty cool.
  11. ZT
  12. Escaep
    Super Orange Box
  13. Cyber$nake
  14. MultiVaC
    I'm imagining Valve making a Freespace style game with that amazing artwork that was just posted. It would be codenamed "SOB" because the PC gaming community would sob with joy when it is announced.

    That would be the single greatest thing to ever happen to video games.
  15. Edeslash
    Second Orange Box
  16. DEATH eVADER
    If it came on steam, I would gladly buy it again. Lost the disk ;(

    Wasn't someone supposed to be making a Source mod of that game?

    In space no one can hear you suffocate
  17. Eejit
    Serenity: Obese Browncoats
  18. Bob-taro
    sob meaning

    Given that the other files have "func" as the second part of the filename, I'm thinking it might be a programming term, like "static object" or something.
  19. Bob-taro



    Looking at the file names, nothing in there necessarily implies "outer space" to me except "nebula". Remember ep3 is expected to have a (ocean going) ship, and a helicopter ride (maybe explains "flightplan"). I'm sure ep3 could have a "nebula" in it without putting you in a spaceship. Remember hl1 had you teleport to Xen. Of course, I may be biased by my hope that ep3 comes out soon.
  20. Krynn72
    I'd play it.
  21. Omnomnick
    I'm curious as to why game developers leave this kind of code lying around in completely separate games. Is everyone just too lazy to remove old, maybe useless code from unrelated content/games? Or were Valve planning to troll everyone when they released the Dota 2 Beta...
  22. StarBob
    Stories of Barney
  23. DEATHMASTER
    Pretty much.
  24. Krynn72
    In this case, the latter is most likely. However, a lot of times, while in development, developers just copy/paste relevant assets that they already made into their new games. No sense in re-doing things you already finished for a previous game they were working on.
  25. Kitfox
    I suspect that its due to the their Source Engine svn repository having been branched (for different games) and merged (to consolidate engine enhancements in the branches) too many times and artifacts from different games get unintentionally left behind.
  26. Ennui
    There are a lot of complex dependencies and things like that you have to consider. Maybe they implemented a few engine features specifically for this "SOB" game that they later adapted for use in Dota 2, and these are just remnants of the files they brought over to the Dota project in order to implement the same features without doing extra work. Or maybe somebody just forgot to remove them... like Zofrex said, cruft tends to accumulate in these situations just given how immense the volume and number of files and data it takes to make a full game. Think of how much cut content or references to cut content you can find in the HL2 code base and GCFs for example.
  27. hool10
    You can actually download the client on the torrent networks.




    I have been following this on the flamehaus and basically it's crazy. Icefrog specifically wanted to invite the top teams from Brazil and Portugal to play. Most players from these regions I have seen are nice people however bitch a lot about the games they pirate and generally, don't buy games. I'm surprised it was a Vietnamese player though anyways besides that it's the whole NDA thing. A lot of the community already in the beta from what I have read are not playing the game to take out the bugs or balance issues. They are playing it because it's DOTA 2 and will bitch about how much it sucks while at the same time not giving back any sort of critical or useful data. *Apparently the client needs a crack or else all you have is a functional menu.
  28. Lobster
    As long as a good number of them are switching it on and playing it, they are serving their purpose. The number of people who give useful written feedback during any kind of large Beta testing is pretty small. The rest are just meat for the grinder.

    New valve logo is creeptastic btw!
  29. Dandan
    Sexy Orphan Breakdancing (in space)
  30. knut
    i thought it would be impossible to make the valve logo anymore eerie, but they've just gone and done it. love it.
  31. Kitfox
    I remember reading somewhere that they basically took random people off the street for the two valve logos that they created back in 1998.... I guess they remade it??
  32. DoctorWeeTodd
    Son of a bitch, how many resources can go into Episode 3?
  33. DEATH eVADER
    They want to make a horror game whereby that dude is the main antagonist. He's a trucker named Bubba and he's out to make you squeel :smoking: