Valve Suffers 12 TB Build Leak Including Portal 2 and Half-Life 2: Episode Three
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Updated · 80.lv · Aug 31
Valve Suffers 12 TB Build Leak Including Portal 2 and Half-Life 2: Episode Three
3 articles · Updated · 80.lv · Aug 31
Summary
A 12 TB archive of Valve internal game builds surfaced online on Aug. 29, exposing materials from 2003 to 2013 tied to Portal 2, CS: GO, Left 4 Dead, Dota 2 and Half-Life 2: Episode Three.
Data miners appear to have assembled the archive from chunks of old Steam-era information, with no original source identified; the files date to Valve's transition from Steam2 to SteamPipe.
Portal 2 is among the biggest draws in the leak, with early F-Stop material and physics-based gel concepts showing mechanics that were later cut or reworked.
Other finds include a March 23, 2011 CS: GO build with unseen maps and character models, unreleased Left 4 Dead and Dota 2 maps, and the scrapped Weaponizer tied to the canceled Episode Three.