The rumoured Half-Life: Alyx follow-up, Half-Life Citadel, is supposedly an FPS and RTS recreation hybrid, with a brand new Dota 2 datamine suggesting potential characters and mechanics for Valve’s mysterious Steam sequel, which will function a companion to Half-Life 3.
Particulars round Half-Life Citadel are nonetheless few and much between, so if that is your first time studying about, what we all know up to now is that it’s an RTS recreation with supposed FPS parts, whereby you play the commander of the ominous Citadel that towers over Half-Life 2’s Metropolis 17, and management a power of NPC troopers to do your, presumably evil, bidding. It connects, naturally, to the remainder of the Half-Life narrative, together with Half-Life: Alyx, and will, like that recreation, utilise VR.
A latest datamine of Dota 2, nevertheless, appears to supply some additional specifics. Uncovered by YouTuber and Valve aficionado Tyler McVicker, there are three specific code strings that trace at precisely what to anticipate in Half-Life Citadel. The datamine uncovers dozens of mentions of the phrase “autos”, probably hinting that Citadel is not going to solely function autos, however enable them to be extensively customised. There may be additionally a string known as “HEVSuit.PlugDetach”, which can suggest that gamers in Citadel can use the well-known Half-Life Hazardous Atmosphere swimsuit, and fix and detach varied adjustments and upgrades, probably to be used within the recreation’s FPS sections.
Lastly, one of many NPCs is called “Houndeye”, which you’ll keep in mind because the weirdly lovable alien dog-type creatures from the unique Half-Life. In line with the datamine, gamers might be able to connect objects to Houndeyes, once more suggesting customisation and improve choices, probably in terms of growing your items for the RTS portion of the sport. This could additionally counsel that the unique Xen aliens from the 1998 Half-Life return for Citadel.
In reference to the “autos” string, McVicker speculates that the mentions are so quite a few they might point out the existence of one other upcoming Valve undertaking totally. Greg Coomer, product designer at Valve, just lately instructed Famitsu, in an interview translated by TweakTown, that the Portal and Left 4 Lifeless developer at present has “quite a lot of video games in improvement”.
As we wait on extra data concerning Half-Life Citadel, you may learn all about no matter occurred to Half-Life 3. You too can take a look at among the different finest FPS and finest RTS video games on PC, which perhaps, simply perhaps, will at some point function a Half-Life spin-off.