Source 2
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Source 2 is a 3D video game engine developed by Valve as a successor to
Source.
Introduced in 2015, it is used in Dota 2, SteamVR Home, Half-Life: Alyx, S&box, Counter-Strike 2, and much more.
Development of Source 2 was planned after the release of Half-Life 2: Episode Two and other The Orange Box games. In 2010, Left 4 Dead 2 was privately ported to the Source 2 engine as a tech demo, with one of the maps recreated in the Source 2 engine. The engine was later made public with the Dota 2 Workshop Tools Alpha in August 6th 2014 and formally announced by Valve in March of 2015 at the Game Developers Conference. It was then implemented into Dota 2 on June 17th 2015. Valve has announced that Source 2 will be released to the public for free, and it will only take money should it be used for commercial products.
The engine is capable of rendering highly complex and well detailed scenes with minimal framerate drops, thanks to its new 64-bit support alongside Vulkan, Direct3D 11, allowing for better multi-core rendering, better graphics and more efficient 3D rendering.
Features
- Integrated asset management via the Asset System.
- New engine-integrated authoring tools, rebuilt from the ground up.
- Completely rebuilt Hammer level editor, featuring modern polygon mesh editing tools.
- Support for both forward and deferred rendering pipelines.
- Lower latency and more responsive input.
- Improved audio and voice processing.
- New in-house physics engine, Rubikon. Includes support for Cloth Simulation.
- Screen Space Ambient Occlusion support.
- Physically Based Rendering support.
- Volumetric lighting support.
- Support for the Steam Audio sound system.
- WebM video, replacing the previous Bink Video format.
- Enhanced Panorama GUI, designed to be more user friendly.
- Native DirectX 11® and Vulkan® support, with support for Shader Model 5.0 and later.
- Higher texture resolutions (more than 4096x4096/4K).
- 64-bit supported
- Previously, Source 2 also support 32-bit, which has been dropped with the release of
Dota 2 update in 2021 (except
SteamVR Home).
- Previously, Source 2 also support 32-bit, which has been dropped with the release of
New Source 2 features introduced in
Counter-Strike 2
- Volumetric smokes
- Smokes are now volumetric objects, that can be pushed by grenades, bullets, and more. It also react to lighting and the smokes fill the spaces naturally.
- Sub-tick system
- Tick rate no longer matters for moving, shooting, or throwing.
- Improved Steam Audio
- Sounds have been reworked to better reflect the physical environment, be more distinct, and express more game state. They have also been rebalanced for a more comfortable listening experience.
- Hardware accelerated ray-tracing for VRAD
- VRAD3 now requires graphics card with ray-tracing support to preview & bake lighting. This will allow VRAD to quickly calculates lighting data.
Limitations

Newer games like Counter-Strike 2 will also require a CPU with SSE 4.2 support.


Products using Source 2 



Valve
Proizvodi koje proizvodi Valve.
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Release date | Title | Co-developed with | Platforms | Notes |
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9 srp 2013 | ![]() |
PC: Windows, Mac, Linux | A MOBA game. Sequel to 2003's Warcraft III mod, Defense of the Ancients (retroactively called as Dota 1, DotA for short). Originally using Source when launched in 2013, ported to Source 2 in Sep 9, 2015. | |
22 velj 2016 | SteamVR Performance Test | PC: Windows (VR) | Non-interactive version of the Robot Repair demo. No longer available for download. | |
5 tra 2016 | ![]() |
PC: Windows (VR) | This is the only ![]() |
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9 lip 2016 |
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PC: Windows, Linux (VR) | Photogrammetry and environment viewer. Deprecated and replaced by SteamVR Home. | |
19 svi 2017 | ![]() |
PC: Windows, Linux (VR) | Virtual Reality portal and social hub included as part of SteamVR. | |
28 stu 2018 | ![]() |
PC: Windows, Mac, Linux | The Dota Card Game. The game was widely criticized by players who are disappointed with Valve abandoning the Half-Life series at the time, aswell as calling the game "pay-to-win", even prior to Artifact being released. | |
20 lip 2019 | ![]() |
PC: Windows, Mac, Linux Mobile: Android, iOS |
Auto Battler game. This is currently the only Source 2 games to be released on mobile devices (both Android, iOS). | |
23 ožu 2020 | ![]() |
PC: Windows, Linux (VR) | First Half-Life game to be released since the release of Half-Life 2: Episode Two, which was released 12 years prior. Half-Life: Alyx was highly anticipated when it was announced. | |
2 ožu 2022 | ![]() |
PC: Windows, Linux | A short playable demo set in Portal universe, used to demonstrate the Steam Deck. The game requires controller to play the demo. | |
27 ruj 2023 | ![]() |
PC: Windows, Linux | Originally planned to be released in Summer 2023, it was delayed and later released in September 27, 2023. This is a port of Counter-Strike: Global Offensive to the Source 2 engine, under it's new name "![]() |
Neobjavljene igre
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Release date | Title | Developer(s) | Publisher(s) | Platforms | Notes |
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Valve | Valve | PC: Windows | Deadlock is a third-person shooter MOBA game currently in semi-private beta testing (invite only). The game features 21 characters you can play as. It is known internally as "Project 8" and formerly "Citadel". Players who already have access to Deadlock can invite another player(s) to have beta access. |
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Release date | Title | Developer(s) | Publisher(s) | Platforms | Notes |
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Facepunch Studios | Facepunch Studios | PC: Windows (VR optional) | As stated by Garry Newman himself, this is not intended to be a remaster of Garry's Mod, but rather, a spiritual successor. This is also the first time, and only time Source 2 was licensed to third-party developer. S&Box runs on heavily modified version of Source 2. |