Team Fortress 2 source code has leaked

What is up with the strange sensationalist claims in the article on and Twitter? Source code availability is not a prerequisite to people finding vulnerabilities or RCE exploits in games, there are many established games with open source game clients. Security researchers routinely reverse engineer proprietary software.<p>Bizarre.

The leak also includes most of something called F-STOP, a cancelled Portal project, that apparently looks like Superliminal: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;Games&#x2F;comments&#x2F;eebagv&#x2F;gameplay_of_aperture_camera_fstop_valves&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;Games&#x2F;comments&#x2F;eebagv&#x2F;gameplay_of_a...</a>

Cheats and hacks were already bad enough, I imagine this won&#x27;t help :( Darn, one of the most fun games I like to play.<p>Sadly, OSX Catalina killed the game for Mac users because Apple recognized the extreme demand by casual users to break all their old 32bit applications.

Maybe they should just embrace it and open source the code (without giving away the trademarks). The community is pretty engaged, so I bet it would be a boon for both security and modding.

@valvesoftware has commented on Twitter as of ~25m ago, I guess, by retweeting <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;CSGO&#x2F;status&#x2F;1253075594901774336" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;CSGO&#x2F;status&#x2F;1253075594901774336</a>

This is another reason why I have a computer for specific uses. One used exclusively for gaming and nothing else, with the same for bills, random browsing, and development. It&#x27;s much easier for maintenance and sanity.

Once you have the source code, how easy is it to &quot;build&quot; the game?<p>Using this code could I edit the character models so that certain characters looked like Sesame Street characters and then publish that game to my personal PC for my kids to have fun with?

Maybe the community can help recompile the Source engine for 64 bit on macOS now.

Is there some kind of secret agent inside Valve? Half Life 2 source code got leaked before it’s release date as well (or parts of it).<p>The TF2 subreddit announcement: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;tf2&#x2F;comments&#x2F;g64t0b&#x2F;data_leak_warning&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;tf2&#x2F;comments&#x2F;g64t0b&#x2F;data_leak_warni...</a>

Remember that, while available, it isn&#x27;t legally so.<p>My advice is to avoid getting tainted. Do not read the code.<p>Of course, archivists, please do archive it. Even if Valve does never open source this, it should be possible to preserve somewhat adequately, and it should be legal to publish, at some point in the future, in some country or another.

usercheto21351 posted a magnet link that appears to be legitimate, but which is now [dead] for some reason. Do we really want to read speculative blogspam while rejecting the original material?

Any clues as to Half-Life 3?

What are the odds that this is a black hat move by Epic?

If the remote code execution thing in CS:GO is true I wonder if it could lead to virtual item theft. We&#x27;re talking about potential loss of items worth of tens of thousands of dollars. I&#x27;m sure Valve could eventually recover them but that could be some serious anxiety and opportunity loss for item holders that are affected.

The fact that the servers didn&#x27;t immediately get shut down is pretty irresponsible. There&#x27;s tens of thousands of people logged in to tf2 who are at risk of having their computers pwned because the tf2 servers are still up.