Which is a shame. Very highly anticipated game.
http://www.gamerswithjobs.com/modules.php?op=modlo ad&name=News&file=article&sid=665
Half-Life 2 Source Code Leaked, Seriously
Posted by: Pyroman[FO] on Thursday, October 02, 2003 - 11:02 AM EST
So I know what you're thinking. "Yeah right Pyro, it's really just more suprise gay ****" but its the real deal. The source code for Valve's Half-Life 2 has been leaked to the net. An anonymous GWJ reader has verified this is real.
I can confirm that this is indeed no fake … The thing is available as a torrent download on the net. I don’t know how much action they will take against people downloading this. … The last edits are from a month ago (in the files). If this is fake, it is a **** good one. It looks very coherent. Over 100 megs unpacked source
There’s still no official word from Valve and I haven’t seen any other sites pick it up. There isn’t any word on who leaked it either and from what I have heard the source doesn’t give it away. Hopefully when this gets out in the open Valve can work with its partners to figure out who did this. Let’s also hope it doesn’t delay Half-Life 2 any further.
One things for sure, this can’t be ignored. Those in the know already have it and they’re probably working on their first cheat right now. Legitimate customers are the ones who need to know about this as they are the ones that will get their machine potentially broken into when they go online. You can’t warez with month old source code, all it’s good for is exploiting others in multiplayer and allowing crackers to make better cracks. Customers need to know that there are cheaters out there right now with the full Half Life 2 source code, if this is true.
Sounds like it opens up window for hackers to take advantage of the game… to what extent I dont know, but there is (from what I understand) a multiplayer mode which might blow if people are exploiting the game there some way due to a leak of source like this.
Heres a thread from halflife2.net
http://www.halflife2.net/forums/showthread.php?threadid=10591&perpage=15&pagenumber=36
