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0 pointsspacehome11y ago0 comments

In what way? How could that make sense?

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The HL2 team rewrote major portions of the Source Engine in response to the hack.

ahuth11y ago

Why would the leak cause major portions of the engine to need to be rewritten?

Seems more likely that it was a convenient excuse.

it was used as an excuse, the real reason is that Valve is REALLY slow at developing games.

k00pa11y ago

Major parts needed rewrite to not make it so easy to develop cheats for the game.

If the hackers would have the source, they would not even need to reverse engineer the engine to build their aimbots/wallhacks.

I don't know. Ask gaben.

The bigger issue was that (IIRC) the source for Steam, which wasn't yet launched, was also leaked.

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