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If you want to get a sneak peek at what Valve's upcoming engine, Source 2, is capable of then look no further as Valve's successor to the decade old Source engine is seeing its début in the form of a Dota 2 beta. Last week, Valve announced Dota 2 Reborn, the next step for the popular free to play title.
The game has been rebuilt within the new engine and has plenty of new features, including custom maps and games, better performance and some prettier graphics. Valve initially showed off a Dota 2 demo running in the Source 2 engine back at the Game Developers Conference in March, although at the time the company had nothing further to announce.
Valve's Source engine first launched all of the way back in 2004, meaning that it is around 11 years old. We've already seen the engine pushed to its limits over the years with titles like Portal 2 and Counter Strike: Global Offensive so it's about time Valve retired it in favour of something a bit more modern.
If you are interested in trying out Dota 2 in the new engine, then you can opt in to the beta within Steam. Simply click on Dota 2 and in the DLC section check the Reborn Beta box. It will then download a 7GB update for the game and once that's done, you are good to go.
You can see Valve's full breakdown of the Dota 2 Reborn update, HERE.
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KitGuru Says: Even if you aren't necessarily a fan of Dota, it is good news that Valve is launching this new engine finally. I wouldn't be surprised if Valve updated Counter-Strike: Global Offensive with the new engine soon either, although many will likely be hoping for some new games out of Valve.
My love for Valve has waned in the last year. I just get pissed off with them now for not being able to deliver anything Half Life related. They got a lot of cred for being the “good guys” of the gaming world but it’s hard to keep the faith when they have turned their backs on their core.
If I had bought anything else with the promise of getting all three parts of the product in a timely manner and then years later I still hadn’t completed it then… well I don’t need to make up some stupid analogy to complete this, its obvious the end result is annoyed customers.
not really recommended for those with low to med specs to use it yet. give it probably 2 weeks to a month, should be optimized by then. so far, I’ve seen some comments from users sporting i5-4570 paired with a GTX970 experiencing some stutters, and some of those happen on lower than 1080p.
-> I quit my old work and since then I have a profit of Eighty-Five Bucks per-h. Wondering how? I freelance online! My last work was making me miserable ,so I decided to try something different… Two yrs have passed since And I can say in great confidence my life is changed completly for the better! Here is what i do <-
gtx970 its not “med spec”
of course it’s not med spec, obviously. 3rd sentence was separate from the 1st. please reread.
keep the faith to lord Gaben. we are almost there.
that $85/h is interesting though.
NOTE: I had to download a further 5.5GB for the game today after the beta downloaded yesterday, the download might be as big as 12GB+ now. The main issues I’ve experienced is the matchmaking, considering there are much less people playing this version of Dota and the matchmaking itself is bugged. Managed to play a few games today and the noticeable difference in game is the HUD being reduced in size and everything looking sleeker. It deserves to be more polished with the graphics due to its large size, however it does look completely polished to me. I’m running a 970 and haven’t stuttered once in frames like I did with the old one dropping from 60 to 30 and back again (Also happened on my 660ti).
The engine looks and feels nice. I can’t wait to see what they and the community end up doing with it!
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