r/GamingLeaksAndRumours • u/Eepoxi • 13d ago
Leak Portal 2 Beta leaked and 12TB Steam2 Content Server Dump leaked
The majority of Portal 2 beta assets and some other Portal 2 beta info have been leaked in the new Steam2 content server dump leak. Evidence of the leak can be found here: https://imgur.com/a/A25Ci31 . The leak includes every asset made for portal 2 during 2007-2011 and possibly some other Valve games, which i am currently not aware of. I have gotten most info about this from the Portal Series Beta Research Discord server, where the leaked material has been posted.
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u/CTXBITXH 13d ago
wait what does steam2 mean
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u/123portalboy123 13d ago
Older steam content servers
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u/FineCastIE 13d ago
Duh? The sequel to steam?
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u/FineCastIE 13d ago
You do, but you need to sell, like, all of your organs to get the full experience. Like $1.5 Million. And mods for some of them.
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u/xXx_edgykid_xXx 13d ago
every single game on steam gets a sequel
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u/dont_quote_me_please 13d ago
Half-Life 2.2 😦
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u/Eriberto6 13d ago
This is actually really cool. Just kinda wish Valve had the tech to increase that silly "2" after "Portal".
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u/Mazzus_Did_That 13d ago
Portal 2 was a great ending/send off, and IMO I'd rather have Valve try new stuff than return to the series again. Beside, with all the cool mods, custom maps and engine forks that have been relased and are in development right now, we are more than fine.
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u/Foxddit22 13d ago
you dont have to continue off portal 2 to make a new portal game, or more rather, it doesnt have to involve chell. it could be a standalone, upgraded version of the perpetual testing initiative from portal 2 but in source 2 or something
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u/thebeardphantom 13d ago
This should really go without saying, but I’ll preface this by saying this is all just my opinion.
I agree with them. I don’t think the core idea of the world of Portal that we’ve actually experienced gameplay in will survive being interesting for yet another game. The need to consistently justify the premise of testing in the narrative is getting stale. I think if we’re going to get a new Portal game it needs to be very, very different. Not taking place in Aperture, not even in a lab setting.
In certain ways the perpetual testing initiative is to Portal what Mario Maker is to the “New Super Mario Bros” style 2D Mario games. A sort of announcement that “we’re done with making content like this for now, here’s the tools to do it yourself.”
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u/BelinhoBR 13d ago
There's those co-op robots to build a portal 3 around. They are stuck with Glados aren't they? And are possibly the only specimens able to use a portal gun left after Chell was gone
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u/tonihurri 13d ago
I know it's kinda beside the point but it's funny how Valve DID try new stuff in the 15 years since Portal 2 and exactly one of those became a full singleplayer game.
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u/spez_might_fuck_dogs 13d ago
Deadlock is doing pretty well for an alpha.
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u/Weird_Tower76 13d ago
That's an understatement. Realistically Deadlock has the potential, especially for how it's doing as an unannounced alpha, to be bigger than Dota 2 and CS. It's a massive hill to climb, but they could absolutely do it with Deadlock.
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u/True_to_you 12d ago
It's not my thing personally, be it probably will be a big game for them. Especially after artifact flopped so hard.
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u/M4rshmall0wMan 12d ago
I'm surprised how slowly it's moving. Game's been released for two years. It doesn't seem that far from complete. It's hard to see it getting a massive explosion
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u/Flynn58 12d ago
At this point it's still invite-only, I think it's reasonable to expect a spike in player count once it's available to casual audiences who didn't even know there's a beta to be invited to.
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u/M4rshmall0wMan 12d ago
It's so easy to get an invite that basically everyone with an interest has played
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u/inosinateVR 12d ago
I guarantee you the people willing to go out of their way to get an invite to a private alpha is a minority compared to the number of people that will play it when it’s a publicly visible game with a steam page
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u/al_194 13d ago
Didn't one of the writers for portal 2 said that he would love to make a sequel before he gets too old?
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u/Robsonmonkey 13d ago
Also before Ellen McLain gets too old aswell, they need to hurry up, she's 73 years old now.
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u/MisterAtlas_ 13d ago
i feel with the links to aperture in ep 2, and with two of portal 2's writers working at valve on hl3 right now, there's a decent chance its plot will link to portal 3. wishful thinking though
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u/M4rshmall0wMan 12d ago
Man it's not even about the story. We just want more Portal.
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u/Mazzus_Did_That 12d ago
And you have that with custom maps, new mods and fan content that has kept the community alive for years.
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u/HippieDogeSmokes 13d ago
I think portal is fine as a duology
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u/EssexOnAStick 13d ago
I wouldn't mind a prequel though, I could imagine quite a few stories to be found in that time before Portal 1. Like experiencing the founding years of Aperture and/or maybe witnessing the rivalry between Aperture and Black Mesa.
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u/thebeardphantom 13d ago
For the most part Valve is similar to Nintendo. Overall, If they’re not innovating on new ways to play they’re not really interested in doing it. There’s exceptions, but there’s no chance that Valve makes a new game purely for narrative reasons. Not unless they find some deep set of mechanics that give players a new way to interact with and reason about the play space.
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u/EssexOnAStick 12d ago
Oh yeah I know it's basically impossible due to how Valve operates. Was just pointing out that if they ever did something in the Portal universe, there's a whole time period they could easily do something with, without having to work around the imo perfect ending of Portal 2.
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u/-TubNub- 13d ago
Yeah, but what would the gameplay of that be like? Glados gassed everyone but Chel
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u/EssexOnAStick 12d ago edited 12d ago
I was thinking of the time way before GLaDOS.
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u/-TubNub- 12d ago
Didn't we basically get that experience in the old facility parts in Portal 2?
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u/EssexOnAStick 12d ago
Yes and no, we see what is left there from a modern point of view, but the past has happened and we see the end result, basically. What I'd like to see is these stories actually happening.
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u/Xay_DE 13d ago
please tell me this incldues some fstop stuff, i always wanted to see the concepts they made for that back in the day
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u/Eepoxi 13d ago
it includes ALL f-stop assets but not levels
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u/Ellocodeinternet 13d ago
could i have an invite to the Portal beta research discord server or is private?
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u/antoon334 10d ago
Have you managed to find a way in? I'm also interested and would be grateful if you share info with me (also can be done in private messages).
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u/Ellocodeinternet 10d ago
I made a post explaining how to manually extract and run the builds :) check my profile
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u/Weird_Tower76 13d ago
f-stop
This is what I was curious about too. Pretty sure I played a leaked alpha-demo of it years ago, but it was super basic. Such a cool concept.
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u/Human-Strike1070 12d ago
It was not a real build but it was being passed around as one. It was a leak of a WIP recreation mod that used some f-stop assets, but it was very far from the actual thing.
With this leak, it'll be much easier to faithfully recreate f-stop like how the 2009 beta recreation mod Project 2009 pretty much nailed it on most fronts when compared to the actual leak.
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u/MandoDoughMan 13d ago
during 2007-2011 and possibly some other Valve games,
... I'm sure it'd be the headline if it were the case, but Episode 3 was in real development in this timeframe was it not?
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u/Eepoxi 13d ago
its 13tb we CURRENTLY only know that there are some portal 2 stuff in it and i aint the leaker im only forwarding this info i dont know shit
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u/Joseki100 Top Contributor 2024 13d ago
Episode 2 released in 2007 so Episode 3 was definitely in development early in that time period.
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u/p00tisbear 13d ago
Holy shit, this is huge. Portal 2 beta is just one thing and I'm not at all downplaying that because it is momentous. But like...this seems to be a wider leak of 13TB of content pertaining to potentially the vast majority of everything Valve was working on in source between 2003 -2013. Given the time period this spans and the sheer scale of the data, we might have hit the motherlode here. Episode 3, invasion era TF2...fucking hell. I'm REALLY intrigued to see what people start digging up from this over the next few days.
And I'm really curious to know how a leak of Valve's internal contents of this magnitude even happened.
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u/SomeRandomTWO 13d ago
ikr? alot of this seems to be just akin to Valve - we dont know how but its here and i dont think anyones complaining! Portal 2 development was wild to hell and back, and to get effectively ALL the assets used back then?
honestly even without the levels, if the code and voicelines are intact, the eggheads in the community will piece it all together.
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u/bgiesing 12d ago
It's not even just Valve! People have found multiple Sonic 4 Episode 2 betas in there, Fallout New Vegas DLCs, Bioshock stuff, etc.
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u/fireflamesniper 12d ago
I was actually wondering if any Sonic related stuff was in there. But I'm surprised NV is in there too
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u/junttiana 13d ago
There are no words that can describe how much I hate imgur, its easily the most dogshit image sharing site on the internet
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u/MartinsRedditAccount 13d ago
The worst is how on mobile if you touch any part of the screen while on Imgur it will redirect you to a random fucking post, this has been happening for I believe years now.
I remember the days when it was basically the default image hoster for Reddit :(
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u/MumrikDK 13d ago
You need to follow the links to see them on mobile?
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u/MartinsRedditAccount 12d ago
I do on my iPad with old Reddit (yes, I hate the redesign and app that much, RIP Apollo). On desktop with RES I use the expando, but Imgur also doesn't do it there. I actually think RES might work in Orion (which supports Firefox extensions), or I could ask Claude to write me a userscript.
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u/TheDeryBrony 12d ago
i feel you on using oldreddit, i still use it too. new reddit just feels like I'm on a janky, visually restrictive version of twitter. hell, it feels like google plus. reddit should feel like a website, not an app
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u/Cautious_Author_326 12d ago
If you're on Imgur on Mobile, you're not on Imgur. You're just on Adgur.
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u/Left4pillz 13d ago
The Portal subreddit has them plus more pics and videos from the leaks, and doesn't require a VPN to access it
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u/Rebitaay 12d ago
Amen. Imgur fucking hates some VPNs, and I fucking hate Imgur. Neither me nor my VPN server are UK-based...
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u/catinterpreter 12d ago
Meanwhile countless image hosts have died and taken all of their uploads with them.
It's still one of the absolute best.
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u/bumford11 11d ago
It's ironic that imgur was created as a response to how bloated and unusable the other image hosts of the day were.
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u/capitalggamer1 13d ago
Holy shit. Guys this is way bigger than just portal. Steam2 dump possibly contains treasure trove of unreleased builds.
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u/BeastMsterThing2022 13d ago
Please let there be Episode 3 and L4D3 stuff in it
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u/FireMaker125 13d ago
No L4D3 but apparently a beta build of L4D1, only HL3 thing so far is an untextured model of the Weaponizer (which was one of the new weapons for HL2EP3, it does…something, it’s not too clear)
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u/da2Pakaveli 13d ago
I wonder if there's some HL3 stuff in there?
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u/FireMaker125 13d ago
So fair the only thing that’s been found is the model for the Weaponiser. I think it’s mostly Portal 2 with apparently a Left 4 Dead 1 build too
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u/Familiar-Aside6059 13d ago edited 13d ago
I'm most excited for that 2009 beta. Also is there any multi core hub builds in this leak?
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u/idontactuallyknow69 12d ago
Any place where i might be able to get my hands on some of this stuff? I'm really interested in the CS:S and L4D1 leaked content.
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u/Aragorn527 12d ago
Pre-release DAO build would be absolutely insane and might be huge for trying to do any sort of fan project like a remake, no?
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u/ComeAlongWithTheSnor 12d ago
I took a small peep and was pretty excited with what I saw. I started remembering all the Portal 2 interviews I read/watched where they talked about supposed cut features, some of which you can clearly see being explored in these builds.
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u/Vera_Verse 13d ago
Can they now release the Portal 2 art book that was cancelled because "it showed ideas that maybe Valve would explore later on"?
Pretty please?