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lance, I'm well aware of that, but I don't see how it changes what I said.

Right now (for the most part) there _are no full and popular third party mods and in engine license agreements, valve isn't going to care about updates the buyers made. So Valve could change it.

But, as we've found out, the engine is not as "mod dependant" as it was with HL1 (even though, as you said XAD, it is supposed to be).

This is partly the reason there will be a ton of game abstraction in SourceMod, as we're preparing for valve to change many things along the way. I think one thing PM was discussing with me was "mod dependency" dlls, but there isn't enough mod variation yet to test or justify that.

As for hooking say things like that - it was the intention to provide that sort of thing, I don't know if we actually implemented it yet