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Originally Posted by Powerlord
Has Valve indicated that they're going to be changing how updates to HL2  M and DoD:S are done? Just seems a bit odd that they're being spun out into their own engines if they're identical to TF2 in every way. |
With the Steampipe update, they no longer share a set of engine binaries; each game ships with their own.
According to Fletcher, in practice, they'll probably do future updates for TF2 ahead of the rest, and then likely update CS:S, DoD:S, and HL2
M at the same time at around the same interval as the previous CS:S "syncs", but even that isn't set in stone. They can update each game independently now.
We're trying to get ahead this time instead of having to scramble more than usual when there are breaking engine changes.