

Maybe it was patched out for being glitchy and unreliable? And why no subsequent games, even single-player ones, have had that feature. wasn't aware the Source engine could even do that and now I'm wondering how. They must have been removed very early on, and I bet that's when most of the downgrades in this video happened.įinally, they show actual real-time ripples being created when water is shot. To the point where, when they updated the model to include them, I almost immediately noticed.

One other thing I found interesting is that both versions of the grenade launcher feature fully-modeled bolts, whereas for most of the years I've been playing, it did not. Interesting! Most if not all of those map changes I would, again, put down to having to recompile map lighting every time they update something, and not having any standardized settings (which, by this point, they really should have their internal structure was guaranteed to mean lots of turnover in any given game's team, so documenting "how we do things 'round here" for consistency's sake should have been a given).
