That's it! I'm willing to bet those concept art pieces are related to this new IP...
Gunman Chronicles? It was a HL1 engine game. I only played the demo from some PC Gamer disc back in the early 2000s, but it was pretty cool.
In space no one can hear you suffocate
Looking at the file names, nothing in there necessarily implies "outer space" to me except "nebula". Remember ep3 is expected to have a (ocean going) ship, and a helicopter ride (maybe explains "flightplan"). I'm sure ep3 could have a "nebula" in it without putting you in a spaceship. Remember hl1 had you teleport to Xen. Of course, I may be biased by my hope that ep3 comes out soon.As people continue to sift through the gigabyte or so of data leaked, more interesting things are being found. Under a directory game/client alongside other folders such as cstrike and ep3, is 'sob' with the filenames indicating a potential new IP. Perhaps a space shooter of sorts?[br][br]What do you think it could be and what could SOB stand for? Here is a pastebin of files provided by HL2.netter, Barnz.
Pretty much.
There are a lot of complex dependencies and things like that you have to consider. Maybe they implemented a few engine features specifically for this "SOB" game that they later adapted for use in Dota 2, and these are just remnants of the files they brought over to the Dota project in order to implement the same features without doing extra work. Or maybe somebody just forgot to remove them... like Zofrex said, cruft tends to accumulate in these situations just given how immense the volume and number of files and data it takes to make a full game. Think of how much cut content or references to cut content you can find in the HL2 code base and GCFs for example.
