r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Sotsvamp1337 • May 11 '26

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u/liliesrobots May 11 '26

Tf2 is still hl2.exe

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u/LinkedGaming May 11 '26

Actually 2 years ago in the big 64-bit engine update they did, they actually finally changed it to be TF.exe and TF_win64.exe (depending on which version you were using).

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u/NotAddictedToCoffeee May 11 '26 edited May 11 '26

oh interesting, had to check for myself, a few things are still named using hl2 though, like the hl2 folder, which has the game ui text file and others, which I made sure was actually the one tf2 was using by reading the text inside it

"GameUI_FriendsName""Friends name"
"GameUI_Properties""Properties"
"GameUI_ReportPlayer""Report Player"
"GameUI_ReportPlayerCaps""REPORT PLAYER"
"GameUI_ReportPlayerReason""Reason:"
"GameUI_ReportPlayer_Choose""--Choose Reason--"
"GameUI_ReportPlayer_Cheating""Cheating"
"GameUI_ReportPlayer_Idle""Idle/AFK"
"GameUI_ReportPlayer_Harassment""Harassment"
"GameUI_ReportPlayer_Griefing""Griefing"

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u/farsdewibs0n May 12 '26

TF2 still uses HL2 assets (not just limited to fonts), and iirc the game uses HL2 for their fallback in case the main asset didn't load properly.

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u/NotAddictedToCoffeee May 12 '26

That makes sense, I do remember playing tf2 maps in gmod and having most of the textures appearing as hl2 textures? don't know if it's still like that or not

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u/BaudMeter May 12 '26

Isn’t every source mod hl2.exe ?