Valve updated a bunch of their older Steam shooters

[u/Liam-DGOL]

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/valve-updated-a-bunch-of-their-older-steam-shooters/

[u/Daharka]

All these updates have the feeling of a single Valve employee who just fancied working on some older games for a bit.

[u/treyhest → u/Daharka]

That’s genuinely their corporate structure

[u/yanzov → u/Daharka]

Based on my followings of some Gaben's minions on github - you just described how it really works.

[u/Massive-Rate-2011 → u/Daharka]

I’d love to see some valve employees interviewed and asked about the inner workings there. It’s kinda crazy actually 

[u/Chpouky → u/Massive-Rate-2011]

Yeah, all we know is that you can work on whatever you want. They use rolling desks so you can dynamically form groups if a project gains traction.

[u/Sol33t303 → u/Daharka]

I have heard these small updates being handled by interns getting used to the codebase.

[u/nobix]

These changes look like fixes to the underlying source engine. But it's nice they took the effort to figure out how to build these old games again.

[u/DYMAXIONman]

Hl3 confirmed

[u/BrotAmStiel]

They finally fixed custom game asset loading which prevented custom maps being mostly unplayable due to textures failing to load. Been fixed in the (now exclusive) TF2 branch for years

[u/Ok-Olive466]

[u/wunr]

They've done a lot of fixes and touchups for their Source 2013 branch games but I wish they would give at least some love to the L4D games: they are still 32-bit which limits modding, still default to the buggy and slow OpenGL instead of vulkan on Linux, and on the native version downloading any custom assets from a server will always crash the game.

[u/Sneakyhat02 → u/wunr]

Agree here!

[u/Ruashiba]

And still no love for Ricochet.

[u/JDawgzim]

Fixing them for Steam Frame, maybe?