What's particularly interesting is, as Tyler reports, some players will be able to gain control over these bots and "puppet" them.
Other pieces of information are coming from Tyler McVicker, the well-known Valve insider and a creator of Valve News Network. This has been revealed in Geoff's The Final Hours of Half-Life: Alyx interactive storybook. The first semi-official confirmation that the next game is in development came in summer of 2020 when Geoff Keighley, the man behind The Game Awards, said that there is "a top-secret new VR project that another small team at Valve has been working on since the first part of 2018." Since the initial leaks, there hasn't been much other news about the game, because Valve's priority at the time was to finish Half-Life: Alyx.
The first few leaked lines of code mentioned above were related to AI bot navigation, stealth, and a top-down minimap, but that wasn't saying much about the game or what it could be. What kind of game is Citadel?Ĭitadel's VR controls will not be much different from Half-Life: Alyx, but the gameplay will be different (Picture: Valve)
The first strings of code mentioning "Citadel" were found in a Dota 2 update from April 2019, and since then it has been all but confirmed that "Citadel" is an independent Source 2 project. It is known since early 2019 that Valve is working on three new VR games, one of them being Half-Life: Alyx, while leaks are suggesting that the next one will be Citadel. Still, there are numerous reason to believe that the Citadel project is indeed their next game.