Left 4 Dead 3 Confirmed by Valve Changelog Leak

Members of the DotA 2 subreddit were treated to a tour of Valve recently, and something tells me that the House that Half-Life Built may just regret letting them take picture. One picture, which shows a Valve Changelog, reveals quite clearly that the company are working on Left 4 Dead 3, and that it will run in the Source 2 engine.

That Valve are working on the Source 2 engine isn’t really news. There have been enough leaks at this point that it would be more surprising to learn they’re not working on it. Left 4 Dead 3 has had a few rumours attached to it as well, but nothing so concrete as an official changelog from one of the people working on the game.

Some eagle-eyed user managed to zoom in on the picture above and found the following:

[source2]Restored L4D3’s devtest unit test. Ran locally 6 times without an assert. There may be so…

While the announcement of Left 4 Dead 2 caused quite a bit of controversy, thanks in part to the communities worry that the original Left 4 Dead would go unsupported, early reaction to this news seems to have been largely positive. Although it isn’t Half-Life 3, Left 4 Dead 3 might just be the next best thing.

There’s also mention, later in the changelog, of a new quest for DotA 2. This is good news for people bored of playing online (although, that’s kind of the point), who just want fun with their favourite characters.