Brace yourself, Left 4 Dead fans – a Counter-Strike fan thinks they've found a refe♊rence to "Left4Dead3" in the files for CS2.

Via a screenshot posted to the , u/PaP3s shared code that they purport was located inside the CS2 files. If authentic, it's our best clue yet that Valve can indeed make 🌌games with the number "3" in the♏m.

The code itself is entitled "Left4Dead3" and say꧑s version = 2, owner = triage*, severity = high, priority = none, category = ---, product = left3dead3, and component = other. Nope, I don't know what any of that means, either, but plenty of fans have had a chuckle over the "priority = none" bit, as L4D fans have been feeling for years that Valve hasn't been prioritizing a new Left 4 Dead game.

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It's not the first time we've𒊎 heard rumors pertaining to the highly-anticipated Left 4 Dead 3, of course, but it's long been considered that L4D3 was formally in development before Valve made the decision to abandon the project until Source 2 was available.

As is usually the case when it comes to these kinds of things, for now, we can only chalk this up to being a rumor. However, with the澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询: long-rumored Counter-Strike 2 finally confirmed earlier this week, it feels like things are finally falling into place, especially if Valve really was waiting to roll out Source 2. Watch🌃 this space, eh?

If you'd like to know about how the Left 4 Dead series began, earlier this year, a very early, playable prototype of Left 4 Dead leaked, allowing you to go hands-on w✨ith Turtle Rock's original concept.

The "historic leak" was the first time anyone outside of Valve and Turtle Rock, of course, had seen the Left 4 Dead prototype beyond a small number of screenshots. In a detail꧅ed video essay, the YouTuber who leaked it explains how a map called Zombie City, first developed in Counter-Strike: Source and then Condition Zero back in the early-2000s, eventually became Valve's iconic multiplayer zombie shooter.

Valve's official line is that it is not currently developing Left 4 Dead 3. The studio said 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:as much in 2020, with its focus otherwise on Steam Deck and expansive VR experiences like 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Half-Life Alyx. Still, that hasn't sto🌜ppeꦏd rumors from circulating in the many years since the release of Left 4 Dead 2.

For more about Left 4 Dead 3, here's a handy guide to the rumors, leaks, and everything we'd like to see in a new Left 4 Dead.