dollarlord

the source engine is horrible for making games. There are basically zero examples of a decent game made with it. Except Apex Legends, it was a herculean effort, and it still sucks. You inherit a ton of exploits and bugs(apex came out and you could do a 2005-era speedhack). Netvars are still bad. I almost guarantee they will not do another game in source.

idtech still towers over the source engine for any real "small" projects. The community support + license + codebase is just so much better.

The only reason to use source is if you are a superfan who wants to make derivative stinky cut-content projects, and VR ports. Otherwise, you're just enslaving yourself to the valve megacorp(unless you can afford an apex-style deal).

I think anyone with a brain can tell this is Valve's code.

Autist

source engine is cursed, that's the average user