>>725315974
>hopes
Source 2 SDK full release, Also an ending that isn't another 15 year cliffhanger, actually wrap up half life's story and make new franchises from this point forward, spinoffs are fine but end gordon/alyx's story definitively
>Fears
live service sloppa with crates/gambling such as what CS:GO and TF2 have instead of a definitive single player story.
Instead of the Source 2 SDK, we get "Half Life 3 Workshop" like what alyx had where you can only make mods within the framework of what is possible for a half life game's combat loop, no weird shit like Underhell or SMOD: Tactical will be possible with Source 2
>Expectations
That this will never, ever come out and all of this speculation for HLX is the same hopeless bullshit that we went over almost 2 decades ago with HL3, lots of rumors, lots of "leaks", no actual releases or announcements.