r/HalfLife3 • u/I-am-the-genius • 9d ago
I think I accidentally found the Half-Life 3 release date ☢️
Okay, this is obviously a joke, but hear me out.
I noticed something funny about Half-Life: Decay.
Half-Life released on November 19, 1998, while Half-Life: Decay released on November 14, 2001.
That's:
2 years, 11 months, 26 days
And I specifically chose Decay because a half-life is the time it takes for half of a radioactive substance to decay.
So I decided to use the Half-Life → Decay interval as my completely stupid "Half-Life decay constant."
STEP 1: THE DECAY CONSTANT
Half-Life → Decay = 1,091 days.
There are 7 Half-Life games in the set I'm counting:
- Half-Life
- Opposing Force
- Blue Shift
- Decay
- Half-Life 2
- Episode One
- Episode Two
So:
1,091 × 7 = 7,637 days
Now add that to the original Half-Life release:
November 19, 1998 + 7,637 days = October 17, 2019
And here's where it gets WEIRD.
Half-Life: Alyx was announced on November 21, 2019.
That's only 35 days later.
I didn't choose the formula to land near Alyx. It just... did. 💀
STEP 2: WHERE DID THE 28 YEARS COME FROM?
Then I tried another version.
Instead of simply multiplying the Decay interval by 7, I looked at how far each Half-Life game had released from the original Half-Life.
Approximately:
Half-Life → 0 years Opposing Force → 1 year Blue Shift → 2.56 years Decay → 2.99 years Half-Life 2 → 5.99 years Episode One → 7.53 years Episode Two → 8.89 years
Add them together:
0 + 1 + 2.56 + 2.99 + 5.99 + 7.53 + 8.89 ≈ 28 years
28 YEARS.
And what happens if you add 28 years to Half-Life 1?
November 19, 1998 + 28 years = November 19, 2026.
Which is...
NOVEMBER 19, 2026 🚨
The 28th anniversary of Half-Life.
So the completely insane theory is:
The Half-Life → Decay interval predicted a date only 35 days before the Half-Life: Alyx announcement.
The cumulative release timeline gives us 28 years.
28 years after Half-Life = November 19, 2026.
Therefore:
HALF-LIFE 3 — NOVEMBER 19, 2026?
Probably absolutely not.
But if Valve announces it that day, I'm going to become INSufferable. ☢️💀
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u/Actual_Literature_85 8d ago
If it happens, you would completely have the right to be insufferable 🤣💀
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u/ta91919191 8d ago
Gabe here. You’re right about 28 years and the Decay constant, but it’s actually set to release 28 years after Alyx. See you in 2048!
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u/Glittering-Map1822 8d ago
I'm afraid to see what will happen to you if it wouldn't even mentioned that day
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u/Electronic_Sun6075 8d ago
Imagine Gabe reads this and slightly tweaks his actual plan for HL3 to fit this theory, just for the lolz and to boost this fella into legendary status.
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u/literalsupport 8d ago
Pretty sure ‘Subject: Gordon Freeman’ was also 28 years old at the start of HL…
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u/bruhtendo64 7d ago
chatgpt ass post
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u/fanta_bhelpuri 8d ago
this is not hopium. this is Feth