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Hello everyone! The team here behind Portal 2: Community Edition has heard your enthusiasm and your thoughts, and we're happy to announce we're officially looking into supporting localization! Before we jump right in, however, we're conducting an interest survey. We want to know
It's been two months since we entered open beta... With exclusive showcases from: Portal 2: Abyss... Portal: System Failure... and Portal: Intrusion... Let's take a look at what the community has created using Portal 2: Community Edition. View game page Portal 2: Abyss have also
Portal 2: Community Edition has arrived now in Beta, bringing with it a whole lot of goodies for modders to play with. Read the full article here:
Hey everyone! You read that right: we're entering Open Beta! You no longer need to apply to the closed beta to play and create with Portal 2: Community Edition: just add it to your library and hit launch (Portal 2 required). Our entire team is incredibly excited to bring you the
Join us counting down to the Open Beta of Portal 2: Community Edition.
The Portal 2 modding scene is about to explode with the upcoming Beta release of Portal 2: Community Edition, giving you some big new tools. Read the full article here:
Portal 2: Community Edition is entering Open Beta on April 17th 2026! The time has finally come! Portal 2: Community Edition is going to be entering Open Beta on April 17th 2026! This means that everyone will be able to play P2:CE - no key required! Please note, this is an OPEN B
It's been a little while. Let's discuss what we've been up to, and what's next for Portal 2: Community Edition. Volumetric Lighting To begin, as of today, all dynamic lights in the engine have been upgraded with the abiliy to produce real-time Volumetric Lighting effects within t
Portal 2: Community Edition - November 24th, 2025 Hotfix Additions (1) Added the texture parameter $detailmask to the PBR shader, which masks the detail texture Fixes (3) Fixed crash on shutdown Fixed issues with UI localization Fixed non-functional volume sliders Improvements (2
Portal 2: Community Edition - November 23rd, 2025 Update Additions (22) Added a "client" time version for Sound Operators output_entry_elapsed and output_stop_elapsed which use game client time instead of host time Added a note to the top of a VMF file if it's saved with any Stra
An Overhauled Lighting System We have completely overhauled the Source Engine's lighting system to add a new level of depth and liveliness to the game's environments. With fully dynamic lights, better looking shaders, and new lighting effects, Portal 2: Community Edition (and mod
Portal 2: Community Edition - December 24th, 2024 Hotfix Additions (2) Added cvar_dump command to dump ConVars and ConCommands to a JSON file Added persistent storage API for VScript Fixes (2) Fixed addon list not saving when p2ce/addons doesnt exist Fixed infinite recursion when
Portal 2: Community Edition - December 21st, 2024 Update Additions (5) Added support for Steam Workshop Added command jpeg360 for capturing 360 screenshots Added ConVar sv_enablepreferredcarry to allow for disabling preferred carry angles Added P1/HL2 object throwing, enabled thr
Portal 2: Community Edition - November 20th, 2024 Hotfix Additions (1) Added volume slider to Hammer Sound Browser Fixes (3) Fixed audio being spatialized in the Hammer Sound Browser when it shouldn't be Fixed occasional Faceposer crash when selecting an invalid file Fixed occasi
Portal 2: Community Edition - November 14th, 2024 Update Additions (21) Added animation event 'AE_SV_SET_SKIN' to control server side model skin Added animation events 'AE_SV_ENABLE_BODYGROUP', 'AE_SV_DISABLE_BODYGROUP', and 'AE_SV_BODYGROUP_SET_VALUE' to control server side mode
Portal 2: Community Edition - March 11th, 2024 Update Additions (16) Added a status indicator for validity of autosave paths in the Hammer options dialog Added an overlay plane when using Hammer's Clipping Tool Added 'buildambientcache' concommand to pack ambient light cache into
Portal 2: Community Edition - November 6th, 2023 Update Additions (2) Added support for HL2 ladders (Thanks AlexEpisode!) Added support for multiroot KV1 in KV3T Fixes (6) Fixed Faceposer crash when right-clicking in the Phoneme Editor Fixed Hammer 3D Shaded Textured Polygons Vie
Portal 2: Community Edition - October 4th, 2023 Update Additions (16) Added 'paintpower' property for paint color material proxy to request a specific color Added CSM and flashlight to 'lightmappedreflective' Added ConVar 'traceray_force_vphysics' for testing (1 = Use VPhysics co
Portal 2: Community Edition - July 16th, 2023 Hotfix Fixes (2) Fixed Hammer freezing when changing entity class Fixed colorcorrection not working properly
Portal 2: Community Edition Update - July 15th, 2023 Changelog Additions (30) Added 'Test' and 'InValueNoTest' inputs to `logic_case` (upstream from Revolution) Added CSM debug menu Added ConVar change listener method for Panorama Added ImGui versions of `+showbudget`, `+showbudg