Something has happened that many have long since stopped believing in. The release date for Garry’s Mod 2 has been released — it remains to wait until April 2026. Cool, right? We’ve been working on this project for more than 11 years, which is an insane amount of time for the industry. The developers decided to transfer all the best from the first part to the rails of Source 2 — the engine from Valve, which should give the sandbox a second wind. The price tag for the game, by the way, is promised to be around $ 20, which is about 1.5 thousand rubles, if you look at the current exchange rate of the Central Bank. It’s quite an adequate amount for so many years of expectations.
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Comparing Garry’s Mod 2 and the original: what will change in 11 years?
Garry’s Mod 2 on the Source 2 engine simply destroys the foundation of the 2006 version, where the good old Source 1 is already frankly suffocating under the weight of modern wishlist. The main joke here is — and this is important to understand — that Facepunch takes s&box as a basis, turning the project into an ultimate modding platform.
Source 2 is rolling Rubikon physics into the game, so ragdolls and props will now fly and break as naturally as possible, without those wild spasms and jams in textures that the first GMod was famous for. The light is now fully dynamic — shadows and highlights are rendered smoothly, just like in Half-Life: Alyx, and not baked tightly into maps, as it was before. It’s powerful. Stability has also been improved — replacing the old Lua with brisk C# allows you to load heavy assets on the fly, so server crashes will become a thing of the past along the way.
After 11 years of waiting, these chips really cover all the pains of the fans: lags during kneading, ancient graphene and tight coding frameworks. GMod 2 leaves the very essence of “build and break”, but gives the player the power of 2026 technology for the craziest ideas. That’s interesting.
Engine Comparison: Garry’s Mod
The technical base is just the tip of the iceberg, because the real revolution of Garry’s Mod 2 lies in how players will interact with each other in the updated ecosystem.
Insiders about the Witcher 3 and the future of the series
At the same time, rumors surfaced online — insiders are trumpeting the third DLC for The Witcher 3. Along the way, the new addition will focus on Ciri’s story — it will become a kind of bridge linking the plot with the upcoming Witcher 4. Suddenly. Admittedly, developers are able to whet interest in old hits. In general, such news always pleases fans, because everything is very meaningful — the industry lives by the expectations of great sequels.
