How does the Half-Life 2 multiplayer protocol work?

client-server network-protocols
JtR picture JtR · May 27, 2009 · Viewed 9.5k times · Source

I was wondering how the Half-Life 2 multiplayer protocol works in mods like Counter-Strike: Source or Day Of Defeat: Source. I believe that they use some kind of obfuscation and proprietary compression algorithm. I would like to know how different kinds of messages are encoded in a packet.

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user110714 picture user110714 · May 27, 2009

Half-Life 2, Counter-Strike:Source etc all use Valves Source engine. Valve has a developer wiki which covers a lot of stuff (its pretty cool check it out!)...

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