I start this thread with very little will to even write a proper briefing. I´m tired and about to give up for real. I have a mod that could have been finished in a couple of months, a mod that took me years and I can´t do any progress on it because the fucking steampipe. The following things dont work anymore thanks to steampipe:
All external tools: Propper, GuiStudioMDL, MDL Decompile, Etc.
Valve tools: Faceposer, Vrad (it crashes when running full parameters), buildcubemaps, etc.
I´d like to know if any of you didn´t opt for steampipe and if so, if the game is working as before at least. I know they broke it (surely on purpose, to force us to switch to steampipe) Last time I used it it lagged like hell and there were many many bugs like NPCs not talking at all. There are a few ways to still use some of those tools, but most of them require hackish things like creating bait folders with duplicated or triplicated content. It is a pain in the ass, and if some tasks were slow before, now they´re a thousand times slower. This is getting on my nerves, modding for Source is not worth if we have to deal with so many issues. I did my best to help, I joined their github thing and reported as many issues as I could properly describe. But they dont get fixed, I just read excuses.