http://www.thinkwithportals.com/blog.php?id=6632&p=1

Sounds great

Except! > Quote:

The simplified puzzle creator will let players easily **carve** out their creations in a straightforward but powerful way

CARVING OMG >:(

There is an open thread already for this new tools:

http://forums.thinking.withportals.com/general-discussion/more-news-on-the-new-editor-and-the-2nd-dlc-t4893.html

Quote:
Sounds great

Well, the fact is that it looks so helpful for beginners, but in my opinion that is gonna be sooo limited. What I really hope is that Valve concentrates a little bit more in improving authoring tools and release a final version after this beta ASAP!

MrLate wrote:
http://www.thinkwithportals.com/blog.php?id=6632&p=1
CARVING OMG >:(

Perhaps they are not referring to the carving tool, but simply using a figure of speech.

josepezdj wrote:
Well, the fact is that it looks so helpful for beginners, but in my opinion that is gonna be sooo limited. What I really hope is that Valve concentrates a little bit more in improving authoring tools and release a final version after this beta ASAP!

I agree, but I have a tendancy of doing things the complex way. So I might windup using the old hammer tools anyways.

josepezdj wrote:
What I really hope is that Valve concentrates a little bit more in improving authoring tools and release a final version after this beta ASAP!

Actually, the tools are only reported as Beta in Steam. If you launch the Authoring Tools, the 'Beta' tag has gone, so they're certainly final. Don't count on Valve updating them.

All I want is native 64-bit command line tools.