Half Life 1 Half Life 2 Beta Concept Art

An early on version of City 17 with the Citadel looking very different to its final.

The One-half-Life 2 Beta, also known as the Half-Life 2 Alpha, the One-half-Life 2 Leak, the Beta, or the leak, is a generic name that refers to Half-Life two during its interesting evolution stages, from 1999 to its release in 2004. Ever since circa 2018 the Project Beta team has created patches and in 2017 maps and models for the Beta using the source engine by the community and other modders.

Name

All names for the cut/leaked material were coined by the players. While "Half-Life two Beta" is often used for convenience, it is somewhat incorrect, since the leak files cover several stages of the game's evolution, spanning over years, and since no information about their unlike evolution stages is known except the engine build number. "The leak" would be a better championship.

Original plot

The book Half-Life 2: Raising the Bar and the numerous leaked files revealed many of the game's original settings and actions that were either cut downward or removed entirely from the last game. Half-Life two was originally intended to exist a far darker game based on far grittier artwork where the Combine were more obviously draining the oceans for minerals and replacing the atmosphere with noxious, murky gases.

Half-Life 2 was also originally intended to be much more than various in settings, and the original journey was extremely long (to the extent that the game felt almost overblown, with piddling time being spent on developing existing characters; ane of the key reasons for it being cut). Several City 17 levels at the start of the game and consummate chapters from the second half of the game were completely removed and sometimes re-introduced in the subsequent Half-Life 2 episodes.

Parts of the book One-half-Life 2: Raising the Bar and the leaked files item how Gordon would fight aslope characters such as Odell in the Borealis (or Hyperborea), besides as fighting together with Captain Vance and Vance's forces, the Conscripts, in the Air Exchange, the Weather Control and the rooftops of City 17. Originally, Eli and Alyx Vance had no relation, and Eli's lab was located in a cave in a scrapyard and was much rougher than the ameliorate-equipped laboratory inside a hydroelectric power station in the retail version (the scrapyard area where the Gravity Gun tutorial takes identify, being an auxiliary area equally opposed to the bulk of the lab, is reminiscent of the original concept). The Citadel also looked very unlike, it was more round than the bulky Citadel from the concluding version.

Style

Concept art for the early City 17, with what appears to be the inner wall on the right.

While the playable game leaked in 2003 is quite similar to the retail product and already heavily trimmed, this earlier menstruation of development of the game shows a quite dissimilar fashion. At this point, City 17 was an American Due east Declension-like city based on Washington, D.C.,^[ane] with many large skyscrapers, and had a very bones, blocky FPS pattern.^[ii] It was more faithful to the concept fine art seen in Raising the Bar: darker, gothic, sinister, rainy, foggy, gritty, with a lot of brick, metallic, and glass, getting along well with the cut concept of the Combine replacing the air with poisonous gas and draining the oceans. It was, therefore, a much more dystopian, Orwellian universe (even though the terminal product is still quite Orwellian) with touches of cyberpunk/steampunk manner, in the vein of the book/film 1984 or other films such as Dark City, Blade Runner, City of Lost Children, and Avalon. Information technology was also more true-blue to Viktor Antonov's early concept fine art and work on the game.

The Combine was utilizing and recycling existent human materials and buildings instead of calculation their own technology to them. This is why the early on Citadel, for case, had its walls covered with tiles.

During the fourth dimension leading up to the 2003 leak, the team added more periods, such as the 30s, the 40s, and the 70s, eventually reaching the more Eastern post-Communist mode we see in the retail version of the game, with older and smaller buildings and a bright universe instead of a dark 1, which is more in the vein of the original One-half-Life. The Ravenholm levels are a reminiscence of the original style fifty-fifty though the American Due east Coast-manner skyscrapers were all removed.

Note that not all the concepts were not present in the evolution process at the same fourth dimension since the game had yet a very crude, work-in-progress country.

Source lawmaking leak

One-half-Life 2 was merely a rumor until a strong showtime impression at E3 in May 2003 launched it into high levels of hype, where it won several awards for All-time in Bear witness. It was scheduled for a release appointment on September xxx, 2003, just was delayed. The pushing dorsum of One-half-Life ii's release date came in the wake of the dandy of Valve's internal network,^[iii] through a null session connection to Tangis which was hosted in Valve's network and a subsequent upload of an ASP shell, resulting in the leak of the game's source code on the Internet in early September 2003.^[iv] On October 2, 2003, Valve CEO Gabe Newell publicly explained in the HalfLife2.cyberspace forums the events that Valve experienced around the time of the leak, and requested users to rail down the perpetrators if possible:

Always have one of those weeks? This has simply non been the best couple of days for me or for Valve.

Aye, the source lawmaking that has been posted is the HL-2 source lawmaking.

Here is what nosotros know:

1) Starting around ix/11 of this year, someone other than me was accessing my email account. This has been determined by looking at traffic on our e-mail server versus my travel schedule.

2) Shortly subsequently my auto started acting weird (right-clicking on executables would crash explorer). I was unable to find a virus or trojan on my car, I reformatted my difficult drive, and reinstalled.

3) For the next week, in that location appears to have been suspicious action on my webmail account.

four) Around ix/19 someone made a copy of the HL-ii source tree.

5) At some indicate, keystroke recorders got installed on several machines at Valve. Our speculation is that these were washed via a buffer overflow in Outlook'due south preview pane. This recorder is apparently a customized version of RemoteAnywhere created to infect Valve (at least information technology hasn't been seen anywhere else, and isn't detected past normal virus scanning tools).

6) Periodically for the concluding yr nosotros've been the subject field of a variety of denial of service attacks targetted at our webservers and at Steam. Nosotros don't know if these are related or independent.
Well, this sucks.

What I'd appreciate is the assistance of the community in tracking this down. I have a special email address for people to ship data to, helpvalve@valvesoftware.com. If you lot have data about the denial of service attacks or the infiltration of our network, delight send the details. There are some pretty obvious places to start with the posts and records in IRC, so if you can signal us in the right management, that would be smashing.

We at Valve have always idea of ourselves as being part of a community, and I can't imagine a better group of people to help united states of america take care of these problems than this customs.

Gabe

In June 2004, Valve announced in a press release that the FBI had arrested several people suspected of involvement in the source code leak.^[five] Valve claimed the game had been leaked past a German black-hat hacker named Axel Gembe, aka 'Ago',^[half-dozen] built-in c. 1982. Gembe after contacted Newell through eastward-postal service (too providing an unreleased document planning the E3 events). Gembe was led into believing that Valve wanted to employ him as an in-house security auditor. He was offered a flight to the The states and was to exist arrested on inflow by the FBI. When the High german government became aware of the plan, Gembe was arrested in Frg instead and put on trial for the leak besides as other computer crimes in November 2006, such as the cosmos of Agobot, a highly successful trojan which harvested users' data.^[7] ^[8] ^[9]

At the trial in November 2006 in Germany, Gembe was sentenced to ii years' probation. In imposing the sentence, the judge took into account such factors as Gembe's difficult childhood and the fact that he was taking steps to better his situation.^[10]

Although Valve has never made any official argument virtually how the leaked files should be considered and used by the customs, no deportment take been taken against websites or people using and hosting leak-related content, and Valve sanctioned websites such every bit Garry's Mod host many leaks related material and discussing it is not forbidden on the website'due south Facepunch forums (which was forbidden in the past). The full general consensus would then be that Valve is non preoccupied anymore with the use of these leaked files and their use and distribution is not forbidden although not blessed, as long as they are used for free; when asked to Valve by due east-postal service on July 20, 2009, virtually the status of the Beta-based mod Missing Information, the reply was that "the mod is not illegal to download and play every bit long as it is just a mod."

Leaked files

Playable game

The files leaked in 2003 consist of a playable game bachelor in ii versions, the "betimes-hl2" leak and the "Russian" leak, both of which slightly unlike from the other. The "Russian" copy of the leak is based on the original 100 part leak "betimes-hl2". One of the few notable differences between the two is the presence of an installer, while the "anon-hl2" leak consists of 100 .rar files. The "betimes-hl2" beta contains at its root a .txt file last edited in October 2003, with these words:

Just create a server to play.

in the console, use "noclip" when it's stuck.
Really total of bugs, sure that valve won't release it before a while.
Have fun !!!

The work-in-progress nature of the game makes it evidently very incomplete and quite unstable with some maps even declining to load. At the fourth dimension of the leak chapters such as the Air Substitution, the Borealis, and the Skyscraper were already cut and City 17 already had its Central/Eastern European mode, making the leak very similar to the terminal retail production and representing of what Half-Life 2 looked like in 2003. Therefore, the cuts were non fabricated considering of the leak, but for other reasons, and much earlier in the evolution process.

Features from the playable game

The Stalker as seen in the playable game.

The interface appears to be based on the Steam version of the kickoff Half-Life. For case, it has "Software," "OpenGL," and "DirectX" listed as usable renders in the "Video" tab, but the Source engine used DirectX simply when it was released.
There is extremely basic multiplayer support. It tin support very few players. Interestingly, one of the tabs in the "Create a server" option is named "CPU Players."
It is, nonetheless, quite hard to follow the incomplete storyline, equally several maps won't load and crash the game. The causes of the crashes are due to these maps being very old for the branch that the leak is running on (from 1999-2001 was a very early alpha of the source engine which is basically another version of Goldsrc with physics).
At that place is bones DirectX 6 support, which consists of a few low-poly character models and a DirectX half dozen version of one of the Declension maps.
The engine is, of course, less optimized than the one used in the terminal game.
There is no congenital-in anti-aliasing. Information technology can, yet, be emulated with the well-nigh recent graphics cards that override the game's settings.
The source lawmaking contains a folder called 'ivp' (IVP stands for Ipion Virtual Physics, a physics engine from Ipion Software that was bought out and brought into Havok i) which contains Source'due south original physics engine from early 2001 containing IVP lawmaking (dating from 1999–2000) incorporated into the Havok lawmaking. The VPhysics engine based on Havok two is also nowadays in a separate folder and is the concluding version retained in the Source engine.
The leak uses a unique ammo system non seen in the final version. Ammo is cleaved upward into three types; pocket-size, medium, and heavy. The SMG2 uses small; the Pistol, SMG1, AR1 and OICW use medium; the HMG uses heavy.
The Colt Python and Resistance Crossbow were not implemented in the game at the time of the leak, and every bit a result, do not exist in the playable epitome.
Several sound files from chapters already cut in the playable version tin nonetheless exist found in the sound folders, such as early on Breencast clips past the Consul, Conscripts dialog involving an Overwatch Sniper, Overwatch Soldiers chatting in the Skyscraper, a scripted sequence involving three homeless Citizens (nicknamed "hobos," one of them named "Regis") talking most Vienna sausages (one of the them has the aforementioned voice equally Odell) in a City 17 underground image (in the maps "vienna_talk" and "vienna3," last edited in 2003),^[2] a scene involving Alyx (voiced by another adult female) and a Strider chase, and dialogues and music from the motion-picture show Aliens, to be used for lip sync tests in the maps "aliens_test" and "testroom_ripley" (the dialogues) and the surreal map "ickypop" (the music).^[ii] ^[11]

NPC differences

Citizens have different models and facemaps, most of their Idle Voicelines voiced past Marc Laidlaw and they only can use Stunstick SMG1 and OICW *Only used one time*
Civil Protection were simply chosen cops by citizens. Although they accept early voice lines, they only say Idle Statements and don't talk to the Overwatch Voice.

WC mappack

Other files consisted of a group of several zip files nicknamed "WC mappack" (WC stands for Worldcraft, the early on name for the Hammer level editor), containing around 1300 incomplete VMF maps (VMF stands for "Valve Map File") of the very early chapters already cut in the playable game mentioned to a higher place (about of them are repeated and almost identical), demo/prototype maps and the maps from the playable version, spread in around sixty folders named by the developers who worked on them, taking up effectually three gigabytes. These maps tin exist opened in Hammer and tin exist run in whatever Half-Life game after texture fixing (since several textures can exist missing, especially the original Combine metal variations) and compiling them into BSP maps (using the pick "Create a Modernistic" in the SDK and putting the textures from the playable Beta in its folder volition exercise about of the preliminary piece of work, as virtually of the textures will be missing if the compiled map is played on the released game). The maps still have the date they were last modified, which can give other clues almost the game development. Nearly of the maps are very old and were concluding edited/created in 2001 or 2002.

The leaked files available on the Internet are plainly only parts of the original files used in the evolution of One-half-Life 2, since many more maps, models, sounds, scripts, and textures exist, as well as more than 50,000 reference photos taken in the USA and Europe used for pattern inspiration.^[i]

Cut features

Weapons

Throughout the development of Half-Life ii, its impressive arsenal of weaponry varied considerably and information technology contained several dissimilar weapons than when the game was showtime made public, weapons that were later cut before the final release.

It has been suggested that the bulk of the weapons were cut due to the fact that they were too similar to 1 some other, as the AK-47 served a very similar part to the AR2, and the OICW the same to the SMG1, and that information technology would not be very believable to hold more than than 25 weapons, even though a express weapons system was implemented at some bespeak, having the thespian throw a weapon before picking upward a new one.^[12]

Most, if not all of these weapons are usable in the playable Beta and the mod Missing Information, although sometimes with changes.

Complete listing

Vehicles

AirEx Truck (equally a static prop)
Digger
Jet Ski
Israeli Merkava (used by the conscripts)
VAB APC (also used by the conscripts)
Van Car

Friendly fire

Half-Life 2 originally featured friendly fire, as with Half-Life. Valve found this to be annoying to playtesters, as they would frequently accidentally kill their squad-mates, so it was inverse and then the weapons exercise no harm to friendlies.

Cut enemies

Many enemies were cut. The about prominent ones include:

The Combine Assassin. A female person soldier, the successor to the Half-Life Blackness Ops.^[1] She is included in Half-Life 2: Survivor.

The Combot, a predecessor to the City Scanner. It is slightly more than aggressive than the City Scanner: it is equipped with a flamethrower and causes a bigger explosion when performing its suicide attack. However, information technology does non wink at the thespian.

The Conflicting Assassin, a humanoid brute dressed in black that would behave similar a stereotypical ninja. It tin exist presumed through cut animations that it was to drop smoke grenades and throw Hopwire Grenades. Parts of the AI were reused for the Fast Zombie.^[1]

The Bullsquid. It behaves exactly like the ane from the original One-half-Life only has crimson pare. One of the leaked maps ready in the City 17 canals has a section designed around swimming Bullsquids, only they will never enter the h2o.

The Houndeye. Information technology was to behave similarly to the one in the original Half-Life, but there was to be more than emphasis on the Houndeyes behaving like a pack of wolves. Its leaked model is corrupt, only its textures are still viewable.

The Cremator. It would make clean the streets of bodies after a skirmish with a massive acrid gun called the Immolator, which would double as an offensive weapon when the Cremator would become an enemy. It has no AI in the leak.

The Hydra. The Hydra is a long, blue tentacle with a long needle on the end. While impressive to view, the Hydra was much less interesting when actually fighting against information technology. It'south an interesting NPC in the sense that it lacks whatever animations and all movement is handled by the code. However, when it was showcased at E3 2003, the model was blithe specifically for viewing at the event.

The Combine Guard. The Combine Guard is a giant transhuman soldier that wields a weapon called the Combine Guard Gun. The gun is essentially a portable version of the Strider's laser. The Combine Baby-sit but appears in "e3_terminal," but information technology can be spawned anywhere and is invulnerable; it'south AI is reused for the Hunter in Episode Two only it'south heavily modified.

Cut locations

The fate of the cut material

Although most of these concepts were cut from the final game, many of them eventually made information technology into hereafter releases.

Half-Life two (retail)

The concepts of the Overwatch Aristocracy gathering all of the aristocracy units, notably the Combine Super Soldier and the Combine Assassin.
The Conflicting Assassin was recycled into the Fast Zombie.
Ravenholm was originally located at the stop of the canals and before Eli's lab. It featured a lake at its foot, with at least one Ichthyosaur. This lake and the small docks were somehow kept for Blackness Mesa Eastward when the chapter gild was reversed, and the Ichthyosaur makes its just appearance during the teleportation failure at the start of Half-Life 2.
Odell'due south model was used and reworked for Odessa Cubbage.
Ane of the Borealis' door props is used equally an entrance door for the Vortigaunt Camp.

Lost Coast

Lost Coast was based on a chapter cut from Half-Life 2 and was finally released as an HDR technology demo. None of its material, however, can be found in the leaked files, suggesting it was implemented later on the leak but removed earlier the retail release.

One-half-Life 2: Episode One

The exposed head of a (Bloody) Standard Zombie was originally going to have a half-skull, with merely the jaw role intact, as seen in the playable leak. This concept (the idea that a headcrab could remove the head of its victim) was recycled for the Zombine.
- The Zombine itself was to originally appear in One-half-Life 2, based on the remaining text files.

The Air Exchange railroad train wreck^[1] was reused at the start of the affiliate Lowlife.
The huge destroyed concrete level at the start of Vertigo seems to have been reused in the City 17 Underground in the chapter Lowlife, where Gordon and Alyx are fighting Antlions and Gordon must find cars to cake the Antlion holes.
The Stalkers, originally to exist fought in One-half-Life two, are at last directly confronted in Episode I.
The Citadel Core was to appear in Half-Life 2, as a prototype map exists in the WC mappack.
The Counselor room. The tube used by Advisor Pods to leave exists in a very old WC mappack map.
Judith Mossman wearing a winter coat in an Arctic setting appears to be recycled from her predecessor, Helena Mossman.

Half-Life two: Episode Two

The Air Exchange train wreck^[1] was reused at the very start of the game, while at some signal wrecked train cars in a valley were to exist seen at the end of the Canals before Ravenholm, somehow recycled for the start of Episode 2.^[2]
The Antlion caves:
- The Antlion Grubs were to be met in the caves.
- The Antlion King that was likewise to be met in the caves was recycled into the Antlion Guardian.
Some mining themes cut from Ravenholm, such as carts, were reused for the Victory Mine area.
The Combine Guard AI was recycled for the Hunter.
The Hopwire Grenade's purpose and function are reused for the Magnusson Device.

Half-Life: Alyx

The unused 'stake' synthetic peel for the Strider seen in some early concept arts was finally used as the early variant for structure striders, as seen in the first chapter.
Odell'south overall model and some personality traits are seemingly reused and improved for Russell as seen in-game.
One of the new Combine soldier types, the Combine Suppressor, appears to take inspiration from the earlier Metro Cop and Elite Metro Cop'southward old helmet designs.
The Urban center 17 beta logo symbol can exist seen in a black and white variants.
Eli Vance'due south predecessor Eli Maxwell's Black knit/watchers' or beanie cap is reused every bit part of (the younger) Eli Vance's attire.
The quondam mortar sounds heard in the leak and E3 2003 trailers for the Manhacks are one-half-reused during gameplay shootouts.
The Cremator's original purpose as the 'cleanup' passive enemy has been reused and expanded upon via the Combine Workers and the Combine Hazmat Workers. However, nigh of them are never encountered alive in-game, instead just appearing equally corpses and in Zombified forms.
Xen Grenade's organic appearance is very likely inspired by the Hopwire Grenade's appearance.
The concept of visiting City 17's Industrial side is brought back for chapters vi and 7.
The idea of Xen animal slowly taking over the City's landscape was revived and hugely expanded upon, and plays a major part in the game'due south story.
The Vorti-Cell's concept and purpose are recycled through the Combine's utilize of modified Combine Cells to harvest energy from captive Vortigaunts.
Alyx's Apartment in the very beginning of the game seems to be based on a reference to Alyx's cache in the leaked audio files.^[thirteen]

Mods

Since the release of the retail game in 2004, many attempts accept been fabricated to restore the original storyline past making mods based on the leaked files. Some mods never went further than crude evolution stages and some fixes, some are withal in development. Some players accept stock-still several maps without including them in a full game. These can be found across various websites online.

Ane of the most famous mods based on the Beta, the only to have always been released, admitting in an incomplete stage, is Missing Information. Though originally considered "illegal content" by Valve, the modern has since been considered legal as long equally information technology is distributed for free equally a mod and does not use the original source code. The mod'southward current version includes the E3 2003 and the Borealis chapter, though quite incomplete, and another release is expected soon. Other unreleased mods include One-half-Life 2 (GabeN), Half-Life ii: BetaSource, Night Interval, Degree, Raising the Bar: Redux, and Projection-9 (encounter Mods based on the Beta).

E3 2003

Several demos of work-in-progress levels were shown at E3 2003.

List of demonstrations

The Traptown docks as seen in the E3 2003 presentation.

A trailer (featuring very early on footage)
"G-Human being" (facial animations)
"Docks" (featuring early docks about Ravenholm)
"Kleiner'south Lab" (featuring an early Kleiner'southward Lab sequence)
"Tunnels" (featuring sewer areas partially recycled for the tardily chapters of One-half-Life 2)
"Bugbait" (featuring a daytime Nova Prospekt)
"Barricade" (featuring a street battle against Metrocops, with Barney and Rebels)
"Coastline" (featuring an early Dock 137 sequence)
"Psyche" (a dream-esque sequence featuring the G-Man and other pictures)
"Striders" (featuring a Insubordinate battle against Striders)

The original demos, .cfg files used to record the demos and .bat files (demoloop.bat) used to start the demos played at E3 are included in the 2003 leak, simply there are so many differences betwixt the engine used at E3 and the leaks that it is incommunicable to play them.

Something notable is the fact that all of the 2003 leaked Beta demonstrations are broken in one way or another. Most stem from missing models and incorrect usage of props (ex. the game uses a prop_physics for a model when the engine only thinks that prop can be prop_static, so it deletes it). About all the presentations take been stock-still and included in the mod Missing Information.

The K-Man emotions demo will not work, equally the Half-Life G-Human model produces an error, thus preventing the movie from even starting.

The Source engine demos are greatly affected by certain models being the wrong version; about of the revolving slabs at the start will plough into error signs. The camera is broken, as it faces just one direction. The G-Man immediately dies when spawned, and the photographic camera volition not change direction when the Headcrab knocks information technology over. The basis eruption at the first of the physics demo never works, merely that demo is otherwise the same.

Kleiner'south Lab is too extremely broken; Alyx and Kleiner practise not walk effectually and their lips practise not movement. In addition, nearly of the dialogue is non in the game, generating a large corporeality of errors. However, the player tin notwithstanding watch the Strider blow upward the wall and become the SMG from Alyx, even though she lacks the "requite the player the SMG" blitheness.

Traptown is every bit well extremely cleaved. The metal bars that are supposed to hit the soldiers about halfway through the demo are released as before long equally the map begins because the game deletes the objects restraining information technology. The "Troop forcing open up the door" scripted sequence merely works about half of the time, the soldier on the tertiary floor of the building never appears, the player tin can hear distorted music in the building, the radiator constraint is broken, tossing a grenade nether the trash can will crash the game, and the blade trap at the stop does not work.

Coastline is the merely demo that is still in good shape, but information technology lacks a sound issue (a soldier saying "End!" as the histrion gets near the dorsum of the harbor). Otherwise, it functions as information technology should.

The Psyche demo works except for the not-pre-buried G-Man vocalization and obsolete "env_fov" entity that was replaced with "env_zoom" in the retail release and the playable Beta.

E3 demonstrations cut from the final game

Citizens fleeing from a Strider in the map `e3_strider`.

Many E3 2003 demonstrations never fabricated the cut either. The most popular among users, institute in the 2003 leak every bit unfinished maps, are:

Final, whose remnants can still be establish today on the Half-Life two box art. Information technology was besides used in the Half-Life 2 teaser trailer. The column that's mounted past a equus caballus statue, still, fabricated the final cut in the map preceding Gordon's get-go travel into the Citadel.

Industrial, which featured an extremely early concept, the Combine Factories, featuring children.

Depot, a map featuring parts of the Wasteland area surrounding the Depot and a lighthouse. The Depot was kept for the Nova Prospekt level while the lighthouse is featured in the rebel base of operations Lighthouse Point.

Some other maps, which are incomplete, are:

Strider, which was actually almost complete, with the exception of missing scripts which makes it unplayable. Some parts of it were later recycled for use in the Hydra demo. One of the earliest official One-half-Life 2 screenshots shows the operation map. It is one of the only pictures which showcases a group of citizens with gas masks when the Air Exchange was still in the storyline intoxicating the air. It was also used in the teaser trailer. Its design was based on the very first One-half-Life 2 demo, Go Your Complimentary TVs!.

Sniper, which began as a histrion running through a ruin-covered street to kill a sniper. This is also the primeval leaked map that utilizes the sniper.

Transport, showing the player on the Borealis. It starts off with climbing a ladder, and so shows struggling with some fast Headcrabs before entering a corridor and finally reaching the deck where a Gunship appears. Afterwards this indicate, several explosions are encountered. This could possibly be the gunship doing damage.

Boondocks, which was a much longer version of the E3 2003 map "Docks" featuring a player going through Ravenholm. However, Grigori is not seen at all. It ends with a building exploding triggered by a zombie.

The E3 preview of Gordon visiting Kleiner's Lab after returning from Nova Prospekt with Alyx contains a different dialogue betwixt Alyx and Kleiner than in the version viewable online: it shows a slightly different pattern for Alyx and ends with the lab existence attacked past Striders, an event that does not occur in the final game.

Gallery

References

The Half-Life Wiki has more than images related to Half-Life 2 Beta.

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.two ^1.iii ^i.4 ^1.5 Half-Life 2: Raising the Bar
↑ ^2.0 ^two.1 ^2.2 ^2.three WC mappack
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↑ Playable Version of Half-Life 2 Stolen. CNN Money. Retrieved on February 14, 2007.
↑ 'Phatbot' man linked with Half-Life 2 leak. play.tm. Retrieved on February 16, 2007.
↑ Valve and FBI faked interview to lure hacker to United states on Geek.com
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↑ How Legal Codes Can Hinder Hacker Cases. Wall Street Periodical Online. Retrieved on April 12, 2008.
↑ Playable Half-Life two Beta files
↑ Half-Life 2 at E3 2003: Coastline on YouTube
↑ Alyx'south Apartment

Run into also

Meet these related articles for more information on the early Half-Life 2.

Half-Life 2: Raising the Bar

Development of Half-Life ii

One-half-Life 2 original storyline

Get Your Gratuitous TVs!

Category: Cut content
- Category: Cut weapons
- Category: Cut characters
- Category: Cut enemies
- Category: Cutting allies
- Category: Cutting locations
- Category: Cut vehicles
- Category: Cutting items

External links

Misc.

The Boy Who Stole One-half-Life ii on Eurogamer

Beta footage

Mods based on the Beta

Beta Project (Russian website providing several mini mods and single maps released from time to fourth dimension)
Missing Information (currently at version one.6, nevertheless in progress and has a steam page)
Depot
Minimalist Mod (parody mod powered past Xash3D)
Operation Reclaimation (yet in progress)

Currently in development

Dark Interval
Cremation
One-half-Life 2: Raising The Bar Redux
Episode 17
Project Interceptor: Untold Story
One-half-Life 2: The Completeness
Hyper

Discontinued/Expressionless/On Concord/Inactive Mods

Raising the Bar (Discontinued since Oct. 2016)
Der Shwarze Nebel (Concluding file uploaded in Sept. 2017)
Air Substitution (Archived on ModDB since 2010)
Russian-Anon (Last Article validated in 2010)
Project: Hyperborea (On Concur according to the Programmer)
Beta Consummate (No Files even thought stated as "released")
Old Times (Ceased development sometime in 2018)
Old Story (Final prototype uploaded in 2012)
The Fallen Warriors (Inactive or Expressionless since 2015)
Insolence (Migrated to Terminus, who'due south final article was in 2014)
The Origin (Website no longer active, final annotate from Dev was in 2018)
Project-9 (Website no longer active)
Half-Life two Beta Deathmatch (Last build uploaded in 2014, source lawmaking released in 2016)
Half-life: Ablation (ModDB page down)

Real-Globe subjects
Companies	Gearbox Software • Junction Point Studios • Valve Corporation
Production staff	Artists • Character models • Composers • Voice actors • Writers • Other
Software	Achievements • Compilations • Demos • Games (Half-Life • Multiplayer • Not-canon • Portal • Third-party) • Game Engines • HL Hard disk drive Pack • Mods
Other Media	ApertureScience.com • Books (Lab Rat • Raising the Bar) • Fan content (Films • Games • Mods • Series) • Films • Merchandise • Preliminary Findings • Soundtracks (Songs • Composers) • The Final Hours (Half-Life • Half-Life 2 • Half-Life: Alyx • Portal 2)
Cut content	Prospero • Half-Life Alpha • Half-Life 2 Beta • One-half-Life two: Episode Iii • One-half-Life 2: Episode Four
Misc.	Canon • Development (Commentary • Half-Life two • Portal • Adjacent Half-Life game) • Mr. Valve • Retcons

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