Can’t believe that even the citizens were dark and girty at one point. 😔

I would've liked to see a character like Samuel in the retail version, a nice introduction to the story he probably would've been

“Citizen reskins have always seemed like a strange case to me.” - Great Blue probably -Fixed accuracy -Updated localization files

For real, I know "dark and gritty" is a meme in the beta community, but IMO the suppression field is SO much darker as a concept then child labor. I know child slaves is very "oh wow, very nightmare" but the fact that in retail the generation you see was supposed to be the LAST generation, I feel is just much more disturbing because at least child slaves can be freed, but the last generation? Knowing that every citizen turned to the combine or killed had no replacement? its like every death is just one more -1 to humanity's shrinking population.

Always been a fan of the retail design being based on the outer class from 1984, but the original gas mask design is still cool

I wish Half-Life 2 and its episodes would have different normal zombie variants, because the normal zombie is the tan shirted refugee. It would be cool if there was citizen variant, rebel variant and medic variant. I think there's an addon for Gmod about this.

Hey rad, I did a deep dive into that map you talk about at 8:12 not too long ago, it's called the rustic shipyard, hit me up sometime and I'll tell you everything I know about it if you want

7:25 I have no doubt in my mind that this map was supposed to be used as reference for Combine propaganda, in the TF2 leak we learned that the achievement icons were made by drawing over references made using the mercenary models, and that would've most likely been the case for this odd map, but because Breen's suit gives off more of a rich snob vibe as opposed to a bastard politican, it's probably why his head model is attached to Gman's body, and along with the children it was probably meant to make Breen look like someone that cares for earth's children, like you know, business men do with the environment

I remember that some Polish tv station were ranting about game violence, and there was half life 2 beta footage shown for some reason

7:30 originally, Gman's head was gonna be used on Breen because one of the valve artist or something, so there's a chance the same might have been wice versa (Breen's head on Gman's body) or just like you said, a placeholder

very interesting to see how they evolved through the beta

The videos from the 2002 Beta didn't simply resurfaced on the internet! They were actually given away by Valve themselves for anyone who pre-ordered the game! I have these discs at home, somewhere. I used to show and bother everybody I could to watch those videos over and over with me, because it was just unbelievable how amazing everything looked and how amazing of a technological jump the game was at the time.

2:09 This screenshot is odd. It looks like it came shortly after the leak but also before it, Victor Antonov’s style of the Combine architecture is slightly showing here. I’m blanking on the “Mr. Friendly” concept artist who deserves more credit for designing 90% of HL and HL2. But I think Valve went for a bolder look after the leak probably to really separate the game from what was designed previously. Anyone else know more?

Considering how much Portal 1 reused HL2 assets, is it possible that Chell's jumpsuit was at least inspired by the orange citizen gear? Also, for the future, it'd be nice if you could show side-by-side comparisons between models. Just showing the previous one and then the new one next to it would be great. Because half of these looked identical to me at first glance.

The meshes for the early 2003 citizen clothes _(and I think)_ the orange collar citizen clothes got leaked recently, and people have been able to make more accurate restorations.

I feel like we need a full beta release in line with the base HL2, like a beta and HL2 campaign being complete. It’ll pay respects to both the game and beta so it isn’t forgotten as well leads to more HL2 and HL mods.

The docks screenshot is one of my favorite old pieces from the game. It was just so atmospheric, not to mention that the graphics were crazy good there somehow, considering its age. From what I gather, that was going to be part of the coast at some point. And, yes, well aware that HL2 was originally meant to show up at E3 2002, but Valve apparently pulled out in the last moment because they weren't satisfied with the game. Didn't help that the game would leak along with the WC map pack a year later, which truly lit up the fire under Valve's ass as up until that point they insisted the game was on schedule and will release in the fall of that year - only for the build to be clear proof of the contrary, with an unfinished and unstable engine, and not a single finalized level to be seen. It's amazing how much the game improved in a year and a half, which frankly, as unfortunate as it may have been for everyone involved, is perhaps good that the leak happened. I personally doubt the game would have been as good as it ended up being without the leak, as now everyone knew Valve lied to their face with a smile. They couldn't screw up a second time. It's similarly amazing just how many old assets dropped last year, so many pieces of the puzzle in the hands on the community now. That being said, there is a chance there probably won't be any more dumps in the future, as some of the community's biggest contributors have released all that they had available last year and at the start of this one. Unless more people from outside and former developers release more after their NDA expires, this is the best it gets.

Yo, dudes, The Combine is pretty chill. Maybe you could like.. join it or something!

The beta had many interesting concepts hopefully someone will make a proper hl2 beta mod

In 2005, there was citizen named RadHaz.mdl he looked like gordon freeman

4:13 I don't know how the leak would've affected the design in any way. I imagine they just changed it because they wanted it to look better. 6:32 HL: Alyx does reuse this concept. In the opening of the game, you can see green-suited engineers riding atop the construction striders. There's also yellow-suited hazmat workers, but you never encounter any alive. 7:47 I can't tell if it's just because of the lighting, but the citizen to the far right of the group looks headless.

The image with Breen and the kids looks like propaganda to me, may have been one of his Breencasts, where he talks about the child workforce and how they are furthering the human cause from an early age or something. You know how it goes with him. The suppression field must have been one of those "a wizard did it" explanations they came up with last second to remove the kids from the game after they had already publicized it, I actually like it, it makes sense to me, the Combine were systematically comitting genocide on humanity by turning us into machine-like things, having us kill each other and preventing us from creating another generation. The one thing I wish Valve did differently would be to actually show us where that suppression field is coming from, like a machine or something that we could glimpse, just to tie it all together. Given how abstract and brutalist Combine technology can be, maybe we _have_ seen the suppression field during our trip to the citadel, we just couldn't tell it apart from all of the hard edged monoliths all over the place.

The true citizen appreciates the comforts of a new Radiation Hazard video, but uses discresion.

This might be a weird take but I think the choice to use European architecture shows a lot more graphical complexity instead of the cubes that are American architecture

The cut worker's normal and Borealis variations both use the face texture from male_07! Only difference is that it's more faithful to the original man the face texture is from, having the odd-looking mustache and the same hairstyle as him.

I can just imagine Gordon sliding across the floor with a camera in his hands for the b roll

A video about the backstory of the retail citizens would be interesting.

The blue citizen jumpsuits were inspired by the movie 1984. Also Breen's face was modelled after O'Brien, the antagonist of 1984 I just realized now even their names are similar

7:26 maybe there was supposed be a TV transmission (cbc tv3 sounds like a TV Chanel) were Breen would be with those kids wile a patriotic song played in the background to make some kind of combine propaganda -Also it's curious that we can see a citizen with his hands up in the air as if he was celebrating or trying to get freeman's attention.

My Fav Cut Design is the E3 2002, I Like the Colors of the Clothes and the Uniforms Themselves, They Look Pretty Drip but the Final Version is the Best one because of How timeless it is, My Least Fav is the E3 2004 one TBH

8:01 Best not be trying to start an ARG here boyo!

Stenographers casm If you write anything bad about the combine, the guards push a button and the floor bellow you rotates in such a way that you fall to your demise.

Thanks for the video, makes this saturday so much more comfy :3 I think I'll rewatch the beta series today)

I love your channel and videos, keep up the good work Radiation!

i would have been cool to see some sort of worker type in the retail game and maybe some levels where you could see them doing weapon parts for combine or something else that would give more reasons for the universal union to keep them alive

Thank you for the video! Hope you and your family are doing great

Videos like this show that I would enjoy the beta more than the actual game (These Models are very nice)

fordon greeman looking at children is the funniest thing ive seen today. this video made my day

Yet again you've made a fantastic video about the beta uwu

Dark and Gritty with Gaben's head should be on a T-Shirt!

I've been waiting for that video.

GABE NEWELL WAS GOING TO ADD CHILD LABOUR!? WHAT AN ABSOLUTE MAD LAD LMAO

good video as always hazard!!!👍

8:10 this map was likely a mock-up made by valve for the press to use. its unlikely that a scene like this was ever actually intended for the game.

Be honest, Most concept design art of Hl2 beta is have many things is more interesting than retail version (2004) But one thing is . We could never get Half Life 3 in soon

Thank you for providing very interesting content for such old game!

I like my Half-Life 2 *_dark and gritty_* like a proper chad, thanks.

It's a me! a dark a gritty!

great vid!

oh, more dark and gritty content.

Fantastic as always. -Alex Stoupenkov

4:10 The leak had nothing to do with the cutting of content in 2003; most of the files were content that was already scrapped. Combine OverWiki states: “The game didn't run on his computer, so he made some code changes to get it to run in a basic form. He only had the main development "trunk" of the game. They had many developed branches that he couldn't even begin to check them all out.” Gembe didn’t have the entire HL2 development repo, only the bases of it, and many of the nitty gritty models you see would get leaked much later, like the water cooler from the recent 2022 repo drop.

8:04 I'm not sure if those are hooks up there or people hanging from that crane in the background.

hey radiation hazard. just want to say my favourite videos from you is. your evolution videos. I just like the evolution of different characters. OH and can you maybe make one with the Strider. the strider is one of my favourites :)

i like the worker uniforms in half life alyx, especially russell has the big drip

love your vids

They really were gritty and dark

The beta citizen dream about free TV.. The retail citizen dream about cheese.. Next time, think about that and how deep does this message is....

New Rad Haz video about HL 2 beta? Easter came early this year! Dark and gritty! TM

combine overwiki my beloved

1:42 to note that is an early Kleiner model before they used Ted Cohrt’s face as a reference

hit the dark griddy 🔥🔥😭

_Dank and Gri-!_

7:46 This image gives me constant "hl3 leak" vibes.

good video. you should do evolution of the gravity gun in the future

Very dank and griddy

this is bright and griddy

nice vid

Pretty close but there's some things that are off. 1. Gasmask citizens were out by mid-2001. This is evidenced by the fact that there are new citizen models referenced in 2001 maps (For example, aaron\c17_01_17.vmf has male2.mdl) 2. Samuel's model is not found in wastelandcitizen, he is just in the root models folder. 3. We actually *DO* have the orange collar model, but the fault for this model not being very known about falls on me. See, the model is, for some reason, sitting in the smd file for the breen bust model in the recent leaks. People tried to convince me that it came from the .max file, so I ask a peer who actually HAD the max files for HL2 to confirm, and they said that it wasn't, so I pushed back on the claim that this model was real for quite some time because they refused to admit that it was just from the smd. Honesty would have saved a whole lot of people a whole lot of stress here, but hindsight is 20/20, as they say. 4. We have the 2002 blue/green citizens now, which is pretty neat. There was only one male model with the mesh, but I remade the whole citizen lineup off of it a little while back. It's cool stuff, I actually love this model version. 5. We have the e3 2004 model now as well, thanks to the recent leaks. Frankly, the community's recreations were nearly one-to-one anyway, but it's neat to have the actual model. Fun fact, the corpse texture actually uses different pants and shoe textures than the original version. Couldn't tell you why, it's rather bizarre. 6. There is one more version of the citizens that existed between the e3 2004 model and the final model: In the famous blue eyed metrocop concept art, you can see citizens in the background that appear to be a hybrid between the E3 model and the final model. They no longer have the corsets on their backs, and the front of their shirts seem to be like retail. However, they still have the older pants, as evidenced by the back pockets, some of them still wear the fingerless gloves, and their backs still have the same wrinkles as the e3 counter-part. That's about all I got. Nice video.

Nice

Evolution of da combone⁉️⁉️🗣️🗣️

Oh my gawd, this just feels like............ 2022

DARK AND GRITTY!

Hey Rad, you should do a vid bout HL2 Toronto Conflict

Well Gordon Freeman! About time too!

bro had a breakdown at 6:55 he had heard that there were kids in the beta so many times before and just lost it

Hazard if possible could you please make a video on the cut conscripts

We actually got the real orange collar and 2002 citizens meshes

DARK AND GRITTY

while i honestly love all the versions and even think some look better than what we got, but frankly i dont think any fit the theme quite like the final version. the idea of everybody having to walk around in these full denim outfits, which while uncomfortable they lasted long and could be produced cheaply with, really fits the whole oppressive utilitarian feeling. i mean, hell, first thing people seem to do when they get to the wasteland is take the jacket off, so i doubt its that comfortable.

Wish to see the beta skybox textures featured here.

5:02 AI-generated hands

2:50 False. We got the original mesh for the orange collar citizen as part of the recent leaks circa New Year's.

7:26 William Afton model in early FNaF SFMs be like

dark and gritty

Is this dark and gritty :O

do a review about the suffering

Le child labor est arrivé? Ahh hell naw, why they added Childs knowing the nature of the half-life games. 💀💀💀

babe get the hell up new radiation hazard video

1:31 the model on the left as always interested me, do you have information about?

I thought it was over...

To be honest I find nothing off feeling about that people standing on the ship photo. If you think about it, the photo shows hope if nothing else. An almost black and white picture of abandoned and not in use ships, with people waving at the camera man, implying that this might have been a cut location in the game, where you would board a ship (somehow avoiding combine). Feels pretty "cheerful in times of despair" kind of way.

evolution of Gordon's HEV next

swag

Imagine what gmod videos and other HL2 related machinimas would have been like if HL2 kept the 2001 era style...(pretty different in looks for sure obviousley). Anyway, the biggest flaw with the gasmask design is that because of the citizens quite literally wearing a gasmask, you would have barely been able to tell a difference between a citizen's model and another's, thus probably not letting male_07 become popular if they kept those designs.

Finally

nice to see a hl2 beta video in 2023!

dark and griddy

I wonder why the citizens are so different in HLA

le children hit the dark and griddy