Thank you so much for making a video on my map! This is the first time someone with your level of influence has played on a project of mine and it's a huge honor. I hope you enjoyed!

Petition to make Librarian play all the top Half Life 2 Beta fan mods: - Raising The Bar Redux - Cremation - Dark Interval - Coterminus etc.

this is a Half-Life 2 beta map, but if you ignore the city 17 part this could easily be another city on Combine ruled earth, likely the US (which is canonically the most contaminated area on Earth due to being ground zero)

10:59 That's a Vorti-Cell, where vortigaunts were supposed to be used as batteries. As if the Combine couldn't get anymore dystopian...

12:42 "Your punishment is their integration, their enlightenment, and they wield that like a cudgel." this sentence goes hard

I like to think that this is a world where Gordon either failed in his mission or died back in Black Mesa

"He sounds as if he's possessed" ooohh if he only knew. Also i'm pretty sure if humans even defeat the combine, the damage has already been done.

Aside from the joke comments about "dark and griddy", hl2-beta inspired maps are definitely cool to explore. It's just so sinister and dark, defo 10/10 atmosphere in this map On a side note, Combines/Universal Union is just another normal playthrough for Stellaris players lol

It was only a matter of time until librarian was dragged into the half life 2 bata in one way or another

Welcome to the world of the Half-Life 2 beta my friend, where Valve had many concepts and ideas that unfortunately didn't make it into the final game. Despite not being a part of the retail game, there are some interesting and intriguing facts about the locations and details on the map that I'd like to share with you. Let's dive in, shall we? First, let's talk about the man on the screen - the Consul, as he's known throughout the story drafts. We never actually learn his real name but that doesn't really matter one you should know about the Consul is that he isn't human longer if you actually take a look at him when he's about to make his announcement you only see his head and shoulders and that's it really and you could interpret that rest of his body is just disgusting synthetic body that he shall forever thanks to his masters. the second fact at 5:43 is that the big building you try to enter that place is called the manhack arcade where citizens can go play an arcade machine that lets them play as a manhack and you definitely not controlling real manhack that metro cops deploy and you are definitely not accidentally killing rebels and refugees what nonsense is that. That's all I got for now because I'm tired as hell i hope you find this facts interesting and have a good day/night.

I feel like The Libarian is going to be confused by all the "Dark and Griddy" comments.

There is someone in a GMOD map The librarian: 🫨

No one will understand the hype of seeing a new librarian VR vid

I kinda wish retail HL2 had kept _some_ of this atmosphere and drear. The original original plan where every major NPC died as soon as you were done talking to them, I'm okay with that being cut as I enjoy Eli, Alyx, Barney, and Kliener. But I do feel that some aspects of retail's dystopia was _too_ subtle. That is, it made it difficult to fully appreciate how bad the rule of the Combine was without a lot of deep thought. A perfect example of this is the sea levels. There's a lot of ingame evidence to suggest where the waterline used to be, and now you see boats embedded in the exposed sea floor. But nothing really compares to actually _seeing_ it. Some of the HL2 maps got a pre-combine version, and it's only there that that aspect is _truly_ rung home. A longer tour of City 17 before reaching Kliener's Lab would also have been a good idea too. Something about as long as HL1's tram ride, I think. The beta _did_ have a longer section originally, and I wish they kept that for the same reasons. What's in the game we got is not enough to _fully_ appreciate just how bad the Combine screwed over Earth. Again, there's enough to _explain_ it, but that's necessarily the same thing as appreciating the scope. It's a weird double case of "show not tell." They show-not-tell certain aspects of the world, but those aspects _themselves_ are telling without showing. It's weird but I'm hoping someone out there understands what I'm trying to say.

Very nice map. Ambiance and environmental details can really tell an amazing story.

!! metropolice don't have any real major augmentations, hence why barney calhoun is able to just remove his mask. they're just regular people dressed up in police gear.

When it comes to humanity, how do we come back? We adapt. As we always have. That`s why humans are one of the most prolific and succesful larger single species to ever live. Because humans have just the right mix of intelligence, durability and capability to effect our enviroment to manage to be the only speciess to manage to survive in every, and proliferate in nearly every enviroment we come across. So even after such devastating events, humans would take two or three generations at most to be back at normal life. And with what the combine left around likely quickly surpass what we had before. And it also wouldn`t be the first cataclysm humanity survived and came back from stronger, not even the first "near apocalypse".

this map is based on the hl2 beta

11:07 I believe these are vorticells, vortigaunt powered generators

Just a lore tidbit, the metrocops aren't heavily augmented. They're simply human collaborators. I believe that they have the option to become a soldier, which involves lots of augmentations. In Half Life: Alyx, many soldiers still have some of their personality, despite their augmentations. This suggests that either lower level soldiers are less augmented than their superiors, or that over the years they've become less and less human due to additional augmentations.

What makes the combine grunts and metro police worse than the others is that they fully know what they’re doing, they receive zero augmentation and beat and kill their fellow man for just a little bit extra food or better housing, the combine use humanity’s selfishness

I just want to point out that this map alone, and the entire beta, is arguably a small glimpse into what COULD have been a better half-life 2. It's so much more dark and brutal, and I love it. Oh- Uh- day three of asking you to play sons of the forest

If you want to know the origins of the toxic air, play the map AirEx industrial tower, it’s a very small but very cool half life 2 beta map based on the Air Exchange.

*me and the librarian both getting jumpscared by an average NPC in the first 0.2 seconds in the video*

Love the half life 2 beta vibe

Instead of Dr Breen on this map is Consult its Dr Breen but in HL 2 beta (I don't know if you heard of that leak of HL 2 beta After all that was years ago)

31:13. The battle scanners are a cross between organic and cybernetic components.

this is so "black person doing a tiktok dance" otherwise known as "dark and griddy"

we are getting dark and griddy today.

I usually stop by to watch these videos, this by far has been my favorite because it covers a Half Life Beta style map which is something I personally find really facinating. Would love to see more like this covering some Beta style maps. Lemme know if you have covered some in the past or know anyone who has, would love to see:)

Such a great map, very talented the creator is for this. Gonna have to download this one later! Awesome video Librarian.

(bit early) quite cool, i love these videos relating to exploration with very creepy maps

Perfect timing, have you in my ear bud while urbexing man. Love these vids

Sad that there wasn't a resistance base anywhere would have loved to see that in this version of hl2 but either way i love the atmosphere of this map

honestly surprised he hasn't gone through more hl2 beta-inspired maps

the librarian got dark and griddy

Have to say if this wasn't a half-life universe map I would think it's like some kind of map taking place in Gotham remind me so much of Arkham City

The true citizen recognises the Half Life 2 beta.

I love watching your videos every time.

So half life 2 without Gordon Freeman. The combibe just bled the earth dry eventually. Weird seeing one of these with people around, even if it's just NPCs.

Hell yeah half life 2 beta inspired map

Amazing video!! I've been watching your minecraft videos as well and I think you should try out the MCSX Minecraft PS1 Edition modpack! It's haunted nature and aesthetic is right up your alley, you could definitely use some of your vast creativity to really bring the modpack to life

9:34 I don't know what is was in German but the phrase "Work sets you free" was put on top of the gates into concentration camps.

Dark and griddy

Hey Librarian, could you make an playrun of Entropy 1 and 2? I would love your commentary on those mods and i think you would like it as well!

Hey librarian, I think you really should check out a map called "Sabiru 錆びる" it's got these really nice early 2000's japanese surreal horror vibes like corpse party or something (though the themes might be a bit too gory for your taste). It's got a few puzzles and easter eggs too.

Hi Chris, if you haven't watched it, I highly recommend the movie Nineteen eighty-four. The map gives me the vibe of it.

This man really makin us wait for the re7 dlc vids

Half-Life 2 but it takes place a decade after the Combine are driven away from Earth and the world is in the process of renewal

Good HL2 beta content

I love hopeless dystopia fiction!,!,

really cool map

The device that guy at the end is making is a magnusson ball teleporter. Used in the Episodes to kill striders.

GMOD wouldn't exist if the half life beta artstyle was the final release...

I HIGHLY recommend you check out raising the bar redux

11:01 vort which generates power

The gasmack citizen, beta citadel, yup, 2001 or 2002 beta half life 2. Must be.

very dark and griddy

10:20 you would love the Organic version

overall I definitely prefer retail hl2 more, but beta stuff is still cool to think about and someone else has probably said this by now but in the hl2 beta, those tall cyborgs named cremators were actually made with child labor in factories (suppression field wasn't an idea at that point in development I guess). maybe, hopefully, their organic parts are just grown in a vat or something

This kinda looks like the stray map ngl or at least the tower

dark and gritty

I think you missed the metropolice marching sequence near the "Propaganda Box".

he missed the combine march!

So basically the HL2 Beta build? lol, still cool though.

thats just new york

This is really cool! I wish it were separate from Hl.

dark and griddy

what a cool map

Hi would you consider playing Soma someday? Ik its a bit old but its still a awesome horror game

Hey, i really like your videos and im curious will you ever play Firewatch?

I want to see a game set in the future fter humanity frees itself from the combine. I want a city management game similar to infra where you go through the ruins and repair the cities. I want a game set in the far future where humanity used the advanced technology they stole from the combine to colonise other planets. I want a game where someone discovers Aperture labs and reclaims it's portal and AI tech. imagine a world where the aperture researchers and the people from black mesa had access to such advanced technology. wait... what if cyberpunk is just set in the future of the halflife universe? honestly if that's what we end up with after the combine are beaten I'd be fine with that.

gmod vr but its dark and griddy

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This is from the beta of Half Life 2. I know your gonna get like 15 million comments that say that. I will say this is specifically the 2000-2001 era of the hl2 development

I don't know if this makes since... but you sound like a survivor of city 17 someone who saw it first hand

23:43 no it was dictated because of the leak

As much as I love the HL2 beta aesthetic, I think I prefer retail HL2 for presenting it's dystopian world in a more subtle way. You discover more about the world through observation, rather than it just being right in front of your face. I think the main thing I would want from the cut version is the enemy and weapon variety, at least some of it.

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*Obligatory comment about "The Beta"*

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Well no, the combine isn't worse then what you see in the games -cuz all their horrible actions are in the games, just subtle enough that you don't notice if run about swinging your crowbar

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YOU WILL eat ze bug paste YOU WILL breathe air slowly YOU WILL wear a mask YOU WILL help protect our community

half life beta, dark and griddy

0/10 no free tvs

HALF LIFE BETA DARK N GRIDDY...

very dark and griddy