Actually, the Combine Depot does return in retail HL2. There's even an entire chapter dedicated to it. It's Entanglement. Most of the chapter takes place in the Combine Depot right next to Nova Prospekt.

It's always weird looking at Beta Content for Half-life. It's mind blowing to look at what could have been.

The cut maps of Half-Life 2 are so insanely detailed, a lot of them look like they could be actual city blocks, and then they just scrapped them.

Just the fact that the Source engine looked as good as it did back then on even the most basic computers is mind blowing. Valve had some really talented people back then pushing the envelope. It's just too bad that they seem to be focus on other things instead of game making. Although, with the change in management before Half Life: Alyx and what that did with public communications, this may be the start of a new Valve that's going back to what made it famous: making games.

Mate this is honestly one of my favourite channel rn. Loving these HL2 beta videos ;p. Are you going to talk about unreleased enemies or characters from the beta in a future video?

I really wish someone at valve would honestly turn around, and look back at all this. I want to play a fully realized HL2:Beta and own it honestly. I'd love to see the employees come back and re-make it, re-code it, and re-work it into the game we never got to see, including anything missing. If not this, I'd at least like to see closure in a form of a letter, like we got for Epistle 3. The Beta is such a mystery since it has so many leaks to it, yet we can't honestly piece it together that easily even though a lot is there. I feel its this wonder and mystery that makes people drawn to it, like how people can get drawn to HL's beta for the same kind of reason. Though HL2's beta has a lot more mystery and oddities to it.

You cover these topics pretty well!

I love the videos you have been doing, I'm glad to know that there are even more people who care about the HL2 Beta. It is very interesting imo.

7:44 the strider just fucking dies lmao

i just found your channel i am addicted to watching these hl2 beta videos

10:52 this is indeed so beautiful, it should be a wallpaper.

I wonder how the half life fandom would've reacted to half life 2 if it kept with the beta story

IIRC there weren't any "technical difficulties" behind the removal of the hydra, it was that the gameplay was unsatisfactory and/or frustrating to the players, so they removed it from the game in a relatively late stage of development.

is this E3 terminal, I played this map and it's pretty disturbing

This is great content 😔👌. Specially since I'm a hard-core half life fan. Subscribed 100%.

There was gonna be a part where Gordon and Alyx were in a plane, and the plane crashes into a skyscraper if I recall reading about it. She's then captured by Combine soldiers and you need to fight your way through the building. Not very realistic as irl that would destroy the whole building. That concept was later turned into a helicopter crash instead, but I forgot what year that was. It could've either been changed to be more realistic as a building would most likely survive a helicopter, or they changed it after 9/11. They eventually cut the whole crash part in general out either due to 9/11 or maybe they just didn't think it was a good idea.

This is all really interesting, I wonder how people would have reacted if the game released with all of this beta stuff kept in. Thank you for making these videos ^^

its been so fun watching your half life 2 related content

In your opinion whats the best half life 2 beta reaction mod (mine is dark interval)

By the way, the deport was preserved to the release version. It's just that now Gordon enters this Combine structure not from the wasteland as before, but passes under it. After you pass the location with moving walls, where it tries to crush you, look at the broken ceiling. You will see that you are at the side of this structure. To clarify, this is Nova Prospect. Everything else is just the outer layer, to which the Combines do not pay much attention. Even in this video, the map uses the original model of the Combine building used in the release version of the game.

ravenholm is the best chapter what do you mean

Oh, and there is a weird custom map called e3_gurluas that often gets passed off as being from Valve's 2003 presentation, which is not true. The map's real name is CMP_Gurluas_2000_Road, which was made by Gurluas who was a HL2World site member. Later it was found by Russian bootlegers, renamed into e3_Gurluas for some reason and included in one of their bootleg Half-Life 2 beta disc releases.

TURN THE SHIP WE'RE GOING TO BOREALIS

1:18 Gta 5 main menu sound

I’m curious, why would valve get sued for child labor as a plot point in a game?

i love e3 2002/2003

Of mild note: E3_terminal seems to be the map in the background of HL2's box art. Which is weird since it obviously isn't in the final game.

The depot was kept in the skybox of Nova Prospekt maps.

Good commentary, but the audio is pretty low.

I'm curious what you mean by the possibility of Valve getting sued with the plot point. Was it the child labor and the moral outrage it would cause?

Most of these e3 maps are really good.

you backround theme has the minecraft cavbe sound

I always liked e3 strider

3:55 I am slightly confused, why would Valve have been sued for using child labor as a plot point?

Someone's gotta make one big map in gmod and join together all hl2 beta maps

The way a lot of the maps in Beta HL2 look remind me a lot of Kingpin. If you like foreboding, depressing, gothich environments you should definitely give that game a try. It has a weird combination of urban-noir combined with art deco.

I wonder what would happen if you were to play the cut levels in retail hl2. Would the beta textures be there?

What’s up with the gta 5 pause menu music

man e3_industrial looks like nexus city before the downfall

hey whats the song at the intro i kind of recognize it

If someone need it Elvis 0:33

I doubt you'll read this because of how old the video is, but if you do, how did you get the water on e3_town to look so nice? My version of e3_town has unreflective and opaque water.

am i the only one hearing him say shit even though its actually ship?

Thanks ;)

are you ok

Y know they rely didn't know what the fuck they were doing. Some of the shit they did cant make sense, for example the combine drain the earth's water leaving only a small percentage left. So how does the borealis stay afloat+ If you can breath in the air how come barney, alyx, eli, and rebels dont wear masks?

sued for having kids in the game?

had the beta maps not been leaked back then we would have gotten this version of Half life 2 (child labor included) because the combine don't give a fuck about humanity and would rather work them to the bone.

When i looked up the number on that building (0g0e b 4rn 0) i found some sec.gov archieves