they finished the game, then re did the entire thing again, so technically we have hl3

fun fact marc laidlaw was only hired for prospero another project that valve was making he was working on half life story and script as a past time

One can hope that eventually we'll get our hands on one of the many other builds that were sent out to people before the CDs rot away. Good video.

Wow, you can almost see the transition from using the quake engine out of the box to closer to what we play in the older clips. The wide doors, the hallyways, the geometry seems “snapped” still to Quake’s map builder settings in ways. Later it appears they fully customized about.. everything. Great content, thank you, subscribed for sure.

I love how the person in the demo video just blows up a scientist when the elevator doors open at 5:59

the alpha headcrabs are THICC

To be honest, the last thing I was expecting was to see my username. That really made my day. Of course, great video as well. For a future video idea, if you want to look more into the Half-life 1 beta/alpha build contents, you could check out the mod Absolute: Zero that recently got cancelled back in October. It's obviously not being worked on anymore, but holy crap I personally loved every second of it. Although it is not polished or well finished, what is there is incredible. Also, the development of this mod is very interesting... but not a good way. I sometimes nickname Absolute: Zero the "Franklin Pierce of Half-life Mods:" mainly because it seemed like they had the worst luck in the world and it was very depressing. I'm glad they cancelled it for their own health. But again though, what they had was really good. It felt like I was in a different reality and playing a game developed back in 1997... that nobody else knew about. It was one of the only few mods, that I can think of, where I wanted to see ALL of the content. But that is just a thought. If you do consider it, be prepare to look up KZfaq walkthroughs to type up different maps. For some reason, you can't list the maps in the console, but maybe you will have better luck than me. Cheers!

Actually there are music tracks in the alpha they just don't play in the game. If you go in the files you can find earlier versions of the retail tracks

8:41 Turns right to go down windowless, doorless hallway Turns left to continue down it Turns left to continue down it Door to next area is on right side I'm glad they greatly improved their level design from this

I'm glad to see your still doing content based on early/beta content for the Half-Life series! I love ya videos my dude!

Nice one! Shame we don't have that much from Half-Life 1's development, even Valve admitted they themself didn't anymore... "We don't have all the history of Half-Life 1's development, from the start" "Because like three months before we shipped, or two months before we shipped Half-Life 1, we lost the whole history; our VSS exploded. And so we had to put that all together off people's machines. So yeah, we don't have the history going back to the very start. We have the snapshot from that month." - Erik Johnson.

Poggers for ivan the space biker, also great new vid

Great video! First time I've really seen anything significant from the HL1 Alpha build of the game.

The best beta I've seen is half life 2 beta, This beta is actually like a beta, no story, no memorable parts, etc, still hella interesting.

Not sure if you've cover it, but it'd be interesting to see the Black Mesa leak. Marathoning all your content at the moment! Glad I stumbled upon this channel! :)

Criticising an alpha product(game) isn't stupid. It allows one to somewhat understand the building process and why the finished product is better or worse. Rating an alpha product that is stupid.

You can still see the quake in this build, it looks quite neat to think that this almost shipped like this, but they thought that it wasn't good enough and went above and beyond and upgraded so much and did a lot in so little time. A marvel with the engineers and programmers.

drip life alpha ivan the based biker

the development can be cut down to 2 eras pre marc laidlaw and post marc laidlaw

The music, oh my god I love it so much 😍😂

There was no Barney's beer.

I'm gonna be honest I wish instead of people making videos on what is already known by most people I think videos on more obscure stuff like the 0.61 alpha design doc, origin of the human sergeant voiceline ect, people always will make videos on the same pre release half life stuff but some of the more obscure stuff would been ballin videos

Quick explanation of my name: KING cuz KING of comedy and FFS to show im the only 1 KING FFS

Half life alpha headcrabs looking like some raw chicken meat...

Based

Epic as always!

2:58 the science dance!

Next time, can you talk about the original Half Life Alyx's story? Pleaseee

Glad we have the retail scientists

The ps2 half life menu theme is so nostalgic

those alpha maps do work in the retail half-life but the loading triggers are broken. i managed to fix them with BSPGuy.

thanks for having music in your disc

based

Cool.

Good video, well written!

if I had a nickel every time a half-life game had a beta with a wildly different feel, i'd have two nickels

Lore of Half Life Alpha: The Maps momentum 100

Damn, the final game is so much better... The opposite of HL 2 in comparison to the beta...

Great video. I suggest checking out a mod called "Hard - Life" on Moddb. It's essentially Half-Life being redesigned/remade to be really hard, but in a really unique way. Not just cranking up enemy health values or anything.

I like how the HL1 alpha has this retro-future type of style

This entire video is a half-life pre-release moment

Alien Research Lab (Questionable ethics) Communications Centre (Forget about Freeman) For some reason, I feel that the alpha maps have a better naming sense.

0:06 *he technically did for the 25th anniversary*

the areas like a liminal space

For some reason, the leaked 1997 build of the game is super joyous to play

I still find it interesting that one of the first maps in the game was what would eventually become Stalkyard.

We hope that someone leaks the Opposing Force early beta with the original grunts models from HL before they changed to the new detailed models

Do you think there more never-shown HECU e.g. General? , Captain? , Lieutenant as mini bosses.

yeah the corridors do be looking kinda bland doe, glad they did a revision on these parts office warrens looks kinda alrightish I guess

Ah, the Alpha, my inspiration to create complex geometry for maps.

YOU'RE SO UNDERRATED

The repeating textured hallways are somewhat reminiscent of the maze-like levels of Wolfenstein and doom. Which would make perfect sense if Source was an evolved version of ID's engine.

someone should recreate this in black mesa

ya know considering how unfinished and how small the alpha is i think this is just a demo to that of the final game and it was just to get a rough idea of what half life was going to be like both for the devs and play testers alike

LET ME HERE YOU SAY IT ONE MORE TIME

If you think further then we have Hl4

The skybox was just giving up

The alpha sure does look like a Quake 2 mod of some sorts.

I think "Office Warrens" sounds more sinister than "Office Complex" but it would be a great name for it, why valve didn't chosse it? I dunnno

I think you should do a Half-Life: Absolute Zero video... it sad this mod died but they at least released what they could finish.

very based

Thing is HL1 beta and HL2 beta have opposite problems, one has no personality the other has way too much, same with scope.

HL2 alpha?

For some reason, maybe it's just a thing I only encounter and others don't seem to have it, whenever I play HL's alpha and a houndeye kills a scientist, the game crashes

Ik I’m saying this 3 years later but can we pls get the download link for this build

radiation hazard what half-life character would you be i would be barney

I liked this game 😅

So, where's the follow-up video?

I liked and I was already subed, did Ivan escape and get *N O O D L E S* ?

Could be darker and grittier

theres music, you just arent playing the game on a cd.

😎👌

2022.04.14. 22:40

the download doesnt work anymore :(

Crap it got taken down now i cant download the files

Where download

Did you actually tried to talk in rhyme and verse?

yoyoyoy

doom life

what the fuck, where are your subs?

OH NO NOT THE PEOPLE FROM DISCORD THAT KEEP SPAMMING BASED NNOOOOOOOO

is half life 2 alpha real?

Cool video but gah, excruciating narration and music. This is not a creepypasta man.

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