THE OOGAS HAVE BEEN BOOGA'D

i think HL1DevTest might have been an abreviated version of "Half-Life 1 Developer Testicles", not sure though.

Half-Life 1 confirmed

Actually insanely impressed by how quick new videos are coming out, especially since you have a family and all. Good work, as usual.

I do remember a Tyler McVicker video on this exact thing from the more recent Valve leak. I think the map had floating text describing what should happen when certain triggers are passed or what should happen with certain interactions. Based on the way the text is written (and the fact it exists at all) would indicate that it is meant to test Half-Life features in HL:S. Fun fact: you can skip to the end from the reactor room by just gauss jumping.

We do this sort of thing in game dev a lot. Usually before a game comes out, of course - but effectively, it seems to be a vertical slice demo of everything you can find in the main game, so you can play through just this rather than the entire game to test whether various game functions are working as they'd expect and how they all interact in-context when working on gameplay code. I've built similar levels myself, and they were all designed to help me, or other developers (or management, sometimes!) to see a sample of everything in the game quicker than playing through the standard levels.

When HL1S is actually not ass:

I love how everyone just falls to the ground when they die, and then there's this dude at 1:46 who gets banished straight through the wall into the shadow realm by the Grim Reaper himself.

I covered this last January when it leaked. Basically, these maps were for internal dev tests for testing various things such as flow, layout and gameplay. Its an Abridged HL1 which in itself is just a Mini-Campaign. It wasn't for public use as Valve didn't do anything with the maps

Could have been a prologue for people who hadn’t played HL1. Kind of like the Tanker section in Metal Gear Solid 2. But it’s kind of odd since HL1 didn’t really have much of a story and it was mostly environmental story telling.

This is cool, kind of like a greatest hits of the combat sections of HL1. I think this could be fun for HL2 as well. Cut up the maps with just the most cool and memorable moments remaining.

Ngl, hl1devtest felt like playing quake because how fast you traverse multiple points of the chapter randomly. And it was fun, better than HL:S.

Mini-Life IGN: 3 Minutes campaign. EUROGAMER: The shortest campaign of all time 5 STARS

Valve uses devtest maps for general testing and to make sure no features break during development. HL2, the episodes, Portal, and Portal 2 all had one too. They tend to squeeze every feature of the game into a short easily replayable map so if something's broken you're likely to find it.

she halfs on my life til i'm source

This entire campaign is exactly how it feels to watch hl1 speedruns

The first thing I thought was this looks like a dream someone had of playing Half-Life

The map is for mod creators. HLS was only for mod testing to see if their hl1 mods would work well with source. That map is basically there to test your mods without creating a special map just to test it out. Think of it like the tumtara l4d2 map

1:21 fellow skybox enjoyer. It's interesting to see this maps and how they actually use Source's features in HL1 instead of just trying to mimick Goldsource, like an official remake of sorts. Great video, hits in the ooga booga.

this is like one of those movie recap videos but as a video game ooga booga

ooga booga. Also, these maps are most likely just test maps for porting GSource to Source. Also, the crashes at start are 99% chance to be water. I beat the whole HL:S Beta, don't ask why... And blast pit's hole would crash my game no matter what, we've got hostiles part where you have 2 scientists and a sentry would crash the game if I touched the water. Also I had 49 crashes in total throughout the entire playthrough. :)

If there was a way to run this with something like SMod it would probably feel like a fever dream. ooga booga.

Good timing with this video, Rad! I'm pretty sure this was actually covered in the recent official Half Life 25th Anniversary documentary --I tried for the life of me to find the part where they mentioned it, and frankly the details are foggy so take what I say with a grain of salt.. I could have sworn this exact subject was brought up, either that or I'm confusing things!

I remember having played another version of this map but it's very short. It "ends" when you go down the elevator that you find after Barney opens you the door when you get the HEV suit. I didn't know there was a complete version of that.

Test? TEST? I THINK IS HALF LIFE BY MEMORY!

For some reason this was giving me the idea rhat they were making a rogue like mode

I'm gunna say it was a test of different mapping/scripting function porting. Maybe also a pitch to the rest of Valve, to try and get others on board with the idea of making a port.

This is interesting. I had never heard about it. Good video, as always.

Love you RadHaz, stay dark n gritty

What if somebody created this as a game showcase. For parents or grandparents who don't have time or are unable to play video games. Sure the experience is incomplete but it can give you the idea about Half life and how it might have played. I can imagine showing this to my brother who doesn't have time to play video games and have him play it/ complete it in just few minutes. Kinda like zoomer version of a video game.

2003 hl2 - freeman dream too

I think that the HL1 devtest is just a Freeman Dream xD

hl1 tests the developers and the test are test

first thing that came to mind is how some game demos do this where they splice a bunch of different levels together into one, picking highlights or set pieces from eachone, to give a broad idea of the whole game. I guess that's what they're doing here. I remember FEAR 2 did this approach with its demo.

Half-Half-Life

Rad Haz uploading videos every day? Christmas is early this year! I actually played this a few months ago because I saw Tyler's video about it. It is fun! It's the only reason I have HLS installed 😂

Quite enjoying your take on this.

bro went from dark n gritty to old and crappy (I mean half life source)

Maybe this was made for a trailer like inception a door leading some place filled with deja vu. ( I guess they thought goldsrc fans would've liked that? )

very mysterious 😬😬

The dev tests may have been used to test out texture mapping/updated physics in every part of the game without having to play it all the way through, while still getting to demo why everything looks like. Xen is absent because they could just spawn in those levels easily, maybe?

ooga booga Also yes this was ported to the modern version of Source by Tyler Mcvicker. The still recent Valve mega leak also included a lot of HL:S related stuff including the map sources for these devtest maps. So Tyler used these to fix up the maps and released them last January. Also mod video suggestion: 2 weeks ago a mod called "The Thing Remaster" came out. Its basically a remake/remaster of "The Thing" mod for made for the HL2 Beta. I played and its pretty cool. You should check it out.

Babe wake up, new radiation hazard video just dropped

ooga booga i think someone already ported those maps to the last version of Half-Life: Source, tyler mc biger or sm played a ported version those maps, the port was made just after the giga valve leak of 2023

radiation hazard intro goes so hard almost as hard as the valve intro itself

This feels like playing Half-Life in your dream

Me: "Mom, can we get Half-Life?" Mom: "We've got Half-Life at home!" **Half-Life at home**

i could jam out to that intro for 45 hours straight.

half life 1 if it was you recalling it in your head and a dream:

Half life 1 in a parallel universe

This just feels like Gordon developing dementia

Gordon freeman explaining what happened during the resonance cascade :

everyone gangster till the rad haz intro plays

Maybe it was a dev just messing around in his spare time, or maybe during lunch breaks. Also, ooga booga.

personally i speculate that this was asset test like in one of your suggestions seeing as it seems to be existing levels just cropped together to show off each unique part of of the game it just makes it seem to me like like it was created so that the devs could have a quick playthrough whenever they tweaked something to make sure lighting or textures didn't break or have issues

The rapid, condensed progression through HL1's campaign mixed with the visuals really reminded me of James Benson's Half-Life trailer: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/rdp5o5ubtNWcj6M.html also ooga booga

Just like a wiseman said when he was playing these maps : "Ooga booga"

Dark and gritty skybox

The ones I remembered even on beta leak.

I wish somebody would make a life in half, maybe even with a source included. Valve: ooga booga

ooga booga also, the gman theory sounds pretty nice

Hey Freeman, one of your scientists pals told me to give you a message: “Ooga booga”

good video bro

it could have been a set of the larger scale set pieces throughout the game to test how things port between goldsrc and source, and if anything breaks, its likely the maps contain every major piece of logic that would need to be tested (scripted sequences, ai goals, nodes, behaviors) this can help ensure those sequences still play out as they're supposed to, without replaying segments a bajillion times

Ooga booga, mister Hazard. Ooga booga

You are probably right about this being related to Half-Life: Source in some way. I mean it has to post-date Half-Life 2, otherwise it would make no sense to call it HL1 instead of just HL.

I wonder what if HL:S was like this

I'm definitely assuming it's an in-play test of all major game features

We need someone to speedrun this "speedruned" maps lol

I could see the condensed campaign being used as a tease before HL2, for casual players who don't want the full experience, but more of a guided tour.

the roof not falling in that one room was very uncanny and i didnt like it

ooga booga till the next stream

1:30 NO!

maybe it was supposed to be like recap of the first game that would happen in hl2

if hl1 then only devtest!! 🔥🔥

40 seconds in and ive got to pause it to make an educated guess: The original Goldsrc engine that Half-Life ran on was able to have such short loading times partly because the level load & transition system was based on the same system used for quick save & quick load. (Quick save & load were made before the menu hard saves, just like level loading screens the hard save code is also based on the quick save code.) I.e., the level load & transition system is basically just quick saving and loading extra quick, which is also what allows certain skips and glitches such as the elevator skip for office complex. Although Source was built upon Goldsrc, HL2 does not have the same level transition system as HL1. My personal theory is that the HL1DevTest is testing the fluidity of the level transitions; the 'linearity' of the game. Making sure the code works, that you spawn where/when/with what you should, that the new system doesn't load into the wrong level or crash completely, that it doesn't fuck up the saves or corrupt data, etc. etc.

By my guess, hl1devtest might be the demo of HL:Source, like Uplink was for the first Half-Life

Editor Rad needs a raise

Now if only someone can port back these devtest maps to Half-Life GoldSrc.

i think that this map is a test to see how the normal gameplay is.

When i first saw this some time ago on youtube i said to myself "What a cool mod". And now it turns out it's official ??!??!?!? Holy Moly

I know there was a port of these maps to the modern source engine, I used to have the files, though I’m pretty sure I deleted them.

My guess is the map was made for playtesting. A quick 20 minute run that covers various environments, weapons and enemies would be perfect for gathering player feedback. Seems odd that they would do this for an engine port of an already released game, but maybe they were just trying to nail the 'game feel' before release and this was a good way to test and make tweaks where needed.

I'd say it was likely for fine-tuning ported assets to get them to that "close enough" threshhold. What better place is there to test the faithfulness of game-feel than a vertical slice of noteworthy setpieces from the original game? Still, probably a bit overdesigned for test maps. Kinda reminds me of Black Mesa's short PAX demo loop map, even though they both served completely different purposes.

The way the map is structured, it feels like the playable equivalent of a trailer. A short thing that gives you an idea of what the whole thing is like, quickly cutting between bits and bobs to catch a wide sample.

would be cool to see a black mesa version of this

Hl1 Source Beta Minimalyst Mod

The devtest looks really dark and gritty Ooga booga

Haii! HL1DEVTEST was to make sure all assets and npcs worked

Can you upload like? “How dafaqboom is one the most hated hl2 animator all of time”

my ooga is thoroughly booga'd

Half-Life if it was realistic (Black Mesa didn't have enough budget to be that big)

Half-Life 1 is kind of long. Maybe Valve was experimenting with an abridged version.

Is there any ichtyosaur on those maps? I want to play this but i have a strong fear of those damn sharks

Ita obviously a way to test most if not all systems of the game eithout having to play through the whole game

when i ooga, the croud gotta booga!

No way on this planet is this a demo for gamers, I used to play the demos disks in the 90s for pc and it gives you a taste of the first maybe second level, this has to be testing maps.

Personally it feels like something they would use to record a trailer for. Though, you might be right about it was a demo. Or perhaps a play test? Also, Ooga Booga!!!

maybe playtest map for testers to test game and find bugs

I think it has to be proto. Maps for game development or how you said testing to put Goldsrc into source