d3_park and d3_canals maps from 2003 Streetwars chapter

[Xinus22]

i'm talking about d3_park_01 and d3_canals_01-02. the final game completely ommits these last maps and instead goes straight to the citadel. i guess that initially valve planned the game to be a bit longer but decided to cut these maps due do time constraints? the names give some hints to what they are supposed to represent but because these maps are in such premilinary state it's really hard to tell what the mappers were going for with them. was anything ever mentioned about them?
i wonder if they were continued to be worked on after the leak or were cut really early in development.

[Shift]

In my opinion, there were, for one thing, not meant to be the end of Streetwars (and you "riding under the citadel" is just an awkward skycamera position, before anyone mentions that), and in Retail d3_canals were replaced by revisiting sewers/Under right before Folow Freeman, since both serve as a reminder of "hey, remember how you went through places like this in first third of the game".

Another mystery would be the buggy, was that just a placeholder vehicle to travel through the huge ugly greybox, or was there an idea to have another vehicle section, especially with how Combine steal buggy in Retail and it's never brought up again

[venomouscarnage]

So, you get to this map and its completely unfinished and it's hard to find the way to progress.
You are so close to the citadel but there is a massive gap.

Please help.

Thanks (:

(This Is The Map. But It's Only A Showcase)

[Витой]

So, you get to this map and its completely unfinished and it's hard to find the way to progress.
You are so close to the citadel but there is a massive gap.

Merged this thread with the already existing one.

[venomouscarnage]

ah. sorry I didn't know this was already a topic lol