what ever happened to the original beta hl2

[clayton0127]

i remember reading on the wiki that there was 2 versions, one of them was the anon, and the other was the original firsthand version. what happened to it, or is it the same thing?

[Dredilefan4489]

i remember reading on the wiki that there was 2 versions, one of them was the anon, and the other was the original firsthand version. what happened to it, or is it the same thing?

  i thought anon was the original.  but theres anon and the russian leak, which is broken or something

[Avro_]

no,there is just one beta (gembe's leak) there was no other leak, or release from valve prior to 2004,just fake leaks (like the russian leak which it's just a bootleg of the anon leak it had nothing more than some fake maps like e3_gurluas and some fixes to the maps).

[The Renegadist]

I'm pretty sure the original copy became a Jeff Dunham puppet.

[rottenalp]

no,there is just one beta (gembe's leak) there was no other leak, or release from valve prior to 2004,just fake leaks (like the russian leak which it's just a bootleg of the anon leak it had nothing more than some fake maps like e3_gurluas and some fixes to the maps).

Oh so THAT'S where e3_gurluas comes from... I've always heard it was a fake beta map, but I never knew where it was originally from. Thanks for that!

[Frying1Pans]

no,there is just one beta (gembe's leak) there was no other leak, or release from valve prior to 2004,just fake leaks (like the russian leak which it's just a bootleg of the anon leak it had nothing more than some fake maps like e3_gurluas and some fixes to the maps).

Oh so THAT'S where e3_gurluas comes from... I've always heard it was a fake beta map, but I never knew where it was originally from. Thanks for that!

e3_gurluas was made for part of a beta mapping competition from July 2004 where a prefab of a street was given out. The map was originally named CMP_Gurluas_2000_Road before some Russian renamed it to "e3_gurluas"