Half-life 2 Alpha?

[archonveins]

Since there's hl2 beta but I was wondering if there an even earlier build of hl2 available like pre-alpha or just alpha.
I was wondering what hl2 looked like before beta even where it probably barely even looked like hl2 and more like hl1 hyper era but had newer elements.

[DanielWindows]

Half-Life 2 Alpha is probably was in Pre-pitch era - SIGGRAPH 2000, when Source Engine was just a modified GoldSrc. But pretty much people call "beta" everything that is unused or cut.


P.S You should move this to English part of forum.

[VALVe_installer]

Since there's hl2 beta but I was wondering if there an even earlier build of hl2 available like pre-alpha or just alpha.
I was wondering what hl2 looked like before beta even where it probably barely even looked like hl2 and more like hl1 hyper era but had newer elements.

Well, the developers said that the 2003 leak was not beta, and could not even be alpha. The fans called him Betai later.

[archonveins]

@23:23

This looks like something close to the alpha I'm referring to, when there wasn't even citadel

[C_5]

HL2 didn't had a normal cycle of development, since a lot of parts of the project were developed at the same time - engine, locations, gameplay. In fact, it seems it was quite chaotic, to the point where significant parts of gameplay were changed when programmers added new features to the engine.

Thus, figuring what is Alpha and what is Beta is nigh impossible. Don't forget that majority of ideas from early days of development were trashed or significantly changed, so we are talking less about Beta, but more about "early development".

Arguably the closest thing to a traditional Beta are maps that were in the Leak: unfinished versions of maps from a final game. Everything else - are assorted concepts.

If anything HL2 Alpha would be fabled Hyperborea maps from 1999, when the game just entered actual development.

Кстати, раздел не тот.

[archonveins]

P.S You should move this to English part of forum.

... just realised this, i accidentally switched pref language and didnt know it actually was a separate forum instead of just translated

[Витой]

What we call Half-Life 2 Beta is not really a "beta". It's not even "alpha". It's just an early WIP dev build from September 2003.
If I'm not mistaken it's said in RtB that they gathered alpha build in May 2004. So anything that predates it is just a dev build, nothing more.

[shartblast22]

@23:23

This looks like something close to the alpha I'm referring to, when there wasn't even citadel

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