2003-2004 Community Archive/Mappack

[The Real Soldier]

2003-2004 Community Archive/Mappack

Compiled By: The Real Soldier (Soldier)

Description

The 2003-2004 Community Archive/Mappack adds/fixes missing content and media from the 2004 Mappack and much more.

If you still have community content made for Half-Life 2 Beta or Counter-Strike: Source Alpha that's not in the archive, let us know here.

Background

For the past few years, I've done a ton of preservation and research on community content members would share exclusively on the HL2World forums.

One community (HL2World) long ago focused mainly on Half-Life 2 Beta, while another (CS2World) improved the leaked Counter-Strike: Source Alpha.

Former members (DemonStrate, DKBreen, IntriguingTiles, Jasper Carmack, omega552003, OnboardError, Qwiggalo & TAz00) were kind enough to give us their collection containing some CS2/HL2World content.

A couple (A-Shift, Витой, fps, VXP), including me, also went on the Internet Archive to download crawls from archived Half-Life 2 sites hosting beta content.

Unfortunately, many maps, materials, models, sounds, and much more have yet to resurface the light of day; currently, 19 years.

It would be amazing to see lost stuff former members put hard work into and experimented with before the final product came out.

Contributors

A-Shift (Shift)
Витой
DemonStrate (DemonStrate86)
DKBreen
fps (idsniper)
Jasper Carmack
omega552003 (Ω)
OnboardError (Sentinel)
Qwiggalo (Qwigs)
TAz00 (Cluster Fork Ops)
Soldier (The Real Soldier)
VXP
Zalen

Download Link

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vfQukKfp2Nzl_l4hNe2YGctYc72TWnK4/view?usp=share_link

(Last Updated: August 5th, 2024)

Video Demostrations

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNhZJACsuqsBpQ7DI1qp7iVzDkx6zlATt

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLentYbo8W4mt6OtrSQMcl5kqldXuzlgKO&si=JtkpXEE1cQo9bJv5

Missing Content From Maps

(Not In Archive)

Код: [Выделить]

CMP_Taz_Scrapyard/taz_scrapyard_plot: (Mapper doesn't have them)
sound/hl2world_community_map/taz/blast4.wav ("...hl expansions...")
sound/hl2world_community_map/taz/The_One.wav ("...Matrix related...")

CMP_Unsane_HellHouse/unsane_hl2wplot_a:
materials/models/hl2_community_map/unsane/column.vtf
materials/models/hl2_community_map/unsane/column.vmt
materials/models/hl2_community_map/unsane/wood030.vtf
materials/models/hl2_community_map/unsane/wood030.vmt

convo2:
scenes/e1_intro/intro_01.vcd

groundspeed:
sound/credence/turbineloop.wav
sound/credence/turbinestart.wav

K_CellShading:
materials/k_quickstop/white_bright.vtf
materials/k_quickstop/white_bright.vmt

re2/tvtest
materials/alteshaus/30_2.vtf
materials/alteshaus/30_2.vmt

[FleshbangXD]

Good to see patches released for these maps. Gonna play these again and experience these maps in a more authentic experience 

[VXP]

Michael Yanni

Also known in speedrun community as DemonStrate)

I've looked up into the full archives he gave me, and no, unfortunately, I haven't found any of the mentioned missing resources

[Citizen.mdl]

This looks great!

[The Real Soldier]

REDACTED

[FleshbangXD]

Nice job man nice to see more of these fanmade maps

[Bruner]

Fantastic work!

[AymericTheNightmare]

Great news!

[Витой]

The Real Soldier just released a new video and he mentioned in the description that former HL2World member omega552003 has provided him even more content that was missing on these maps (plus some additional fan-made maps from 2003-2004)
He also posted a new link for this updated mappack.

[The Real Soldier]

All Counter-Strike: Source Alpha community content I've managed to recover so far has been added to the 2003-2004 Community Mappack.
Note: Some maps only work on the original leaked cstrike if using the custom build.

[The Real Soldier]

Special thanks to two more former HL2World members (Qwigs & OnboardError) who have recently contributed to the project with 21 lost maps plus the VMFs for them! What's included in this new release are original unmodified versions of the CMP (Community Mappack Contest) maps plus an unused introduction room to teleport to the maps, developmental versions of Apartment Chaos, Streets of Resident Evil, and much more!

[FILipKOS1337]

no f*cking way

[The Real Soldier]

OBSOLETE

Former Lead Programmer for Missing Information and Obsidian Conflict (Hyperjag) recently found me and was very kind to share some early TeamGabeN HL2/TF2 work, artwork, documents, programs, and rare Half-Life 2 Beta Source Code Leak era media; all are from 2003-2006. I decided to expand two years more as it wasn't until 2007 when Valve fans started to revisit a forgotten piece of leak history.

[Витой]

I remember Hyperjag from Love Tub forums, it's really cool he still had beta content and shared it with you! Still, what exactly did he give you? I only saw arctic_01 map and Team Gaben's TF2 video.

[The Real Soldier]

OBSOLETE

I remember Hyperjag from Love Tub forums, it's really cool he still had beta content and shared it with you! Still, what exactly did he give you? I only saw arctic_01 map and Team Gaben's TF2 video.

Hyperjag gave me: some old fanart, The Domino Effect video from HL2World Innovation Contest around 2005, TeamGabeN's Team Fortress 2 Invasion MP Test in high quality, a few old community tools used for Half-Life 2 beta around 2004, an aged document describing almost every single map from the WC Mappack, and most importantly, some chat logs and screenshots around the time when the Half-Life 2 source code got leaked before the game content. One more important thing to mention he hasn't given to me yet is an archive of TeamGabeN's Team Fortress 2 Invasion work from 2006.