Half-Life 2 Beta - E3 2003 Maps

Tbh, I didn't really like the wasteland section, not in beta and not in retail. I'd actually prefer the re-imagining of the wasteland from the Raising the Bar community.

I believe e3_techdemo_3 is showcasing how a human NPC can 'panic' and run away from enemies, and use objects as cover while doing so. They just wanted to show how it appeared more advanced than when NPC's just ran from A to B in the first game. :)

Unrelated to the topic but I sing Dark n gritty like the fnaf song 💀

I've only, a few days ago, gotten half life 2. I've been subscribed to you for 2 years and watched many half-life videos, so I know what's going to happen
Why did I do that

i can't see you do anything relating to the hl2 beta without thinking of the NPC's are dead incident
it genuinely haunts me

How many times was E3 cancelled already?

I wonder what a 2003 citadel would look like on the inside?

I felt heartbroken when they announced e3 was cancelled, i always dreamed of traveling to America with my friends and go to the E3 after decades of waiting, but looks like it will never happen…

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they showed under02 in E3 to show the manhacks and how they can affect the world, it is right before the hydra sequence

As much as I love poking around the beta maps I've never noticed tech_demo_4 and it's HL1` throwback, that's really cool. Tech Demo 2 was the original poolrooms, wasn't it?

The E3 was not like the hl2 beta, It was not, Dark and Gritty.

It will be missed.

One day im gonna make that E3 2003 Metrocop and ill add so many reflective surfaces just to be extra flashy!

this video cant run on my 486

In e3 tech demo 4 why do it feel like kliner lab that made in gold src look familiar like that ad thing from interloper mystery

The one time us gamers socialized is now gone lmao

It was always weird that they cut some of the higher definition models. I get saving resources, but things like the cars are so sparingly used in most maps, it seems odd to give them less detail.

the e3 era was my favorite beta era, its so similar yet different and its way more finished than erlier versions

the map "e3_techdemo_3" is actually a modified copy of the map "testroom_standards" which is a reference map for object sizes

you can play on it through Leaknet selecting HL2 2003

source games rarely make me feel immersed anymore (maybe because im dealing with source stuff so often) but the seafloor is so cool

Just another sign of the times. COVID really wrecked everything. Now game companies don't even want to spend money on showcasing their games, and new games are made hastily and are unfinished, but they still want you to pay full price.

Antlion testicle 😂

"Wersion".

It is sad seeing E3 is never happening anymore. I never had a chance to visit one.😢

e3_techdemo_5 was used for a leaked VALVe video called Stress Test.avi

A very dark and griddy video.

e3_under_02 was definitely shown. It's the one that ends with the hydra monster.

I was 11 when those 2003 E3 demos came out. It was like nothing else any one had seen before.

RiP E3

Now for someone to demake the E3 2002 & 2003 maps in GoldSrc.

It's so infuriating that you can't just... Continue playing from the maps. I would love to see how these alternative versions of half life would play out

The game itself looked insane in 2003,but lets not forget about free tvs,for 2000 That was insane,but 2001 is still my beloved

The G-Man is speaking one of his Japanese Half Life 1 lines in the first G-Man test video.

These maps are the Beta maps I would like to be in the release, they're not the cliche "dark-n-gritty" the community is seemingly addicted to like drugs but are still different enough from retail to be interesting

The retail map design is good,but i really wish this old 2003 maps were finished and implemented into the retail game

Seeing that hydra clip always made excited but I can understand why they aren't in the final game sadly

"Well, well... isn't this just like old times?" That has to be one of my all-time favourite G-man lines. If Valve ever makes Half-Life 3 I hope the first trailer will end with this sentence.

Wake up babe, another RadHaz HL2 Beta vid dropped:

So those last few map sequences, the one that starts in the retail factory, and then ends with Alex and the Hydra... Those were uploaded in Bink video format as demo trailers. I remember them very fondly, and I remember watching them over and over again, showing them off at school and what not.

I think they were released staggered over the time span between the E3 demo and the retail release... The initial batch had The Hydra, Trap town, The Ravenholm docks, And eventually we got the prison and the antlions, The crane, and the apartment sequence, which was the standout for me as I was reading 1984 at the time.

Thinking back on it, the fact that they were in bink video format is kind of ridiculous.. I know there were a lot of trailers released in QT formats, anything with the film industry doesn't exist outside of something apple can provide, certainly back then LOL... But LOL.. Bink would have probably been my last choice given the state of the internet back then.

I do miss the good old days, When the idea of streaming was just kind of a bonus that you could watch it while you were downloading it.. and then Burn it to A CDRW, Or if you were a Baller, Your USB flash drive that Had even more than a whole CD in it.. We still used floppies pretty Commonly for Documents, But those USB flash drives, never as useful as they should be retrospectively looking back, But Definitely a game changer from the floppies, I think we were just used to waiting for the CD to burn for most things anyways so, maybe it was a little less impressive than it should have been LOL. Also I think reading from them was actually slower than a CD, certainly slower than a dvd at the time LOL...

Yes I was the guy with that CD case full of the movies With the tryhard sharpie labels of all the movies that got passed around. No I didn't have great internet, but With my parents it was gonna be able to talk about anything with anybody at school LOL so... side bonus, Ended up being the off market librarian, With a stupid amount of patience for download speedsThat only upgraded from A56K To 512DSL And that seemed spectacular LOL... It would only take 12 hours!


Once again apologies for the ramblings, and spelling and extreme Capitalization inconsistencies, I don't understand how Samsung has made their keyboard so much worse over the last few years, Both the voice typing and the Initial keyboard... But if it's trained off of that it's running through and collecting as is the way… that really worries me about the state of the English language in That it could get so bad In such a short time since the last time I used It.

I thought Google was bad LOL.. I still think it is common just because the standards are so much lower elsewhere now… that's no excuse LOL but my God... Why can't I just have that Microsoft trained model voice typing program LOL it worked it worked just fine it was wonderful even, even it was offline go figure..

Rip E3

The e3 techdemo5 looks like the hardware test from Counter Strike: Source