I am the first person to have seen this

Frequency?

Could you tell us about that piece of equipment? Is it retired military?

one time i caught someone playing the mortal kombat commercial song over it

Woah

Prime example of "Fine, guess I'll have to do it myself then"

Promo-SM

by the way, link to discord you have in your info is now expired.

I guess they saved the elite guards for release lmao

But there's a few other sounds in that folder, why won't you show these?

This would be cool if the suit zoom did that, imagine if you could detect combine soldiers in Highway 17 chapter from far away.

i was actually thinking of sampling this in a track sometime lollll. I've been doing some stuff inspired a bit from old cold war stuff (but done in a funny tongue-in-cheek way). The yodeling is just great.

he's back 🙏

This is so cool. And it fits with the theme of the combine totally halfassing their occupation. They'll just repurpose disused cold war radio stations instead of fancy alien tech. They don't give a fuck.

Now we need to find the origin of the banjo test music.

Cool idea on paper but gameplay wise this would be annoying as hell

The only one that still actually sounds somewhat convincing is the first one. Obviously, for the fact it's in the files of the game.

Hello.I cannot register into the Half Life beta forum so I write to you in this. i hope this message finds you. Can you tell me where did you guys got the 2001 and 2002 map files? I downloaded the 2003 leak of Half Life 2 and the MEGA pack that is available at the forum. I began searching in the 2003 files to see if anything seems like 2002 old material but no. So to me it seems those maps are fancreated or pulled from a different source.Could you elaborate a bit? Many thanks.

hello! i have two questions 1. what is that font that you use? 2. what editing software do you use?

Cleverly done, mr Freeman, but *you're not supposed to be here* . as a matter of fact, you're not.

where can i get ahold of ghost01a file?

this place looks pretty familiar

09:48 Docks was used in the E3 2002 Trailer dude!

BTW Docks by Chris jensen actually made in the E3 Trailer of HL2! its not fake now

This is really well done, thanks!

I can't believe anyone fell for the "airex start" which just immediately sounds like an egyptian-ass build game

wait so whenever i joked about the newer valve intros by calling it 'mr valve' i was actually talking about the guy here?

this is fascinating

I never heard of the fake soundtrack but knew it was a thing, getting to hear the full thing I'm baffled people believed this was legit because none of these tracks mesh together at all in any sensical way. Credit where credit is due though: Airex Reactor was pretty creepy and even though the splices are clear as day, still has a creepiness to it.

OPFOR 2022 :)

Man...we all bought it too back then. We just thought the really weird tracks were placeholders put in by Valve in the event of a hacking. Still; beta was intense with that Orwellian feeling. It'd be nice to see it completely rebuilt; like people have been slowly doing on GMod and other mods for years.

I'm here from the HL2 Beta Minimalist mod which includes this whole sountrack, but probably leaves some unused (lol)

oh i can tell unkown orgin is re

The creator of the fake soundtrack's original channel, for anyone interested: kzbin.info

"Anti Citizen Approved" time to go postal on the Combine.

My favourite discovery for the HL2 leak is that when i downloaded it and went into the soundtrack i found a file called "assandtitties.mp3" or something like that.

I feel so dissapointed right now :( I cried!

Animusic, I miss that. Wayne would love Half life, most of the music in that game reminds me of his work on the Animusic series.

I was that guy who sent these fake songs to Griggs, and still own tha Garrus Vakarian account. Something that caught me offguard for years afterwards, even when I was linking to direct sources and URLs for the actual songs on sites like OCRemix, is how so many valve / beta fans ferociously defended these as authentic or flat out refused to believe that Viktor Antonov somehow didn't create an orchestral composition that appeared in a game many years prior to HL2s development. It takes a special kind of loyalty to a franchise to do that (and perhaps just a touch of musical naivety.) but valve has some pretty dedicated fans to say the least! Some even believed that valve had just simply used community-made songs in their game, as though it were a totally normal thing for them. Biggest regret was including Dj Dains insane remix "That Long Train Ride" which went under the moniker "Path of Borealis", but on the other hand, it seems that it being part of the alpha soundtrack propelled it to fame in the beta community so it kind of 'got out there' more? Also it brought a lot of other songs from random old games and creators (Nathan Wang - Return to Zork, Steve Henefin - Exhumed/Powerslave etc) to a new generation.

Route to C17 is definitely my favorite.

Train_Station_Loop in strider fight in citadel

sooo based

It's funny too because outside of Airex Reactor there are like a dozen different tracks that were cut from the retail game still in the game files that would have actually been enough to make a "beta soundtrack" for beta based mods yet this dumb shit is played instead. For the most part soundtracks are usually one of the last things composed in the development of video games and cinema (shows and movies) so it's unlikely that the OST for HL2 even started development until about late 2002 since outside of some test scenarios and a small handful of scenes there's no music in any of the leaked maps from 2001-early 2003. Maybe some ambient sounds in the environment playing, but hardly anything that could be called music. Just complete silence usually.