Half Life 2 Beta: "Hazard"

Half Life 2 Beta: "Hazard"
A very ominous map from the leaked map pack.
Download The Beta here: hl2-beta.ru/index.php?PHPSESS...
Credits: bogman; Vatae Lord of Mars
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[@carlosfranklinsouthsidemurder]

I think personally that this was possibly meant to be some sort of example of what Stasis was actually like for Gordon, a constant loop of trying to escape a surreal and horrifying twisted version of reality

[@jackknifevideoworks]

oo maybe

[@vadiks20032]

looks like dreams i have at 3 PM. possibly just gordon having dreams during stasis

[@drkx2]

“Wait right where you are freeman.” Freeman: *moves*

[@neveragain7424]

His name is freeman and he's free to move around

[@dr.kolorca]

,,Cleverly done Mr.Freeman, but you are not *suposes* to be here..."

[@lonewolf6693]

As a matter of fact, you're not. Get back where you belong, and forget about all this, until we meet again.

[@DoDoAirplane]

@Sidni Snigniggles G-man is always struggling with speech even in the retail games. He stutters in random places and it seems like he always runs out of oxygen while speaking

[@noname323]

@lihzahrd easier for barney

[@AverageSynth]

g man's native language isn't English, he's not perfect at it

[@bikeman1431]

@@AverageSynth after all, hes probably not human at all, just trying to be one

[@chief6926]

Obviously we asked you to cover this because you use the mp5k in the map. :)

[@johnpot]

The Valve crew attempt at making scary vibe on Hazard Course

[@someguy1894]

I disagree but respect you’re opinion, for me trans6 is the most scariest sound ever

[@johnpot]

@@someguy1894 Ay man, I was just making a joke You know????

[@someguy1894]

@@johnpot said this one said it again my humor is downgrading

[@johnpot]

@@someguy1894 this one

[@msanimation2]

The idea of the tutorial stage going nightmarishly off the rails is honestly really cool and unique. Some horror game should take that idea and run with it. Also, I like the tricks you did with the pacing and presentation of this video! Fits the map quite well

[@RadiationHazardYT]

Thank you! I agree. Like, have a simple tutorial section but it starts to get weird subtly. That'd be awesome.

[@jackyutyrannus3662]

One of the tracks in the Half Life 2 soundtrack is called "You're Not Supposed To Be Here" so maybe that track was named after this or made for this level?

[@ceelt]

honestly thats one of my favorite tracks

[@ProphecyxOffic]

Really good videos man!

[@RadiationHazardYT]

Thank you! :)

[@venezuelaballloquendero2124]

Hey prophecyx

[@venezuelaballloquendero2124]

No sabia que te gustaba Half life lol

[@aomregcik]

At 6:06 one of those images actually looks like a different version of the Gman area in Hazard.. Pretty sure that red circle behind him is a recolored hazard eye!

[@Half-Bad-Goodman]

My brain see the bigbrain meme for the corner right down image, it's horrifing. All my personnal excuses for my bad English

[@theflyingcatz]

Sorta makes it seem like G-Man is making Gordon re-run the hazard course in his imagination over and over while he's in stasis.

[@planescaped]

I think that was the implication.

[@mr.illegal5268]

I like the surreal elements of the map. I wish there was more of that, I can't get enough of that stuff. Also great video, keep it up!

[@DonnyKirkMusic]

We gotta get Mark Laidlaw to do a horror game

[@mrjuan2597]

That was creepy af. But a good kind of creepy! Very well made video! Isn't this just like... old times?

[@dsg3012]

I'm just glad you didn't include a jumpscare or a screamer, and for that, THANK YOU. Most of your uploads are late at night for me in the uk, so I appreciate it alot that with these videos you didnt put one. Unlike 1 beta video which is one of if not the most popular beta video.

[@vanilla8956]

That videos jumpscares are so awful and dumb

[@adirblazkowics7717]

Who the hell puts jumpscares in a video covering a map from a game's beta?

[@vanilla8956]

@@adirblazkowics7717 were talking about just one specific idiot lol

[@Mister_Hyphen]

What video?

[@MaxwellE985]

people actually get scared by it lol

[@gaming-98]

to be honest, hazard 1 is one of the few beta things that would still work in half-life, you have things like the combine assassin, and the cremator. stuff like the cremator is to edgy, the combine assassin wouldn't work with the lore, bullsquides and houndeyes wouldn't fit the setting post 7 hour war. hazard 1 dose a good job at exploring a concept that is very under explored.

[@peppermillers8361]

Bullsquid and Houndeyes are implied to still be around, so I see no reason for people to be against discussing them. Wish they were in the game as is, probably in specific areas. Meh, Cremators just clean the streets, they're about as dark as everything else. With how dodgy HL2 lore is, The Combine Assassin could easily exist somewhere. We don't know.

[@planescaped]

@@peppermillers8361 Bullsquid and houndeyes should've shown up in the wilderness in Episode's 1 and 2 at least. Maybe even the coast.

[@peppermillers8361]

@@planescaped for sure, but Ep2 already had a bullsquid substitute in the form of an antlion.

[@casual_villain]

So it’s always been my headcanon that TF2’s Pyro is a Cremator that went rogue.

[@pulledpotter]

This map is really eerie for me.... I dont know why.

[@smugplush]

Felt like those short horror maps people would make in HL2

[@BradynNewcomer]

"Cleverly done, Mr. Radiation Hazard, but your not supposed to be here. As matter of fact, your not. Get back where you belong and forget about all this. Until we meet again."

[@HaliOnRepeat]

I loved how you played with the part at the end of the map where it sends you back to the start. Good stuff, man.

[@bluenoob4787]

A short, but impactful map.

[@matijajovic8125]

Missed your HL 2 beta videos! Awesome job as always!

[@RadiationHazardYT]

There'll be more Beta videos moving forward. I guess it's what I'm best at making and what most people enjoy watching :)

[@matijajovic8125]

@@RadiationHazardYT That is great to hear! :-)

[@Alexandroras]

I've always liked this map. Thank you for doing a review on it

[@wolfcl0ck]

Well done! I've never actually heard the voice lines clearly before. You learn something new every day, huh?

[@hexbugmuse]

This is great! I love the creepy direction ya went with for this video!

[@habibpines]

I somehow got my hands on this map, I played it, and it somehow creep me out more than ravenholm did.

[@CoolSs]

in way . i am glad we didn't get the training mod in half life 2 . in HL1 it make more sense when come to the lore . in HL2 the first chapter is the training mod . so no one will miss on any information on their first play through and it put you in the heat of the action .

[@RadiationHazardYT]

I agree. It wouldn't have made sense. But, a Hazard Course set in Black Mesa East would have been cool (I guess). Like, Kleiner and Eli guiding us through a very rough looking training course. But how HL2 teaches the player while in the starting chapters is pretty good too.

[@tacticalsocialist8060]

This is a really well made video, well done radhaz! Really enjoying them :D

[@RadiationHazardYT]

Thank you! :)

[@MauricioJara]

Great video as always. This is one of my favorite maps. The music choice was pretty good too! Although the editing in some parts was a lil rough around the edges, but apart from that, I enjoyed the video!

[@anueutsuho7425]

People seem to think of unused content as creepier than the final, regardless of whether it is or not. This is a perfectly justifiable example of it being horrifying.

[@zapagoogas]

due to some of the sprite files having the word ‘psychedelic’ in them, i believe this map is based loosely off of an lsd trip. other things that make me believe this are how in the map you hear strange voices and the walls start to move, aswell as the strange breaks in reality, all of which can be experienced under the effects of lsd.

[@user-iu4jl6cg4n]

What a video, a great birthday gift! Happy birthday , fully modelled Radhaz!

[@mountainpepsi9991]

Dude that thumbnail...nightmare version of G-Man :D

[@HydaGaeming]

hazard01 has always put chills down my spine

[@totallynoteverything1.]

idk, the way Gman is just standing there feels like those Gmod skits

[@HydaGaeming]

@@totallynoteverything1. it honestly does, but the level creates amazing ambience you dont usually see in many games, let alone a game that never was intended to be a horror game.

[@totallynoteverything1.]

@@HydaGaeming yeah, I think with some tweaks to the Gman part, it would be a pretty solid scene

[@regularone418]

Ah yes, the G-Man hallway

[@Gevs]

The subscribe plug coming out of no where in the middle of the video was really funny. Great video btw.

[@renadinger8376]

Epic, it has hl1 vibes and it is very spooky. Also nice video

[@usuarionaoincluido7733]

i renember that this hazard beta course creeped me out

[@asmrbarista]

you made a whole story out of this 😅 impressive Mr. Radhaz

[@joseherrera3370]

Would be cool if hazard was actually the intro for half life 2 I mean you start like is a hazard course , then things happening, after that you Fit it in with the dark interval intro in the borealis , that would be perfect

[@TheBoxyBear]

When it first looped I remembered I had left the video player in loop mode and got super confused when it was different.

[@loztwalker5068]

6:30 MitchEye :)

[@Lambdagon]

Another epic video by Radiation Hazard

[@eggowaffle4040]

butter is a perfect substitute for the American education system

[@casual_villain]

This was a very well made and informative video! I find stuff like this sooo interesting. This particularly I find very fascinating. Shame it didn’t make it into the game tho.

[@501stcloneboi2]

I really liked your Recreating HL2 beta series. Do you plan on doing something similar with HL1 Alpha mods like Shaft and Absolute Zero?

[@RadiationHazardYT]

That's actually a very good idea. I'll see if I can do something like that in the near future. Thank you :)

[@501stcloneboi2]

NP. BTW i gave you a subscribe

[@RadiationHazardYT]

@@501stcloneboi2 Ayyy thank you!!

[@dabogabo]

Interesting concept for a story, however. I guess it was kinda complicated to implement it at that time. And maybe they thought it wouldn't be wise to copy Matrix so much ?

[@RadiationHazardYT]

It would have drastically changed the overall tone of the game (seeing that this sequence might have played at the start). And I think they dropped it just because Laidlaw didn't like it at the end (?). Not sure why exactly he didn't use it. Even Gabe liked this map.

[@dabogabo]

@@RadiationHazardYT Yeah, they could've kept it as just a training course, not being tied to the story and add more obstacles. The special effects is a nice addition in order to show the player what the new engine is capable of. But, I guess, more games were made more realistically by early 2000s and keeping the continuity was also part of that.

[@tf2exordium]

RadHaz_ is pog

[@ElmeriThePig]

This video is just as weird as the map itself. But I like this!

[@lonewolf6693]

Marc Laidlaw also make map "ickypop" (another strange "leak" map)

[@RadiationHazardYT]

Haha yeah. I was gonna include that in this video. But that map was just silly, instead of the cryptic feel I was going for in this video.

[@Loch_Ness_Lachster]

Love how the video is incorporated into the map review.

[@fbiunit6977]

hazard sounds more like a common mod name

[@crowdarnoldsen2933]

Rads voice sounds deeper

[@CoolSs]

this map maybe Marc Laidlaw trying the new fancy source engine and seeing how to tell environmental story . it got horror feeling to it . or he just checking the engine .

[@pumpkinspice5848]

your videos are too cool i think you are a wizard or something man

[@endedech7746]

nice vid rad! sadly i got late

[@naczelnybaran]

I think that "e3_end" sequence was what Marc thought of hazard01 ending.

[@Matthew-di4lv]

my favorite beta map

[@Interloper314]

keep up the good work

[@dsg3012]

Didnt get notifications of it. Huh... anyway, good video. I honestly enjoyed it

[@mike7DILFLUVR]

I think it may have been some sort of testing for triggers

[@benrichardson5798]

As far as I know, it was created in order to see if surreal elements could be implemented in Half-Life 2 and the new engine (at the time). Gabe liked the map so much that he wanted to make something similar for the HL2 presentation at E3 2003. And so, Psyche was born.

[@ElephantsDoingCrack]

Amazing Video!!!!

[@chalkymalky]

havent watched it yet but i know its gonna be a banger

[@dalek4463]

*Radiation hazard eye*

[@_cfmca]

I haven’t seen the video yet. But I know that it is going to be good! Have you heard of the minimalist mod. It is one of the funniest things i’ve seen and i’d love to see a video on it.

[@RadiationHazardYT]

haha yes. I played it on livestream last week. I don't usually do videos about mods, but I'll think of something for the Minimalist mod.

[@ihatehalflife1234]

i have a feeling that i have played Half-Life 2 Beta before, but i don't remember when.

[@RaptorMocha]

i came across this map while exploring the beta myself without having ANY prior knowledge on it and it scared the shit out of me

[@kiokkiok4590]

yooooo i love this map

[@PinkyToeWasTaken]

Hey rad idk if anyone else has discovered this or I'm the first probably not but when I replaying hl2 I was on the chapter "Water Hazard" when the screen with breen glitching out you can see gman if u can pause it fast enough it's the same image as the one in the thumbnail it creeped me out thinking about that they kept that in like a shiver but please do check maybe make a video about it remember it's the screen with breen glitching out in the water hazard chapter

[@mrcreeperps4114]

Yay new video!

[@blehh_mae]

honestly i kinda wish they made some sorta noncanon game where its like, a half life themed horror game like this with the main story being that gordon has some sorta brain problem or whatever that one fast moving image in the maps ending implies

[@ReaverSenpai]

your video is the only video i noticed the old smg, is that because you downloaded a mod for it?

[@Brutusoogabooga]

OMG GMAN BEING TALLER THAN ME IS SO SCARY

[@satrethuel_productions]

I really wish Half Life included more surrealist stuff, stuff like the beta clock, distorted trumpets, and this.

[@graciouslump9695]

that image of gman is really unsettling

[@cuanta9441]

i need you to talk about the episode 4 of half life 2 its very interesting

[@RadiationHazardYT]

Will do

[@bushman7733]

really scary maps

[@yougnomed630]

well well, isn`t this just like old times...

[@armitx9]

this video made me feel like i was in a coma

[@wmm771]

This map is quite interesting to be honest, are there any mire maps like this?

[@RadiationHazardYT]

Honestly - I would love to find more maps like these, but I haven't seen any in the Beta map packs.

[@wmm771]

@@RadiationHazardYT sucks that it doesnt have more maps, beta hl2 seems genuinely interesting

[@lascha2nd199]

Man I'm hungry, need to eat.

[@BONNIEE1983]

The beta is a horror game and i love it

[@FWCdestiny]

Harzard eye is beta alyxs eye texture.

[@ndpts1krr701]

Danggg bro Your vids are very quality But i don't get it why is the subs is too small

[@M3rk420]

You should make a video on Half Life: Escape, I want to know about it

[@RadiationHazardYT]

Escape? Can you share a link to it? I searched for it and multiple things came up (a mod, a movie).

[@M3rk420]

@@RadiationHazardYT its a youtube video thing, apparently it was a fan animation with pretty nice graphics, I thought it was gonna be a mod though

[@RadiationHazardYT]

@@M3rk420 Ah ok gotcha.

[@GoldKnightProduction]

"Cleverly done" actually does get used in some official capacity; kzbin.info/www/bejne/i3KufZybpa93qK8

[@snipergaming3211]

Hey uh could you do a video of cry of fear like essentially a summary of it?

[@RadiationHazardYT]

I don't usually cover mods. But who knows, I might just cover CoF's story in a video.

[@snipergaming3211]

Uh you better because uh "Flicks back through your videos" totally you didn't cover half life 2 beta mods!

[@RadiationHazardYT]

@@snipergaming3211 Lol I know I did cover a few. But that's not my main focus for the mean time lol. I usually just stream mods.

[@butterdogestarwars6709]

2:36 I think that’s supposed to be Eli

[@gae_wead_dad_6914]

Does anyone know what the text behind Gman says?

[@c1zzyy]

pog

[@viannizvnv7222]

cool vid

[@ninetailedfox8022]

beta plot twist: kleiner works for G-man

[@silvershadegames1353]

Beta!

[@satukatvala3960]

Ooh

[@angrymailman5667]

Look at Half Life 2 Episode 4

[@coastalcolt]

radiation HAZARD

[@dj6208]

Did you get a new mic ?

[@RadiationHazardYT]

Not yet

[@dj6208]

If just sounds better audio wise

[@RadiationHazardYT]

@@dj6208 Hmm. That's odd. I used the same mic and Audacity. It might be because I was way close to the mic, because I was talking really quietly IRL.

[@mirmir8116]

good.

[@petar.milenkovic]

I have already subscribed! Noob. Also this map is not my favourite.

[@petar.milenkovic]

No harassment tho. Still like your content.

[@tehcooler]

haha yes, new video

[@andresbravo2003]

Why is my Room so dark??

[@user-gc3kv6rc1f]

Please i need name this music in 5:17

[@erinender6524]

Found it kzbin.info/www/bejne/f6nSiqKfjKyLqdE