HALF-LIFE 2: BUILD 2046 BETA EDITION

In this video, I will be bullying an obscure Beta Recreation mod for 56 minutes. Build2046 used Cinematic Mod as a base, while aiming to recreate da beyta (dark and girdy!)
Unfortunately, the results were underwhelming; with most of the maps being very poorly made or updated compared to the other beta mods of the time.
www.moddb.com/mods/build-2046
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Intro Music:
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Intro by Skyclad
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[@kkarhiiv95]

The guy behind this mod isnt german, he is obsessed with the German language. I think the mod is named build 2046, because of the STALKER builds.

[@ruvlad]

Vladimir Pashkin was born in Russia, but later (in his early school years) moved to Germany with his parents, who are partly German. Yes, your theory about naming (based on STALKER) is fully correct

[@gordonfreeman8109]

>Russian guy obsessed with German shit Holy shit Gutrum Vagner real??

[@Yuyam12]

This mod has a big Stalker soup vibe, it's basically Solyanka for hl2

[@kkarhiiv95]

@@Yuyam12 Yeah, the modding in this mod is very simular to Stalker modding, because in the Stalker community it is not seen as a bad thing to take things from other mod makers and put them in your mod, but there has to be credit in the readme. Even the implematation of the assets is like many Stalker mods, obviusly come from other things.

[@Bozothcow]

Well, it would explain why he keeps misspelling Ziel, if that's true.

[@ticklemedaddy]

Holy (cut) child labour (plotline) Barney!

[@diamondhamster4320]

Well, at least it is a not as dark and gritty as child s3xual explotation...

[@LeGabrielMan]

The children yearn for the factories

[@StitchPen]

What I love about this mod is that it leaves a bunch of early geometry untouched in areas it REALLY shouldn't. The Caves and Wasteland Cliffs are remnants of GoldSrc brush terrain, and the devs went ahead and slapped Minecraft 4k-HD Texture Pack images over it all.

[@nononoohfuck]

Homemade

[@sasha-fe2bl]

The G in G-Man stands for German

[@unoriginalperson72]

Germanman

[@reptiliannoizezz.413]

Ger-Man

[@joltz..2042]

So G-Man would me Ger

[@PellaeonEU]

As a German, I have to say that this mod does not reached our quality standards

[@JohnDoe-in2gk]

deutsche qualität

[@NOSWFT]

As a French, I have to say this mod is over our quality standards!

[@tymon7054]

I would like to remind you that you also made Gothic

[@trollingisgoodforyourhealth]

Our quality standard is 1. Be able to move the camera 2. 1 polygon models

[@SashaTheDog]

German quality Standart has been going down forever.

[@theenceladuschannelcool5777]

The crane model is like a running gag

[@unoriginalperson72]

Crane is the Stan Lee of Half-life 2

[@GermanPeter]

5:37 Oh my god, that's the actual German dub for HL2, with the intern Overwatch voice.

[@the_not_real_bigboss]

It's the guy!

[@rebel6301]

hell yeah, germanpeter jumpscare

[@cac_deadlyrang]

HL2 Beta fans when the sky is green (the NWS has issued a tornado emergency for the county)

[@ThatRabbitDude]

god i still have ptsd from that sound

[@sanctumscream372]

I live in tornado alley in the US. Whenever a tornado warning goes off, I run outside with a gas mask on and a nerf gun so I can live out my HL2 Beta larp.

[@theenceladuschannelcool5777]

The beta mods lived in peace, before the build 2046 nation attacked

[@EugenijusKrenis]

I liked the part where Patrick the Star warns the public cremators have gone "apeshit"

[@AShift-io1ng]

It's stolen from Insolence, where it was used on a joke map where orange cremators fought green cremators, and author must've found it in mod files, didn't understand any of what it says and thought it's good enough.

[@dmas7749]

fucking apeshit at that

[@mrscruffles801]

@@AShift-io1ng I thought for sure that was just Rad_had doing a bad impression and editing it in?

[@herobrine7617]

Bro I was hoping someone would say it was Patrick

[@DigitalLewisite]

I swear to god build 2046 is just Dr. Frankenstein creating his monster just to pull its pants down and aggressively fuck it.............

[@lionocyborg6030]

Best description of the mod ever.

[@deepsnow4994]

It's clear that the main issue that plagued Build 2046 and DSN was lack of direction. The creator of the mod knew how to make somewhat decent looking maps visually, but he didn't know how to optimize them and how to make proper scripted sequences and level transitions. You might be interested in looking at other projects that the creator of Build 2046 has worked on after Der Schwarze Nebel was abandoned due to lack of interest from the new team, mainly due how disjointed and disorganized development was. First one was "Cinematic Mod: Awakening" - a spiritual successor of Cinematic Mod: 2013, but more unhinged. The guy wanted to add semi-openworld hub locations with side quests; day/night cycle; expanded locations in original levels and stuff like that. Funnily enough, it was greenlit by FakeFactory himself apparently (when creator of Build 2046 reached out to him via e-mail for permission to make his own version). As expected it was abandoned because the project was too ambitious for just one guy to handle. The second project was a short-lived dumpster-fire called "Opposing Force 2: Lost". And oh boy, what a hot mess that was. Imagine someone taking the original Opposing Force 2 Demo and slap Build 2046 on top of it. Because it used Cinematic Mod as a base, all custom weapons and enemies were removed too, leaving you with reskinned Cinematic Mod with Opposing Force 2 maps with no gameplay.

[@ENKTDeeColon_and_randomnumbers]

Crack Down The Freakman: Cinematic Prospekt Edition

[@ballcap89]

so this is what cinematic character models were meant for fully modeled beta!

[@JHenryEden]

"Der rechte Mann am falschen Ort kann in der Welt viel bewegen-" GET AWAY FROM ME!

[@mr_casualuser]

tic-tac teeth man

[@daisukideshou]

@JHenryEden there's a v and w in german? are they pronounced the same?

[@velvetfurrygoober]

@@daisukideshou v is read as f (usually), w is v

[@JHenryEden]

@@daisukideshou v is a sharp F w weak F. Try to look up the following pronounciations: Vogel (Bird) Woge (Surge) Fuge (Edge/Corner - usually of a small geometric object) All of these are pronounced different.

[@ElmeriThePig]

"this door is locked so people in prison can't break out." Wow, phenomenal storytelling, it's even in a text format.

[@mr.pumpkin8891]

german tictac man doesnt exist he cant hurt u german tictac man: 6:26

[@space7629]

He look like richtofen in blackops 3 lmao

[@Plxiity7275]

​@@space7629The last gen version?

[@StarDustTF2]

Der Rechte man, am Falschen ort Moment

[@PainweedingPills]

a sodding tic tac

[@space7629]

@@Plxiity7275 yeah

[@peacecookie34]

Yes, I loved the part of the HL2 beta where TF2 Heavy showed up and said "Gordon, I am a big fan" and gave him his minigun

[@nonothis]

child = dark and gritty

[@mrscruffles801]

You're parents describing how you "crushed their dreams"

[@JackWse]

I like how crack is just become the official drug of the radiation hazard channel.. It makes perfect sense it's very 90s, very Seattle.. But lol still

[@cyanidethefox2160]

man, its so dark, gritty, and cinematic! btw that are was form EP1

[@glovemiester]

and *fully modled*

[@mysmart_yg]

"This should be good the wasteland chapter": Ad of standing desk

[@matijajovic8125]

Holy! Longest Rad Haz video ever? Must be the darkest and grittiest yet!

[@RadiationHazardYT]

Longest? Nah. That's still the HDTF video clocking in at 1 hour 30 minutes. But darkest and grittiest? Probably :D

[@matijajovic8125]

@@RadiationHazardYT Oh right, I erased that HTDF video from my mind. You understand. 😂

[@Cats-TM]

Your pronunciation of German words is impeccable. 23:33 Gordon must have lost his glasses, his astigmatism is back. 31:16 Yes, it is. It is the scene where you are seperated from Alyx by a vent. That vent is supposed to fall down as a surprise and also explode if you do stuff wrong, And that elevator right there falls down and then you go into another room with a poison headcrab and a vent you have to go through to get back into the elevator shaft and then get on a ladder to go up and get back to Alux…also, I have only played Episode 1 once…I have no idea how I remember all that. I do not know why the Combine need the rebels to invent teleportation, they could just hire German modders.

[@JackWse]

Don't the glasses make the lens flare worse though, regardless of the stigmatism? How do we explain Tim Sweeney!? Like bad auto exposure transitions are easily explained away by bad transition lenses that he has, and chromatic aberration is easily explained by all the Vaseline he smears on it.. and motion blur.. maybe cuz his brain is broken... But the lens flares... Isn't that just going to be made worse buy glasses unless they have the right coatings and polarizations? I don't have glasses, I have perfect eyesight, But I was a camera operator for a while... And you'd be amazed at the effort that we would go through in order to not have any of the screen effects that seem to be obsessed about by game developers nowadays...

[@mason5746]

this is what happens when you put your faith in dark and gritty

[@IlyanaFan]

26:08 if I remember correctly. There were multiple depots in the original. There were many surrounding the citadel. There were just generic CMB storage.

[@Insanabiliter_In_Linea]

The Borealis maps (not the E3 one to be clear, the one that starts you off next to the tugboat) in the later versions as well as the Odell model are ripped straight from Missing Information, with some changes made to make it less obvious, so yeah they did take at least some maps and one asset straight from other mods. MI changed the name on the hull of the ship to "Hyperborea" where it originally just said "Borealis", plus a number of other changes that are present in this mod's version like the displacement icebergs being 1:1 with MI's.

[@MrSandvichMann]

This mod truly makes you feel like someone suffering with astigmatism

[@bigpalookaalt]

Radhaz you really should make an Audiobook And/Or a video essay type video! You've got a voice thats worth listening to for hours fr

[@Alef.93]

5:48 Fully modeled.

[@mysmart_yg]

"Lost a war against the Romans" Wondering how well hazards knows his history

[@NLoob]

13:00, That's the map from Half-Life 2: Lost Coast , It's a free DLC

[@lionocyborg6030]

I can’t remember if I was able to get far in this mod when I played in the late 2010s but I sure did play Der Schwartz Nebel (it’s hard to spell that second word well) around the same time which believe it or not is even _worse_ and goes completely off the rails to the Half Life universe on several later maps such as the ugly grey rock wasteland having you climb out of canyons before navigating endless plains of the same rock like a rocky lakebed (which it sort of is) while under attack from either a chopper or a gunship, that weird softlocked cafeteria building map is back and surrounding maps at this point take place on hilly cliffs above a lush green forest. In the beta universe. Which has the air exchange. This & the canteen map are where I rage quit the mod back when I played & looked for better stuff in later years like Dark Interval & RTBR. For both Build 2046 & DSN, to quote a famous FPS loving vtuber: “Fuck this game with a pineapple! It’s not done! It needs to go back in the oven for another few months. How undercooked is this game? Gordon Ramsey: “It’s fucking RAW!””

[@generalhasashi]

7:56 for a second I thought the voice was Patrick Star

[@captainzed5659]

Is there a lore reason why ickypop was cut from Half-Life 2? Why is the MP5K a pistolmi-automatic and is that what the "K" in its name stands for?

[@thagreenball]

I WAS JUST GOING TO SLEEP AND I GET THE NOTIFICATION FOR THIS VIDEO Im going to watch it tomorrow but knowing your past content this video will be amazing

[@AJ-po6up]

Not gonna lie that 4.91 version actually looked good to me, I was impressed especially considering what came before it, it appealed to my dark and gritty instincts (lmao) but overall yeah it was a big disappointment, I never checked this mod given that I'm not a fan of Cinematic mod even though I do believe CM had good things going for it, it has a lot dissonance and this mod is in a way the same (which is to be expected), lots of random things and an art direction and random decisions that collide with each other constantly, but ultimately it doesn't bother me since it was a beta or alpha mod, had they released this as a finished mod I would've been way more critical and lost it, but if I was the creator of this I wouldn't have made it public in a trillion years unless I made a consistent art direction and improved it to very high standards otherwise I would have been embarrassed to release it but I guess that's just me. OH and that crane model obsession was pretty funny at the end, you can tell they were proud of it but it got out of hand and at the end they were just trolling with it, I bet people called them out on it and they just doubled down lol, a very Cinematic Mod-esque decision there lol.

[@ubermorpth2208]

Hey man just wanted to say you have been one of my recent favorite HL2 people in a while, i've gotten back into replaying some of the games purely cause of your videos! All I've got to say really for un-related videos to HL2 but I'd figure you'd find interesting is either covering the cancelled Left 4 Zero project or Project Terror-Strike (Both are L4D1 beta theme'd mods, with the second I think only being barely worked on or updated with not a proper release but might be interesting none the less!)

[@RadiationHazardYT]

Thank you! I've noted down the names of the mods you mentioned. I'll check them out!

[@nebo2955]

Two things, the cinematic mod pistol is not a USP Match, its a Mark-23, which simply is a more beefy "offensive" USP based pistol that fires a heavier caliber. The Lost Coast map is probably included the way that it is due to the anecdote that the entire level was a cut level of Highway 17 repurposed for the Loast Coast tech demo.

[@gemtownMANCHURIA]

>only gun autist in the comments has a rogue pfp i am not surprised tbqh

[@JackWse]

So the Mark 23 isn't developed off of the USP, although they were developed around the same time and they went through some of the same testing... They were developed for two entirely different purposes and are somewhat different, despite both being tilting barrel browning style pistols. As well true to its name the USP, or universal self-loading pistol, but in Deutsch, is in pretty much every caliber and pretty much every style that could fit for a pistol.. that includes 45 and 45 plus p, which was the round that both made and sank the MK 23, in that apparently was hard to obtain but I don't know much about the details.. But without a plus p, the ballistic performance of 45 isn't great. Even with the longer barrel of the Mark 23.. The USP was an attempt at correcting mistakes that lost potential market with their p7 pistols.. (which are possibly the most German pistols ever made lol) in both manufacturing and and the needs of the secific markets which ended up in its near infinite varieties lol, but a lot of that was a later development.. The core conceit though is that they had been developing the pistol for the law enforcement markets, and because of the offensive weapon program under JSOC, they were able to co-op the data and refined the USP which made it to market before the MK23 was delivered and put into service.. A lot of the future iterations were made as a reaction to complaints about the MK23 and certain downsides.. like it's overall bulk and weight.. which were further refined. This is more of a lessons learned, than a actual merging or iteration of the two... But it wouldn't be until much later that there was a tactical variant that was a canonical replacement for the MK3, and over the years have seen further enhanced and diverse variations spreading into as many markets as possible Just the idea that there's a size range from the usp compact, to the full fat USp tactical, which eventually adopted the polygonal rifling that the MK-23 had, while also taking advantage of the overtested barrel construction that the MK23 spurred on a count of its requirements right at the start. Essentially you can shoot the same plus p round out of a USP that is designed for it, as you can the Mark ACP 23... You just need the USP that does that lol. Which would also include a match grade USP, or the USp match lol... Although I don't know if the USB tactical was also match-grade, which was one of the claim to fames of the Mark acp. And as much as I love the MK23, because.. it's it's just fg cool lol.. The entire shift, while practical, was definitely on the more boring side compared to the direction the p7 was going.. and we're really only just now seeing that kind of pistol make a comeback.. which is always incredibly difficult because unless you're someone like h&k, coming up with new things is a great way to kill your company in firearm design and manufacturing.. It was kind of interesting though.. h&k went from the space magic company to the overpriced reliable company, and I feel like.. I like the USP is probably the one of the most boring yet also cool pistols ever..

[@JackWse]

Gunny Jesus can say everything I just said in a far more coherent and actually shorter form manner lol I thought I was a going to be able to drop this in a paragraph lol...

[@nebo2955]

@@gemtownMANCHURIA Rouge?

[@sebs-shenanigans]

"More like the waste of my fucking time" - really fucking hit me man. My condolences

[@supermegabenji1026]

So this would be the True Hollywood adaption of Half-Life 2. Like Hollywood would not make it the Same as Half-Life 2, It would be like the Beta and not the Final Game. Like the Map in the movie would be an Entire different Area just like the Doom Movies.

[@humanharddrive1]

oh god is that cremator announcement for real? I really liked the jokes in this video, like when you said you have to pretend you’re insane to enjoy this mod. this video felt like a classic agvn video

[@3amorogamer246]

If I were this guy I would've already stopped a lot earlier for my dignity. And this guy kept going since he's genuinely dedicated to his shit and absolutely cares for his fanbase to enjoy his videos and his work, unlike the mod team

[@karma_coin]

I have not really played Half Life or 2, but your channel made me purchase both just to play them you're the man 👌

[@GenosseGenos]

ein Laich ein Teich ein Kommentarbereich good work. love your content

[@BuenoMcgurski]

Dude I have always found your stuff to be moderately interesting, same way I feel about all beta hl2 material. But I must say, this video is hilarious. Thank you.

[@TheCleanerDragon]

Dark and griddy (and unfinished)

[@serbanim9898]

I am excited for a part 3 of the Half-Life Cinematic Universe. Keep making more videos

[@ccakaccakaccakacc]

fucking lost my shit at the lost coast insert

[@Andr3MDL]

This one will surely spark the outrage of the beta mods. we are all doomed. Also that intro was a nice touch

[@rustkitty]

Thanks for guiding us through Route Poopy, RadHaz!

[@lionocyborg6030]

6:27 Gordon: “Your breath smells like paint!”

[@SprucePotato]

dark and gritty!!,

[@smarterror555]

Probably one of the best videos you’ve ever made

[@adurrezzak]

I haven't watched the video yet but I think it's truly dank and griddy

[@brickthecreator777]

I think build 2046 is a fever dream because i have a theory eli smoked zaza and make build 2046.

[@hoo2042]

Wonderful breakdown as always :) That said, I would have appreciated chapters for each title card so I could jump around and compare the versions a bit more easily.

[@SSS-ft9nl]

is this video dark and griddy enough for me to even care

[@D0Gdidthemath]

25:51 I believe that is a modified beta map, and there are actually one or two versions of the citadel that had depots at their base

[@planescaped]

Oh man, a new dark and gritty beta deep dive from Radhaz, how I've missed thee.

[@psell8628]

I have zero interest in this mod, but you talked about it in a way that's very entertaining and held my interest, great video

[@larsthedude1984]

“More like Route Poopy” you have such a way with words, Rad.

[@the_only_ag1]

Wow, This truly is a mod, a mod of all mods.

[@L.Bomrek]

Hark and Hirdy

[@anormalstreetlamp6878]

Omg radhaz I just had the craziest idea , after getting half life 2 mirrored imagine half life 2 ALL MIXED UP, you get past a door in the train station and you end up in ravenholm, then another door and you're in the white forest and so on !

[@brickshitter8015]

Hi Mr Hazard you have altered the course of my evening thank you

[@JukoYT]

The area near the elevator is indeed episode 1... lol

[@Tang_Master2]

As a Pole i think does not reach our qualities.

[@KaiseroftheBlade]

Ok now I wouldn’t call this “German engineering”. Although, my German learning is clearly going somewhere, because I could understand what German TicTac man was saying

[@NoxNyctores427]

Finally some dark and gritty in this channel

[@g0rdonfreeman1]

this video had more thought put into it than all of build 2046

[@ivy_magnapinna]

I honestly almost love this mod just for the surreal levels of jank and discontinuity, especially in the earlier builds. Feels like some strange fever dream version of hl2 your brain would put together out of bits and pieces of it from your memory.

[@blackbonnieiscool]

"balls" the line I will adore from Hazard for ever 🤣

[@humanharddrive1]

been waiting for this

[@trashcompactorYT]

Fully modeled half life 2 beta

[@sussy6905]

dark and fully modelled

[@DoubleDoubleU]

11:43 I gotta say tho a gun with small lightning bolts coming out of the barrel looks really cool!

[@TerenceJansen.coolkid]

Also the ar2 soldiers in this are basically god, they decide when you die and exactly how many billions of bullets they're gonna be able to pump into freeman's hev suit before he fucking dies

[@svijj_]

I no longer even have the strength to comment "dark and griddy". Good video though

[@Gravity_studioss]

9:05 I think the citadel is not missing. That miserable little antenna thing IS supposed to be the citadel

[@ruvlad]

I wanted to make a big disclaimer that at the time of beginning of creation of "Build 2046" version 3.*, the main author of the project (Vladimir Pashkin) was only 13 years old. After the criticism (regarding first public builds), which largely coincides with your opinion, he quarreled with the rest of the team - real fans who wanted to make something cool out of the idea. He also publically announced on social network that he had depression due to a boatload of negative reviews, and that depression "can only be solved by gender-affirming surgery". After that and his other posts containing the swastika, this project has died for me personally…

[@aSkyclad]

I don't see how that person questionning their gender and wanting to do something about it has to do with anything.

[@kem0n0.kokomo]

Lmfao wtf

[@hamsterultraviolence6723]

I don't think it's a good idea to tell publicly such sensitive personal information about a person...

[@ruvlad]

@@hamsterultraviolence6723 No need to blame me. This is what the guy himself posted on his personal page on social network.

[@hamsterultraviolence6723]

@@ruvlad ah ok then, but ehm... I saw, heard and even spoke to that person about six years ago and I'm not sure that it's correct to refer to this person as you do however I don't want to open this can of warm. From what I remember at least this person was a good friend to me with quite unique thoughts despite of controversial works and identity.

[@insertmemorableusernameher6795]

This reminds me of earlier stalker mods where its simultaneously borderline incomprehensible and the coolest shit ever

[@matynosburitos]

Sadly after this video was uploaded Rad overdossed on The Darkness and Grittyness of this mod…what a madman lmao

[@wolfchan.8513]

This sure was an Cinematic experience. BTW I was wondeirng, if youre gonna make videos about The Thing mod since you mentioned it in a previous video as well as Paranoia 2: Savior.

[@KillerKarl526]

you should throw the download to this mod in the description ( the 5.30 update one). would be dope to have all updates to this piece of work

[@candidate12]

those citizens are made by a mod user called themanclaw, those are part of a hd remake of the citizens from like 2007? Their actually really good imo (except the faces) edit: their edited actually, the clothes are weird.

[@Cioss21]

dark and griddy? you say?

[@Queenofvenus2005]

Holy! This is really dork and griddy!

[@minus6246]

i LOVE that one alyx cinematic model!!!!

[@WorstLandsknechtEver]

Im excited to watch the vid

[@user-ur6tl9gd5c]

This isn’t the beta we wanted

[@lorenzrosenthal119]

"Derrrrrrechte Mannnnn am ffffalschen Orrrrrrt" ahhhh zat speaks to my Jerman SOUL!!!

[@thunder_light3261]

The parade of unlimited beta's never stops.

[@larsthedude1984]

TFW the HL1 meme version is literally the only finished beta mod.

[@gominho9424]

I don't know what they did with the bloom and hdr in this mod, but some of the footage you've shown was painful to look at. I'm actually feeling a bit sore in my eyes...

[@D0Gdidthemath]

10:28 I got an advert right after you said that, perfect timing

[@bshap495]

The crane is like the prison_switchbox01 of this mod.

[@thatonemercenary3402]

Nice video!

[@GarbageLord6543]

Cinematic mod guy operates on another level, we are too dumb to comprehend his genius.

[@baleycus]

everybody involved in this video took hard drugs

[@loganwhite8094]

Shoot, I should replay Half-Life 2