Half-Life Net Test 2 Beta Differences PART 1: Model Differences

[@PostScriptreall2]

HOLY CRAP, this video only had 300 views yesterday (Oct 2nd), where did everyone come from!? I was not expecting this at all after seeing such a slow climb in views for the past few days, thanks everyone! I'll also take this time to address some of the comments I'm seeing here. First of all, the music, I get that it can get loud at times, but that's how loud some of the game's music can actually get, I didn't change the volume at all mostly because I didn't have any sort of audio commentary so I assumed the volume wasn't going to be a big deal. I've seen that someone has said that player.mdl is similar to the Day One demo version, I said that in the video so I don't get why that was even brought up here at all. I remember someone mentioning that the age of the beta is younger than what I said, first of all, I'm aware that the game had a gold release several days before, but I'm referring to when the game released outside of that gold release, but if that comment (that seems to have disappeared) was in reference to the release date listed on the steam page, that date is incorrect. The game DID release on November 19th, however Valve changed it to an incorrect date on the (infamous) Steampipe update, this is similar to how Steam listed HL:S's release date as being earlier than CS:S when in fact the release date was closer to the release of HL2. Again, thanks everyone, it was quite a surprise to see this after going through another boring day of school, I've enjoyed seeing what's been discussed in the comments since yesterday and I hope I get around to making part 2 soon!

[@scarletcrusader5431]

Got real MarphitimusBlackimus vibes. I like it!

[@poke548]

Gina as an alternate model for Gordon is, IIRC, a relic of a briefly-explored concept to allow the player character to be male or female at the player's discretion.

[@v-14415]

Half-Life 1 Beta was light and pretty

[@energosecond]

Half-Life 1 Beta was light and clean

[@psychpayload]

half life 1 baytuh was dark and griddy

[@netwraithh]

the beta was light hearted and giddy

[@JaKeelJyba]

The Sex-Life beta was dark and titty

[@zeitgeistlime]

I worked on the TCRF page, thanks so much for using us as a reference, the animation differences (besides the idle) I didn't know, expect an update soon!

[@PostScriptreall2]

Hey man, how's that update going? I can give a download link to the recordings and images used in the video if that's helpful, just ask!

[@E2wqpXcGGnLtJHbVXDhS3]

extremely important video, awesome work!

[@Daniel-be6cj]

Wild how much nicer the MP5 and shotgun textures are, I'm surprised there aren't many videos actually going into what the differences are, it seems like a lot of the bigger half life channels have either ignored Net Test 2 or haven't gotten to it yet. Can't wait for the next vids!

[@StereoBucket]

Part 3: The Pepsi Lore Jk, but I like how in the half life beta wad there is a pepsi machine texture. Good video, didn't know about these model differences.

[@heberb]

thanks for the showcase!

[@denifnaf5874]

New beta just leaked!!!🔥🔥🔥

[@DR.Narbacular]

1:36 Hank and dean in the venture bros intro:

[@lucialambda]

thanks for the video (not) marphy black!

[@PostScriptreall2]

Hey I recognise you, you're one of Pinsplash's channel members. Funny seeing your comment here!

[@RJ-hk7oj]

Chad Jessup my goat

[@trotux6825]

In your next video, add that the Gluon gun autoaim can be seen in the Dank and Scud comic. Has the autoaim been known about before the nettest?

[@PostScriptreall2]

Huh, I had no idea that even existed. I've read the comic on the Combine Overwiki and I've seen what you mean with the Gluon gun, never heard of that before, though I'm not surprised I haven't since as far as I can tell it's an internet comic from the mid-late 90s, when the internet was in its infancy. From what I've seen the early Half-life content shown seems to be in a sort of transitional period between the 1997 alpha and Day One, there's some maps shown from the alpha, as well as some maps that don't appear in it that looks very much like the alpha. I could go all day about that but to answer the rest of the comment, I don't think this was well known at all so I can't comment about that being known to be a thing before the Nettest, and additionally since this is a comic I can't be entirely sure if the author took some creative liberty and made that whole mechanic up for the comic, it's hard to tell if that was something in the game at some point. I don't think I will add that to part 2 as I'm mainly talking about the Net Test beta and how it's different to the retail game, I've heard there are some engine changes and whatnot, but if there was any significant changes to the Gluon gun, someone would have pointed it out already. The only change related to the Gluon gun in the beta (that I'm aware of) is that, according to skill.cfg (the file that Half-Life uses to change values depending on difficulty settings) has the Gluon gun doing half the damage it does in the retail game when its in the 'narrow' setting, here's the part of the file I'm referencing: // Egon Gun sk_plr_egon_narrow1 "3" sk_plr_egon_narrow2 "3" sk_plr_egon_narrow3 "3" (That's something that I will probably cover in part 2 so consider it a sneak peek if you will)

[@trotux6825]

@@PostScriptreall2 The Gluon gun has autoaim in the nettest, equally as exaggerated as in the comic. Scolcer has pointed out the autoaim in his video on the nettest, but is probably unaware about the scene in dank and scud.

[@PostScriptreall2]

@@trotux6825 If that's the case I'll just continue playing through the beta then and see that for myself

[@MicahJohn21659]

@@trotux6825how much older is it?

[@trotux6825]

@@MicahJohn21659 nettest 2? 10 days, first retail version was compiled October 29.

[@SillyHorse99]

Thanks for sharing info, i cant understand why this beta still less spoken

[@ticklemedaddy]

Spoken of or... well anywho, the wider Valve community has this tendency to just *ignore* publically available early content, with the best example being the proper 2003/4 crowbar handle texture, in retail Half-Life 2 it uses the 2002 era handle while retaining a finalized head, not sure when the handle texture was found but a 2013 gamebana uploaded added it to the game under the false pretense that it was the 2002 texture come 2023 with the Valve gigaleak, which included a higher resolution texture, and suddenly everyone claims this is a new discovery

[@Nerkusha]

We are waiting you gordon... in a video chamberrrrrrrr.

[@scarletcrusader5431]

Snark and Griddy

[@pavelhagan209]

good video

[@CathodeRayKobold]

instant sub.

[@trotux6825]

I'm aware you know that, but the point was it would be worth also mentioning when the release build was compiled rather than just the release date, since viewers generally are unaware, it's useful info. People get the impression that the build is a month older, meanwhile the first actual release build as you know was compiled October 29 (Italy), released over there even a week later than November 19. The amount of content that changed in such a small timeframe makes me curious about nettest 1.

[@PostScriptreall2]

Yeah I'm also aware of that, I was referring to the first English release of the game, which is what everyone would know about. I completely forgot about that release when making the video but even if I had remembered the existence of that release I still wouldn't have changed a thing.

[@trotux6825]

@@PostScriptreall2 Yeah, you're right, the date of compilement isn't relevant to the subject matter of your video. Even the 2 weeks' difference of the English build.

[@PostScriptreall2]

@@trotux6825 Especially doesn't matter as the Italian version doesn't have any differences from the English version (aside from the dub)

[@trotux6825]

@@PostScriptreall2 That would make it matter more though, not less, but I don't care that it's not mentioned. You intended to show only the release date for a good reason.

[@MyScorpion42]

the player.mdl is very similar to the one in Day One demo

[@patrikkollmann5977]

the model animations seem more cartoonish to me in the beta

[@StrangeCorvus]

music is too loud

[@871A1A1]

Я построил карту хальф лайф в майнкрафт, пока что не знаю что с ней делать, ваше мнение?

[@BogdanZelinschi]

Is this 2008? Wheres VA? Disgusting.