Massive Half-Life 1 Beta Leak - Everything I Learned

[@mattcy6591]

Regarding the pre-rendered scenes and the third person perspective of gordon getting attacked, my bet is that a part of the game in first person mode, your character gets knocked by an unknown enemy. That third person segment was intended to be shown on security camera footage for the player to view as a reveal of who attacked him.

[@cosmicmeatball375]

that's a really good idea!

[@AlexVonBronx]

I remember reading (I think it was marc laidlaw that said this) that t hey wanted to do third person (for the ending at the very least) but couldn't do it as they didn't have enough time. So maybe this was also planned?

[@CringePotato]

I like that idea, and it feels more like something Valve would do

[@mattcy6591]

@@AlexVonBronx oh wow I don't know that bit of trivia. Cutscenes would have made a very different feeling of a game.

[@VentA_7]

Isn’t that kinda what happened with the DLCs?

[@haydenmitchell9260]

The idea that pre-rendered cutscenes were on the table at ANY point is very interesting to me

[@S1nwar]

or marketing for the skeletal animation

[@Underqualified_Gunman]

i heard someone float the idea it was to be used as recorded security footage that you discover. even if it's not true it'd be quite interesting to see that.

[@rapappathepepper3996]

It probably wasn't pre-rendered, probably in-game rendered, just not letting you immerse into it your self without pausing the whole thing.

[@idek71647]

Any idea of pre-rendered cutscenes for Half-Life sounds so out of place for a game like this.

[@Nikkisuhr]

oh boy the hl1 fountain of entertaiment will never dry

[@fnoigy]

I love that Walter/Kleiner was really there from the start

[@SloanStewart]

How the HECK are we getting leaks from 97 in 2024?

[@BogdanZelinschi]

Half life events really happened, theyve been hiding this for years, fyi. So they opened extradimensional portal and sent us this

[@alexisrom1944]

The leaker was using internet explorer apparently

[@dylanzlol7293]

The leaker learnt that the Internet archive website existed in that day and thought about doing something funny

[@diamondhamster4320]

Cause the leaker waited until NDA expired so if Valve finds outs he wont get legally graped???

[@WereWhusky]

Ever played War Thunder?

[@vissova]

Honestly I can believe that Half-Life would have had thirdperson cutscenes very early on. The game has a camera entity that allows mappers to script fairly complex cutscenes, like you can make it move along a path and focus on a moving target and everything. I think the only time it's ever used is when Gordon is being dragged to the garbage disposal. So I'm not sure why they spent so much time coding such a thing if they never even used it fully.

[@AdHocF1]

Features get cut from games all the time. HL1 was notoriously rushed until it was published.

[@Microsave2]

Ew, 3rd person!

[@sanitylost4271]

It is also used in ending, after player entered G-Man's portal

[@vissova]

@@sanitylost4271 Right, that too. They did that because the camera entity has an option to disable the player's movement while it's active. Fun fact you can turn on your flashlight just before you go through the portal and you'll see Gman just standing there staring at you.

[@gamertypeawesome]

​@@vissovaoh? I was playing mmod yesterday and after the credits I could faintly see gman and some stars, I think in xen. is that it? I don't think mmod specifically modifies xen's maps yet

[@ThatTravGuy]

Crazy that we're still seeing new shit pop up for this game.

[@JuanGamer0202]

What 10+ without a conclusion does to a community xd

[@DogsRNice]

based 4:3 aspect ratio

[@GeneralPurpose3]

real

[@gmorris65]

the 4:3 aspect ratio was given to us by god. Every time we use 16:9 we forsake him

[@xxdannyxanny420]

wait i didn't even notice 😭

[@tehwolf1337]

@@gmorris65 16:10 or 8:5 is even more based since it's very close to Golden ratio (1,618)

[@SASTSimon]

ITS ACTUAL 4:3 WHICH MEANS THE VIDEO IS ACTUALLY FULLSCREEN ON IPAD!

[@malixcrash]

I'm sorry... *Heavy weapons guy?* *Heavy was present at Black Mesa during the cascade?!*

[@Feasco]

the real reason the resonance cascade happened: someone touched Sasha

[@KingPBJames]

If you didn't know, there was a grunt named HWG, a black guy with a minigun and cigar. I think he was going to be a miniboss but they cut him for some reason. Maybe because Gordon would be unable to pick up the minigun and beta testers didn't like that?

[@protocetid]

@@KingPBJamesIt was out of Valve’s hands. Heavy weapons guys don’t like their guns being touched, he said if someone was going to do that he didn’t want to be in the game.

[@Ribbons0121R121]

Money is money

[@MondySpartan]

@@KingPBJames”You’re dead! You hear me? Dead!”

[@rocktheworld2k6]

Honestly the fact that files from nearly 30 years ago still mostly (sort of) work in the latest version of 3DS Max is pretty impressive.

[@vibaj16]

Not the latest version

[@andresbravo2003]

Now we’re getting there… more Leaks for Half-Life!

[@HolarMusic]

I actually don't know if the scientists surviving is a goofier version. In the released version, they die left and right, exploding into gibs in VERY silly ways. Them fighting for their life and just happening to survive FOR NOW feels a lot more grounded and darker to me.

[@Esitaro3670]

I like how the goofy early animations has some dark sense of humor, i mean even when the facility it's going down...you need a bit of humor every once in a while

[@CS_Uravity_PRO]

Wasn't the female scientist texture files found in a HL:S leak a while ago? We should be able to apply it to this model now!

[@Srcsqwrn]

It's all coming together!

[@rapappathepepper3996]

The model is not the same the HL:S textures were made for, and, the credibility for the female scientist is... Not sure if it's real, or just some re-creation, or maybe it's just a revision really. What i believe is that it is just an earlier model than that one that has pictures and textures of. And, Half-Life's models were probably just higher poly in general early on, whereas the later model that HL:S has textures of, is a simpler one.

[@CS_Uravity_PRO]

@@rapappathepepper3996 i see. Maybe someone could remap the UV of this model to match the leaked textures. So we could have a semi-official recreation of it

[@rapappathepepper3996]

@@CS_Uravity_PRO Probably has already been done. The leaks happened like, 2 days before this video, i mean, if i'm telling you about the textures, it's because it has been tried out before.

[@Tamamo-no-Bae]

We got High res textures for her in the Repo leak last year too.

[@NikkiMcMistie]

makes me happy to see that the team used 3dsmax, something I use myself too. The rig bipeds are very recognizable

[@FlyboyHelosim]

This has been known since Valve released the SDK over 20 years ago.

[@NikkiMcMistie]

@@FlyboyHelosim i was a speck of dust 20 years ago

[@DonnyKirkMusic]

in-engine cutscenes are always pretty janky in games, though you can see that many games now are so detailed that it doesn't matter, or they even switch out the low-poly normal models with cutscene-only ones. But yeah Valve probably just realized that it looked odd and they felt like always being in the player's perspective is better. Also I wish the Panthereye made it in, cuz it would've been fun to fight imo esp if it was like those demons in Quake that hopped around, would be interesting to shake things up.

[@MyScorpion42]

Gordon being attacked was already in the Day One demo

[@queuedjar4578]

Doesn't it also get used in either Opposing Force and Blue Shift or am I just Mandela Effecting hard?

[@Tamamo-no-Bae]

@@queuedjar4578 Mandela effecting I believe. You see Gordon entering the portal in Opposing force, and you see Gordon getting carried in Blue Shift during the ending. Decay had a cut sequence where you'd save Gordon's life.

[@itdobelikedattho8112]

The animations are different tho

[@Feasco]

​@@Tamamo-no-Bae it was more of an alternate scene where he's executed

[@Salithin]

@@queuedjar4578It is in Half-Life: Restored, you may be thinking of that

[@tanybrachid]

5:49 that's brutal. i love it.

[@FrenchineerGaming]

4:07 heavy weapon guy tf2 mentioned, potential new minor fix update leaked?

[@nixel1324]

5:41 so you're telling me that _retail_ is the dark and griddy one this time? Imagine an alternate timeline where retail HL1 got leaked with its current aesthetic, and then they turned into _this_ style!

[@Mittzys]

tfw half life 1 continues dropping content longer than battlefield 2042

[@BogdanZelinschi]

Were getting like season 120 now yea?

[@invalid_user_handle]

It definitely speaks to the memorability of Half-Life that I can tell where quite a few of those Scientist cutscenes eventually were used. And I think you misinterpreted the 4:05 cutscene. That scientist isn't guiding the Heavyweapons guy and the vort. It seems to actually be depicting the Scientist being nearly sneak-attacked by the vortigaunt, before the HW guy steps in and kills the alien before it actually attacks...

[@dylanzlol7293]

So that 4:05 is meant to be the beta version of that one scene where a scientist runs towards a hecu guy thinking that he'll be saved?

[@Deliveredmean42]

The fact we see some scientists surviving dangerous encounters is an interesting take we will love to see implemented as a mod for fun.

[@8bitmatri]

8:04 silly little fella doing their silly little jig

[@KogureDevilchan]

I remember seeing pictures of it in magazines, never thought I'd see it in video one day.

[@getout0_______0]

I was downloading some valve repo leak stuff last night and came across this and wondered, that’s cool why hasn’t anyone talked about this discovery in the repository? The thing was is that it was completely new.

[@ShadowSumac]

Same here. Outside of this video and couple posts on Reddit and HL2-Beta no-one talks about it. Not like it is a little thing either.

[@tk-edge]

Im glad this kind of stuff leaks, so work doesn't go unappreciated or seen. Its also fun to see how the creative process for games is done for some studios.

[@aresnir2725]

1:59 Could this be prototype model for G-man?

[@robuxyyyyyyyyyy4708]

If only valve just gave us this stuff

[@toe_grips]

Why exactly should they do that?

[@thomasdilfurd4176]

​@@toe_gripswhy not

[@goatcanon]

​@@toe_grips Why did ID make Doom and Quake's source code public? The game's years old, it's become a classic, these assets are a piece of gaming history and gaining further insight into Half-Life's development via early assets is extremely interesting, and Valve has nothing to lose by sharing and releasing them.

[@hobosnake1]

​@goatcanon they have nothing to lose releasing them? How do you know that? For all you know, a scrapped part of hl1 is meant to be the ending of hl3. You have no idea what happens at Valve.

[@BabyCola]

​@hobosnake1 yeah but it's not hl3. Chill out doggy.

[@lymphoid]

Awesome job, Tyler

[@alizaprokop5259]

He’s the best

[@BogdanZelinschi]

O hi lymph

[@daklr2501]

It's been great to see your channel improve over the years, including the more mature, less frequent, and more content dense presentations! good stuff.

[@TylerMcVicker1]

I appreciate that!

[@yes_very_good]

Bro the amount of work that went into all of those animations and we never got to see. They look pretty cool!

[@macroy2159]

2:24 a little correction there, the barney model you're talking about has more detail than either the weird faced barney or release barney, (you can see the weird faced one there has the same level of detail as the final one) yet its different from how HD barney looks.

[@xeniumresonator]

So this apparently comes directly from Valve's Perforce. We've seen screenshots of their Perforce before, which included Prospero stuff... What's the likelihood that whoever it was that nabbed these files might have also snatched that stuff too..?

[@soda7998]

4:31 wasn't that in power up?

[@itdobelikedattho8112]

Yeah, my bro just made a little mistake

[@leweoj]

6:49 Voice crack, sorry i had to point it out

[@spoon6273]

Dark and gritty...

[@adudeontheinternet2675]

Light and goofy...

[@Feasco]

​@@adudeontheinternet2675Brite n silly

[@wm1573]

Wet and hard…..

[@gamewojtek]

I have read some of the mails exchanged between Mark Laidlaw and the fans, where he explained that cutscenes where planned to be a part of the game, but they got scrapped in the later parts of development, when the team decided that they would take too much time to implement and it might be more interesting to stay in the player's perspective

[@MusicLife7800]

1:07 Joker Dance 😂

[@Blazer_notblizzard]

4:57 ah, so that's why gordon has a actaul textured, modeled, 3d thirdperson model!

[@potatoboy6094]

i love stuff like this, i hope companies start to become more aware of how meaningful this type of stuff is for gaming history, you know? i hope that either they learn to "declassify" random files like the CIA/FBI or sell it for nerds to share it or just outright share it or keep getting leaked by people, because its not a lot, but it just makes me happy, something about understanding all the work that goes into making a game, all the stuff that gets cut out, the missing pieces in the stitchwork... its always just a joy to see!

[@thebluedoom]

i think the Half-Life : Absolute Zero devs would be very happy rn

[@Dovah2798]

Have we any information about the Half-Life 1 box picture where an HECU is holding by the neck a scientists with one hand ?

[@IsmailofeRegime]

I wonder if that was only ever intended for marketing the game. The grunts are only ever shown killing scientists, not bothering to so much as interrogate them, and I can't imagine a scene where a grunt is too busy threatening or interrogating a scientist while Gordon is standing around in the same room.

[@Dovah2798]

@@IsmailofeRegime its the most possible reality, as I thought many years ago. The thing is, that scene must be somewhere right?

[@denifnaf5874]

The animation for bullsquid and garg are brutal

[@dimiusko]

4:26 This kinda reminds me of the hydra from HL2 beta. Perhaps, they were still hoping to include something similar up until that point before scrapping the idea altogether.

[@BringMayFlowers]

I mean... the tentacle is still in retail HL1, there just isn't one there.

[@dimiusko]

@@BringMayFlowers Of course I remember THAT tentacle, but this one appears to be much smaller.

[@BringMayFlowers]

@@dimiusko Smaller than the one in Surface Tension?

[@lyokianhitchhiker]

@@BringMayFlowersI mean… Alyx did encounter baby Tentacles in the Northern Star.

[@HappyMan0203]

It's frankly incredible that there's still so much we're learning about this game all these years later. Insane.

[@ajhhc]

4:25 don't you mean Power Up, by any chance?

[@SpacekidZ]

"It's okay, I'm fine!" - beta Half Life scientists

[@mfaizsyahmi]

Half-Life is such a legendary video game that content is still leaking, and people still excited for such content, almost 27 years after it was put under wraps.

[@Rachka1337]

7:00 what is this video? I want check it out

[@jopeteus]

I remember seeing trailers for the original Half Life and it looked so different from the release version. It was sad that we could never get to experience the Alpha version. Then years later the Alpha version was leaked and we got to play it

[@varglyanspel2878]

Limited review version for journalists. Lacks content. Keighley has the builds from October 25, 1997, December 16, 1997 and May 1998. Some other guy who worked at Sierra also has the 10/25 build.

[@idek71647]

@@varglyanspel2878If those builds are still able to work, I believe we might see some things we’ve never seen before, maybe never even heard before, but I doubt it.

[@mercoro]

I like how they went from: all scientists must survive to all scientists must die!

[@NoahRichard]

Solid showcase of the beta content, Tyler!

[@LSKzane]

Interesting and well-made video, I really enjoy seeing old Half-Life stuff.

[@Feasco]

mirror universe beta build: lite n guufy

[@AlejoDarioni]

I don't know if you remember, but on the back of the original box it was advertised that the game included interrogations in which we could intervene as a player.

[@romerotronic]

8:04 OOGACHAKA OOGA OOGA OOGACHAKA OOGA OOGA

[@spritzerland658]

I CAN'T FIGHT THIS FEELING

[@BogdanZelinschi]

What??

[@Maske4]

​@@spritzerland658DEEP INSIDE OF ME

[@Esitaro3670]

@@spritzerland658 DEEP INSIDE OF ME

[@kellymountain]

half life fans when they see that one robot model from the alpha

[@Palendrome]

Thank you for doing this in 4:3

[@KellyAesop]

OH MY GOD Thank you Tyler. This is amazing work. THANK YOU

[@grady631]

I wish more scientists survived

[@_mailer]

Imagine if, for the half life anniversary, Valve would've taken the Gordon ambushed scene, polished it, then updated the game to include it? I think so many people would get thrown off by that, lol For its time, the scene actually looks decently choreographed.

[@dylanzlol7293]

Nah, imagine if the black mesa remake added these unused animations but more polished

[@IsmailofeRegime]

People would probably start joking that Gabe Newell is turning into George Lucas, "correcting" HL decades later.

[@NAKGRR]

Bro finally made a video on valve news that was worth making a video about

[@st0ne217]

6:45 dat voicecrack 🐔

[@mattwoodard2535]

Dancing Zentradi Battle Pod is still amazing. sm

[@64_three]

This is so light and goofy Literally half life 1 alpha moment

[@jpg149]

Freeze!

[@64_three]

@@jpg149 HOOT

[@SpookyLuvCookie]

thanks for your hard work Tyler

[@alizaprokop5259]

Stay tuned for more!!!

[@sleev1091]

omg that panthereye is so cute 🥺

[@Tamamo-no-Bae]

The Barney sculpt with the Slick face is NOT weird face! The Slick face Barney is a new variant, and it is clearly in the Ted family.

[@Gillury353]

Wonder how they got the files

[@waloogi6299]

Wonder how Valve feels about this, but finally having access to some of these things is pretty cool!

[@KingPBJames]

Half-Life 1: originally lighthearted, then made serious and unsettling. Half-Life 2: originally serious and unsettling, then made lighthearted.

[@XhoiZhuleku]

Retail half life 2 is still dark, just more mature and immersive.

[@KingPBJames]

@@XhoiZhuleku I valve's style has always been dark humor

[@ShadowSumac]

Not really. More like early HL1 mindless shooter in vein of Doom, Retail HL1 quirky sci-fi action movie, OG HL2 - epic action movie about dystopia, Retail HL2 - less epic and more with less focus on dystopia and shooting and more on characters and variety.

[@albeceldariu]

Thats the coolest shit Ive seen from the beta until now

[@sillkthashocker]

Half-Life 3 beta leak confirmed

[@DuneJumper]

Female scientist got me acting up

[@AnomalySource]

I like 4:3 aspect ratio as much as the next guy but why didn’t you scale your intro?

[@perplexedmoth]

Has Valve yet released the 200 pages design document produced by the first Cabals?

[@randomsovietguy-p5c]

A NEW HALF LIFE BETA (THE WHOLE GAME) APPEARED ON INTERNST ARCHIVE!

[@gunier.j.kintgenanimations]

All we gotta do now is re-implement these animations, scenes, & locations into Half-Life!

[@harpernicholson1]

you sound extra happy in this one i hope you are

[@greenth-mac2550]

I havea a lot of questions on these cut animations and models, like many of them look cool. The more cut content I see for HL1 the more I wonder why Valve cut these things. I do love the final version of HL but at the same time, compare to the large number of cut animations, the released version barely had any.

[@IsmailofeRegime]

I'd guess that most of it boils down to old animations not being able to fit the latest map designs, and that redesigning the maps to include them would have taken too long. It's also possible that too many scripted sequences might have come across as annoying to players (depending on how many were of the "gotta wait for this sequence to end before you can proceed" variety.)

[@comedicidiot]

I love massive beta leaks like what happened with Mario 64, it's so fun to see the ins and outs of the development unlike what we could ever dream of

[@BogdanZelinschi]

Who cares about lmario? Time to grow up kid

[@comedicidiot]

@@BogdanZelinschi tf are you on about? Fun video games are fun video games and big beta leaks are big beta leaks.

[@dylanzlol7293]

​@@BogdanZelinschi the sm64 beta leak had revealed the sm64 luigi model which was a big deal.

[@MystikGaming20]

There's no way we still find more stuff from Half Life

[@SoggyMicrowaveNugget]

I find it so Fascinating to be able to look at this stuff for Historical their historical value, but Its always tinged with a bit of guilt knowing that it was never intended for everyone to have it, Its a weird place to be as an artist to have to imagine one day decades after you have worked on a project that a bunch of obsessive people with go back and air your laundry for the world to see all with weirdos saying dumb stuff like "Man the version we got was SO lame compared to the alpha"... forgetting the alpha they imagine isn't real. Welcome to the internet I guess.

[@mjaypierce9549]

i wish some remakes this in black mesa or unreal engine 5 or 6 depending on what time

[@N3Selina]

thank you for your hard work~

[@cpucat]

The clip at 6:53 actually made me laugh

[@GUBtubrub]

Man hope that a guy will reimplements the cut scene

[@colddarkness1798]

The game that started all. This game is reason we have CS 2 and expensive skins and portal 2 and also left 4 dead 2 half life 2 but we will never have Half Life 3!

[@Schmidddyyy]

How exactly do we get beta "leaks" from a game this old? This has to be intentional. Like, screw it, give the autsits some old ass shit to look over. lmao

[@Srcsqwrn]

Wow, that's huge! I wonder what people will choose to bring to life!

[@bloxyton]

4:01 this is kinda funny ngl

[@Wersjon]

Remember the time when he missed out on a free headset?

[@NINisTR1]

Id like to see Gearbox beta/alphas for OF and BS...and Decay!

[@metropolicec1787]

didnt know there was some water left in the dry well

[@IsmailofeRegime]

There's probably a fair amount left, at least as far as levels go, given there are unreleased builds of the 1997 iteration of the game.

[@whothoughthandleswereagoodidea]

>picture of woman model shows up >scary music starts playing

[@sdgx0]

holy moly booba! 1:32

[@Alperenkitapc]

Light and (hitting the) griddy

[@Rachka1337]

I want e3 1998 build leak

[@HaitIsHere]

I don't know why didn't they go with NPC variety when they already had so many made

[@Feasco]

the obvious answer: they didn't have time to implement it in a way that fit the latest builds

[@Vrizxly1337]

The Elder Scrolls IV Oblivion Soundtrack Harvest Dawn first 20 seconds repeat 10 hours

[@roadkyl49]

this is awesome and all, but do we have the textures?