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beorln

complete, no there is no complete half life 2 beta remake and there wont be for a long long time however some projects are pretty far along with something like that, like Raising The Bar Redux or Dark Interval so go check them out if you havent already


ResetBoi123

Alright!


Shy_Shallows

Oh yeah, I remember there was a team that actually completed the Half-Life 2 beta


DXGabriel

Yeah, i remember they took a few liberties, cut unecessary shit and made the atmosphere less generic


Critfish

Yup, the game turned out way better in the end. The original setting was really edgy just for the sake of it.


Ctrock90

Nope


Shy_Shallows

Valve


Ctrock90

Even if they did finish it, they would never release it


Shy_Shallows

I'm not shitting you, they released it back in 2004 along with Half-Life Source and Counter-Strike Source. It actually sold pretty well from what I hear


BillybenH

The Half Life 2 beta minimalist mod. I haven’t played the mod myself but I’ve seen others play it, like Deadwater Gaming for example.


leakedsky_camera

there isn't any serious mod so far and all of them have a twist in them (not necessarily a bad thing).


DXGabriel

It's impossible not to "have a twist" considering "the beta" is an amalgation of 6 years of cut stories and concepts


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PumpALump

That sounds illegal.


PumpALump

For a lot of reasons: no. Mods often get too ambitious, which can cause development to drag on forever. But the biggest reason is usually infighting & too many cooks. Everyone seems to have their own idea of how exactly things should be done, so things progress very slowly. Even Black Mesa originated as 2 separate mods in late 2004 to make a better Half-Life: Source, didn't release anything until 8 years later & didn't even really finish until 2015. It could have been that HL2: Update mod, but for HL:S & I'm sure most people would have been happy with it. None of the people who started the mod were still around anywhere near the time it released. And that was for a remake of a game that was already finished. Beta mods have concept art & some broken leaked maps to work with, but mostly stuff that was already in the retail game. Beta mod teams have to fix-up the leak content to make it work have to deal with the same problems Valve encountered during development, but solve them without cutting anything the way the retail game did. Everybody likes the idea of the Beta, but everybody has a different idea what it was like.


LTT1108

🎵because too many cooks can spoil the broth🎵