Half-Life Alyx: September 2019 build
Fanmade models were used as placeholders for WIP S2FM animations.
Beta intro text:
Fifteen years ago,
Dr. Eli Vance led a failed experiment at a remote research facility.
It drew the attention of a ruthless alien race:
the Combine.
They invaded Earth, defeating humanity in less than seven hours
and became a permanent occupying force.
It is now five years before the return of Gordon Freeman,
and the death of Eli Vance.
In the original ending, players would have to use a lever to bring the Gman's phase-shifting form into our reality.
There are numerous slight difference in the ending itself:
- The player uses the gravity gloves to tear off the advisor's facemask, killing it
- Alyx's dialogue is slightly changed
- The post credits scene is viewed immediately and sequence is not broken with Eli being dropped by the advisor, implying a singular timeline
Got a working crowbar in yet?
>no breen ingame
Fuck you valve
basado
Can't wait for the HLA: Cut Content Mod.
Final image. WIP fabricator room from start of the game.
Did valve accidentally made their september dev build branch available or what?
Is this supposed to be the Combine Super Sodlier?
Voice actor is dead.
No. That's a Combine Synth Soldier. They don't just use transhumans: these are the fuckers that won them the Seven Hour War.
Didn't stop them from raping Eli's dead corpse.
Source? Where'd you get all these?
mega dot nz/file/6uwnxLIC#wruAlbiGFBvzeBkELugYBx_LziRuDP9bpZ0X8ldc67I
1.12GB of dolphin porn? I'm gonna need me some privacy for this.
Now i understand why Hunt down the Freeman dev put Valve in his resume.
Yeah it's legit. VNN had been streaming it a few hours ago and now he's deleting every single piece of evidences out there. i wonder if someone leak the dev build online soon.
tyler may be kindof annoying but damn if he doesnt find shit
One more, this just in-- the S2FM render with full assets, set at the end of the 7 hour war when Breen brokers peace.
>he
More like the actual code monkeys doing work.
You can make AI generated voice.
Why would he delete it?
>VNN had been streaming it a few hours ago and now he's deleting every single piece of evidences out there
Why is this guy such a huge faggot? How the fuck old is this man that he still has this mindset of "No! Only I can be popular for this! You can't have it!"
Never knew much about the guy, but him sperging out when HL:A shit was leaking and he said he's "make sure you're banned from everything Valve related" told me everything I need to know.
>he's deleting every single piece of evidences out there
What a faggot.
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Probably valve got caught on what he was doing. valve asked back a fan site when the source engine dev repository happened to remove several dev maps out of their archive, i wouldn't be surprised if it's the same thing as back then but valve didn't threat the site by any legal action but by simply asking them on email.
>black mesa models used for the science team
project crowbar have some things to reveal to us i believe
>that security and handheld camera footage
kino as fuck, damn
Holy shit
I knew the dude was fucked when he became hyper cocky after the alyx reveal but holy shit
>resistance in the 7 hours war
im guessing its because they served as placeholders and would have been replaced with HECU style soldier cause it dont make sense
What's interesting is that she does not reference Gordon Freeman at any point in this early build, she comes into the vault thinking it contains a weapon up until the last minute.
I think introducing this bait and switch, which must have happened late in the development, was a great idea.
BASED
>valve having people take down beta footage and shit
jesus christ, they're as bad as rockstar now. they used to not give a shit. what the fuck happened? it's cut content, who gives a fuck?
>what the fuck happened?
nuValve happened, alyx is a soulless game
I predicted that valve would make a VR-based Alyx title back in like 2015, tyler can suck my wee-wee
Apparently Tyler had it for a few months now but wouldn't disclose how he got into possesion of it for obvious reasons. But he did report on some things from it in the past.
Based
>they used to not give a shit
they had some german teen's house raided because he got into Valve's servers and leaked a beta build of HL2 lmao
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It's amazing just how simple but unique Breen's voice was in the original. This just sounds like a newscast.
Wait, is this the same plaza as in HL2? Didn't 7 hour war happen immediately after HL1? Wouldn't Breen be in USA somewhere close to Black Mesa back then?
wasnt it russians that had managed to steal half life 2 source code and thats why they had to rewrite the entire story ?
The VA for Breen in this is apparently just some mapper at Valve. Pretty clear this wasn't the actual voice they would have used for him
It's one of the developer's voices used to pace the animation around it as a placeholder, they did an identical thing for the breencasts in HL2 with some nasally programmer before Culp recorded his lines
It is the same plaza, gap between Black Mesa and 7 Hour War is never stated but HLA implies Breen was in C17 when it happened
I thought it was a solo hacker that then got invited for a "job interview" with Valve, and got arrested at the airport?
Ah, fair.
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I can't see how it would fit in the game, but generally this works very well for world building.
Also this is the first time where it's outright said that the official propaganda was that Combine were literal heroes.
>that stand-in voice compared to OG Breen
>It is the same plaza, gap between Black Mesa and 7 Hour War is never stated but HLA implies Breen was in C17 when it happened
Breen says he's chosen to settle in City 17 in the welcome message in HL2, which implies he wasn't living there beforehand.
so they changed the half life 2 article that implyed he was at the UN to sign the surrender ? fair enough
>he had it for a few months
fuck him. i hate how he's the source engine/valve community spokesman and how he has connections within valve to certain things like that. i would be glad if gets screwed by this.
No, they stole something far more important.
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>Also this is the first time where it's outright said that the official propaganda was that Combine were literal heroes.
Yeah I was always under the impression that they were seen as the opressors nevertheless. It didn't even occur to me that they might have been seen as the ones who saved humanity from the Xen infestation.
It was a German guy and they had already changed the plot to what it was at release by then.
I mean during the breakdown like a year ago he outright said that he's actually working closely with Valve, so they might have just allowed him to do it as guerilla marketing or something.
the placeholder voice sounds like it would be hunt down the freeman's version of breen
Why are there transhuman combine soldiers there, and why so many veiled women if it's in what would become City 17, in Russia?
so how the fuck do they make HL3 unique? theyve succeeded with alyx because its like the first proper AAA single player for VR but HL3 most probably deep down will be just a FPS that you play with KB+M
should have call in keemstar again
This was too on the nose for Half-Life.
LITERALLY STOLEN FROM RANDOM VIDEO, BUT WORSE
LMAO VALVE IS FINISHED
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Might be early transhuman soldiers, since they sent in their synths, beat humanity like a small child, and moved on.
And- it's in Belarus, which is surprisingly Islam-heavy.
More like they probably forgot
also how the fuck do they make it look good enough? surely Source 2 can't compete with Unreal Engine 4.
>I can't see how it would fit in the game
It was supposed to play on monitors as a propaganda video.
He cried at the HL:A ending. Such a pathetic faggot
I don't know man Alyx looks pretty damn good and they had to jump through so many hoops because it's VR.
Optimization magic as well.
Was the September 2019 build teleportation-only? That would clinch that Tyler wasn't full of shit when he claimed that locomotion was a very, very late addition. The final game already strongly suggested it, but knowing he had access to the beta for months casts his comments in a new light.
Interesting although I prefer the idea that the Combine were never seen in a positive light whatsoever. I get that it's propaganda but still seems a bit off. Also I miss Breen's VA.
Is this Full Life Consequences Episode 3?
Unreal Engine 4's optimization is absolute ass and Source 2 seems to shine in this regard.
It's in russia
>Belarus, which is surprisingly Islam-heavy
go fuck yourself
A german kid.
both wrong
bulgaria, which is even more islam-heavy
Leaking the build of an unreleased game is one thing, but finding old dev builds/cut content should be fair game. Like seriously who cares? The shit was scrapped, the game already released. This is like when Rockstar sent PIs to that dude who had a devkit with an old version of GTA V which contained tons of cut content. Why the fuck do devs give a shit about people finding out what was cut? It's fucking CUT
Working with valve in exactly what? sure he probably got it from a insider or he was invited to playtest once it, but i doubt he actually had been engaged with the development of alyx.
>Why the fuck do devs give a shit about people finding out what was cut? It's fucking CUT
Because Valve are infamous for recycling and reusing shit they cut.
Show off Source2 in a similar way Half Life 2 did to show off the engine.
Have they clarified that it's meant to be an engine you can license? From what I remember hearing, you can license Source for free but you have to pay something like 10k because you also need to license Havok.
Valve BtFO Tyler in their reddit alyx ama
And there was that confirmed Valve worker posting on Yas Forums that said most people at Valve hate him. I'm sure Valve would love a chance to strike back at Tyler
>And there was that confirmed Valve worker posting on Yas Forums that said most people at Valve hate him
source
Just a poor teenager in Germany, and he wasn't so much a hacker as much a lucky kid who realized that at the time literally every password used by Valve was "gaben." He even reached out to Valve first to apologize, because it wasn't his intention to leak the build. He actually got everything from Valve's servers, including the 2003 builds of TF2 and CS2 and all sorts of other experiments, but he shared some of the HL2 stuff he had found with friends, and from that the 2003 builds of HL2 leaked.
He also wasn't arrested at the airport. Valve tried to bait him into coming to the USA for a "job interview" to get him arrested at the airport, but the German government found out and were pissed at having one of their own citizens being arrested by foreign police so they arrested him first at his home.
Or Tyler quickly made faje video himself.
HLA BETA vod is gone.
Cut content isn't necessarily stuff they'll never use. Maybe it was a budget reason, time restrain, that idea could be better used in another project. While I agree that this stuff doesn't harm being in the public, specially since it's usually not polished and a potential final version would be completely different, but it's understandable that some companies wouldn't be so okay with it.
Borealis and the whole time manipulation/teleportation abilites could spice things up a bit. I want to see something similar to time travelling level in Titanfall 2.
>valve hates VNN
based if true.
I dont have the thread link, but he correctly confirmed information about features in Alyx and the restocking of the Index before it was released some weeks before the 23rd. It was too accurate to be a pretender
Tyler himself has admitted some of the leadership hate him, but most of Valve don't.
Why wouldn't they hate this piece of shit faggot? No one likes him, even his wife
yeah gabe gave that kid a fake job offer to work at valve with the intent of having the FBI arrest him when he landed in america, but the germans got word of the plan while he was at the airport and got arrested there instead. classic gabe
that and in the case of GTA V , im sure a lot of that cut content was reused later in the multiplayer content updates
>tfw they finally reuse cool beta ideas
>its only in a cutscene for HL3 that will never come out
Okay so this means we're getting a new game from Valve in at least a year, right?
There's SO MUCH content cut from Alyx, more cut than used even, that they can literally repurpose them all for a new game at the snap of a finger if they wanted to.
He already had this build when he reported on the teleportation only movement.
>And- it's in Belarus, which is surprisingly Islam-heavy.
Eh, I don't think City 17 is supposed to be any real city.
The Belarus connection comes from the loading screens in Alyx which were roughly matched to the city of Warna, but in HL2 maps City 17 had a shoreline which was EXACTLY exactly the same as Kaliningrad in Russian Kaliningrad Oblast.
The text you find in the world is in Russian and written using Russian alphabet, which is very different than the Belarusian cyrillic, so Kaliningrad still makes a bit more sense. Still, C17 is probably just a made-up city.
cremator would've been perfect for the xen chapters. Wonder why it wasn't used in Alyx.
Also I wish there was more Xen enemies, come on Valve, give some more love from HL1.
I'm still pissed that Jeff was even a thing. They should've had Mr. Friendly instead.
Didn't know the Combine were Pokemon fans.
Tyler literally said in his livestream that he didnt open the beta until a couple of days ago retard
i wish they'd bring back the Gargantua
I'm still amazed at german police. Nice job on their end. He would have gotten really bad sentence in US otherwise
Well if the valve guy from Yas Forums was correct, he mentioned l4d2 is the next project. It's an easy guess to say, but his other data was accurate and correct
unironically yes, Gaben can whip his employees to work if he wanted to
>Valve in at least a year, right
No fucking way. They might reuse the cut content for the next game, hopefully an actual HL3 but not within the year.
This is the real City 17
this is like a gmod video
I meant to say l4d VR, not l4d2.
>at least a year
HLB will be coming out in 2022
HL3 will lose steam and crash and burn and lead to another 13 year gap.
>but his other data was accurate and correct
Post the thread.
lol this is terrible. couldn't be more on the nose
It's a placeholder, guys
Why valve would really care about this autist in the first place? sure he's annoying as fuck and shits everything possible that's valve related. but valve aren't a bunch of manchild to give a shit about a sperging fan of their's.
It's possible the FBI warned ahead of time of what they were doing. Unless America thinks that a literal kidnapping like this would be okay without even warning the authority's in the guy's country of origin.
the shit i'm referring to was mission dialogue and cutscene dialogue from story mode. definetley not recycled into GTAO. alternate takes for cutscenes. cut missions.
the most notable one is an alternate version of "Fame or Shame" where Trevor's character is a lot more like how he was in Blaine County, than how he is after he arrives in Los Santos. a lot more aggressive, to the point where he is pointing a gun at Michael and his family and threatening to shoot them as he speaks to each of them. probably from a version of the game where he was actually going to be the "playable antagonist" like Dan Houser hinted in old interviews. as well as cut dialogue from the mission where Michael and Trevor pretend to be a gay couple as the scope out Madrazo's house before robbing it. the video is on YouTube but it's unlisted, link was posted on GTAForums. i post it here every now and then