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Have you ever heard about the cut content of Half-Life 2? Do you know how much of it was actually cut? What if I told you that the original story was waaayyy longer, richer, and darker? So interesting. But may I guess — you've already know it, right?
Back in 2003, during the development of HL2, a man stole the source code, which was later discovered to be playable. The dedicated community of fans came to learn that up until September 2002, Valve had a completely different storyline known as the "Old Story". Due to constant changes in the old story, some chapters were either added or completely removed. The maps underwent numerous revisions, with many of them still unfinished or lacking proper logical order.
Therefore, I have decided to take the liberty of assembling the best leaked maps available (part of them from the canceled E3 2002) and fixing them before delivering them to you. Consider it like a polished story kind of mappack.
Here's the latest version available.
For a better understanding of what you should expect, please take the time to read the "Important" file.
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I want to express my gratitude to all the players who have enjoyed, and who will enjoy this mod. Your feedback and support inspire me to keep working on new releases. Here are some of my reflections on RC4.
Community feedback
It’s a great feeling to see people having fun with your creation, after you invested so much time and effort into it. I learned a lot from the players’ opinions, and I realized that sometimes I went too far or missed some important aspects. For example:
- Poor optimization
- High difficulty level on some maps
- Unintended ways of gameplay
- Grigory dies :(
I will take into account everything to make the next version better.
Next version
I’m eagerly waiting for the release of Megapatch 5, which will add more content to RC5. I have planned at least 3 more maps for this version:
- d4_citadel_01 - A continuation of the Citadel map, based on the proto_citadel maps from the leak
- d4_streetwars_01 - A map for urban warfare, as the name suggests.
- d1_sewer_01 - A sewer segment of Gordon’s escape. Watch out for the Hydras.
I don’t have a fixed date for the release yet. But I’ll keep you updated.
And now - Videos!
A Radiation Hazard review of RC4 (English)
A Sinigers Play walkthrough (Russian)
RC5 Progress Update
NewsFeast your eyes on the tantalizing previews in the latest work-in-progress screenshots.
Valve's desk photo from 2002
News 4 commentsBeta fans, behold. New(old) info from Marc Laidlaw and Randy Lundeen. And a bit about mod development.
Half-Life 2 2002 Edition — RC4 Released
News 22 commentsHey everyone, I'm beyond excited to announce the release of Half-Life 2 2002 Edition RC4. This update is the result of months of hard work, and I can't...
Half-Life 25th Anniversary and Mod's media updates
News 2 commentsHow I met Half-Life mixed with some mod media updates.
Files
Half-Life 2 2002 Edition RC4 (fixed)
Full Version 34 commentsNew version with a hotfix. I am delighted to announce the release of this big update, which I have been working on for several months. It was a challenging...
Half-Life 2 2002 Edition RC3
Full Version 7 commentsThis is a release candidate version 3. There's still some minor things that needed to fix, but apart from that, game is playable
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very cool! are you guys going to try to finish the entire story? or just main parts?
Thank you) Since I work alone, it is almost impossible to recreate full-scale story, please read my older comments about it for more explanation
i hope the entire story
I mentioned earlier about full story, please read my comments below
Pretty damn good, recommend it to everyone who wants to play the 2002 history, also, this must be a pain in the *** to make, show the creator some love. Good job man!
For the sake of such comments is worth trying and make the most cool mod possible. Thank you)
I hope you will not abandon the mod, you will add more cards from the beta and transfer them correctly. The main problem of the mod is poor optimization, but nevertheless this is the beta that we always wanted to see. You can also try to restore the plot. So far, the mod is raw and there are not enough maps in it, but if you work on it, it will probably be the same beta and the best mod for it)
Thanks for your support) Well, I have at least 3 good-enough-to-fix story maps. But I think they're be the last from 2002 era to be added, then surely I'll try to fix optimization. About the full plot... it's impossible to recreate it in full scale without custom content, but it's not the main goal of this mod. I can, and already done 2 maps from already existed pieces in leak to fit original geometry with story although make them from zero is not what I want)
how you compiled maps?
I used hammer from leaked build. It's quite buggy though