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Posted on 09-15-13 06:37:24 AM (last edited by omega59 at 09-15-13 06:38:52 AM) Link | Quote
I don't know if anyone else has discovered this, I found HL2 E3 tech demo from 2003. Somebody ripped the files a while back, and it's been released as "Missing Information". I wasn't the one that personally got it, but I think it may be on Steam (somebody confirm this). I currently don't have a link, but I played through the tech demo today. One thing to be noted though, is that a few textures, and one or more models is missing. Nothing major is affected though. It even comes with a prototype map, which immediately gives you the iceaxe. Oh, and one thing that's pretty annoying to me: The L4D gun-smoke is in the demo, but it's missing the textures, so you'll end up getting lots of pink checkerboard "smoke" obscuring the screen with a couple of guns. Look up the Demo on youtube so you know how to advance the tech demo levels.
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Posted on 09-15-13 07:18:40 AM Link | Quote
I assume that HL2 stands for Half-Life 2.
Nice find, I guess?
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Posted on 09-15-13 03:41:01 PM Link | Quote
Yeah, and I kind of randomly came across it. The old weapons are pretty interesting, but there was a random GMod pack with them in it. It doesn't function quite the same though, which is a little wierd. I must say though, using a flare gun to light Combine on fire is satisfying.
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Posted on 09-16-13 07:20:49 AM Link | Quote
There's also the initial leak of the game, which pushed back the release date and lead to a large revision of the game, available online. If this e3 version was interesting to you, you should definitely check out the initial leak.

I think the copy I came across was called hl2-anon or something like that.
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Posted on 09-16-13 07:28:50 AM Link | Quote
Originally posted by Celice
There's also the initial leak of the game, which pushed back the release date and lead to a large revision of the game, available online. If this e3 version was interesting to you, you should definitely check out the initial leak.

I think the copy I came across was called hl2-anon or something like that.

Thanks, I'll check it out. There's not too much to this demo, but I haven't disected it yet. The Combine's much different in modelling, animation, and even has a more elite and a convincing A.I. than the final release. Alyx's clothing textures are majorly different too.
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Posted on 09-16-13 09:13:04 PM Link | Quote
The leak just makes you wonder how many different versions of episode 3 Valve has in their offices. So much was cut from the base game, despite being up to par with what made it to the final version, and most of what is still there isn't being used how it was originally intended to be.

Missing Information is a mod that tries to rebuild the original game design based on fixed up copies of the leaked files ported to a newer version of Source and some original content. The wiki has some of the leak documented:

http://tcrf.net/Proto:Half-Life_2_(PC)

But that article could definitely use a rewrite, and there is a lot missing from it.
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Posted on 09-17-13 02:33:19 AM Link | Quote
*looks at length of article*

Is it me or would it spawn a whole subwiki on its own?
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Posted on 09-17-13 02:57:54 AM Link | Quote
There's already some more "in-depth" coverage of the Half-Life 2 leak here, and here which cover a lot of stuff. While I believe that TCRF emphasizes on doing your own research, it is a wiki, so other sources can be cited as well.

While we're on the subject of Half-Life, though, there was an alpha version of the first game from 1997 (it was released in 1998) released that has vast differences from the original.
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