I'm very relieved you displayed the text "Ceem" on the screen for us. I don't think anyone would have been able to understand what was going on in the video without it. (Also great video, by the way)
@LightROOM01
8 ай бұрын
We're so back.
@teaboy301
8 ай бұрын
Theres something almost mythical or surreal about the Hyperborea. I mean just the idea of waking up on a sheet of ice in the middle of nowhere and then seeing the ship makes me think of some sorta ghost ship.
@FunkyDrumm3r
8 ай бұрын
Fascinating nostalgia research & development atmosphere
@user_9qH6z
6 ай бұрын
.MAP is a valve hammer editor file, its like a RMF, you can open it too
@zer0nix
8 ай бұрын
It's strange but there's something about the beta that feels more like half life than the actual half life 2. It's almost impressionistic in how it gives a sense of things, and the realism from the first game comes from how alive the world feels. For borealis to do the same, it needs to follow the same rules. Gonzo aliens and enemies, and an insane, lively world that boldly reacts to the players presence. Don't get me wrong, half life 2 is a great game, but it doesn't leave as strong an impression as half life 1. You don't get the sense that this is a crazy world where anything can happen
@justletmelistthese
8 ай бұрын
.map is "pure binary" output of whatever editor you are using, so compliers can work.
@jasperfox6821
8 ай бұрын
Go on, hit the griddy then 👀
@TangetTNGL
Ай бұрын
this video was made in 2024?? i remember watching this in 2023
@DreamVikings
8 ай бұрын
Hi radhaz. Skybox video!!
@TheConsulC17
8 ай бұрын
We are so back
@BamBamAbraham
8 ай бұрын
Nice
@kazik997
8 ай бұрын
Dork and griddy
@violetwithvulcan
8 ай бұрын
omg are we back in 2020 O_o
@norger
8 ай бұрын
So dark and and grit 😢😢😢😢😢😮😮😮
@BOGI1703
8 ай бұрын
BANGER!
@cjlkicks
8 ай бұрын
sooooo dork an griddy
@kellymountain
8 ай бұрын
hl2 beta fans when they have to come up with an original joke that isnt "dark and gritty"
@RadiationHazardYT
8 ай бұрын
But it's dark and gritty
@unusualis_cool
8 ай бұрын
Rad I got a new job yay
@RadiationHazardYT
8 ай бұрын
Very nice! Congrats!
@someoneelse803
8 ай бұрын
they should add Gordon to Fortnite fr fr
@JasonKane.457
8 ай бұрын
a channel that sadly felled off, RIP Dead channel
@notraeon
8 ай бұрын
its really not dead at all. check the comments in "newest first" section, theres literally comments every few minutes
@aSkyclad
8 ай бұрын
Ah yes, having 70k views in the past 6 days means it's dead
@eadwacer524
8 ай бұрын
Worldcraft can open .MAP, probably those are Quake-style uncompiled maps.
@Oni32-ir2ob
8 ай бұрын
Imagine Valve releases another documentary about Half-Life 2 when it turns 20, documenting the development hell of Half-Life 2 and its cut content, and what vision the team had for it in 1999.
@abemigos9281
8 ай бұрын
@bruncher49 That hasn't already been shared or leaked or discovered, that is.
@Oni32-ir2ob
8 ай бұрын
@@abemigos9281 Exactly!
@geemcspankinson
8 ай бұрын
More likely a a big fat leak will reveal the secrets
@entity37
8 ай бұрын
That'll probably happen for the 25th anniversary, and also a side note Dario casali will likely make another developer play through of HL2 for that as well, or even before
@cepheus3d
8 ай бұрын
It would be great. I loved their documentary for HL1, they even updated the original game. It would be dope to have a resurgence of old content for a little fanfare.
@mister005k
8 ай бұрын
Radhaz singlehandedly coming up with the most certified dark and gritty content
@mbb2221_1
8 ай бұрын
Did you mean griddy🥶🥶🥶
@hydroponicgard
8 ай бұрын
The "Hyper" mod is honestly really cool, no matter if it's abandoned/in eternal state of frozen in time. Something about artistic expression of what the game could've been, speaks more words, than what the community thinks the game would've been.
@adam_roman
8 ай бұрын
9:35 This G-Man scene is so cool. It reminds me of something, I think it was in The Final Hours of Half-Life Alyx, Marc Laidlaw had been working with a small team on a VR demo where you're on the Borealis as it blasts around to different places and dimensions. It's interesting seeing these seeds of ideas that persist through decades, waiting for the right moment to finally be used.
@jess648
8 ай бұрын
Hyper seemed to be the earliest tangible experimention with the idea of a Half-Life 2 in story gameplay and technology after Goldsource wasn’t deemed adequate for what they wanted to achieve and Valve engineers later began work on what would become Source. by 2000 they already had rudimentary implementations of engine features like havok physics, improved ai, the new lightmapping system and displacements based on a few WC maps modification dates and the infamous press demo screenshots
@OhNoEveryoneDied
7 ай бұрын
get your free tvs
@RealMilkMan255
8 ай бұрын
The grittiest and darkest man ever made has upload another absolutely 100% certified dark and gritty video, it may just be the darkest and grittiest video yet.🔥
@RadiationHazardYT
8 ай бұрын
DARK AND GRITTY
@sodicious
8 ай бұрын
are you Dawrck and Gritdey @@RadiationHazardYT
@bigpalookaalt
8 ай бұрын
Dr Darkengriddi
@RealMilkMan255
8 ай бұрын
@@RadiationHazardYT 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
@RealMilkMan255
8 ай бұрын
@@RadiationHazardYT Dr Gritty Freeman doesnt need to hear all of this he is a darkly trained professional.
@ceemartini4632
8 ай бұрын
Hey there, just wanted to let you know that Hyper is still in development! It has been for a while. (I'm Ceem fyi)
@RadiationHazardYT
8 ай бұрын
Oh nice! Thanks for the update! Good luck on the project!
@Hyper_1989
8 ай бұрын
I named myself "Hyperborea" online back in the day cause I thought the ship was cool from the half-life beta. Then I found out all the nazi conspiracy shit that hyperborea actually means and had to change the name lol.
@umcarafoda125
8 ай бұрын
For me its so crazy to think that HALF-LIFE 2 start the development on gold source and later was changed for the source, i like to imagine how half life 2 would have been on goldsource with that block style that HALF LIFE 1 has
@theartistformallyknownas2677
8 ай бұрын
It would look kinda like those cs source maps that are super low fidelity
@strakk405
8 ай бұрын
I love the vibes of the Hyper mod, the Beta ambience with the Goldsrc aesthetics and low poly models work really well
@saltypotato42
8 ай бұрын
Glad we have mods like RTBR to bring us the true beta experience.
@Cats-TM
8 ай бұрын
Remember, kids, if your ship ever guts stuck in the ice you should run because aliens will want to steal it.
@gerorgewarshington
8 ай бұрын
the titanic was sunken by vortigaunts
@TangetTNGL
8 ай бұрын
@@gerorgewarshington As the Titanic, I can confirm that I was sunken by Vortigaunts.
@gerorgewarshington
8 ай бұрын
@@TangetTNGL As the person reading your comment, I can confirm that I am reading this comment.
@roberthunter6122
8 ай бұрын
Half Life 2 Beta is just one of the coolest betas ever. I'm so damn obsessed with it lmao. I just love it. It's such a twist compared to retail. Like, the beta FEELS like a 1990s dystopia. And it's beautiful. Don't get me wrong, retail is lovely, but I much prefer the dark beta. It's just so different and beautiful and I could go on and on. Seriously Radiation Hazard, thanks for these videos. I can gush about Half Life 2 Beta even more cause of these! x3
@StitchPen
8 ай бұрын
2001 Half Life 2 is great, but I think the Hyper Era definitely peaks in its obscurity and hodge-podge of GoldSRC and proto-Source assets and tools. It's rather weird how most of the early development went purely into the Hyperborea, but I can see how the scale of it would be far more compatible with the limitations of GoldSRC compared to the massive sights for places like C17 or the Wasteland.
@kkarhiiv95
8 ай бұрын
Also, there recently leaked the 1999 model of the gravity gun with HL1 arms.
@anormalstreetlamp6878
8 ай бұрын
What makes me a good demo map ?? IF I WAS A BAD DEMO MAP, I WOULDN'T BE SITTING IN A RADHAZ VIDEO NOW WOULD I ?
@proletherapy15
8 ай бұрын
"And books like 1984." - RadHaz 2024. Well, about that, my dude. This is a misconception, HL2 actually has effectively no inspiration from that book at all (I do vaguely recall some conversations saying that the citizen outfits *might* be a reference, though). Otherwise, there's none, and Marc himself stated that he's never even read the book either. 1984 as a source of inspiration has long been debunked, by the man himself no less ;) .
@delawarevex4976
8 ай бұрын
he did say thought that ONE of his main inspirations for hl2 was the movie "dark city", althought most of it was experimental and wasnt seen in the final game
@dodsonboys
8 ай бұрын
This era of HL2 is so interesting, like that leaked HL1 Gravity Gun. Its so mysterious and fascinating I hope more content on this period surfaces.
@denifnaf5874
8 ай бұрын
The func_precipitation can still be used !!! Edit: by that i mean it can be used in hammer And not just for hl2 and it's episodes But tf2 as well.
@StitchPen
8 ай бұрын
I don't think func_precip actually got used in any significant way until Episode 1, which is weird to think about.
@denifnaf5874
8 ай бұрын
@@StitchPen the devs said that gordon would meet enemies in ep1 that ehere only seen in the citadel rides The stalker was the only one But the crab and mortar synths could've been a great addition Imagine "what kind of hospital is this?" playing at the hospital level whilst a crabsynth is chargin at you.
@JangoF12b
8 ай бұрын
It's crazy all those old Beta videos are three years old now. Glad I've been around to see your channel grow like it has, really good content that I love and love to share with others. Keep this freight train goin man.
@TheUplinkExperiment
8 ай бұрын
I love how far you've gone in terms of editing and speaking, these new videos just blow the old beta look-throughs out of the water. I know you don't usually remake videos but I would love to see the Pre-Pitch Era video redone, in terms of what we know its about the same as when you made the original video. But I feel that since that era is rarely covered in comparison to Hyper, 2000, 2001, etc. It would honestly deserve a better video to explain it to people. Either way, love your videos!
@nob_xd
8 ай бұрын
Radhaz never disappoints with a new video!
@Chad_Wick
8 ай бұрын
y'know for me it's not as much the dark and grittiness i miss but the variety of enemies. most of the time being standard combine soldiers
@matijajovic8125
8 ай бұрын
Ok it is time to drop everything because Rad Haz just dropped HL 2 beta video!
@FatherMcKenzie66
8 ай бұрын
THAT MUST BE ONE OF THE GREATEST BETA MOD OUT THERE, WOW also, the thought of going back to Black Mesa is pretty sick, i wish people will make some mod with that premise
@SaintRedFox
8 ай бұрын
i would love to see more leaks from the hyper era in the future. if we ever get a leak of TF2:BoA chances are those hyperborea maps would be there.
@ratkid121
6 ай бұрын
pre-pitch era: SAW hyper:Sea of thieves dark dystopian era: blade runner 2002-2004: half life 2 but more uhh more dark and gritty
@amphibiousgaming877
4 ай бұрын
its should be 2001-2002 and then 2003- 2004 is just final game
@t_5511
8 ай бұрын
now i kno why dark and gritty there was no light in half lig 2 beytah
@andresbravo2003
8 ай бұрын
It’s the Hyper era as what it was started developing HL2…
@Based_Stuhlinger
8 ай бұрын
I much prefer the beta, to me retail doesn't match the dark atmosphere of the first game, feels off. I think the beta would have matched it perfectly.
@ChronosHVT-g3u
8 ай бұрын
Yep. Me to
@epicjoeman8685
8 ай бұрын
razzy hazzy moment
@Oktaimans
8 ай бұрын
It's amazing that they even came up with a worthy sequel to half life 1, HL2 could have flopped so hard but valve pulled it off perfectly
@lukabrasi001
8 ай бұрын
to be honest, it was destined to suck ass. the fact that they could make it work after the leak (which i'm guessing was a big reality check on the dev team and good beta testing) is the real achievement here
@MyNames_55
8 ай бұрын
half life 2 beta c17_outside for life
@arisumego
8 ай бұрын
Has radiation hazard ever released a breakdown of his music? I would love to know the equipment he uses or if it is all just software-based.
@ElmeriThePig
8 ай бұрын
I wrote that one comment in one video of yours wondering about Half-Life 2 Beta's development during the year 2000. Well, now I got my answer.
@The_psp_secret
25 күн бұрын
Fun fact! Demo arctic has mostly same geometry as ravine04a but the place where ship is there is a rock mountain
@BONNIEE1983
8 ай бұрын
Am i the only one who wants to see a full og, rustic, dark beta mod more then half life 3
@Oppen1945
8 ай бұрын
We're gonna have a finished beta mod before another main HL entry that's for sure. Only thing I hope for in a future entry is for them to make North America canonically dark and gritty. Having retail and beta exist at the same time would be pretty cool.
@MufMof
8 ай бұрын
Yes
@ChronosHVT-g3u
8 ай бұрын
No. I too want oh beta more when Half-Life 3
@aSkyclad
8 ай бұрын
I love the pre-source era of HL2 when they were still working with mostly GoldSrc as they were working on the game and engine
@kvdrr
8 ай бұрын
.map sounds like uncompiled goldsrc map before you compile it into bsp
@kabob0077
8 ай бұрын
It'd be amazing if Valve pulled a 343 and gave some modders some old hard drives to dig around in.. Imagine it, we could see more of the Hyper Era if any drives still exist.
@eljts7113
5 ай бұрын
I feel like the Hyper mod it's like Beta minimalist, but maximalist, but well the minimalist it's finished and covers up a different version of the story (and it's "finished?"), in the end it's always nice to see Beta recreations on GoldSrc or Xash 3D, or other GoldSrc modified engine.
@GoldSrcAesthetic
8 ай бұрын
It's amazing how well they followed the concept art, it turned out very well
@TheGoombassador
8 ай бұрын
Go play Raising the Bar Redux. The End.
@grady631
2 ай бұрын
ngl i kinda like the pre pitch era, wouldve been aLOT like 1984
@toastedbreadmanjr.1656
8 ай бұрын
RadHaz it would be super cool if you made a hl2 bets montage with "thief you've taken all thst was me" by weezrr
@pandawan7798
8 ай бұрын
The Dark Dystopian Era was so much better. Dunno why they had to scrap it. Retail is still god but Dystopia ideas were something else. Also why noone makes Black Mesa like mod recreating Dystopian beta?
@mariotime7821
8 ай бұрын
Raising The Bar: Redux is pretty close to the "Black Mesa styled beta mod" you're describing. It recreates concepts and setpieces from the dystopian era pretty damn well, but still has a somewhat unique high-quality artstyle. They're making some damn good progress, too. There's also Dark Interval, my personal favorite beta mod, which aims to recreate Hyper and Dystopian era concepts with an artstyle more akin to vanilla HL2 than RTB:R's, alongside having a truly awe-inspiring atmosphere. I'd check both mods out, they're absolutely great, and making decent progress, too.
@pandawan7798
8 ай бұрын
thanks@@mariotime7821
@cloacky4409
8 ай бұрын
They dystopia was scrapped for a reason
@pandawan7798
8 ай бұрын
Tell me that reason@@cloacky4409
@hk_asa0pvp
8 ай бұрын
Are you the darkest and most gritty because you're half life 2 beta or are you half life 2 beta because you're the darkest and most gritty?
@postmailer9223
8 ай бұрын
I read it like Half-Life 2 Beter - The Hypa Erer Genuinely I thought had stroke my head hurts
@PUNXANDSKINZ
8 ай бұрын
Hey remember the npcs are dead? i dont think it could have been save glitch cuz the only exit out of that part of the map was the one with the barnacle in front of the door. the barnacle was alive when u played it yet during actual pregame u would have had to kill it
@barnek2594
8 ай бұрын
Another fantastic video.. love you Haz
@Cheemsborgor998
8 ай бұрын
GUYS Wake UP!! Radiation Hazard made another HL2 Beta video!!!
@JackWse
8 ай бұрын
One of these days, my phone is gonna work well enough in order to get my dark and gritty joke in before all these other fuckers..
@boxedupsalad5188
8 ай бұрын
“The Half Life 2 Beta was dark and gritty” 🤯🤯🤯😱😱😱🥶🥶🥶🤪🤪🤪😭😭😭
@ad7799
8 ай бұрын
Realmente la beta tenía un diseño mucho mejor y mas detallado ademas de hermoso, hasta el cielo atardecer era bellisimo. Para mí se siente como una versión mucho mas avanzada que la finál que nos dieron
@salsamancer
8 ай бұрын
Retail HL2 has plenty of grit and the plot is really dark when you stop to consider it. I think what sets the beta apart is the angst and lack of subtlety in the presentation of the ideas.
@Serbo171
8 ай бұрын
I think that mod captures very well what Half Life 2 would have looked like if it had been released in 1999-2000. There was also a mod based on the concept of a Prague-like alien city that has the same aesthetic. sorry if my english is bad lol
@ikagura
8 ай бұрын
Feels like a missing link between the original HL and HL².
@lividus4804
4 ай бұрын
A video about the "almost retail" era would be interesting.
@B-zk9bt
8 ай бұрын
The thumbnail reminds me of the Sierra Madre from F:NV.
@joshfueled
8 ай бұрын
6:58 just listen to this rad mad lad, lmao, what is he talking about
@rase.mp4
8 ай бұрын
I had no idead how to install the mod. Does anyone know how to get it up and running?
@pjtheprimalpeashootergamin6159
7 ай бұрын
Dark gritty crack and cocaine mixed with Dr Pepper
@LordBob0619
8 ай бұрын
It's so dark and gritty that everyone died. The end :D
@spunkyfunkymonke
8 ай бұрын
oh my GOD this is so... DARG... and.. GRIDDY... 😨😨😨😨😨😨
@IRONHIDE666FUL
8 ай бұрын
B E Y T U H
@Theocatzipped
8 ай бұрын
Dank and creepy
@Emanreous
8 ай бұрын
Babe wake up new video of RadHaz rambling about the beta
@bananbananowy3552
8 ай бұрын
if dystopian era is dark and gritty this is cold and snowy
@HellsAsylum
8 ай бұрын
Late 90's early 2000's Valve was GOAT.
@Lioydara
8 ай бұрын
Thank you for posting a vid im about to eat
@RadiationHazardYT
8 ай бұрын
Bone apple tea 🧑🍳
@jarjink3370
8 ай бұрын
Ribs apparently teeth
@bonnietheoriginal9868
8 ай бұрын
What happens if I turned that valve in your eye?
@Zasta_42
8 ай бұрын
another day, another hazardous banger 🗣️🔥
@miesskesso5370
8 ай бұрын
its so sad that the hyper build of this game is lost media
@Churrb
8 ай бұрын
Can’t have your dark and gritty and eat it too
@Ghosty6464
8 ай бұрын
Great video. Whilst you consider 2001 past the "Hyper Era" I do think that the 2001 segment of the Beta MegaBuild could have parts of the Hyper Era in it. The borealis_001, borealis_002. borealis_full_untouched001, and borealis_full_untouched003 maps for example. The Hyper mod you showed seems influenced by them, as the hole + crates area of the Hyperborea greatly resemble the top-hole + lower part of the the "borealis_full_untouched003" map from the 2001 leak.
@RadiationHazardYT
8 ай бұрын
True. There are some maps in there that might be modified in 2001 or later, but definitely feel like they were made earlier. Another example would be "city_test". The Free TVs' map.
@Ghosty6464
8 ай бұрын
@@RadiationHazardYT Yeah, I wouldn't be surprised if there's some degree of reused content too. Since Valve wasn't thinking in terms of eras, and really just seeing whatever could be salvaged/reused from previous versions when making the next one. Perhaps since they're called "Borealis" in the filename, they're just reused content from the previous era, but retitled and edited for the newer plans?
@kikoano111
8 ай бұрын
beta will always be better no matter what they say!
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