I no longer check this channel or use this account often so I apologize if I haven't responded to any requests or questions asked here. I'm linking the lossless file so people don't have to search for the link in replies. drive.google.com/file/u/2/d/1wQVNHt4vTKhniqmeYAqf1xtaA8ihIHnl/view?usp=sharing
What's better too is that this piece is actually the first official Half-Life 2 artwork ever made. In 1998 before production of HL2 even really began and everyone was making different ideas and concepts that were real messes finally Viktor Antonov made this based off of one idea for the world presented by Mark Laidlaw. The two presented this as a showcase to the world and vibe of HL2 to Gabe and he greenlit the project.
This ambient sound is a gem. So atmospheric and dark 'cause HL2 Beta has that tone to which I imagine how its released could have turned out. A horror game basically it would have been.
This isn't actual beta ambience, there never was a beta soundtrack that was leaked, the one passed around is a fake, this is from another game entirely, yet does fit atleast
Hl2 beta isnt horror the setting is just very grim and oppressive basically how a real opressive alien regime like the combine would be instead of the watered down one in the retail hl2
@@imonke5303 This is a real song, I checked the mega build files for it and it’s there, and most importantly the date it was las modified on was September 21st, 2003.
This music is unsettling on the same level as the "Space Queens" for "Sonic X-treme". It feels like you looking into another world. The timeline, that never came to be.
This is what it means to feel absolute disparity and fear in a post-war apocalypse the beta tried to portray. Even if the game was just mostly 1984 with Half-Life sprinkled onto it, I don't mind it, and selfishly wished it came out the way they intended at first. I love you all beta fans more than anything else.
I was hoping for this to pop up in the 20th anniversary of half life 2, and get shown in its full crisp yet clear 2001 mp3. But no dice, its so forgetable yet so memorable. But hey- we got the full version of free tvs, so i guess its a win
This cut level would have been amazing. As you approach the cliff corner you see the site, and further realise the extent of how much power the combine have over Earth. The complete and utter disregard for humanity. The complete selflessness and irreversible change to the atmosphere.
ironically, I think the opposite would be true, if say the beta and retail were flipped, people would probably be fascinated by our retail version just like how we are fascinated by the beta
Perhaps the actions of beta take place in America, but on the map from Half Life Alix it is drawn that where in America it is not known what is happening there
The half-life 2 beta ambience 1 song may be a beta version of Vivx song 3 as at 0:54 it sounds similar to the 00:10 of ambience 01 please tell me if you hear it.
Beautiful work! Would you be able to provide a direct download for the sound file you uploaded? I'd like to replace the ambient1 in my copy of the 2003 leak with your edited version, and I'd love to have it in the highest possible quality without any concerns of compression on RUclips's behalf. I would greatly appreciate it!
@@Marzsala I don't know if you read my entire comment, but the whole reason I asked for the original file is that I'd like to have the highest-quality copy of the uploader's work I can get. Videos are compressed when they are uploaded to RUclips, and all a converter does is download the uploaded file that RUclips has already compressed. Seeing as the uploader's entire goal was to minimize the compression of ambient.wav as much as possible, I feel it would be somewhat wasteful to have the only copy available for download be one that has been compressed by RUclips.
@@Marzsala Yeah, but I'd still prefer the full-quality source if the uploader would be willing to provide it. That's kinda why I commented in the first place.
I no longer have the original file for this, my old pc unfortunately had an hdd so this, as well as the actual leak files are no longer available to me. I could however, redownload the beta from somewhere and re-remaster the track into a flac or other lossles format. I'll update this when i get around to it.
honestly i prefer the original, this is a bit too smeared and covered in reverb for me, but it's still pretty well done. as soon as we get neural network audio upscaling i'm slamming ambient1 in it so i can listen to it in a bitrate that wouldn't embarrass a 30s era gramophone
Axel wasn't responsible for the switch from the American setting to the Eastern European one. Valve already made that setting switch by mid-2002, a whole year before the 2003 leak actually occurred.
I no longer check this channel or use this account often so I apologize if I haven't responded to any requests or questions asked here. I'm linking the lossless file so people don't have to search for the link in replies.
drive.google.com/file/u/2/d/1wQVNHt4vTKhniqmeYAqf1xtaA8ihIHnl/view?usp=sharing
The artwork, wow... The beta's atmosphere was really something else, wish they made it into the final game
What's better too is that this piece is actually the first official Half-Life 2 artwork ever made. In 1998 before production of HL2 even really began and everyone was making different ideas and concepts that were real messes finally Viktor Antonov made this based off of one idea for the world presented by Mark Laidlaw. The two presented this as a showcase to the world and vibe of HL2 to Gabe and he greenlit the project.
Working on a game engine for my own vision of HL2 :]
Wish they make two awesome different games. Beta would be a nice horror in some other occupied city on Earth or completely another dystopian game
The art reminds me of the old Fallout games from the 90s
@@k4rn31ro8 the artwork also gives the atmosphere and vibe of the first 2 Fallouts and Fallout 3 and Fallout New Vegas
Holy shit this sounds so much like dusks ambient music, and it looks like the episode 2 structures, especially Neo-babel
yeah it does
Man, nothing will ever compare to this series. So much personality
something about the original's loudness sort of added to the charm, but hey, at least it's nice to not hear the compression itself
if youre talking about the hissy aliasing and quantization error noise i think that makes it much more appealing personally
This ambient sound is a gem. So atmospheric and dark 'cause HL2 Beta has that tone to which I imagine how its released could have turned out. A horror game basically it would have been.
This isn't actual beta ambience, there never was a beta soundtrack that was leaked, the one passed around is a fake, this is from another game entirely, yet does fit atleast
Hl2 beta isnt horror the setting is just very grim and oppressive basically how a real opressive alien regime like the combine would be instead of the watered down one in the retail hl2
@@imonke5303 This is a real song, I checked the mega build files for it and it’s there, and most importantly the date it was las modified on was September 21st, 2003.
@@imonke5303no, you have much to learn, young beta fan, this is a real one.
If you download the mega build it is under \anon-hl2\hl2\sound\temp\music_test
I can hear Dark Interval somewhere in there.
Couldn't agree more
@@die_lokki287 It's at minute 1:15
Yeah, it really does sounds like an EATEOT version of Dark Interval.
Damn this is amazing. Thank you for your work.
"It's just a game, the beta building was just a beta building."
The beta build of the game:
nobody is saying this are you schizophrenic
I mean, they were literally throwing shit at the wall and tossing out whatever didn’t work
This music is unsettling on the same level as the "Space Queens" for "Sonic X-treme".
It feels like you looking into another world. The timeline, that never came to be.
they really took inspiration from this for hl alyx soundtracks
love how hopeless this sounds, amazing
Sublime track. Peak HL2 beta vibes
damn, I never expect you to be here.
"The *WRONG* man in the *RIGHT* place, can make *NO* difference in the world." -*Glados*.
If the old storyline made it to retail, I would of shit my pants every time I played it
This is what it means to feel absolute disparity and fear in a post-war apocalypse the beta tried to portray.
Even if the game was just mostly 1984 with Half-Life sprinkled onto it, I don't mind it, and selfishly wished it came out the way they intended at first. I love you all beta fans more than anything else.
I was hoping for this to pop up in the 20th anniversary of half life 2, and get shown in its full crisp yet clear 2001 mp3. But no dice, its so forgetable yet so memorable.
But hey- we got the full version of free tvs, so i guess its a win
I actually just listened to this because it's in the files for 2001 Half Life 2
2050's soundtrack
This cut level would have been amazing.
As you approach the cliff corner you see the site, and further realise the extent of how much power the combine have over Earth.
The complete and utter disregard for humanity.
The complete selflessness and irreversible change to the atmosphere.
Honestly this sounds like it’s from Stalker
Honestly a perfect track if someone wanted to make an SFM or like a mod set during the 7 hour war.
we can dream about what if half life 2 actually are the original beta
I always wanted to see in what kind of desolate state they left the america's in after the 7 hour war.
ironically, I think the opposite would be true, if say the beta and retail were flipped, people would probably be fascinated by our retail version just like how we are fascinated by the beta
Perhaps the actions of beta take place in America, but on the map from Half Life Alix it is drawn that where in America it is not known what is happening there
forgotten times.
Sounds very apocalyptic
@@automatonm99 i know right. i wish valve released these official on youtube channel and half-life website.
This should be in Raising the Bar: Redux
Yeah, definitely
Well RTBR hasn't gotten to the Air Exchange yet, so ya never know
The future:
Lore of Half-Life 2 Beta - Airex Reactor / ambient1.wav Restored momentum 100
I cant tell if i like the restored version or the original more
The half-life 2 beta ambience 1 song may be a beta version of Vivx song 3 as at 0:54 it sounds similar to the 00:10 of ambience 01 please tell me if you hear it.
WOW i kinda hear some of it in Half-Life Alyx's Vault soundtrack! WTF
More specifically the tracks:
Supersymmetry Dilation
imagine this art made june 1999. I wish valve show on this 20th year anniversary of half-life 2 documentary.
It's more coherent when you increase speed and tempo 2x in Audacity.
Sounds like Resident Evil. Love it!
from what i've heard the image in the video is the first piece of concept art for half-life 2. something about that fact kind of unsettles me
so dark and evil
I hear Mass Effect elements in there from the first game.
Beautiful work! Would you be able to provide a direct download for the sound file you uploaded? I'd like to replace the ambient1 in my copy of the 2003 leak with your edited version, and I'd love to have it in the highest possible quality without any concerns of compression on RUclips's behalf. I would greatly appreciate it!
@@Marzsala I don't know if you read my entire comment, but the whole reason I asked for the original file is that I'd like to have the highest-quality copy of the uploader's work I can get. Videos are compressed when they are uploaded to RUclips, and all a converter does is download the uploaded file that RUclips has already compressed.
Seeing as the uploader's entire goal was to minimize the compression of ambient.wav as much as possible, I feel it would be somewhat wasteful to have the only copy available for download be one that has been compressed by RUclips.
@@Marzsala Yeah, well it's not. RUclips compresses the audio of every file uploaded to 126 kbps AAC.
@@Marzsala Nope, it's 126 kbps AAC. You're free to look at RUclips's official codec information if you don't believe me.
@@Marzsala Yeah, but I'd still prefer the full-quality source if the uploader would be willing to provide it. That's kinda why I commented in the first place.
I no longer have the original file for this, my old pc unfortunately had an hdd so this, as well as the actual leak files are no longer available to me. I could however, redownload the beta from somewhere and re-remaster the track into a flac or other lossles format. I'll update this when i get around to it.
Deep dark fantasy
Dark and griddy
It needs to be in a horror movie not going to lie.
The first few notes sound like R6:Siege intro lol
honestly i prefer the original, this is a bit too smeared and covered in reverb for me, but it's still pretty well done. as soon as we get neural network audio upscaling i'm slamming ambient1 in it so i can listen to it in a bitrate that wouldn't embarrass a 30s era gramophone
Is this ambient or a soundtrack? Btw it sounds pretty cool.
More like ambient *music* than background sfx
02:08 ending theme of episode 70 part 1 skibidi toilet
Shut up
@@uhsir9852do not talk back to my fellow Skibidi toilet fans
@@Brother_Diddy shut up
@@maginekris prepare for unforeseen consequences Mr freeman
@@Brother_Diddy skibidi toilet sucks
america 2024:
where can I download that image
Halo Vibes
The original would be better if it wasn't for the horrific compression.
That looks American
This is half life 2 beta City 17 New York .
It is because HL2 beta city 17 was based on New York,Chicago and so
So dark
Can you make Post-war sounds it would be nice
Hey do you still have the download for this, id like this in the lossless wav
Average Romanian city😊
Nah this is normal nyc
Ukraine...
any lossless dl?
Curse you, Axel!
Axel wasn't responsible for the switch from the American setting to the Eastern European one. Valve already made that setting switch by mid-2002, a whole year before the 2003 leak actually occurred.
@@neoplatan6740 Oh thank you I didn't know that :)
@@neoplatan6740 actually 9/11 caused it.
Axel in Harlem