particle storms basically sound like Anomalies from stalker and metro, a questionably sentient ball of energy killing and destroying anything in its way
I love this! As a beta lover myself, I didn't even know about some of these things. You went into a lot of detail and it was fun imagining what these things might've been like in Half-Life.
The "Barney's Scout", along with several other cut characters/enemies are in Raising the Bar Redux, and yeah, you come across him and he's supposed to lead you to Barney. He does indeed get arrested and tells you find your own way.
In future updates, Raising the bar redux will contain the Alien combine assassin, And the antlion king in future updates, samuel is gonna be included in the future update, and the combine assassin will be a cameo in the borealis chapter.
The Whistler could be an interesting rival to the Gman, a mysterious man Whistling in the dim lights of a dystopian city at night would definitely fit the atmosphere of such an already bizarre series like Half Life
There is at least one enemy that I saw that hasn't been covered. Apparently in some concept arts found in more newer leaks, firstly one of them contained an actual silhouette of the antlion king which looks super similar to the antlion guard we all know today but another piece of concept art was for something that if I recall was called an Antlion Birther. Presumably a female antlion you would've fought but there's not much information on it other than the name and concept art, it was similar to the antlion guard too. About "Cort", there was a much better video explaining this by Richter Overtime but there was a character that went unused named "Cort" who was based off a scientist of the same name who got eaten while trying to talk to aliens in the Invaders from Mars movie. If you want to know more you should be able to find the video on YT. Hope this was useful info Lucia
The best way to Replay Beta HL2 is checking out "Raising the Bar: Redux". I love how they Manage to turn Cut characters and make it feel like they were suppose to be in the game.
Honestly it sounds like a fun mod I‘d like to see, mod in the sense that it simply edits the first map to include Barney‘s Scout and have him lead you through the map. While I think the intro did do better without him, it would be interesting to see
Nice you used old tyler speculation icon. Newer cartoony one doesnt have the same vibe as that old photo one xd Also like TF2 pyro reference with cremator xD
10:20 I think an obvious explanation for this is the same reason we never see kids much in any "shooter" type game, people are definitely going to see what happens if they shot them, and one of two things would happen. The Fallout/Skyrim immersion breaking method if "they're invincible" or head-lines in the news about how evil the game is by including children in a shooter game.
The consul sounds cool as fck. A character that you only see from the chest up in monitors, and when you see him in person he doesn't have any other body parts because he essentially sold his immortality to the combine. That sounds so cool
god all of those cut characters and enemies would've make the game even more greater, don't get me wrong, the Half Life games are masterpieces but just the curiosity and imagination how these characters and enemies appear in Half Life 2 and behave sounds very interesting and awesome!
10:50 Either I'm going senile or there was DEFINITELY a character named Nigel in the release version of Episode 2. Probably just the Mandela Effect but I swear I remember hearing a Nigel being mentioned in Episode 2.
Holy fk, all this time I thought the big zombie from entropy zero 2 was a gonome, turns out it was a zombie assassin What other lies have i been told by the council?
I've always wondered what the combine army would have looked like when they first invaded earth. I wonder this because most of the combine you end up fighting in the games used to be human, so what did the combine actually use? Was it just striders? Then would they have developed dropships if they had no small troops of their own? It just never made sense to me. Had some of these enemies not been cut then it would have made more sense, like the synths but there's none unfortunately.
The more you think about HL2 the less sense it makes. It's a world enslaved by aliens and overrun by invasive wild alien species. Yet you're mostly fighting generic guys with gas masks.
@@snark567That's kinda where the horror aspect comes in. The real Combine's army came and went. We're only fighting a fledgling police force as we wonder what the hell could have overrun humanity so fast.
OK I was just laying in bed listening to the video and the the tripod hopper was described. I literally rolled over to open my phone saying "the fucking what"
Whistler was to be a refugee hiding in the sewers and we were to meet him in the beginning of the game. Back in Summer of 2003 Marc Laidlaw reused his old idea from 2001 "nether01" map where we could meet a person whistling some melody and then manhacks attacked him.
Ngl I wish they left in the gonarch pod it was a really cool idea the idea of a alien that you previously killed has been used for birthing and combine head crab shells it would fit half life 2s retail version
Consul having only his upper body doesn't make sense because there's an actual concept art that shows gordon pointing a gun towards Consul while Alyx is being held hostage by Helena,and you can clearly see the consul is normal looking,there's actually 2 pics showing this.
the hydra is honestly my favorite because it stabs its victims and has diffrent versions not gonna lie the hydra e3 demonstartion is pretty cool because the combine guy gets impaled and flung around hopefully someone creates a mod where it adds the hydra
The original chort model was a janitor. Source: Emails to Marc Laidlaw by the HL2 Project Beta lead team (Витой) from one of the streams he did on their channel. You can find it in the playlist. I dont remember witch stream though. Ah fuck, i am an idiot i got confused.
15:27 I didn't realize there was a canon reason Eli lost his leg. My head-canon was and shall remain that he had to have it amputated because of untreated injuries in Black Mesa.
The gonarch pod sequence would have been incredibly cool, gonarch is also one of the coolest parts of half life 1 so would have been great to see it return in some form.
Honestly the breen and kids cctv picture would still make sense. There still are children in half life, it’s just super controlled as one of the benefits of serving the combine does include the chance of possibly earning reproduction rights.
My favorite is the combine assassin. They’re pretty sexy, cool, and would explain what happens to human women, since all of the combine and metrocops in the game have a male build.
No, Barney Scout was either cut between 2003 - 2004 as d1_trainstation01 the 2003 version has this guy and he does his job and he gets arrested, I just wanted to say even tho its quite obvious.
I feel like the "pests" of the combine alien assassin would be used as a silent insect to paralyze targets so the assassin could unalive the target while they were paralyzed, rate my idea!
JOIN THE DISCORD AND COME VOTE IN THE ART COMPETITION!!!! discord.gg/luciashideout :D
Question, if there is a cut weapons video, will there be an art contest for it as well?
@@Hunter-7115 definitely considering it!
@@1lucia Sounds good
3:29 what he most likely meant by “more like an antlion” was digging out of the ground and attacking before retreating back into the ground
That seems plausible actually
8:26 as the wise man "Reicter" in Lucia's hideout once said
BRUH WHAT WAS THAT CROSSBOW SHOT WTFFFFFF
It ricochet off the walls, so cool and crazy trickshot
8:26 Aint no way you just did that?! :ooo
The combine assassin would be great on hl2. I love the assassins in hl1. I love being stealthy when brutally murdering them :)
it's perfect just the way it is, meaning it probably was a good idea cutting it out.
@@nerolzaphobia but i like the assassins in hl1 :( they are fun to toy with then murdering with a double barrel to the face
I love the combine assassin look, wish they had a less pronounced butt though!!!
Wish they had a more pronounced butt
particle storms basically sound like Anomalies from stalker and metro, a questionably sentient ball of energy killing and destroying anything in its way
I love this! As a beta lover myself, I didn't even know about some of these things. You went into a lot of detail and it was fun imagining what these things might've been like in Half-Life.
Tripod hopper goes crazy 💀
我即將射精
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Definitely the result of some kind of weird fetish in the Valve office
"Half-Life 2 Beta is peak!"
Peak in question:
The "Barney's Scout", along with several other cut characters/enemies are in Raising the Bar Redux, and yeah, you come across him and he's supposed to lead you to Barney. He does indeed get arrested and tells you find your own way.
In future updates, Raising the bar redux will contain the Alien combine assassin, And the antlion king in future updates, samuel is gonna be included in the future update, and the combine assassin will be a cameo in the borealis chapter.
The Whistler could be an interesting rival to the Gman, a mysterious man Whistling in the dim lights of a dystopian city at night would definitely fit the atmosphere of such an already bizarre series like Half Life
There is at least one enemy that I saw that hasn't been covered. Apparently in some concept arts found in more newer leaks, firstly one of them contained an actual silhouette of the antlion king which looks super similar to the antlion guard we all know today but another piece of concept art was for something that if I recall was called an Antlion Birther. Presumably a female antlion you would've fought but there's not much information on it other than the name and concept art, it was similar to the antlion guard too.
About "Cort", there was a much better video explaining this by Richter Overtime but there was a character that went unused named "Cort" who was based off a scientist of the same name who got eaten while trying to talk to aliens in the Invaders from Mars movie. If you want to know more you should be able to find the video on YT. Hope this was useful info Lucia
10:19 Radiation hazard will be proud
i saw that stream, i have never laughed so fucking much ever before.
I love the half life 2 beta npcs, thanks for making a part 2
7:50 Actually, rebels do whistle in the original Half life 2, it's a bit rare part of their dialogues, but it happens
ii hear uit too much
The best way to Replay Beta HL2 is checking out "Raising the Bar: Redux". I love how they Manage to turn Cut characters and make it feel like they were suppose to be in the game.
To be honest barney's scout could kinda come back if he said something like "Gordon freeman? Is that really you?" or smth idk.
Honestly it sounds like a fun mod I‘d like to see, mod in the sense that it simply edits the first map to include Barney‘s Scout and have him lead you through the map. While I think the intro did do better without him, it would be interesting to see
when you upload it makes my day man
Glad to hear that! :D
@@1lucia keep up the good work man
That story about Ted Cohrt is brilliant
Nice you used old tyler speculation icon. Newer cartoony one doesnt have the same vibe as that old photo one xd
Also like TF2 pyro reference with cremator xD
i'd love more videos on cut half life content. Weapons, vehicles, levels,
10:20 I think an obvious explanation for this is the same reason we never see kids much in any "shooter" type game, people are definitely going to see what happens if they shot them, and one of two things would happen. The Fallout/Skyrim immersion breaking method if "they're invincible" or head-lines in the news about how evil the game is by including children in a shooter game.
2:14 it really looks like something Ted Backman would design.
The consul sounds cool as fck. A character that you only see from the chest up in monitors, and when you see him in person he doesn't have any other body parts because he essentially sold his immortality to the combine. That sounds so cool
He is wallen breen beta edition
god all of those cut characters and enemies would've make the game even more greater, don't get me wrong, the Half Life games are masterpieces but just the curiosity and imagination how these characters and enemies appear in Half Life 2 and behave sounds very interesting and awesome!
10:50 Either I'm going senile or there was DEFINITELY a character named Nigel in the release version of Episode 2. Probably just the Mandela Effect but I swear I remember hearing a Nigel being mentioned in Episode 2.
Holy fk, all this time I thought the big zombie from entropy zero 2 was a gonome, turns out it was a zombie assassin
What other lies have i been told by the council?
It's not a zombie assasin
It's gonome 😂
It is a gonome thogh
@@PapBenedek
Yep, even subtitles in EZ2 say:
GONOME
Idk anymore, Lucia says it's an assassin, yall are saying otherwise, i seriously don't know
@@Michi_Exiled He is refering to the overall concept not that it is specifically an assasin
11:04 "The true citizen washes behind his testicles"
I've always wondered what the combine army would have looked like when they first invaded earth. I wonder this because most of the combine you end up fighting in the games used to be human, so what did the combine actually use? Was it just striders? Then would they have developed dropships if they had no small troops of their own?
It just never made sense to me.
Had some of these enemies not been cut then it would have made more sense, like the synths but there's none unfortunately.
The more you think about HL2 the less sense it makes. It's a world enslaved by aliens and overrun by invasive wild alien species. Yet you're mostly fighting generic guys with gas masks.
@@snark567That's kinda where the horror aspect comes in. The real Combine's army came and went. We're only fighting a fledgling police force as we wonder what the hell could have overrun humanity so fast.
OK I was just laying in bed listening to the video and the the tripod hopper was described. I literally rolled over to open my phone saying "the fucking what"
18:20 no mention of combine assassin "huge asset" that might rival that of 2B's "300k+ polygons", bummer.
other than that good explanations.
I love watching your videos 😊
20:34 This is the contunus miner. Used in coal mines.
The zombie assassin looks like a gonome, before this video comes out, thought they are the same enemy
well i gotta say i would love it if attack synth was in the game i just like trying to deal with tanky and heavily armored enemies
Ayo , you should Collab with radiation hazard. Your guysz humors work good together
Not gonna lie, wish we could have a supercut of both parts. Maybe after 1 & 2 have really ran their course.. for the super nerds.
Will probably do that at some point!
yes a video covering the cut weapons of half life would do well
Whistler was to be a refugee hiding in the sewers and we were to meet him in the beginning of the game. Back in Summer of 2003 Marc Laidlaw reused his old idea from 2001 "nether01" map where we could meet a person whistling some melody and then manhacks attacked him.
Ngl I wish they left in the gonarch pod it was a really cool idea the idea of a alien that you previously killed has been used for birthing and combine head crab shells it would fit half life 2s retail version
Hey, just wanted to say your content is amazing and you really deserve more subs, seriously man you are the best half life youtuber.
The beta Stalker reminds me of Jobe's cyberspace form in The Lawnmower Man.
A shame how many cool enemies were cut, Half-Life 2 was great but suffered from lack of enemy variety imo
Ah Gordon! It's good to finally see you
fun fact: portal gun sound of placing blue portal was planned for combine guard gun fire sound first
Consul having only his upper body doesn't make sense because there's an actual concept art that shows gordon pointing a gun towards Consul while Alyx is being held hostage by Helena,and you can clearly see the consul is normal looking,there's actually 2 pics showing this.
Nice video!
Could i suggest a video about the best (and worst) mods that try to recreate beta versions of Half Life 2?
Cool and Funny Video!
Love to see a cut weapons video
6:58 AYO MY ART GOT IN A VIDEO LETS GOOO
11:11 Literally 1984
now we need one for Half-Life: Alyx to get a trilogy.
Long awaited!
Sacktick sounds like something you get in a men's residence.
Zombie assassin is like the big zombies in opposing force!
bro KNEW what he was doing in the thumbnail...
the hydra is honestly my favorite because it stabs its victims and has diffrent versions not gonna lie the hydra e3 demonstartion is pretty cool because the combine guy gets impaled and flung around hopefully someone creates a mod where it adds the hydra
2:55 It probably would work like the HL1 tentacle and smack the ground in sheer anger.
I feel like the sacktick was repurposed into that ship that looks like a tick
Theory: The sacktick might've been used to create malformed toughts in the shu'ulathoi
8:25 Sheess, gut shoot man.
thanks
4:00 It actually has a body plan akin to water bettles or extinct euryptids
8:25 nice shot man...
Was the npc from the whistler section whistling Maneater?
The original chort model was a janitor. Source: Emails to Marc Laidlaw by the HL2 Project Beta lead team (Витой) from one of the streams he did on their channel. You can find it in the playlist. I dont remember witch stream though.
Ah fuck, i am an idiot i got confused.
there are weaponized scanners in half life 2
the scanners with the claw things drop hopper mines
I get a chuckle when you use censoring because i keep thinking "these enemies are too pornographic to show on a christian channel!"
15:27 I didn't realize there was a canon reason Eli lost his leg. My head-canon was and shall remain that he had to have it amputated because of untreated injuries in Black Mesa.
The gonarch pod sequence would have been incredibly cool, gonarch is also one of the coolest parts of half life 1 so would have been great to see it return in some form.
Honestly the breen and kids cctv picture would still make sense. There still are children in half life, it’s just super controlled as one of the benefits of serving the combine does include the chance of possibly earning reproduction rights.
I feel like patrick stewart would be a great fit for the consul
Lucia! it is half lifes 25th anniversary. can you make a video on it that will be so cool
I am haunting my friends with the Barneys scout image and made an acc wheres he like a ghost
nice vid bro!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
My favorite is the combine assassin. They’re pretty sexy, cool, and would explain what happens to human women, since all of the combine and metrocops in the game have a male build.
best vid yet!!!!11111
i wish samuel got used in retail, what a homie
I like to think that the cut combine do exist in the hl2 cannon, they just aren't in city 17 so you never see them.
The hydra could have appeared in narrow corridors and/or telegraph a lot its attacks. I mean solution to their problem seems simple enough :(
10:40 child workers were included in hunt down freeman
5:44
Soyjack Skitch
In entropy zero 2 tho the zombir assassin has the same model it was actually a gonome.
No, Barney Scout was either cut between 2003 - 2004 as d1_trainstation01 the 2003 version has this guy and he does his job and he gets arrested, I just wanted to say even tho its quite obvious.
Sucks that I'm not included in part two but that's alright, I'm pretty much okay with that
Child Workers go Wild Man What the G-Newell
6:46 they may be the same race but at different evolutions
wait, the Waste land scanner can be spawned in Gmod tho, I guess that's just someone's interpretation of it, Ig. lol
im still sad that the antlion king and the levels got cut it sounds really cool
Dude what, Goddamn 8:25
cremator joke made me laught
I feel like the "pests" of the combine alien assassin would be used as a silent insect to paralyze targets so the assassin could unalive the target while they were paralyzed, rate my idea!
turns out thats actually a mutated zombie or a gonome from half life opposing force 6:55
half life fandom wiki is actually reliable
also what’s the mod in the background
MMod
What are the names of the leaked Half Life 2 maps that included the Hydra?
I wish Valve kept the Beta stuff for retail. It sounds way more interesting than what they went with in the end.
8:25 that shot btw?
this is dark and griddy
odell my beloved
so cool
I wish we got the borealest it sucks it left on such a clifhanger
The sand barnacle reminds me of a human in a speculative evolution book called All Tomorrow's
Need a minute with the hopper...