Half-Life 2 Episode Two Alpha & Beta (June - August 2006) Explained

[Codeman0423]

Published for Face-punch Studios On 12/29/2018

Hello Everyone Today I will be talking about the cut version of Half-Life 2 Episode Two. There is alot of stuff cut in the game especially some files & scripts found in Half-Life 2 Episode One to the game that I will explain about.

So in Half-Life 2 Episode Two there is some interesting scripts in Half-Life 2 Episode One.

So go into

C:\Program Files\Valve\Steam\steamapps\common\Half-Life 2\episodic

so u may want to use GCFScape to use this to look in scripts stuff to find it.

so they're 2 names in the scripts that reveals to it are {level_sounds_outland_episodic & level_voices_episode_02}
but there are others as well but that will only be found in the release version of Half-Life 2 Episode One (June 6/1st/2006). So in the release version scripts of hl2:ep1 there are episodic2 scripts that are read longer than ever before. therefore I can't show the scripts to it because this thread will be read longer than usual.

So the game that is Half-Life 2 Episode Two Beta is called Source Particle Benchmark, that is only use for particle tests for the future of the games that is releated to Left 4 Dead 2 or others as well & used for the E3 gamplays & trailers for Half-Life 2 Episode Two back in 2006. so in Half-Life 2 Episode Two Beta there are characters that look better than usual characters in the release version as well so here are screenshots of it that there will be shown here. there are 21 screenshots that are shown in EP2 Trailers & Gameplays, in a matter of fact there will be 8 videos that will show of Half-Life 2 Episode Two Beta but except 1 that will show Half-Life 2 Episode Two Alpha. 3 Trailers & 5 E3 Gameplays. There will be Alpha & Beta screenshots from hl2:ep2 also.

Half-Life 2 Episode Two (Alpha) Trailer -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zygoWsvguKM&t=1s

Half-Life 2 Episode Two (Beta) Trailer 1 -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SnlCXnjsjPI

Half-Life 2 Episode Two (Beta) Trailer 2 -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3oKYmy99pc

Half-Life 2 Episode Two (Beta) Gameplay (E3 2006) #1 -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SG5o5eBAJY

Half-Life 2 Episode Two (Beta) Gameplay (E3 2006) #2 -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyRtuimGOlo

Half-Life 2 Episode Two (Beta) Gameplay (E3 2006) #3 -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRMvhPa59Ho

Half-Life 2 Episode Two (Beta) Gameplay (E3 2006) #4 -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuKmT03e2M4

Half-Life 2 Episode Two (Beta) Gameplay (E3 2006) #5 -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-u2THKRHs5E

(BETA)

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All The Stuff that is shown in Half-Life 2 Episode Two Beta now showing screenshots from Half-Life 2 Episode Two Alpha.

(ALPHA)

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(ALPHA)

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That is all the screenshots from Half-Life 2 Episode Two Alpha there is a very secret mod I found that runs from Half-Life 2 Deathmatch back when Half-Life 2 Episode One is still released. There is a video also about the Dogg Vs. Strider also & thats where the developement scene came from is the Strider Mod called (PILOTABLE STRIDER IV)

Half-Life 2 Episode Two Alpha (Dogg Vs. Strider) -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVGxKu8ID9Q

This is very blury & that is how high quality of video as it goes. This was taken in the wasteland while gordon & alyx are going to white forest. in the video there is a ministrider that seems to be frozen for somehow for some reason & I cannot tell it but in the strider mod the creators of this mod was about to release the ministrider texture of it but valve said only when HL2:EP2 is officially released then the creators of strider mod will actually release it but they didn't, when the game just came out because the mod create in 2006 & they fans of HL2 didn't know what happend & why they didn't release the ministrider texture.

That all the stuff that I have shown of the screenshots & videos from Half-Life 2 Episode Two Alpha & Beta
for somepoint notice there are 2 that is released from the alpha and beta version of hl2:ep2. The blue antlion guardian from hl2:ep2 alpha & the jalopy from hl2:ep2 beta & they can be found on gamebanana.com. now the Jallopy from ep2 beta is now fixed & alyx vance can ride with you from now on. But there are 4 stuff that is not been released officially. The HL2:EP2 Beta Hunter, HL2 Beta Antlion Grub, HL2:EP2 Beta Antlion Worker & HL2:EP2 Beta Combine Advisor. The Ministrider texure will be founded by somebody else who create the strider of it for the hl2:ep2 alpha to see it in hl2:ep1 that cares about it. The antlion worker has the same model alike the Antlion but doesn't spit at all because that is how it does in Half-Life 2 Episode Two Beta; hopefully somebody will fix the antlion worker & now can now spit acid also alike the release version of the antlion worker that does in the actual HL2:EP2. The combine advisor only has the texture & does have animations that are shown in the final trailer of it, but the Combine advisor will be ported, have animations fixed for the released version of hl2:ep2, have a texture of it as well & fix the tongue on it as well alike the actual HL2:EP2 advisor, but the advisor looks different in the final version as well.

The Half-Life 2 Alpha or Beta version of the anltion grub is different & there is a video of it that the antlion grub moves but I don't know what it does when it gets killed though alike the one from actual hl2:ep2.

Half-Life 2 (2003) Antlion Grub -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCQmJ8sM45Y

Thanks for me explaining about the Half-Life 2 Episode Two Alpha & Beta (June - August 2006). now all 4 things will be released on gamebanana because the jalopy & the blue antlion gardian are now released, by the fans of
Half-Life 2 Alpha Beta & tested of Half-Life 2 Episode Two Alpha & Beta.

Thanks & have fun. if u got any questions about this thread please let the people know & also about the antlion grub, hunter, antlion worker & the combine advisor, that way they can understand & help u. I will not answer ur questions because this is a drama post or a hl2 cut content. ok. Thank u very much.

[Com Truise]

Hey man, cool write up. I see you have a very old picture of my jalopy model though, here is a better one from when I released it. Keep up the good work its great to have people still delving into the history.

https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/237880/d6fcfcfa-f873-459c-8ce5-32a447a12f24/screens.jpg

[Codeman0423]

thank u so much for the support bro, I did say in the thread u released the ep2 beta jalopy though. I know there is a blue antlion guardian that is released also but there are others that have not been released also which are. ep2 beta hunter, ep2 beta antlion worker, ep2 beta combine advisor & hl2 beta antlion grub. I thinks thats all the things I said. but thank u very much dude.

[Codeman0423]

I found this stealing Youtuber called TheMattyZero & he perhaps have ported this game to Source Particle Benchmark. I tried to reply to him about this coincidence and he didn't respond to my reply?????????

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ysjBECQhHM