Looking at the screenies, it looks like it needs more work.

Keep in mind that it is an alpha/beta, and optimized to run on the specific hardware. DX7/8 cards are showing missing/corrupted textures.

bastards!

Thats all I have to say. First some leaked source code, now they getta test out their codes the easy way. My oh my, isn't this wonderful... I'm that Half Life 2 was pushed back.. really gets me mad, but with all this news, its probably for the best, and now hopefully they can tweak it up, which means a few things. First off they can try to root out the code so that any cheats will be ineffective, or simply auto-banned by people who use them. Also, at least when I buy it I'll know that my 5900 will work without a problem :)

I wouldn't touch that download with a frigging ten-foot pole. God knows what malicious backdoor shit was packed in there by the hackers, along with the actual game files. It's not worth it, guys.

Unless you grab it, burn it, format your HDD, put it on a non-network machine, play it, then destroy the CD.

Not worth the hassle, why go through so much trouble when the game isn't even complete and just around the corner there are a gazillion great games coming out.

Since we have new memebers joining all the time i will say this once.

IF ANYONE POSTS THE FILE, OR WHERE TO GET THE FILE.. YOU'RE iIN DEEP SHIT! :)

That being said, im with Deflok here, I wouldnt touch that thing with a ten foot pole.. maybe install it on a public computer and then run like hell. Either way, it's stealing.

Half-life 2 Beta Leaked
 

This was taken from the nfo file that came with the release. Apprarently all the rumors were true, there is a Half-life2 beta floating around on the net.

Funny how he calls himself a "leaker," when he's nothing more than a pathologically righteous thief. A "leak" is when someone on the inside gives data illegally and willingly to someone on the outside. There is no other definition I know of.

Half life 2 beta will rock, i want to get my hands on it.

I think that second nfo file is funny. The first thing I thought when I saw that HL2 was delayed until April 2004, and their excuse (it's the hacker's fault, we have to rewrite a bunch of code now), was that they were just grabbing at the air for excuses to delay the game.

And after reading the second .nfo, I honestly think that I was right thinking that.

I bet a bunch of the valve fanboys are gonna jump on me for saying this, but I'll bet the game wasn't even close to completion on Sept. 24 when they delayed the game until the holidays, and I'll bet that they realized that the game won't be complete by the holidays either so they used their source code leak as an excuse to be able to delay the game further. That way, all of the people who are eagerly anticipating the game can focus their hatred towards the source code thieves instead of valve themselves. Clever tactics indeed.

It's hard to say, but I am inclined to also agree. If this is all that they had when they were hacked, then there is no way the game could be out anytime soon.

My freinds got there hands on it...damn. I NEED IT!

I'm looking forward to this - BLOODLINES

Its the sequel to Vampire Redemption.
The website is still kinda rough and has a funky interface, but there is a good PDF file of the feature article PC Gamer did on the game.

Alright... I got the leaked alpha, I'm not going to tell anybody where to get it, but I will say this:

The "artificial intelligence" that you see in the E3 HL2 demo is far from artificial intelligence. It's all scripted. The door getting kicked open, the shooting through the windows, all of that stuff is all scripted. Sad, but true.

Valve has quite a bit of work to do before this game is ready for release. I highly doubt the delay of the game was because of the hackers. I'm quite certain the game would have been delayed until April even without the source code leak. The game needs lots of work.

You absolutely certain? I'm guessing the AI has triggers

-Door won't open: Find alternative entry route: 2 Alternatives found: Alternative 2 closest: Execute alternative 2 entry route-

That kind of thing.

Maybe....

http://oefnetwork.com/cycopl/stuff/h...overhere01.jpg
Hey guys, the room's empty. I'm right here.

http://oefnetwork.com/cycopl/stuff/h...overhere02.jpg
Umm, yeah. Kicking doesn't help much when the door's already open.

http://oefnetwork.com/cycopl/stuff/h...overhere03.jpg
Perhaps they're hunting down that ultra-menacing washing machine?

Those screenshots speak for themselves I guess! Wow. Maybe this is the publicity stunt of all publicity stunts. Genius if you ask me. I can't wait for the game. I'm not touching the leaked crap. I can wait. I was really impressed with that E3 video. Hopefully the AI will be ready for April.

This cant be the EXACT release of what you would have seen on the initial release date, cause there are still a ton of error textures, missing textures, etc. Besides, it is 3.3gb w/ like 3000 files or something. Its still got all the testing snippets included in it. I guess it could be, but i highly doubt it. On two side notes... Take a look at the water in canals_02... !!! WOW and try shooting the helicopter w/ the RPG in i forget what level. EVERY time you shoot it, a corpse flies out. Use the all weapons cheat, and you can make more bodies comes out than couldve fit in the helo.

I'm pretty sure that's why the game was delayed though... It's nowhere near completion and they couldn't release what they currently had on Sept. 30th.

I haven't lost any faith in Valve though... I think they'll come through and release a kickass game with awesome AI and physics, but I think the main point of the scripted sequences we saw in E3 (which were SUPPOSED to be AI) were pretty much there to make us think the game is almost finished, and that a Sept 30 release might actually be possible. I think we all know now that it wasn't possible. :(

so what does the source code being leaked have anything to do with the game being delayed?

Valve making excuses for not having their product finished, more than likely...

Right, thanks CyCo PL, bastards lied at E3, sad sad sad... that firefight down the street is definately scripted in that case... damn, good, but still, damn.

I actually haven't tried out the level where they're having the firefight down the street yet, but I highly doubt that it's AI.

It's actually quite painful to play HL2 on my comp, I'm running on a P3 866 with 384 megs of ram... when I'm inside and there's nothing happening, the game runs surprisingly well... but when I'm outside or there's a lot of physics stuff happening, it slows down to a CRAWL. Note the low resolution of the images (640x480), I had to turn it down that low to prevent the game from looking like a slideshow. :)

All I can say about beta: WooooW.

And as for the leak, I think Valve was trying to get people to get the leak so they can do unofficial beta testing. It just seems logical to me. *shrug*

All I can say is if you got the beta, it is very likely that you now have a virus / worm / trojan.
Its being discovered that they were included with the beta.

But.. you get what you deserve, theifs.

This is what came to my mind, but the people I talked with about this said, "Oh, that kind of thing would have been discovered by now, with all those smart, paranoid people probably looking at the stolen source code."

So where did you hear about this?

I actually did a scan today. I'm clean.

Yay for making stuff up though!

Oh, and... the plural form of "thief" is "thieves".

Yup, and the hacker "Thiefed" the Beta, or was it "stoled" the Beta? ;) Grammatical sense aside I've found this, apparently from the Leaker Him/Her/Itself

Can someone point me to where Valve has officially said they're delaying because of the leak? Just curious. Before this whole fiasco, they were already shuffling their feet and saying "We didn't really mean Sep 30! HOPEFULLY we'll get it out by the holidays!" (read on bluesnews a while ago)

As I recall, Sep 30 was a date set by the publisher or someone not officially able to give such info. The leak is a great scapegoat, yeah, but doubtful they orchestrated anything beyond pushing the blame onto it.

It was officially announced by Valve that HL2 would be an Holiday release and recently the publishers annouced that the beta leak was the cause of the April 2004 delay.

Leaks and Beta's aside, the real reason, at this point in time, seems to be that Valve hadn't a hope in hell of having this game complete by Sept 30th or the Holiday Release.

Here's the latest:

LINKY:
http://www.megagames.com/news/html/p...efspeaks.shtml

That text came with the beta NFO file, its not new to most of us. That aside, people need to realize the fact that what a lot of companies present at E3 is just a simulation of the final product. So they ran that one scripted sequence? So there might be a lot of scripted stuff in the final game? Does that detract from it being a kickass physics engine and awesome graphics? Just look at the reflections in the water. (High end gfx cards only plz) Not every company is totally honest, i would venture a guess as to not ANY company is totally honest. HL2 will come out when it comes out, and valve can make any excuse they want for delaying the code.

Well, I toyed around with the beta today.

What a waste of time, harddrive space, and bandwidth that was!

Really? Why?

Vivendi's official position was "Holidays 2003" until a few days ago when it went to "April 2004 or later."

Valve's official position was "September 30th" from the time they revealed the game back at E3 up until September 23rd when they announced the first delay.

I think the first delay was because the game was simply not ready. The second delay is because of the theft--but Valve has not confirmed or denied the April 2004 window.

Heh, slight flaw in ANON's logic:

He's chastising Valve because the beta that he released is all they had by 9/30, yet he acknowledges that they had much more in threatening to release the "pre-gold". Anyone else catch this? Or am I missing something.

He might've meant other things than a Pre-Gold...maybe info that Valve was really fucking around with us or something...I dunno...heh.

Not too much there...lots of stuff missing...

Though it is fun to toy around with. And runs rather well on my computer surprisingly...

If I could get the AI to turn on, I'd be happy...

Thats part of the reason i usually refrain from downloading alphas. Much like the d3 leak, the game was totally working, you had to load everything via console, etc. I dl'ed HL2 just to see how true it was about the Nvidia cards sucking (I think mine did just fine). It takes a lot more than eye candy to make a great game. I like to see the story line, cinematics, etc before i see all the levels.

After playing the beta I really cant wait for the real game. You only get to see parts of finished items and things that dont exactly work right. Personally this makes me really want to play the full version.

Driving around in the jeep or airboat is crazy, and some of the other enemies and stuff are just totally cool.


On another note, I believe the "pre gold" was for CS:Condition zero. Supposedly thats already made its way out too.