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| The game was thought of as dark rather than action adventure, gradually moved towards the latter by the end of hl2 development
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| This early on there was no goal that you could see from every level that you worked towards as the end of the game such as the citadel, instead it was on a smaller scaler where each level or set of levels had an easily identifiable goal <ref name="rtbup">[https://archive.org/stream/HalfLife2RaisingTheBarUncorrectedProof/Half-Life-2-Raising-The-Bar-Uncorrected-Proof#page/n209 rtb uncorrected proof: Head East Freeman]</ref>
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| This era was mostly exploratory world building through writing and concept art, with very few assets or maps made specifically for this era. most assets that were intended for this era, were later utilised or retooled for later eras as by the time they were completed the context of the game had changed.
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| == development background ==
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| While conceptualizing for a sequel seemingly began right after HL1 went gold, the team was seemingly "officially" formed in June 1999. The only piece of development at this time was the idea of the game being grand, teleporting from planet to planet around a galaxy. With these thoughts being quite the case of second album syndrome it was just the initial idea, its scope was only cut down and refined from there upon thinking about the problems with continuity it would produce. <ref name="tfhohl2">[https://www.gamespot.com/articles/the-final-hours-of-half-life-2/1100-6112889/ The final hours of half life 2]</ref>
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| It is that initial start to half life 2's development that led into this era of design philosophy.
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| <blockquote>
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| It was with those six words that Gabe Newell launched the development of Half-Life 2 in June 1999. Yes, you read that right--1999, only six months after the original Half-Life shipped.</blockquote>
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| At first the team considered designing a game where Gordon would teleport to various planets around the galaxy and combat the Xen aliens from the first game. But Laidlaw says the team ultimately rejected that idea because it would be hard to create continuity between levels.
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| </blockquote>
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| == main information ==
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| In this era there were 3 main alien races occupying the earth that had presence in the plot:
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| a race of Giant Primitive Tribal type insectoid aliens out in the Middle east that used hollowed out caterpillar subway as transport. (possible influence over dropship design in concept art)
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| a Warrior alien race that utilised Weaponized aliens, the weaponised aliens were homogenised under the name "the hoard". one of their creations is the sack ticks (inspired the headcrab canisters) which had hoard markings on them for task group and delivery vehicle, they were eventually modelled and programmed as an entity in the hyper era.
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| Gman was given his own Spy race with a citadel in a Prague-like city.
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| areas present in this version of the story:
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| * Chicago (sky scraper took place here, https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/308783561539059712/669347197120151564/unknown.png)
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| * Arctic base?
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| * Cairo
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| * Prague-like alien city with citadel
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| * New City
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| * Old City
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| characters:
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| * I. A. Latham
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| * Possible early alyx
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| * Based off hl assassins
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| * Could go invisible, next version of alyx mentions invisibility in the small story outlines
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| Stealth suit hev suit, Different introduction
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| * Energy shield?
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| * Waking up in a hospital then broken out by rebels possibly inspired by jacobs ladder.<ref name="marcEmail">[https://combineoverwiki.net/wiki/References:Marc_Laidlaw_emails#On_the_black.2C_leather_suit]</ref><ref name="rtbupGordonedoff">[https://archive.org/stream/HalfLife2RaisingTheBarUncorrectedProof/Half-Life-2-Raising-The-Bar-Uncorrected-Proof#page/n205 rtb:uncorrected proof gordoned off: abandoned ideas]</ref>
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| * introduction as an agent for the gman race with the stealth suit
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| == Key dates and info == | | == Key dates and info == |
| * https://web.archive.org/web/20190407022108/https://forum.facepunch.com/games/sqrb/VALVE-CUT-CONTENT-V2-1-Digging-through-Valve-s-trash-since-2003/73/ | | * https://web.archive.org/web/20190407022108/https://forum.facepunch.com/games/sqrb/VALVE-CUT-CONTENT-V2-1-Digging-through-Valve-s-trash-since-2003/73/ |
| * https://web.archive.org/web/20190406201211/https://forum.facepunch.com/games/ujke/Half-Life-2-Cut-Content-V2-Drama-posts-are-week-ban/58/#postxleef | | * https://web.archive.org/web/20190406201211/https://forum.facepunch.com/games/ujke/Half-Life-2-Cut-Content-V2-Drama-posts-are-week-ban/58/#postxleef |
| 19/11/1998 half life release date
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| 31/5/1999 first hyper mention? (from sound file dates) | | 31/5/1999 first hyper mention? (from sound file dates) |
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| 11/11/1999 to 18/11/1999 dynamic dialogue odell, player interruptions(https://valvearchive.com/mail-vault/laidlaw/) | | 11/11/1999 to 18/11/1999 dynamic dialogue odell, player interruptions(https://valvearchive.com/mail-vault/laidlaw/) |
| * Stealth suit Gordon mention? Somehow assures that you are part of the resistance | | * Stealth suit Gordon mention? Somehow assures that you are part of the resistance |
| <references />
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