Talk:Pre-Pitch Era

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Fresh off half life (final hours of half life 2, too little info to have in a separate article)

Around the world/ globe trotting

The game was thought of as dark rather than action adventure, gradually moved towards the latter by the end of hl2 development 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 (this was stated to have been a later addition, todo find this reference again?)

3 different alien races:

Giant Primitive Tribal type insectoid aliens

  • DC/Middle east area
  • Used hollowed out caterpillar subway as transport, possible influence over dropship design (concept art)

Warrior Weaponized alien race

  • One creation is the sack ticks, inspired the headcrab canisters, had hoard markings on them for task group and delivery vehicle, the only modelled and programmed entity from this era?
  • another creation is The Hoard, some relation to symbols, possibly sentient and able to read

Gman Spy race

  • Prague-like city with a citadel

areas present in this version of the story:

characters:

  • I. A. Latham
  • Possible early alyx
  • Based off hl assassins
  • Could go invisible, next version of alyx mentions invisibility in the small story outlines

Stealth suit hev suit, Different introduction

Key dates and info

19/11/1998 half life release date

1999 Early engine beginnings textures were tga only, inbetween wad and vmt, using quake 2 code (in the leak)

  • /utils/vview/gl_model.h
  • /engine/gl_model_private.h

31/5/1999 first hyper mention? (from sound file dates)

before or on 29/6/1999 tf2 boa borealis screenshots

9/07/1999 proffessional hl sdk sent to modders

  • Contains references to new vmf file type

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