Talk:Pre Retail Era
From Valve Cut Content
More realistic and immersive ??/3-9/2002
- - Alyx design update
- o No more invisibility power
- o No more acrobatic skill
- o New face texture/geo, same hair
- o Old design was thought to be too generic and abiding by the tough stereotype
- - 2002 gravity gun
- o Earliest gravity gun known
- o Charging power
- - Long physics manipulator with stock
- - new breen consul design, portrait
- o tile era
- - Merge of dhabih Eng combine visuals and older designs
- o Advisor blue anti-gravity
- o Early gunship at e3 2003 blue
- - Dog Tbot re-design
- o Takes skitch’s role as alyx pet
- o Combot eye and different colour scheme
- - Combine stun stick redesign
- o Originally needed ammo as battery is fully modelled
- o Unsure if present earlier
- - Combine re-engineered technology rather than re-used
- o Hunter chopper
- - Hydra 2003
- - More antlion variants and dynamic behaviours
- o Roller grub
- o Nurser
- o Dynamic difficulty caused by grubs (later in episodes)
- - bullsquid re-design crocodile
- - Stalker re-design
- - Eli Maxwell combination with captain Vance
- o Bull squid got his leg
- - Particle storm Idea recycled into Ion storm
- - More enemies
- o Sewer fauna x 2
- o Cut hl1 enemy flocking floaters
- o Starving houndeyes
Key dates
- - 25/03/2002 first strider map implementation
- o 2/11/1999 first strider sound reference
- - March ??/03/2002 failed demo to Gabe
- o Kleiners lab too long and boring
- - 10/04/2002 redesigned scanner
- - 22-24/05/2002 e3 2002 planned trailer
- - ??/06/2002 Harry Teasley leaves valve
- o Designed concepts for another valve game
- o Some of these concepts were moved into hl2 beta
- - 25/07/2002 physcannon sounds
- o Making game trailers presentation
- Screenshots of early chargeable gravity gun
- - 16/08/2002 combine scurry mines last edit
- - 27/08/2002 bugbait sounds
- - September ??/09/2002 better concept reel
- o Buggy race along city 17 coast
- o Headcrab encounter on a pier
- o Strider attacking downtown
- o Some re-tooled earlier sequence
- Kleiners lab but shorter
