The Half-Life 2 Beta community was at its height from essentially 2010 to 2013, when ultimately most long term beta projects failed, in particular the Axel Project, Team GabeN ( which converted into Missing Information ), and most of the people who had been in the community for a long time just giving up on the beta all together. Here's work that Team GabeN was doing on the Half-Life 2 beta but never released, and is sadly probably long dead. Heres a facepunch thread with a lot of information regarding the beta, and the leak community in general. Here is the wiki article regarding all information collected relating to the original storyline. Information regarding this can be found here. Put it in your bin folder where Worldcraft is in.Īnother way to update the engine to work with your computer / newer graphics card is to edit the code via hex editor. Then download and apply this updated shader.
First off, you are going to need to first download the beta from here.Īfter downloading and extracting the beta to your hard-drive, you will then need to apply several patches to improve performance, less errors / missing textures, and boost the overall enjoyability.