HL2: Beta Aesthetics 3.0

[Deleted member 28]

Very cool mod, basically changes the ambience, character models, and textures for virtually everything in the game. Gives me justification to play through HL2 for the 20th time

https://gamebanana.com/wips/58559

 

['77 East]

this 'mod' is literally a collection of stuff scrounged from different authors into a single garbage heap

if you want to experience the beta play dark interval or something

 

[Deleted member 28]

this 'mod' is literally a collection of stuff scrounged from different authors into a single garbage heap

if you want to experience the beta play dark interval or something

...and? It does what it says it does. Reskin the game to make it look like the beta

 

[Ond]

this looks terrible

 

[Harrier]

it doesn't even edit the light_env so the lighting and the skybox texture don't match

also iirc the guy took dark interval's wasteland scanner and retextured it w/o giving shift the credit for it

edit: the consul's "voice" is just breen voicelines but with the pitch down so it sounds absolutely shit

 

[Spine]

https://www.moddb.com/mods/dark-interval
- personally I think this is the best mod that currently recreates the beta feeling, some shitty voice acting here and there but nothing too bad.

https://www.moddb.com/mods/half-life-2-raising-the-bar-redux
- this is also alright but the models look immersion breaking at times.

 

[Chiptune]

I'd ask "why would anyone want to play a beta looking HL2" but as someone who's been playing and speedrunning the game for like 15 years anything different is probably good, so I think I get it