Beta and cut content of opposing force and blue shift

Summerset Banjo · Jun 20th 2019, 8:26pm

Here's some links to some beta content for both Blue Shift and Opposing Force. Some of it is really interesting such as the barnacle gun sticking to multiple surface types and the Pit Drones being slaves to the Shock Troopers. As well as cut audio that gives extra context to things. Some of this might be worth considering to restore in the remake or not.

(Beta content from trailers and pictures of opfor)
youtube.com/watch?v=rSyZNGQtuo0

(unused audio)
youtube.com/watch?v=o0I8frE8w_4

(unused model animation)
youtube.com/watch?v=LE94dCsxFEw

(TCRF wiki on opfor)
tcrf.net/Half-Life:_Opposing_Force

(unused intro animation for dreamcast blue shift)
youtube.com/watch?v=lFlEj8JvvqU

(TCRF wiki for blue shift)
tcrf.net/Half-Life:_Blue_Shift_(Windows)

Mr.sugar · Jun 23rd 2019, 2:13pm

All this is not relevant anymore. It could be, if we were doing HD Remaster / port. However, we build everything from scratch. Levels will have bigger differences than different textures / missing door you could see in the video. Same for characters. All these quite small changes (such as missing mustache etc.) doesn´t matter, since our characters are made from scratch with more randomization and variety in mind. We stick with final version of the game so far.

Summerset Banjo · Jun 23rd 2019, 8:32pm

Well you misunderstand. I am aware that this is a ground up remake and in no way 1 to 1 with the base game or a source port of opfor and blue shift. But I was merely pointing out things that got cut or was changed that might be worth bringing back. (like the barnacle gun sticking to more than one type of surface, the black ops silenced pistol being a usable weapon, or the pit drones being slaves to the shock troopers.) For example when Resident Evil got remade in 2002 they added back in Lisa Trevor as a boss/enemy after having been cut in development in the original game. That is the kind of restoring I was suggesting. But if you are wanting to stick to what made it into the final game that's your call as project lead.

Mr.sugar · Jun 27th 2019, 10:49am

I get it. Well, it's important to consider that Barnacle was hardly ever supposed to work like it's shown in the video, since level designers needed to restrict player a bit, otherwise it would be impossible to keep player out of the parts of map where they are not supposed to go. In OBM, however, there will be more spots where you can stick Barnacle's tongue, so that one will probably please you.

Summerset Banjo · Aug 26th 2019, 7:32am

Aparently Chris Jensen the composer of Blue Shift and Opposing Force released an albulm years ago compiling every track he made for opfor, counter strike condition zero, and the early builds of HL2 that did not make the cut. this thing is chock full of great tracks that might worth looking into possibly remixing for either the OBM campaign or GD.

combineoverwiki.net/wiki/Half-…Opposing_Force_soundtrack

here's the link to the article that mentioned the origin of this album.

Beta and cut content of opposing force and blue shift

Beta and cut content of opposing force and blue shift

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