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Awww, the fluffy lil headcrabs

4 years and this. This is sad.

technicaly worse .. graphicaly not bad but thhe lighting i think is not real

never ever call this half life 3

As an artist working in gamedev, I feel very sorry for people working on this project because gamers' reactions are very disheartening and dismiss incredible amounts of work that went into this and I understand why they dismiss it but it hurts me. I see incredible amount of work went into recreating the sound effects of HL2 without just copying them, which is kind of necessary if you're making a separate game, on a separate engine, and want to sell it. You can't just take Valve's assets. And I they think they did a really good job on most of them. People judge this project through the lens of AAA production studios that burn hundreds of millions of dollars in labor and take 5-10 years to produce a game. Trying to match the fidelity of these standards is a crazy ambition, and THAT is why the demo is so short. Also Unreal Engine means I will be able to play this prologue in the next decade ;)

The way they are cherry picking devs for this project, I expected something very spectaculiar from them... In the end they werent even able to release optimized demo, also this demo feels like HL2 with mod packs

good, they've added gnome chompski

it looks really good and they actually nailed the source physics on unreal , but it somehow don't feel the same, i know its still in development but you know...

I think they did a good job at recreating that hl feeling. I'd buy it

i don't like it. ran really well though like i was getting 150 or more fps on a rtx4090 with dlss. also don't like the xen stuff. half life doesn't need xen. xen should stay a mystery. gman should stay a mystery. i need more half life 2 mixed with the original half life black mesa level design. no xen no portal just half life.

Funny little detail I found during my playthrough of the Prologue was that despite the engine change, you can still backhop lol

The camera jerks around when you switch to certain weapons. Why? For what? How is that beneficial?

I wonder whether the fluffy headcrabs are an entirely new species or they just grow fur when it gets cold outside :D

*This looks great!!*

Wow. This sure is Ravenholm with snow. Seriously, this is all they have to show off? A boring Unreal Engine remake of a Half Life 2 level?

Half-Life 3? more like Half-Life pee

Torn, been following this project for many years. They hyped up this demo, and really failed to deliver. With all the progress updates we've had over the years to just get shown that we leave a trail in the snow while walking around 8 percent of the ravenholm map.

Amazing that they could import all that to UE5

Blatant AI voice

I am puzzled why didn't they use Source engine, seems like extra work.

the game is suprisingly a 1:1 to half life 2. almost too much like halflife 2. i was expecting some personal flair. still worth playing i think

This has to be the best use of Unreal Engine I've ever seen. Feels like a Source 2 game with full of interactivities and small details being taken care of.

That Epistle 3 ending seems phony. The idea of using it to travel to the Combine homeworld and attack it like some kind of weapon seems stupid when you realize that it's a time machine. The real ending was obviously going to involve a conflict between either destroying it using it to go back & stop Eli's death, if not stopping the Combine invasion entirely.

Idk. It looks like HL2 but with custom maps and tons of mods. I don't feel like i'd miss out on anything by not playing this. At least Valve will change everything up for their HL-related project for sure so there will be more reason to play it.

really shows how valve carries games

Sorry, this isn't the Source Engine?

Valve not being involved is the only chance for success

half life 3 before half life 3

They failed, in a sense. They made it look too much like half life. I wasn't looking forward to something that looks like another mod. It's not unique at all.

Aurora Borealis!? At this time of year, at this time of day, in this part of the country, localized entirely within your kitchen!?"

🎉🎉🎉

Worst 5 mins of gameplay, Short, level design worst, weapons feels terrible, fps work in progress. If this build tech demo idk i seen more features in Borealis videos than in that demo.

the craziest thing about this video is how you got the game running so smooth. everyone else from 1050ti's to 4070ti's are having insane performance issues lol.

I'm too old for that zombie crap, plz fix CS2, make that more fun. Thank you so much

No source engine? Awww....i love to mess around with the command line!

I'll be amazed if these 'Epistle 3' fan projects get finished, particularly with an official new Half-Life said to be very advanced in development and potentially coming sooner rather than later.

I forgot all about this project.

Considering how long it took for Black Mesa to come out and the current happenings at Valve, it's likely we'll see Half Life 3 before Project Borealis comes out

7 years for an unstable 5 min demo. It's disappointing. I wish the best for the team. But they shouldn't of put so much hype into this tech demo

very short and unoptimized demo but serious potential. i think a lot of the criticism that people have really arent that big to be honest. im excited to see where it goes. i have to say, the demo had some really cool moments. the ladder becoming particles or it being daytime in a specific room scratched my gamer monke brain just right

9:46 You spin me right ′round, baby, right ′round

i remember years ago on reddit telling the devs that Sound effects from source are ICONIC and they must not mess with them and they agreed. ideally they should have made HD versions of the classic sounds. sadly they seemed to have missed the mark (SO FAR) with how little sound design there is and what is there is wrong. the lack of prop sounds is something you would find in an unreal engine asset flip.

and the croud goes mild

This game turned to trash so fast bruh

Thanks for playing!

Despite all critisicm here, I like it. It gives me this tingeling, sad but hopeful mood again which gets to you so often when playing any HL game. Wish all the best for the devs!

Seeing this makes me question why did they even bother changing the engine. So much work must've gone into just trying to recreate the way HL2 feels as accurately as possible, but they didn't take advantage of UE's strengths either. At least from the little demo they showed off.

It's not bad, but the weapon movement feels like something from Roblox, nothing like the original source games

demo requires a NASA computer to run

who thought giving the headcrabs fur was a good idea, when did crabs have fur and aslo it looks so meh