There is a creepy hidden background screen in HL2

[Morgan Fun Gamer]

I discovered this a couple months ago it very creepy so you must put command in console this command "map_background intro" into console now it will play a very creepy song Ravenholm song and it will show a creepy background which looks to be on a building very much like the building Gordon was on when he escapes the Apertmant raid so thank for reading thank you tell me what you think of this

[Lychy]

My theory is that it was used in early 2004 and the map 'intro' was cut due to there being no point for a map that short so they just put it into 'd1_trainstation_01' so I guess they got rid of the background too

[Shwasar]

I've never seen that. That really is creppy.

[Morgan Fun Gamer]

Originally posted by Shwasar:

I've never seen that. That really is creppy.

Yeah i discovered it a couple months ago

Originally posted by Lychy:

My theory is that it was used in early 2004 and the map 'intro' was cut due to there being no point for a map that short so they just put it into 'd1_trainstation_01' so I guess they got rid of the background too

Yes maybe

[March_Swing]

Is creppy

[Morgan Fun Gamer]

Originally posted by Bananita Frosty ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥:

Is creppy

Yes

[Harcourt Fenton Mudd Ye Sinistar]

It's a leftover from when they showcased HL2 at E3 2004, If you boot the same map with just the "map" command you get to play through an early version of the trainstation with the original opening gman cinematic. I only recently discovered the secondary feature this map has though where you can actually use it as a working background screen, really cool.

[Morgan Fun Gamer]

Originally posted by Kylharc The Sinistar:

It's a leftover from when they showcased HL2 at E3 2004, If you boot the same map with just the "map" command you get to play through an early version of the trainstation with the original opening gman cinematic. I only recently discovered the secondary feature this map has though where you can actually use it as a working background screen, really cool.

Yep I knew you could see the gman sequence but I didn't know about the E3 bit thanks

[Morgan Fun Gamer]

Originally posted by ginge:

Huh, this is very interesting. Might be an unused background from when you start in City 17.

Maybe

[cambreaKer]

it's just a black screen for me

[Morgan Fun Gamer]

Originally posted by cambreaKer:

it's just a black screen for me

Sad

[Lychy]

Originally posted by $𝖜𝖆𝖌𝕮𝖍0𝖉𝖊:

Originally posted by Kylharc The Sinistar:

It's a leftover from when they showcased HL2 at E3 2004, If you boot the same map with just the "map" command you get to play through an early version of the trainstation with the original opening gman cinematic. I only recently discovered the secondary feature this map has though where you can actually use it as a working background screen, really cool.

i think this intro is way better than the one we got, why did they ever change it?????????

Bro what the ♥♥♥♥ are you talking about, they changed one camera angle

[Sharkster_00]

I would think it’s some kind of unused beta map for Ravenholm or a beta of a map that was abandoned and scrapped.

[Morgan Fun Gamer]

Originally posted by Sharkster_00:

I would think it’s some kind of unissued beta map for Ravenholm or a beta of a map that was abandoned and scrapped.

Yep especially with that Ravenholm sound effect

[Lychy]

Originally posted by Sharkster_00:

I would think it’s some kind of unused beta map for Ravenholm or a beta of a map that was abandoned and scrapped.

Its not Ravenholm because its literally City 17 lol

[Noob2890]

Originally posted by Lychy:

My theory is that it was used in early 2004 and the map 'intro' was cut due to there being no point for a map that short so they just put it into 'd1_trainstation_01' so I guess they got rid of the background too

That intro map when gman puts the image of the Black Mesa Incident, instead of using a remastered version of the textures on the core, used the original HL1 textures, and in the game. its missing textures