Half-Life 2: Lost Coast Beta Mappack
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This addon for Half-Life 2: Lost Coast includes:
- 6 maps created during the development of Lost Coast by Valve.
- 1 rough mockup of the earliest known iteration of Lost Coast, in which the player rides in a boat with the Fisherman character into the bay.
Installation Instructions
- Place the
lostcoast_beta_mappackfolder into the following directory:
(YOUR STEAM INSTALL FOLDER)\steamapps\common\Half-Life 2\lostcoast\custom\ - Start Half-Life 2: Lost Coast from Steam and choose the "LEVEL SELECT" menu option to get started.
Lost Coast 2004 Mockup Information
- According to Valve's Robin Walker, one of the early versions of the Lost Coast had the Fisherman picking the player up in a boat and bringing them to the Monastery. [source]
- One of the early iterations of Lost Coast (
d2_LostCoast_scene.vmf, dated February 2005) contains a very highly detailed path on the other side of the level from where the player actually goes in that version. The original spawnpoint in the map is also on a dock at the start of that path, all seemingly leftovers from the boat ride version. All of this leftover geometry was left unchanged for the mockup. - All dialog shown onscreen in the mockup is original, taken from Lost Coast's
closedcaptions_english.txtfile. The dialog is shown on screen instead of played because the audio files are missing from the game.
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The Steam Marketing Feed announces an upcoming download for Half-Life 2 called "The Lost Coast", which introduces High Dynamic Range rendering.
PCGamer publishes the first screenshots of Lost Coast in its May 2005 issue.
The first Lost Coast trailer is released.
Valve's booth at E3 shows a prerecorded Lost Coast demo.