"Beta Roleplay"?

Why does everyone say they follow 'strict beta lore', only to find out that the only beta reference on their server is cremators or something? I mean, they don't even include the air exchange, conscripts,
ANYTHING. Giving your server cremators is not HL2 Beta Lore.


The closest thing I've seen to an actual beta roleplay server is Lemonpunch, and even they don't go all the way.

If anyone wanted to go full-on beta, there's some things that'd be needed.

- Citizens Wearing Green Jackets from HL2 E3 Demonstration

- Blue Eyed Metropolice, also featured in the E3 Demonstration, OR the other variant of betapolice that Lemonpunch currently uses.

- The combine airexchange incorporated into the lore, AirEx towers as well.

- Beta Overwatch Models

- Cremators, Houndeyes, and any other cut creatures.

- The Manhack Arcade

- Conscripts

(I can't remember everything, let me know what more I should add.)

 

the consul, the skyscraper, the grittier look to everything, the tainted air, the gas mask-wearing citizens

 

There was buttonnes more effort into the skyboxes of the beta maps, particularly the Skyscraper...

Also don't forget how the different combine act, the combine in Beta acted much, much less robotic (including OTA) and had humanistic personalities.

 

Just because you can't find the server that portrays the 'beta' accurately doesn't mean it isn't out there.

You also need to realize that a server doesn't need a 'manhack arcade' to function correctly as a beta server.

Everything besides the manhack arcade I've seen before, maybe you just have to open your eyes.

 

if a server states that they follow strict beta lore than they're more or less obligated to include those things, top hat

 

If you call it Half Life 2 roleplay, you should have to follow HL2 lore.

But does any server do that?

Nope.

 

Nobody, ever, will waste their time scripting/mapping a manhack arcade just to say that they follow beta lore. Get real.

It's idiots like you and Sheeplie who ruin HL2RP. lol

 

Fuck off. Your attitude isn't funny.
See? You've activated my serious mode.

Maybe I'm a cancerous asshole, but Sheeplie and Vortex are rather nice when it comes to HL2RP

 

You're trying to say, that if a HL2 Beta server doesn't have a manhack arcade, it isn't a HL2 Beta server. You're an idiot, you're part of HL2RP's problem. Realize it.

 

no top hat. I'm saying that if a server says it follows strict beta lore, then it should have at least some mention of a manhack arcade. I never said it had to b coded in.

Also, wtf do you have honorable.

 

Shhh, gentlemen, calm down. This was never meant to erupt into a flame war!

Top-Hat, I was simply suggesting some of the features that might be needed to start a Beta Roleplay server. Not all of them are heavily required, you are correct. A manhack arcade would be purely optional.

 

I've done this in late 2013 and early 2014. It worked out quite well and was generally satisfactory but we kept some things such as retail HL2 weapons for the sake of not having to confuse people as to why there are OICWs and so forth. On another note, I ran Central Seventeen and usually had around 15 or so people back in the day. (rp_central17_v4)

Overall, quite fun for everyone and I wish another server would go full beta, and output good quality.

 

Never, will there be someone, nonetheless a server, that makes a mistake to screw their ideas up.

I don't believe in the 'beta' or 'custom' servers, because most of them make too many mistakes to be called with those titles. Wait, I have seen a few servers that are completely beta, but even then, they screwed it up. They were at least decent, though, so I can't say too much.

Though, nice thread I guess.