#Reasons to bring back alpha 2 as a steam beta

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royal marten
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yeah yeah totaly

shadow cloak
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Here's a thing, they should not return to their alphas to bring back in an alpha that was not playable years ago and was canceled, and another thing to know that they might have removed alpha 2 in their files

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So yeah, I do not expect any outcome from this thread

weak ridge
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my man srsly just wrote 10 paragraphs on why to bring back HN2 Alpha 2

prime plinth
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if they removed alpha 2 I understand

weak ridge
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I am kinda skeptical about this tho

royal marten
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so it's useless

shadow cloak
shadow cloak
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And plus, by the time alpha 2 releases, and everyone starts playing, everyone's gonna forget it the next day, and would move on with their lives

weak ridge
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or whine about how alpha 2 was so much better than FG

shadow cloak
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Yep, they would do that until they try the game out

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You see, people replayed the alphas just to say the alphas are better than the full game, but the alphas were just boring, frustrating and had rarely any emotion unlike the FG

prime plinth
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That's your opinion

shadow cloak
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No, its a statement

prime plinth
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I actually enjoy alpha 1.5 more than full-game, if you wanna be toxic about that then be my guest, but It's my opinion and you can't change that

shadow cloak
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Because here's the thing, why would they release an alpha that nobody gets to play years ago?

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And release it now?

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That would've waste their time

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And plus, most of the stuff were scripted

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So by the time they add in stuff, everything wouldn't be playable or perfect

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And you can't get upset of it, because that's the truth, and nothing will be changed

weak ridge
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let them concentrate on making the full game better

shadow cloak
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The same can go for HN1 prototype

weak ridge
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them polishing alpha 2 and releasing it will take their focus out of FG

shadow cloak
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That build was scripted, and hell if they released it, it would've been unplayable or unbalanced

shadow cloak
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The whole point of the HN2 was to release some alphas to hype the fans, and focus more on the FG

prime plinth
weak ridge
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I doubt it even had an ending

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or even an end goal

shadow cloak
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And if you want to waste the devs by polishing alpha 2 and rework it from top to bottom, then be that clown, because you are gonna waste their amount of works for millennium

prime plinth
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shadow cloak
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From what I remember

prime plinth
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Because they advertised it in multiple trailers then decided to change the game completely

tacit pebble
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I agree with Crispflake

shadow cloak
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It was to keep the hype ready and showcase what the AI can do

prime plinth
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They even said (not promised) but said, that they would make an alpha 2, but then didn't, I understand why, but the fg is different on so many things, than what I was hyped for a year or 2 for.

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also why so toxic about it too, I didnt insult you or something

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I stated my opinion, is that illegal here?

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I didnt say "TB release now or I will quit hn2 forever!!!"

shadow cloak
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The reason why they didn't release alpha 2, its because of the time span was running out, since they did plan on releasing the FG in late 2021, until it got delayed, which wasted a lot of the devs time (and I meant that by literally) and so, they needed to change the artstyle, because thanks to alexus (the guy who made the new artstyle) which then was the reason why the FG is different too, because he ruined the many following and time span that HN2 needed to be

royal marten
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royal marten
shadow cloak
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right, well alpha 2 does link a lot of alpha 1 and 1.5, I can also notice that the FG also shares some of hn2's older models

prime plinth
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I just wanna play something similar to what I was hyped up on for more than half the trailers of the game. I don't care if the rooms are teleports or if the ai Is crap, I just wanna explore the map and stuff, since during the time where I was hyped for hn2, it was the game I was waiting for the most untill they changed it so much. Im not screaming at tinybuild to release it I just gave a few reasons.

unborn inlet
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prime plinth
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launch and beta trailers are pretty much the only trailers with the new stuff

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prime plinth
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and deep dive has like a mix of old and new stuff

prime plinth
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prime plinth
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Yeah but it still had some older artstyle stuff and looked pretty different

unborn inlet
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tacit pebble
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I think it would be cool if the alpha 2 was playable

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tacit pebble
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Ok

modern light
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95% of all the "great things" about alpha 2 we saw was just in a scripted trailer.

mossy spade
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it will bever be a thing

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be lucky that you have the beta

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because thats alpha 2 but in the new art style

prime plinth
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Well, I hope they add some activity and prank neighbors stuff in future patches cause thats what im missing the most rn

cyan ridge
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I dont think alpha 2 is as good as we make it out to be

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The trailers looked awesome

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Yea

prime plinth
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Yeah we just dont know, but im pretty sure some ppl take it a bit far with how bad it is

cyan ridge
prime plinth
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Yeah thats the annoying part about it

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But i think it wasnt as good as the trailers, but not as bad as ppl make it out to be sometimes

cyan ridge
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I think it was just pretty okay

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Thats my theory

prime plinth
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Some ppl make it out like a buggy unplayable dumpster firw, and dont you dare say "i like alpha 2" because then your days on this server are numbered (just a joke about how serious ppl take that sometimes)

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You get so much hate for talking positive about alpha 2 on this server

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My biggest problem with the fg is still how the new artstyle feels so uninteractable

cyan ridge
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Yea i dont like that people make it out to be awful

prime plinth
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You can only interact with what they want you to interact

cyan ridge
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We dont know lol

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At all

prime plinth
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With the older style it looked like more of a sandbox (like advertised)

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Not cause of looks but most decoration was physics props, not static mesh, i know that would probably be janky but the current just feels like the entire map is just a static mesh with puzzles inside

cyan ridge
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I miss the interactivity

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Of the alphas

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To be honest

prime plinth
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Yeah, i loved being able to pick up a random thing from the floor to throw at the guest

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Now we have paint cans, trash and the puzzle items, thats it

cyan ridge
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Alex have said thats coming back

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The interactivity and stuff

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Like that

prime plinth
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That would take one insane update but oh man thats cool

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Im not sure if that was in alpha 2 but the neighbor was able to drive once right?

cyan ridge
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We dont know fully if that was ever completed

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The driving feature

prime plinth
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And from my estimate, hn2 alpha2 cant be as bad as people make it out to be since in devlog background footage you can actually see the car on like a street

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If rhey moved it there or actually made the neighbor drive is unknown tho

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Also i love the fact that they added animations for the neighbors being hit with an item but it like barely affects their speed

weak ridge
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blocking chairs are in the files

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hopefully boxes are next