Half-Life: Further Data
Half-Life: Further Data V.1 CD scan
Half-Life: Further Data V.1 cover scan
Half-Life: Further Data V.1 back cover scan
Half-Life: Further Data V.1 main installer menu
Half-Life: Further Data is a series of companion CDs, containing a collection of additional multiplayer models, maps and logos/sprays for Half-Life. They were released in 1999 for free through retail outlets, and were never officially released by Valve online. The two known CDs are currently Half-Life: Further Data V.1 and Half-Life: Further Data V.2
The V.1 CD contained the following:
- Half-Life: Further Data, available and explained below.
- The Half-Life 1.0.0.5 to 1.0.0.8 updater (2.4 MiB).
- Half-Life: Uplink, the standalone Half-Life demo with a storyline not in main Half-Life.
- An autorun installer menu, that allowed you to choose between the above three options. The "Half-Life Web Site" took you to http://www.sierrastudios.com/games/half-life/ (currently dead), while the "Game of the year" button took you to http://www.gameoftheyear.com/ (also currently dead).
- The CD was a hybrid data/audio CD, and contained two audio tracks, both soundtrack tracks. The first was "Adrenaline Horror" and the second was "Space Ocean".
The CD was a pressed CD, with a halftoned black on silver face printing. Overall, the CD was 59.87 MiB of data and 38 MiB of audio.
Download
- FurtherData.zip (February 17, 1999, 13.5 MiB)
This is a Zip archive of the entire "FurtherData" directory on the V.1 CD. It does not contain Uplink or the 1.0.0.8 updater, which were included in other directories on the CD. It contains an installer, but that installer expects the original Half-Life installation, and will not work with Half-Life for Steam. To use with Half-Life for Steam:
- Extract the archive.
- Move the contents of Logos into Steam\SteamApps\steamusername\half-life\valve\logos.
- Move the contents of valve into Steam\SteamApps\steamusername\half-life\valve.
If you follow these instructions, it will work, but there will be some duplicate models and maps in the multiplayer UI, as there are some models and maps that are already currently included with base Half-Life. If you would like to weed these out before moving, see below.
Multiplayer Models
Models previews included with Further Data, not presently in Half-Life base.
From left to right: Cannibal, Ken, Skeleton, TMCM
The main install menu mentions "six new multiplayer models", though there are 10 in the Models directory. Presently, only four of them are not part of the base Half-Life install. Included models are:
- barney - Currently included in Half-Life
- cannibal - Stereotypical cartoon bushman
- Gman - Currently included in Half-Life, though "gman" is all lowercase in Half-Life
- ken - Ken Birdwell, a Valve developer
- recon - Currently included in Half-Life
- robo - Currently included in Half-Life
- Scientist - Currently included in Half-Life, though "scientist" is all lowercase in Half-Life
- skeleton - Grey skeleton
- tmcm - Too Much Coffee Man
- zombie - Currently included in Half-Life
Multiplayer Maps
The main install menu mentions "six new multiplayer maps", though there are 8 in the Maps directory. Presently, five of them are not part of the base Half-Life install. Included maps are:
- crossfire - Introduced with the Half-Life 1.0.0.8 update (also on the V.1 CD)
- doublecross - Very similar to crossfire, same author
- frenzy - Introduced with the Half-Life 1.0.0.8 update (also on the V.1 CD)
- gasworks - Introduced in Half-Life some time between the 1.0.0.8 update and present
- rustmill -
- team9 -
- thehill -
- xen_dm - DM in a Xen environment, complete with Xen gravity and areas that require the Long Jump module
Logos/Sprays
Further Data includes 83 logo bitmaps. It's possible some of them currently overlap with the current base Half-Life install, though I haven't checked every one.
First 24 logos included with Further Data
Half-Life: Further Data V.2
In May 2011, Brendan Fahey contacted me about a CD he bought off eBay: Half-Life: Further Data V.2. Up until this point, V.1 was the only known companion CD in the Further Data series. Brendan kindly provided me with a rip of the CD and scans of the media.
V.2 appears to have been mastered sometime after June 10, 1999, judging from the file timestamps on the CD. The CD contents are nearly identical to V.1, with the following differences:
- The CD is a data-only CD, and does not contain the two audio soundtracks from V.1.
- The Half-Life update is from 1.0.0.5 to 1.0.0.9, as opposed to 1.0.0.5 to 1.0.0.8 in V.1.
The CD and covert art prominently feature Team Fortress Classic, but is not actually present on the CD. Instead, the CD merely acts as a means to update to a point where TFC could be installed, since it required Half-Life 1.0.0.9.
Raw CD Images
- Half-Life: Further Data V.1 raw CD image (bin/cue) from the Internet Archive (February 17, 1999, 124 MiB)
- Half-Life: Further Data V.2 raw CD image (bin/cue) from the Internet Archive (June 10, 1999, 106 MiB)
See Also
- Half-Life: Further Data on Combine OverWiki, the Half-Life universe wiki