Hello!

I'm looking for CS 1.4's February-March 2002 beta's.
This was featured with Steam's 2002 beta test and currently it is a lost media. Only few screenshots, few videos and old forum posts exists.

I am currently looking for anyone who has any files for old CS 1.4 Beta dated February-March 2002. We have recently found/preserved/fixed 1.6 Beta and currently that build is no longer lost and it is playable.

We are now looking to preserve yet another build, the very first builds of Steam CS which was showcased to public back in 2002, this was a huge step from Valve to test their online distribution of their games along with all of Valve's GoldSrc games. Within the files, a GCF file named "gcache.gcf" was included and this was the first time Valve used GCF format and the build also included dll's for Tracker which is missing from every retail/mod versions of cs.

Steam also featured Tracker - Steam's first attempt to add your friends, chat and play with them. - This eventually developped into "Friends" that we know today. Tracker could be launched both externally or in-game with Steam games. I am currently looking for any 2002 beta builds and steam files (we have the installers - no need for them).

For those who wish to see CS 1.6 Beta in action;
CS 1.6 Beta NC-HardcorE
CS 1.6 Beta XJR9000
CS 1.6 Beta ZnifferN

CS 1.4B/Steam Beta with Tracker recreation video:
CS 1.4 Beta

For everyone wondering the timeframe of the CS 1.4 Beta, here's a wiki entry here to show changelogs of beta;

2002 (Steam Beta)
January 5 - CS 1.4 Nears [counterstrike.fandom.com]

February 26 - VAC and Tracker [counterstrike.fandom.com]

February 28 - Bug fixes in CS 1.4 [counterstrike.fandom.com]

March 4 - CS 1.4/Steam Update [counterstrike.fandom.com]


April 4 - CS 1.4/Steam Update [counterstrike.fandom.com]

April 8 - CS 1.4/Tracker Update [counterstrike.fandom.com]

April 11 - Steam Update [counterstrike.fandom.com]

April 12 - Steam Update [counterstrike.fandom.com]

April 19 - Steam Update [counterstrike.fandom.com]

https://counterstrike.fandom.com/wiki/Counter-Strike_patches#2002_(Steam_Beta)

Please contact me if any files are found. Comment "Steam 2002" on my profile and send me a friend request! :)

Original post by NC-HardcorE on Reddit: Looking for lost CS 1.4 Beta

Thanks.