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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 9 ก.ค. 2024
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0:11 Valve Hardware Day
1:29 Blob planned for Half-Life 2: Episode Three
2:36 Blob Appearance
3:35 Blob Combat
4:58 Blob Navigation
5:30 Outro
Valve Hardware Day/Source Particle Benchmark: • Source Particle Simula... - เกม
Ah, when the watermelon blob dies it drifts to heaven.
Good
Like all fruit, it must too float ominously through the night.
I'm thinking of giving it a model of a low poly rat, removing the ally flag, and dropping the damage to 1. Then setting a trap where there's a roar in the sewers and Gordon jumps on top of a metal prop to avoid taking damage from the fleeing swarm. Then he investigates down that path and then an Antlion Guard bursts through the wall.
Is this a Jerma reference.
@@liquidbismuth1044 rats were not created by jerma
@@defaultprofilepictureguy2526 proof
hmm, Black Plague that was passed around by flies riding on rats, 1340’s likely before jermas creation though he may have been a deity way before he was born.
*freebird intensifies*
Considering the fact that it seems to be on the player's side and specifically created to take down Combine, my theory is that it was an earlier version of the Antlion bait. Either you throw or just send it after enemies and they consume them.
If true, they probably changed it to Antlions instead because while the Blob can get around obstacles, Antlions are way faster at it, as well as being easier to control, less buggy and more suitable for indoor areas (which is where most areas with them take place).
That does make sense. Why would it be labeled ep3 though? Perhaps they were planning to re use it?
Less buggy? They're literally bugs.
@@delphicdescant The whole reason that I'm here is to say just that and you couldn't even give me the satisfaction.
Or maybe it's friendly because otherwise the blob would try and attack the player in the tech demo and ruin it.
I think it was gonna be used in episode 3 and they would have snarks
Valve has been trying to get swarming NPCs working since the boids in HL1.
I figured npc_surface was actually supposed to be the hydra, and the blob was related to the cut particle storm.
Valve has shown some crazy experiments with swarming NPC's but they have only really used a lighter version of the code for L4D, besides that its all just experiments. There's some GDC talk about boids where they show a real cool demo of a 100 or so crows flying around a complex missile-silo-like environment that's running in HL2, where the group splits into smaller groups that go different directions and then merge again a little later, looks really cool & really captures the feel of 'smart units'. Sadly unlike the EP2 stuff the code for those boids on steroids never leaked, since most of their leaks are just marketing anyway this likely means they plan to use that version somewhere.
@@suicidalbanananana Yes, those are some of the uses for the swarming behavior, but if it's combined with metaballs like in npc_surface, like the part of the video where the snarks form a lambda on the wall, it could be used to create the tentacles of the hydra, which could react dynamically to explosions or being cut with a sawblade in a way that might be harder to do with just a model.
The npc_surface the particle benchmark actually tries to use a missing model named "Hydra.mdl" but is different than the one in the leak, and uses hydra textures.
And I mention the particle storm npc because everything we've seen it didn't really do anything other than create a visual effect that might have been an earlier attempt at the metaballs/paint. Either that, or someone really liked the blob enemy from Unreal.
4:44 the melon migration of 2007
Ah yes, I saw that episode of Xen Geographic. When the melons migrated from HL2 to Gmod.
@@KCKrumbcake it was truly a beautiful moment, i still hear stories these days
The "insects" in the tech demo are actually snarks from half life 1, and they are very cute. I love snarks :>
“Your son is beutiful and violent!”
yes we know what snarks are
@@pipebombmailer if so then why was the person in the video called them "Insects"😒
My Conclusion was he never played HL1 but that's impossible...... Right??
@@sam-sp5zk sam, how old are you
the goopy version of the blob seems scary but honestly if I saw a swarm of snarks chasing me I would be alot more scared
Slime vore
i dont follow a bug that can be killed is way less scarier then a messy blob that cant.
the Critters[TM]
nah tbh im pretty chill
@@0grilo0
I like that punctuation at the end there. At least you tried. Cute.
Wouldn't it be funny playing Gmod VR being stoned and seeing a shitload of ERROR NPCs coming towards you 😂
blob isn't in gmod fool
@@windows10technicalpreview... hence the conditional
@@Hero101010 Necroposter
@@windows10technicalpreview he said if there was fool
@@User-vh6uy he didn't say it anywhere, you are the fool.
This is one of the most cool thing i have seen in half life 2
This just makes me so bitter that Episode 3 will never happen now.
If you keep up with Half-Life stuff you know that's not true. At least not technically (it wont be called Episode3, they changed Ep2 cliffhanger & are working on something that comes after)
With how Alyx ended, there HAS to be an Episode 3 in the works… I hope…
1:01 ⚠️ You have alerted the snark horde
Too bad there’s no rain in Half-Life 2, look at how good that visual was. Imagine seeing that in the game it would be so cool. Kind of looks like the L4D2 rain maybe they repurposed it. Still, imagine if throughout the uprising chapters if an overcast slowly set over head and by the end of the game it’s pouring hard
0:55 they are snarks
Snarks Are insects too
@@GloriG_C17 oh thx
Concerning half life only Blop's were probably the base AI function for snarks to be put inside episode 2 but the idea got scrapped and was later modified and implemented into regular NPC AI.
Very informative video, not many people know about the blob so i hope this changes it in the future.
Love the outro.
i really wish someone made a fully made version of the blob for gmod it would be awsome to see it absorbing and growing over maps like construct or spawning it in in a hl2 map and seeing it swallow everything around it.
Came for the Half Life facts, liked for the “FUCK YOU” in the outro. Nice job, thanks for the vid.
That swarm of insect actually looks scary AF. Watermelon and ERROR blob just doesn’t hit the same🤣
I'd love too see portal 2's npc surface code retrofitted onto the blob someday. Would be really neat to potentially see the npc's intended look.
If the leeches from HL1 managed to survive on Black Mesa and multiply until they became a plague that took over the entire ocean, who says that the snarks couldn't either?
Maybe not so much because they supposedly create their units in the corpses of the victims they attack, but imagine a section with some abandoned buildings where a swarm of snarks appears and both the player and the combine have to flee from it? (obviously the combines stay behind and are eliminated by it for the player to see)
Considering that the NPC that would control this swarm of snarks is coded as an ally, perhaps at some point the player would be able to control it in his favor as he does with the antlions.
maybe we can get valve to finish this project because i would love some "living goop" physics in a game, let alone any physics besides solids and fake smoke (textures that just collide with the ceiling and stop)
I remember Gabe saying that HL3 had things no other FPS had done and there were leaked HL3 strings that talk about a “weaponizer” of different materials. They must have loads of different experimental mechanics they either couldn’t make a game around or just ditched for VR. We may never know.
How would you "get" Valve to do that
Call me crazy but my theory is that the "blob" NPC could have been meant for the unknown entity featured in the Xen concept art that Andrea Wicklund made for Episode Three.
what if we combine npc_blob and npc_surface and fix all the bugs?
He already did
*she
@@npc_blob1609 just let this dude enjoy life without pushing gender pronouns in their face 24/7 over something minor. don't live in a lie sometimes someone will get a pronoun wrong or not know them or even know they have them and the go off by what they hear their voice as and that's perfectly fine.
@@shi5369 thats not on the level im thinking im talking a full code merge
I just corrected them no need to throw a hissy fit
Might of been a boss fight called the blob of horror and it was probably based of the 1988 movie the blob
5:36 Best reason to like a video ever.
All I can say his, nice ending... but seriously, good video/series. HL2 is simply the best.
this watermelon weighs 1 pound and deals 200 damage, per second.
I can’t help but think of sackticks, but those were tiny things.
Perhaps there was a thought up concepts somewhere along the lines, or each object was many Sackticks, if sackticks were even related.
what if the combine used sackticks to stop the shu'ulathoi from growing up
Probably like another type of snark like how the tentacles have the hydra.
Does anyone knows what are the frog looking creature in the end of the mission our benefactors
The only things I can think is early l4d 2 zombie path finding but an npc (least likely) or early version of snarks in hl2 or rats (last 2 suggestions I found in the comments)
You're actually right on the money, the zombie pathfinding in both of the Left4Dead games uses a slightly simpler version of this swarm stuff, instead of moving common infected one by one they are moving as a group, wich is exactly what the npc_surface & blob are about too. Its just slightly simpler version because zombies dont need to fly :P
0:17 Snark swarm
SNARK SWARM
Seeing all these cool stuff makes me even more disappointed that we never got Episode 3.
I don't think I've ever seen ANY game with an NPC like that. The code may be incomplete, but it still waaaaaay ahead of it's time!
It kinda reminds me of the rats from the Plague Tale games? Not exactly the same tho
I would guess it's extremely difficult to make it look good and work seamlessly. You can get the basics down fairly easily but as you can see, it still looks very janky even after their third or fourth attempt at a swarming NPC over twenty years
the mod potential this would have
the snark room
Damn, it would be a cool idea for an enemy.
I think about like this thing will coming to Half Life 3
man that looks fucknig scary jsut a horde ofinsects swarming over everything
i imagine it was supposed to be working like the snark, but in half life 2
Looks like a snark sorta but with yellow stripes
they are meant to use hl:s snarks as the model i think (thats why it uses that model in the valve demo)
TBH they don't seem like they're meant for that model any more than the other demos are intended for the stand-in particle effects and other effects they use. Whatever the "adaptive density" feature would have done next, it probably wouldn't be taking corners with instant 90-degree orientation changes on snark models.
lol it goes to blob heaven
I think these started as snarks but were made to be a completely different enemy, which would explain why it's not in ep1 and ep2.
I would have loved to see the rain effect in retail half life 2, the game almost seems incomplete without it
b l o b
snarks
To be honest, the npc in hl2 looks like when ERRORs invaded everything
I wonder if the repo leak revealed anything about the blob
All the NPCs were cut from Episode 3..
"if you didn't like the video then FUCK YOU!"
y'know i've been trying to find a good, yet non cheesy way to end off my videos, mind if i yoink this idea?
lol ok
@@Pinsplash lol thanks man
wow
how do people even add npcs to the game files?
wasnt there a movie called "the blob"???
episode 3
dam that rain looks way too realistic for some reason forget about blob
kinda reminds me of the roaches from hl1 but more deadly
....yeah, because the roaches from hl1 were the placeholder model. The intended model is obviously npc surface which is...a blob
@@clostridiumtetani9947 no those are snarks
how to spawn this in gmod?
i think it's imbalance. just imagine: 30 blobs are attacking combine and he has no chance to survive, just struggling while they are consuming him, just for 3 second??? I hope they were going to add time for them to rest - like time to eat a corpse or something like that. its good that they are allies to gordon freeman
How do you spawn it? And is it in gmod?
I'm wondering the same thing, It might be able to be spawned by the normal command for npcs (npc_create npc_blob) but I'm not in a place to test it currently, I will edit this comment when I can.
EDIT: according to this video:
th-cam.com/video/sN9_-odxqzg/w-d-xo.html
It can be spawned by typing "give npc_blob" (without the quotes, see the video description for more information)
how can i spawn npc_blob in half life 2?
@@eletronictoenails thank you very much man
Pretty sure it would look like meat, since it has a brain, and it's Half-Life...
*snarks
I've never been able to find the black gel from Portal 2 document anywhere. (2:55)
That was made with a custom particle effect and black texture
dam cool
for a minute i legit thought there was a real hl2 ep3
*3:00* ..... I love blob.......
🥺
👉👈
i want this as a gmod mod
I think the blob kills by drowning the enemies
it looks like the snark from the original game
They put Puro and black latex into Half Life!
NO.
Cease.
Fuck off with your weird fetishes.
btw this IS NOT hl2 e3 content this was intended for hl2 (I get it you need views)
Comenting before watching the whole this is very bad from your part
@@JuanGamer0202 bro it’s a comment from a year ago and I accidentally switched HL2 E3 with HL2
theyre snarks
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