I have made this video public again after making it unlisted when I posted the 100 facts video. I think keeping both up may hurt the performance of one or both videos, but we will see.
Here's my favourite trick: With the magnum, if you zoom in and hold fire, you can then release zoom when you want to shoot, to essentially have a scoped magnum.
A little Fun Fact about the falling explosives glitch at 38:05! If you use the Gravity Gun to shoot explosives at a friendly NPC, they will not take damage from the explosion. But, if you perform this glitch, they will take full damage! Glitched explosives will also explode even by gently brushing them against something; it doesn't require any momentum or force at all to trigger it. You can use this method to kill Colonel Odessa before getting the RPG since there are so many explosive barrels in the area. Even though it shouldn't be possible for Colonel Odessa to die, killing him still triggers the game over screen, similar to when Alyx or Barney die.
explosives defy their own rules, they explode whenever they want and do things no sane normal object would. jumping on top of a barrel might just get you killed.
Another fact: If you have the HEV suit and walk over a stun stick, it'll give you a bit of suit energy. This can only happen once, when you encounter the two metrocops beating the lady's husband, that is the last time you encounter stun sticks in the game.
The "right click weirdness" is mostly just the secondary fires being out of ammo, so it's trying, and failing, to shoot the secondary while you hold down the primary. I think the weapons that don't have secondaries that still do this are just a byproduct of clunky coding.
i always thought its common knowledge. pretty sure valve themself talked about this in how they designed the game. they also placed medstations etc depending on where people in playtests usually ran low.
Oh... This is why the box is not just a prop, but a separate entity! I actually never believed that any HL had changing power up placement, since the level designer puts the box himself.
its still good map design the fact that the item changes based on you need is good GAME DESIGN. the game still have STATIC spawns with a box that will provide waht u are needing, that way a player that use more shotguns will get more shotgun shells etc.. it makes more sense they are still limiting the things that can adjust in the game as its just a few items that can turn not all.
5:00 I _knew_ that section seemed easier than I remembered! Every time I played through it recently, I'd spawncamp at the dropships and have this weird feeling something was missing. Turns out it was a face full of holes!
I've played HL2 before the bug was introduced and still managed to camp the drops. The guns cannot rotate 360° anyways. Nape-murdering the entire squad was piece of cake.
I first played it using the og xbox port 2 years back and when i played on pc when it was free i was confused there. The game is worse after the updates imo
I don't think this is the only game that does something like this. I distinctly remember the Ratchet and Clank games dropping different kinds of ammo from crates depending on which weapons you are missing ammo for.
it actually was not in the original base game, it was introduced in EP1 and then retroactively patched into base HL2, and even then from what i recall only some crates in base HL2 do it, not all! its a special type of contents that crates can have, and they didnt change all the crates in base HL2 to have this special new contents, some still have their own pre-determined content.
The blob is clearly just a swarm tool, like a way of controlling group of NPC's to move coherently based on "forces" where it's attracted to an enemy and away from damage. Similar to boids.
Crying? Please know that you are loved and cared about. I don't mean to alarm you, but weeping over such things is not normal, and I worry for you. Please seek psychological help, as it is something you can benefit from, same for most people. Stay safe, buddy.
"ep3" is an alphanumeric name unfortunately. Two letters and a number is a common naming scheme in valve code. The blob ally was cut and replaced with the antlions, which originally were just enemies and written to be controlled by the player much later. Some of the programming from the blob was reused for the antlions, which is why there are weird interactions between the two.
yea, through this bug still remains on Xbox 360 because it was never updated. Plus this bug was first present in the X360 and PS3 version of the game when it was released back in 2007, which also later affect the PC version aswell in 2010. Even through the bug is fixed in the PC version, some sourcemods that rely on the Source 2013 Singleplayer/Multiplayer does not have this bug fixed.
Fun fact: Team Fortress 2 also has the same swim up and down controls. Oddly enough they also affect taunts which move you forward by slowing them down.
Wow. I considered myself a very experienced HL2 player (bought it on disc when it came out, been playing forever, read the guides, etc) and I learned quite a bit from your video. Very well-done!
5:00 I knew I wasn't crazy. I specifically remember that part being next to impossible the first time I played the game. I recently played through the game again and wondered why I was able to just go all the way up to the ship and just pick them off one by one as the jumped out before they even had a chance to shoot me. I knew something was off lol.
I've remembered something similar of what happens in 21:14 can happen in Resident Evil 4, but it's not by looking, it's caused by avoiding a trigger. On the last chapter in the game, there's a time where Leon needs to go through a prison cell corridor and there is a regenerator inside the last cell on the left, that gets triggered by you walking on the middle part of that corridor. But if you hug the walls on the left side while walking through it, you'll be able to stay face to face with a regenerator just chillin inside the cell, and it won't attack you as long as you don't trigger him **spoopy**
It’s interesting the find out that nearly everything that happens in the game is perfectly hand made to be controlled. Nothing was truly random after all.
You basically just made the best multi-ticket ever for Valve to fix HL2 glitches. Apparently they are updating the game code right now to make it Deck compliant. They should use your video as a ref to find and squish some bugs in the meantime :)
in the part where your items get taken away and your gravity gun gets supercharged, if you run to the force field and stand next to it when your items get taken away from you you can sometimes get the rpg to clip through the force field and it will not be destroyed, allowing you to use it when you normally would only have the gravity gun.
This is super fascinating! It’s like a BTS of how games work (or don’t) Thanks for sharing this awesome video! It’s super cool to see how some stuff won’t trigger if you just don’t look at it! 49:22 Spinning combines are a thing of beauty.
also a fun (stupid) anecdote. First time I played HL2 in 2004 as a kid I didn't figure out you have to flip the buggy with a gravity gun at the start of Highway 17. I walked on foot through the whole chapter, thinking I need to enable the power for the crane or something (I didn't speak english yet). I got stuck after the gunship battle (the gate won't open if you are not inside the buggy) and didn't know what to do :P
Might only be old versions, but you can "drive" the NPC at the window when the raids first happen in the apartments on the first level. Because it has buggy physics, picking it up with a Super Gravity Gun will crash the game.
@@SpiffoGaming Yeah, I had always grabbed the one on the bed, and on top of the windmill. I never knew there were two more in a broken car and under a bathtub.
I loved every minute of this. This was one of the better and most entertaining videos I've seen in a while. Still so many things I did not know about hl2.
I've played the game on the Xbox in 2005, PS3 in 2007, and my PC could finally run it in 2011. You know how many feet are in a mile? Can't remember either, I'm sure I've played the game to completion about that many times though. Yet I haven't come across more than a quarter of these. Great video!
@@EmptyMag 5 tomatoes sounds like 5-2-8-0, which I'm pretty sure is the amount of feet in a mile Or just measure in washing machines and McDonald's signs like the rest of us
@@cringetrash3498 I knew about the five tomatoes memory thing but it will never stop amazing me that a good portion of Americans can't tell you how many feet are in a mile, hell, I couldn't until I tried re-learning Imperial lol
in the can scene, if you go up to the trash can fast enough and pick up the can just as the metrocop is about to push it, he will chase you. Forever. He will not stop even if you block him in a room. I played around with the metrocop chasing me for 15 minutes like this.
09:37 That thing is like the glitched house in the animatrix. Any object that interacts with the glitched ones also act like them. Try stacking a bunch of those props on top of each other.
11:21 in HL2DM we call this Cheesy Fries, and collect 40 of them on those few props that can catch crossbow bolts, and wait for someone to touch them. Then we yell "don't touch the cheesy fries!"
Holy crap, I *knew* the lighthouse part used to be harder. Thought I was imagining it. That gun rotation bug explains what happened. Also, I've definitely been crushed by that garage door before lol.
When entering ravenholm, once i got a glitch where night failed to fall, it was daylight. When you shoot cop while he is jumping down, he is slung into ground. revolver clicks rapidly under water if you press right mouse button.
@@rompevuevitos222 HL2's maps have oversights in the lighting, most notably the maps at Black Mesa East. For some reason, said map lacks a non-HDR lighting map, so basically the engine defaults to fullbright, since HDR is for some reason off by default too.
Here's one i discovered by accident: it's known as "Schrodinger's Crouch" and to do it you just have to crouch, uncrouch, then crouch again before the standing up animation has finished. Your camera will get stuck at whatever height it was at when you crouched again but the game will still think you are crouching, even if the camera is almost at standing height. You can use this to see through ceilings and even activate buttons and fire weapons through them which is highly abused in some Portal speedruns. NPCs will also try to shoot at wherever your camera is, not your hitbox, so you can trick enemies into shooting over your hitbox to avoid damage (doesn't work as well with inaccurate enemies as stray bullets can still damage you)
The Blob has Xen written all over it. It also feels like an endgame "final upgrade" like the upgraded Gravity Gun or the Russells wielding the Vortessence.
My favorite was always that D0g can just _fucking run you over_ . When Black Mesa East gets attacked, if Gordon gets to the door to Ravenholm first and stands in front of it, D0g can crush Gordon between themself and the door, killing Gordon instantly.
Cant imagine devs made this game between 97 and 2003. Amount of complexity and features is mind blowing. I have been playing since release and still news things are poping up.
35:50 okay so those modifiers keys wasn't there for fun, there was a controller that designed for this (or rather the other way around) called Fragmaster (basically it's weird hybrid of an airplane controller and gamecube/n64 controller slaps into 1); @LinusTechTips already did a video about that type of controller, it's hella weird the reason its exists, IMO, was because keyboard/mouse gaming wasn't the norm back in the early 90s, so to "kinda" gives console players a taste of PCMasterRace, this controller was existed
I love the thing about looking, such good programming on valves end. Don't need complex triggers, just trigger when in sight. Nobody is gonna not look unless intentionally
It is genius when you think about it. Very low chance to break. They used so much tricks to avoid extra complex work. Like the ammo thing being tied to health. How simple can it be. But i swear that without the right people not a single person in the meeting would come up with it. It really is thinking out of the box. On the other hand the level of handcraft script is painfully obvious in this video. But again, very low chance to break when done right.
More possible combinations that might lead to a bug. Sometimes when you think you’ve seen the light with some complex logic flow. Testing comes back at you to tell you, it has some problems... lol
When I first played back in 2015-2017, I used to mess around with sv_cheats and spawning npcs through it (before I bought gmod) but I discovered while trying to spawn combine enemies that if you type "npc_create npc_combine" it'll always crash the game immediately.
I think that bed wall called "you suck" is just additional debugging. So NPCs don't clip into it, especially her once her animation and pathing begin. Just more smart Valve stuff.
a weird one ive never seen anyone talk about is that with the pistol literally nothing happens when you right click exept for when youre under water in which case it will spam a click noise until you let go of right click
If you continue onto the train bridge after the bridge (highway 17), walk down train tracks, then go back to the houses down the hill from the tracks. Combine re-spawn next to the house.
I have made this video public again after making it unlisted when I posted the 100 facts video. I think keeping both up may hurt the performance of one or both videos, but we will see.
Ok
I personally like this one a bit more
did you take inspiration from darkviperau
I asked you if these were all possible in the 360 orange box. You never replied
@@troywright359they should be. It's just a port.
this was a fun vid to watch, I didn't know half of this shit
same
Resink
Me too
Oh crap ur alive cool.
I found desinc in TH-cam
Me at the intro: "Huh, this sounds weirdly like DarkViperAU"
Me at the outro: "Yeah, I wonder why..."
Welcome to my half life facts and glitches
gibus
@@laprueba6521 ghostly
Half Life 2 Online was a mistake
OMG HAUEHUAHEJAHHEAHHEA MY ASS IS SPONKLED
"They don't really seem to care about it."
*"Ow, no! No! No! Ow, no! No! No! Noo! No! Ow, no! No!"*
"ow no!, ow no! are we gonna get going s- no!"
Hey, I remember you! Long time no see!
"Are we gonna get going" NO!
@@SonicBoone56 tbh it’s the 2 different inflections of “No!” that kills me
"In this clip I set her to have more health than normal" 😮
26:12 instead of stopping dropping and rolling, a much more effective method is simply telling the fire to not burn you
Forget the drop and roll steps! Simply be affirmative enough on the "STOP" step.
Fire no burning! Fire no burning!
Are we gonna get going soo-
“NO!”
@@swedneck “Aww, man!”
Fire cant burn you legally without your consent
17:33 the combination of the eerie music and the floating melons against the gray sky made me crack up laughing for some reason
They're moving in herds
The great melon migration
woaw
I came here to say this exact thing, that and his "wow"
"We must go. Our people needs us"
0:32 I imagine the Combine looking up in the air to see Gordon's ragdoll fling into outer space and they're just like, "Target neutralized?"
Here's my favourite trick:
With the magnum, if you zoom in and hold fire, you can then release zoom when you want to shoot, to essentially have a scoped magnum.
Or use the toggle_zoom console command to freefire while zoomed
@@Noruzenchi86 Well, that means cheating.
I used this trick to fire RPG at distant targets, fire and zoom in, very handy if you have Gunship or Strider to worry about.
*Freeman silently "weee-ing" while riding those pod things*
*Breen:* "THIS is the savior of humanity!?"
Great video my dude :)
Wish you a bright future on TH-cam.
@@suffoc8 i know him too!!! POG
Noice
Is it a coincidence? :D
5th reply
POGGERS
matto talking to this other clone that makes half life speedruns
13:14 those particles are nuts. It's genuinely insane how much Source can actually handle, despite it being so ond and an admittedly not great engine.
It's a good engine, just outdated
I just lost it when the citizen started floating at 46:26
Great content btw, I didn't know a single one of them
Menacing
I laughed so much xD
Interloper
A little Fun Fact about the falling explosives glitch at 38:05!
If you use the Gravity Gun to shoot explosives at a friendly NPC, they will not take damage from the explosion. But, if you perform this glitch, they will take full damage! Glitched explosives will also explode even by gently brushing them against something; it doesn't require any momentum or force at all to trigger it. You can use this method to kill Colonel Odessa before getting the RPG since there are so many explosive barrels in the area. Even though it shouldn't be possible for Colonel Odessa to die, killing him still triggers the game over screen, similar to when Alyx or Barney die.
explosives defy their own rules, they explode whenever they want and do things no sane normal object would.
jumping on top of a barrel might just get you killed.
Another fact: If you have the HEV suit and walk over a stun stick, it'll give you a bit of suit energy. This can only happen once, when you encounter the two metrocops beating the lady's husband, that is the last time you encounter stun sticks in the game.
The "right click weirdness" is mostly just the secondary fires being out of ammo, so it's trying, and failing, to shoot the secondary while you hold down the primary. I think the weapons that don't have secondaries that still do this are just a byproduct of clunky coding.
af1s i got af1s
thanks matsuri
“If you look outside this window, there will be a completely random explosion.”
Wonderful sentence.
6:29 I noticed this. whenever I was low on health, i would see a lot more medkits. I thought it was just good map design.
i always thought its common knowledge. pretty sure valve themself talked about this in how they designed the game. they also placed medstations etc depending on where people in playtests usually ran low.
Oh...
This is why the box is not just a prop, but a separate entity!
I actually never believed that any HL had changing power up placement, since the level designer puts the box himself.
its still good map design the fact that the item changes based on you need is good GAME DESIGN. the game still have STATIC spawns with a box that will provide waht u are needing, that way a player that use more shotguns will get more shotgun shells etc.. it makes more sense they are still limiting the things that can adjust in the game as its just a few items that can turn not all.
5:00 I _knew_ that section seemed easier than I remembered! Every time I played through it recently, I'd spawncamp at the dropships and have this weird feeling something was missing. Turns out it was a face full of holes!
I've played HL2 before the bug was introduced and still managed to camp the drops. The guns cannot rotate 360° anyways. Nape-murdering the entire squad was piece of cake.
Install the Mmod, it has some neat features like ability to take away mounted guns and this bug is fixed.
I first played it using the og xbox port 2 years back and when i played on pc when it was free i was confused there. The game is worse after the updates imo
Well luckily, it seems like that glitch was finally patched after all those years.
Damn, I did play the game in 2005 for the first time, and indeed the guns back then worked and could get you better than that.
Making supply crates drop the most needed thing is extremely smart. This game is so awesome.
That was the ONLY fact/glitch I knew in this entire thing. I feel like I've always known that somehow even before I got a PC that could run HL2
I don't think this is the only game that does something like this. I distinctly remember the Ratchet and Clank games dropping different kinds of ammo from crates depending on which weapons you are missing ammo for.
half life alyx does that too, but i only knew about hl alyx doing it. i never noticed it in hl2
it actually was not in the original base game, it was introduced in EP1 and then retroactively patched into base HL2, and even then from what i recall only some crates in base HL2 do it, not all! its a special type of contents that crates can have, and they didnt change all the crates in base HL2 to have this special new contents, some still have their own pre-determined content.
@@Templarfreak Now THAT I didn't know
3:25 idk but the “these guys will gladly die for you” and then the dead pan waiting for their death was perfect
The blob is clearly just a swarm tool, like a way of controlling group of NPC's to move coherently based on "forces" where it's attracted to an enemy and away from damage. Similar to boids.
In that scenario I assume it might also have somehow been used/referenced for the antlion mechanic, or just the NPCs following you?
if so then why does it do damage? and what's the point if they could just code the ai to do that
That ENTIRE section of changing NPC’s into others had me damn near crying with the comedic pacing of those clips. Well done, Sir!
*changes crow into a headcrab*
*still gets eaten*
Crying? Please know that you are loved and cared about. I don't mean to alarm you, but weeping over such things is not normal, and I worry for you. Please seek psychological help, as it is something you can benefit from, same for most people. Stay safe, buddy.
@@barneybetsington7501 Crying with *laughter.*
HOOD IRONY IN THUMBNAIL SPOTTED 🗣🗣🗣‼️
im on dat good kush n alcohol
The SMG ammo changing with health/difficulty is strangely genius to me. Like a tiny reward for playing on a harder game.
Right? It almost reminds me of RE4's difficulty adjustment based on how well you are/aren't doing.
Idk but smg's are basically useless in hard mode
Well, since enemies have more health, you need more ammo to take them down.. so it isn't really rewarding you
34:40
I guess you could say Gordon Freeman got a half-life.
3:40 Notably, and probably the best example of this, is the stunstick, as when you hold right click with it the lightning effect continues to display
The stunstick IS a gmod weapon tho, It got removed from Half life 2.
@@naoaquieopatrickpatrick8565 Uh
HL2DM
"ep3" is an alphanumeric name unfortunately. Two letters and a number is a common naming scheme in valve code.
The blob ally was cut and replaced with the antlions, which originally were just enemies and written to be controlled by the player much later. Some of the programming from the blob was reused for the antlions, which is why there are weird interactions between the two.
Fun fact the dropship gun bug has been fixed as of late, so now the level is actually challenging.
yea, through this bug still remains on Xbox 360 because it was never updated. Plus this bug was first present in the X360 and PS3 version of the game when it was released back in 2007, which also later affect the PC version aswell in 2010. Even through the bug is fixed in the PC version, some sourcemods that rely on the Source 2013 Singleplayer/Multiplayer does not have this bug fixed.
18:35 I'm guessing retreating npcs would get stuck on the bed, making it impossible for the cp's to attack them.
Fun fact: Team Fortress 2 also has the same swim up and down controls. Oddly enough they also affect taunts which move you forward by slowing them down.
Wow. I considered myself a very experienced HL2 player (bought it on disc when it came out, been playing forever, read the guides, etc) and I learned quite a bit from your video. Very well-done!
49:33 when the anti-fatigue ration hits
5:00 I knew I wasn't crazy. I specifically remember that part being next to impossible the first time I played the game. I recently played through the game again and wondered why I was able to just go all the way up to the ship and just pick them off one by one as the jumped out before they even had a chance to shoot me. I knew something was off lol.
I've remembered something similar of what happens in 21:14 can happen in Resident Evil 4, but it's not by looking, it's caused by avoiding a trigger. On the last chapter in the game, there's a time where Leon needs to go through a prison cell corridor and there is a regenerator inside the last cell on the left, that gets triggered by you walking on the middle part of that corridor. But if you hug the walls on the left side while walking through it, you'll be able to stay face to face with a regenerator just chillin inside the cell, and it won't attack you as long as you don't trigger him **spoopy**
It’s interesting the find out that nearly everything that happens in the game is perfectly hand made to be controlled. Nothing was truly random after all.
You basically just made the best multi-ticket ever for Valve to fix HL2 glitches.
Apparently they are updating the game code right now to make it Deck compliant. They should use your video as a ref to find and squish some bugs in the meantime :)
in the part where your items get taken away and your gravity gun gets supercharged, if you run to the force field and stand next to it when your items get taken away from you you can sometimes get the rpg to clip through the force field and it will not be destroyed, allowing you to use it when you normally would only have the gravity gun.
This is super fascinating! It’s like a BTS of how games work (or don’t) Thanks for sharing this awesome video! It’s super cool to see how some stuff won’t trigger if you just don’t look at it!
49:22 Spinning combines are a thing of beauty.
The Combine Manhacks effectively killed me from laughing so hard. I am typing this from the afterlife.
I thought the Citizen Scanner was about as silly as it could get
Boy was I wrong...
Is it good there or I should not hurry?
also a fun (stupid) anecdote. First time I played HL2 in 2004 as a kid I didn't figure out you have to flip the buggy with a gravity gun at the start of Highway 17. I walked on foot through the whole chapter, thinking I need to enable the power for the crane or something (I didn't speak english yet). I got stuck after the gunship battle (the gate won't open if you are not inside the buggy) and didn't know what to do :P
Might only be old versions, but you can "drive" the NPC at the window when the raids first happen in the apartments on the first level. Because it has buggy physics, picking it up with a Super Gravity Gun will crash the game.
10:50 after probably 1000 hours myself i never knew there was a battery up on the windmill
Wait, are there more than 3 batteries that spawn? I thought getting that battery on the windmil was required to progress
@@booperscooper1491 me too. I was so confused reading the comment
@@SpiffoGaming Yeah, I had always grabbed the one on the bed, and on top of the windmill. I never knew there were two more in a broken car and under a bathtub.
I always did bed table tub
There is one in the car, one up the mill, one under the bath tub and one on the bed.
I loved every minute of this. This was one of the better and most entertaining videos I've seen in a while. Still so many things I did not know about hl2.
couldn't say better myself
Concept of a blob is fucking terrifying
A moving, invicible black mass of goo that will conseal you within itself and slowly devour you.
The medkit crossbow cannon is a beauty, definitely will be using it in my next HL2 replay
I was laughing through the whole turning NPCs into other NPCs bit, that was amazing.
My personal favorite is the spinning combine
Mine is the floating civilians. The gods have spoken.
I love how he kept shooting while spinning. Like having mouse sensitivity 100 in CS.
he have spinhack
It’s subtle, but I appreciate the way you worded this title :)
I've played the game on the Xbox in 2005, PS3 in 2007, and my PC could finally run it in 2011.
You know how many feet are in a mile? Can't remember either, I'm sure I've played the game to completion about that many times though. Yet I haven't come across more than a quarter of these. Great video!
somethin about 5 tomatoes idk
@@pipebombmailer You're probably right, I dunno lol
Five thousand something.
@@EmptyMag 5 tomatoes sounds like 5-2-8-0, which I'm pretty sure is the amount of feet in a mile
Or just measure in washing machines and McDonald's signs like the rest of us
@@cringetrash3498 I knew about the five tomatoes memory thing but it will never stop amazing me that a good portion of Americans can't tell you how many feet are in a mile, hell, I couldn't until I tried re-learning Imperial lol
20:09 and thats how Gordon became the first human to go around the world during the combine occupation
46:24
"This can break the game A LOT."
*HEY FERB I THINK I KNOW WHAT WE ARE GOING TO DO TODAY.*
in the can scene, if you go up to the trash can fast enough and pick up the can just as the metrocop is about to push it, he will chase you. Forever. He will not stop even if you block him in a room. I played around with the metrocop chasing me for 15 minutes like this.
An enthralling video for any HL nerd. Thank you. The Combine being a strider had me in stitches 🤣
3:35 You can also heal you squadmates by setting a waypoint on the medkits. Or holding it on them. They will pick it up.
39:30 most funny moment: in entirely destroyed city some random stranger sees you above houses and yells: "Hu-ha. Its a freeman!"
2:13 THAT FREAKING SCARED ME
09:37 That thing is like the glitched house in the animatrix. Any object that interacts with the glitched ones also act like them. Try stacking a bunch of those props on top of each other.
11:21 in HL2DM we call this Cheesy Fries, and collect 40 of them on those few props that can catch crossbow bolts, and wait for someone to touch them.
Then we yell "don't touch the cheesy fries!"
Holy crap, I *knew* the lighthouse part used to be harder. Thought I was imagining it.
That gun rotation bug explains what happened.
Also, I've definitely been crushed by that garage door before lol.
Im going to test that with my old copy of hl2 on the first xbox
@@gabriellevesque-lessard5052 If you find anything out, I'd love to hear about it :)
When entering ravenholm, once i got a glitch where night failed to fall, it was daylight.
When you shoot cop while he is jumping down, he is slung into ground.
revolver clicks rapidly under water if you press right mouse button.
I’m pretty sure the first one is just the fullbright glitch
@@DolanDuking afaik it happens with some video settings
@@rompevuevitos222 HL2's maps have oversights in the lighting, most notably the maps at Black Mesa East. For some reason, said map lacks a non-HDR lighting map, so basically the engine defaults to fullbright, since HDR is for some reason off by default too.
20:49 "if i cant see you, you cant see me"
Here's one i discovered by accident: it's known as "Schrodinger's Crouch" and to do it you just have to crouch, uncrouch, then crouch again before the standing up animation has finished. Your camera will get stuck at whatever height it was at when you crouched again but the game will still think you are crouching, even if the camera is almost at standing height. You can use this to see through ceilings and even activate buttons and fire weapons through them which is highly abused in some Portal speedruns.
NPCs will also try to shoot at wherever your camera is, not your hitbox, so you can trick enemies into shooting over your hitbox to avoid damage (doesn't work as well with inaccurate enemies as stray bullets can still damage you)
Also, if you move the Half-Life: Source snark(?) model to the Half-Life 2 model folder the blob model uses that by default
It is a snark, and that is very interesting
The weirdest thing about the hidden combine soldier in Route Kanal is the fact that the player never fights combine soldiers during that chapter.
Since i played leaked beta, i can say Why combine soldier was there, there should be two armed with OICW and guarded KA - 60 helicopter
The fact that you captioned 50 minutes of video makes this even more amazing
The Blob has Xen written all over it. It also feels like an endgame "final upgrade" like the upgraded Gravity Gun or the Russells wielding the Vortessence.
My favorite was always that D0g can just _fucking run you over_ . When Black Mesa East gets attacked, if Gordon gets to the door to Ravenholm first and stands in front of it, D0g can crush Gordon between themself and the door, killing Gordon instantly.
that bit of old gameplay around 5:00 gave me a very interesting feeling while watching it
40:46 I’ve always wonders if you could just ride around in these and I love that it’s possible.
The algorithm did you right my man. Fantastic video, well made, and I can feel the effort you put into this. You are more than deserving of it
This was absolutely fucking amazing, and also hilarious. Spinny Manhack Combine is gonna haunt my dreams one day though.
why is this unlisted now?
Cant imagine devs made this game between 97 and 2003. Amount of complexity and features is mind blowing. I have been playing since release and still news things are poping up.
considering i grew up with this game, learning new things like this is so fun
Nice Alyx icon lmao she ((stares intensely))
fun fact: if you switch weapons and then shoot the crossbow only once, the next bolt will look dead, but only on your viewmodel
50:07 that looks exactly like the vortigaunt melee attack from half life 1
I figured out the classname changing trick at 45:52 by myself. It can be unstable at times, but it's a lot of fun
This was one of the most immersive and realistic feeling games for me as a kid and now I learn you can completely break it by going backwards.
Doesn't happen if you play the game from start to finish
he did say when you **load** directly into a level (e.g by using console commands) and going back. normal gameplay won't cause this
@@cataclystp I know. I meant going backwards as in like starting somewhere later in the game and going backwards.
35:50 okay so those modifiers keys wasn't there for fun, there was a controller that designed for this (or rather the other way around) called Fragmaster (basically it's weird hybrid of an airplane controller and gamecube/n64 controller slaps into 1); @LinusTechTips already did a video about that type of controller, it's hella weird
the reason its exists, IMO, was because keyboard/mouse gaming wasn't the norm back in the early 90s, so to "kinda" gives console players a taste of PCMasterRace, this controller was existed
The 38:16 stock women's scream may very well be my favorite usage of that noise I've come across in my years of experience with it!
Thank you!
0:32 i like the fact that the crowbar impact noise happened in your death, almost like a critical hit
I love the thing about looking, such good programming on valves end. Don't need complex triggers, just trigger when in sight. Nobody is gonna not look unless intentionally
It is genius when you think about it. Very low chance to break. They used so much tricks to avoid extra complex work. Like the ammo thing being tied to health. How simple can it be. But i swear that without the right people not a single person in the meeting would come up with it. It really is thinking out of the box. On the other hand the level of handcraft script is painfully obvious in this video. But again, very low chance to break when done right.
What's wrong with complex triggers?
More possible combinations that might lead to a bug. Sometimes when you think you’ve seen the light with some complex logic flow. Testing comes back at you to tell you, it has some problems... lol
When I first played back in 2015-2017, I used to mess around with sv_cheats and spawning npcs through it (before I bought gmod) but I discovered while trying to spawn combine enemies that if you type "npc_create npc_combine" it'll always crash the game immediately.
2022 and I'm still finding out new things about this game. A timeless masterpiece
npcs: talking about how to take on the combine
gordon: (unleashes loud, wet fart)
mothman: 49:58
what
Didn't laugh until I read mothman, then I cackled
Those citizens floating around was hilarious xD
The citizen scanners are pretty unique and oh my god the manhack combine soldier lmao
30:10 Gordon is being grouped by tonnes of zombies
3:30 that jump right into the mines just looks hilarious lmao
i thought this reminded me of darkvipers fact videos but the end just confirmed my suspensions
nice suspensions bro
I think that bed wall called "you suck" is just additional debugging. So NPCs don't clip into it, especially her once her animation and pathing begin. Just more smart Valve stuff.
I remember when people used to say "things you've never seen before"
Now it's "things you have a low chance of having prior knowledge of"
a weird one ive never seen anyone talk about is that with the pistol literally nothing happens when you right click
exept for when youre under water in which case it will spam a click noise until you let go of right click
The blob npc is actually a swarm of snarks
If you continue onto the train bridge after the bridge (highway 17), walk down train tracks, then go back to the houses down the hill from the tracks. Combine re-spawn next to the house.
*Comes in with his back to the door*
*Turns*
Rebels: OHH HEY IT'S FREEMAN!
This was a fun video to watch. Especially the NPC change into another NPC.
37:28 are you sure it's not trying to save you?
I have no idea why this got suggested to me, but I'm all for it. This is amazing xD
19:47 surely they did that so they could simulate the weight, I guess.
What would happen if you do the *ent_fire !picker addoutput "classname npc_"* and change it like citizen > manhack > headcrab?
Will it crash?