hahah this sums it up perfectly. I'm so glad I've paid attention to these broadcasts. I almost walked past the first one when in the middle I realized, "hold on... this might be interesting" and I reloaded to hear the full broadcast. Was not disappointed, and I was keenly listening to the emergency broadcast tones after. Really amazing how what's designed to catch your attention in real life catches your attention in video games as well :D Joking aside, I love the Crowbar Collective, it's unbelievable what they've done with this game
This was one of the best parts of the game, I think what black mesa really adds is the sheer scale of shit hitting the fan. Especially after hearing the first two, when I heard the last one and it said "a state of emergency was declared by the President of the United States" it really makes you realize this isn't just black mesa, shit's fucked
I completely agree. Black Mesa was what allowed me to appreciate the original Half-Life for the first time, because it really drove home the true scale and horror of the Incident.
The part that shakes me the most is "If you have military training, firearms training, or any similar weapons training, contact your nearest military officer immediately." They aknowledge that the situation is so bad - they're ready to use the help of any armed US citizen with a gun to try and contain it. Imagine just hearing that while you are trying to make a morning coffee or something..
That's when you nope the fuck out of there as fast as humanly possible. If the Military is begging people who just know how to point a gun to come and help them, then you know its all gone tits up. It'd be suicide to say yes.
Freemen's mind made a point about this. Claiming that for some militias that would be a wet dream. Just being called by the government to go kill things.
Not really. Saying unknown hostile force could imply some rival nation attacked US soil or something, the average person wouldn't immediately come to the conclusion that it's an alien invasion
One criticism I have of fictional disaster stories in media is that they almost never use the Emergency Alert System. Hearing this in Black Mesa made me happy.
It didn't make me happy. It just make the environment of the game that much more terrifying. For a game that's a fps, it actually has a better horror ambiance than some horror games
The EAS is an amazing part of the setting that doesn't get used as often as it should. My favorite scene in the MCU so far is the post-credits scene of Antman and the Wasp where the Ant is playing the drums while the EAS is playing in the background in response to the Snap.
A lot of people outside of America wouldn't have the faintest idea what it is, it certainly wouldn't evoke the same emotional response. Some might, like me, I distinctly remember the test messages from vacations. "This is a test of the emergency broadcast system..."
This is just my personal preference, but Black Mesa/Half-Life 1 has always had more gold over Half-Life 2. Mainly because of the background reality of this incident.
Or worse, they could be the symptoms of some sort of alien illness that has entered the Earth atmosphere through the portals, as we do know that Xen fauna adapted to Earth in a worryingly quick fashion.
I never noticed that before, the warnings are all issued by different agencies. The following message is broadcast at the request of: 1. Local authorities 2. The New Mexico Department of Emergency Services 3. The United States Department of Defence
To clear up some confusion about the lore: All 3 EAS broadcasts occur during the Black Mesa Incident. The first 2 transmissions are an attempt to cover up the incident by evacuating people away from Black Mesa the third is the government acknowledging they can't cover this up anymore and they are at war. They are however not at war with the combine yet. The seven hour takes place after Half-Life not during it. In Half-Life they are at war with Xen who are trying to invade. Once the Nihilanth dies, the portal storms continue which keeps spreading Xen wildlife across Earth and attracts the combine and at some point after Half-Life the seven hour war occurs.
One of Laidlaw’s archived statements on the OverWiki says it was a matter of days after Black Mesa that the Combine invaded. It was just an uninterrupted rape train after these broadcasts.
It could be some sort of PMC attack and such, normally, people won't think it is aliens as no one really knows what is happening at Black Mesa if one is an outsider, thus, you can see why U.S. government in the game desperately wants to cover this up, as to prevent the public disorder and panic.
I'm from New Mexico and there is a rumored (please take it as that) research facility similar to "Black Mesa" it is called Dulce and literally nothing is known about except there is a lot of weird sighting and odd sounds in the neighboring towns and Native American Reservations. Point is is that with Black Mesa being this ultra secret base, you would have thought that in the event of a "Wildfire Scenario" an alien invasion or whatever they brought in would have been met with an utter and catastrophic nuclear explosion in an attempt to not only cover it up, but contain whatever uninvited "guests" showed up. Great game though!!
This is unironically the best worldbuilding Half-Life has ever had. Like it's not official but it's a glimpse into what was happening outside Black Mesa during all this crap.
Honestly getting rid of the Air Force's involvement in the cover up and instead having the New Mexico National Guard being the fourth group involved in handling the incident, was probably one of the best story changes they could've made, since in HL1 the Air Force had so little involvement in the story to were most people probably didn't even notice in Black Mesa the Air Force's F-16 Fighting Falcons were replaced with the Marine Corps' AV-8B Harriers, and the ones who did probably didn't even care, hell in HL1 the role of the vehicle that bombs the Gargantua was probably going to be done by the cut F-117 Nighthawk Stealth Bomber, all the F-16's did was fly over a canyon and I believe bomb some Alien Grunts, they never even attack you, now compare that to the US Army's role in HL1, which while small, it is still memorable, first encounter, they try to gun your ass down with an AH-64 Apache, second encounter you are trying to cross a minefield, they come after you with another AH-64, hell most people probably didn't realize the fighter jets in HL1 weren't from the same branch as the H.E.C.U, that's how little importance they even had.
@@TylertheCC1010fan To be fair, the Air Force was actually fairly more involved in the Incident than you might think. Remember all those Airstrikes? Air Force. Tactical Map that causes Airstrikes? Air Force.
@@connorgolsong290 but we never see the aircraft so my guess is that it was going to be the cut F-117 Nighthawk not a F-16, but once again since we don't see the vehicle we can't actually prove or disprove anything.
When you hear the third transmission from the radio of a shot up jeep in a tunnel leading to the lambda complex, this, together with the dead soldiers littered around, and the fact that not just the entire state, but the entire country is now in a state of emergency really instilled a feeling of "you should have been gone hours ago" and the guards and scientists who tried to escape by car, whose bodies you see in the gargantua chase sequence really made me think about how little the chances of survival were for the regular black mesa personnel caught right in the center of the single most deadly disaster in history. Edit: Also, the scene where the guard laughs in relief, only to get pounded by an alien grunt and the HECU marine bleeding out, saying his IFAK is gone over the radio made me unironically tear up lol This game's great
@@OmicronFFEAR The guard one right at the end of surface tension, I believe. And the national emergency broadcast right after that, and the IFAK dialogue is right before the Gargantua chase scene.
It's terrifying to imagine that on a quiet Friday morning in a New Mexico suburb, an Old lady goes outside to get her newspaper and spots a strange, crab-like creature in her succulent garden.
oh man now i feel bad. especially for all the victims who have had no idea what headcrabs were yet had to suffer the unending torment of being controlled by one
can confirm. going into a nation wide state of emergency for just about any reason is incredibly scary to us, especially since we havent had any major and/or successful invasion happen here. i cant imagine how afraid i'd be and what would be going through my mind if the president announced that we were being invaded lol
Location of radios that plays this 1: Office Complex radio 2: old trans checkpoint (somewhere close to the warehouse) 3: surface inside a Broken sec bm jeep (note: i dont remember this radio in my playthought but the Jeep should be located inside an tunnel if i am right)
according to a single quote from portal 1, she 'has no idea what's going on outside,' but the tone of her voice when stating this makes it clear that she feels that it is not good.
Honestly though, everything about portal doesn't fit in with the world of Half Life. It's just weird that during the Black Mesa Incident and the Combine's reign on Earth, there's secretly an A.I. testing and expirementing on people, and she doesn't bother at all with anything above the surface.
@@aeroblu2002 why should it fit? thematically of course it definitely doesn't fit, but within the setting, I personally feel that it fits quite well. GLaDOS doesn't interact with the outside world, because she can't; she's limited to the bounds of the facility. Even if she could, it wouldn't be in her best interests to gather the attention of dangerous entities that she is otherwise completely vulnerable to beyond whatever she can achieve by shuffling around test chambers, turrets and poison gas. Having things outside of the standard norm of themes and structure work to make half life more lived in, fleshed out and structured far beyond the range of just a single book or game.
A few years ago I heard some guy on the radio talking about how modern military and a consistently high number of volunteers basically means, as he jokingly put it, "nothing short of an alien invasion" would necessitate conscription. Having heard that, this feels all the more real. Also I love how the whole state of New Mexico became a "nope" zone.
A cool tidbit in Half-Life: Alyx (right at the beginning of the game) is a globe showing the entire US crossed out with a giant X. I'm willing to bet that after the 7 Hour War, the US basically became inhospitable to all human life.
@@Afterburner215 I saw that. It was the entire continent. 'm wondering if the whole place was infected by Xen. I haven't finished Alyx yet, so I don't know if something hints about it that I've yet to see, or if I missed something.
@@Afterburner215 I noticed that too, which could mean the American military did use nukes during the Seven Hours War, though that wouldn't be plausible since the Combine used the portal storms to teleport into the U.S. major cities, and also attcked military bases directly. However, it could also mean that the Resistance in City 17, and possibly the rest of Europe, had simply lost contact with other militia cells in North America and other parts of the world since places like Africa and parts of Asia and Australia were also crossed off.
"If you have military training, firearms training, or any similar weapons training, contact your nearest military officer immediately." Translation: We're overrun with an unknown force and we need help. You know you're fucked if the government starts asking that.
Black Mesa is one of the greatest single player experiences ever, period. You really feel things getting from bad to worse as you progress. At first the incident, then cute aliens and zombies, crazy military, bigger aliens, full-fledged retreat of the army, bombardment, and what a conclusion with the reimagination of Xen. A masterpiece!
The ambience in Black Mesa is masterfully done. These broadcasts are capable of sending chills down anyone's spine, especially those of us who understand the context of Half Life's story. The escalating levels of emergency are so subtly hinted at when you notice the alerts are requested by local authorities, the state's department and finally the Department of Defense.
Really brings out the true horrors of the incident. Can you imagine just sitting at home, trying to chill, you just got all your Christmas shopping done and just put the kids to sleep, and the next thing you know youre being evacuated and the news breaks that theres an alien invasion happening? Like imagine have to deal with the stress of never knowing exactly whats gonna happen next, and knowing that your military is failing to eliminate the threat and that its spreading to the rest of the world.
I've always figured in my own canon that it's in the month of May, like the Opposing Force timeline states. Though arguably something that seriously puts a hole in that from the beginning of Black Mesa is the tram's announcer announcing the weather topside, "Current topside temperature is 93 degrees, with an estimated high of 105." I lived in southwestern Arizona for many years of my life, and I know for certain that the temperature in the desert in the month of May isn't gonna be a high of 105.
@@syrsafox32 Yes, in blue shift there is a calendar behind the guard whos talking to the scientist at the desk window thing in the Opening. I can't remember if that Texture is used in OPFOR but I'm sure its used somewhere. One last thing too, I found the a Reddit thread of a guy who worked out the exact dates of everything in Half-life and that is where 12/5/2000 comes from, really an interesting read. Should come up if you Google "found exact dates of Half-Life series"
Yeah, the aliens are scary and stuff, but I really like when they mentioned Dizziness, Hair loss, etc. because those are all symptoms of coming in contact with radiation. Really cool of the Black Mesa devs to add that.
У HBO неплохо получается экранизировать вымышленные или реальные трагедии. Например, Чернобыль. А после "Last of us"могут попробовать себя и в событиях Half-Life
In 2020 I was alone in the house, and I happened to be in my room, playing this out loud on my phone as I sat on my bed when my dad came home. I decided to prank him by starting the video at the first EAS broadcast just as he walked by my room. I will never forget his reaction. He immediately came in, said "What's going on?" and listened as the announcer described at whatever-AM Mountain Time, "a disaster of unknown type" occurred and the government was ordering the evacuation of everyone in a 75 mile radius. He said out loud "75 miles?! I gotta call Gram", and pulled out his cellphone. For context, "Gram" is my grandma who lives relatively near that area. I realized this little joke was rapidly getting out of hand and paused the video and explained it was a fictional recording from a videogame. He looked both surprised and relieved, and all I could say was "Sorry. That wasn't meant to freak you out." I consider that little moment to be a twisted sort of compliment to Crowbar Collective and their amazing product.
@@djcuevas1057 That's the most terrifying part of the Half-Life universe, the BMI and the Seven Hour War happened within just a few days of each other; and knowing that the G-Man orchestrated the former event, there was no way of preventing it because no-one knew it was coming.
My dear Americans, you have a terrifying emergency notification system. Seriously, for someone not accustomed to it, hearing and seeing it for the first time is just nightmare fuel. I know it works for tornadoes and similar local events, can be dispatched very selectively and I like the self-propagating nature of the triggering audio signal. But sweet Jesus.
Hearing the first one while in the dark rooms during Office Complex was pants-shitting levels of terrifying. I haven't seen a game master that level of atmosphere in a long time, props to the devs.
I was waching this and my dad emediatly turned on the TV after hearing the *beeeep* *beeeep*, sighed and asked me if i was waching broadcasts. Then i realised that serbia uses difrent tones on the second beeps and this one ment "State of war has been declared"
I honestly find it hilarious that while the civilians are just leaving, meanwhile Gordon Freeman is kicking both the Military as well as the Xenian’s asses
How does gordon do all this with only these breaks: in the trash compactor in the 10th chapter so which is 2 days of fighting no brakes, stasis after a few chapters then a whole 2 days of fighting then escaping from city 17 then going to white forest And he doesn't get deppresed angry, upset, anxious, also he doesn't have any experience with guns he doesn't run around cowardly in danger he doesn't get scared at gunshots he kills alot of stuff on his own many being automatic weapon armed soliders and that suit sockets everything He has been In concussion has his head bit Chocked Zapped Burned irradiated Stunned Beaten Shot Stabbed Fell off high places Bombed Nearly crushed Had balls of energy shot at him Bit Hacked Mauled Poisoned Nearly Drowned Impaled And he still lives
@@thepeanut5747 Mario Principal, a part of death battles, states that you can't take into account gameplay elements when determining what a character can or can't take. For example, Mario - in theory - can die in a single touch, like all it takes in-game is a Goomba to poke him. But this isn't part of the lore, it's a gameplay mechnaic. So stuff like the fractures from fall damage and many other elements don't count. You could even say he was never shot, stabbed, etc in lore, etc. This brings down how much damage he took DRAMATICALLLY, and the rest (such as irradiated) could be covered by the HEV suit.
0:17 The following message is transmitted at the request of local authorities. At 9:47 AM, Mountain Time, a disaster of unknown type has occurred at the Black Mesa Research Facility causing significant damage and failure to various power and communication systems in the surrounding areas. An immediate evacuation order has been issued for all residents within a 75 mile radius of the facility, and on-site military has been dispatched to provide assistance. Make sure to bring an emergency supply of food, water, clothing, first aid kit, flashlights with extra batteries, and battery powered radios. Follow local evacuation routes which have been marked by local authorities and only use one vehicle. Do not return to the warning area until the all clear has been given. If you are not in the evacuation zone stay where you are. If you are within the evacuation area and have no transportation locate your nearest police department or military officer. Do not use telephones or cell phones except in the case of emergencies. Stay tuned to local news media outlets for further details and information on this situation.
imagine enjoying a nice breakfast with some pancakes bacon and a nice hot coffee, then you hear an alert tone, "ok" you say, you tune in then you figure out that you need to evacuate, "hmm, odd" you say, you head out of the area, you hear the other alert, "uh, im worried" you say, you evacuate further, then, the final alert...
0:17 - Local Area Emergency 2:06 - Civil Danger Warning or Civil Emergency Massage 4:01 - Emergency Action Notification or National Information Center Statement Just my opinion..
Earlier today, I was playing this game, and the third transmission just... Man. I have the game in Spanish as I'm from the old Mexico. The transmission started playing, but I couldn't hear it, just paying attention to the subtitles. That moment when it said "Una orden de evacuación al estado entero de Nuevo México" (or something like that) plus the music in the background sent chills down my spine. A lot of mental images and stuff started happening in my mind. Man.
This is extremely eerie and realistic world building. It doesn't rely on fancy graphics, but purely audio and real life fears of EAS broadcasts signalling something terrible.
I couldnt agree more. Whenever i tried to listen a HECU radio or emergency broadcast some fucking headcrabs starts jumping on me. I really angry to crowbar collective for putting headcrabs there
At the same time I hate and love these. The eerie sounds, the way the broadcaster speaks, the fact that even the broadcast itself has no idea what exactly is going on in Black Mesa. What also gives me the creeps is that these are real. This could potentially happen any time.
9:47am - "Disaster of unknown type" & a 75 mile radius evacuation zone. 12:01pm - Previous message expired. Black Mesa to be fully quarantined, and evacuation zone expanded to 150 miles. They list a number symptoms as either a cover for the real disaster happening in Black Mesa, or they really didn't know better and thought the disaster was just radiation fallout. 4:16pm "This is not a test" A state of emergency is declared by the president. They finally acknowledge that there's "an unknown hostile force" present in Black Mesa. And in 5:42pm the president issued orders to conduct airstrikes to the facility. It's really scary how the situation degraded so fast in one day. And then after all of this, Black Mesa gets wiped off the map with a nuclear explosion.
If these are only about the Black Mesa Incident imagine how the EAS Broadcast for the Seven Hour War would be. The Xenian Military and alien fauna was somewhat contained within Black Mesa and its surroundings (until the Portal Storms started after the death of the Nihilanth) but the little we known about the 7 Hour War is that the Combine send swarm after swarm of military forces against a weakened human military around the world that was enduring the Portal Storms and the hostile alien fauna for at least some weeks after the incident.
according to the second one, there's also some kind of disease coming from xen. this also might just be something to make the reason for the quarantine of black mesa more believable
Yeah I think they're going for radiation sickness symptoms for a nuclear disaster cover up but anything like that would just scare people into evacuating regardless of it being real or not
Well actually, those are the symptoms of Radiation Poisoning. It is unknown why this plays while Gordon is still at Black Mesa (Possibly an oversight by the devs), but I can only presume it's supposed to take place AFTER the nuclear detonation in Opposing Force.
@@connorgolsong290 Good eye Connor, sadly, this only plays because it is presumed the local authorities are attempting to play this off as a radiation leak or breach at the facility to ease tension and not cause widespread panic about he actual nature of what's going on in Black Mesa. You MAY be right though
@@felixc.3444 Ha, more like I've dedicated way too much of my life to this series lol. But regardless, it may be true that they're just trying to play it off as a nuclear accident. Who knows. Valve certainly isn't going to tell us.
@@connorgolsong290 It seems ingenious if not, if they said that there are aliens (which they do when things go absolutely fubar) it may have disrupted evacuations and caused mass panic before acceptable amounts of civilians were removed from the towns nearby, what do you think
The details half life adds to the black mesa incident are just, holy shit. Like, in most stories, you just hear how it was a normal day like any other. Cue dramatic music and all that. With black mesa, you EXPIERENCE this normality, and see things go to shit. It's terrifying because it feels so real. And, another part of it is that see how it's effecting places outside of black mesa aswell. Allong with how emergency alerts are just a part of our daily lives(depending on where you live) hearing something like this can feel unsettlingly real. There's allot that's hard for me to put into words about this but holy shit if it isn't cool.
I'm pretty sure the message about conscription at the end of the third broadcast is a reference or easter egg winking to Freeman's Mind, there's a part where Ross Scott (playing Gordon) questions whether 1/3rd of the US would happily pilgrumage to Black Mesa just to get the chance to shoot at aliens
@@guitarfan01 The Half-Life manual put the date at May 16, Marc Laidlaw hinted that the date is in March, and the game itself has conflicting dates. I believe it's intentionally left undetermined, so the player can decide.
This is one of those small touches that really makes BM feel more real and adds to the scale and lore of the situation, small touch but it makes a lot of difference.
I was in Orlando when Hurricane Irma passed and that terrifying alarm would come to us several times a day to update the status of the storm. Nice memory of my vacations in the Disney world park.
The alerts and their corresponding situations in Black Mesa and surrounding areas in New Mexico (some details of which are my guesses): Alert 1: At the beginning of Office Complex, which takes place in the early afternoon of the first day, about 2-4 hours after the resonance cascade. Black Mesa has sustained catastrophic damage all over, power failure, electrical wires falling and causing shocks, toxic radioactive leaks, and fires from flammable material, pretty much everything turned lethal; this causes a lot of death already. In addition, the lower-tier Xen wildlife (Headcrabs, Houndeyes, etc.) fall through the newly opened dimensional rift and are openly hostile toward anyone they see; this causes even more death on top of that caused by the hazards in the facility. Survivors like Eli Vance and Gordon Freeman are desperately trying to get to the surface to warn the world about the true scope of the disaster. Meanwhile, the entire desert of New Mexico, having lost all electricity, is in a sudden state of panic and confusion. What probably happened was that a large shockwave at the moment of the resonance cascade (9:47 AM) violently shook a 60-100 mile radius around Black Mesa, snapping the electricity lines severely. However, so far, no Xen aliens have appeared out in the desert yet, the dimensional rift yet beginning to widen. The local authorities, tracing the origin to Black Mesa, deduct that a life-threatening incident has unfolded and issue the immediate evacuation order for civilians in a 75-mile radius. Already warned by the shockwave and power failure, most civilians comply, some even gathering supplies quickly and rushing out in a panic. Alert 2: At the beginning of Blast Pit, around sunset on the first day (8:00 PM, if the date of May 16, 200-, is correct). Over the course of the afternoon, the situation in Black Mesa and the New Mexico desert deteriorates. The dimensional rift worsens, and in addition to the lower tier Xen wildlife, bigger Xen wildlife (like Bullsquids and Tentacles) and some Xen military (like Vortigaunts and Gargantuas) appear in Black Mesa. By evening, the first signs of Xen wildlife appear in the New Mexico desert, causing a nightmare for those still not evacuated by scaring them with the sudden portals and killing the unfortunate ones. Reports of loss of body control (caused by Headcrabs), internal bleeding (caused by Houndeyes), acid (caused by Bullsquids), and shocks and burns (caused by Vortigaunts) start coming in. It is around this time that the Nihilanth notices the dimensional rift and begins organizing a powerful army of Vortigaunts, Alien Grunts, Manta Rays, and Gargantuas hoping to launch a full-scale invasion (which comes true the next day, in Questionable Ethics and Surface Tension). The state department of New Mexico, informed of the disaster at Black Mesa and receiving reports of possible alien involvement, tries to cover up knowledge about the disaster (maybe it was one of the primary sources that funded research at Black Mesa?). The state department extends the evacuation zone to a 150-mile radius and talks about symptoms of a possible outbreak of radiation sickness, further scaring evacuating civilians. The military dispatched to Black Mesa are given orders to cover up the incident by eliminating science personnel that survived the initial disaster. Alert 3: At the climax of Surface Tension, late in the afternoon of the second day. Now Black Mesa is a brutal war zone such as never been seen before. The Xen army put together by the Nihilanth successfully launches their full-scale assault on Black Mesa, completely overwhelming the human forces. At this point, the number of Black Mesa scientists and security guards still alive is about 1/10 to 1/20 of their number before the disaster, and they are desperately trying to survive. The military has a majority of its soldiers brutally wounded or killed in agonizing pain. As the fierce battle is hopeless for them, they start to make a hasty exit from Black Mesa, leaving many of their own soldiers behind. As for the New Mexico desert, the now-abundant Xen creatures are freely roaming open regions of the desert up to a 30-40 mile radius from Black Mesa. It is now impossible to hide what is really happening from the public, the whole North American population is watching the events, and the US president and the national government take command over the battle. The US president quickly orders a barrage of airstrikes all around Black Mesa. I also think the US government (possibly spurred by the G-Man) authorized the Black Ops to infiltrate Black Mesa to eventually nuke the facility in a last ditch effort to contain the alien invasion. Details like these emergency broadcasts make this one of my favorite games of all time. If they remake Opposing Force, I hope they continue doing these emergency alerts. In Opposing Force, the situation gets even worse.
When I played this game at the age of 14, I had no idea of the scale of what had really happened, for me things were limited to that research facility, and that the actions I was taking, would end all danger. After playing HL2 and its episodes, researching the lore and listening to these audios more calmly, I can finally realize the size of the catastrophe unleashed that fateful morning ... Poor employees of Black Mesa and residents of nearby cities, just waited another boring day and in the end, "unknown hostile forces" right before their eyes...
Whats creepy is there are actual scripts for similar events that involve places like area 51 in Nevada and other facilities around the USA. There are also scripts that relate to an enemy invasion and occupations of parts of the USA that was written back int he cold war era. That is what the last EAS message on this video was based off of..
I like how you say "For Area 51" like that's at all unique. They have one for every military base in the US, Area 51 just happens to be, well, a military base in the US. The idea is that if nuclear bombs get dropped or whatever, they have the pre-recorded names of every military base and major city they can add to be read off on the list of what got hit. It's not like they have a full "Area 51 has fallen" script or whatever.
When I heard the second announcement I could imagine Gordon putting his shotgun, Mp5, or crowbar on a wall as he shakes knowing things are getting worse and punches the wall.
Just fucking imagine You're just watching TV and enjoy watching your favorite show and suddenly an EAS alarm alert is set and THIS is the exact announcement.
in half life alyx we see the entire united states just crossed off with a big x, while most thing it was all the combine i think it might have been due mostly to the black mesa incident
Perhaps it's because the US and those locations marked with an "X" have been overrun by Xen Flora and Fauna. And The Combine decided to relocate them to somewhere much safer like the Eastern European setting of Half-Life 2.
these messages and the radio chatter of the HECU troops really help to convey just how fucked everything is. the entirety of humanity gets surprise attacked by an alien invasion and just as it looks like things might be slowing down the skies fill with starships as the combine begin to attack, all of this in under 4 days. this is some of the best indirect world building i have ever seen in a game and i love it.
If ya download this, then plug it into a tv where people/family/friends see this and play it at the right moment, you'll totally scare the shit out of them.
I love that they give the symptoms that are related to headcrabs, but refuse to inform people that an alien life form would need to have jumped onto your head and will have not let go unless killed for this to happen.
"Do not remain in your homes." That for me is the most disturbing line; on a subconscious level, home is the safest place to be, and to hear that even that is now no longer safe can shake a person to the core.
I had commented on another video how quickly things escalated in Black Mesa. It took 72 hours for the whole thing to go from bad to FUBAR in a hurry. Which ultimately in my opinion lead to the total destruction of the US by the Combine and Xen forces. I have read comments about how people were confused by the need for marines and the black ops forces to "clean" the site. The reason these forces were sent in was to prevent information leaks to the public as Black Mesa is a top secret facility and a military controlled facility like Area 51. There is a surprising amount of Xen technology in Black Mesa Gordon can find while playing and that information leaking to the world will raise some unwanted questions and attention. So when the resonance cascade went down; the first wave of soldiers on the ground were to prevent information leaks; they aren't the real deal and weren't prepared for the horrors to come crawling out of Xen. So in a sense Gordon wasn't fighting Shepherd and his task force; who are basically third wave marines; he was fighting scouts and security forces; which means he actually had it relatively easy. (You will notice during the whole play through Gordon never once finds a S.A.W. and weapons like shepherd has.) The third wave troops were sent in to try to kill Gordon and any last forces of resistance or marines who saw too much or knew too much and we're trying to flee; but by then the nihilanth had the door open and there was no stopping his army from pouring through. If the main army had arrived first; they might have stood a chance against the Xen forces; at least long enough to close the portals if they could interrogate enough scientists. But because Gordon was killing so many marines; security was fighting back and the aliens virtually overrun the facility; the first and second waves stood zero chance; so the third wave came in on a crumbling house of cards. What makes the whole ordeal so much more frightening is that the government was unaware that the whole time during the fighting: they had the answers to mostly halt the Xen invasion right in front of them. Gordon launched a rocket containing a satellite that could regain control of the resonance cascade for a short period; but because of military interference, the Nihilanth had time to grab and hold the portals open; which is why Gordon had to go to Lambda sector to go into Xen and close it from inside Xen. Shepherd and his people could have very well contained the outbreak; but the response to the situation was so poor that once he was on scene with his teams; it was a losing fight and Shepherd knew it was FUBAR trying; which is why Black Ops tried to turn on him. So during the final hours of the Resonance Cascade; Freeman would be taking the fight alone, while the world he knew was falling apart. That is in a sense why the marines and black ops got sent in; they had woefully underestimated the threat they faced and made the grave mistake of not only killing the science teams BEFORE they could stop the cascade, but sending in woefully under prepared and under equipped soldiers to a fight they needed much more serious firepower for.
I think the first wave were prepared for Xen wildlife, they seemed to be handling it relatively fine until the more serious Xen military troops turned up and then it became a shitshow. The HECU seemed to be well aware that they'd be fighting "monsters" but they weren't prepared for an organised military to be literally spawning in. The first wave were definitely sent in just to keep anything from getting to the public though, second wave when more and more wildlife kept spawning in, third wave when the Xen military show up and overwhelm HECU. Of course this is just fan speculation so it could be the entirety of the HECU turned up straight away and just overtime they lost their grip on the situation.
@@piefish I think so to; again saying that they weren't prepared for the magnitude of the alien incursions. Shepherd wasn't inserted in during the first waves; he came in when the Xen forces were tearing the place apart. Meaning either he didn't know it was that bad and neither did the third wave; or they knew it was bad, but they didn't know it was as bad as it was. In Blue Shift you actually see many of the first wave HECU arriving by train and they were bringing tanks in with them (which the Bradley IFVs were replaced by eight wheeled Stryker type LAVs). Suggesting to some degree they anticipated meeting something; just not to the extent of what Gordon and co witnessed.
Imagine people hearing this get their shit and hit the road as soon as possible, there is a massive long traffic, sirens, horns, chaos. Then they see the shadows of manta rays
@@combineadvisorwithinternet6040 The worst part is, even if they did escape into any other area, that just means they'll survived to witness the start of the Seven Hour War.
All 3 Black Mesa EAS Transmission Broadcasts 0:00 First Transmission (Beginning the Black Mesa Disaster) 1:51 Second Transmission (Updated about the Resonance Cascade Disaster) 3:46 Third Transmission (After The Disaster and During The War)
The first three bursts of data packet can be decoded to see an easter egg inside: the eas location tag can be either really from black mesa or the state where it is or just reusing the sound from maybe a tornado eas from other states.
I really wish there was some sort of message like this from a scientist in the Lambda Complex or somewhere, broadcast through the facility. Something like them explaining they need to seal the rift between Xen and Earth and they have to get Gordon Freeman to the Lambda Complex.
or maybe they make an announcement during opposing force or blue shift after freeman went to xen that said something like "freeman is now inside the portal" and that stuff
The last one issuing the state of emergency is when the xen invaders already travelled statewide, and parts of Mexico, that is when they couldn't hold this inside anymore.
You can tell that Black Ops has planted the nuke in the second announcement, because that message tells people to watch for the signs of radiation sickness and they're anticipating the nuke going off and issuing the wider evac order to get everyone out of range of the fallout.
Am i the only one who thinks this is extremely disturbing? to the point that this literally changed how i see Half-Life? it now just feels like Chernobyl now, but scarier, im a Half-Life 2 fan and i heard about Half-Life 2 Beta which is the creepier and darker scrapped version of Half Life 2, but this just made Half Life 1 way scarier than the HL2 Beta I used to think "lmao this goofy ahh accident made a portal for aliens" but after thinking about it for some minutes i realised this was a disaster full of suffering and shit
*Walks past dead soldier bodies*
"Haha! The military is getting destroyed!"
*Hears 3'rd EAS broadcast*
"Oh... the military's getting destroyed..."
hahah this sums it up perfectly. I'm so glad I've paid attention to these broadcasts. I almost walked past the first one when in the middle I realized, "hold on... this might be interesting" and I reloaded to hear the full broadcast. Was not disappointed, and I was keenly listening to the emergency broadcast tones after. Really amazing how what's designed to catch your attention in real life catches your attention in video games as well :D Joking aside, I love the Crowbar Collective, it's unbelievable what they've done with this game
This was one of the best parts of the game, I think what black mesa really adds is the sheer scale of shit hitting the fan. Especially after hearing the first two, when I heard the last one and it said "a state of emergency was declared by the President of the United States" it really makes you realize this isn't just black mesa, shit's fucked
Mank Demes it really hits the fan when the seven hour war occurrs just a few days later
I completely agree. Black Mesa was what allowed me to appreciate the original Half-Life for the first time, because it really drove home the true scale and horror of the Incident.
half life is so cool
Black mesa incident is based on Steven kings the Mist.
lmao yeah
The part that shakes me the most is "If you have military training, firearms training, or any similar weapons training, contact your nearest military officer immediately."
They aknowledge that the situation is so bad - they're ready to use the help of any armed US citizen with a gun to try and contain it. Imagine just hearing that while you are trying to make a morning coffee or something..
That's when you nope the fuck out of there as fast as humanly possible.
If the Military is begging people who just know how to point a gun to come and help them, then you know its all gone tits up. It'd be suicide to say yes.
@@silver965 probably suicide to say no, too...
La de da de doo just makin my coff- NOW IS MY TIME!!
Freemen's mind made a point about this. Claiming that for some militias that would be a wet dream. Just being called by the government to go kill things.
Me who played COD - "It's showtime..."
**Dies during the first 10 seconds of combat**
Imagine hearing about an “unknown hostile force.” That shit is scarier than if they just said “extraterrestrial force”
2023 is calling
Gordon Freeman
Not really. Saying unknown hostile force could imply some rival nation attacked US soil or something, the average person wouldn't immediately come to the conclusion that it's an alien invasion
@@Gameprojordan well its a coverup so they kinda had to say that lmao
@@Gameprojordan1. it’s to cover up
2. So other rival nations won’t get name dropped because that’s provocative in the world of diplomacy
One criticism I have of fictional disaster stories in media is that they almost never use the Emergency Alert System. Hearing this in Black Mesa made me happy.
It’s so intense. Makes it feel like you’re actually at the very beginning of a world catastrophe.
It didn't make me happy. It just make the environment of the game that much more terrifying. For a game that's a fps, it actually has a better horror ambiance than some horror games
@@wyster14 Which is super good. I think more games, horror or not. Should use EAS tones and such if it involves a disaster.
The EAS is an amazing part of the setting that doesn't get used as often as it should. My favorite scene in the MCU so far is the post-credits scene of Antman and the Wasp where the Ant is playing the drums while the EAS is playing in the background in response to the Snap.
A lot of people outside of America wouldn't have the faintest idea what it is, it certainly wouldn't evoke the same emotional response. Some might, like me, I distinctly remember the test messages from vacations. "This is a test of the emergency broadcast system..."
These are actually terrifying, it really makes the game more scarier.
And deeper, i always wanted to know about what was happening outside Black mesa, in towns or cities nearby. Its really creepy
This is just my personal preference, but Black Mesa/Half-Life 1 has always had more gold over Half-Life 2. Mainly because of the background reality of this incident.
@ThePixelPyro You should check out "Neinfeld"'s video on the reprecussions of the black mesa disaster
Yeah. I live in New Mexico and that just makes it scarier.
@@derpypixel4951 you got any nuclear/science facilities near you?
Everybody gangsta until the emergency alert system starts listing syptoms of radiation poisoning
*Until the emergency alert system asks you to contact the military if you know how to use a firearm
Everybody:fuck this shit I’m out
@@toaster9922 chernobyl but in the U.S. moment
Everybody gangsta 'til the Emergency Alert System says "This is NOT a test."
Or worse, they could be the symptoms of some sort of alien illness that has entered the Earth atmosphere through the portals, as we do know that Xen fauna adapted to Earth in a worryingly quick fashion.
It goes:
>Desertwide (75M)
>About Statewide
>National Emergency
then global emergency
damn that escalated
Hello Gordon!
After that it is a global emergency and then Interdimensional emergency
I never noticed that before, the warnings are all issued by different agencies.
The following message is broadcast at the request of:
1. Local authorities
2. The New Mexico Department of Emergency Services
3. The United States Department of Defence
To clear up some confusion about the lore:
All 3 EAS broadcasts occur during the Black Mesa Incident. The first 2 transmissions are an attempt to cover up the incident by evacuating people away from Black Mesa the third is the government acknowledging they can't cover this up anymore and they are at war.
They are however not at war with the combine yet. The seven hour takes place after Half-Life not during it. In Half-Life they are at war with Xen who are trying to invade. Once the Nihilanth dies, the portal storms continue which keeps spreading Xen wildlife across Earth and attracts the combine and at some point after Half-Life the seven hour war occurs.
One of Laidlaw’s archived statements on the OverWiki says it was a matter of days after Black Mesa that the Combine invaded. It was just an uninterrupted rape train after these broadcasts.
@@halosammy14 do you have a link to that? Not seen that before
piefish Sure!
combineoverwiki.net/wiki/References:Marc_Laidlaw_emails
Toward the bottom. Second to the bottom-ish.
@@halosammy14 awesome! I've never seen that before so it's good to have some clarification on that
I thought the nuke the black ops detonated was what attracted the Combine
The phrasing of "Unknown hostile force" is so disturbing as it betrays how little anyone knows about what has happened down in black mesa.
It could be some sort of PMC attack and such, normally, people won't think it is aliens as no one really knows what is happening at Black Mesa if one is an outsider, thus, you can see why U.S. government in the game desperately wants to cover this up, as to prevent the public disorder and panic.
I'm from New Mexico and there is a rumored (please take it as that) research facility similar to "Black Mesa" it is called Dulce and literally nothing is known about except there is a lot of weird sighting and odd sounds in the neighboring towns and Native American Reservations.
Point is is that with Black Mesa being this ultra secret base, you would have thought that in the event of a "Wildfire Scenario" an alien invasion or whatever they brought in would have been met with an utter and catastrophic nuclear explosion in an attempt to not only cover it up, but contain whatever uninvited "guests" showed up. Great game though!!
@@deathstrike Don't know if you ever played the original Half Life + its expansions but that's what happens eventually.
Even if they know the truth, would anyone believe "alien invasion"?
@@Spiderbloke and the nuke ,deatanated at point blank to a alien portal , attracts the combine starting the 7hour war
This is unironically the best worldbuilding Half-Life has ever had. Like it's not official but it's a glimpse into what was happening outside Black Mesa during all this crap.
Its such a shame the first and last are so easy to miss.
Honestly getting rid of the Air Force's involvement in the cover up and instead having the New Mexico National Guard being the fourth group involved in handling the incident, was probably one of the best story changes they could've made, since in HL1 the Air Force had so little involvement in the story to were most people probably didn't even notice in Black Mesa the Air Force's F-16 Fighting Falcons were replaced with the Marine Corps' AV-8B Harriers, and the ones who did probably didn't even care, hell in HL1 the role of the vehicle that bombs the Gargantua was probably going to be done by the cut F-117 Nighthawk Stealth Bomber, all the F-16's did was fly over a canyon and I believe bomb some Alien Grunts, they never even attack you, now compare that to the US Army's role in HL1, which while small, it is still memorable, first encounter, they try to gun your ass down with an AH-64 Apache, second encounter you are trying to cross a minefield, they come after you with another AH-64, hell most people probably didn't realize the fighter jets in HL1 weren't from the same branch as the H.E.C.U, that's how little importance they even had.
@@TylertheCC1010fan To be fair, the Air Force was actually fairly more involved in the Incident than you might think. Remember all those Airstrikes? Air Force. Tactical Map that causes Airstrikes? Air Force.
@@connorgolsong290 but we never see the aircraft so my guess is that it was going to be the cut F-117 Nighthawk not a F-16, but once again since we don't see the vehicle we can't actually prove or disprove anything.
@@TylertheCC1010fan Possibly, but I think it makes less sense to bring in the national guard instead of the Actual Military.
When you hear the third transmission from the radio of a shot up jeep in a tunnel leading to the lambda complex, this, together with the dead soldiers littered around, and the fact that not just the entire state, but the entire country is now in a state of emergency really instilled a feeling of "you should have been gone hours ago" and the guards and scientists who tried to escape by car, whose bodies you see in the gargantua chase sequence really made me think about how little the chances of survival were for the regular black mesa personnel caught right in the center of the single most deadly disaster in history.
Edit: Also, the scene where the guard laughs in relief, only to get pounded by an alien grunt and the HECU marine bleeding out, saying his IFAK is gone over the radio made me unironically tear up lol
This game's great
Where does that scene happen?
@@OmicronFFEAR The guard one right at the end of surface tension, I believe. And the national emergency broadcast right after that, and the IFAK dialogue is right before the Gargantua chase scene.
Not just "gone hours ago" I think. Literally yesterday!
It's terrifying to imagine that on a quiet Friday morning in a New Mexico suburb, an Old lady goes outside to get her newspaper and spots a strange, crab-like creature in her succulent garden.
"You crabs get off my lawn!"
Then crab is picked up by issac kleiner who barades the headcrab for running away
oh man now i feel bad. especially for all the victims who have had no idea what headcrabs were yet had to suffer the unending torment of being controlled by one
Any American will tell you that this is one sound you never, ever want to hear.
can confirm. going into a nation wide state of emergency for just about any reason is incredibly scary to us, especially since we havent had any major and/or successful invasion happen here. i cant imagine how afraid i'd be and what would be going through my mind if the president announced that we were being invaded lol
Especially when followed by "we don't know what's going on but you should really get away". That just has bad sign written all over it.
It's scary as hell
@@_Devil
unless you count
9 / 11
Unless you’re looking for battle that you have no chance of winning
Location of radios that plays this
1: Office Complex radio
2: old trans checkpoint (somewhere close to the warehouse)
3: surface inside a Broken sec bm jeep (note: i dont remember this radio in my playthought but the Jeep should be located inside an tunnel if i am right)
You are indeed right about number 3
One is in the toxic waste pool at the beginning of blast pit
Are you talking about the tunnel with the gargantua?
@@kylefinn5301 yes, well its actually the parking lot before you are chased by gargantua. I played this part a couple days ago. :)
Thank you. Heard these in a another video and thought someone created them
My personal headcanon is that GLaDOS heard the national warning and started laughing uncontrollably.
Haha, very funny, did laugh
@@MrPikachuTheMadman Well it takes place far in the future after the uprising.
according to a single quote from portal 1, she 'has no idea what's going on outside,' but the tone of her voice when stating this makes it clear that she feels that it is not good.
Honestly though, everything about portal doesn't fit in with the world of Half Life. It's just weird that during the Black Mesa Incident and the Combine's reign on Earth, there's secretly an A.I. testing and expirementing on people, and she doesn't bother at all with anything above the surface.
@@aeroblu2002 why should it fit? thematically of course it definitely doesn't fit, but within the setting, I personally feel that it fits quite well. GLaDOS doesn't interact with the outside world, because she can't; she's limited to the bounds of the facility. Even if she could, it wouldn't be in her best interests to gather the attention of dangerous entities that she is otherwise completely vulnerable to beyond whatever she can achieve by shuffling around test chambers, turrets and poison gas.
Having things outside of the standard norm of themes and structure work to make half life more lived in, fleshed out and structured far beyond the range of just a single book or game.
A few years ago I heard some guy on the radio talking about how modern military and a consistently high number of volunteers basically means, as he jokingly put it, "nothing short of an alien invasion" would necessitate conscription. Having heard that, this feels all the more real. Also I love how the whole state of New Mexico became a "nope" zone.
Makes you wonder if there was any point in killing Black Mesa personnel if they were gonna nuke the facility anyway.
Enclave Remnant The situation changed rapidly. Using a nuke wasn’t in the cards until the military realized they couldn’t win.
A cool tidbit in Half-Life: Alyx (right at the beginning of the game) is a globe showing the entire US crossed out with a giant X. I'm willing to bet that after the 7 Hour War, the US basically became inhospitable to all human life.
@@Afterburner215 I saw that. It was the entire continent. 'm wondering if the whole place was infected by Xen. I haven't finished Alyx yet, so I don't know if something hints about it that I've yet to see, or if I missed something.
@@Afterburner215 I noticed that too, which could mean the American military did use nukes during the Seven Hours War, though that wouldn't be plausible since the Combine used the portal storms to teleport into the U.S. major cities, and also attcked military bases directly. However, it could also mean that the Resistance in City 17, and possibly the rest of Europe, had simply lost contact with other militia cells in North America and other parts of the world since places like Africa and parts of Asia and Australia were also crossed off.
Tbh more games should include eas it adds a lot of atmosphere.
Only other game I could think of that did this is Modern Warfare 2.
QSERF that roblox game has a EAS when the DMR commits explode but QSERF was broken now
seriously
it's such a simple but effective storytelling method
Kenetic Kups I am pretty sure it is slightly illegal though to include the noise, so that may be a reason why.
Pichi Bomb I think that's only if it"s over radio or tv, not for movies and vidya
but i may be wrong
"This is not a test."
That gives me the chills every time I hear it.
4:12 Damn, President Keemstar wasn't messing around.
M Y F E L L O W A M E R I C A N S
I guess you don't understand the situation my friend: we're all dead men walking
the true third half life game
heh.. hunt down the freeman sucked
Cant be a reference to how bad HDTF is without you fucked up my face
Kthxbye
"If you have military training, firearms training, or any similar weapons training, contact your nearest military officer immediately." Translation: We're overrun with an unknown force and we need help. You know you're fucked if the government starts asking that.
Ukraine 2022 be like
The situation just spirals into chaos as the nation realizes the magnitute of the incident
It actually makes you feel like you're witnessing the apocalypse when you hear this and not just trying to escape from a lab.
Black Mesa is one of the greatest single player experiences ever, period. You really feel things getting from bad to worse as you progress. At first the incident, then cute aliens and zombies, crazy military, bigger aliens, full-fledged retreat of the army, bombardment, and what a conclusion with the reimagination of Xen. A masterpiece!
The ambience in Black Mesa is masterfully done. These broadcasts are capable of sending chills down anyone's spine, especially those of us who understand the context of Half Life's story. The escalating levels of emergency are so subtly hinted at when you notice the alerts are requested by local authorities, the state's department and finally the Department of Defense.
"I bet 2020 can't get any worse"
2020:
LMFAO
haha anomalous materials go bzzzzzz
BOI DONT JINX IT
December 2020 - "Haha 7 hour war go boom boom"
The fact that Half-Life 2 takes place in 2020...
Really brings out the true horrors of the incident. Can you imagine just sitting at home, trying to chill, you just got all your Christmas shopping done and just put the kids to sleep, and the next thing you know youre being evacuated and the news breaks that theres an alien invasion happening? Like imagine have to deal with the stress of never knowing exactly whats gonna happen next, and knowing that your military is failing to eliminate the threat and that its spreading to the rest of the world.
Or It's even worse to be in your half-ruined laboratory and turn on the radio
I've always figured in my own canon that it's in the month of May, like the Opposing Force timeline states. Though arguably something that seriously puts a hole in that from the beginning of Black Mesa is the tram's announcer announcing the weather topside, "Current topside temperature is 93 degrees, with an estimated high of 105."
I lived in southwestern Arizona for many years of my life, and I know for certain that the temperature in the desert in the month of May isn't gonna be a high of 105.
@@syrsafox32 The calendars in game say december on them. The generally accepted date Ive seen in the community is 12/5/2000.
@@MrJustinUSCM Are the calendars the same in Opposing Force and Blue Shift?
@@syrsafox32 Yes, in blue shift there is a calendar behind the guard whos talking to the scientist at the desk window thing in the Opening. I can't remember if that Texture is used in OPFOR but I'm sure its used somewhere.
One last thing too, I found the a Reddit thread of a guy who worked out the exact dates of everything in Half-life and that is where 12/5/2000 comes from, really an interesting read. Should come up if you Google "found exact dates of Half-Life series"
Yeah, the aliens are scary and stuff, but I really like when they mentioned Dizziness, Hair loss, etc. because those are all symptoms of coming in contact with radiation. Really cool of the Black Mesa devs to add that.
У HBO неплохо получается экранизировать вымышленные или реальные трагедии. Например, Чернобыль. А после "Last of us"могут попробовать себя и в событиях Half-Life
They probably wanted people to believe it was a nuclear disaster instead of what it actually was.
MY FELLOW AMERICANS. AS YOUR PRESIDENT AND COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF, IT IS WITH A HEAVY HEART-
Silverus *N O*
*is it that time again , hm , doctor freeman*
LET'S GET RIGHT INTO THE NEWS
The only thing from HDTF, that can be mentioned when it comes to 7hours War/ in-game radio broadcast topic
" we giv up to combe "
When you pause the video but the alert is still playing
This scares the shit out of me
bup
NOPE
Bruh
hol up
Any emergency broadcast gives me chills, but this especially freaks me out cause it sounds so much like a real situation
In 2020 I was alone in the house, and I happened to be in my room, playing this out loud on my phone as I sat on my bed when my dad came home. I decided to prank him by starting the video at the first EAS broadcast just as he walked by my room.
I will never forget his reaction. He immediately came in, said "What's going on?" and listened as the announcer described at whatever-AM Mountain Time, "a disaster of unknown type" occurred and the government was ordering the evacuation of everyone in a 75 mile radius. He said out loud "75 miles?! I gotta call Gram", and pulled out his cellphone. For context, "Gram" is my grandma who lives relatively near that area.
I realized this little joke was rapidly getting out of hand and paused the video and explained it was a fictional recording from a videogame. He looked both surprised and relieved, and all I could say was "Sorry. That wasn't meant to freak you out."
I consider that little moment to be a twisted sort of compliment to Crowbar Collective and their amazing product.
Loooool
Any other year and you probably wouldn't have freaked him out, but, y'know, 2020.
Everybody gangsta until "A disaster of unknown type has occurred at the Area 51"
porat
"An unknown hostile force was declared present at the Area 51"
To those living in the half life universe, this was just the begining of the horrors to come....
In about a week the entire world went straight to hell.
@@djcuevas1057 That's the most terrifying part of the Half-Life universe, the BMI and the Seven Hour War happened within just a few days of each other; and knowing that the G-Man orchestrated the former event, there was no way of preventing it because no-one knew it was coming.
@@djcuevas1057And then everything was dark and griddy
My dear Americans, you have a terrifying emergency notification system. Seriously, for someone not accustomed to it, hearing and seeing it for the first time is just nightmare fuel. I know it works for tornadoes and similar local events, can be dispatched very selectively and I like the self-propagating nature of the triggering audio signal. But sweet Jesus.
Yea it’s hella scary especially when your a young child with no idea what’s going on only being able to hear the alert cause it’s really loud
Hearing the first one while in the dark rooms during Office Complex was pants-shitting levels of terrifying. I haven't seen a game master that level of atmosphere in a long time, props to the devs.
And in my opinion the music at that moment makes it even more unnerving
I was waching this and my dad emediatly turned on the TV after hearing the *beeeep* *beeeep*, sighed and asked me if i was waching broadcasts.
Then i realised that serbia uses difrent tones on the second beeps and this one ment "State of war has been declared"
_oof_
That actually sounds interesting, now I want to look into that.
Like a scared sigh?
I honestly find it hilarious that while the civilians are just leaving, meanwhile Gordon Freeman is kicking both the Military as well as the Xenian’s asses
How does gordon do all this with only these breaks: in the trash compactor in the 10th chapter so which is 2 days of fighting no brakes, stasis after a few chapters then a whole 2 days of fighting then escaping from city 17 then going to white forest
And he doesn't get deppresed angry, upset, anxious, also he doesn't have any experience with guns he doesn't run around cowardly in danger he doesn't get scared at gunshots he kills alot of stuff on his own many being automatic weapon armed soliders and that suit sockets everything
He has been
In concussion has his head bit
Chocked
Zapped
Burned
irradiated
Stunned
Beaten
Shot
Stabbed
Fell off high places
Bombed
Nearly crushed
Had balls of energy shot at him
Bit
Hacked
Mauled
Poisoned
Nearly Drowned
Impaled
And he still lives
DIAGNOSIS: Protagonist
@@thepeanut5747 I think Ross Scott touches upon the absurdity of his survival in Freeman's Mind
@@thepeanut5747 Gman notes the impossibility of Gordon's survival at the end of half life: "...quite an anticlimax after what you've just survived."
@@thepeanut5747 Mario Principal, a part of death battles, states that you can't take into account gameplay elements when determining what a character can or can't take. For example, Mario - in theory - can die in a single touch, like all it takes in-game is a Goomba to poke him. But this isn't part of the lore, it's a gameplay mechnaic.
So stuff like the fractures from fall damage and many other elements don't count. You could even say he was never shot, stabbed, etc in lore, etc. This brings down how much damage he took DRAMATICALLLY, and the rest (such as irradiated) could be covered by the HEV suit.
0:17 The following message is transmitted at the request of local authorities. At 9:47 AM, Mountain Time, a disaster of unknown type has occurred at the Black Mesa Research Facility causing significant damage and failure to various power and communication systems in the surrounding areas. An immediate evacuation order has been issued for all residents within a 75 mile radius of the facility, and on-site military has been dispatched to provide assistance. Make sure to bring an emergency supply of food, water, clothing, first aid kit, flashlights with extra batteries, and battery powered radios. Follow local evacuation routes which have been marked by local authorities and only use one vehicle. Do not return to the warning area until the all clear has been given. If you are not in the evacuation zone stay where you are. If you are within the evacuation area and have no transportation locate your nearest police department or military officer. Do not use telephones or cell phones except in the case of emergencies. Stay tuned to local news media outlets for further details and information on this situation.
Thank you for being the predecessor to one of the coolest carbines ever,the M4,mister M723.
Well, it’s pretty much the opposite of assistance which the military is providing
imagine enjoying a nice breakfast with some pancakes bacon and a nice hot coffee, then you hear an alert tone, "ok" you say, you tune in then you figure out that you need to evacuate, "hmm, odd" you say, you head out of the area, you hear the other alert, "uh, im worried" you say, you evacuate further, then, the final alert...
Black Mesa is good, since its devs put effort into details like this.
It's world building. I think anyone who cares about their lore should do stuff like this. It really sets up the events of Half-Life 2.
@@apchistuz he knows. He is saying that black mesa better adapts the events of half life to fit what happened later in half life 2
@@mjyanimations1062 i want valve to just canonize black mesa
@@djcuevas1057 It technically is already canon, Valve endorsed Crowbar Collective and allowed them to publish it on steam.
@@Bloxer it’s in a grey area. Though I define wish it is.
0:17 - Local Area Emergency
2:06 - Civil Danger Warning or Civil Emergency Massage
4:01 - Emergency Action Notification or National Information Center Statement
Just my opinion..
I'd think that 0:17/2:06 would be a CEM, as back in 2003 (when this took place) the system was still in it's infant stages.
@@EASguy114 To add on, the Emergency Broadcast System was still being widely used, with similar codes.
@@seaboardspastic I don't 100% know... The EBS was fully opt out by 2001. All EAS Stations were required to be on EAS by 1998.
Earlier today, I was playing this game, and the third transmission just... Man. I have the game in Spanish as I'm from the old Mexico. The transmission started playing, but I couldn't hear it, just paying attention to the subtitles. That moment when it said "Una orden de evacuación al estado entero de Nuevo México" (or something like that) plus the music in the background sent chills down my spine. A lot of mental images and stuff started happening in my mind.
Man.
This is extremely eerie and realistic world building. It doesn't rely on fancy graphics, but purely audio and real life fears of EAS broadcasts signalling something terrible.
I couldn't hear it over the sound of dying headcrabs
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Oh wait nvm i get it now im dum
I couldnt agree more. Whenever i tried to listen a HECU radio or emergency broadcast some fucking headcrabs starts jumping on me. I really angry to crowbar collective for putting headcrabs there
I remember walking past the car with the radio playing and thinking, "oh shit" then came the next one and I actually felt a sense of dread. 10/10
I felt so numb listening to this on my first playthrough. Like, I couldn't believe this was happening. Really put me in the moment, you know?
Man everyone gangsta till the unkown hostile force is declared present
At the same time I hate and love these. The eerie sounds, the way the broadcaster speaks, the fact that even the broadcast itself has no idea what exactly is going on in Black Mesa. What also gives me the creeps is that these are real. This could potentially happen any time.
Bruh i'd hate to hear this irl
@@_Devil Ikr. Its just fascinating for some reason.
This is terrifying.
9:47am - "Disaster of unknown type" & a 75 mile radius evacuation zone.
12:01pm - Previous message expired. Black Mesa to be fully quarantined, and evacuation zone expanded to 150 miles. They list a number symptoms as either a cover for the real disaster happening in Black Mesa, or they really didn't know better and thought the disaster was just radiation fallout.
4:16pm "This is not a test" A state of emergency is declared by the president. They finally acknowledge that there's "an unknown hostile force" present in Black Mesa. And in 5:42pm the president issued orders to conduct airstrikes to the facility.
It's really scary how the situation degraded so fast in one day. And then after all of this, Black Mesa gets wiped off the map with a nuclear explosion.
Actually the 3rd EAS is transmitted on the 2nd day
If these are only about the Black Mesa Incident imagine how the EAS Broadcast for the Seven Hour War would be. The Xenian Military and alien fauna was somewhat contained within Black Mesa and its surroundings (until the Portal Storms started after the death of the Nihilanth) but the little we known about the 7 Hour War is that the Combine send swarm after swarm of military forces against a weakened human military around the world that was enduring the Portal Storms and the hostile alien fauna for at least some weeks after the incident.
according to the second one, there's also some kind of disease coming from xen. this also might just be something to make the reason for the quarantine of black mesa more believable
Yeah I think they're going for radiation sickness symptoms for a nuclear disaster cover up but anything like that would just scare people into evacuating regardless of it being real or not
Well actually, those are the symptoms of Radiation Poisoning. It is unknown why this plays while Gordon is still at Black Mesa (Possibly an oversight by the devs), but I can only presume it's supposed to take place AFTER the nuclear detonation in Opposing Force.
@@connorgolsong290 Good eye Connor, sadly, this only plays because it is presumed the local authorities are attempting to play this off as a radiation leak or breach at the facility to ease tension and not cause widespread panic about he actual nature of what's going on in Black Mesa.
You MAY be right though
@@felixc.3444 Ha, more like I've dedicated way too much of my life to this series lol. But regardless, it may be true that they're just trying to play it off as a nuclear accident. Who knows. Valve certainly isn't going to tell us.
@@connorgolsong290 It seems ingenious if not, if they said that there are aliens (which they do when things go absolutely fubar) it may have disrupted evacuations and caused mass panic before acceptable amounts of civilians were removed from the towns nearby, what do you think
why is this so terrifying
Goofy Goober because it should be.
The details half life adds to the black mesa incident are just, holy shit. Like, in most stories, you just hear how it was a normal day like any other. Cue dramatic music and all that.
With black mesa, you EXPIERENCE this normality, and see things go to shit. It's terrifying because it feels so real.
And, another part of it is that see how it's effecting places outside of black mesa aswell. Allong with how emergency alerts are just a part of our daily lives(depending on where you live) hearing something like this can feel unsettlingly real.
There's allot that's hard for me to put into words about this but holy shit if it isn't cool.
Meanwhile Gordon is absolutely destroying the Xenian and military forces
EAS systems are meant to trigger fight or flight responses so you get chills and go 'holy shit' when u hear them
I'm pretty sure the message about conscription at the end of the third broadcast is a reference or easter egg winking to Freeman's Mind, there's a part where Ross Scott (playing Gordon) questions whether 1/3rd of the US would happily pilgrumage to Black Mesa just to get the chance to shoot at aliens
Incident: Occurs in May, when daylight savings time would be in effect.
Second EAS: *MOUNTAIN STANDARD TIME*
According to the calendars laying around the game, it's December.
@@guitarfan01 The Half-Life manual put the date at May 16, Marc Laidlaw hinted that the date is in March, and the game itself has conflicting dates. I believe it's intentionally left undetermined, so the player can decide.
March, May, Or December
12/5/2000
This just makes the game so much more realistic. It's so good.
This is one of those small touches that really makes BM feel more real and adds to the scale and lore of the situation, small touch but it makes a lot of difference.
The enormity of the situation only hit me when this played over the radios
just imagine hearing this one day
what you do
Go to Hawaii. Far from arizona.
chill
Stock up on cheese
STAHP
birdlisa58 you won’t survive long almost nothing grows there
The virgin analog horror vs the chad black mesa eas broadcast
I was in Orlando when Hurricane Irma passed and that terrifying alarm would come to us several times a day to update the status of the storm. Nice memory of my vacations in the Disney world park.
The alerts and their corresponding situations in Black Mesa and surrounding areas in New Mexico (some details of which are my guesses):
Alert 1: At the beginning of Office Complex, which takes place in the early afternoon of the first day, about 2-4 hours after the resonance cascade. Black Mesa has sustained catastrophic damage all over, power failure, electrical wires falling and causing shocks, toxic radioactive leaks, and fires from flammable material, pretty much everything turned lethal; this causes a lot of death already. In addition, the lower-tier Xen wildlife (Headcrabs, Houndeyes, etc.) fall through the newly opened dimensional rift and are openly hostile toward anyone they see; this causes even more death on top of that caused by the hazards in the facility. Survivors like Eli Vance and Gordon Freeman are desperately trying to get to the surface to warn the world about the true scope of the disaster. Meanwhile, the entire desert of New Mexico, having lost all electricity, is in a sudden state of panic and confusion. What probably happened was that a large shockwave at the moment of the resonance cascade (9:47 AM) violently shook a 60-100 mile radius around Black Mesa, snapping the electricity lines severely. However, so far, no Xen aliens have appeared out in the desert yet, the dimensional rift yet beginning to widen. The local authorities, tracing the origin to Black Mesa, deduct that a life-threatening incident has unfolded and issue the immediate evacuation order for civilians in a 75-mile radius. Already warned by the shockwave and power failure, most civilians comply, some even gathering supplies quickly and rushing out in a panic.
Alert 2: At the beginning of Blast Pit, around sunset on the first day (8:00 PM, if the date of May 16, 200-, is correct). Over the course of the afternoon, the situation in Black Mesa and the New Mexico desert deteriorates. The dimensional rift worsens, and in addition to the lower tier Xen wildlife, bigger Xen wildlife (like Bullsquids and Tentacles) and some Xen military (like Vortigaunts and Gargantuas) appear in Black Mesa. By evening, the first signs of Xen wildlife appear in the New Mexico desert, causing a nightmare for those still not evacuated by scaring them with the sudden portals and killing the unfortunate ones. Reports of loss of body control (caused by Headcrabs), internal bleeding (caused by Houndeyes), acid (caused by Bullsquids), and shocks and burns (caused by Vortigaunts) start coming in. It is around this time that the Nihilanth notices the dimensional rift and begins organizing a powerful army of Vortigaunts, Alien Grunts, Manta Rays, and Gargantuas hoping to launch a full-scale invasion (which comes true the next day, in Questionable Ethics and Surface Tension). The state department of New Mexico, informed of the disaster at Black Mesa and receiving reports of possible alien involvement, tries to cover up knowledge about the disaster (maybe it was one of the primary sources that funded research at Black Mesa?). The state department extends the evacuation zone to a 150-mile radius and talks about symptoms of a possible outbreak of radiation sickness, further scaring evacuating civilians. The military dispatched to Black Mesa are given orders to cover up the incident by eliminating science personnel that survived the initial disaster.
Alert 3: At the climax of Surface Tension, late in the afternoon of the second day. Now Black Mesa is a brutal war zone such as never been seen before. The Xen army put together by the Nihilanth successfully launches their full-scale assault on Black Mesa, completely overwhelming the human forces. At this point, the number of Black Mesa scientists and security guards still alive is about 1/10 to 1/20 of their number before the disaster, and they are desperately trying to survive. The military has a majority of its soldiers brutally wounded or killed in agonizing pain. As the fierce battle is hopeless for them, they start to make a hasty exit from Black Mesa, leaving many of their own soldiers behind. As for the New Mexico desert, the now-abundant Xen creatures are freely roaming open regions of the desert up to a 30-40 mile radius from Black Mesa. It is now impossible to hide what is really happening from the public, the whole North American population is watching the events, and the US president and the national government take command over the battle. The US president quickly orders a barrage of airstrikes all around Black Mesa. I also think the US government (possibly spurred by the G-Man) authorized the Black Ops to infiltrate Black Mesa to eventually nuke the facility in a last ditch effort to contain the alien invasion.
Details like these emergency broadcasts make this one of my favorite games of all time. If they remake Opposing Force, I hope they continue doing these emergency alerts. In Opposing Force, the situation gets even worse.
“We have surrendered to the combine”
I think you mean, "To the Alien invaders, Known as the combine"
When I played this game at the age of 14, I had no idea of the scale of what had really happened, for me things were limited to that research facility, and that the actions I was taking, would end all danger. After playing HL2 and its episodes, researching the lore and listening to these audios more calmly, I can finally realize the size of the catastrophe unleashed that fateful morning ... Poor employees of Black Mesa and residents of nearby cities, just waited another boring day and in the end, "unknown hostile forces" right before their eyes...
Whats creepy is there are actual scripts for similar events that involve places like area 51 in Nevada and other facilities around the USA. There are also scripts that relate to an enemy invasion and occupations of parts of the USA that was written back int he cold war era. That is what the last EAS message on this video was based off of..
I like how you say "For Area 51" like that's at all unique. They have one for every military base in the US, Area 51 just happens to be, well, a military base in the US.
The idea is that if nuclear bombs get dropped or whatever, they have the pre-recorded names of every military base and major city they can add to be read off on the list of what got hit. It's not like they have a full "Area 51 has fallen" script or whatever.
When I heard the second announcement I could imagine Gordon putting his shotgun, Mp5, or crowbar on a wall as he shakes knowing things are getting worse and punches the wall.
Especially since he was the person who opened the portal to Earth from Xen.
Probably took a toll on his mental health. Poor guy. He never deserved any of that.
@@rvgr420 Went so mad he eradicated ALL of the united states military
Gordon didn't deserve the mental trauma from the Black Mesa Incident. He was just the guy in the test chamber when the shit hit the fan,
and everything could be avoided if only Eli had stopped the test... well... shit
_...a 75-mile evacuation radius?!_ Damn!
I hope Valve make another game based on the 7-Hour War
I love their storytelling so much
Just fucking imagine You're just watching TV and enjoy watching your favorite show and suddenly an EAS alarm alert is set and THIS is the exact announcement.
in half life alyx we see the entire united states just crossed off with a big x, while most thing it was all the combine i think it might have been due mostly to the black mesa incident
Not just the US, but all of North America as well
Other continents were marked with X aswell, it could mean anything or jackshit
Perhaps it's because the US and those locations marked with an "X" have been overrun by Xen Flora and Fauna. And The Combine decided to relocate them to somewhere much safer like the Eastern European setting of Half-Life 2.
Bruh if you can help me I always wander what happens to Greece
Probably because Black Mesa is located on New Mexico, Xen military and wildlife would invade U.S first since first portals were opened in there.
smh they could've easily avoided all that just by *flooding the facility with deadly neurotoxin*
i am a bit late but that wouldn't help beacuse the aliens were also appearing outside the facility
The only problem is that they needed the scientists to fix the cascade, but due to killing them couldn’t stop it in time
@@wyster14what would scientists do? Most of systems were fucked after resonance cascade happened
these messages and the radio chatter of the HECU troops really help to convey just how fucked everything is. the entirety of humanity gets surprise attacked by an alien invasion and just as it looks like things might be slowing down the skies fill with starships as the combine begin to attack, all of this in under 4 days. this is some of the best indirect world building i have ever seen in a game and i love it.
Couldn't have said it better myself
The Combine invaded earth about four weeks after the Black Mesa Incident.
@@placeintheworldfadesaway5800 The Combine invaded only days after the Black Mesa Incident according to the lead writer for Half Life.
If ya download this, then plug it into a tv where people/family/friends see this and play it at the right moment, you'll totally scare the shit out of them.
I love that they give the symptoms that are related to headcrabs, but refuse to inform people that an alien life form would need to have jumped onto your head and will have not let go unless killed for this to happen.
"Do not remain in your homes."
That for me is the most disturbing line; on a subconscious level, home is the safest place to be, and to hear that even that is now no longer safe can shake a person to the core.
I had commented on another video how quickly things escalated in Black Mesa. It took 72 hours for the whole thing to go from bad to FUBAR in a hurry. Which ultimately in my opinion lead to the total destruction of the US by the Combine and Xen forces.
I have read comments about how people were confused by the need for marines and the black ops forces to "clean" the site. The reason these forces were sent in was to prevent information leaks to the public as Black Mesa is a top secret facility and a military controlled facility like Area 51. There is a surprising amount of Xen technology in Black Mesa Gordon can find while playing and that information leaking to the world will raise some unwanted questions and attention.
So when the resonance cascade went down; the first wave of soldiers on the ground were to prevent information leaks; they aren't the real deal and weren't prepared for the horrors to come crawling out of Xen.
So in a sense Gordon wasn't fighting Shepherd and his task force; who are basically third wave marines; he was fighting scouts and security forces; which means he actually had it relatively easy. (You will notice during the whole play through Gordon never once finds a S.A.W. and weapons like shepherd has.)
The third wave troops were sent in to try to kill Gordon and any last forces of resistance or marines who saw too much or knew too much and we're trying to flee; but by then the nihilanth had the door open and there was no stopping his army from pouring through. If the main army had arrived first; they might have stood a chance against the Xen forces; at least long enough to close the portals if they could interrogate enough scientists. But because Gordon was killing so many marines; security was fighting back and the aliens virtually overrun the facility; the first and second waves stood zero chance; so the third wave came in on a crumbling house of cards.
What makes the whole ordeal so much more frightening is that the government was unaware that the whole time during the fighting: they had the answers to mostly halt the Xen invasion right in front of them.
Gordon launched a rocket containing a satellite that could regain control of the resonance cascade for a short period; but because of military interference, the Nihilanth had time to grab and hold the portals open; which is why Gordon had to go to Lambda sector to go into Xen and close it from inside Xen.
Shepherd and his people could have very well contained the outbreak; but the response to the situation was so poor that once he was on scene with his teams; it was a losing fight and Shepherd knew it was FUBAR trying; which is why Black Ops tried to turn on him.
So during the final hours of the Resonance Cascade; Freeman would be taking the fight alone, while the world he knew was falling apart.
That is in a sense why the marines and black ops got sent in; they had woefully underestimated the threat they faced and made the grave mistake of not only killing the science teams BEFORE they could stop the cascade, but sending in woefully under prepared and under equipped soldiers to a fight they needed much more serious firepower for.
I think the first wave were prepared for Xen wildlife, they seemed to be handling it relatively fine until the more serious Xen military troops turned up and then it became a shitshow. The HECU seemed to be well aware that they'd be fighting "monsters" but they weren't prepared for an organised military to be literally spawning in. The first wave were definitely sent in just to keep anything from getting to the public though, second wave when more and more wildlife kept spawning in, third wave when the Xen military show up and overwhelm HECU.
Of course this is just fan speculation so it could be the entirety of the HECU turned up straight away and just overtime they lost their grip on the situation.
@@piefish I think so to; again saying that they weren't prepared for the magnitude of the alien incursions.
Shepherd wasn't inserted in during the first waves; he came in when the Xen forces were tearing the place apart. Meaning either he didn't know it was that bad and neither did the third wave; or they knew it was bad, but they didn't know it was as bad as it was.
In Blue Shift you actually see many of the first wave HECU arriving by train and they were bringing tanks in with them (which the Bradley IFVs were replaced by eight wheeled Stryker type LAVs). Suggesting to some degree they anticipated meeting something; just not to the extent of what Gordon and co witnessed.
Everybody gangsta until "an unknown hostile force" shows up
What if you wanted to live in New Mexico, but god said *"a disaster of unknown type has occurred at the Black Mesa Research Facility"*
I live in New Mexico and If I were to hear this message I would’ve evacuated either to Texas, Colorado, Arizona, or cross the border to Mexico.
Imagine people hearing this get their shit and hit the road as soon as possible, there is a massive long traffic, sirens, horns, chaos. Then they see the shadows of manta rays
But then, a great yellow light strikes through the shadows. Unfortunately, this will be the last light civillians will witness.
@@combineadvisorwithinternet6040 The worst part is, even if they did escape into any other area, that just means they'll survived to witness the start of the Seven Hour War.
The 3rd one is the most terrifying out of all them.
All 3 Black Mesa EAS Transmission Broadcasts
0:00 First Transmission (Beginning the Black Mesa Disaster)
1:51 Second Transmission (Updated about the Resonance Cascade Disaster)
3:46 Third Transmission (After The Disaster and During The War)
This shows that it wasn't only black mesa that was affected, but the entire world was, even mere hours after the incident.
When you pause and the EAS doesn't stop:
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@@tunderstorm2769 Probably! Somebody likely did the work before me, but it was original at the time.
When they said entire New Mexico is under evacuation, it just feels you with horror, what was happening outside Black Mesa...
Aliens everywhere.
Gordon: *Accidentally opens a portal to other dimension* EAS: Time to scare people!
"If you have been experiencing hair loss, please contact your nearest disease control centre immediately"
4:00 You do not want to hear the first few sentences of this broadcast message in real life.
The first three bursts of data packet can be decoded to see an easter egg inside: the eas location tag can be either really from black mesa or the state where it is or just reusing the sound from maybe a tornado eas from other states.
It's a required weekly test for a couple of rhode island counties... :D
Ngl, I like how with every message it gets worse
I swear to god, DO NOT set the third broadcast as your ringtone. almost got arrested...
Ummm... How exactly? (If you don't mind sharing)
@@FoxyMadeMeGetThisAccount my phone rang in front of the police and the third one was set as my ringtone
I really wish there was some sort of message like this from a scientist in the Lambda Complex or somewhere, broadcast through the facility. Something like them explaining they need to seal the rift between Xen and Earth and they have to get Gordon Freeman to the Lambda Complex.
or maybe they make an announcement during opposing force or blue shift after freeman went to xen that said something like "freeman is now inside the portal" and that stuff
@@tomboi941 That would be really cool too!
If y'all like this but haven't seen Local58, you're missing out.
The last one issuing the state of emergency is when the xen invaders already travelled statewide, and parts of Mexico, that is when they couldn't hold this inside anymore.
I had auto play on and playing a game and this shit starts and I stated freaking tf out
You can tell that Black Ops has planted the nuke in the second announcement, because that message tells people to watch for the signs of radiation sickness and they're anticipating the nuke going off and issuing the wider evac order to get everyone out of range of the fallout.
This is an incredible piece of analog horror, it makes this amazing game just even more awesome.
You know things are bad when the EAS is stating to report to your nearest military officer if you know how to use a gun, period.
Dear God, we may never hear that. If they ask for civilians with combat training, we are far away, orders of fubar magnitude.
Am i the only one who thinks this is extremely disturbing? to the point that this literally changed how i see Half-Life? it now just feels like Chernobyl now, but scarier, im a Half-Life 2 fan and i heard about Half-Life 2 Beta which is the creepier and darker scrapped version of Half Life 2, but this just made Half Life 1 way scarier than the HL2 Beta
I used to think "lmao this goofy ahh accident made a portal for aliens" but after thinking about it for some minutes i realised this was a disaster full of suffering and shit
When you pause the video but you can still hear the sound:
*m i l d p a n i c*