Black-Mesa Disaster on one map
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 25 ส.ค. 2017
- I always wanted to see the scale of this disaster. On my video you can see the routes of the main characters of the game series half-life.
cloud.mail.ru/public/6h2x/SC7... - MAP
opposing force walkthrough by Bolloxed
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VOX System Announcer - Victoria Teunissen
Music:
1) Trent Reznor & Aticuss Ross - Them and Us
2) Joel Nielsen - Inbound Part 3
3) Astro Pilot - In The Middle (Owring BMS Mix) cloud.mail.ru/public/Lbcy/LCV...
4) Craig Armstrong, Adam Peters
- Secret Downloading
5) BMS - Mscl_Ambience1
6) Kammarheit - Kosmos
7) Sodia - Memory Defragmentation
8) Joel Nielsen - Inbound Part 1
9) Tomandandy - Prison
10) Jack Wall, Sam Hulick - The Thorian
11) Owring - Dilapidated Powerplant opposing force walkthrough by Bolloxed
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VOX System Announcer - Victoria Teunissen
Music:
1) Trent Reznor & Aticuss Ross - Them and Us
2) Joel Nielsen - Inbound Part 3
3) Astro Pilot - In The Middle (Owring BMS Mix) cloud.mail.ru/public/Lbcy/LCV...
4) Craig Armstrong, Adam Peters
- Secret Downloading
5) BMS - Mscl_Ambience1
6) Kammarheit - Kosmos
7) Sodia - Memory Defragmentation
8) Joel Nielsen - Inbound Part 1
9) Tomandandy - Prison
10) Jack Wall, Sam Hulick - The Thorian
11) Owring - Dilapidated Powerplant - เกม
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Gordon was awake for about 40 hours straight. What a fucking nightmare.
But then he was kept asleep for 20 years. He got his rest alright, lol.
Adrenaline + some drugs from medkits may have "helped" him
The suit will pump adrenaline into yer veins if you get tired, its a magical suit
He was knocked out for a few hours at at least 2 points in the game. That's more than enough sleep, you can stay up for 24 hours in a situation like the one he was in.
Supersnow that profile pic lelele
The guy who took the day off work must feel good about that decision.
"best day ever"
it's not like it helped him avoid an alien invasion but oh well good for him
Actually all Black Mesa employees lived in a residential area inside the complex itself.
So yeah, probably dead.
Until 7 hours later...
Combine: I'm gonna end this man's whole career.
Barney: 20 minutes adventure
Freeman: Save the world and go home
Shephard: Ç̴͂̋̑̽͘ṳ̴͉͎͈̏̈́͒͑̂̓̈̚ȑ̷̩͓̰̪͓͍͋̄̎̓ṙ̴̛̞͉̈̇̉e̵̺̔n̴̢̡͍̫̱̘̤̄͋t̶͓͈͙̄̔͜ ̶̩͉̾̊̆̓̐͑̀o̶͙͐b̵̡̦̟̣̮̓̿j̶͍̼̠̇̅̐͛̓͛̓̕ę̴͕̀̉ċ̶̟̩̑͊̒͘͝t̴̘̬͖̩̠͛ȋ̵͎̪̠̟͋͊̑̍v̵̭͎̀̏ę̸̧̺̰̟͔̈́̅͜:̴̬͍̲̬̞̘̫̰̾̃̄̎̐̀͘͠ ̵̯̪̝̻͙̌S̵̨̫̦̪̬̦̻͍̃̃͒̋̈́̆u̷̼͊̋̀͐̂̌̚r̸̙͚͋v̶̳̞̗̩͐͐̑̀̄ỉ̶͈̀̐̂́͠v̶̬͔̙̣̙́̂̔̃e̴̱̪̠̽̍͋̈́
"I am become Doomguy... DESTROYER OF ALL"
Shepard is gonna die of starvation unless g-man gives him food
@@goofy--cracker-suckerDon't you think that G-Man as a powerful being can literally freeze him and his human needs? ☠️
Gordon didn't go home, he saved the world and was put to sleep.
"Go home? I guess you've never played half life 1
What does Barney, Gordon, and Shepard all have in common?
They're late.
and all of them are mute...
@@index_logic7436 Barney isn't mute, he just decided not to talk during the black mesa incident apparently.
@@laupatual7137
Barney learned how to speak during those 20 years
@@errorcode0x7a
"Catch me Later and I'll get you a beer"
*20 years later*
"About that beer I owe'd ya"
Index_Logic Actually, Barney talks during events of BS. Just listen to Rosenberg. You can hear him not talking for a while, and later „somehow” knowing everything. Barney talks, you as a player, just can’t hear him.
10% Watching the gameplay sped up
90% Trying to find them on the map
Thats true
yes
Yeah :D
@@muhdaidilss2324 bruh
bruh
bruh
bruh
@@muhdaidilss2324 half life 3 coming March 2020
*Freeman shoots down helicopter*
"Warning, Freeman may have experimental weapon."
Understatement of the year
"Remaining containment force."
Translation: we really butchered this mission, but we don't want to admit it to the "remainder" that will soon also be dead.
Freeman IS experimental weapon x)
Bwah??? That was just a coincidence??? It cant be! For two years of this video I was completely sure that it's something planned!
Freeman haves hl1 Deathmatch gauss
I never realised that Adrian was deployed when basically everyone was bailing out. He was left behind. That's so terrifying.
He wasn’t, the video got it wrong, Shephard was deployed at around “we’ve got hostiles” but was our cold for a long time.
@@JackJQC makes waking up alot more ominous
@@JackJQC And I remembered that at a point in Blue-Shift, Calhoun saw a couple of marines disposing dead bodies (hinting that they're not exactly rescuing) and remarked about "Shephard's team didn't make it".
@@JackJQC shephard came around around office complex and we've got hostiles, after their osprey crashed, he was unconscious for half a day or probably an entire day
@@munastronaut8147 an entire day. he woke up the next day when the troops were already pulling out
Barney: That one guy that arrives early at the party, leaves early.
Gordon: Arrives late to the party he's hosting and the fun doesn't begin until he's there.
Shephard: Arrives late at the party he was not informed was happening in his house, nobody listens when he tells them to get out and is left to clean up alone afterwards.
Gina and Collette: Arrives early and leaves early because of other people
@@killanatoric6870 spoiler warning!
Gina died not escaped. Collette probably escaped.
Gina and Collete : forgotten
@@SinisterF. Gina probably passed out from so much alcohol.
"Arrives early"
SUCKER
"This place is a lot bigger than I thought..."
- Black Mesa Security
The initial tram ride at the beginning of HL, seems designed to help build that illusion, of just how huge Black Mesa was. I was long impressed with that long tram ride. Those huge doors opening sounded rather ominous. Somehow you could almost sense that a disaster might soon be happening. Whatever were those huge heavy doors for anyway?
"I never thought I'd see a Resonance Cascade, let alone create one..."
- Black Mesa Science Team
"I bet you could get lost in this place really easy."
- Unnamed HECU member
Actually a lot smaller than I thought. Or more precisely, a lot more compact. Didn't realize how much everything is overlapping on different floors.
Given that they had to fit this huge research facility *somewhere* and keep it secret, it'd make sense for it to be as compact as possible.
Barney: ight imma head out
Gordon: I'm gonna contain the invasion
Shepard: I'm gonna leave like I'm being ordered to
Gman: No.
Barney: I don't even know who you are
barney did escape the g-man tho
shepherd and gordon got G-man
More like:
Barney: ...
Gordon: ...
Shepard: ...
@@NightlifeSux barney was irrelevsnt to gman. If you notice in the game you don't see gman that often nor looking at you. Gman was more interested in freeman and shephard because they actually had potential
Is it just me or seeing the black Mesa incident happing in this way is more scary
Some guy plays you and the other npcs
Especially when you have recently watched The Mist like I have.
not just you
its more scary when you have different perspectives of the same event
different stories of the same incident
Its just like plague inc. lmao
Yeah, it's really dreadful, seeing it from this perspective
39:55 "Forget about Freeman" - the point of no return, when everybody realized that the Black Mesa Incident is bigger than that, it's the whole world.
That's my Favourite moment in the Game
At 1:06:15 i can hear he said something about the Washing monument, damn it's scary how it already spear all over the world in just 3 days.
Thuận An Tý Thiều they used clips from modern warfare...
@@thuanantythieu2764 You know that radio chatter is from Modern Warfare 2.
@@OshinoHoshimachi Imagine if you hear that during the 7 hour war
The fact that Shephard is the last one to escape the Black Mesa disaster is very scary, because he gets to experience the final hours of the aftermath with almost no one else backing him up. He is almost completely alone in hell at that point and would've died alone in the nuclear blast if it wasn't for the G-Man.
Beat The Dragon If there wasn't Gman there wouldn't have been a nuclear explosion. Shepherd disables the Warhead and later you can see the Gman enabling it.
Yes, but then the G-Man pulls Shephard out of the facility after he kills the Gene Worm and the nuke explodes right after. If G-Man didn't put Shephard in stasis, he would've been incinerated.
ProgrammerGaming if it wasn't for shephard, the gene worm would have terraformed earth into a giant xen before the combine even tried to take over
Beat The Dragon ㅑㅑ
Although primarily correct, you did mistake the Gene Worm's faction. Its Race X, not Xen!
This is probably what G-man sees when he's not visible in-game.
Mmmmmm maybe
bro now i can't stop thinking it when i play these games now
He sees more than this
Oh shit, you're right.
G-man? More like offscreen-man
29:58
Barney had to do a quick change in settings
Lmaooooo
He whipped out the console in his back pocket that he was saving for this particular occasion.
Canon
Barney has achieved CHIM
Interesting.
I realize now after hearing all those calls for help on the military comms that those people were fighting something new, something scary. They saw their dead friends with their own organs practically falling out, and this thing on their head. There were dogs that could spit acid and human looking things that can shoot electricity out of their hands. When you’re playing the game you go “oh shit” out loud, but imagine that in real life. your family members hobbling at you, ribcage exposed and trying to kill you. That shit is scary man.
Than you see strange walking tanks shooting hornets that keep coming and coming and did i even talk about the flying manta rays ?
@@Yankkee_ what
what really helps is that the graphics wasnt so advanced and every KI seemed generic...
@@Yankkee_ but that doesn't change anything
the entire premise of half life in general is just really fucking disturbing, especially the second game
This video made me realize just how much more terrifying Adrian's story is. Barney and Gordon made it out, the HECU were ordered to evacuate, the Black Ops retreated after the thermal nuke was planted, and all that remained within the facility was the aliens and him. He was left behind. He was alone. I'm playing Opposing Force again ... and this makes me feel even more dread. That feeling of total isolation and abandonment. When you know that no Backup is coming. No help is on the way. Really sets the mood.
That shiver my spine
Wow
And he was left in stasis by G-man
im wondering if he will appear (or at least be mentioned) in half life alyx, or ever again
@@jwanikpo I really hope he wasn't retconned. His story was really good, and Gearbox laid a very good foundation for any future development of his character. Valve just ... needs to figure out what to do with it.
Could you imagine how terrifying it was for the scientists? And that announcement system that won't shut up about failures and needed support in sectors. It's must been hell for the military too. Being left out by the pullout, or being dispatched without them knowing what their orders are. Every time an air unit tries to provide something it goes down. Also, that fucking emergency broadcast.
Seeing all this from one perspective as a whole is terrifying.
Not only that, have in mind also that this may be showing as a real administrator from Black Mesa... what we've saw in the video... Imagine you're at charge of all that, you're doing your duties, and suddenly all starts falling appart... I just imagine how terrifyied should that person be, because he wouldn't've seen the three protagonist cameras...
I just think of being at my desktop, and from one moment to the other main failures begin, people starts dying, an unknown and unstoppable biological force starts taking over... after that the military start to take over... after that even they, scared as fuck, start to leave...
Me sitting behind that desk... wouldn't know what to do... should i leave for my own personal salvation? or should i stay and try to help others eventually putting an end to my life?
Funny fact: according to wiki of HL the administrator of Black Mesa at that time is Wallace Breen.
But would be he stressing behind that computer, or just chilling at some fancy desk, commanding this poor dude?
G-man's perspective.
Screw all that. Imagine being the maintainence team.
Called to pretty much every sector to fix infinite things, most of which are incredibly dangerous and in very dangerous places.
Pretty sure the maintainence crew were all dead by the third assignment even
It's incredible how soon Barney leaves. It is also incredible how late Adrian shows up.
no he doesn't. He arrives before barney wakes up
Adrian shows up shortly after the incident. He is then knocked out for the next few hours. Similarly with Barney. This didn't quite sync up events properly, Barney leaves about the same time Gordon is thrown in the trash compactor.
Barney: WHERE IS THE EXIT
Gordon: WHERE ARE THESE CREATURES COMING FROM AND HOW DO I CONTAIN IT
Adrian: WHERE ARE MY MEN
Is exactly
SlimyKlerburt
"Most of the game"? He finds out at the end of "We've Got Hostiles" that he needs to get to the Lambda Complex to stop the invasion. He spends the entire rest of the game - 13 chapters (not counting "Endgame") - either getting to the Lambda Complex or getting to the Nihilanth.
GMan: Haaauuu
"Gordon Freeman please report to us for questioning"
*Gordon* : How about *NO*
“Questioning”
That’s a very politically correct word for “throw in a trash compactor”
Guess he never say anything
Reminds me of SCP
“Subject D-9341, report to the nearest security checkpoint for ‘questioning’...”
By questioning you mean shoot multiple times??
"How many bullets does it take to kill you" is a very valid question for the military.
@@TheD736 wasnt that g man who killed the soldiers and turned it on to test gordon?
Also, it somehow gets very cold and lonely once Shephard remains alone in the facility. I know the three main characters were not a team but I just can't get rid of that "left behind" feeling. Depressing and disturbing.
I think that's one reason I love OP so much more on an emotional level than the game proper - you don't know jack about this Shepard guy, he's the most random, anonymous grunt archetype, but when you're alone with Shepard you bond with the character all the same. There's a level of confusion and being overwhelmed that's not present in the laser-focused main campaign. You're journeying through the circles of hell. Halo: ODST achieved much the same thing in a similar way, though imo more 'stylish'. That might be why looking back it's the Halo game I think of most fondly. Gordon created the hell and saw it manifest, Barney peace'd the fuck out while the getting was good, Shep is left to wander around the aftermath - the hellscape now fully formed and the alien organisms now acclimatizing to their new environment.
It feels like everybody is dead or evacuated and that you’re just stuck for eternity.
Imagine if Gordon and Adrian teamed up to defeat the combine with Alyx as well
thats g-mans work dont question him unless if you dont want unforseen concequinces
Opposing force was hard
because
1find medkit hard
2so many xen
3some people wasn't think the shock alien gun (I forgot name)and got kill
4black ops that use heavy machine gun
5 many black ops
that all
is hard
The military radio really adds to the atmosphere, even though I can tell that some of it is the background chatter from MW2.
Overlord From MW2 and MW3: I Know your Evidence and Identify, So I see what you doing in here
I heard some quiet background phrases such as "status of the spacecraft" "... minutes until launch" "5, 4, 3, 2, 1, mark/launch(?)" I think some of the audio might be flight controller loops or public affairs officer audio from some space vehicle launch. It sounds like it could be the Apollo 11 PAO, but I can't be sure and it could be multiple people.
Never even played those games, but things like "white house " and "T-72s" kinda tipped me off that it was definitely just there for noise and not actually made for this video.
@@Pershingtank
Though if you are willing to headcannon a little, you can say it is the Seven Hour War starting up.
@@Milkbutter yea I'll go with that
Everybody gangsta until
*Warning: High energy detonation detected in Materials Lab.*
Let's hope some alien race would not invade us and take over the world in the span of 7 hours
Actually...
Everybody gangsta until
Attention: System... Now... Under... Military... Command.
@@Baraa.K.Mohammad
Everybody gangsta until
Detonation detected
*Destruction of Facility*
The aliens gangsta until
*Gordon got his crowbar*
@@errorcode0x7a that one got me
“Gman Simulator 2017 is great.” 10/10 -IGN
Thebossdragonslay 3R7 This is probably how the G-man monitors Gordon and Shepard throughout the game
I thought the same exact thing
7/10 too much tram
this whole thing, was in his case the whole time lmao
Really makes you feel like gman.
5:17
"Warning, high energy detonation detected in Materials Lab"
*Casualties suddenly jump to 40 and alarms go off everywhere*
Later that time "Attention This Announcement System Now Under Military Command"
Cowabunga it is.
Random scientist: "Oh no. It's probably those Anomalous Materials people again. Always pushing their equipment too hard, dabbling in who knows what. I'd be surprised if there's one good brain among them!"
because of the explotion ?
@@axtonganha When the female annoucer suddenly switches to the manly military guy, I knew Black Mesa really blew everything to hell...
I have these strange feelings when watching each segment of this:
1. Beginning: Before the resonance cascade it's just a normal day in Black Mesa it has a nice feeling of peace and safety.
2. The resonance begins: Everything is getting chaotic everyone is scrambled, scared and don't know what is happening. All alien creatures start to appear.
3. The conflict deepens: More creatures arrive. People try to get out and the military is sent to clean things up. By that point some are actually reaching the surface.
4. The battles between people, xen, and the main heroes: Many casualties in the Black Mesa. The place is getting abandoned. Scientists, Security Guards, and Grunts are either dying or escaping. Soldiers come in large numbers initially having the complete control over the surface and are killing the aliens (and personnel) in large numbers. The creatures start to get their environment into Black Mesa. Shepherd arrives as one of the last grunts at this point and the satellite rocket has been launched. Barney escaped.
5. Loneliness: Black Mesa is filled with Xen flora and fauna and X race appears. The facility is very destroyed and Black Ops arrive. Gordon reaches Lambda complex and Shephard sees him teleport.
6. End of Black Mesa: The Xen seems to have completely overrun Black Mesa. 90% of people died or disappeared and the facility is as someone else in the comments put it "cold". It is an alien environment now. Black Ops place the nuke and Gordon fights in Xen. When he's put in stasis Shepherd reaches that big worm thing and kills it. Then the nuke explodes and it's over.
It's a shame that this doesn't include Decay but it is featured in another video which is also very detailed.
Black Mesa Incident is a bit like the Chernobyl accident to me. It started as a mundane workday. The test went wrong people start to panic and die. Then the Military arrives and the environment is getting pretty dangerous. Then in the end the whole area is abandoned by people. The only difference is that Chernobyl didn't get nuked.
Now as I edit this comment which has been left as a mess a long time ago I realize that Half-Life 1 as a whole reminds me a lot of The End of Evangelion and Evangelion in general. Both series started in the 90s and had similar 90s aesthetics. Both were about alien (I guess you can call it that) invasion and both had military sent into a science facility, a large portion of which is underground. Both ended in near extinction of humanity in the long run and the list goes on. I know that neither inspired another since you can probably find similarities in many other series but I thought I'd mention this.
Also Chernobyl did not have the same catastrophic effect as Black Mesa did
@@roger5555ful nah, no global portal storms or 7 hours war but it did spray radioactive dust across most of Europe
@@roger5555ful I know it didn't. But it's basically a very scaled down version of the Black Mesa facility without aliens.
Chernobyl nuked itself
Černobyl was the nuke
For those who do not understand "KILO-INDIA-LIMA" is a military language that means "Kill" in this case with extreme harshness
these are also the company names for the entire 3rd battalion of the 1st Marine division
"Announcement: Gordon, all science personnel will be terminated until you surrender"
$500 billion well spent.
Different People. The BlOps nuke the facility, while the HECU made the threats.
And Gordon would believe that threat, why? Seems like they were doomed anyhow.
As if the alien mutants were not bad enough. Soldiers and special ops. What awful chaos. I am glad it was just a video game. Or was it perhaps a warning?
@@user-ev7fw9cf2s Race is an illusory concept. If we were alive in the early 20th century, French conservative politicians would be freaking out about "hun blood sullying the good French race" and the need to classify people based on their "Frenchness" and deport people who are too "Germanic" - the Czechs would be going into their newly-established borderlands and ordaining the people there as "Czechs" regardless of what language or culture they adhered in order to make their census stats - (and with it their legitimacy as a newly-created Nation) - seem more monolithic.
Many "race scientists" would be classifying people of Southern Europe and Central/South America as the "Latins" - a separate, more distinct group less "white" than other "races" - and politicians in the US would use this phony academic appraisal to justify cutting off immigration of the "Latins" - lest the good Anglo-American race be sullied with Catholicism and dark complexions. As people view the world on a bigger scale, the groups become more monolithic. Suddenly, the former "Latins" have their honorary white cards because it's more pertinent for some people to hate on people more distant - and this deemed more foreign.
My point is that race isn't concrete. It's conceptual and not even science can stand stationary when caught in the current of time.
The scariest part of this was when barney edited his key bindings at around 30:00
Echnew Shit I just realized that, noice
developers oversight I guess 😂🙄
Scared the shit outta me man
Imagine the terror in Barney when he was going through that keyboard section.
LMAO
Gordon: *TRIES TO STOP RESONANCE CASCADE* (Asleep for 20 year)
Adrian: *TRIES TO KILL A MONSTER THAT IS GOING TO MAKE WORLD AS A NEW HOUSE FOR RACE X* (Position Unknown)
Barney: *JUST ESCAPES AND DOES NOTHING*
Gina Cross: Works together with Collette Green to patch the dimensional tear allowing Xenian forces to pass through. Meets her demise by drowning in Xen's waters.
Collette Green: Partners up with Gina Cross and assists her in reversing the Resonance Cascade. Is detained by the G-Man.
Alyx Vance: Witnessed her mother killed, her father crippled, and is whisked away from the facility by the G-Man.
@@claudiusserban Yes, I know. If G-Man was going to choose him he should appear everywhere. But the only time Barney sees him is that tram scene which is we are waiting the path to be lowered. Well, at least he was didn't wait that long to back to the world just like Freeman and Shephard
Barney: Survives initial conflict with Combine and establishes a good position within the metro police to help a small portion of humanity slip through the Combine's grasp.
Barney dug his way out, he was lucky that he was with teleportation experts. If he was truely alone, he would rather be dead, without G-man to notice him
Barney didnt even get that beer that he owned gordon
F's in the chat for Echo-3-Juliet 41:17
Died from heavy blood loss while requesting rescue..
It was sad AF. F
After playing black mesa,i honesty feel bad about the marines they did the best they could do
@@roger5555ful yeah nice job killing these scientists
@@victorleonardo9676 i know they had orders,but still i don't sympathise them
feelsbadman :(
If I'm a scientist in Black Mesa, I will
1. Follow Barney Calhoun
2. Sit in the corner and wait for my doom
And we all know what that doom is, the nuclear wipe-out...
do the satellite phone exists when it happened, because if I had one I would just spam 911
@@noobjo.mp4196 the police wouldn't be that much different than H.E.C.U
1. Well if ever you wanted a chance to explore Black Mesa, this might be it, but with all the danger, better not do too much exploring, well unless it is just a video game after all?
F.u.c.k Go.ogl.e you need to calm down
this video is perfect for capturing how terrifying the Black Mesa incident really was
Yup, the fear the protagonists must feel is palpable. True survivors.
tronwaffle how the fuck do i see OT'ers everywhere WHAT
@@Conman9310 yeah, i was humptydashed/htsvision if you remember me
How did you get a pic of me for your profile ?
Imagine surviving the black mesa accident to then be enslaved by the Combine, shit's depressing
big bruh moment
certified bruh moment even
And then killing the entire combine empire and the world goes back to normal like before a long way
some poor guy probably escaped from black mesa, traveled all the way to Argentina, tried to live a life of secrecy because the CIA are definitely after them and the PTSD sustained from the incident, only to wake up one day and find earth under the rule of a new alien species
@@Redisonthelaptopbefore the combine invades earth again because they are a universal threat and created a Dyson sphere
1:09:26 "DETONATION DETECTED"
That moment still haunts me even to this day.
Wow.
Well, the good thing is Adrian got out and the detonation probably caused the Race X's extinction. I think they were about to invade Earth with everything they got.
Imagine a game where you are in the Black Mesa Disaster and are stuck in a control room after the explosion caused a collapse. You know will not escape alive. However, you can use the room to control the facility in a variety of ways, such as opening and locking doors, activating turrets, putting scientist calls for help over the VOX, activating robots to move crates, or changing machinery settings to either prevent or cause explosions and leaks. Essentially, you would be the facility itself. You would occasionally be able to catch glances of Freeman and other notable figures on the security cameras. Your goal is to protect and allow as many scientists to escape the facility alive before the black ops nuke is detonated.
As the facility deteriorates, the game would get harder as more things start to break down and become unusable. You would also have to constantly fight against HECU and Xen trying to hack and take over the facility’s systems.
Duuuude you are a genius with that idea I love it marry me plz
That's so fucking nice? Like, the concept of knowing you won't survive, but using this time to help others is so nice??
Hell yeah! it would be interesting
Somewhat sounds like a mix between HL and FNAF. But neat idea anyway.
There’s a comment down the comment section that has the same exact idea, although your way of putting it is much more interesting.
When I saw all of this really made me rethink about the fact how scary Half-Life truly is
Xen how so? i wann hear
shinjo kun? Its bc of the scale of the incident. Just imagine if this happened in real. Life and you were one of the scientists
Imagine an invasion of extradimensional beings now.
SerigioKun would be terrifying beyond belief.
asonantica i don't speak spanish. (I think thats spanish)
57:02 amazing attention to detail with gordon jumping into the portal and adrian just behind him. this video is a masterpiece
30:00
24:10
Bruuhh sorry if I ruined it lol
@@estebanmedinad8370 think about it. He only messed up TWICE, and both were very minor and only for a second or two each.
Just remember that the casualties only scratch the surface of what the actual number of lives lost would’ve been during the incident. Only the people you see, scientists and security personnel... if you add up the unseen casualties of what would’ve been hundreds of staff, the unseen engineers and maintenance team that kept Black Mesa running, the contractors and site visitors during that day, the military personnel, the civilians in the surrounding area. When you think of those people, you begin to understand how grim this tale really was.
Also, as someone else in the comments pointed out - the portal storms that brought Xen wildlife to Earth occurred worldwide. Sure, it'd have probably been worse at the epicenter but still.
@@jamessinclair2898 it's said like a billion people died due to the portal storms. then the war came.
And most of those "saved" weren't actually saved - they may have been saved from whatever imminent crisis they were in at the moment one of the characters stumbled across them, but the only ones saved in so far as exiting the facility entirely are the 3 scientists that leave with Barney. Arguably you could say Gordon and Shepard were saved as well. That's 6. As far as we know, all the rest listed as saved actually end up dying in the nuclear blast.
I mean, it seems probable that at least some people who, in the opening minutes of the disaster, happened to be near a facility exit at that moment, went ahead and exited rather than stick around to find out what was going on, so there are probably quite a few more survivors out there we'll never know about. But of the ones we can confirm, the actual saves are precious few indeed.
@@sststrwhat about Kleiner and Eli? (Eli sent Gordon for help at beginning of unforeseen consequences)
This makes me imagine a game where you're in the control room and have access over an entire complex as disaster strikes and can see everything through cameras and your job is to try to save people by opening doors, locking monsters in or activating security systems.
That could actually be a really cool Half-Life expansion.
517342 there's a typing game nerd cubed developed that is kinda like that, you're on a ship and you have to type to get everyone off.
This is an awesome idea, someone needs to make this
Systems Nominal if anyones interested
On it!
holy fuck that emergency broadcast system is fucking scary.
Right?
Pfffsh, the BMS vox is nowhere was menacing as the original HL vox. Sounded not even human and it's voice never changed.
I remember waaay back in the day before we beat the game, me and my friend would speculate that it was the G-Man talking. It always pointed out where the player was, as if he was directing the events against Gordon.
This'll make you less afraid of VOX: soundcloud.com/donglekumquat/allstahlr-1
LMAO, I wasn't expecting that XD
New conclusions about the Black Mesa incident gained by new perspective:
1. Black Mesa is a truly gargantuan science facility, and the whole place was burning down in minutes.
2. The death toll at ground zero was pretty much 90%.
3. Barney and Co were the lucky ones.
4. All of this was the result of a particularly pure sample and an overclocked anti-mass spectrometer just 5% over full capacity - which was entirely G-man's plan, as was the nuke that got the Combine's attention.
5. I had no idea the events of Half-life took as long to happen as they did, and to think this was the invasion of Zen species and race X, the Combine were a far off beasty on the horizon and this whole event makes the 7 hours war look like a comparably pleasant snap vs a slow and terrible searing away of humanity from a facility designed to contain and study this alien dimension and its denizens.
6. From the first resonance cascade, Portal storms apparently we're happening all over the world - meaning that for the whole duration of this incident, everywhere on earth was undergoing something similar. No wonder we surrendered after just 7 hours, one interdimensional alien invasion after another and this last one has actual technology that isn't totally meat-based (but is instead mechano-meat based).
It's hard for me to appriciate just how absurdly violent and horrible an event this must've been - and I was playing this game as a kid while totally unaware of both the implications and the impact of what was being said in this event. Then again, I'm fairly sure Half-life is secretly the reason I became a real life scientist (though not in anomalous materials or anything like that).
I also share these similar insights
Nerd
@The Lonely Proto I graduated last year now, it was a Bachelor's of Science in Marine and Freshwater Conservation (kinda like a mix of ecology, environmental science, evolution, lots of field work and a bunch of other stuff about human interactions from a range of aspects and perspectives - all centred around an aquatic context).
The combine invaded because ruv turned his mic on
You misspelled Xen lol
9:59 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.
So fucking creepy. I've always been afraid of these announcements so hearing this would be my worst nightmare. Plus, isn't like a 75 mile radius very extreme? I don't know much about it. The whole mystery of it is just so creepy. They don't tell you what you're running from, just to *run*
@@banyewestv3176 In one of the newer areas they added to Black Mesa (the game) they added a new EAS broadcast you can hear when you get closer to the lambda complex where they essentially say that there is an unknown force attacking the black mesa facility and they are air striking it, while requiring *the entire state of New Mexico* to evacuate.
@@firesoldier343 yea its right before the gargantua chase in surface tension
@@haydolimposofficial it's in office complex as well
@@law5121 yeah the first one
5:15... You hear the announcement system mention the "High energy detonation" and INSTANTLY alerts and warnings start popping up everywhere on the map, The whole place gets lit up and freeman's signal is lost, The casualties meter quickly jumps up to 32 and slowly begins rising, Combine all that with the music cutting out and shifting to something more menacing... That moment is amazingly done and it makes me feel that same little bit of shock and horror every time.
Blue Box21 im 100% with you on that. And that you can hear the facility system taken over by the military and now you can hear military coms
i wouldnt mind getting some of the alert sounds and synth that first announcer voice to say things about the state of my off grid solar system, things like battery level, imminent power failure, overload warnings.etc
i think it would be a real conversation stopper when the missus turns on all the heaters at 2AM and hears that sound and then an overload warning
maybe she will finally stop overloading the system then lmao
It's got that psychological horror aspect to it. Everything is going horribly wrong, and not a person in the world can do a thing about it.
This got me to thinking: there needs to be a game where you create disasters, strife and terrorist cells on the planet, similar to Plague Inc. Maybe even borrow the economy of Plague Inc., since that's pretty solid, imo.
Hehe, *com-bine*
11:58 I love how the 'Warnings' stop and everything goes a lot quieter after the military has taken over.
Me too
Think its part of the main cover up plan... Silence every announcement made by the Black Mesa automated annoucement system so it won't spread.
Guess by that part the military communicated by radio coms only... And left the annoucement system just to let Freeman know they want to "question him".
@SlimyKlerburt seems legit
@@royliber3824 There are many announcements after the military takeover, but author of this video just didn't put them there.
Three days after the Black Mesa incident: Now we have to rest
7 hours later: WTF DUDE
You god damn right
*laughs in Combine*
It’s actually worse than that. The implication is that the portal storms continued for months after the Black Mesa Incident, dumping Xen fauna all over the Earth. And then, once we finally barely got a handle on that by moving into large populated cities where it was easier to manage the infestation, then the Combine finally came in and stomped humanity in seven hours.
For reference, we know that the Black Mesa Incident took place after 1998 but before 2001, probably in May 2000 (fun fact: 9/11 could not have occurred in the Half-Life universe, based on the information we have, because HLA confirms that the BMI was sometime before October 2001, the tie-in material confirms 1998 was the earliest year, and in whatever year it happened it was in May). Portal took place in 2010, ten years after the Black Mesa Incident, which itself took place a month after GLaDOS gassed the Aperture facility, and we know from tie-in material that Portal was after the Seven Hour War (which is why the Combine don’t know about Aperture). Portal 2’s timeline is...iffy. I think it was kept intentionally vague based on whether they wanted to tie in to Half-Life later or not, but based on the decay times of nuclear reactors and assuming that the Aperture reactor wasn’t refueled after GLaDOS was first booted, Portal 2 probably takes place in about 2020. Conveniently, that’s exactly when Half-Life 2 and the episodes takes place. And Half-Life: Alyx is five years before Half-Life 2, or about 2015 or so.
@@Nathan-kk6lb uh... portal 2 happen between 50 and 50,000 years after the events of portal
Combine: Sup' bitches.
Missing: 2421
Imagine being removed from existence just like that...
The real that 2420 men are dead
Imagine how terrified they were.
And Gordon managed to survive this nightmare without any sleep.
well Gordon did get knocked out both at the vary start after the Resonance Cascade, and about by the soldiers who captured him and threw him in the garbage crusher... and I assume he had just woken up at the start of the day.
Well you're right, but still, i guess it was an awful experience.
Imagine being a normal scientist sitting in your office
Suddenly you start hearing about warnings about elevator failures and power loss in several sectors
Then you hear: "Everyone evacuate"
And suddenly you start hearing gunshots
gEck0 My waifu!
20-year-old game,
people still making videos about it, (and those videos still get the views)
if that doesn't tell you it's good, I don't know what will
It has better graphics but the main character animations and sound affects suck in my opinion. Idunno why but i loved the way Gordon moved in HL1 and 2
ET video game is 35 years old and people make videos about it too :P
Joaquín Jiménez find game "black mesa" by crowbar int
It's one of the best games (all categories) in history, probably in the top ten even. It will never get old.
Fucking Preach!
19:23 The decathlon got cancelled!? This is the worst thing to happen at Black Mesa.
A random guy who wanted to do the decathlon: aw man, no fair >:c
damn vortigaunts
@@randomtexanguy9563 the fact your pfp is texas makes this even better lol
@@thenihilanth3382 "aw man, no fair >:c!!! when i went there with my XV11382 to get in even after cancellation, there were vortigaunts everywhere and i immediately went back."
@@thenihilanth3382A random guy who was about to cum:
“I’m bout to cum…”
I feel bad for that Echo-Three-Juliet guy who's team was ambushed and died bleeding out.
I just listened to that part and god...
Which time stamp
The radio chatter is from Modern Warfare 2 Lmao
@@comrade_commissar3794 Not all of it, the Echo-Three-Juliet part is in the game.
Arion Beech yeah, backround noises, but the ones that are clear are from HL and Black Mesa
It´s really sad how just within minutes after the resonance cascade, however long it took Gordon to regain consciousness 50 people die.
Ironic that being the one to (albeit unknowingly) start the resonance cascade probably put him the best possible place to be during the first minutes of the invasion.
Those were CONFIRMED deaths. At the end of the video it says over two thousand people were "missing" most likely dead.
A couple of interesting things I noticed:
- Barney is technically the first of the three to go to Xen.
- When Blue Shift ended, the Saved number went up from 64 to 68. I wonder if that includes Alyx because we've yet to see what happened to Rosenburg.
- Black Mesa apparently has a decathlon. Freeman probably would've won it easily.
- Freeman cold-shoulders the fuck out of a Headcrab at 23:21.
- Military cuts loses on Freeman and evacuate around same time as Shepherd arrives. Guess his unit really was late.
- Genomes (Evolved Zombies) first appear in OP around 8 hours after Resonance Cascade starts, so eight hours is rough estimate of time for evolution on zombies to take effect?
- Actual Forget about Freeman radio message is first transmitted shortly before Freeman himself hears it. Likely on loop as final message from Military.
- 55:00 Gordon kills 5 aliens in time it takes for engineer to cut through steel door. No wonder they never stood a chance.
Some problems I noticed:
Gordon actually was the first to go to Xen. It happens right after the Resonance Cascade. Alyx is not included in the jump of saved from 64 to 68. She is "extracted" by G-Man at a later or earlier time. Also the term is "Gonomes" and it was probably autocorrect. Shepard's unit was late. The thing is, the portal to Xen Freeman travels with is synced. The Opposing Force Expansion has you go into the teleport chamber right as Gordon jumps in. Yeah Freeman would win that Decathlon. Also the H.E.C.U. were not the best in opening doors quickly, but they never stood a chance to Gordon.
@@jonaskovamees6948 Also, to be pedantic, Freeman was not the first human to go to Xen, but definitely the first protagonist.Well, that's true if you believe that the other human bodies on Xen occurred before the RC, but it could be that they tried to escape the complex using portals and ended up there. Who knows
Actually, Shepherd arrived in one of first waves during "We've got hostiles", people get this wrong really often.
Unless I am mistaken, they mention the decathlon in the opening of HL1
@@DeathByAutoscroll yep, on the train system.
I don't know why but there's a difference between Gordon being alone in Xen, versus Adrian being alone in Black Mesa. Adrian's feels infinitely more empty, like that feeling where everyone from work has left and you're not even close to being done, while Gordon feels more like Matt Damon in The Martian.
Idk if it's just me, but it's truly haunting hearing that combination of music with all the system alerts, and then once the military take over, hearing people frantically yelling into their walkie talkies, giving you an idea of the horrors and the scale of this whole experience.
who would win?
the entire HECU
1 27 years old nerd with some weapons
Gman win. KD
@Idi Amin i was thinking the same because of his beard
Ur mum
@@PYC1337 what
Any player-controlled character who has access to impulse 101 always wins
1:09:30
"Casualities: 314"
"Saved: 124"
...
"MISSING: 2421"
This gave me shivers...
I wonder what happened to those missing people
**boom**
##% probably died in the Explosion while trying to escape.
##% probably got randomly teleported to Xen and died.
##% probably either escaped the blast zone and never looked back and hid from the world or died on the surface from the shockwave while trying to escape the blast radius.
Apparently, we need Half-Life version of "Dumb ways to die". We have one for Portal, so why not?
@@williamr1088 If they got out, they probably died in the Seven Hours War and subsequent Combine invasion. All who weren't put to 'Sleep' anyway. I just realized that the only reason Barney was awoken was to stop Gordon from getting on the Nova Prospekt.
@@taltoskieron Barney escaped the facility, not put in statis.
This perspective of the disaster makes me wish that, if someone ever remakes Blue Shift, I hope they don't end it right after Barney escapes to the parking lot. It couldn't have been as simple as driving out of there. Black Mesa had an emergency broadcast that was ordering people to evacuate the entire state of New Mexico. It would be another perspective on the scale and how much of a disaster this is by having Barney witness the mass evacuation and how the public was reacting.
you're probably aware, they are remaking BL within Black Mesa! only up to chapter 4 so far, but I love that idea. it would be great to see the wider publics reaction to everything
Officer Barney Calhoun had it easy, being trapped for only a short period of time. Gordon fought through threats alien and domestic to try to stop what had been set in motion without resting for nearly two days straight. Adrian Shephard went through hell and back only to be trapped for an indeterminate amount of time in stasis. This really puts into perspective how truly horrendous the Black Mesa incident was, but the most horrific aspect by far was how Gordon had to do all that in the Source engine.
Barney Calhoun is very damn lucky.
My man survived the Black Mesa, Seven Hours War, Combine Occupation, and the most important he was unnoticed by G-Man, talking about lucky in there.
@@naufalt.a8796 That is true, I hadn't thought about the 7 hours' war... it's almost like fate is playing favorites with him lol
I don't know if the source engine bit was a joke or not but it made me laugh haha
Don't forget my man Barney went to Xen and traversed it without the help of the HEV suit, all he had wss his standard issue armor vest, weapondry and willness.
Imagine how differently this all could've gone if Gordan had called in sick that day.
Well then gordon wouldn't be there... it would be someone else. Why would the black mesa team rely on 1 person to do gordons job when there are many other people that can substitute for him? It's not like they only have 1 person with a HEV suit.
426 09 Shepard... barney?! The two ladies in decay?! There is plenty of people that fought through black mesa like gordon, infact shepard faced much harder enemies than gordon and had to fight through the brutal final hours of black mesa while nearly escaping the facility being nuked if it weren't for the Gman. I'm sure anyone would go to the lengths that gordon did to fight for survival, do or die situation. At the end of the day gordon is just a regular man that is only trying to fight for his friends and his own lives.
Well if somebody substituted for Gordon Freeman, had he called in sick, that person likely would have died. Gordon Freeman wasn't like all of the other wimpy scientists, who didn't even try to fight. He fought like a valiant soldier.
*Gordon watching TV news about Resonance Cascade while he's sick in his home* hehe *Then start 7 hours war* fuck
Joaquín Jiménez in HL2 yes but not before the ending of HL1
Despite having 1998 graphics, this game is still legendary to me.
Agree, and also Half-life 2, the graphic ,story line and gameplay are absolutely amazing and beautiful for a 2004 game.
@@notsovamain HL1 is better
@@a.q.2330 they are both better because what happens after HL1 is in HL2
@@nsd_nebulousdia1366 HL 1 is special. You can't make HL3 like HL1 because black mesa is destroyed. The environment feels more interesting in HL1
@@a.q.2330 much better. better and more weapons (in hl2 you have few weapons and some of them can't be used anymore, like that stupid sponge that spawned crabs only in one point in the game), better story, better atmosphere
39:13 Wait, are you implying that helicopter Gordon sees _may have been Adrian's??_
This video is so well tied together.
No, it's different types of helicopters
nope, gordons helicopter in the said time is a apache AH64, it’s a attack helicopter with only 2 seats.
adrians aircraft is a osprey, which is meant for troop transportation, his osprey passes by the cliff that gordon gets the RPG in.
@@notfrench4661 Ah, too bad :(
No, Adrian and co. were riding V2 Ospreys, not Helicopters during the start of Opposing Force.
This is actually the big mistake of this video. It was confirmed in Blue Shift that Adrian's team was supposed to be one of the first to reach Black Mesa, meaning that the intro to OpFor took place at around Office Complex. Adrian was simply knocked out cold and woke up 24h later.
This feels like watching HBO’s Chernobyl show. Good one.
How about a chernobyl style HBO series about the black mesa incident?7
i was just thinkin about it
also season 2 will be about the 7 hour war with each hour as a episode itself
@@ToriRocksAmos I could definitely see that working. The incident is too large to be covered in a movie, but a TV series could work. Have it centred around Freeman, Calhoun, Shepard and the Decay scientists. Whilst Freeman doesn't talk, the others are pretty much confirmed to. And even then, I wouldn't mind freeman talking if absolutely necessary to make a scene work naturally (as long as he was kinda flat and monotonous).
@@jamessinclair2898 I can definitely see it happening.
Scary to think that Barney was technically the only one to actually escape.
Of the 3 protagonists, yes
O pior entry fragger well cuz Barney is lucky cuz he had normal weapons and not of that hev suit
Johnny Edward No, he actually has powered armor that works like Gordon's HEV, except better because it was actually made for combat.
Remeber that GMAN talked both to gordon and shepard, GMAN wasnt really that interested in Barney, thats why barney escaped, if GMAN was interested in Barney, he would have helped kill big ass monsters and save the world
O pior entry fragger Gordon faces pit worms? Tf? Why I don't remember this?
0:02 - Barney starts his job
1:03 - Freeman starts his job
5:16 - The fun begins
9:46 - Emergency broadcast system
11:55 - System now in military control
32:06 - freeman gets ambushed
32:22 - Barney escapes Black mesa
39:06 - Adrian gets deployed
42:31 - Adrian wakes up
57:24 - Freeman gets hired by Gman
1:06:58 - Adrian disarms the bomb
1:07:02 - Gman arms the bomb
1:09:26 - Nuclear bomb detonated
Likee!😀
What happen to adrian
@@milkdromeda8539 he's in stasis
@@sheffb I hope we will see him in Hl3 (actually I hope we will se Hl3)
R.i.p ashley she was my female scientist who killed by vortigaunt :(
Shephard's story is far more concerning than Barney and Freeman. The feeling of being left alone with aliens, knowing your teammates have already been evacuated really gives of the feeling of pure horror. Valve you better give us Adrian Shephard back 😡
As much as I loved playing as Gordon and barney, we need Adrian Shephard in Valve’s next title
41:41 “my left leg’s gone”
“My IFAKs gone” (IFAK = Individual First Aid Kit)
Am I the only one shocked the map fits together so well? I keep expecting the "Disconnected doesn't really work" map you sometimes get.
Actually, there is some inconsistency, like at 1:58
There are a few cheats of scale too, and of rotating some areas, and extending them.
@@chrissonofpear1384 but if you really try to make it work and tweak things just a little, could you actually have a fully connected Black Mesa? Because that would be dope and I'd love to see some next gen or next next gen hardware have a Half-Life (and side stories like OF and BS) remake all take place in one continuous map. Like open world, or in this case open facility
@@MarioTheLiopleurodon A Gmod map of that would be awesome.
@@OnemarioOLDCHANNEL yes it would. Know of anyone that would be up for the task of building that map
9:45 One of my favourite moments for some reason. Maybe because I imagine myself as just a normal person who hears this broadcast message and have absolutely no idea that people in Black Mesa are literally fighting for their lives.
Holy fuck, you're right. Gotta love that moment. Nobody really knows what the fuck's going on, or if they do they won't say jack shit. Even Adrian really had no clue what was going to happen, until he was informed very little about 'a facility'. He didn't even get his orders because the aliens shot down his squad, which is why he doesn't kill any scientists.
I also liked it how a couple of completely combat skills lacking scientists made it out. Like, what are the odds? I don't even know should I consider them lucky or not.
Remote 'N' Mellow if I was in the lobby and heard some of these messages I’d just go “fuck this I’m out”
@@tk-hf4oz or he doesnt kill any fir the same reason that Freeman does
Black Mesa always reminds me of Chernobyl.
@@seaque.
With Dr Breen as Dyatlov?
Black Mesa: Source's HECU radio communications you can hear around Surface Tension and Forget about Freeman humanizes the grunts alot more, makes me even feel bad for them.
I sure don't, killing the personnel and even using it for bait against Freeman made me revoke my "Geniva" card on them.
24:09
R.I.P Gordon Freeman
I just noticed, he died and respawned.
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I just had a thought as to how to make this excellent video even better.
Add a ping for every G-Man sighting.
Add Half Life decay!
add half life 3
I'll add sweet half life , half life life's end and half life brave brain
No no no. I mean, sure, fine, add Decay and all, but don't add mods. I love Sweet Half-Life and all, but mods aren't canon. But yeah, Decay would be good.
That said this was a Hell of a good video.
Decay isn't even a singleplayer story.
Two things I have learnt from all this:
1) Barney was smart. Dude bounced out of there relatively fast.
2) Gordon really is a machine. Non-stop fighting and movement for about 25 hours.
And to be rewarded with a 20 year long nap.
And 3) adrian was unlucky and got the bottom of the barrel with his situation being abandoned having no back in and stuck in stasis
One thing that sticks out to me the most is Shepherd's POV.
Gordon & Barney deal with a lot of scientists & guards alike on the way despite the alien threat and HECU alike.
Shepherd, meanwhile, was often times alone. Oh sure, he gets soldier support & the occasional scientist, Otis & Barney clones here & there, but there are entire chapters where he's by himself, with no friendlies or even Black Ops soldiers to deal with. And in some cases, even the aliens aren't there, or if they are, it's unknown horrors of Xen. It makes sense since he's at the final stages of the Black Mesa incident, but that isolation & loneliness crept into my brain in a way that makes it all the more creepy. You'd almost think you were staring at the end of humanity itself in some parts.
24:05
"Authorized to prosecute Gordon Freeman with extreme force"
Followed by Gordon Freeman dying to HECU
He was knocked out, not killed. The HECU Marines didn't even know he was still alive, hence they dumped Gordon into a grinder to attempt to hide the evidence, only for him to wake up and escape just in time.
@@thevisitor135 look at the timestamp. In Gordon's POV, he is killed by soldiers in just that clip. I'm not referring to the trash compactor section, I'm referring to that very specific instance in which the *player* dies to HECU soldiers. I thought it was funny that the player dies at that point, right after the announcement is given to prosecute him
I love how at 57:05 Shepard and Freeman intersect for the briefest of moments, but at the time Shepard only has bits and pieces about Freeman while Freeman has no idea Shepard is behind him when he leaps through the portal. The tracking on the map is excellent as Freeman's orange blip fades and disappears leaving just Shepard's green blip the last trackable player in Black Mesa.
But Shepard is not behind Gordon, in HL1. I am pretty sure, if I replay the game, I could look around and look around some more, and never see Shepard. Shepard following Gordon, is after-the-fact editing of the HL storyline, so as to tie Opposing Force into the original HL storyline, and I love how well that they did it. Azure Sheep does an even more radical after-the-fact editing of the storyline, in the area where Barney and Gordon enter the same level. Gone is that poor security guard that gets shot mid-sentence by the Special Forces ninjas as Gordon is riding up on the freight elevator. Yet Barney is unable to stop Gordon from getting ambushed. Is that Gordon's destiny or what?
I liked in Blue Shift, how the scientist criticizes Gordon and Lamba Labs for their insane mission, and he says that he just wants to get out of there. Another nice tie-in to the HL story.
@@yosefmacgruber1920
Shepard was later included in the port of the original HL game for PS2.
@@kompuglobalhypermega
I noticed recently, in watching YT playing of the original HL game, seeing somebody running else around right before Gordon Freeman jumps into the portal and goes to Xen. Who was that? Just a security guard who is maybe helping to fight the alien attacks? Or was that actually Shepard? A little "historical revisionism" after the fact? It could be easy to miss that detail, if I was too focused upon my game play and not actually looking for it. That is a nice detail for them to have fixed, in order to make the bigger HL story to be more consistant and believable. More than I might have expected. So it wasn't pre-planned with the original HL as a possible tie-in to the _Opposing Force_ sequel?
But wasn't there a similar scene in _Azure Sheep_ in which you pass through that lab also? But maybe that is after Gordon already lept into the portal? And maybe it was too late to revise the original HL for that, or perhaps some do not consider _Asure Sheep_ to be HL canon?
I was glad to see that my PS2 version, I seem to recall actually testing it after seeing it on YT, had the easter egg in which Gordon can exit the test labs area and return to where he got off the tram, his weight added to the broken catwalk causes the catwalk to collapse. Gordon doesn't fall, but the scientist out there on the catwalk is doomed and cries out "Gordon!"
BTW, I found some "unreality" in HL playing around with the Invincible cheat on my PS2. With that, you can jump off of the catwalk to the normally "fatal fall" floor below, and then walk around the bend from where the tram came from. What? It is just a dead-end at just around the curved bend, out of sight normally of the camera. Where is all that scenery we saw on the tram ride? It shows that it does not at all exist, in the current level load. It was a completely separate level, done cleverly to make it look like the two levels seamlessly connect to one another, when actually, they do not.
It would have been cool, had the game somehow triggered the "irreversible" previous level load, and allowed for me to continue to walk around the tram ride area. I am not sure how I could get back to the height of the tram though, as there likely are no steps nor ladders by which to reach any of those areas that I saw on the tram ride.
If you jump into the same portal Freeman did you would fall next to the platform and into the abyss, which then a screen similar to ones that would appear if alyx dies in HL2 saying “tried to create temporal paradox” or something
Watching the casualties go up was horrific.
I can't believe I actually went through this mess THREE TIMES from 3 different perspectives, this truly was terrifying to watch..only this time I could do NOTHING about it.
Pink Sugar image what it was like for the other scientist's besides Barney.
Everybody talking about how Gordon survive almost 2 days in black mesa, but anybody it's talking about the science team, they don't have weapons or HEV suit...
Some of them had hev suits
The lucky ones were just chilling close to topside, they had absolutely no worries. They would’ve thought of it just as everybody else above the surface did, just some minor nuclear incident.
Some of them had access to guns
@@ChickenMayoSanga The portal storms reached topside, eventually the cascade went statewide, then worldwide. Had Gordon not killed the Nihl the portal storms would have ripped apart the world.
Too bad the combine came anyway
This video is iconic. I love the feel, the sounds, everything. It brings memories, absolutely love it. I watched it alone at night the first time. It was AMAZING.
What a Coincidence, I'm watching it for the first time myself at night tooa
An even bigger coincidence, i too am watching it alone in the middle of the night
@@ZaiBeez nightwatching bros
"Energy field detected in Sector C, Sector D, Sector E, Sector F, Sector G..."
"Rail system damaged"
"Extreme Warning"
"Evacuate immediately"
That announcer gives a sense of complete and utter mess and panic.
But where are the sectors A and B?...
They didn't get initially damaged.
Those sound aren't in the BM sounds folder, where they came from?
They're packed into the bsp itself.
My OTHER favourite map of the facility, slightly different:
www.reddit.com/r/HalfLife/comments/1lmqsu/black_mesa_research_facility_3d_model_map_by/
Sector A is pink. Sector B is blue, and includes the train yard from Blue Shift.
"System Now Under Military Command" gave me chills when I was younger and first played Half Life. It's like, oh great, you already have these aliens to deal with now we got the military trying to kill you too. This game puts you up against seemingly insurmountable odds which is why it feels so satisfying to eventually overcome it.
But this is from Black Mesa Source
@@KrypandeNej1 The VOX system from the original game also says "This announcement system is now under military command" but the VOX system is more background noise in the original "We've Got Hostiles" chapter so it just goes unannounced ironically, whereas, in Black Mesa, the Crowbar Collective devs thought it would be a pretty chilling moment to hear the transition fully and with dramatic effect, and boy did it work. I'm also pretty sure the military version of the VOX voice is suppose to be a sort of throwback to the original VOX, in a more modern fashion.
@@KrypandeNej1 Good callout
those odds and the military's mission far exceeded FUBAR status
You know I'm just now realizing that the security guard that helps Shephard before the final worm boss died in the nuclear explosion... :'(
Imagine for a second, that you're working at this lab and the whole incident happens. It'd be a terrifying experience...
DETENATION DETECTED...
Probably the scariest line in the Half life series
This was scary, knowing this very catastrophe was the first chain of events that brought the end of civilization of humanity. The atmosphere of the video is creepy.
Nurmayumad well said.
Maybe the half-life saga was the beginning of a new *age* of humanity. With destruction comes a chance for new creation. Humanity does have a chance to rebuild after Half-Life 2, the only way it can do this is to A. Destroy all combine on planet earth B. Destroy all records of Earth on the combine's data banks so that they can't return to it C. reverse engineer combine technology D. get rid of the anti-reproduction field so that babies can be made again. Humanity does have a chance at creating it's own cross-dimensional empire if these prerequisites are met.
And even though the population of earth has been reduced by 90%, the population of Europe was reduced by 60% and it still conquered almost all of the world, and Europe had to deal with the invading Mongols and Muslims.
This is honestly one of the best made videos I've ever watched. Not only did the creator of the video add a full map, with locations on where Barney, Gordon, and Adrian are at all times, but also announcements over the intercom and P.A. systems. I'm not that familiar with half life, so I'm not sure if he added these in from a file somewhere in the data, or made them him/herself. Overall, surreal and awesome experience that really gives you the full intensity of the situation instead of you inside the facility making your way through a meat freezer. Thumbs up from me.
If there's a HL3, I hope Shephard comes back somehow.
Here’s hoping, Gabe Newell himself acknowledged the overly-long MIA status of Adrian Shepard and would have wanted to bring him back more; yet the development hell of Episode 3 and beyond told them otherwise.
He was supposed to with Arkane Studio's Episode 4, but it was canned due to Episode 3 being canned
@Despon if they bring him back he'll probably end up as gman's puppet, dude can't catch a break like freeman can't either
23:14
*Alert: Military Personnel, you are authorized to shoot the renegade on sight*
“What do you think we’ve been doing?!”
"Everything went to hell that day!" - Eli Vance
When he said this, after replaying HL2 - Episode 2, I couldn't help but to replay this whole video again. You could see it in his eyes, all the terrifying memories left on him like a scar. Such a really powerful moment in Half Life 2 - Episode 2 that is over looked by a lot of people.
@@user-no3tu9kh3p Be a relevant idiot and play all half life games.
Black Mesa: Source made Half-Life's already dark atmosphere a hundred times more terrifying.
Agreed, and read that apperently crowbar collective (who made black mesa source, if I'm on the same pafe/game as you( isnt going to make opposing force or blue shift, but apperently another company (if I remember correctly is called landmine entertainment) is making operation black mesa, set in opposing force and blue shift
1:06
"Ahh, I'm not the only one who's late. *SUCKEEERRRRRRRR!* "
Good reference of Freeman mind's
"Attention. Gordon Freeman, report to military personnel for immediate security check"
They should've announced "We have milk & cookies"
Yea , that would have worked.
"Attention. Gordon Freeman , report to military personnel ... we have another crowbar."
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We have crowbard
@PutDatCookiehDown! us git croofbord
19:23 Geez, it took them THAT long to cancel the Black Mesa Hazard Course decathlon. Those scientists must be dedicated to their fitness.
Andrew Stewart Either nobody cared about the declathon until someone canceled it or it was canceled automatically by the system. Probably the latter.
It would be funny if the computer's parameter for cancellation was "Unauthorized detonation in Experimental propulsion Lab"
the announcement system was also under military control at the time of the cancellation. i dont think the scientists were behind that. i guess they (the military) eventually found that and knew it wouldnt happen because of the situation at hand
It was obviously a move by the military to demoralize Gordon.
They knew he was looking forward to that shit. ;)
Genuine goosebumps when they successfully lined up Shepard seeing Gordon running into the portal to Xen @ 57:02. Was wondering how well they'd line up since it's probably the only stand-out time one character physically sees the other in action, aside from Barney seeing Gordon dragged by marines @ 32:12. Secondary goosebumps @ 1:09:27 when Black Mesa goes dark following the self destruct going nuclear.
I thought Shephard arrived early but was just out cold for a REALLY long time considering the two marines in blue shift that were talking about “Shephards team not making it”
No I think he was deployed around we got hostiles but as seen, woke up at surface tension
You must have put an incredible amount of effort into this, this is awesome! Thank you for this vid.
Are the announcements really continous between games?! It never, never occured to me that some of the announcements might be what the parallel player does in other games. That's way too cool.
it is absolutely insane, if original poster didn't make this, i hope they give credit
LanceTheBlueKnight When playing hl1 you see barney banging at a door in the beginning. In blue shift you see Gordon go past. In half-life you hear a radio transmission that tells the marines to forget about freeman and evacuate. OF you see a guy yelling that message into a radio. These are a few of the links.
Yes, but each playthrough would be a different length depending on who's playing. So you'll need a bunch more links than that.
Probably the appearance of the military across the facility is a good one too.
Scuffed Pipsi lol the announcer is from "Black Mesa Source" NOT "COD".........
Imagine the speed run version of this map. Icons flying around and phasing through walls.
A LOT of other people were late on the day of the test across the entire Lambda complex.
Stuff was already breaking down before the Cascade even happened, such as the huge radioactive fluid leak about a couple blocks away from Sector C.
The science team at Lambda's reactor were also late since the power was surging through the devices & equipment.
*Disasters don't just happen. They're triggered by a chain of critical events. Let's reveal the fatal decisions on those final seconds from disaster.*