Timeline 2's super specific setting of an Earth that's not post-apocalyptic, but just barely surviving in the first place worldwide while still hanging on makes so memorable for me, and my favorite Half-Life mod right after They Hunger. The creator, Ross Smith is still around and even commented on some videos I edited.
@@imgladnotu9527 pretty blood fanbase is similar but instead of the rainbow dash jar you get goblins making pornography of two opposing characters (the brain damage is real)
Timeline 3 having that red sky is probably the most ironic thing ever... Being, that HL2 2001/2002 (forgot which it is) beta has Airexchange... I think it's just a fat coincidence to be frank
Concrete information on Half-life 2, and footage of its beta build, didn't even come out to the public until it was leaked by a German hacker in 2003. Before then there wasn't any information on it other than "a sequel to Half-Life 1 in the works". There's no way the creator of this mod would have been able to reference the beta build of HL2 in this mod before releasing it.
Heh cool you played my suggestion, happy you enjoyed it. The part of Timeline 2 you got stuck in and no clipped with, there is a key card for the door on the table in the room where you microwave the headcrab and debris bounces around the room. The rods in Timeline 3 are the platternite crystal the GMAN says you need when you got trapped in the temporal void, in changing map it seems you skipped a large chunk of the mod. As for the glitch in Timeline 3, I got stuck there as well and realized I'd forgotten to destroy a couple of the crystals in the AD 5 billion ice world you take cold damage in with the large tower.
For reference here's how it is meant to play out. After your temporal stabiliser sabotage fails you get transported to Black Mesa to destroy the time crystal, but the crystal was a fake. The GMAN traps you in a temporal void and the only way to escape is by putting the platternite crystal in the teleporter (jumping into parts of the time vortex also has a few cool set pieces that are inescapable). Escaping the temporal vortex transports you to a different part of Black Mesa, you have to activate that part's time machine and travel back to Black Mesa 3 hours earlier, and destroy the correct crystal. It looks as if you map skipped straight to the 3 hours earlier iteration of Black Mesa and skipped over quite a large chunk of Timeline part 3.
The whole London to weird temple is a reference to the book The Time Machine, written by HG Wells (yes, the same one who wrote war of the worlds). in the book HG wells himself builds a time machine and goes into a future that is very similar to the one encountered in the game.
Also i'm pretty sure the thing in timeline 3 with the icy planet,is earth in 20 billion years (i mean the sun would be a white dwarf),and similar with the lava planet with the sun being a red giant by 5 billion years so the earth would be VERY F--KING HOT so yeah. Atleast i'm pretty sure that,that was intention
The bit in H.G Wells house was also probably a reference to The Time Machine (also by H.G. Wells); the titular machine looks similar to the one you find in 1899 in the game.
The remod version changes the HECU grunts in Timeline 1 into actual N@si soldiers. (I can't say the actual word cause of how the TH-cam algorithm hates certain words.)
Oh man im soo distracted from the bangers of your new album in the background , wonderful vid as always rad ! (Btw im almost hitting the 2 yrs subscription hell Yeah)
I played these mods a couple of years back and agree with RadHaz about them, especially the finale. It seems some of the engine updates broke something in these mods (even before the 25th anniversary update), but damn, mapping in the third one was sometimes outright awe inspiring!
8:16 I love how you can see the edges of the Earth texture because this cutscene was designed for a 4:3 screen. Just one of the many funny things that can happen when you're playing an old-ass mod!
7:35 Looks like some mishapen V-1 to me, the V-2s were more visually like ICBMs or other vertical launch rockets while the V-1s were launched from a ramp.
5:51 That is actually the wrong Confederate flag. That flag would've been used by regiments from Virginia on the battlefield, not put up on flag poles. The real CSA flag looks a lot like the Texas state flag.
I mean, I already knew that the Austrian painter would make an appearance from the thumbnail but damn you weren't kidding. This was certainly a wild ride.
The blocks of text you see at the start of every chapter are actually song lyrics and the song titles for those lyrics taken from certain bands. I always found them cool as hell and they each fit the chapter's events pretty well.
The level design in Timeline 2 reminds of Duke Nukem 3D level design. Button-combination passwords, open mapdesign with no indicators, keycards hidden in tiny corners...
Rad Haz slaughtering Nazis? I didn’t know he could reach even higher levels of based. Truly poggers. She took the kids, Rad. She took the house, too. Really not Skibidi.
I can't belive you mentioned "Where eagles dare" it's my favourite movie as well! If you love that movie you HAVE to play "Return to Castle Wolfenstein" if you haven't already that game is a MOOD!
Never knew these mods existed, gonna give them a try! Nice video mate, glad to have discovered these mods through you. I also love the way you say "temporal" I just love it :3
7:43 I swear I've seen this V-weapon design somewhere. I came across it when I was deep into my aeronautical engineering phase. It's either based on real confidential document or it's some design inspired by them. The two-stage rocket plane launched by a mass driver with that exact wing design. Crazy to see it in half life 1 of all places. These are some deep cuts. He does get it wrong, though. The aft tank dosen't seperate until it's halfway to orbit iirc, it seems to stick onto the track in this depiction though.
That time macine bit where time goes by really fast is a refenrece to the H.G. Welles story The Time Machine. Wherein the time traveler sees the passage of time progress super quickly around him, his final destination in the future is the year 802701.
36:36 This whole sequence was a nod to "Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome", in which Australia was a post-apocalyptic wasteland and the central city was called Bartertown. 38:48 This section traveling into the future (and also the giant red sun section) are straight out of H.G. Wells' "The Time Machine." You would have understood it better if you had read the book. 🙃
That's not a V2, that's a Silbervogel! So cool! It was supposed to be a space bomber loaded with chemical weapons and launched in space through a railgun
This seems like one of those mods that really deserves to be remade on a newer engine and fleshed out even more. This could be an amazing game on Source 1 or 2.
Yknow if you think about it, the large amounts of "interactibles" like levers and keycards in Timeline is a major product of its time. 99% sure that this guy played a huge amount of Doom way back when. Of course it wouldn't be all that long ago considering the first Timeline came out in 2000 edit: also did he predict 9/11 with the New York nuke???? Double Edit: 38:50 huge Time Machine book reference
16:06 This tower reminds me of something out of like Halo:CE the brush work in these maps must be crazy, thanks for promoting this mod, might have to check it out!
I've seen another TH-camr playing Timeline I, and the marines were correctly reskinned, and shouting in German. IIRC, the zombies were reskinned as mummies.
38:45 onward is one giant H.G. Wells reference, iirc the main character of The Time Machine was able to see the Thames Valley changing from outside the pod as he moved through time, up until he would arrive in the year 802,701, where because there was never any resolution to the class divide in contemporary society, humanity has regressed into two divergent species - the childish and naive Eloi on the surface, and the ape-like but more clever Morlocks who tend to the Eloi while surfacing at night to feed upon them for that matter, so is the giant red sun scene earlier in the same mod - the time traveler witnesses the end of the world billions of years into the future, as the sun becomes a red giant, dies out, and the Earth becomes cold and desolate
There are a couple mods of similar design and aesthetics such "Krypton" which has a similar theme of using a singular machine to jump between planets and "Timefall" as well with a heavier emphasis on puzzles. Also worth noting is there was a remod for this that despite having super-high def models ripped from The New Colossus, actually turned the HECU in the first level into a Terror Cell (using models from payday lol) that invaded Black Mesa.
It is unbelievable how much love and effort people put into mods for example hl1 and hl2 and other older games. It is sad that nowadays you'll find less and less dedication from fan communities and publishers for their games for several reasons. Modding is so important to me I couldn't imagine a world without it.
"Wow i love being a scientist. I hope i don't have to save the world from aleins and time traveling nazis" - Gordon Freeman before the Resonance Cascade
I think it's been over 10 years since I first played this mod, it was among my favorite mods, however I played it in a bizzare way, somehow succeeded in finishing Part I, went into Part III but going through maps in noclip yet never finished it, went near the ending later in Part II but lost all HL files at some point and with it Part II saves and so never redone to to this day. I should probably replay the trilogy but this time in my own way now that I can add stuff into the game's codes and maps.
36:10 Unbelieveable... It's amazing how much Ross Smith was able to capture Sydney's atmosphere... You can even see the opera house from the skybox! As an Australian, I approve the Timeline trilogy as Australia's Official GoldSrc Mod of the Month!
this trilogy takes a lot from the book The Time Ships by Stephen Baxter, especially the third part. "Platnerite" and some of the setpieces like the frozen earth with the tower, and the full adaptation of HG Wells The Time Machine (which Time Ships is a sequel of).
I swear if they put the Black-White-Red flag of Imperial Germany as the WW2 yapp ideology, im gonna get mad. For context, after WW2 people have been turning the meaning of Imperial Germany into the WW2 ideology. A flag that was in use since the late 1800's
Yo RazHaz my dude, do you think you could review Life's End? It was a popular HL1 mod back in the day and it was quite unique compared to other mods. Appreciate the regularly released content you're doing awesome work.
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Guy 1:"hey remember when Gordon Freeman fought the Nazis and helped win the civil war?"
Guy 2: "You really need to take your meds man"
i guess guy 1 didn’t drink the water
@@gamma4202 they put somethin' in it
to make you forget...
postal 2 dialogue
No, i need to take your meds man..
@@medicolkie3606 to make ya forget
I can't believe a Half Life mod predicted Wolfenstein 2
And 9/11
this is what gordon was doing during the 7 hour war
he was fighting the 5 year war
@@jaodasilva7993 and after he won he did the 15 year snooze
They quite literally made half life 1 into a Indian Jones movie with time travel, even with that insane premise they delivered on it well
Goldolf Soursler
lmao
Are you for real
Ald Hitce
Timeline 2's super specific setting of an Earth that's not post-apocalyptic, but just barely surviving in the first place worldwide while still hanging on makes so memorable for me, and my favorite Half-Life mod right after They Hunger. The creator, Ross Smith is still around and even commented on some videos I edited.
HL2 Retconned, This is canon now.
who would win the absolutely insane fanbase award
A. radhaz fanbase
B. pretty blood fanbase
A
A cuz we too freaky
pansies... yall forget the MLP fanbase exists, and classic anomalous artifact known as figurine in a jar filled with ___
@@imgladnotu9527 pretty blood fanbase is similar but instead of the rainbow dash jar you get goblins making pornography of two opposing characters (the brain damage is real)
Never heard of B so ehhh, A
"You will be pressing a lot of buttons, pulling a lot of livers..." got to be the funniest thing I heard this week
Timeline 3 having that red sky is probably the most ironic thing ever... Being, that HL2 2001/2002 (forgot which it is) beta has Airexchange... I think it's just a fat coincidence to be frank
Concrete information on Half-life 2, and footage of its beta build, didn't even come out to the public until it was leaked by a German hacker in 2003. Before then there wasn't any information on it other than "a sequel to Half-Life 1 in the works". There's no way the creator of this mod would have been able to reference the beta build of HL2 in this mod before releasing it.
TMNT had red sky in 1997
The fact that Timeline and Half Life 2 both have Freeman fighting fascists (albeit space fascists in the retail game) is also a crazy coincidence
Heh cool you played my suggestion, happy you enjoyed it.
The part of Timeline 2 you got stuck in and no clipped with, there is a key card for the door on the table in the room where you microwave the headcrab and debris bounces around the room.
The rods in Timeline 3 are the platternite crystal the GMAN says you need when you got trapped in the temporal void, in changing map it seems you skipped a large chunk of the mod. As for the glitch in Timeline 3, I got stuck there as well and realized I'd forgotten to destroy a couple of the crystals in the AD 5 billion ice world you take cold damage in with the large tower.
For reference here's how it is meant to play out.
After your temporal stabiliser sabotage fails you get transported to Black Mesa to destroy the time crystal, but the crystal was a fake. The GMAN traps you in a temporal void and the only way to escape is by putting the platternite crystal in the teleporter (jumping into parts of the time vortex also has a few cool set pieces that are inescapable).
Escaping the temporal vortex transports you to a different part of Black Mesa, you have to activate that part's time machine and travel back to Black Mesa 3 hours earlier, and destroy the correct crystal.
It looks as if you map skipped straight to the 3 hours earlier iteration of Black Mesa and skipped over quite a large chunk of Timeline part 3.
‘The G-Man in the High Castle’ 😎
The whole London to weird temple is a reference to the book The Time Machine, written by HG Wells (yes, the same one who wrote war of the worlds). in the book HG wells himself builds a time machine and goes into a future that is very similar to the one encountered in the game.
So this is what would happen if Wolfenstein and Half-life had a baby.
Basically Half life meets Wolfenstein with time travel.
This is such a stupid concept AND I LOVE IT!
Also i'm pretty sure the thing in timeline 3 with the icy planet,is earth in 20 billion years (i mean the sun would be a white dwarf),and similar with the lava planet with the sun being a red giant by 5 billion years so the earth would be VERY F--KING HOT so yeah.
Atleast i'm pretty sure that,that was intention
Imagine a black mesa remake version of these mods
Intro: 0:00
Timeline I: 1:29
Timeline II - Iced Earth: 13:14
Timeline III - The Heart of Darkness: 29:30
Gold sauce hitler might just be the funniest thing ever
edit: why tf do I got 160 likes. I just find gold sauce Hitler funny
guard bronze hitler
Fun fact:
@@TheGPUConsumer No, no, and no
What does GPU mean? @@auspicifishi
Hitler was closer to the release of Half-Life than Half-Life is to the present
The bit in H.G Wells house was also probably a reference to The Time Machine (also by H.G. Wells); the titular machine looks similar to the one you find in 1899 in the game.
The remod version changes the HECU grunts in Timeline 1 into actual N@si soldiers.
(I can't say the actual word cause of how the TH-cam algorithm hates certain words.)
Nazi
You mean nazi
Just say Nahtzi
Australian here, Ross got Sydney circa 2019 correct insofar as the skybox. Maybe the rather conspicuous tightly-compacted towers too.
ah hell naw schizo arc 2.0
Did we ever leave the schizo arc?
@@vincentsvirtues4172 fair
what no game for more than a decade does to a community
that is the most crazy thumbnail bro
Oh man im soo distracted from the bangers of your new album in the background , wonderful vid as always rad ! (Btw im almost hitting the 2 yrs subscription hell Yeah)
HELL YEAH. Thanks for the support!!!
I played these mods a couple of years back and agree with RadHaz about them, especially the finale. It seems some of the engine updates broke something in these mods (even before the 25th anniversary update), but damn, mapping in the third one was sometimes outright awe inspiring!
8:16 I love how you can see the edges of the Earth texture because this cutscene was designed for a 4:3 screen. Just one of the many funny things that can happen when you're playing an old-ass mod!
7:35 Looks like some mishapen V-1 to me, the V-2s were more visually like ICBMs or other vertical launch rockets while the V-1s were launched from a ramp.
Looks like the Silbervogel Sub-Orbital bomber concept from 1936
@@Pepsiphopia oh kurwa wat
TIMELINE is an absolute classic. Some levels might be a little too big but it's such a cool adventure for the freeman
I cant look the same at the hd pack gman again
Bartertown is a mad max reference, which is set in australia
5:27 WERE GOING BACK IN TIME TO THE FIRST THANKSGIVING TO GET TURKEYS OFF THE MENU
I believe you have made the most insane thumbnail of 2024
This was my first Half-Life mod as a kid.
And, in my opinion, it's still one of the most fun for being so odd.
17:37 To quote Kane... Where to strike?
5:51 That is actually the wrong Confederate flag. That flag would've been used by regiments from Virginia on the battlefield, not put up on flag poles. The real CSA flag looks a lot like the Texas state flag.
14:18 He went AFK at the wrong time.
woah they predicted radhaz 😮😮😮😮
radiation hazard talking about gold source Hitler is a sentence I never thought I would ever say.
8:40 "This is every Heart of Iron fans wet dream"
- "You're goddamn right."
more like Least Fashest [sic] TNO Player™
I mean, I already knew that the Austrian painter would make an appearance from the thumbnail but damn you weren't kidding. This was certainly a wild ride.
aussie here, i can confirm, that Sydney recreation is 100% accurate
Gott segne Ross Smith für seine Fähigkeit, fantastisch aussehende Karten zu erstellen!!
The blocks of text you see at the start of every chapter are actually song lyrics and the song titles for those lyrics taken from certain bands. I always found them cool as hell and they each fit the chapter's events pretty well.
what dark and griddy does to a mf
making something schlocky and fun?
A classic. I hope you cover the Xeno Project 1 and 2 next. Highly recommended.
good to see a familiar face here :D
The level design in Timeline 2 reminds of Duke Nukem 3D level design. Button-combination passwords, open mapdesign with no indicators, keycards hidden in tiny corners...
Rad Haz slaughtering Nazis? I didn’t know he could reach even higher levels of based. Truly poggers.
She took the kids, Rad. She took the house, too. Really not Skibidi.
Speak english
@@czarnakoza9697 Hawk tuah and spit on that thang
I can't belive you mentioned "Where eagles dare" it's my favourite movie as well! If you love that movie you HAVE to play "Return to Castle Wolfenstein" if you haven't already that game is a MOOD!
As an australian, I can say that it looks exactly like Australia, but there aren't enough spiders
Never knew these mods existed, gonna give them a try! Nice video mate, glad to have discovered these mods through you.
I also love the way you say "temporal" I just love it :3
7:43 I swear I've seen this V-weapon design somewhere. I came across it when I was deep into my aeronautical engineering phase. It's either based on real confidential document or it's some design inspired by them. The two-stage rocket plane launched by a mass driver with that exact wing design. Crazy to see it in half life 1 of all places. These are some deep cuts.
He does get it wrong, though. The aft tank dosen't seperate until it's halfway to orbit iirc, it seems to stick onto the track in this depiction though.
Silbervogel
That time macine bit where time goes by really fast is a refenrece to the H.G. Welles story The Time Machine. Wherein the time traveler sees the passage of time progress super quickly around him, his final destination in the future is the year 802701.
36:36 This whole sequence was a nod to "Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome", in which Australia was a post-apocalyptic wasteland and the central city was called Bartertown.
38:48 This section traveling into the future (and also the giant red sun section) are straight out of H.G. Wells' "The Time Machine." You would have understood it better if you had read the book. 🙃
If we're doing multiple timeline bullshit does that mean that all of your deaths during the playthrough are canon in TIMELINE universe?
Great video, really got me invested in this abstract yet well executed mod!
That's not a V2, that's a Silbervogel! So cool! It was supposed to be a space bomber loaded with chemical weapons and launched in space through a railgun
There's a lot of good moments in this to take out of context.
This mod be goofy ahh shit with Doom ahh mapping and then it hits us with some expertly made big open areas
That mod ending goes hard
This series fucking aims so damn high in its ambition story wise. Its really interesting.
This seems like one of those mods that really deserves to be remade on a newer engine and fleshed out even more. This could be an amazing game on Source 1 or 2.
8:43 Okay, NOW we're in The Man in the High Castle.
Yknow if you think about it, the large amounts of "interactibles" like levers and keycards in Timeline is a major product of its time. 99% sure that this guy played a huge amount of Doom way back when. Of course it wouldn't be all that long ago considering the first Timeline came out in 2000
edit: also did he predict 9/11 with the New York nuke????
Double Edit: 38:50 huge Time Machine book reference
16:06 This tower reminds me of something out of like Halo:CE
the brush work in these maps must be crazy, thanks for promoting this mod, might have to check it out!
i love how the london underground goes from london, through paris, to switzerland on the same line
the repeating joke of "chinese soup" shouldnt have made me laugh so much and excited about it every time as much as it did XD brilliant video
Awwwwww man the nostalgia I'm getting from this, used to be some of my favorite HL mods back in the day.
This is basically wolfeinstein in half life lmao
Technically, we got GoldSrc Hitler before HL2 💀
I've seen another TH-camr playing Timeline I, and the marines were correctly reskinned, and shouting in German. IIRC, the zombies were reskinned as mummies.
Okay I was not expecting such an awesome mod from that thumbnail, this is insanity good
the thing i learnt in this video is that radhaz LOVES tall, well textured, vertical shafts
38:45 onward is one giant H.G. Wells reference, iirc the main character of The Time Machine was able to see the Thames Valley changing from outside the pod as he moved through time, up until he would arrive in the year 802,701, where because there was never any resolution to the class divide in contemporary society, humanity has regressed into two divergent species - the childish and naive Eloi on the surface, and the ape-like but more clever Morlocks who tend to the Eloi while surfacing at night to feed upon them
for that matter, so is the giant red sun scene earlier in the same mod - the time traveler witnesses the end of the world billions of years into the future, as the sun becomes a red giant, dies out, and the Earth becomes cold and desolate
Wow, they kinda predicted The Man in the High Castle and the Combine
Bartertown is well, a mad max reference.
There are a couple mods of similar design and aesthetics such "Krypton" which has a similar theme of using a singular machine to jump between planets and "Timefall" as well with a heavier emphasis on puzzles.
Also worth noting is there was a remod for this that despite having super-high def models ripped from The New Colossus, actually turned the HECU in the first level into a Terror Cell (using models from payday lol) that invaded Black Mesa.
Always happy to see one of favorite mods : )
It is unbelievable how much love and effort people put into mods for example hl1 and hl2 and other older games. It is sad that nowadays you'll find less and less dedication from fan communities and publishers for their games for several reasons. Modding is so important to me I couldn't imagine a world without it.
"Wow i love being a scientist. I hope i don't have to save the world from aleins and time traveling nazis" - Gordon Freeman before the Resonance Cascade
Ahhhh the times where a button merged so well with its surroundings that I was not sure if I could press it.....
39:05 Yeah there is no way the Thames river is ever gonna leave behind anything habitable. Not even in 800,000 years.
The thumbnail was funny af for some reason
This should be remade into a Wolfenstein-themed mod.
This trilogy of mods honestly has some of the most creative setpieces I've seen out of any game. I hope this got Ross Smith a job somewhere.
I have to admit that mapping was insane!
18:54 this part feels very cinematic. R.I.P random helpful scientist
A fantastic series of mods. I have good memories playing these.
I think it's been over 10 years since I first played this mod, it was among my favorite mods, however I played it in a bizzare way, somehow succeeded in finishing Part I, went into Part III but going through maps in noclip yet never finished it, went near the ending later in Part II but lost all HL files at some point and with it Part II saves and so never redone to to this day.
I should probably replay the trilogy but this time in my own way now that I can add stuff into the game's codes and maps.
Goldsrc Hitler is not the weirdest thing done on the Goldsrc engine
36:10 Unbelieveable... It's amazing how much Ross Smith was able to capture Sydney's atmosphere... You can even see the opera house from the skybox! As an Australian, I approve the Timeline trilogy as Australia's Official GoldSrc Mod of the Month!
I like his pronunciation of linear it sounds like jewellery store name
this trilogy takes a lot from the book The Time Ships by Stephen Baxter, especially the third part. "Platnerite" and some of the setpieces like the frozen earth with the tower, and the full adaptation of HG Wells The Time Machine (which Time Ships is a sequel of).
The first minute absolutely sold me on the mod. I’m gonna download it and play it now, then return to this video later. I don’t want to be spoiled.
I swear if they put the Black-White-Red flag of Imperial Germany as the WW2 yapp ideology, im gonna get mad.
For context, after WW2 people have been turning the meaning of Imperial Germany into the WW2 ideology. A flag that was in use since the late 1800's
Yo RazHaz my dude, do you think you could review Life's End? It was a popular HL1 mod back in the day and it was quite unique compared to other mods. Appreciate the regularly released content you're doing awesome work.
And author of this mod to this day promises sequel for it.
@@АлексейСвиридов-у9о Yup and I've been waiting for more than a decade for it to come out lol
Bro I absolutely love the Timeline trilogy
These pre-HL2 sequel mods were so creative.
Timeline was one of the Half-life mods that I really enjoyed playing.
"Not see"? But they aren't blind.
they are when you shoot them in the face
that nuke cutscene was GLORIOUS
7:26 Like @Pepsiphopia noted, looks like a Silbervogel sub-orbital bomber
Man I remember playing this trilogy for the first time and it really catching me off guard. So weird but so fun too.