You're not an idiot, there totally was cheese string in Mouse Hunt! It's at the very end, the rothers make peace with the mouse and convert the string factory into a Cheese String factory, instead.
I don't know why TH-cam recommended this playthrough or Symbalily, but I am grateful it did! It's been great fun watching you play back this classic, both nostalgic for the game and fascinating to see how you have gone about your playthrough! Can't wait for the next episode!
I've tried playing Half Life for the first time almost exactly a year ago, but was getting irritated after a bug that locked me out of progression. So I dropped it half way through. But watching you play it reignited my interest and now I've replayed back to the chapter I dropped it at. It is going much more smoothly, even though I still get lost and confused from time to time. It is a lot of fun, thank you for picking it up!
Your playthrough has been fantastic so far, in that it’s very enjoyable to see you go a little mad whilst playing it… fantastic stuff, always excited for more and your belting these out so quickly.
33:02 Hi there. 🙂 Another game design/set piece note to illustrate playstyle differences. Multiple barnacles placed to make the walking path inconvenient. Shotgun shells on the box to hint at the 'shortcut' path. The goal, of course, is to trick the player into jumping on the box to fall through and trigget the Vort setpiece. Note: I believe this is the only crate in the entire game that can be 'partially' destroyed, to make it more cinematic. But, you risk cautious players just killing the barnacles, which can let players miss the fun.
there are a few places where there are partially destroyed crates. and i doubt valve would make models specifically for partially destroyed crates just to have it appear only once lol. also yeah i noticed the same thing. i definitely dont know anything about level design but i always find it interesting how they find ways to influence where the player might want to go. its like an illusion lol. you get multiple paths but the way each path is designed makes you want to choose one over the other
Much like the game itself, a world changing FPS. It’s been so long, but I hope these rumbling rumours are true and after all this time Valve somehow makes another leap forward for the genre. It’s sort of plateaued for the longest time and we need something that shakes up the industry again.
I know you're pretty much past them and you found your own brute-force solution, but the sandbagged cannons are vulnerable to having grenades tossed over and behind them into the gap. It was covered in your training ;) But yeah, standing in front of them getting shot a bunch is a decent solution too.
That thing across from the trash can, or "bin" as you call it, was an ashtray, like you'd see on the sidewalk in front of a store or hotel, or any other place that doesn't permit smoking inside. Don't you have them over there?
Playthrough starts with discovering the grenade launcher. Me "Well, that should be good". Literal next 10 seconds, bad guys go fling-BOOM fling-BOOM. Queue evil laugh. Perfect start
It's kinda funny. You try to outrun / outstrafe the vort-discharge which is impossible while standing still when a headcrab jumps on you ^^. The only way to avoid getting zapped by a vort is to break the line of sight or kill him in time. Headcrabs are slow turners and once they jump they can't change direction. So when facing a headcrab, strafe and they will miss you (as long as they are far enough away). Though don't try this with vorts. The discharge is a "hitscan" weapon which will always hit 100% if they have a line of sight.
If you mash really, really, REALLY hard when the screen goes black and Gordon is being beaten up, I'm sure there'll be an alternate outcome! Merry Christmas, Symbalily. :) Nice to find someone else who has seen Mouse Hunt.
shhhsh shshshh sshh 😂 love your cautiousness shshshshhh, your very entertaining trial and error, you're doing great keep it up😆👍 🎉Happy Holidays Amber🎉
A fun ep to watch👍 i never played half life tbh..but about a year ago i played the shadow man remaster it was so arcaic looking like this haha..but bought back memories tho gaming back in the 90s.
It's never too late ;) HL1 has quite a bit of content. The interactive story telling got better with HL2 as they force certain cutscenes onto you when stuff is explained to you. In HL1 you can easily miss a lot of context by just walking away.
Hope you're starting to feel better, Amber. You're doing good with this playthrough! The Assassin's catch every first time player off guard, your guns blazing approach was fun and frankly quite effective! If you have autorun enabled, and need to move slower, the key usually for running will instead make you walk. Using walk and crouch will make you move super stealthy. I used this approach to sneak up on some enemies and set traps 😈
At 11:06 to your left is some boxes, if i remember correctly there's ammo and usually 1 Health Kit (HK)... Your doing pretty well, just Health is too low... There's a section coming up that i HATE.
I recommend you to use the number keys to switch weapons.. for example you can press 3 two times and then click to equip the shotgun. Or use the Q key more to switch back to your last used weapon. This way you will switch between weapons much faster than just by using the scroll wheel. 👌
She noticed that in the last episode but said she prefers scrolling. For someone unfamiliar with keyboard and mouse, it might actually be faster to scroll because you aren't looking down at the keys.
You're doing a fantastic job! Just a quick off-topic question: I have a SafePal wallet with USDT, and I have the seed phrase. (alarm fetch churn bridge exercise tape speak race clerk couch crater letter). What's the best way to send them to Binance?
Seems the current version of the game is bugged on modern hardware. Both dropping from the pipe onto the table with the health pack before the Gargantua, and the drop with the train in the water is not supposed to kill you. The barrels underwater are also not supposed to float up and make a bridge by themselves.
Save after Health Station (HS), i tend to only save if i have a good run through a section (50+ HP - Health Points), like i would bother saving if my HP was less then 50, i'd do the section again, quiet often you wont get through a section unless your HP is 75-100% (maybe you can if your playing on easy, i'm not dissing you if you are, it's a hard game, even more so if you are new to KB/M)...
Half -Life and HL2 give some people motion sickness, try adjusting your FOV (Field Of View). I'm not entirely sure if you're playing HL or HL: Source. Try hitting the console button ( ' ) and typing: default_fov 106.26 I belive HL: Source has an FOV Slider in settings, but in HL you have to change it via console.
So at 4:20 why didn't you just quickload and try to do that section WITHOUT TAKING DAMAGE and therefore making the use of the health station worthwhile, ''interesting'' choices, from low on the ladder you can grenade (hand) that room, throw nade climb up a bit to be safe...
4 minutes in and we have learned right click, quick save and ladders. This gonna be good.
She has to do everything in her power to reunite Gordon and his son 😅
"Do the scary women want to come back? Because I had a lot of fun"
Real
The assassin room, a rite of passage for every half life player.
I find it so funny about the brits, they are so proper and then all of a sudden, the f-bombs come flying out, lol
LOL REAL
You're not an idiot, there totally was cheese string in Mouse Hunt! It's at the very end, the rothers make peace with the mouse and convert the string factory into a Cheese String factory, instead.
Love that movie 😄
I don't know why TH-cam recommended this playthrough or Symbalily, but I am grateful it did! It's been great fun watching you play back this classic, both nostalgic for the game and fascinating to see how you have gone about your playthrough! Can't wait for the next episode!
I've tried playing Half Life for the first time almost exactly a year ago, but was getting irritated after a bug that locked me out of progression. So I dropped it half way through. But watching you play it reignited my interest and now I've replayed back to the chapter I dropped it at. It is going much more smoothly, even though I still get lost and confused from time to time. It is a lot of fun, thank you for picking it up!
18:10 Now that's what I call an impressive saving jump. The game actually expects players to plunge into the water below at this point.
Still going with the son arc lmao
The cylinder next to the bin with sand in it was an ashtray. 😂
We shall forever refer to the toxic waste processing plant as the "cheese factory".
merry christmas! glad to see you're a ladder expert now, great going. still loving this playthrough, thanks for playing this game for us.
you're absolutely killing it! loving this playthru so far!
Nice one again, Amber! Good fun watching a playthrough of this after having played it a number of times.
Nice Mouse Hunt name drop, epic movie.
Your playthrough has been fantastic so far, in that it’s very enjoyable to see you go a little mad whilst playing it… fantastic stuff, always excited for more and your belting these out so quickly.
33:02 Hi there. 🙂 Another game design/set piece note to illustrate playstyle differences. Multiple barnacles placed to make the walking path inconvenient. Shotgun shells on the box to hint at the 'shortcut' path. The goal, of course, is to trick the player into jumping on the box to fall through and trigget the Vort setpiece. Note: I believe this is the only crate in the entire game that can be 'partially' destroyed, to make it more cinematic.
But, you risk cautious players just killing the barnacles, which can let players miss the fun.
there are a few places where there are partially destroyed crates. and i doubt valve would make models specifically for partially destroyed crates just to have it appear only once lol.
also yeah i noticed the same thing. i definitely dont know anything about level design but i always find it interesting how they find ways to influence where the player might want to go. its like an illusion lol. you get multiple paths but the way each path is designed makes you want to choose one over the other
This game is really bringing out your unhinged side Amber😂
No person in the world is the same after black mesa xd
Much like the game itself, a world changing FPS. It’s been so long, but I hope these rumbling rumours are true and after all this time Valve somehow makes another leap forward for the genre. It’s sort of plateaued for the longest time and we need something that shakes up the industry again.
29:09 my childhood trauma and she's like nothing swimming with that beast XD
call amber Gordon Brieman the way she keep bringing up cheese this episode
I was leaning towards a Wallace (of Wallace and Gromit) pun, but this works better.
Gorgonzola Freeman.
You're doing so well with mouse and keyboard, Amber!
Really liking this playthrough!
I know you're pretty much past them and you found your own brute-force solution, but the sandbagged cannons are vulnerable to having grenades tossed over and behind them into the gap. It was covered in your training ;) But yeah, standing in front of them getting shot a bunch is a decent solution too.
You're still entertaining, Amber, even when you're not feeling well.
Yo seriously right click the shotgun for a suprise
i would recommend to test all weapons for right click stuff,just in case.
I'm loving this series so far. And yes, there are big spools of string cheese in Mouse Hunt 🧀🐁
This was so fun to watch, Merry Christmas Amber and that was some nice shooting this episode
she straight up looked at the alien then went on like nothing happened, just to be jumpscared when it attacked. 😂 loved it
That thing across from the trash can, or "bin" as you call it, was an ashtray, like you'd see on the sidewalk in front of a store or hotel, or any other place that doesn't permit smoking inside. Don't you have them over there?
We do in the UK yes. I guess Amber just didn't recognise it with the game's dated visuals?
😂😂😂 fun to watch you play, keep going
8:45 best part))
p.s. In fact, the entire walkthrough of this game looks great.
Merry Christmas, Amber!🎄🎅
Well done so far. Keep at it.
Playthrough starts with discovering the grenade launcher. Me "Well, that should be good".
Literal next 10 seconds, bad guys go fling-BOOM fling-BOOM. Queue evil laugh.
Perfect start
Hope you're feeling better and had a merry Christmas.
It's kinda funny. You try to outrun / outstrafe the vort-discharge which is impossible while standing still when a headcrab jumps on you ^^. The only way to avoid getting zapped by a vort is to break the line of sight or kill him in time. Headcrabs are slow turners and once they jump they can't change direction. So when facing a headcrab, strafe and they will miss you (as long as they are far enough away). Though don't try this with vorts. The discharge is a "hitscan" weapon which will always hit 100% if they have a line of sight.
Just FYI, the bit where you get captured marks the game's halfway point.
Ah you’ve discovered quick saving; I foresee a lot of save scumming… (we all did it, don’t lie)
Starts off not a mouse and keyboard player, now she’s fricking playing like a day 2 employee with m&k! 😤 champ. Cccchhhhaaaammmpppp!
If you mash really, really, REALLY hard when the screen goes black and Gordon is being beaten up, I'm sure there'll be an alternate outcome!
Merry Christmas, Symbalily. :) Nice to find someone else who has seen Mouse Hunt.
Just a hint, which might get very useful in the next chapters: the crossbow has a scope, you can zoom in with the right click.
Amber faces the greatest danger yet - the cheese factory! 🧀
39:11 Oh Lawd he comin'
Merry Christmas 🎄
i cant wait to see her reaction at the Nihilanth
Hopefully she learned to get cover by then or it will be a very very long and frustrating fight.
Merry christmas 😁🌲
shhhsh shshshh sshh 😂 love your cautiousness shshshshhh,
your very entertaining
trial and error, you're doing great keep it up😆👍
🎉Happy Holidays Amber🎉
46:46 the good news here is that things you miss here are are irrelevant.
As this is your first run, you won't know what to expect. Best thing to do is roll with it.
The 9mm pistol works underwater. Fyi.
Merry Ladders, Amber! I mean Christmas. 😂🤪
Yay , it's storytime 😊
A fun ep to watch👍 i never played half life tbh..but about a year ago i played the shadow man remaster it was so arcaic looking like this haha..but bought back memories tho gaming back in the 90s.
I played half life 2 years ago and for a long time it was my favorite game i have ever played it was pure gold i never played half life 1 tho
It's never too late ;) HL1 has quite a bit of content. The interactive story telling got better with HL2 as they force certain cutscenes onto you when stuff is explained to you. In HL1 you can easily miss a lot of context by just walking away.
Great vídeo
Half Life (4) confirmed
Hope you're starting to feel better, Amber. You're doing good with this playthrough! The Assassin's catch every first time player off guard, your guns blazing approach was fun and frankly quite effective!
If you have autorun enabled, and need to move slower, the key usually for running will instead make you walk. Using walk and crouch will make you move super stealthy. I used this approach to sneak up on some enemies and set traps 😈
See, this game is best PC game tutorial. I told yah! Pro gamer here and she only 4 hours in to the game.
Mousehunt is an interesting association. I always thought the death-sound of the Bullchicken sounds like the death-sound of Catzilla.
These are some of my favourite HL playthroughs so no need to apologize (sick or not)
@1:05:22 that is an Ashtray for cigarettes. You use to be able to smoke at work.
At 11:06 to your left is some boxes, if i remember correctly there's ammo and usually 1 Health Kit (HK)...
Your doing pretty well, just Health is too low...
There's a section coming up that i HATE.
"Is that some sort of harpoon?"
Me: suddenly remembering this part
Valeu!
u make my day with your noobness (in a good way) . hope u continue with HL 2 . :)
💖 Merry Christmas God bless you 💖
I recommend you to use the number keys to switch weapons.. for example you can press 3 two times and then click to equip the shotgun. Or use the Q key more to switch back to your last used weapon. This way you will switch between weapons much faster than just by using the scroll wheel. 👌
She noticed that in the last episode but said she prefers scrolling. For someone unfamiliar with keyboard and mouse, it might actually be faster to scroll because you aren't looking down at the keys.
You're doing a fantastic job! Just a quick off-topic question: I have a SafePal wallet with USDT, and I have the seed phrase. (alarm fetch churn bridge exercise tape speak race clerk couch crater letter). What's the best way to send them to Binance?
Seems the current version of the game is bugged on modern hardware.
Both dropping from the pipe onto the table with the health pack before the Gargantua, and the drop with the train in the water is not supposed to kill you.
The barrels underwater are also not supposed to float up and make a bridge by themselves.
Alternative fire for crossbow enables telescopic sight.
1:05:28 that is a cigarette tray!
45:58 if you shoot them the right way, you can see their eyes
Looking forward to seeing you play 'Portal' when you get to it!😉
Right click works on almost all weapons, you know. Not just the SMG. You should try it.
Briefcase guy is G-Man.
9:04 satisfaction
Save after Health Station (HS), i tend to only save if i have a good run through a section (50+ HP - Health Points), like i would bother saving if my HP was less then 50, i'd do the section again, quiet often you wont get through a section unless your HP is 75-100% (maybe you can if your playing on easy, i'm not dissing you if you are, it's a hard game, even more so if you are new to KB/M)...
The joy.... hahaha are'nt this game amazing?
Can you high the brightness please is to dark my pc is at max only for watch your videos
Half -Life and HL2 give some people motion sickness, try adjusting your FOV (Field Of View).
I'm not entirely sure if you're playing HL or HL: Source.
Try hitting the console button ( ' ) and typing: default_fov 106.26
I belive HL: Source has an FOV Slider in settings, but in HL you have to change it via console.
How the hell are you constantly missing with your body lol
So at 4:20 why didn't you just quickload and try to do that section WITHOUT TAKING DAMAGE and therefore making the use of the health station worthwhile, ''interesting'' choices, from low on the ladder you can grenade (hand) that room, throw nade climb up a bit to be safe...
Part 4
Play Portal
ep 3.. why are u still jumping around in panick and shooting feets? :´D