Hands down one of the most stressful boss battles ever. Especially if you are just a little too slow and let too many buildings with Magnusson devices get destroyed.
Stressful, yes, but still REALLY DAMN SATISFYING when you finish - particularly if the last Strider is just feet from the base and about to fire its disintegration ray!
@@chrismedina9571 playing through this for the first time and i'm about to just give up. i always get to the last stryder and then the bomb just doesn't stick even though it does the yellow glow thing like it does every other time
They do a really good job at making this feel like an actual invasion. The fight felt desperate and tense. It never felt like you were on top of the combine, just barely scraping by and beating the odds. Brilliant if you ask me. Also, well done on the gameplay, super immersive, and kept me engaged the entire time.
I remember this whole part completely blew me away when i played it back in 2007. That sawmill explosion still looks epic. And the moment when the music kicks in sends shivers down my spine every time. Best final battle in any game ever and it still holds up.
13:08 my favorite music + gameplay combination in the entire series. Really makes you feel like a badass. And I think you showed it really well by syncing the gameplay perfectly with the music
Best final battle in any Half-Life game ( I only wish Valve kept the Gunships and soldiers that would've also been attacking the base). Driving the Muscle Car around the Valley, picking up Magnusson Devices, running over Hunters and launching them onto Striders to blow them up is such a satisfying gameplay loop, especially with how you're now able to one-hit kill the Striders after so many games where the strongest weapon you had against them was an RPG that took 7 hits to down them. Here's hoping Half-Life 3's ending battle is as epic as this one is :)
@@Sexy_Nutella Dude, you won't believe how hard and annoying that part was for me, I've spent almost 3 hours trying to pass this part, mostly because of those annoying hunters, your best bet against them is running the over with the muscle car, but they keep shooting and dodging, making you lose HP
0:08 Fun Fact: Valve accidentally made a oversight for the hands of the Rebel Male_09. If you look closely that his hands, they're a dark skin tone. This is because they're the same hand texture as Male_01 which has the same thing. Valve most likely forgotten to change that for Male_09 and didnt notice 😅
"Magnussons Misgivings about the Freeman Are completely justified. The game now ends." Absolute disappointment not just in Freeman, but in the entire resistance
Still holds up to today. The sounds, the urgency, the ominous feel just prior to the music kicking in and the desperation when a Strider gets a tad too close to the base but you're busy battling it out with a Hunter.
man our mutual fiend is one of my favorite half life battles in general but DAMN it is stressful to let one strider get away because of the hunters. i remember constantly saving and loading because i forgot about the map on the car but when i finally beat it it was satisfying as all hell, especially hearing the rebels at the end. amazing music too, just i suck at aiming magnusson devices.
My personal headcanon is that Gordon Freeman in Canon has the skill to take down all the strikers without and buildings being destroyed first. This is mainly due to my having practiced "Neighborhood Watch" for so long that I can't play any other way.
I debated if I should keep the buildings intact, but I didn't think that Freeman would've been able to unless he knew where the Striders were going in the first place (which was how I did the Neighborhood watch achievement). Plus I loved showing off the building destruction :P
I played through episode 2 a few years ago, Made it to this point and just rage quit. Few days ago, I completed it the first time. My heartbeat was fucked for around 15 minutes.
Ah, someone else who likes the Shotgun. I'm mentally saying "Pull!" whenever I launch the Magnusson device. Running down Hunters with the car is _soooo_ satisfying.
Nobody got this on their first run. You had to memorize where each location was + the Magnusson spawn points to head to each spot as efficiently as possible, then deal with striders and hunters (both of which are a pain) ASAP so you can efficiently move to the next Magnusson spawn point to face the next team of striders and hunters. Once you get the hang of it, the music starts. They don't make fights like this anymore, there is only the last step: kill efficiently.
That's the comment i was looking for lol... Everyone is talking about the badass car kill at 11:30 but none mentioned that kill i also find it just as badass as the first one 💀💀💀
I'm a bit sad Valve didn't put Combine soldiers during this fight like we saw in one of the demo, even if they are at 10% of their original healthbar and prioritize the rebels rather than us. That would make 100% more of a last dish effort from the combine to stop the launch.
Watching this for encouragement to face the Striders (again) because the first time I played this it was extremely stressful, just one wrong move and it’s game over, not looking forward to it but I want to send that gnome into space.
well this was a glorious battle. Truely fitting for me finally catching up to your content production. Easily the best fight in the entire half-life series to date for me. I think most people agree with that..and..the way you pinned that one hunter to a tree with your car? that kill in particular just stuck with me really well. Excellent work, excellent entertainment. Now to launch that rocket and call it a day.
It's been said before but this section (and your playthrough) is just fantastic. I agree that it's the best final battle of any Half Life game. I really like how it feels like a last ditch effort for both sides. Since the start the Resistance has been desperately fighting to survive, but this time the Combine are desperate as well. They've dominated every battle and encounter up until now, and even when the Resistance has "won" the Combine has managed to turn it to their advantage (e.g. the Citadel being destroyed). But now? The Resistance has the power to leave them stranded pretty much indefinitely, and for the first time ever, they're actually afraid. It really does make you feel like a badass.
It does! At the same time I do wish that the Gunships and soldiers that were shown mobilizing alongside the Striders would've made an appearance in this battle, as it does seem weird that the Combine would only send Striders one by one to destroy the rocket.
@@Sexy_Nutella no No NO! This battle is hard enough, the last thing we need is to kill the last strider just for a shotgun soldier to sneak up behind you and blow a hole in your chest.
If only the Gravity Gun was hardcore enough to punt the Strider Buster up in the air while the Strider's still being carried by the Dropships... 👀 Nonetheless, this was such a nerve-wracking fight, especially for my dumb ass more than ten years ago who just wasn't able to surmise that the Flechettes could destroy the Strider Buster. :'D Still, killing the Hunters by my car is just... [*chef's kiss*] nice. Also I just have this sense of panik whenever a Strider is "squatting". It's just downright CREEPY smfh. And another great gameplay, bro! Now I can't wait to relive all this, someday.
Yeah, this is probably the best final battle in any Half-Life game for me, though the Strider fight in HL:A or the revamped Nihilanth fight in Black Mesa is also up there. I agree that squatting Striders are intimidating, especially when they use the lower position to move faster.
Now I wonder how would it be the battle if gunships were around, with combine Elite soldiers in those packs, Biotics missiles, even APC's and Hunter-Choppers like shown on that bridge on Freeman pontifex. Anyways, the Magnusson Device is a heck of a good tool, it would be completely useful against all of that. Bringing some epic transitions to the game. The playtesters are really noobs, lmao.
Yeah, I'm so sad we never got to see that. Would've made the final battle more epic for sure. Love what we got in the final game but it doesn't really feel like the Combine's throwing everything they have at the Resistance given that this is their last chance to destroy the rocket.
The song that plays during that final wave is such a good representation of how players must have been feeling at that point - "Really?? More of them? Alright, time to end this"
That second strider is really quick. I had to land a trickshot with the Magnusson to stop it from destroying the Sawmill when I was getting the Neighborhood Watch achievement. Also, 13:16, that drift tho.
Yeah, if I recall that was the only way you could destroy it in time, other than having one prepped already near it. I love drifting in the muscle car, it's so satisfying to drive :)
I remember being so satisfied after completing this mission and only getting the antique building destroyed. Although I was playing on normal, I still feel like a badasss
The ambush is just so intense that i was just panting so hard and when I heard the siren I was just sweating as if i was about to die (virtually I guess) I'd even sometimes even say my favorite music is the second ambush after the first one. (Last legs)
I found the Entanglement section in HL2 harder personally, that last turret standoff before Alyx reunites with you was brutal. But this is tough as well for sure
Me: This isn’t that hard, I don't know why everyone says that this was one of the most stressful boss battles they’ve ever experienc-“ *sees multiple red dots on the radar*. Me: Oh. *That's why.*
got on a weird Half-Life kick and have been watching Nutella all the way from Black Mesa Definitive to this video and this is the ONLY video I skipped really any part of but I definitely skipped most of this video lmao excited to get to Alyx also, maybe I need to replay HL2:E2 🤔
I showed this to my family, and they were FLABBERGASTED by how stressful it all looked. Then I told my parents that this was Half-Life 2 Episode 2, and my father remembers the original, and he never thought it would actually get a sequel or expansions, but here we are.
first time i played this i sat at the silo and let everything else get destroyed. and on my second i tried it the correct way and: I had way more fun, and it was way less stressful really amazing battle tho
I am so glad they didnt add soldiers and elites in the battle too,it was already stressful with rushing to each strider shd dealing with the hunters,it felt so rewardong when i finished it and i dont think i couldve beat it if there were other combine crap there too
Oh okay so the sticky bombs are supposed to attach to the underside of the strider, not just the carapace. Yup. Thanks, MMOD, for making this shit more annoying than it needed to be. As you tend to do.
The most stressful thing about this part of the game is that there is an achievement (that I managed to get after about 6 tries) where you have to keep EVERY SINGLE BUILDING intact, including the hut at the start. Absolutely ludicrous
On my first playthrough at some point I just stayed near the base and let the striders come to me because I didn’t want to have to drive around and potentially miss a strider
Yeah, I basically ran through this again and again until I got results that were satisfying to me. Tried to make it as intense as it could be in my eyes
I recently replayed all of Half Life 2 (except Lost Coast) and during strider battle I was shaking like a bitch! Lost 2 buildings but still beat them in first try, without dying. Such an intense moment, is there actually anything like this in other games from FPS genre? I think not. Edit: also music in Half Life games feels weird, it doesn't plays often but when it does I wish it would loop for a bit. When Last Legs stoped playing I haven't even killed any striders from second wave.
people say that the gnome achievement is the hardest in all the games, but i think that Neighborhood Watch is, after years of trying, I've always come so close, yet so far, if anyone has any tips, please give them.
Ngl, i never managed to beat this last part without losing at least the saw mill That second strider was WAAYY too close to it and would always demolish it lol
Probably because there is a heavier Resistance presence at the rocket - they can probably shoot down the Dropship with RPGs before it can unload the Strider.
I just thought of something 1. Lure Gordon freeman to the sawmill(far away from base) using strider 2. Send Multiple drop ships with striders to the base, they can’t destroy all of them 3. Strider(s) destroy rocket 4. Humanity is screwed
@@somethingenthusiast Haha, maybe that would've worked, though maybe the Rebels would've shot the Dropships out of the sky or something (they do show a downed Dropship where Dog fights the Strider).
It's tough but once you know the patterns of which Striders walk fast, then you can just get to that position before they do and kill them before they blow up the buildings :)
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Hands down one of the most stressful boss battles ever. Especially if you are just a little too slow and let too many buildings with Magnusson devices get destroyed.
Yeah, this battle was a challenge the first time I played through it.
Stressful, yes, but still REALLY DAMN SATISFYING when you finish - particularly if the last Strider is just feet from the base and about to fire its disintegration ray!
I just rage quit this shit. I beat it many years ago but I just don’t have the patience anymore
@@chrismedina9571 playing through this for the first time and i'm about to just give up. i always get to the last stryder and then the bomb just doesn't stick even though it does the yellow glow thing like it does every other time
@@sunfade that’s what kept happening to me. I already beat it years ago so the rage I was getting wasn’t worth it anymore. Still and amazing game
They do a really good job at making this feel like an actual invasion. The fight felt desperate and tense. It never felt like you were on top of the combine, just barely scraping by and beating the odds. Brilliant if you ask me. Also, well done on the gameplay, super immersive, and kept me engaged the entire time.
This man isn’t playing as Gordon Freeman. This man IS Gordon Freeman.
I really tried to embody what I think Freeman would act like, so I'm glad it came across in the video :)
@@Sexy_Nutella You were so badass! Thanks for sharing this video
@@legojangofett1088 No problem! :)
This mission is hard as hell but when you complete it, you really feel like you've earned it.
True that. And it feels great to drive back into the garage with all the rebels cheering you.
...and then they kill Eli
I just skipped it
Man i still get chills when the music kicks in towards the final wave. Felt like such a badass.
Agreed. Perfect music for the last wave of Striders
Me too lol.
Last legs is prolly the best ost of half life or rather, one of the best in the gaming world
Whoever did the sound for the car did a fantastic job. It legitimately sounds like a V8 with a low RPM misfire that could give out at any moment.
i love how there could have been so many chances for vehicles but they said "let's give them the shittiest car ever"
I remember this whole part completely blew me away when i played it back in 2007. That sawmill explosion still looks epic. And the moment when the music kicks in sends shivers down my spine every time.
Best final battle in any game ever and it still holds up.
Yeah, the building destruction still looks great. Part of the reason I elected to have the Striders destroy them
13:13 that double kill was superb
13:08 my favorite music + gameplay combination in the entire series. Really makes you feel like a badass. And I think you showed it really well by syncing the gameplay perfectly with the music
Yeah, Last Legs is a great song to pump up players for the last wave.
for me, it’s the final battle with the HECU in “Forget about Freeman!” in the Black mesa remake
Amazing! 11:30 best part! Really badass movement! Kill the hunter and put your muscle car in the correct direction.
Thanks! I'm glad it turned out well in the recording :)
Best final battle in any Half-Life game ( I only wish Valve kept the Gunships and soldiers that would've also been attacking the base). Driving the Muscle Car around the Valley, picking up Magnusson Devices, running over Hunters and launching them onto Striders to blow them up is such a satisfying gameplay loop, especially with how you're now able to one-hit kill the Striders after so many games where the strongest weapon you had against them was an RPG that took 7 hits to down them. Here's hoping Half-Life 3's ending battle is as epic as this one is :)
Oh please Man , tell me your secret, about the sincronization with the gameplay and the músic , its so satisfy to see :)
A lot of practice and recording attempts :)
@@Sexy_Nutella Dude, you won't believe how hard and annoying that part was for me, I've spent almost 3 hours trying to pass this part, mostly because of those annoying hunters, your best bet against them is running the over with the muscle car, but they keep shooting and dodging, making you lose HP
0:08
Fun Fact: Valve accidentally made a oversight for the hands of the Rebel Male_09. If you look closely that his hands, they're a dark skin tone. This is because they're the same hand texture as Male_01 which has the same thing. Valve most likely forgotten to change that for Male_09 and didnt notice 😅
Lmao, I never noticed that
Always thought it was regular gloves instead of the fingerless ones most rebels have. Not exactly like I noticed it
Even though it's a hilarious mistake, you could explain it in-lore as being he was a mechanic with dirty hands.
This was honestly the most stressful thing Episode 2
Haha, I agree. Everytime a Strider blew up a building, my heart sank.
I always hated striders but this made me hat them more
This is why I hate hunters
I shot one 6 times in the face with a shotgun and the fucker still did not die
"Magnussons Misgivings about the Freeman
Are completely justified.
The game now ends."
Absolute disappointment not just in Freeman, but in the entire resistance
Seeing the silo blow up is undeniably cool though
The reason this fight is such a pain to me is because for whatever reason, Magnusson devices wont stick to Striders when Hunters are present.
Yeah, it was designed that way so that you have to (usually) kill the Hunters first
you should see that the Hunters we're actually shooting the Magnusson Devices
Because the hunters are the ones shooting the devices
The hunters are programmed to aggressively attack the Magnusson as soon as they spot it, making it near impossible for you to kill the strider with it
Your accuracy on those bombs is something we should all strive to. That was incredible!
had a lot of time to practice :)
Still holds up to today. The sounds, the urgency, the ominous feel just prior to the music kicking in and the desperation when a Strider gets a tad too close to the base but you're busy battling it out with a Hunter.
Well said. Last Legs is such a great track to end this battle.
smash them with your car, or use the logs against them if you don't have the energy balls from your pulse rifle 😌
That car-kill at 11:30 was amazing
It took me a couple of seconds to realize I could do that haha
"Oh god, not the sawmill. Is nothing sacred?"
"Another strider approaching from what used to be the sawmill"
@@Sexy_Nutella "Damn! That place was full of antiques!"
@@Sexy_Nutella did you just leave that dude to die?
Why do I like Half life so much? Even if centuries pass, it will still remain with nice graphics and destructibility physics. Aren't Valve geniuses?
Timeless game
Yeah though it keeps being my favorite game of all time mainly because of the immersive narrative and mysteries.
man our mutual fiend is one of my favorite half life battles in general but DAMN it is stressful to let one strider get away because of the hunters. i remember constantly saving and loading because i forgot about the map on the car but when i finally beat it it was satisfying as all hell, especially hearing the rebels at the end. amazing music too, just i suck at aiming magnusson devices.
Yeah, those Hunters destroying the magnussons was stressful as well.
My personal headcanon is that Gordon Freeman in Canon has the skill to take down all the strikers without and buildings being destroyed first. This is mainly due to my having practiced "Neighborhood Watch" for so long that I can't play any other way.
I debated if I should keep the buildings intact, but I didn't think that Freeman would've been able to unless he knew where the Striders were going in the first place (which was how I did the Neighborhood watch achievement). Plus I loved showing off the building destruction :P
@@Sexy_Nutella That's fair. They do look really cool coming apart.
Got a cinematic feel to your gameplay, keeping the audience keyed in whats happening. Excellent!
What makes this mission so damn hard is those hunters
They were more worser than the striders
Yeah, especially how they jump outta the way of the car sometimes
@@Sexy_NutellaTHAT WAS SO ANNOYING OH MY GOD it sucked so much when I found out they could do that
I played through episode 2 a few years ago, Made it to this point and just rage quit. Few days ago, I completed it the first time. My heartbeat was fucked for around 15 minutes.
It's definitely one of the more intense fights in the HL2 saga.
Ah, someone else who likes the Shotgun. I'm mentally saying "Pull!" whenever I launch the Magnusson device.
Running down Hunters with the car is _soooo_ satisfying.
Shotgun detonating the devices just feels so...meaty. Ditto on the car kills, they feel great
Nobody got this on their first run. You had to memorize where each location was + the Magnusson spawn points to head to each spot as efficiently as possible, then deal with striders and hunters (both of which are a pain) ASAP so you can efficiently move to the next Magnusson spawn point to face the next team of striders and hunters. Once you get the hang of it, the music starts.
They don't make fights like this anymore, there is only the last step: kill efficiently.
That Neighborhood Watch achievement was a pain for sure. Felt good getting it
13:16 hit 2 hunters at the same time with the cart, that’s savage!!! 😮
That's the comment i was looking for lol... Everyone is talking about the badass car kill at 11:30 but none mentioned that kill i also find it just as badass as the first one 💀💀💀
I'm a bit sad Valve didn't put Combine soldiers during this fight like we saw in one of the demo, even if they are at 10% of their original healthbar and prioritize the rebels rather than us. That would make 100% more of a last dish effort from the combine to stop the launch.
Agreed. That would've been a much harder but much more rewarding final battle.
Watching this for encouragement to face the Striders (again) because the first time I played this it was extremely stressful, just one wrong move and it’s game over, not looking forward to it but I want to send that gnome into space.
Hard but fun. How'd it go?
@@Sexy_Nutella it went pretty well I did it in one go the last striders I waited to come to the base with a bunch of maggnusons ready blowing them up
@@triciaflintoft nicely done
well this was a glorious battle. Truely fitting for me finally catching up to your content production. Easily the best fight in the entire half-life series to date for me. I think most people agree with that..and..the way you pinned that one hunter to a tree with your car? that kill in particular just stuck with me really well. Excellent work, excellent entertainment. Now to launch that rocket and call it a day.
I agree, this fight is awesome. I loved being able to do it while driving the Charger around too.
Most impressive isn't how you handling with striders, but how you destroying that fucking hunters
16:30 That is something I've never seen Strider would do! It attempts to stop the car with it's leg like that, it's pretty cool.
Overwatch Voice be like:
Striders, Look out for that *Strider* Buster!
(Refrence from Mann vs Machine)
Haha!! I understood that reference. MvM was so much fun back in the day when it came out.
@@Sexy_Nutellahaha what? Mvm still great so shut up anyways
@@Sexy_NutellaRename a channel name, average banned strip club member
It's been said before but this section (and your playthrough) is just fantastic. I agree that it's the best final battle of any Half Life game. I really like how it feels like a last ditch effort for both sides. Since the start the Resistance has been desperately fighting to survive, but this time the Combine are desperate as well. They've dominated every battle and encounter up until now, and even when the Resistance has "won" the Combine has managed to turn it to their advantage (e.g. the Citadel being destroyed). But now? The Resistance has the power to leave them stranded pretty much indefinitely, and for the first time ever, they're actually afraid. It really does make you feel like a badass.
It does! At the same time I do wish that the Gunships and soldiers that were shown mobilizing alongside the Striders would've made an appearance in this battle, as it does seem weird that the Combine would only send Striders one by one to destroy the rocket.
@@Sexy_Nutella no No NO! This battle is hard enough, the last thing we need is to kill the last strider just for a shotgun soldier to sneak up behind you and blow a hole in your chest.
If only the Gravity Gun was hardcore enough to punt the Strider Buster up in the air while the Strider's still being carried by the Dropships... 👀
Nonetheless, this was such a nerve-wracking fight, especially for my dumb ass more than ten years ago who just wasn't able to surmise that the Flechettes could destroy the Strider Buster. :'D Still, killing the Hunters by my car is just... [*chef's kiss*] nice.
Also I just have this sense of panik whenever a Strider is "squatting". It's just downright CREEPY smfh.
And another great gameplay, bro! Now I can't wait to relive all this, someday.
Yeah, this is probably the best final battle in any Half-Life game for me, though the Strider fight in HL:A or the revamped Nihilanth fight in Black Mesa is also up there. I agree that squatting Striders are intimidating, especially when they use the lower position to move faster.
Strider in half life 2: a bit friendly and weak
Strider in half life Alyx: won't stop chasing a girl and shoots
or follow Freeman on hard
13:12 - A great moment that goes well with the soundtrack
Agreed. Love the score
I kept running out of ammo so had to crowbar the hunters
I actually enjoyed this battle, it feels fun with the hardcore music.
Now I wonder how would it be the battle if gunships were around, with combine Elite soldiers in those packs, Biotics missiles, even APC's and Hunter-Choppers like shown on that bridge on Freeman pontifex. Anyways, the Magnusson Device is a heck of a good tool, it would be completely useful against all of that. Bringing some epic transitions to the game. The playtesters are really noobs, lmao.
Yeah, I'm so sad we never got to see that. Would've made the final battle more epic for sure. Love what we got in the final game but it doesn't really feel like the Combine's throwing everything they have at the Resistance given that this is their last chance to destroy the rocket.
My idea is that the strider and hunters were the main frontal assault force, then followed by a couple gunships and then everything else.
When you finally kill all of the strikers and then more come lmfao
The song that plays during that final wave is such a good representation of how players must have been feeling at that point - "Really?? More of them? Alright, time to end this"
@@Sexy_Nutella I gotta admit this I didn't finish the episode cause of that
Just finished this intense battle. Now I get to fly a helicopter! This game is the best!
Uhhmmm, uhhh, the Helicopter will be more of an issue.
Oh you sweet summer child
That second strider is really quick. I had to land a trickshot with the Magnusson to stop it from destroying the Sawmill when I was getting the Neighborhood Watch achievement.
Also, 13:16, that drift tho.
Yeah, if I recall that was the only way you could destroy it in time, other than having one prepped already near it. I love drifting in the muscle car, it's so satisfying to drive :)
I remember being so satisfied after completing this mission and only getting the antique building destroyed. Although I was playing on normal, I still feel like a badasss
The ambush is just so intense that i was just panting so hard and when I heard the siren I was just sweating as if i was about to die (virtually I guess)
I'd even sometimes even say my favorite music is the second ambush after the first one. (Last legs)
Last legs is amazing. My favourite track in the game after Sector Sweep
Hardest segment in all of the HL games without a doubt
I found the Entanglement section in HL2 harder personally, that last turret standoff before Alyx reunites with you was brutal. But this is tough as well for sure
for me it was the turret vs antlion battle before Alyx is revived
@Citizen Of Earth how did you get them to come at you to the base without destroying every building?
For me it was the Antlion in Ep 1, but that's because I was going for the One Free Bullet achievement on Hard.
3:47 IMO These are still impressive graphics, even now.
The destruction physics in this game are still great, I agree.
Me: This isn’t that hard, I don't know why everyone says that this was one of the most stressful boss battles they’ve ever experienc-“
*sees multiple red dots on the radar*.
Me: Oh. *That's why.*
That last wave is so daunting. The music really pumps me up though
Fucking Hunters are too tanky! I ain't got no ammo left part way through. Wait, you can run them over? Shit!
got on a weird Half-Life kick and have been watching Nutella all the way from Black Mesa Definitive to this video and this is the ONLY video I skipped really any part of but I definitely skipped most of this video lmao
excited to get to Alyx
also, maybe I need to replay HL2:E2 🤔
HL2:EP2 had the best gameplay out of the HL2 games in my opinion. Excited for you to experience Alyx, Valve definitely didn't lose their touch :)
I showed this to my family, and they were FLABBERGASTED by how stressful it all looked. Then I told my parents that this was Half-Life 2 Episode 2, and my father remembers the original, and he never thought it would actually get a sequel or expansions, but here we are.
surgical precision!
Thanks! Can't even count the sheer amount of times I went through this chapter to get a good recording haha
@@Sexy_Nutella well, you perfected it to a T, that’s why watching you play is so enjoyable! 😊
I'm glad you enjoy my videos! ^_^
first time i played this i sat at the silo and let everything else get destroyed. and on my second i tried it the correct way and: I had way more fun, and it was way less stressful
really amazing battle tho
Yeah, this battle was great. My favourite ending fight in any Half-Life game
His movements are so calculated and calm, My movements in this part were like trying to play DDR in a keyboard
Vale is good at playing with our feelings 😢
16:45 Q bueno q acabaste el último strider👍🏻! Buena jugada Sexy Nutella te felicito eres un gran jugador ^^ y esperare el siguiente cap👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻.
Gracias :) ¡Solo falta un capítulo más! No puedo evitar sentirme un poco triste ...
@@Sexy_Nutella te entiendo perfectamente, si q es triste q terminara pronto lástima q no se ve Barney Calhoun :'D
17:35 The Barney line Easter egg
So THAT'S the line people keep talking about. Thanks for the timestamp, I never knew where it was in game!
I am so glad they didnt add soldiers and elites in the battle too,it was already stressful with rushing to each strider shd dealing with the hunters,it felt so rewardong when i finished it and i dont think i couldve beat it if there were other combine crap there too
Bruh,this on MMod is the shit,especially Hunters
I can't imagine how brutal it'd be haha. Still gotta play that
@@Sexy_Nutella What's the most surprising is that the last legs part is probably the easiest
Damn you made that look easy!
God I love half life’s soundtrack
Kelly Bailey's score is godly
my dude makes it look easy as heck
Bro, it was so stressful when I was tryna take down those Striders. But it was all worth it when I blew 'em up
Yup. so satisfying with the magnusson devices :)
Oh okay so the sticky bombs are supposed to attach to the underside of the strider, not just the carapace. Yup.
Thanks, MMOD, for making this shit more annoying than it needed to be. As you tend to do.
I've never played MMOD, but that does seem like a much more difficult final fight haha
all men really want is a partner who stocks the outpost with health
2:54 that guy sounds nearly like the soldier from tf2
Haha he kind of does yeah!
@@Sexy_Nutella Same voice actor
One of the best parts of this battle is running over hunters with the car
They sometimes wisen up and dodge the car though. Sneaky bastards
16:31 It might have been coincidence, but the Strider purposefully stopping you with a stomp was cool.
The most stressful thing about this part of the game is that there is an achievement (that I managed to get after about 6 tries) where you have to keep EVERY SINGLE BUILDING intact, including the hut at the start. Absolutely ludicrous
didnt know you could run over and instantly kill hunters, would’ve took me WAY faster than what i did, desperate for ammo
That or punting objects with the Gravity Gun at them are the best ways to take em down :)
this part got so me pissed that i forgot that u can run over the hunters LOL
11:30 killing it with the car is amazingly insane!!
bro i never went past this part
This would've been easier if Hunters didnt team up with them.
This battle left me so stressed out I just didn't care about anything that happened next.
If they had that army seen in the beginning of this episode then I would have taken five times longer
11:28 Genius guy holy crap
I honestly didn't know you can one shot the Hunters by ramming your car into them :D
this battle goes so hard
On my first playthrough at some point I just stayed near the base and let the striders come to me because I didn’t want to have to drive around and potentially miss a strider
Was it easy?
13:11 that was clean afff
el reto que no te destruyan ninguna casa es uff
¡Sí, es muy difícil!
This is just too good
That hunters are pure PITA
War of The Worlds Tripods lol...
Definitely inspired by them, according to Valve!
That's definitely not your first time. GG!
Yeah, I basically ran through this again and again until I got results that were satisfying to me. Tried to make it as intense as it could be in my eyes
I recently replayed all of Half Life 2 (except Lost Coast) and during strider battle I was shaking like a bitch! Lost 2 buildings but still beat them in first try, without dying. Such an intense moment, is there actually anything like this in other games from FPS genre? I think not.
Edit: also music in Half Life games feels weird, it doesn't plays often but when it does I wish it would loop for a bit. When Last Legs stoped playing I haven't even killed any striders from second wave.
people say that the gnome achievement is the hardest in all the games, but i think that Neighborhood Watch is, after years of trying, I've always come so close, yet so far, if anyone has any tips, please give them.
badass freeman
Ngl, i never managed to beat this last part without losing at least the saw mill
That second strider was WAAYY too close to it and would always demolish it lol
Why using a shotgun for the magnussons? I just use the 9mm pistol because it has the most common ammo and almost no spread
Because I personally feel the shotgun's more satisying to use when exploding the device.
@@Sexy_Nutella ok
10:55 bro is fucking zooming. He's like a fucking spider my god that's terrifying
I just thought of something, why don’t the drop ships just drop the strider off near the rocket?
Probably because there is a heavier Resistance presence at the rocket - they can probably shoot down the Dropship with RPGs before it can unload the Strider.
I just thought of something
1. Lure Gordon freeman to the sawmill(far away from base) using strider
2. Send Multiple drop ships with striders to the base, they can’t destroy all of them
3. Strider(s) destroy rocket
4. Humanity is screwed
@@somethingenthusiast Haha, maybe that would've worked, though maybe the Rebels would've shot the Dropships out of the sky or something (they do show a downed Dropship where Dog fights the Strider).
Yep, darn playtesters :/
Shame :( I like the battle we got back think how intense it would've been before haha
You can save the sawmill btw😊
Killing the hunters are more difficult than getting the Magnusson device on the strider
Yes!! They are the most annoying enemy in half life episode 2.
I found running over them as best solution to the problem. Sometimes they dodge, so I hop out of the car and instakill 'em with AR2 alt fire.
10:52
Spooder attack outpost
The building explosion is so satisfying!
@@Sexy_Nutella true
@@Sexy_Nutella is it possible to save all of the buildings
@@njmo9176 Yup, you need to prep magnusson devices or show up a the buildings before the striders do
I'm gonna cheat because I'm a wuss
It's tough but once you know the patterns of which Striders walk fast, then you can just get to that position before they do and kill them before they blow up the buildings :)
This battle is stressing af even on easy
this boss feels a little unfair sometimes, once i shot atleast 15 Magnusson's at 1 strider and all of them either bounced off or were shot by a hunter
You gotta kill the Hunters first; otherwise it's hard to detonate the devices before they shoot it off.