Hey did you know you could shoot the mines? I only learned the other day that it's Nuclear Mission Jam, not Nuclear Emissions Jam. My life is a lie Special Thanks to CloudConnections for providing footage of Half Life Uplink. Check out his Channel + Half LIfe Retrospective! th-cam.com/video/PyO4JpwgAuY/w-d-xo.html Half Life 1 OST Used: - Drums and Riffs - Adrenaline Horror - Diabolical Adrenaline Guitar - Electric Guitar Ambiance - Klaxon Beat - Nuclear Mission Jam - Valve Theme - Credits Theme SFX Used: - Blood - Doom - Duke Nukem 3D - Half Life - Mega Man X1 - Super Mario 64 - Team Fortress 2 - Half Life 2 Videos Used: - Half-Life - Uplink (1999 short film) th-cam.com/video/nw7TVE4mUVg/w-d-xo.html Caesar Zeppeli's Death- JoJo's Bizarre Adventure - Battle Tendency Meet the Medic th-cam.com/video/36lSzUMBJnc/w-d-xo.html Rorschach's Death Scene - Watchmen 2009 The Death of Gamora - Avengers: Infinity War E3 2011 John Carmack interview th-cam.com/video/NxFdsEtr-TY/w-d-xo.html GO TO THE BATHROOM th-cam.com/video/A6kznVXhc4U/w-d-xo.html Half-Life - Alyx Announcement Trailer th-cam.com/video/O2W0N3uKXmo/w-d-xo.html Half-Life Alpha v 0.52 (9/4/97) - Tech Demo Gameplay th-cam.com/video/2h7bTo5xLyQ/w-d-xo.html Mega64: The Beatles Rock Band th-cam.com/video/yyJ48-BYb7s/w-d-xo.html Half Life bird th-cam.com/video/aV8kMOXPoZE/w-d-xo.html Half-Life - ALPHA 0.52 - Complete Gameplay 【High Quality】th-cam.com/video/9vp3XPNKXrE/w-d-xo.html Team Fabulous 2 th-cam.com/video/dzMq5_thk4o/w-d-xo.html
Yes, you can also throw grenades and blow up the mines too. It really makes those sections easier. They also make them in a grid pattern I think, so think of a series of equidistant points based off of mines you have blown up, almost like a big version of minesweeper.
26:30 The game's promotional motto is "Run. Think. Shoot. Live.", and in this part you are supposed to do the second thing. You have snarks which you don't even use often, just let them defuse the mines!
19:33 You can get the magnum earlier, just swim up in the area after blast pit, there is a dead Barney holding a magnum near some barrels with toxic stuff
You can also get the SMG early at the very start of "We've Got Hostiles" from the first turret room. There's a dead HECU that has it next to his body. I feel like rarely anybody notices this.
15:35 actually, the grunt takes that many shots because you shot him in the helmet, which is capable of deflecting pistol rounds and shotgun pellets same as a security guard. You can clearly see the particle effects being different, with blood where you hit him and a flash where it deflects.
You get the revolver right after you jump down into the *tentacle pit* after turning on the rocket engine, next to a dead barney, not in power up, during landmine sections the game gives you a bunch of grenades so you can explode the mines BEFORE stepping into the minefield
Correction: You said in the video they used the Quake 2 engine. That is incorrect, Goldsrc is actually a heavily modified version of the original Quake engine
Yeah it's kind of bizarre. Half-Life is janky but I've never managed any of these soft locks. Half-Life Source on the other hand I've experienced tons of broken triggers.
@@SeekerLancer I haven't encountered any serious glitches for both classic and source versions. All I got from Source is the security guard that can't be tentacled to death in Blast Pit.
Never played a Half Life game in my life and know nothing about it, and still this was really entertaining. Super engaging and funny, gonna be waiting for the Half Life 2 vid
I had only heard about the series until very recently. I finished it only last month and this video says pretty much every thing I love about this game.
25:00 Actually, here's an interesting fact! Humans, when pulled up by barnacles, can in fact be saved, so long as the barnacle is killed before it Gibs them. This also explains why it isn't an instant kill for the player, despite the only unarmored part of their body being digested. However, your statement is accurate to HL2, where NPC's do actually die on contact (most likely due to Valve needing them to ragdoll. Thank you, Marphy Black!). So there you go.
"In an industry full of Doomguys, Rangers, Duke Nukems and Blood guys; one theoretical physicist stood out and truly made his mark on Industry" literally showing that context of an action matters more to the people instead of action itself
I really like the credits theme. After all the dark ambient tracks or intense action tracks i thought having a funky techno beat was fitting for the credits after you've defeated everything in your way and are safe for the time being. Like you just went through hell and back and you can look back and go "WOW wtf just happened"
great video, but I think you missed a few things. The mines in the minefield can be detonated from a safe distance by shooting them or hitting them with explosives, the smg is a great tool for clearing minefields. Jump pads will always work if you jump before moving into them.
Re: the crowbar's "chainsaw qualities", this was not present in the pre-Steam versions of the game. (Which also, among other things, featured view tilting/bobbing and slightly different colours for the energy weapon effects.) The reason for this is supposedly to quickly clear corpses that would get caught in doorways.
I love the "crowbar wielding savior" term for Gordon, really fitting to be honest, I also found myself surprised at the broken triggers mentioned in the original game, I never encountered them in the +10 years I replayed it since being a brat (PC of course).
Were you not aware that the first revolver spawn is actually in the pit after defeating the tentacle? When you drop into the water, surfacing immediately out of that same point you entered, you'll find a couple bodies, a tipped-over-biohazard barrel, and the revolver along with some ammo.
A small issue I wanted to clear up. You said that you get the Revolver in power up and you get the MP5/SMG when you encounter the first soldier in We got hostiles. But actually, the revolver is first found in Blast pit and the MP5/SMG is next to the dead soldier when you first play We got hostiles.
Well you already know how much I adore Half-Life, and even though I just played this game a couple of months ago (twice, I might add), this video made me want to play it again. You definitely did this game justice, dude. I even learned some stuff that I wish I could've mentioned in my retrospective! Awesome job.
Everyone hates on “On a Rail". Some of the best fights against the Marines are in that chapter. I can understand the first playthrough being confusing but come on!!
@@Nuuk_Nuke_Nook You have the popular opinion apparently. I respect that. I appreciate the level, however. The section with the explosives is nerve wracking, the fight before the launch is good and I love some of the in fighting with the vorts and Marines. People say the same thing about Interloper. “Even Gabe said it was... " Bleh bleh bleh. I think Xen was fucking awesome. Interloper was hard as hell and it should be. It's the last stand before the big guy. So what if it was rushed? At least it wasn't Game of thrones season 8! Lol
Honestly I really like the world building of On A Rail. All of it being basically underground really gives you a feel for how large Black Mesa is, and that rail system isn’t even used anymore!
Fun fact: You can get the SMG earlier - in the first section iwth the turret there is a soldier corpse with a MP5 near him Also you get the revolver just after killing the Tentace in the water pit near a dead Securit Guard
I always found the encounters with the assassins really interesting because they are such a tactical opposite to Gordon Freeman. Like you have these extra stealthy black ops hiding away and shooting people at opportune moments. And then you have Gordon Freeman angrily running around with a shotgun while in bright orange power armor.
the most memorable thing about Half Life was the revelation in the Questionable Ethics chapter and the biomes in the expansion pack - Opposing Force. Black Mesa isn't as much 'all innocent scientists caught up in an accident' as it portrays itself to be :D
Honestly, when i hear the end credits theme for half-life, its very beffiting of the game, and of the time period. Just like a sigh of relief, just after what had happened. I cant really put it to words, but a lot of 90's action films had this sort of track at the end of them, that felt like a sigh of relief, but in a good way, giving some sort of a feeling of closure.
Crouch jumping, feels awkward, unnatural and video gamey, can be turned into an amazing tool of traversal and become very fun, despite how unreal it feels and how unique it is compared to the more common way of handling it, Valve's crouch jumping is actually more realistic, check out standing still high jumping, or something like that, basically, dudes crouch jumping in real life.
You can actually get a revolver slightly earlier in the game, although it practically makes no difference to when you pick it up in power up Once you've ignited the rocket and killed the tentacles, when you drop into the water, if you swim back out of that hole you dropped into, theres a barney corpse with a revolver right next to it
20:47 so...I have a funny story involving 1-Up Commentaries (a $10 patron) they have a TH-cam channel which is mostly LP based and Tom (one of the three members) decided his first game for the channel would be Half-Life on the PS2, Tom got to this boss and kept dying over and over until Keiran (who runs 1-Up Commentaries) who had never played a second of Half-Life took the controller from Tom & did the Boss in one go...to this day I still cannot believe that
I loved your video, let me add the perfect, minimalistic and most ahead of its time game UI. It is so perfect. The fact that doesn't even need a compass thanks to the well crafted lineal design that tricks you into thinking that you're playing an open world type of game. Just **chef kiss**
I suggest you watch Leadhead's "Run, Think, Shoot, Live." video. He practically showcases what the game intended to teach you to play, as quick save scumming was basically only a result of modern intuition conflicting with the game design.
I actually really liked the lines the scientist gives about the tranq bow. I thought he sounded really tired, and really sketched out but kinda numb. For the time, and for it being an FPS, the acting I felt was way above MOST games at it's release.
Fun fact: In the PS2 Remaster of the game, the room you fall into at the end of Blast Pit is flooded with water, so you can't get soft-locked with fall damage.
At 19:08 you can see another revolver on the left by the dead guard, which you can pick up to get it about 3 or so minutes early if you want, it has some extra ammo so its not a bad idea to grab it for later
Hey! So I played HL1 when it first came out - it was a hell of an experience back in the day. One of the biggest draws was that it did NOT require a 3D accelerator card like a Voodoo to run - and even my slow HP Pavilion with an AMD 333 MHz PC could play it decently, albeit at low resolutions.
Not sure if anybody pointed this out yet but there are two things about the grunts and the minefields that Trav forgot in the video: At 15:32 the grunt isn't scripted. There are different types of grunts in the game, and this one in particular wears a helmet which shields him from all bullets. Usually when I see these guys I just shoot at the body instead. At 26:29 you can actually clear the minefields with either grenades, C4s or just shoot into the ground to detonate the mines and clear a path.
Actually, you get the revolver from blast pit, when you go down the tentacle hole and land in the water, on the surface is a rim with a dead security guard with the revolver. Also, the solution to mines is to shoot them to remotely detonate them.
I had a simular experience with finding half life too,this story starts around mid 2019,after finding out my dad had a laptop(keep in mind I was like 9 maybe 10)I got Gmod with my pocket money after I had been watching youtube videos about it for years and then later on I eventually found out it was a modded version of a game called half life 2 and as I began to look into it I became a massive fan learning all about it and by the time half life alyx released I was at my peek of being in love with the series and that just made everything a lot better
Half-Life is a weird one because if you weren't there when it came out it can be hard to see just what's so special about it. But if you were there, it was life changing. It was an immersive experience like no other. It changed the way people thought about video games. Every once in a while I play a game that makes all other games feel inferior for a while when I'm finished with it and Half-Life was one of those games.
I've been playing source games for almost twelve years now. The thought of crouch jumping being a hard concept to get behind for new players was totally alien to me. Just goes to show how practice makes perfect I guess?
On that section with the "Ninja assassins" (Just before you get ambushed and dropped in the waste disposal), I've found that the easiest way to deal with the hyperactive little A holes is to go in the room on the left, put trip bombs on both doors, and hide behind a crate. Every time an assassin trips a mine, pop back up and replace it. I think there are either 4 or 5 of them running about in there, but you can easily get them all if you've got the full quota of the mines.
@@TylertheCC1010fan I didn't know that. The short moments when they're stood still to shoot at me is about the only time I can get a few shots off at them. That's why I usually just mine the entrances to that little store room and let them blow themselves up. I tried HL on the hardest level a few times, but didn't even get close to that section before realising I lacked the quick aiming accuracy needed not to run every gun out of ammo before I'd managed to kill groups of moving enemy's. :(
20:16 so fun fact: sometimes when the trigger breaks like that, it’s not that the gate doesn’t open, it’s that for some reason the door was open when you first got there and actually shut when you unblocked the generator
18:13 in a map I'm working on I have a similar situation where the player breaks open a wall with the crowbar and jumps down into a vent, to prevent the player taking damage I put a push trigger right on top of the vent that pushes the player up softening their fall so they dont take any damage, I wish valve had done the same here 🙄
16:40 I recently discovered it's possible to save this scientist! Press "e" on him just before the tentacle crashes through the window. He'll stop and look at you, saving his life!
"i don't really like to [kill friendly NPCs] cause i often get immersed in the world and realistically i wouldn't wanna kill someone for being in my way" 12:53 17:35 24:50 uh...huh... 38:50 love this sound
The Vorts don't attack you at the Interloper??? What game have I been playing? :D Also, the Gonarch battle can be broken in all 3 of its stage-changing-triggers, it's sad. Really nice video overall!! Enjoyed it.
12:31 This happens because a _lot_ of old things that worked as intended in WON Half-Life were broken in the transition to Steam Half-Life, I could make a list but we'd be here for a bit. Thankfully none of it affects gameplay but it really is a shame how much stuff is botched.
The hitscanning soldiers were the best part of the game. This was before Call of Duty, and military action shooters didn't exist before this. There was no other game where you could jump and run around realistic environments fighting grenade-chucking soldiers with an MP5. Hell, the fact that you were fighting US Marines was kinda groundbreaking and controversal, this was long before Spec Ops the Line.
The "Power Up" mission was definitely glitched with the closed gate in my recent playthrough. I luckily found an answer in some forum to only break the crates blocking the machinery, but not to turn on the power switch on the upper level past the electricity obstacle. And it worked.
Trav, you don't first get the revolver in Power Up, you get it in Blast Pit. Directly about that water section in the tentacle pit, there's a dead Barney with a revolver and an ammo box for it. Also, it's not that the bounce pads don't work, it's that you have to jump over them to get the boost properly. The game isn't being bad, you are.
26:33 I don't know if anyone told you yet but you can actually move around the mines, as long you avoid the ground. Not impossible but rather the option was always there and can be done.
Very strange i just finished beating Half life and its expansion for the first time ever and i loved the game but i didn't encounter a single crash or softlock, not even a single problem. i have no idea the game could break this bad
I never knew much of anything about the Half Life series, but I played them all start to finish when they went free to play for Alyx's release. And going into it, I heard literally eeeeveryone talking about Half Life 2 my whole life because well it's Half Life 2 but didn't even know the first game existed. Never even heard it brought up once. But I was so surprised at how much the game just instantly clicked with me. I thankfully am not really bothered much by games being dated. If anything, it just blew my mind how much this game pulled me in and captivated me in the current year. It wasn't "This would've been cool back in the day", I actually was invested in what was happening and I thought the intro was amazing. I might need to play them again but I honestly would probably prefer half life 1 over 2. It just does so much more that I like. Like I thought the enemies and environments were a lot more interesting in the first one. And I think I just got sick of looking at Half Life 2's style after so much Gmod. Which sucks but what can you do
Dude on the mines sections you could just use a nade or spray with your smg to detonate the mines; there is nothing in half life that forces you to play by sheer savescum brute force.
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Hey did you know you could shoot the mines?
I only learned the other day that it's Nuclear Mission Jam, not Nuclear Emissions Jam. My life is a lie
Special Thanks to CloudConnections for providing footage of Half Life Uplink. Check out his Channel + Half LIfe Retrospective!
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Half Life 1 OST Used:
- Drums and Riffs
- Adrenaline Horror
- Diabolical Adrenaline Guitar
- Electric Guitar Ambiance
- Klaxon Beat
- Nuclear Mission Jam
- Valve Theme
- Credits Theme
SFX Used:
- Blood
- Doom
- Duke Nukem 3D
- Half Life
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- Half Life 2
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Yes, you can also throw grenades and blow up the mines too. It really makes those sections easier. They also make them in a grid pattern I think, so think of a series of equidistant points based off of mines you have blown up, almost like a big version of minesweeper.
You could also use the snarks!
I used the smg's grenade launcher with the minds
Thank you for guiding me to the gem that is “GO. TO. THE. BATHROOM. AND. *SHIT* “Also, fucken love your content, my dude. Keep it up!
I just now noticed the zentraedi battle pod in the goldsrc alpha footage
There is something very cursed about calling HL2 and it's episodes a "Trilogy."
100%. The only hl trilogy I know of is hl1 + hl:opfor + hl:bs.
Sabuuchi you are the last person I expected here xd
Half life trilogy: half life, half life 2 and half life 3. Oh wait......
@@michaciejka2839 I guess you could say Alyx is is half life...1.5
@@michaciejka2839 half life 2 half life 2 episode 1 half life 2 episode 2
lol yes
Half-Life was made because Gabe Newell wanted to play Quake as part of his job and not working on something boring like the Windows.
amen brother
he did?!!?
i dont care how valid that is thats what i belive now
this is how legends are made
@@itsjustyash2750 He really enjoyed working on Doom for windows
@@HemmTBM lol
a half-life is the measurement of constant decay of an isotope over time
I had a bit originally where I explained that, but I cut it 'cause I was basically just reading a Google Definition and it was booooring
@@ThatTravGuy smgdh not even properly quoting your source in Chicago Manual as well? for shame
@@ThatTravGuy I understand that because it’s literally just reading the dictionary
@@ThatTravGuy Add it backkkkk
Oh so that's why they called it half life decay
4:25 the fact that you brought up failing chemistry, for a physics related subject, really says it all.
"Valve isn't gonna make another Half Life game, Freeman. You're just being paranoid."
Valve isn't going to make a standalone prequel starring your girlfriend Freeman, you're just being paranoid!
Laidlaw isn't leaving Valve, Freeman. You're just being paranoid.
26:30 The game's promotional motto is "Run. Think. Shoot. Live.", and in this part you are supposed to do the second thing. You have snarks which you don't even use often, just let them defuse the mines!
@Tarbosaurus why did I never think of this lol
i always used the explosive rounds on my smg
Oh man. I should've tried that.
good lord, i forgot to take the snarks, i did that in my first playthrough tho
what i always do is just save up a couple of the smg grenades snd fire them at certain spots to clear the mines
19:33 You can get the magnum earlier, just swim up in the area after blast pit, there is a dead Barney holding a magnum near some barrels with toxic stuff
Yea that part of the video really annoyed me
You can also get the SMG early at the very start of "We've Got Hostiles" from the first turret room. There's a dead HECU that has it next to his body. I feel like rarely anybody notices this.
15:35 actually, the grunt takes that many shots because you shot him in the helmet, which is capable of deflecting pistol rounds and shotgun pellets same as a security guard. You can clearly see the particle effects being different, with blood where you hit him and a flash where it deflects.
You get the revolver right after you jump down into the *tentacle pit* after turning on the rocket engine, next to a dead barney, not in power up, during landmine sections the game gives you a bunch of grenades so you can explode the mines BEFORE stepping into the minefield
Correction: You said in the video they used the Quake 2 engine. That is incorrect, Goldsrc is actually a heavily modified version of the original Quake engine
No, it’s the heavily modified quake 2 engine.
@@enclave_here Actually, it’s just Original Quake. iirc they chose Quake 1 because they didn’t wanna wait for Quake 2 to start development
@@soursugar4867 its heavily modified quake 1. Quake 2 was probably in developement when valve asked for the quake engine
@@lz0453 thanks for clearing that up mate :)
Quite curious, being that graphically Quake 2 is much closer to Half Life 1 than Quake 1 :)
weird i've played this game tons of times and haven't seen most of these bugs and scripting errors
Yeah it's kind of bizarre. Half-Life is janky but I've never managed any of these soft locks. Half-Life Source on the other hand I've experienced tons of broken triggers.
@@SeekerLancer I haven't encountered any serious glitches for both classic and source versions. All I got from Source is the security guard that can't be tentacled to death in Blast Pit.
I played it a lot and watched many friends discover it, playing in specific ways can concistently create... interesting results.
very true, his walktrough was very buggy
@Luke Leary sven coop?
Never played a Half Life game in my life and know nothing about it, and still this was really entertaining. Super engaging and funny, gonna be waiting for the Half Life 2 vid
I had only heard about the series until very recently. I finished it only last month and this video says pretty much every thing I love about this game.
I learned about it from Portal, and it quickly became one of my favorite series'.
You should play ut
If you have a pc, hell even a calculator would work, you must go and play it. Every gamer in this world must play half life.
@@o0r69 yeah, I was pretty late to the party.
25:00 Actually, here's an interesting fact! Humans, when pulled up by barnacles, can in fact be saved, so long as the barnacle is killed before it Gibs them. This also explains why it isn't an instant kill for the player, despite the only unarmored part of their body being digested. However, your statement is accurate to HL2, where NPC's do actually die on contact (most likely due to Valve needing them to ragdoll. Thank you, Marphy Black!). So there you go.
4:23 talks about chemistry while showing physics equation
Both are basically the same thing, they both involve energy and make my brain hurt.
Case in point
@@wta1518 underrated comment
"In an industry full of Doomguys, Rangers, Duke Nukems and Blood guys; one theoretical physicist stood out and truly made his mark on Industry"
literally showing that context of an action matters more to the people instead of action itself
"one wrong move and the facility turns into a massive crater"
well, at least the g-man made sure that'd happen anyway
I really like the credits theme. After all the dark ambient tracks or intense action tracks i thought having a funky techno beat was fitting for the credits after you've defeated everything in your way and are safe for the time being. Like you just went through hell and back and you can look back and go "WOW wtf just happened"
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Adam Sandler must play Gordon in the Half-Live Cinematic Universe
life*
This man waited 10 Months for a reply, and it's a typo check.
@@chrispy3369 yes
A movie where he can finally shut up
@@therat3006 yes
God your comedic timing is perfect “They can’t be killed with conventional weapons- oh but look there’s a fucking space rocket”
great video, but I think you missed a few things. The mines in the minefield can be detonated from a safe distance by shooting them or hitting them with explosives, the smg is a great tool for clearing minefields. Jump pads will always work if you jump before moving into them.
The Jump pad on is true but i never knew that about the mine field
18:35 They will ALWAYS hear you while you walk, but not if you crouch. That's why it seems inconsistent.
Re: the crowbar's "chainsaw qualities", this was not present in the pre-Steam versions of the game. (Which also, among other things, featured view tilting/bobbing and slightly different colours for the energy weapon effects.) The reason for this is supposedly to quickly clear corpses that would get caught in doorways.
I love the "crowbar wielding savior" term for Gordon, really fitting to be honest, I also found myself surprised at the broken triggers mentioned in the original game, I never encountered them in the +10 years I replayed it since being a brat (PC of course).
Were you not aware that the first revolver spawn is actually in the pit after defeating the tentacle? When you drop into the water, surfacing immediately out of that same point you entered, you'll find a couple bodies, a tipped-over-biohazard barrel, and the revolver along with some ammo.
31:41 Fun Fact: You do not need explosives for this, you can just hit it with a crowbar for a while until it breaks.
A small issue I wanted to clear up.
You said that you get the Revolver in power up and you get the MP5/SMG when you encounter the first soldier in We got hostiles.
But actually, the revolver is first found in Blast pit and the MP5/SMG is next to the dead soldier when you first play We got hostiles.
Well you already know how much I adore Half-Life, and even though I just played this game a couple of months ago (twice, I might add), this video made me want to play it again. You definitely did this game justice, dude. I even learned some stuff that I wish I could've mentioned in my retrospective! Awesome job.
can't wait until this spirals into a tf2 review
Everyone hates on “On a Rail". Some of the best fights against the Marines are in that chapter. I can understand the first playthrough being confusing but come on!!
@@Nuuk_Nuke_Nook You have the popular opinion apparently. I respect that. I appreciate the level, however. The section with the explosives is nerve wracking, the fight before the launch is good and I love some of the in fighting with the vorts and Marines. People say the same thing about Interloper. “Even Gabe said it was... " Bleh bleh bleh. I think Xen was fucking awesome. Interloper was hard as hell and it should be. It's the last stand before the big guy. So what if it was rushed? At least it wasn't Game of thrones season 8! Lol
Honestly I really like the world building of On A Rail. All of it being basically underground really gives you a feel for how large Black Mesa is, and that rail system isn’t even used anymore!
Can I say something that'll surprise you? I never did mind On A Rail. I like it when games offer some sort of exploration in the story.
guys it's good when you just ditch the tram at the first itch of another option.
I actually like On A Rail
Fun fact: You can get the SMG earlier - in the first section iwth the turret there is a soldier corpse with a MP5 near him
Also you get the revolver just after killing the Tentace in the water pit near a dead Securit Guard
26:35 You know that you can use explosives, snarks, bullets, etc., right?
I always found the encounters with the assassins really interesting because they are such a tactical opposite to Gordon Freeman.
Like you have these extra stealthy black ops hiding away and shooting people at opportune moments.
And then you have Gordon Freeman angrily running around with a shotgun while in bright orange power armor.
26:21 Bullets and explosives set off the landmines. It took me forever to figure out, but it works.
God damn this channel needs more subscribers. Tis brilliant.
Half Life is like Doom but instead of gameplay they focused on story.
Yeah it was a perfect evolution. Hell, modern doom has taken tips from it when it comes to storytelling. A perfect cycle, a brilliant symbiosis.
and Puzzles
Why the game so buggy for you? 🤦♂️
No
How do you even come to that?
Linear maps= key card hunting?
I don’t see the similarities other they have guns and shoot monsters
So its nothing like doom
When I was a kid around 1999, they used to play the end credit song on a local raido's weekly countdown show. That also felt a bit wrong lol
the most memorable thing about Half Life was the revelation in the Questionable Ethics chapter and the biomes in the expansion pack - Opposing Force. Black Mesa isn't as much 'all innocent scientists caught up in an accident' as it portrays itself to be :D
Honestly, when i hear the end credits theme for half-life, its very beffiting of the game, and of the time period. Just like a sigh of relief, just after what had happened. I cant really put it to words, but a lot of 90's action films had this sort of track at the end of them, that felt like a sigh of relief, but in a good way, giving some sort of a feeling of closure.
Crouch jumping, feels awkward, unnatural and video gamey, can be turned into an amazing tool of traversal and become very fun, despite how unreal it feels and how unique it is compared to the more common way of handling it, Valve's crouch jumping is actually more realistic, check out standing still high jumping, or something like that, basically, dudes crouch jumping in real life.
You can actually get a revolver slightly earlier in the game, although it practically makes no difference to when you pick it up in power up
Once you've ignited the rocket and killed the tentacles, when you drop into the water, if you swim back out of that hole you dropped into, theres a barney corpse with a revolver right next to it
Oh that's right! That's how I remember getting it in my earliest playthrough yet completely forgot about
@@ThatTravGuy to be fair, it's easy to miss if you drop straight down into the water and decide to push on, instead of coming back up for air
20:47 so...I have a funny story involving 1-Up Commentaries (a $10 patron)
they have a TH-cam channel which is mostly LP based and Tom (one of the three members) decided his first game for the channel would be Half-Life on the PS2, Tom got to this boss and kept dying over and over until Keiran (who runs 1-Up Commentaries) who had never played a second of Half-Life took the controller from Tom & did the Boss in one go...to this day I still cannot believe that
I loved your video, let me add the perfect, minimalistic and most ahead of its time game UI. It is so perfect. The fact that doesn't even need a compass thanks to the well crafted lineal design that tricks you into thinking that you're playing an open world type of game. Just **chef kiss**
I suggest you watch Leadhead's "Run, Think, Shoot, Live." video.
He practically showcases what the game intended to teach you to play, as quick save scumming was basically only a result of modern intuition conflicting with the game design.
*she. Just correcting you on that! She's a trans woman!
But agreed, great video
she. Take your transphobia elsewhere Bucko
@@AstralPhnx he*
@Lord Inquisitor Shadowlord Stop being such a loser
@@AstralPhnx you first
I actually really liked the lines the scientist gives about the tranq bow. I thought he sounded really tired, and really sketched out but kinda numb. For the time, and for it being an FPS, the acting I felt was way above MOST games at it's release.
Fun fact: In the PS2 Remaster of the game, the room you fall into at the end of Blast Pit is flooded with water, so you can't get soft-locked with fall damage.
11:42 All i can think of is that one line read from the dark age ending of deus ex, "JC, The nets going. The nets going black, JC.
At 19:08 you can see another revolver on the left by the dead guard, which you can pick up to get it about 3 or so minutes early if you want, it has some extra ammo so its not a bad idea to grab it for later
Hey! So I played HL1 when it first came out - it was a hell of an experience back in the day. One of the biggest draws was that it did NOT require a 3D accelerator card like a Voodoo to run - and even my slow HP Pavilion with an AMD 333 MHz PC could play it decently, albeit at low resolutions.
I've been looking forward to this video for SO LONG
Not sure if anybody pointed this out yet but there are two things about the grunts and the minefields that Trav forgot in the video:
At 15:32 the grunt isn't scripted. There are different types of grunts in the game, and this one in particular wears a helmet which shields him from all bullets. Usually when I see these guys I just shoot at the body instead.
At 26:29 you can actually clear the minefields with either grenades, C4s or just shoot into the ground to detonate the mines and clear a path.
Actually, you get the revolver from blast pit, when you go down the tentacle hole and land in the water, on the surface is a rim with a dead security guard with the revolver.
Also, the solution to mines is to shoot them to remotely detonate them.
I had a simular experience with finding half life too,this story starts around mid 2019,after finding out my dad had a laptop(keep in mind I was like 9 maybe 10)I got Gmod with my pocket money after I had been watching youtube videos about it for years and then later on I eventually found out it was a modded version of a game called half life 2 and as I began to look into it I became a massive fan learning all about it and by the time half life alyx released I was at my peek of being in love with the series and that just made everything a lot better
A fun thing I found out playing this game recently is that the hive hands projectiles can be used to distract turrets.
Half-Life is a weird one because if you weren't there when it came out it can be hard to see just what's so special about it. But if you were there, it was life changing. It was an immersive experience like no other. It changed the way people thought about video games. Every once in a while I play a game that makes all other games feel inferior for a while when I'm finished with it and Half-Life was one of those games.
I've been playing source games for almost twelve years now. The thought of crouch jumping being a hard concept to get behind for new players was totally alien to me. Just goes to show how practice makes perfect I guess?
Damn Black Mesa Xen really was a huge improvement wasn't it
Am i the only one who kinda liked it- well exept the factory and Ninthilath but i just love the esthetic
Sure is, its quite long but its good. The end boss in black mesa xen is fantastic. I was never a huge fan of original xen
You can also get the revolver in that drop down area after Blast Pit
On that section with the "Ninja assassins" (Just before you get ambushed and dropped in the waste disposal), I've found that the easiest way to deal with the hyperactive little A holes is to go in the room on the left, put trip bombs on both doors, and hide behind a crate. Every time an assassin trips a mine, pop back up and replace it. I think there are either 4 or 5 of them running about in there, but you can easily get them all if you've got the full quota of the mines.
In hard mode they can turn invisible when standing or shooting.
@@TylertheCC1010fan I didn't know that. The short moments when they're stood still to shoot at me is about the only time I can get a few shots off at them. That's why I usually just mine the entrances to that little store room and let them blow themselves up.
I tried HL on the hardest level a few times, but didn't even get close to that section before realising I lacked the quick aiming accuracy needed not to run every gun out of ammo before I'd managed to kill groups of moving enemy's. :(
@@Reman1975 the enemies also have increased health, I believe the Marines have an additional 20 health.
22:13 that thing scared the shit out of me first time i played this game
Lol same
@@barney8862 just it attacks it's Scary and they also force you to fight him in muddy water
Yeah also in surface tension in the dam part you have to jump in or the plane will kill you
@@barney8862 nah that part is easy you have to approache it Strategicly just watch bigmacdavis walkthrough of that chapter and you'll do fine
@@barbariangamer6209 well I like doing games without walkthroughs and I just jumped in and beat the thing with my crowbar until it died lol
20:16 so fun fact: sometimes when the trigger breaks like that, it’s not that the gate doesn’t open, it’s that for some reason the door was open when you first got there and actually shut when you unblocked the generator
1:42 I absolutely love that video! Lol
i just love the reoccurring joke of him adding to the counter every time he dies from fall damage
i love the way that gordon freeman never sleeps unless he's knocked out
38:50 These little clips with GoldSRC sound effects was hilarious! Subbed.
18:13 in a map I'm working on I have a similar situation where the player breaks open a wall with the crowbar and jumps down into a vent, to prevent the player taking damage I put a push trigger right on top of the vent that pushes the player up softening their fall so they dont take any damage, I wish valve had done the same here 🙄
Why does this channel not have more subscribers?
Great video
Weird. I've played HL1 many times and haven't seen a single one of these major issues you've encountered. You sure it's not on your side?
I already watched so many Half Life videos it's kinda funny, but dude. This one's gotta be my favorite, your joke timing is on point!
19:34 You get the revolver right after Blast Pit, what are you talking about?
Your content is top notch. Enjoyed it a lot. Thank you!
You get the revolver right after killing the tentacles in blast out tho?? You can also shoot or use grenades to clear the mines
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I recently discovered it's possible to save this scientist! Press "e" on him just before the tentacle crashes through the window. He'll stop and look at you, saving his life!
I love how a scientist screams when he says you know the p o word
"i don't really like to [kill friendly NPCs] cause i often get immersed in the world and realistically i wouldn't wanna kill someone for being in my way"
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38:50 love this sound
9:31 I keep hearing people talking about the hd thing like that and I never understood why
Same here. I always play with it on...base Barney' model always gave me the creeps.
Because they are nostalgic purists.
If you throw a grenade into the hole the tentacles are coming out of, they disappear for a bit.
The Vorts don't attack you at the Interloper??? What game have I been playing? :D
Also, the Gonarch battle can be broken in all 3 of its stage-changing-triggers, it's sad.
Really nice video overall!! Enjoyed it.
Did you know that? The crushers are trains so you can actually stop them (thanks DeSinc)
Yo I didn’t know the rocket launcher’s targeting was toggleable
Thanks!
Surprised you didn’t mention how nihilanth talks to you throughout the xen chapters
12:31 This happens because a _lot_ of old things that worked as intended in WON Half-Life were broken in the transition to Steam Half-Life, I could make a list but we'd be here for a bit. Thankfully none of it affects gameplay but it really is a shame how much stuff is botched.
The hitscanning soldiers were the best part of the game. This was before Call of Duty, and military action shooters didn't exist before this. There was no other game where you could jump and run around realistic environments fighting grenade-chucking soldiers with an MP5.
Hell, the fact that you were fighting US Marines was kinda groundbreaking and controversal, this was long before Spec Ops the Line.
Well maybe not jumping and running but you could play the og Rainbow Six in 1998. I know I did. It had mp5's alright! 😉☺
The "Power Up" mission was definitely glitched with the closed gate in my recent playthrough. I luckily found an answer in some forum to only break the crates blocking the machinery, but not to turn on the power switch on the upper level past the electricity obstacle. And it worked.
Trav, you don't first get the revolver in Power Up, you get it in Blast Pit. Directly about that water section in the tentacle pit, there's a dead Barney with a revolver and an ammo box for it.
Also, it's not that the bounce pads don't work, it's that you have to jump over them to get the boost properly. The game isn't being bad, you are.
26:33 I don't know if anyone told you yet but you can actually move around the mines, as long you avoid the ground. Not impossible but rather the option was always there and can be done.
That's what I always did
Quake... Doom... Quake2... Doom64... and now HL?!? (sigh) subbed 🙊
How do you not have more subscribers? That little “haHA, eat s***” when you used the mine is my new favorite sound
37:00 Ah, the video is ending
Wait, why is there 7 more minutes?
btw you get the revolver at the end of blast pit when you jump into the water swim straight out and the revolver is just next to some radioactive goop
Very strange i just finished beating Half life and its expansion for the first time ever and i loved the game but i didn't encounter a single crash or softlock, not even a single problem.
i have no idea the game could break this bad
"Someone just put me out of my misery"
*ambush noises*
"...thank you."
That was funnier than it needed to be. XD
"you get the 357 from a wounded barney"
thats fucking cursed
You get it earlier
@@HemmTBM he said to the man who had almost 400 hours in half-life
@@HemmTBM you don't
@@PebsBeans you do, it’s next to a DEAD Barney, right at the end of blast pit, when you go into the hole after killing the tentacle.
@@enclave_here that's even worse my man
26:54 yeah, the military sure wouldn't want THAT to happen...
Anyone else think Bryan Cranston would make for a good Gordan Freeman ?
Yeah although Brian Cranston is a bit too old
I never knew much of anything about the Half Life series, but I played them all start to finish when they went free to play for Alyx's release. And going into it, I heard literally eeeeveryone talking about Half Life 2 my whole life because well it's Half Life 2 but didn't even know the first game existed. Never even heard it brought up once. But I was so surprised at how much the game just instantly clicked with me. I thankfully am not really bothered much by games being dated. If anything, it just blew my mind how much this game pulled me in and captivated me in the current year. It wasn't "This would've been cool back in the day", I actually was invested in what was happening and I thought the intro was amazing. I might need to play them again but I honestly would probably prefer half life 1 over 2. It just does so much more that I like. Like I thought the enemies and environments were a lot more interesting in the first one. And I think I just got sick of looking at Half Life 2's style after so much Gmod. Which sucks but what can you do
38:55 Shizaaaa
Dude on the mines sections you could just use a nade or spray with your smg to detonate the mines; there is nothing in half life that forces you to play by sheer savescum brute force.