Actual Cheat Codes (Half-Life 2 Facts

0:00 Getting pulled out of a vehicle by a barnacle
0:44 Camera soldiers
1:16 Walking through walls in outro
1:43 Jumping on a hunter flechette
2:06 Activating the Ravenholm cart early
2:36 Episode 2 antlion guard can't be killed early
3:16 Gear doesn't look like it works, but it does
3:47 110 FOV is bad
4:21 Barney voiceline in Episode 2
4:50 Cheat codes
7:22 Objects heavier than normal
7:45 Missing areas in Water Hazard

[@tech34756]

The Barney line was likely meant to be a place holder, the ‘mistake’ being that they never replaced it.

[@TheCommanderNZ]

Good job Valve.

[@MrHack4never]

I suspect that the line is taken from HL2 after you plug the power plug to the teleporter back in

[@TheCommanderNZ]

@@MrHack4never took his whole MIT education to turn that switch on.

[@DuneJumper]

I remember when I heard that as a little kid I would look for him around the map.

[@steyrauga1]

Maybe Barney was meant to be there but they cut it, or something.

[@arabidllama]

With that first airboat glitch, I like how the waves freak out and go in a circle. It's 'cuz the boat isn't moving, so "forward" doesn't mean anything, and it starts doing math with zeroes/very very small numbers and you get weird results.

[@gold_hev_suit]

Half Life Fact: Random crits are fair and balanced

[@Vyclops]

violence

[@RHans621]

violence

[@ARandomOSDever]

violence

[@fragmister]

You can do the same hunter arrow thing in Half-Life 2: Deathmatch if you jump on a cross-bolt in the ground at a certain angle while it is still glowing. The most popular way of using this bug is to get on secret islands on fishing maps. EDIT: heres a video of it happening in action kzbin.info/www/bejne/bnTOaGCeabqrobc

[@logicphile6207]

What the protestant fuck is a fishing map

[@fragmister]

@Logicphile A map where you can put a watermelon on a hook and pull the fishing rod up after a while and have a chance of getting a weapon ot prop on the hook or sometimes something really rare like a door that takes you to the skybox or a smokestack. The map im taking about is umizuri, check out Obsidian Conflict, which has lots of fishing maps. Whomobile made a video on a fishing map once.

[@NoahGooder]

@@fragmister those are some of my favorite maps

[@thepizzacarpizza1056]

Metrocop: shooting Gordon Gordon: _Has a seizure_ Metrocop: must've been the wind

[@Deadricblood]

4:50 Fun fact, my first time playing Half Life 2, I got stuck at the very first air-boat puzzle where you use the blue barrels. So my dumbass thought that was it for the boat riding, somehow straffed the jump and made it pass. I continued on foot, had to use cheat codes on the xbox 360 I was playing on over and over again but eventually was soft locked and gave up when the hunter chopper forces you to fight it next to Black Mesa East entrance. Good times.

[@TubbyFatfrick]

The Cheat Codes also exist on the PS3 version of the game, and the ability to spawn health packs made it a whole hell of a lot easier, though I never actually finished it on PS3.

[@Deagle195]

There's another bug with the airboat if you get pulled by a barnacle: If you continuously shoot the heligun before getting grabbed, the firing sound will loop until you get back in again

[@rainetolentino4336]

I feel like Pinsplash is a good place to relax myself on listening valuable facts and probably funnies

[@xjerC]

Forget the cheat codes, the true highlight of the video is 6:56

[@olegmoki]

I thought it was 8:07

[@hornyducks4090]

@@olegmoki that's a clip

[@dimitriwoopi]

gordon do be heavy though

[@alkimos55]

@@olegmoki "BRU-"

[@privatepessleneck]

man I just noticed that for that metro cop, the post death radio explicitly mentions the location the cop died. I didn't know they'd specify location.

[@Zmeeed01]

I like how you chose possibly the goofiest way to showcase the NoTarget cheat

[@DrERRORz]

The cheat codes work on portal 100% for Xbox. However, there is cheat code txts in HL2/TF2, but I believe the TF2 one is blank. However, TF2 takes many elements from HL2, including dev toggles allowing you to wireframe online on the Xbox (This was discovered as an exploit for PC not too long ago). And from my cvar dump of HL2 on the 360, I don’t recall seeing a command called “mat_software_aa_strength”. However, there are commands hidden from normally being dumped, including using flags.

[@steeliest]

making sure we didn't miss any traces, i checked the codes on the OG Xbox port of HL2, and it seems that none of the codes work, including AA. although from context clues I'm entirely certain it was an internal dev code to mess with anti-alias strength to test for a compromise between good frames and good AA. (material_software_antialiasing_strength)

[@ben12355]

I think the useflags are for ent_create, as it can make spawned sentries have stuff like infinite ammo and stuff.

[@abhaybhatt4286]

Man those cheat codes were so fun on The Orange Box. I used to use the health and ammo one all the time for magnum only runs lol

[@DrERRORz]

@@abhaybhatt4286 I only got them to work on portal

[@rs6000_]

The FOV update allowed me to play the game without getting motion sick

[@caramelldansen2204]

Same. Options are good.

[@turmspitzewerk]

in real life, you have like nearly 180° vision. if i were in tje players shoes, a high FOV would be more representative of what i'm actually seeing. it may distort when not at 90°, but the realistic immersive vision is a lot more important to me than zooming in to remove distortion. the camera glitching into walls sucks though. hope they fix that.

[@Flopster101]

I always play HL and Sven-Coop at 115 FOV, so I see nothing wrong with this.

[@nanopone]

​@@Flopster101 115 fov on goldsrc games is not the same as 115 fov on source. that's because, when switching from 4:3 to 16:9, goldsrc locks your horizontal fov while source locks your vertical fov. compare half life and half life source side by side running at 4:3 and 16:9 and you'll see what i mean. it's very difficult to describe

[@Flopster101]

@@nanopone Alright, I'll check it out if I can. The only difference I remember right now is that in Source the viewmodel isn't affected as much as in GoldSrc.

[@adenperkins9719]

Love the DeSinc reference with the thumbnail. Nice touch for those who know 👍❤

[@givowo]

As someone who plays with high fov, the slider change is nice. Although, I play games with 120 fov, but 110 is still better than 90

[@ioncavegrandma9256]

I used to have an ultrawide monitor and would have loved this FOV change. It makes a huge difference when you have a really big screen.

[@Yeedman]

the actual value can go above 110 if you change it via console command i prefer 120 too on my big ass monitor

[@givowo]

@@Yeedman oh neat. I thought it was hard capped to 90 (like tf2 valve please let us have 120 fov)

[@Noruzenchi86]

the command toggle mat_software_aa_strength is toggling between 0 and 1, when mat_software_aa_strength should either be 0, 2, 4, or 8 (xMSAA)

[@arabidllama]

5:57 The "XBox CERT" part of the cheat means it was for the XBox certification process, I guess maybe you had to prove that you could disable antialiasing? Console certification is weird.

[@tech34756]

Sonic 3D has the weirdest I know of, where to ease certification the dev made it so that certain errors just made the game load the level select with a message saying the player found a secret (or something like that). This is why knocking the cartridge can load the level select.

[@MyWaifuNow]

According to a website with all of the HL2 cvars the AA command is for turning off Anti-aliasing specially "Software AA - perform a software anti-aliasing post-process (an alternative/supplement to MSAA). This value sets the strength to 0" theres also 6 more commands that mess with anti-aliasing. Also the "good job" line was probably just a dev who was tired or didn't care and as long as it wasn't some completely wrong sound they felt it was fine.

[@SSCEurobeat]

I'm one of those people that are really glad that we can have 110 fov without commands because on 90 I get motion sickness so I like to play with as much fov as possible

[@efekaraylan8608]

304 mph lol.nice vid btw keep it up

[@DrSeaDevil]

That at the end was a tf2 clip! (amazing)

[@alex15095]

I'm not sure if this was mentioned before but there's another set of camera soldiers you can kill in a weird way. At the end of d2_prison_07, you get 3 turrets to help you in the turret standoff in block D8. Once Alyx returns you can bring this turret with you into the next level, d2_prison_08. After getting past the soldiers and trapping Mossman, you can leave this turret right outside of the big combine door that gets sealed. Then you go into the room with Mossman, Alyx argues, interacts with the console, and opens up a camera showing the outside with 3 soldiers that your turret then kills.

[@alex15095]

I also found an interesting bug while messing around with this. While Alyx is waiting for you to walk past the combine door that gets sealed, backtrack to d2_prison_07 then walk into d2_prison_08 again. Alyx will be teleported near you and just remains frozen near the level load trigger. Go back forward past that combine door and now you're sealed in that room without Alyx. After about a minute of her running all the way through the level, she phases through the combine door and the game continues.

[@erykdoors]

Here’s a fact: some debris don’t have physics, it’s because it’s taken from the original half-life (this is also the case for portal 2)

[@roddydykes7053]

I can confirm those cheats work on the original Xbox release and orange box. Although I only remember the health cheat, ammo cheat, and level cheat. As a kid that 25pt health code was the only way I could beat the game

[@levilol1026]

YO new vid dropped

[@barrelz8353]

Pretty sure that if you have the orange box on console you can spawn a companion cube in Half-Life 2.

[@Gamerdude854]

As someone who grew up with the consoles version of Orange Box, the cheats do indeed work there too as intended, you can even some of the HL2 cheats in Portal, which can lead to some weird stuff like spawning in items that aren't meant to be in Portal. Portal itself also has unique cheat codes, one of which, that I believe works in HL2 as well, is the ability to spawn one of those energy balls you see in test chambers and have it shoot out from where you are standing

[@Pacca64]

Portal 1 uses the exact same cheat codes system as HL2, and I have confirmed that the codes in the equivalent file in Portal work on the XBOX 360 release. I played the xbox one first, so discovering the codes in the PC version and going back to test them, and seeing them work, was quite fun!

[@The_CoomSlayer]

You can kill the green guardian on original physical Xbox copies of the orange box, it shows the "failure to preserve mission critical assets" game over screen.

[@L4DRat]

ya that final fact is addressed by the mod "Half-Life 2: Update" which you can find on steam. and much more. Highly recommend if you wanna replay through hl2.

[@turmspitzewerk]

eh, in the last half decade of updates the base game has had much more of its own improvements than HL2:U does. good for its time, but its not an objective improvement over the base game anymore. plus it has projared, clearly making it the inferior version.

[@shyguy85]

@@turmspitzewerk wasnt he falsely accused though

[@turmspitzewerk]

@@shyguy85 he didn't know that the fangirls were underage, they lied and were only 17. regardless, he's still a womanizing cheating piece of crap.

[@Providence..]

@@shyguy85 Yeah, the masses cancelled him en masse without hearing his side of the story and he was actually innocent, he made a 45 minute long video about it with evidence.

[@Providence..]

@@turmspitzewerk Mind explaining the projared part?

[@delta250a]

The Fov is great on ultrawide.

[@SourGummyes]

great for if you get motion sick in FPS games too

[@Rutherford_Inchworm_III]

In the old days that was called "Quake FOV". Blatantly fish-eyed, great for retaining your peripheral vision while moving fast. Millennial and younger kids absolutely despise it because they grew up on slower 3rd person shooters like Fortnite.

[@GoToLate]

Gorgeous, as always!)

[@smolspidey6185]

Fun fact: The cheat code that spawns a health kit also works in Portal.... weird since there isn't a need for them.

[@rsoldat4951]

That is indeed a TF2 clip

[@BahpuAgain]

i remember hearing barney's voice there and looking around trying to find him lmao, thanks for this

[@lorddootinator4332]

1:15 I did this and didn't realize it. I left them to guard the doorway lmao

[@coffin7904]

I have like 200 hours in hl2 and I had no idea the airboat had headlights.

[@ocsanik502]

Devonly convars are actually disabled entirely in retail builds and you need a memory editor or engine exploit (like the recent hud convar exploit) to change them

[@Hap6605]

Great job on the thumbnail! Was it inspired by DeSinc’s thumbnail?

[@Vexcenot]

I remember being caught by a barnacle in an airboat in one of the sewers then immediately getting teleported to the wooden racks with the headcrab swarm

[@Pinsplash]

you must've done something i showed in a different video. i never considered combining those two things!

[@deroplat]

I have the Xbox 360 version of The Orange Box and can confirm the cheat codes work. The dev command does not seem to be used without modifying the game somehow, but i know that people have modded the games to have keyboard input and can enable it. The codes disable achievements too. Also, in Portal, the code " Y A B A B Y Y A " spawns a cube.

[@sonicmario57]

Used to use source commands to host modded l4d2 lobbies on 360 back in the day. You could map preset commands to button inputs to enable sv_cheats by editing the save file with a save editor. Probably the same case here.

[@oblivitv1337]

Cheat codes work in orange box, I used them to spawn a portal cube once to save the companion cube

[@MrGoof-if8rb]

I used to play the Orange Box version of Half Life 2 on the Xbox 360 and I confirm that those cheat codes are in the game, and I used to use them to mess around all the time. Portal 1 has cheat codes as well.

[@chukbenis]

That last clip was epic

[@l-l]

On xbox 360, there are orange box mod tools that you use on your pc and connect to your modded xbox 360 via xbox 360 neighborhood. It allows you to force console and cheat in TF2 by editing game values via a wireless connection

[@Ascariedeus]

4:21 When I first went through a whole Half Life playthrough and I heard that voice, I actually started looking for Barney.

[@bshap495]

For some reason, a lot of the cheats didn't work when I played it on X360. The only ones that did were health, ammo, and invincibility.

[@GreenSwede]

For Xbox 360 (as well as PS3) it's pretty easy to run console commands by accessing the userconfig and rebind buttons. Fun fact: Half-Life 2 maps can be accessed from both TF2 as well as Portal in the 360 version and PS3 version of The Orange Box. They work and can even be played online on TF2 if you host a server, however there appears to be a map size limit (RAM related?) where certain maps crashes the game more frequently when attempting to load them.

[@BabzaiWWP]

i hope the fov slider thing gets put into tf2 too. I have 90 and love 100

[@TheBoxyBear]

On Xbox 360 at least, you can run conole commands by copying the UserSettings file to external storage and using software to extract it on a PC. The file contains cfg files for each of the games in the orange box that are run when you select a storage device in-game. You can edit these files to bind any command to the controller buttons and run other commands once. It's even considered a save file so you can put it on the cloud to use on Xbox One and Series. I used that technique to force 4K60 on Series X and had a blast. Portal also has cheats codes of its own but your records get invalidated is used in the challenge modes. It actually just checks if sv_cheats was enabled at any point during the run.

[@GooberDunk]

The cheat codes for Xbox do in fact work, My achivments on The Orange Box for half life to literally have me put the can in the trash, and the one I unlocked after it is for destroying the citadel, its really cool to use the invincibility cheat to go out of bounds

[@r0niii_]

This last one about "this is a tf2 clip" helped me alot

[@0x2480]

the codes labelled 'dev' in the cheats do not work without a modded console, but the rest do via the orange box on 360. all cvars that are normally inaccessible on pc are accessible on xbox, such as the aa cvar, however you can use launch options to set said cvars on pc.

[@DolanDuking]

Guy who really likes using the shoulder and down buttons unable to figure out why they keep dying

[@KrankuSama]

had the orange box on 360 and not only did these cheats work but they also didnt disable achievements, used to grind for that gamerscore on hl2 using them. You didnt need access to the console as entering any of the codes would auto turn on sv_cheats 1 (including the in game notification). The only ones that didn't work were the command launch option ones as you said but Godmode, ammo and chapter unlock definetely worked

[@SheepUndefined]

A friend convinced me that the only way to actually get the vorticough achievement was by using godmode lmao

[@ix7710]

fyi - the Konami code also works on the PS3 Orange Box version! not sure about the others, though

[@Rigermonster]

I can confirm that some of those cheats work on consoles as I used to use them while playing on OG Xbox and Xbox 360 back in the day.

[@FishyBoi1337]

Yep, used to use the cheat codes on the orange box for 360 all the time EDIT: Hey wait, I used to use the no target one on the orange box too...

[@Squibbus]

These cheat codes were only in the Orange Box release of the games. They work in Portal as well, but again, only the Orange Box version, as it doesn't work in the standalone Still Alive release. BTW these codes had PS3 equivalents as well. Unfortunately my Orange Box disc is scratched to hell but one of my friends who knows a lot about 360 modding told me that the disc 1.0 version of the Orange Box on 360 let's you open developer console when a USB keyboard is connected. I can't remember if you also need a hacked save file or not. This was patched in the only update to the game, so you can't do it in the digital version.

[@bottomtempo]

As someone with the xbox 360 version of the orange box, i used the code to unlock all ep2 chapters since i struggled as a kid on chapter 3

[@untemperance]

I actually noticed the canals06/07 thing myself while playing and it's driven me mad ever since.

[@NephilisThylord]

What was the command you used to see all the the antlion gaurd’s stats at 2:44

[@Denunion]

first you input 'developer 1' then aim at an entity and type 'ent_text' ent_text is what does it, it's a toggle, but for it to work you need 'developer' to be set to 1 or 2.

[@mitterdoo]

I actually came across that gear bug in EP2 by accident. I couldn't tell if I broke the puzzle or not

[@tristenarctician6910]

In d1_town_05, in the fight you get the AR2, the deplacements under the fires sink downward when you step backwards, and come back up again when you zoom in. In d2_coast_05, the power lines don't make sense

[@Diorden119]

I remember using the unlock all chapters cheat code to skip ravenholm on the og xbox

[@grande1900]

Such a perfect birthday gift.

[@jaxsonharper9091]

You can plug in keyboard to get to console commands on 360 if I’m not mistaken

[@pualthedetective4750]

The xbox half life was my childhood and I can confirm that the cheat codes worked and were very fun to use

[@proletarianrise10]

This was very intriguing. So there ARE actual cheat codes in HL2? This feels oddly retro, wow. I wonder why they were never mentioned anywhere, but since the PC had the console, it would have probably been sorta useless. I wonder if they break achievements progression like sv_cheats does? As for the FOV, welp, it looks like Valve did it again. It looks kinda odd at values >100, but pretty stupid they haven't fixed the clipping issues yet.

[@splashmob]

i remember playing the 360 version with the cheat codes and they didn't block achievements im pretty sure

[@slyseal2091]

Pretty sure the game with the Konami Code is from 1986, which is 18 years away from HL2's 2004, which itself is 18 years away from 2022. I'm afraid Half Life 2 is retro now.

[@Majima_Nowhere]

@@slyseal2091 I've heard kids call the 360 and PS3 "retro" and that's just not okay, man.

[@xx123manxx]

The orange box games had cheats on Xbox My favorite being in portal "YABABYYA"

[@proletarianrise10]

@@Majima_Nowhere Yep, I'm afraid. These gens may be old but the games are nowhere near dated unless you're thinking about graphics exclusively, and even then, most of these games look really good. But HL2 being retro is now old news. Its gameplay style and especially the extensive use of physics have not been seen in ages in the triple-A industry in particular.

[@StarboundRose]

3:30 ooooh, I pulled this off by accident a while ago and was wondering what happened

[@thefowles1]

had to do a double take thinking this was a DeSinc video from the thumbnail

[@Bathroombandit]

5:10 can confirm these do exist I have used them myself on the 360 and Xbox one.

[@Valet2]

4:10 - the 110 fov is the only comfortable for me -- I'm using a 50 inch display just half-meter from me.

[@N64gamer124]

I first played hl2 on the xbox 360 and i can confirm that they do indeed work

[@Fliksu]

"[...]just kills you immediately" great cheat code :D

[@somecateyelink]

That solider in the end was aimbotting. (Man I really got an eye for this…)

[@mason5746]

2:40 originally you could kill it but valve updated it

[@_Dotiko_]

Oh boy, i sure hope there is TF2 clips in this video

[@CMK-BigFoot-1420]

If you're game is not updated you used to be able to set console cmds to button binds on Xbox but I do not remember how I did this, it was so long ago

[@Kadencabs]

1:51 imagine abh'ing with that

[@aroamingfilipino]

in 2:40 i was able to kill it by typing a code “physcannon_mega_enabled 1” which gives you the charged gravity gun in half life 2, by pulling it, you one shot it.

[@supersonicbros23]

6:56 No.... stay back! GORDON!!

[@MarkRosOfft]

about cheat codes: I actually used them today on Xbox (I'm a fan, not a psycho, so I want to complete hl2 on all platforms). edit: cheat codes DO NOT disable achievements, and that's cool, but I used cheats only for one achievement. Every other achievement I got in a legit way.

[@KILLER9639]

I once edited my portal save file to enable developer mode so I could use noclip once when I was younger. I didn't have the pc version then and I was obsessed with trying to get to cake room and the outside parking lot in the games finale. Having only the Xbox version, noclip was impossible and I really really wanted to try it like some people did on the pc version. I remember putting my save onto a USB and using a hex editor to enable developer mode so I could noclip.

[@hansonkerman7286]

out of curiosity (i've been wondering this for a while) what decides how heavy an object is? is it like a variable in the properties of the prop_physics or something in the model or ?

[@Pinsplash]

if not manually defined, it infers the mass based on density information kept in surfaceproperties.txt and the volume of each bone of the model

[@hansonkerman7286]

@@Pinsplash i see i see. thabk. You ❤️

[@addderalll]

i can vouch for the unlock all chapters cheat it works on the ps3 version of the orange box at least

[@DaburuTori]

I confirm the xbox codes as i played xbox 360 edition and used health codes sometimes.

[@trekker105]

Do the codes work in the Orange Box episodes on the 360?

[@mymouseaintbroken8255]

sick video

[@Yio._LA]

That indeed was a tf2 clip

[@DuneJumper]

7:44 how have I never noticed this?

[@MetaBloxer]

6:03 If it's xbox only, AA probably stands for "AIm Assist"?

[@MaverickJeyKidding]

4:06 - laughs in Quake3

[@Step1adder]

great thumbnail lol

[@UnsealedWings]

I already played on 110 fov, So when you showed that I didn't notice a difference, then you hit me with "It looks terrible", *Laughs in all seeing eye*

[@cool_manreal]

I’m going to try the cheat codes on my Xbox I’ll post an update here when I’m done: They all work except I couldn’t get the ammo one wether I was inputting it wrong or it just doesn’t work.

[@SuperBoyboys]

Going full Dean Sinclair in the thumbnail I see.

[@rockcabbage]

the cheat codes also work in the playstation 3 version

[@ImagikaAli]

5:13 oh yes I used this a lot on 360

[@AnotherDudeNamedChris]

The 300mph thumbnail reminds me of the half life by desinc