Apprehension and Evasion but you're stationed at Nova Prospekt and Freeman is storming the beach

Nova Prospekt is a run-down prison that was, according to Alyx Vance, transformed into "something much worse" by the Combine.

[@peacewalking__]

I made this video on a whim a year ago, kinda surprised it's sitting at over 100,000 views. I might remake it at some point since the gunfire sfx isn't very exciting.

[@chesterdumbassbox]

already did it for you

[@Average_K]

Combine: 7 hour war Gordon: 7 hour uprising

[@queenofvermin]

The right man in the Wrong place can make all the difference In the world

[@Sleepidi]

@@queenofverminso wake up mr freeman…wake up and smell the ashes

[@FürPreußen]

​@@SleepidiI didn't see you get on...

[@sperman6621]

@@FürPreußen Well, end of the line...

[@FürPreußen]

@@sperman6621 Welcome! Welcome to City 17!

[@arrowflint22official8]

this map feels like Gordon is storming Normandy.

[@Alex_Guy1011]

Where is that profile picture of yours from?

[@user-puthison]

Be honest, I have no doubt if it is in his possibilities...

[@Sage5976]

fr

[@deepwashington499]

​@@Alex_Guy1011 darude Sandstorm

[@LordVader1094]

That's literally what the whole section of the level was intended as lol

[@JackBradley07]

"Do you hear that?" "Hear what?" "That music" "No?" "Wait who's that up ahead"

[@denifnaf5874]

Are those giant inse-

[@KidzX_Offical]

Unit 09 reporting Man with giant insects attacking and heading towards nova prospekt

[@mahuba2553]

Contact confirm, prosecuting.

[@-kidwhoyellsalot-3193]

Combine officer:get out there and fight that man

[@KidzX_Offical]

@@-kidwhoyellsalot-3193 Zombines!

[@SuperNath97]

Imagine being a combine soldier guarding some random beach when in the distance the ant-lion towers start being disabled, apprehension and evasion starts quiet but slowly gets louder, overwatch starts freaking out, alarms turns on, some goofy scientist wearing bright orange surrounded by ant-lions rushes your position, you try to call for backup but its too late, the scientist is at your bunker entrance staring at you, he tosses an alien ball at you and ant-lions start eating you as the man backhops away.

[@Stinkyman864]

jesus christ

[@WhatABeautifulDuwangChew]

Not to mention the orange nerd hopping straight at you at the speed of light

[@ChrisMathers3501]

You know...I can imagine how scared I would be on the inside. But by that same token, imagine how proud I would be of myself to be throwing myself into the face of certain death at the hands of an anticitizen-led biotic outbreak, even knowing full well that any fear, Hell, ANY cognitive dissonance I have WHATSOEVER, is constantly kept purged by regular firmware and wetware updates downloaded to me from the Combine Overnet, the same updates that flush out my less useful memories, and not only am I left with the best training in professional soldiering that an intergalactic army can shove into a man's head, but that even when sending out a panicked final transmission, the vocoder jammed all the way through my neck leaves me sounding every bit as calm, collected and cool-as-a-cucumber as a veteran fighter pilot turned commercial airline pilot giving his passengers the "this is your captain" speech.

[@silentassassin47]

HOLY SHIT 😂

[@silentassassin47]

​@@Stinkyman864 XD 🤣😂

[@jcdenton6427]

My favourite part of the game. Shit goes from 0 to 10 real quick.

[@jcdenton6427]

Hello, I'm JC Denton

[@OperatorKowalski]

ong

[@muffino33]

To 10? Bruh this shit goes to 1000

[@MrIG511]

​@@muffino33100000000000000

[@TheExperienceYT]

Yknow, if I were a Combine or Metropolice and a man coated in Blood, Feces, Sweat and Tears carrying a bunch of guns with a horde of antlions speeding my way? I would shit my pants

[@gaiusjuliuscaesar9296]

Don't forget Bugbait smeared all over his face

[@turkmaster892]

@@gaiusjuliuscaesar9296 bugbait is kinda feces also he wouldnt have it on his face

[@A1rWaxta]

if you u were a stabilization delegate (combine soldier), you'd be emotionless

[@blitzo6320]

@@A1rWaxta The OTA units still feel emotions, they're just very serious about their position and brainwashed to be undyingly loyal to the combine. They still feel emotions like fear. For example they scream and swear when you throw a grenade at the snipers through the window.

[@aguyonyt1]

ah yes more feces

[@MillywiggZ]

My face when offworld re-assignment.

[@kronos_1337.]

On the other hand: mfw non-mechanical reproduction simulation

[@philmiller1845]

i love the touch that the alarms started blaring right on the beat drop

[@druid4243]

playing this level in the vr mod, huddling behind rocks and laying down suppressive bursts of mp7 fire had me feeling some type of way.

[@billy4734]

The masculine urge to storm the beaches

[@JedisJed]

makes me feel like my grandpa, even though i know damn well my grandpa was a italo-mexican born in 1952

[@Loonatoonies]

Is it just me or the distant gunfire and radio communication made the track sound better

[@omppusolttu5799]

The song *is* meant to play alongside gameplay, so it makes sense that it'd be better that way.

[@Kanister0]

Imagine normally patrolling the inside of np just hearing thousands of bullets and flatlines and hearing a antlion horde rapidly approaching inside and then the last thing you see is a man in a orange suit ordering the antlions to eat you with a strange ball

[@orangegarbagewaste239]

Everybody is a gangsta till radio says ''Viscon, men down, 11-99''

[@Sapphiregamer8605]

I forgot what that means.

[@dirkfish8258]

@@Sapphiregamer8605 It means "I have visuals on the enemy, men down, requesting backup."

[@lucialambda]

this entire section feels so unbelievably cool, and then finally breaching nova prospekt and seeing the antlions flying over the walls

[@talkaboutwacky]

“Failure will result in permanent off world assignment” **Shot transitions to a Nova Prospekt guard on the moon scrubbing poop from an outhouse**

[@KatarinaBohtana]

Most likely in another universe fighting hoards of god knows what

[@Jerome18921]

I think they mean “termination”

[@thesuperintendent4290]

​@@Jerome18921The Combine does not do that, it would be a waste of resources. I believe they breed humans off world to fuel their war machine and use them to fight in countless wars without rest.

[@kobold7466]

@@Jerome18921 nah combine probably have millions if not billions of worlds under their yoke, always need soldiers somewhere

[@urazsoktay5275]

Half Life 2 is the best fps game ever made. And this song is perfect.

[@donichiro]

Half life 1 is more fps though

[@urazsoktay5275]

@@donichiro Half Life is easily a top 10 best fps games ever. If someone puts Half Life at number two at best fps games ever i won't object that. But the best fps game is truly Half Life 2. Half Life 2 can be the best game ever even.

[@donichiro]

@@urazsoktay5275 but I've seen much more criticism of the sequel than the original one thoo. I dunno, both are legendary

[@urazsoktay5275]

@@donichiro I have only seen praise for Half Life 2. Many people put Half Life 2 above Half Life and again many people consider Half Life 2 as the best fps ever. I really haven't seen any criticism about Half Life 2. I love Half Life 2 more than Half Life.

[@chapolo10_br38]

​@@urazsoktay5275 Both are amazing but Half Life is way more badass, it has the HECU

[@ETIL_]

Team 4, team 9 assemble and reinforce, leader 9 closing for local control.

[@Rewrite-sonic-prime]

I Cant i am RUNNIG for my life from Antlions

[@RSJiyutoAnzen]

“And that’s the last we heard from unit 8330!” *combines begin laughing as they drink dr. Breen’s private reserve*

[@mefuri_k]

Combines would be as scared as hearing a boss battle theme when a completely usual and normal ambient theme starts to play as gordon steps into the map

[@E40kGeek_Tactical]

Such a bad ass level. You can't top HL2's soundtrack and atmosphere. The sound design in general for HL2 is top notch. Love Overwatch soldiers radio chatter as well it adds to the whole experience.

[@jacplac97]

Let's be honest. Even the most brain-washed Combine soldier would shit his pants, upon seeing an army of biotics being organized and commanded by the anti-citizen one.

[@Resi1ience]

Spot the HL2RPer

[@ilovewilson3650]

average metrocop recalling the days of the freeman's uprising

[@memniknyaz]

Ok now this is cool. Love it! and yeah, this level gives huge D-day vibes

[@Bratjuuc]

The sounds should be in the distance and slowly increasing in volume from dim to loud throughout the video

[@PacWest6]

Finally bringing the fight to the Combine after running from them the entire time is super satisfying

[@yag821]

This song first played when the combine went after Gordon, it was last played when Gordon went after the combine.

[@tylen4ik1337]

As an Nova Prospekt guard i can confirm that this video is 100% true

[@androide_t5322]

You don't have the damn PFP, or the name you damn piece of crap! You're not one! *HE'S A TRAITOR, AN IMPOSTER!*

[@THEREISCONVICTHERE]

how did you not die during the invasion?

[@JedisJed]

@@THEREISCONVICTHERE he filmed it all, remember the cameraman never dies

[@daviroblox0089]

How is it like to be a nova prospekt guard?

[@dawnstar4257]

Meanwhile, in the mind of Freeman: I AM THE STORM THAT IS APPROOOOACHING

[@patrickblack3054]

i feel sorry for the combine, fighting a highly trained professional must be hard for them

[@mohamadalikoteich3865]

Ahh yes, the anthem for the Bug Hunt achivement

[@GiiNotHere]

this is D-Day but 1 man versus 100 alien hazmat suited aliens that dies to a crowbar

[@Inlet]

1 free-man apocalypse.

[@td_tv8088]

Holy shit, it's you

[@varcon9117]

Just like any normal guard duty on Nova Prospekt... You manned the AR machine gun post inside the bunker that guards the Shoreline... Its typically quiet as usual.. Thumpers doing their own thing to keep the Antlions at bay, But then suddenly... They stopped.. Leaving you and your comrades nervous and confused of what is happening... And then the Overwatch opened up in the Local coms... *Priority Warning. Outland stabilization force: Six Nova Prospekt.* *Perimeter restrictors disengaged.* *Priority Warning. Perimeter restrictors disengaged.* (Song plays...) You realized that the thumpers got manually disabled.. Was it the malfunctions? Your Comrade's stupid mistake? Or the local power generators are going too low to power the Thumpers? *Priority warning: Perimeter restrictors disengaged.* *All stabilization delegates move to incursion hard points- Immediately.* Moving in with the other Guards, You set out from the Prison to settle and hold against the Antlion invasion... Gunshots, Alarms sounding out, Radio chatter buzzing even more than usual as you step unto the Shoreline... Suddenly... You noticed a glimpse of up-coming man.. Not just any ordinary man... *But its Gordon Freeman himself with bunch of Antlions, Following his command as he holds the Bug-Bait.*

[@THEREISCONVICTHERE]

actually very well written cool story of a combine prison guard

[@onionero]

SHIT! 300 BUGS!

[@anaxolotl6637]

Imagine how scary this must be for the combine in Nova Prospekt

[@BlackSago_]

If d-day happened Freeman is a One man army

[@SuspiciousAppleJuice]

so the history books were a lie

[@somedudethatripsplanetinha4221]

Half life 2 best D-Day game confirmed.

[@Machoman3814]

great edit. loved it

[@badusername9903]

i love that we cant see the wojak but hes implied to be in the drawing of the helmet

[@Kippnod]

Hard Fought but the Resistance is closing in on the citadel

[@thatoneguy5905]

I can make that!

[@thatoneguy5905]

Want the beta version or no?

[@Ze_Phantom]

Later that day, every combine, that was still alive, got executed, and their family (Maybe)

[@Jadens_stuff]

"MY BOYS ATTACK" This is what the stationed combine over watch soliders hear before getting mauled to death by antlions

[@JumpPierce]

Freeman and some of his insects solo this place

[@NoName-st5so]

music is like: dancin' dancin' party 🎉

[@barszczsosnowskiego3359]

This is great.

[@empschilde]

when you say something about how Freeman is coming and its time to give our lives for the glory of the Combine and all you get is that mindwiped stare:

[@Vang2009]

One of the best half life soundtracks

[@nossenkanter]

When the title of the song doesn't describe Gordon's emotions... but the Combine's.

[@bishalgurung4356]

Pov:Your trying to escape prison.

[@zetapack3326]

pov: you are overwatch and stinger outpost isn't responding while perimeter restrictors is desingaged

[@embars3399]

please make more of these

[@nekki9228]

Sounds like AFO is storming Tartarus with his Nomus xD

[@rusampler1877]

It's antlion mating season. Really, there should be a series of extraordinate circumstances leading to so tight of security collapse (as artisticly portrayed) under a man with crowbar. And increase in antlion activity should be on of them.

[@GBJStudio-nt1lo]

gordon frimen reaction:🗿🍷

[@mnep5]

music is better with the sound effects of the game

[@FangLead]

Need this but Breach and Escape

[@BirminghamHoodClips]

!!! BUG EVENT !!!

[@AetherScientificCorporation]

Don't let them skibidi kids ruin this banger. They ruined Water Hazard for me and i don't want my favorite chapter going too.

[@kermitclassified]

They did WHAT to water hazard??!!

[@AetherScientificCorporation]

@@kermitclassified they ruined the chapters music

[@nonothis]

@@AetherScientificCorporation god im never going to watch that stuff

[@Turkish_newGOD_greek_DESTROYER]

@@nonothis same also are you by any chance black?

[@BoogieBrando]

FeelsExpiredMan.jpg

[@derekjohn7535]

Please make more of these preferably one of the streetwar.

[@rebel6301]

i agree, i want to see the POV of either the combine or the resistance in the city 17 uprising

[@YoshiMarioGamez]

most average day for the combine in half life 2 probably

[@ikibucukmil]

they should make a new game for us playing an elite combine soldier. they are really charismatic and eye-catching but valve is just wasting their potential throwing to garbage

[@peacewalking__]

Just play Entropy Zero 2

[@dawnstar4257]

@@peacewalking__ a masterpiece

[@David-ms3zf]

I wonder, what if the story was about an elite combine soldier that had a brain with different development features that caused some part of the previous person to stay in the new host (the elite soldier), that way they still listen to the combine but will often feel curious at times, way too curious... I think someone can fill up the details from here

[@ikibucukmil]

@@David-ms3zf got you

[@rusampler1877]

Isn't there still confidential project with Combines as playable side? Named Citadel.

[@alanoswiecimski2080]

I think we forget how much the HEV suit carries. it the thing that allowed Gordon do to such things, without it he would die in like 4 hits from a pistol and with it he can tank a AR2 alt fire wich basicly evaporates all lving tissue it hits.

[@peacewalking__]

If you change your viewmodel FOV you will find Gordon holds an AR2 one handed

[@brainc0la-_-]

Nobody is so augmented as to be emotionless in the face of that Orange ice pop lookin ass nerd flying at you with an army of antlions at his disposal.

[@loverwon]

We should get “triage at dawn but your the finest mind of your generation bleeding out on the coasts rocks.”

[@justmymage]

Now do one of Nova Prospect itself, this was just the beach. The real fun is storming the castle.

[@lounge-mutt]

Warning, primary target is uhh, engaged in, uhh, command and control tactics with biotics

[@_pablikseva_]

вы бы видели как я флексил когда проходил этот момент первый раз

[@RedArmy1934]

This reminds me of D Day that the prison guards are the germans defending Omaha Beach and then gordon freeman arrives as an US captain and he orders his antlion soldiers to rush up the beach

[@rebel6301]

wasn't omaha like in the pacific? wasn't normandy the beach that US stormed in germany?? or am i getting them mixed up

[@armchair990]

@@rebel6301 Omaha was a landing point during the invasion of normandy, wich, at the time was in german-occupied france.

[@rebel6301]

@@armchair990 understood, makes enough sense for my brain

[@armchair990]

@@rebel6301 👍

[@FangLead]

I was there dude. And it SUCKED.

[@zrc1611]

CODE 5 SUNDOWNER SECTOR 5 MOVE OUT OVER!

[@InnoKitty]

Literally D-Day

[@Dirncol]

Cat

[@Wensleydale1]

@@Dirncolcat😢😢😢

[@Fufi26]

What is the original name of the song?

[@peacewalking__]

@@Fufi26 Apprehension and Evasion...

[@brookse746]

this map was a reference to saving private ryan right

[@wikwayer]

Good song too bad it was wasted on short level

[@vuksanvucko]

combine: we shall exterminate all hu- Gorden: ... combine: