Black Mesa Anouncement System VOX (Civilian/Military)

[@MisterNugget]

"Now under military command". Man, that's so epic.

[@Zachary-po8qw]

@TrainedACENot really, in general emergencies the US military uses a stern male voice for announcements

[@SoundsofDecay]

"Science personnel resistance extreme" is millitary lingo for "getting rekt by orange nerd with steel rod".

[@Pacman009]

When is that one

[@Kreppey_]

orange mesa

[@FSKN-Rossii]

@@Kreppey_ Black Freeman confirmed?

[@zhugeliang13]

​@@Pacman009 17:01

[@hcbv9225]

12:41 dis one is terrifying to hear "attention this announcement system is now under military command"

[@bluespy377]

Rest in peace, Victoria Teunissen, the voice actor of Vox Died in October 20, 2020

[@loco4loco]

🫡

[@Luemm3l]

wait what? noooo, I am so sorry, i remember being a member of the black mesa forums back in the days and she was really active there as well and we had a wonderful time with her. man.... that bummed me out now.

[@bluespy377]

@@Luemm3l yeah, I was bummed out too when I found out about her death on reddit It got worse when I saw a video made by her friends and family that showed her early marriage and how happy she was , and i got really sad I was really impressed by her performance in the game. She made the game feel really realistic and depressing

[@tailsfan11westandwithukraine]

How did her passing happen?

[@bluespy377]

either covid or natural@@tailsfan11westandwithukraine

[@AcceL_2002]

The military one looks hella nice ngl. Perfect voice acting.

[@Cyynapse]

giving the military VOX a scary deep voice is the most US Military thing ever

[@vanillabatcave5677]

...hot

[@TheTechCguy]

It’s always had that since the first Half Life game. Yeah, I remember how darker and scarier that made the game. The old VOX. You know s*** was serious in the facility by hearing it.

[@oddguy5356]

​@@vanillabatcave5677 What?

[@vanillabatcave5677]

@@oddguy5356...what? idk.

[@AgentMk07]

"System. Now. Under. Military. Command"

[@RubRub7]

1:49 “Dr. Freeman, report to: Anomalous Materials Test Lab *Immediately.”*

[@Freeman02798]

love the attention to detail they had in the announcements, like valve

[@RubRub7]

@@Freeman02798 Yes, they definitely learned from Valve.

[@therealtimmyiy]

even the announcement system was fed up with gordon being late

[@jesuschrist.official]

​@@therealtimmyiyHe was messing around with the microwave. Classic Freeman...

[@everycafe44]

17:34 - the Automated System calling out Gordon has to be so scary

[@SectorCTestLabs]

When I heard that in Black Mesa I felt a shiver go down my spine

[@LambdaCherry]

Hearing the VOX changing from the female voice to the male one blew me away when i was 11 and playing Black Mesa for the first time

[@squidiskool]

VOLKSWAGEN NARDO W12

[@cac_deadlyrang]

@@squidiskoolwhat

[@DitieBun]

I love how they made it so before the military take control the announcement system actually sounds more realistic and less intimidating, but then later it sounds closer to the original half-life vox, even with the original "beep" sound effect

[@caporegimeclutch9715]

Everybody gangsta till the announcement system under military command

[@ivanilayakimova2526]

Yes.Biological forms detected in sector C,B ,D is after the disaster in sector C.

[@suburbanshatters]

8:25 sounds kinda spooky

[@Tommyknocker.]

In our SCP Facility, we hear it like everyday

[@krassilverfang5504]

I just put this on the background and I kind of forgot what I was listening to until 8:04 came in

[@Dorothy.Vivian]

My personal head canon regarding the announcement system is that its at least vaguely self aware of the fact that the military are there to kill black mesa personnel and is actively resisting them. The final message/transition message could have been a warning that all future broadcasts are from the enemy.

[@JeanneHamada]

I like the way you thinks. Mind if i reference it?

[@DeadRaymanWalking]

12:40 scared the shit out of me.

[@nekolare]

1:59 "Dr. Nielsen" Perhaps this is connected to the HEV corpse that you find in Gonarch Lair, which has the inscription "Nielsen", possibly he was the last explorer sent to Xen before the disaster, and just on the same day, possibly being trapped and incommunicated

[@kylefinn5301]

Joel Nielsen is the guy who composed BM’s soundtrack.

[@nekolare]

@@kylefinn5301 no shit sherlock

[@Admin-pb8vr]

Nielsen is a composer for Black Mesa

[@TemmieContingenC]

Although this is a reference to the composer, I dig your headcanon.

[@panzerofthelake1623]

Based on a lot of the lines in civilian announcer mentioning agents, corporals, seargents and etc., these indicate that the facility actually has on-site SWAT (sort of like) force aside from standard security. Would have been nice to actually see them in-game. I could also be wrong, they could just be some HECU marine officers and black ops (respectively) stationed there to keep an eye on things.

[@onionero]

Who knows, maybe the Security staff have a ranking system.

[@Spendingryan]

Funny you should say that, not the same type of facility and obviously this is a game but real life space guys NASA has a swat team with weapons and aircraft, called the ERT (Emergency Response Team) the amount of agencies and police departments in america is insane, I bet even NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) probably has guns or something lol.

[@tobios89p13]

8:04 warning high energy detonation detected in materials lab.

[@Luke_existent]

Where it all started

[@jeremy_byrdpikachu3607]

0:00 / 0:01 & 0:10 From humble beginings! 8:04 Renaissance Cascade commences. 12:41 *HECU arrives; Reprogrammed for military command.*

[@ItsBananman]

Renaissance

[@tergelenkhbold]

Renaissance💀

[@davisdf3064]

Hell yeah, the DaVinci incident is my favorite

[@Agentepanela]

​@@3QcWreally?

[@vicator]

residence cascade

[@frozarburst6350]

Everything was fine until 8:04. But then the military announcer shows up 12 minutes into the video and it gets worse

[@PanderingSlats]

I've been revisiting Black Mesa this past week and I'm obsessed with the military intercom voice. Something I've observed: 1. I think the HECU arrive before the voice changeover and are relaying orders through the normal system by 11:53. They issue a couple more normal bulletins in hopes of flushing out everyone they can willingly. 2. By 12:30 they are trying to issue HECU commands which are getting lost in translation. "Kilo Lima India" mispronounces Lima as Lime-uh, as well as jumbles the letters of an obvious kill order (properly issued at 13:46). 3. 12:40 is where they decide enough is enough, forcibly take control and start issuing commands directly.

[@HyperionBlueGT]

12:41 Female Vox: *Beep beep beep* Attention, this- *static charging the voice into male.* Male Vox: ...System Now Under Military Command.

[@RaysGamingChannel2003]

This Vox sound like the Black Mesa Research Facility Announcement System from Half-life 1

[@kreuner11]

Because it is the same game, just remastered

[@RaysGamingChannel2003]

@@kreuner11 ok

[@danieldelcastillo6834]

@@kreuner11 is not a remaster is a remake

[@KsksJxjdjf]

​@danieldelcastillo6834 it's a remaster

[@ivanilayakimova2526]

This is after disaster in sector C.Yes.And this voice looks scary.

[@Pacman009]

Judging by these announcements you would think they would be able to fix the place but those idiot personnel decided to evacuate instead of going where they were told to

[@bruhthatexists]

and the only ones that attempted to fix this got obliterated by a nuke, except for a nerd with crowbar, good life lesson

[@daor4]

If you're talking about the military, they HAD to evacuate. Not only had freeman killed most marines, the aliens where kicking ass too. And, as a bonus, the black mesa personal where told that in a scenario like this, the guards had to evacuate the scientists, and the scientists hid until the guards came.

[@Pacman009]

@@daor4 im talking about right after the resonance cascade

[@DrHotelMario]

Nah, Breen orchestrated the incident with G-man, and knew the repercussions it would have on the facility. It was designed to be an unmanageable disaster. All the infrastructure was fucked almost immediately, and little could be done.

[@Unknown-ek1ox]

@@Pacman009 Brother it's hard to fix the place up when suddenly alien hostile lifeforms most staff hasn't heard about or dealt with (unlike the teleporter explorers) were able to teleport past any security measures and attack you from basically anywhere. What gets me more even 20-ish years later is the silly fact that HECU came in to attack BM staff. It makes no sense at all. It's cheap 90s/2000s video game or movie logic (TV trope is "Backup is hostile"). Would've been more realistic and yet scary if they all worked together and it still failed.

[@Goodarz_man]

I wish they had kept the original one.this is one of the few things they didnt do well.

[@luhl4d2]

13:46 xd

[@unvisitantemas]

8:05 moment when shit just got real

[@MEDICGAMING7]

"report to lambda reactor" Them: *dies in cart or walking as incident started*

[@johnynoway9127]

now that i think about it... the military vox is way too slow to issue commands. Imagine being in danger and the vox just slooowly announces your situation.

[@TheDoomMarine975]

Even the civilian vox is faster what the hell

[@СоветХаоса]

12:51

[@opfoca1oparrowmarinerecon154]

second, nice video btw i like the ambience

[@hav431am]

Most of these are similar to IITPP’s ASAS announcements.

[@W4sN0tH3re]

Because ASAS announcements was inspired by this. But I think you know that

[@Uhlpro]

yeah ASAS uses these exact lines.

[@tailsfan11westandwithukraine]

Honestly, I wouldn’t have known or paid attention to Black Mesa without IITPP.

[@noxious_nights]

Average Innovation fan

[@isaacweisberg3571]

8:04 the cascade

[@johnynoway9127]

now that i think about it... the military vox is way too slow to issue commands.

[@armon2k2]

black mesa was amazing. definitely worth the $20 same w blue shift remake

[@agent_sus3273]

Are these all actually used in game or what?

[@keraunos8159]

ya

[@agent_sus3273]

@@keraunos8159 All of them? Really? I thought some announcements were unused in game.

[@Pacman009]

Some are unused but alot are

[@Katzen9527]

Bleak Masa

[@mwbgaming28]

Is there a way to make the civilian VOX say other things? I want to have it say some custom things for the various power states of my solar power system

[@sweetsucculentcontentnectar]

Might need to hire the VO artist.

[@mwbgaming28]

@@sweetsucculentcontentnectar I thought it was voice synth with some programmed lines

[@ammoniti0n]

​@@mwbgaming28no it's not. I think they're separate sound lines joined together which explains the brief pause after each words

[@shadrothefederalmarshal4780]

cringe pfp

[@thebronjame5777]

the voice actor passed away in 2020

[@DazmonW]

8:23

[@TactfulWaggle]

Thank you, exactly what i came here for!

[@pothead7885]

14:19 14:30

[@SnakierElm62]

69 likes nice

[@tsnovak20]

The original was somewhat better, this one sounds very human

[@Good-pw2cn]

No

[@FascDS287]

Your right, but when it went under military control is where the call back to the original, so you will hear it through out most of the game

[@MichaelPerez10001]

First

[@whoknows7384]

Well the switch from normal sytem to the military one is kinda cringe

[@kreuner11]

What's cringe about it? All I can say is unrealistic not the stupid "cringe" buzzword

[@TactfulWaggle]

If cringe is part of your vocabulary you must really hate fun

[@whoknows7384]

@@TactfulWaggle what? This post is like 3 years old god damm

[@FrancoAbasto]

@@whoknows7384 The "cringe" guy is still a looser

[@DahlSnowHawk]

@@whoknows7384 3 months old

[@sagnost]

8:04