GMOD VR: Exploring gm_Foreclosure (Hopeless Dystopia)

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[@actualegglord]

Thank you so much for making a video on my map! This is the first time someone with your level of influence has played on a project of mine and it's a huge honor. I hope you enjoyed!

[@GalacticProtogen621]

Your map is so cool!!

[@DesignatedChimpTickler]

where did you get the voice for the announcer? He sounds like the singer of Atlantean Blood and it's so fitting for the bleakness of the map

[@Callsign_Ewok]

Very talented & well done map dude!

[@mythsqueuemusic]

you absolutely nailed the atmosphere

[@lewdslurkeragent]

@@markfergerson2145 The "spiky tower" is the Citadel from HL2 Beta. Either a "Terminal" or "Organic" variant, i honestly don't remember.

[@backman2623]

Petition to make Librarian play all the top Half Life 2 Beta fan mods: - Raising The Bar Redux - Cremation - Dark Interval - Coterminus etc.

[@GamerBoyPro]

Oh hell yeah! That would be awesome. I would add that HL2 Episode 3 mod that came back alive recently to the list when it releases. "Interlude" I think it was called? The trailer for it looked quite promising.

[@rasseobergz4938]

Raising the bar redux would be nice, i think im gonna do a video idea on it in the discord

[@Immolator772]

i actually suggested raising the bar in his discord server. I'm sure he will like it, the mod captures the setting well.

[@Binkowsk36i]

That would be lovely

[@ebonhawken574]

Would love to see this

[@SirAroace]

this is a Half-Life 2 beta map, but if you ignore the city 17 part this could easily be another city on Combine ruled earth, likely the US (which is canonically the most contaminated area on Earth due to being ground zero)

[@raeliix]

12:42 "Your punishment is their integration, their enlightenment, and they wield that like a cudgel." this sentence goes hard

[@kingsnakke6888]

10:59 That's a Vorti-Cell, where vortigaunts were supposed to be used as batteries. As if the Combine couldn't get anymore dystopian...

[@FUJIIDEW]

I like to think that this is a world where Gordon either failed in his mission or died back in Black Mesa

[@lewdslurkeragent]

Feels more like a world where combine weren't as lax as they are in the final game

[@FUJIIDEW]

@@lewdslurkeragent Yeah really makes the humans wish they never messed with xen lmao

[@lewdslurkeragent]

​@@FUJIIDEWIndeed. They will be regretting that for the rest of their lives

[@Immolator772]

"He sounds as if he's possessed" ooohh if he only knew. Also i'm pretty sure if humans even defeat the combine, the damage has already been done.

[@adventure-dk1jb]

wait breen was possessed in the beta?

[@Immolator772]

@@adventure-dk1jb it's a big spoiler, so i won't spoil it.

[@adventure-dk1jb]

@@Immolator772 you talking about raising the bar?

[@Immolator772]

@@adventure-dk1jb yes.

[@scottmemelord6130]

@@Immolator772 The game was literally not even released my guy. Well it was but with a heavily revised plot. What do you mean?!

[@thermalops]

It was only a matter of time until librarian was dragged into the half life 2 bata in one way or another

[@Seth_Wilson]

I feel like The Libarian is going to be confused by all the "Dark and Griddy" comments.

[@GamerBoyPro]

More like cringe

[@Georgiandude14]

Aside from the joke comments about "dark and griddy", hl2-beta inspired maps are definitely cool to explore. It's just so sinister and dark, defo 10/10 atmosphere in this map On a side note, Combines/Universal Union is just another normal playthrough for Stellaris players lol

[@Southernrobin11]

Welcome to the world of the Half-Life 2 beta my friend, where Valve had many concepts and ideas that unfortunately didn't make it into the final game. Despite not being a part of the retail game, there are some interesting and intriguing facts about the locations and details on the map that I'd like to share with you. Let's dive in, shall we? First, let's talk about the man on the screen - the Consul, as he's known throughout the story drafts. We never actually learn his real name but that doesn't really matter one you should know about the Consul is that he isn't human longer if you actually take a look at him when he's about to make his announcement you only see his head and shoulders and that's it really and you could interpret that rest of his body is just disgusting synthetic body that he shall forever thanks to his masters. the second fact at 5:43 is that the big building you try to enter that place is called the manhack arcade where citizens can go play an arcade machine that lets them play as a manhack and you definitely not controlling real manhack that metro cops deploy and you are definitely not accidentally killing rebels and refugees what nonsense is that. That's all I got for now because I'm tired as hell i hope you find this facts interesting and have a good day/night.

[@navoral]

wasn't hl2 beta like rebuilt because it was leaked or that's just me having a delusional memory? but the facts of it are so cool though!

[@Southernrobin11]

@@navoral A lot of people genuinely think it was leaked but not really the Devs did not like where the game was going and decided to change a lot to their liking.

[@navoral]

@@Southernrobin11 ohhh so it was scrapped? mm, alright, thanks for the info.

[@scottmemelord6130]

The developers went into it more in-depth over the years but if I remember correctly the biggest thing was they said something like the game as it was just wasn't fun to play, or some other integral problem that caused them to scrap everything and start over from scratch. It wasn't just the leak by itself that caused them to restart the game.

[@lewdslurkeragent]

​@@scottmemelord6130 Do you think typical valve playtesters' skill issue contributed to this?

[@darkyelox]

There is someone in a GMOD map The librarian: 🫨

[@rodneybuckentime4838]

!! metropolice don't have any real major augmentations, hence why barney calhoun is able to just remove his mask. they're just regular people dressed up in police gear.

[@scottmemelord6130]

Yeah maybe he was talking about an Incinerator mask or something. Or perhaps one of the combine soldiers? Though it'd probably be rare to find one of those in the city. Though I guess it wouldn't be out of the question for them to be stationed at important areas as something a little heavier than the Metrocops.

[@Puroboi8894]

@@scottmemelord6130 A lot of people tend to mix up the metro police and the Combine

[@CT-hr9nk]

@@Puroboi8894 Metro cops are apart of the combine. You're on about the transhuman forces of the overwatch.

[@scottmemelord6130]

@@CT-hr9nk Yeah that's what I was referring to when I mentioned combine soldiers.

[@donovanmorris8130]

I thought they talking about cremator

[@Jessie_is_bored]

No one will understand the hype of seeing a new librarian VR vid

[@FatherMcKenzie66]

Buddy i am a subscriber too lmao

[@Jessie_is_bored]

@@FatherMcKenzie66 dude, I didn’t LITERALLY mean nobody

[@FatherMcKenzie66]

@@Jessie_is_bored the end is near

[@Jessie_is_bored]

@@FatherMcKenzie66 what 😭

[@cralo2569]

@@Jessie_is_bored the sky is falling

[@GreatFox42]

I kinda wish retail HL2 had kept _some_ of this atmosphere and drear. The original original plan where every major NPC died as soon as you were done talking to them, I'm okay with that being cut as I enjoy Eli, Alyx, Barney, and Kliener. But I do feel that some aspects of retail's dystopia was _too_ subtle. That is, it made it difficult to fully appreciate how bad the rule of the Combine was without a lot of deep thought. A perfect example of this is the sea levels. There's a lot of ingame evidence to suggest where the waterline used to be, and now you see boats embedded in the exposed sea floor. But nothing really compares to actually _seeing_ it. Some of the HL2 maps got a pre-combine version, and it's only there that that aspect is _truly_ rung home. A longer tour of City 17 before reaching Kliener's Lab would also have been a good idea too. Something about as long as HL1's tram ride, I think. The beta _did_ have a longer section originally, and I wish they kept that for the same reasons. What's in the game we got is not enough to _fully_ appreciate just how bad the Combine screwed over Earth. Again, there's enough to _explain_ it, but that's necessarily the same thing as appreciating the scope. It's a weird double case of "show not tell." They show-not-tell certain aspects of the world, but those aspects _themselves_ are telling without showing. It's weird but I'm hoping someone out there understands what I'm trying to say.

[@lewdslurkeragent]

I do (understand) and completely agree. People keep saying subtle this, not outright apparent that.. but i see it as a bad argument because 90% of players don't even know that Earth was defeated in 7 hours or what is even happening. That is bad storytelling to be honest. There are more moments that make little sense. Every citizen is helping you for whatever reason too instead of being scared of the consequences or you know.. just meeting you for the first time in their life. Combine doesn't deploy stronger synth that we know they have (the 2 shown in the citadel) and spams weak humanoid overwatch soldiers with little change in difficulty, Striders and Gunships are shown as strong in one sections, then underpowered in the other, Breen is dressed like a school principal, all zombies wear white hoodies, there is no Xen or other alien infestation and creatures aside from lame overused antlions (not even bullsquids or houndeyes), no weaponized scanners, battle inside Citadel (big disappointment) was quite lame too when you get the blue gun and just go around ragdolling everyone with extra armor not meeting anything remotely alien or scary aside from one scene with crab and mortar synths, etc.

[@candidate12]

11:07 I believe these are vorticells, vortigaunt powered generators

[@paulssss5463]

Just a lore tidbit, the metrocops aren't heavily augmented. They're simply human collaborators. I believe that they have the option to become a soldier, which involves lots of augmentations. In Half Life: Alyx, many soldiers still have some of their personality, despite their augmentations. This suggests that either lower level soldiers are less augmented than their superiors, or that over the years they've become less and less human due to additional augmentations.

[@jp4889]

Very nice map. Ambiance and environmental details can really tell an amazing story.

[@TheGoobler_]

What makes the combine grunts and metro police worse than the others is that they fully know what they’re doing, they receive zero augmentation and beat and kill their fellow man for just a little bit extra food or better housing, the combine use humanity’s selfishness

[@theexchipmunk]

When it comes to humanity, how do we come back? We adapt. As we always have. That`s why humans are one of the most prolific and succesful larger single species to ever live. Because humans have just the right mix of intelligence, durability and capability to effect our enviroment to manage to be the only speciess to manage to survive in every, and proliferate in nearly every enviroment we come across. So even after such devastating events, humans would take two or three generations at most to be back at normal life. And with what the combine left around likely quickly surpass what we had before. And it also wouldn`t be the first cataclysm humanity survived and came back from stronger, not even the first "near apocalypse".

[@GoodOlPain9]

this map is based on the hl2 beta

[@clown_real]

oh fr?

[@termitetoxin7983]

@@clown_realyeah you can tell because its dark and griddy

[@superpaperfoxhatesNSFW]

i could tell

[@DolphinsAreWeird]

@@termitetoxin7983 the amount of darkness and griddyness is what truly makes it superior to the retail sissified version /s

[@MalcolmIIofCaledonia]

@@DolphinsAreWeirdHalf life 2 is still plenty fuckin dark

[@The_True_Citizen]

If you want to know the origins of the toxic air, play the map AirEx industrial tower, it’s a very small but very cool half life 2 beta map based on the Air Exchange.

[@loco4loco]

Love the half life 2 beta vibe

[@clown_real]

I just want to point out that this map alone, and the entire beta, is arguably a small glimpse into what COULD have been a better half-life 2. It's so much more dark and brutal, and I love it. Oh- Uh- day three of asking you to play sons of the forest

[@lewdslurkeragent]

RTBR seems to be the Beta mod that is closest to being completed. Dark Interval is aesthetically closer though and even had a trailer released recently for its promising release soon.

[@hazzmati]

The dark and brutal theme would have become very tiring and old quick. I'm glad Valve dropped it, it looks more mature and unique.

[@lewdslurkeragent]

@@hazzmati Except it probably wouldn't, not for many. I personally would prefer a mix of both. And for those that get annoyed by brutal/dark theme, you would feel like the characters. Therefore your joy and relief is gonna be stronger (immersion?) after chapters like Air Exchange where you would disable the air pollution therefore making the visuals less "brutal". Also Valve could simply drop the pollution and excessive darkness while still keeping much of what makes Beta objectively better (going to be more apparent when beta mods gets fully finished which the 2 aforementioned by me above mods seem to be close to) Edit: didn't realize you were the same guy from previous comment

[@clown_real]

@@hazzmati Suit yourself, man. I'd much prefer the old aesthetic.

[@Minecraftgaming2632]

*me and the librarian both getting jumpscared by an average NPC in the first 0.2 seconds in the video*

[@Binkowsk36i]

Instead of Dr Breen on this map is Consult its Dr Breen but in HL 2 beta (I don't know if you heard of that leak of HL 2 beta After all that was years ago)

[@silkenemperor]

31:13. The battle scanners are a cross between organic and cybernetic components.

[@soda7998]

this is so "black person doing a tiktok dance" otherwise known as "dark and griddy"

[@osorio.2591]

we are getting dark and griddy today.

[@stephenthomas00]

I usually stop by to watch these videos, this by far has been my favorite because it covers a Half Life Beta style map which is something I personally find really facinating. Would love to see more like this covering some Beta style maps. Lemme know if you have covered some in the past or know anyone who has, would love to see:)

[@Goondiver]

9:34 I don't know what is was in German but the phrase "Work sets you free" was put on top of the gates into concentration camps.

[@robinschingen6757]

It was "Arbeit macht frei" wich was used as long as i know from history class to cover them up as working camps and also to mock jews and slavs because the regime portrayed them as lazy.

[@modezityyy]

Arbeit macht frei

[@suziescattersilk1041]

honestly surprised he hasn't gone through more hl2 beta-inspired maps

[@literallyeveryultramarine_ever]

the librarian got dark and griddy

[@someguy9422]

So half life 2 without Gordon Freeman. The combibe just bled the earth dry eventually. Weird seeing one of these with people around, even if it's just NPCs.

[@brickrigsandstuff3981]

(bit early) quite cool, i love these videos relating to exploration with very creepy maps

[@tech34756]

The true citizen recognises the Half Life 2 beta.

[@Callsign_Ewok]

Such a great map, very talented the creator is for this. Gonna have to download this one later! Awesome video Librarian.

[@vikkicain5674]

Have to say if this wasn't a half-life universe map I would think it's like some kind of map taking place in Gotham remind me so much of Arkham City

[@BulblorbLarva]

Sad that there wasn't a resistance base anywhere would have loved to see that in this version of hl2 but either way i love the atmosphere of this map

[@thrackerzod6097]

Dark and griddy

[@Grolim_Priest]

Perfect timing, have you in my ear bud while urbexing man. Love these vids

[@Kactiplant]

Amazing video!! I've been watching your minecraft videos as well and I think you should try out the MCSX Minecraft PS1 Edition modpack! It's haunted nature and aesthetic is right up your alley, you could definitely use some of your vast creativity to really bring the modpack to life

[@MarcyTheKindaCoolWizard]

Half-Life 2 but it takes place a decade after the Combine are driven away from Earth and the world is in the process of renewal

[@jesusfilosofo6385]

Hey Librarian, could you make an playrun of Entropy 1 and 2? I would love your commentary on those mods and i think you would like it as well!

[@evilbunnyfromalbania3281]

Hi Chris, if you haven't watched it, I highly recommend the movie Nineteen eighty-four. The map gives me the vibe of it.

[@afro4059]

Hey librarian, I think you really should check out a map called "Sabiru 錆びる" it's got these really nice early 2000's japanese surreal horror vibes like corpse party or something (though the themes might be a bit too gory for your taste). It's got a few puzzles and easter eggs too.

[@lawrencesmith6]

I love watching your videos every time.

[@FatherMcKenzie66]

Hell yeah half life 2 beta inspired map

[@Alffraido]

The device that guy at the end is making is a magnusson ball teleporter. Used in the Episodes to kill striders.

[@Aziruf]

I love hopeless dystopia fiction!,!,

[@polt3rgeist407]

11:01 vort which generates power

[@candidate12]

I HIGHLY recommend you check out raising the bar redux

[@NickTheProto]

Good HL2 beta content

[@OperatorKowalski]

I think you missed the metropolice marching sequence near the "Propaganda Box".

[@justhere4637]

The gasmack citizen, beta citadel, yup, 2001 or 2002 beta half life 2. Must be.

[@Night-9009]

This man really makin us wait for the re7 dlc vids

[@heyaple]

GMOD wouldn't exist if the half life beta artstyle was the final release...

[@jimjohn1740]

overall I definitely prefer retail hl2 more, but beta stuff is still cool to think about and someone else has probably said this by now but in the hl2 beta, those tall cyborgs named cremators were actually made with child labor in factories (suppression field wasn't an idea at that point in development I guess). maybe, hopefully, their organic parts are just grown in a vat or something

[@alanoswiecimski2080]

very dark and griddy

[@vityaz037]

hit the griddy

[@somethingcellular1981]

there are dark and horrifying consequences to mixing up gritty and griddy in the 2020s

[@lewdslurkeragent]

Such a boring and overused joke you normies make whenever you see anything HL2 Beta related

[@AnoneyAnon]

@@lewdslurkeragent lighten up dude

[@lewdslurkeragent]

@@AnoneyAnon Hard to lighten up when you see the same unoriginal attempt at a joke on every HL2 Beta content

[@literallyeveryultramarine_ever]

10:20 you would love the Organic version

[@nimak7633]

dark and gritty

[@rip_Kount]

This kinda looks like the stray map ngl or at least the tower

[@GeminiWoods]

So basically the HL2 Beta build? lol, still cool though.

[@bshap495]

As much as I love the HL2 beta aesthetic, I think I prefer retail HL2 for presenting it's dystopian world in a more subtle way. You discover more about the world through observation, rather than it just being right in front of your face. I think the main thing I would want from the cut version is the enemy and weapon variety, at least some of it.

[@lewdslurkeragent]

What subtlety? When there is barely anything presentable you don't have subtlety, you have missed opportunities and lack of believable environments or world in general. Dark Interval's environment (not gameplay) aside from Manhack arcade and Raising the Bar Redux show the superiority of HL2 Beta. There is no copium observation and other excuses that Retail forces one to make. You instead see, feel and live through it, getting that dystopian world under cruel alien subjugation. Take for example a simple scan drone. It is not a useless flying camera like in retail, it is there to both record/scan and engage the target if necessary. Or stalkers which combine in Beta made to be more of a dangerous enemy from your former "allies" instead of walking laser lump being a waste of resources. The lack of if not absence of alien flora and fauna aside from overused antlions is one of the dumbest choices that they went with in Retail. Not to mention lack of any enemy variety or weapons. We get boring humanoid looking overwatch soldiers instead of cut Beta synth units that would fit perfectly into the setting. You can barely tell the importance of an elite combine overwatch soldier aside from his alt ar2 fire ability. I could go on and on but I am sure you understand by now.

[@lewdslurkeragent]

23:00 - 23:20 I think Librarian also realizes what I said above

[@hazzmati]

@@lewdslurkeragent Half life 2's beta environments are boring just your typical warhammer 40k dystopian polluted wasteland. Retail half life 2 manages to catch that dystopian feel without having to resort to ''dark and griddy'' aesthetics which is a lazy cop out. Valve realized that thankfully which is why they changed it.

[@lewdslurkeragent]

@@hazzmati Beta is not all about pollution. One iteration has it, the others don't. Besides even the versions that feature the pollution also got a chapter in which you are "fixing" the pollution (Air Exchange). So no more "dark and gritty" pollution after that. HL2 Retail could easily be combined with Beta features and still be a much better game. The aesthetics could be used for a different City like the ones supposedly located in "hot zones" where pollution and infestation is gonna be a bigger problem.

[@user-mm8vh7vm7y]

thats just new york

[@Kokosheku]

Hey, i really like your videos and im curious will you ever play Firewatch?

[@TheTorchGamerTTG]

he missed the combine march!

[@Arnatic-new]

Hi would you consider playing Soma someday? Ik its a bit old but its still a awesome horror game

[@sleepy-fc6rf]

dark and griddy

[@ericsixset]

really cool map

[@jenniffermiller6205]

I don't know if this makes since... but you sound like a survivor of city 17 someone who saw it first hand

[@adleredlund7888]

what a cool map

[@rick-deckard]

This is really cool! I wish it were separate from Hl.

[@Sparrow_Bloodhunter]

I want to see a game set in the future fter humanity frees itself from the combine. I want a city management game similar to infra where you go through the ruins and repair the cities. I want a game set in the far future where humanity used the advanced technology they stole from the combine to colonise other planets. I want a game where someone discovers Aperture labs and reclaims it's portal and AI tech. imagine a world where the aperture researchers and the people from black mesa had access to such advanced technology. wait... what if cyberpunk is just set in the future of the halflife universe? honestly if that's what we end up with after the combine are beaten I'd be fine with that.

[@scytheiota7144]

gmod vr but its dark and griddy

[@Friendly_Lad]

This is from the beta of Half Life 2. I know your gonna get like 15 million comments that say that. I will say this is specifically the 2000-2001 era of the hl2 development

[@sebhhh]

FREE TVS!

[@ssentiental]

YAYAYAYYAYAYAYAYAYSYYAYAYAYAYAYYA

[@smanchgibley3839]

play more beta play more beta play more beta

[@stateberg7208]

23:43 no it was dictated because of the leak

[@northof-62]

Hello 352 - 351 here

[@harveywilliams6576]

Hello The Librarian

[@Russilly]

Yay yay yay yay yay yay yay yay yay yay yay

[@GordonFreeman-v2r]

wiw

[@genericuser984]

cool

[@nikolaiwarynski]

38th day of recommending 8:11

[@robertassadygovas5196]

1984?

[@MrBobby101]

Half-Life 2 beta

[@Conk4668]

Both are dark and gritty

[@tempestblackfire1459]

*Obligatory comment about "The Beta"*

[@ana-dv7jb]

u sounf feuity

[@happynihilist2573]

Well no, the combine isn't worse then what you see in the games -cuz all their horrible actions are in the games, just subtle enough that you don't notice if run about swinging your crowbar

[@kgmtstuff]

i love femboys

[@user-mk7jl4fy8e]

YOU WILL eat ze bug paste YOU WILL breathe air slowly YOU WILL wear a mask YOU WILL help protect our community

[@confustled]

found the conservative ragebait addict, feel better soon fr

[@rodneybuckentime4838]

half life beta, dark and griddy

[@bigcooltony437]

0/10 no free tvs

[@HallOfMall]

HALF LIFE BETA DARK N GRIDDY...

[@VerySpicyHoney]

very dark and griddy