Half-Life 2: A Softlock for Every Level Part 1 - Point Insertion to Route Kanal

[@Pinsplash]

FAQ Q: You used glitches A: ok Q: You can die to get out A: ok

[@spartv1537]

you can pres quick load to get out

[@Bradguy123]

There's an easier softlock where you unplug your mouse and keyboard and refuse to plug them back in

[@berkkurun9109]

isn't second question on point tho?

[@scientificthesis]

@@berkkurun9109 Dying also means reloading to the last save, so in this case, no?

[@chipchilinkachip910]

Ok

[@hellohi2516]

The ones that don’t involve OOB are more interesting imo. You can’t expect devs to plan for you glitching out of the map, but when you can still get softlocked in developer-controlled space, it’s so satisfying.

[@Greenhourglass]

I was kind of dissapointed that most of these are just getting out of bounds with propsurfing or backhopping or whatever. When I saw the title I expected more stuff like putting the barrel under Matt.

[@BenLubar]

The one with the tire that causes the truck bed to become a cage is my favorite.

[@Scypek]

@@Greenhourglass After seeing the teleporter softlock, I was hoping to see Barney being somehow prevented from throwing the crowbar correctly and the player being forever stopped by the planks.

[@ForumArcade]

Sure... Satisfying.

[@Sha.ll0w]

"Hey Gordon!" Barney exclaimed, as Gordon quickly scurried away with an explosive barrel under his feet, never to be seen again.

[@weapponofchoice]

its a normal barrel

[@BonziBUDDY]

The scariest softlocks are the ones that can easily happen on accident, like the first one. Imagine a new player walking up to the door like "LET ME IN!" only for barney to clip through the door and softlock the game.

[@strangeone7198]

So scary

[@v-14415]

Indeed

[@wuspoppin6564]

Actually happened but it was not my first time playing so I just went "huh?" and restarted

[@drcsection]

1:06 NPC grunted the same way 3 times, that’s true pain

[@Sockren]

you can also hear a faint one totaling it to 4. im starting to think maybe this is not real life

[@drcsection]

@@Sockren Even more horrific

[@grande1900]

It's 5

[@VectorBatesta]

@@Sockren it's 6

[@yesandnogamerproductions5733]

@@VectorBatesta it’s 7

[@EmptyMag]

5:51 is one of the most creative soflocks I've ever seen

[@quinnrondeau]

still curious as to how a truck can fall like that, weird how nature does that

[@generalrubbish9513]

Mans literally put himself in Gay Baby Jail

[@jackknall9966]

One of the few softlocks you can try yourself at home

[@EmptyMag]

@@quinnrondeau I been saying it for years man

[@newgameld2512]

And then he dies for no reason.

[@Zirtip]

5:51 is possibly the coolest thing I saw anyone do in hl2

[@MrMacio484]

imagine being a valve employee and seeing a playtester do this

[@VectorBatesta]

they couldn't care less

[@maxshadow3405]

In software development, when the amount of effort involved in fixing a problem is too high compared to the chance of that problem happening, sometimes the best solution is not to solve it and hope it doesn't happen.

[@enderallygolem]

That playtester must be an excellent bug hunter

[@loganreed23]

@@VectorBatesta Valve actually cares a lot about playtesting, they go as far as to remove entire features if playtesting shows that players are generally confused and stuck at some part of the game.

[@shawnio]

4:43 "Hey Gordon, where the hell are you going" lol I like how he triggers the AI to say "Hey Gordon" again like he was gonna get his attention the second time lol

[@Dave5400]

What must those CPs think when you're on the roof there? "Look, he's getting away!" "How?" "He's lifting that paint bucket underneath him and flying off!"

[@MetalX34]

thx you are a lifesaver. i thought i was doomed to eventually finish the game.

[@doctortwilight]

7:15 is way too funny

[@joannanawrothenormie910]

"were tearing off the railroad covering out trac-" *Blows up by placed explosive barrel cuz Gordon want to do a prank*

[@noyesser]

Imagine seeing some guy in orange armor scale an entire building by grabbing a singular barrel over and over. Also I am not sure if you already put down a way to skip using the crane at all in the highway 17 chapter, but if you bring a long metal panel thing (if you stand near the edge of it and punt it with the gravity gun, it can send you quite high) and you do some trickery with it to land on top of the fences near where the bridge you'd have to hit with something with the crane would be, you can do an accelerated-back-hop and fly onto the roof of one of the buildings, jump down and skip that crane (as well as the epic scene where you smash through a window with the jeep (you will not be bringing the jeep.))

[@samuels1123]

"Hey Gordon!"

[@AverageMichaelJordans]

Man these are all super creative. In some spots you showed I knew about some boring softlocks, but then you kept surprising me with new cooler softlocks in the same area

[@AmalekIsComing]

kangz

[@thewiseowl8804]

What a weird coincidence. I just started replaying Half Life 2 yesterday, with the goal of searching for softlocks. Then this pops up in my feed. Glad to see it!

[@romanm.3529]

The two realm are build on same principles, hence the synchronicities

[@Blucario90]

very fitting that moving in the teleporter despite their warnings would cause Gordon to be frozen in time forever

[@eLaine33]

If u throw a destructible cardboard box into the gate-mesh door that closes (Around 0:02 mark) the door will reopen and that area is easily accessible

[@lemone12]

"Gordon, stay put! We'll get you out of there!" Gordon: *slowly flying over the spinny thing*

[@thewiseowl8804]

5:52 is definitely my favorite here.

[@weatherman1154]

On the roof escape level, you can also enter one of the APCs and softlock yourself there, provided you've skipped the trigger that enables damage in the previous map.

[@ViKODiN_]

Love the massive variety of hl/source content. You’re My fav KZbinr rn ❤

[@romanm.3529]

This channel is raw and sincere and connects us to an era long forgotten by people around

[@MrPatters]

I found out that one with the guy landing on the explosive barrel the hard way. Funny that it soft locks the game considering that character almost always dies anyway.

[@shyguy85]

He actually always dies. He gets killed by nothing offscreen

[@nami9830]

5:51 you did NOT have to style on the combine so hard with that tire catch and flip. Fuckin' A.

[@xxarcangelxx143]

*phases through door* "Come with me" You: •○• The rest of the guards: ○_○

[@combineadvisor572]

3:56 alternate universe where half life 2 goes literally perfectly to plan as Gordon is teleported to BM east, leading the combine to never find him and eventually give up search of him

[@LehySnek]

7:11 That was comedy gold

[@Capiosus]

7:08 Gordon does a little bit of trolling

[@ruskah0307]

"you, citizen, come with me" (exits reality thru the 4th dimension)

[@ankoku37]

There was one time I softlocked on Water Hazard at the part where the chimney is hit by a headcrab shell and falls over. I don't know how, but somehow I managed to be far enough ahead that the rubble fell on top of me and trapped me in the boat underneath a large piece. I couldn't move or get out of the boat and the helicopter was shooting at me but it couldn't hit me. Except I foolishly didn't take any screenshots or video and I just reloaded my last save so I have no proof and I've never been able to recreate it.

[@forple8930]

I had this same thing happen to me in my playthrough. not sure what caused it, honestly.

[@Chronopie]

Doesn't really feel like a 'Softlock' when it involves deliberately prop climbing out of bounds.

[@automatiik_yt]

Wow I can’t wait to use these on my next speed run 👍

[@sourestcake]

I once managed to softlock in Kleiner's lab by interrupting his walk to the small elevator he uses. The elevator went up without him and the cutscene stopped moving forward.

[@spartv1537]

new video from pinsplash is like a grasp of fresh air

[@Blap7]

so the teleporter sequence doesnt actually teleport the player directly, it actually teleports whoever is in the teleporter, ie, player. interesting!

[@WoodlandTrotter]

That part where Matt died got me lmao

[@texee-1]

a soft lock at kleiner’s lab is also putting in the cord when alyx gets in and it falls out too early, before anyone says anything about it

[@qq4tii]

the truck one is definitely the best one so far

[@DrSeaDevil]

I mean most of if not all can't really be done on a normal playthrough but it's funny seeing these ways to get stuck.

[@kylefinn5301]

Rest in piece Manhack Matt…

[@combine_soldier]

7:15 you can break the door with crowbar if you hit it long enough

[@MollyDiaz-w6v]

I have not played hl2 in 6 years why am I so enamored by this

[@ronanclark2129]

This is a great thing you've done here

[@MunkisManimal]

i remember laughing my ass off when I discovered this one on my own 7:15

[@kiroma0]

Bug Report: If you go out of bounds, perform an accelerated back hop into a geometry sticking out through invisible walls and use it as a ramp to go further out of bounds you can land into a box too big to jump out of, softlocking the game Developer response: what the fuck Status change: wontfix

[@Feasco]

can't believe they missed this one, rookie error

[@gumballegal]

softlock sounds like the name for a kink

[@rixius1005]

Huh, I guess if Link can have a bottle adventure, Gordon Freeman can have a barrel adventure as well. Do all silent protagonists have crazy adventures with inanimate objects or what?

[@yenchey3270]

You know what they say: a softlock a day keeps the Interloper away

[@CatsT.M]

Gordon clearly just wanted to get ot Black Mesa east in his own way and they decided to stop talking to him... So mean.

[@pvc988]

This time teleportation went even worse than usual.

[@shawnio]

what is weird is I have yet to see someone actually play this game normally, also every time I see her I think Beyond Good and Evil for some reason

[@BakkuIa]

Was hoping for softlocks that any player of any experience could run into. The speedrun strats (propsurf, quick-clipping, etc) make the game seem... less broken. Which it is, to be fair. I'VE never been softlocked in a Half-Life game ever. Shows you how good it really is.

[@PlungerCameraAttack]

0:12 Barney: *no wait wrong room*

[@brandonplayswastaken]

i think games should have a clear softlock button in the options menu

[@mult_8797]

Imagine if someone is just the most unlucky person ever and somehow does all of these on their first playthrough

[@cyrillic4]

I actually did the first one by accident lol

[@cyrillic4]

I actually did the first one by accident lol

[@Kippykip]

This is a fun video, when do you think part 2 will come out?

[@NKP723]

when are we getting more of this series

[@TheSurvivor-tv9jf]

What do you mean you can't phase through walls like barney, Gordon?

[@Deagle195]

I'll join the others and say that 6:00 was the best one

[@wolfox6954]

A question, not counting any infinite spawn areas, how many combine units are in the game? Or what other levels can the airboat/car be somewhat properly used in?

[@awerelia]

absolute wrong place to comment this but i must say it since it just came across my mind a chastity cage could be called a softlock

[@romanm.3529]

I wonder if realizing this world is a simulation too too early in life is a kind of softlock... I think it's hard to softlock "real life" because it's so so much more optimized

[@PebsBeans]

what are you on about

[@romanm.3529]

@@PebsBeans As above, so below

[@Aelfraed26]

It's not particularly difficult to softlock a game if you use glitches

[@NoahtheEpicGuy]

You should stream yourself trying to find new areas/ways to softlock. I'd watch it.

[@Кирилл-ы5р7я]

You mostly use out of bounds. Every map can be softlocked by using it

[@waffledog3709]

that's because a lot of the maps don't otherwise have softlocks

[@KarltheBarl]

what version of the game did you do these in?

[@zoeyuroboros5739]

how did you make that barrel explode? with your mind????

[@Banshee523]

The game automatically breaks the props underneath where that guy is supposed to land. I guess they didn't consider the possibility of someone putting an explosive barrel there, lol

[@arabidllama]

I love the implication that the teleporter accident at the beginning is because Gordon was a dumbass who dragged a cardboard box in there with him.

[@MannFace51]

Presuming this is 1.0 since there’s prop flying?

[@MannFace51]

Nvm there’s ABH so it can’t be

[@yuyutopt]

Prop flying is still possible on new engine, just being limited, as the game will not allowed any object under you when holding it.

[@itswilliamanimate]

Gordon got tired of this rebel crap

[@costin88boss74]

question, are you using TTS or it's your real voice?

[@Pinsplash]

for this video i used tts

[@kornsuwin]

how

[@but9l471]

Video description xD

[@pable2]

Patch?

[@kalobaza]

But why

[@Sumguy21]

I watched this video because it looked interesting.

[@SullySadface]

5:58 hat

[@SullySadface]

oh no!

[@thg1nrediar]

Good bugs

[@DragoEliteN]

>>>"Easiest 7:46 I ever made." It's 7:45 actually.

[@1_1bman]

if you can die to escape, is it really a softlock? is a situation you can't survive, like a lit grenade at your feet, or falling from a large enough height, a softlock?

[@gamerkornel844]

Yay

[@drcsection]

YAY

[@drcsection]

I AM OVERJOYED

[@Jorvalt]

6:00 actually wasn't a softlock because you're able to die to get out of it

[@alaas1041]

You're able to die in every softlock

[@Jorvalt]

@@alaas1041 uh, no.

[@lotus1528]

But a softlock entails that you have to either die or reload a save to get out of it. :/

[@Klonoa1488]

Early.

[@sneckie]

Several of these were interesting but I think it's dumb you included so many that require intentionally prop-climbing out of the playable area. It's not like someone will do that by accident and if they really expect the game to keep working, they're a fool.

[@LotsOfS]

The whole concept of soft locking is something that's not supposed to be done by accident

[@lemone12]

I mean the game's polished enough to not let accidents like that happen

[@neevko267]

that's the sign of a well tested game

[@waffledog3709]

The whole point of softlocks is they're not SUPPOSED to happen on accident, most of them require some sort of setting up to make them possible.

[@bazingatheskialuser3519]

literally unplayable

[@the_furry_inside_your_walls639]

Most of these are really lame cuz they involve getting out of bounds through means that most people aren't even gonna bother using.

[@GodofWeird]

Title didn’t say an easy and convenient and cool softlock. Most valve maps are made too well to make ‘cool’ softlocks any way.