Half-Life 2: Episode One - Dr. Isaac Kleiner Speech Remade in S2FM

[@MauricioJara]

Why does Kleiner sound so freaking badass

[@zaniatnik]

Because it does take a badass to survive Black Mesa Incident. And Kleiner was one of the few who managed to do so. Don’t let his social awkwardness give you the wrong idea.

[@dgrunklesamiii4615]

@@zaniatnik Come the rebel uprising he was about to blow your head off as he opened the door.

[@t850terminator]

Cuz Kleiner was always a chad

[@FlymanMS]

He’s the most dangerous man in a room

[@ghoulbuster1]

Kleiner is no pushover, the shy persona is only shown around the people he trusts. Against his enemies, Kleiner shows no mercy and fatal force when needed.

[@joseignaciolopez4380]

I love playing Black Mesa and meeting Kleiner and Eli, and thinking "these guys have no idea that they're about to become the leaders of human resistance"

[@zekalveeryo9938]

Not only that... But them and the very little surviving scientists... Have no idea what they are about to unveil to the whole planet Earth... I hate to say it. But all of the events is Black Mesa and Gmans fault.... Such an unfortunate but badass game alltogether!

[@elitebelt]

@@zekalveeryo9938 Actually, the blame rests entirely on Breen and G-Man. Not Black Mesa as a whole. Breen was the one who was intentionally pushing the equipment far harder than it was supposed to operate in. None of the workers at Black Mesa wanted to take things this far, but Breen was constantly forcing them to take it further, and the scientists and engineers couldn't just say "No." because he was the administrator of Black Mesa, if a few scientists and engineer decided to go against him, they're gone, and he'll just hire someone else less likely to disobey him to do the job. G-Man wanted control of Xen, with the Combine invasion being a secondary issue to him that was completely unavoidable if he wanted to gain control of Xen, and he'd focus on that issue only after he has Xen. For Breen, I was pretty sure it was said somewhere that the G-Man TOLD Breen this would all happen, but he would be given great power in return for essentially allowing the Combine to enter this universe and sell out humanity to the Combine.

[@zekalveeryo9938]

I live and love for the lore of Half Life... where did you get this source of info? I may have missed it. I wanna know all I want to see allllllll >:3 Haha

[@DrSabot-A]

@@zekalveeryo9938 The part where Breen was forcing the limits of Black Mesa were part of ambient dialogue in the original Half Life and Blue Shift iirc. Plus G-Man just roaming around in Black Mesa talking to scientists in the anomalous research sector also helps the idea that he is complicit

[@kman1893]

@@DrSabot-A i always thought the g man was just a projection onto freemans mind from some unknown entity, is he a human? Or an alien pretending to be a person? Or something else?

[@CoreyLaddo]

Did Kleiner just tell everyone to get busy?

[@katomts]

Hey it's the God

[@Sidedlist]

@@katomts Lamar was in a rocket when it launched in episode 2 so Lamar is dead oof Don’t ask why I said this

[@galmax2000]

@@Sidedlist lamar in space inside the rocket, wheatley passed saying hello

[@shadowgrimfoxy592]

@Jayaratne Batepola it exploded I didn't know I didn't see that I what?

[@shadowgrimfoxy592]

@Jayaratne Batepola oh

[@overwatchordinal9656]

I swear this is how the game looked back when I played it as a teenager!

[@ohafomob]

it still looks pretty good now though!

[@tatotaytoman5934]

@@ohafomob yeah, for a game from 2004 it looks stunning, valve really do innovate. Such a shame that they cant count to 3.

[@duccc]

@@tatotaytoman5934 why do people act like Half-life Alyx doesn't exist? It's the reason why you're able to see these incredible animations

[@tatotaytoman5934]

@@duccc no, they aren't talking about this video which uses hla assets, they are talking about how this is what they thought hl2 looked like when they played it all those years ago, nostalgia essentially. Half life 2 did look ahead of its time for a game from 2004.

[@Mini-wd7qz]

I’m 14 and I think half life 2 and black mesa is the most realistic games I’ve ever seen

[@LebenderPanzer]

He's speaking to a literal graveyard of human architecture and machines, which seems symbolic as all fuck to me. It's amplified by the fact that there's no audience in this scene, no one to listen to him.

[@ToastedHeadcrab]

It’s not the only 1 monitor though

[@theregalproletariat]

Well, that's a Combine-made APC. Also, I think it more represents Kleiner sending his speech on all channels - to everyone who's still a citizen not of the Combine, but of Earth.

[@stab456]

Even if he had an audience, they'd just call him xenophobic.

[@chimpjohnson8577]

​@@stab456 all edge & no point

[@stab456]

@@chimpjohnson8577 you're who I'm talking about

[@DoctaM364]

Damn, this really showed how streets were just, completely leveled. Also I like how Kleiner says he's not really good with speeches. And then drops an amazing monologue about human hope.

[@paytonwagner6517]

Better than anything Breen said, I might add.

[@Cotac_Rastic]

​@@paytonwagner6517 Breen made excellent speeches, he had to tone it down to not draw suspicion lmao

[@dustypaint]

"..as we struggle out of the shadow of our malefactors, welcome back to the light." damn gives me spine some shivers

[@BrandonSmith-ru8wl]

@@paytonwagner6517 Well he didn't set the bar very high, Kleiner raised the bar

[@DJ_BONELESS]

3:28 That metrocop better get promoted straight to elite. Seriously, being that loyal even after the combine collapsed and are no longer able to bribe you with better living conditions and "non-mechanical reproduction simulations," you either gotta be stupid, stubborn, or both.

[@Memeguppy]

Maybe its barney in disguise?

[@DazmonW]

Saddly people are sheep and will blindly follow for many reasons besides stupidity.

[@somethingenthusiast]

Bad cop from entropy zero went through a similar story

[@Ripurlife]

I heard that they have been brainwashed so the Combine don't have to deal with spies in their army

[@DJ_BONELESS]

@@Ripurlife Nah, only the soldiers are brainwashed, the metrocops are just citizens who volunteered to abuse their fellow humans for a better meal.

[@branchy2000inc]

I think my favorite part about the bit at 3:18 with the soldiers and the metrocop is the way they move; tactical, but seemingly panicked. Overwatch, the entity, is dying. The Combine have a critically lacking command structure. The metrocops by this point are a rogue element, fighting their way out of the city just like the resistance; the fact that these soldiers took one in shows that perhaps their human side is more apparent with less oversight from Overwatch. The thing is too, they look like they're running *away* from something, rather than towards something. Idk, I just really like how humanlike these post-humans are portrayed

[@Tyler_VernonHowell]

they were most likely ordered by overwatch to move from their position to somewhere far away and stumbled upon a survivor from a fallen CP team

[@KCRycePatty]

Not all Civil Protection officers are human like barney is. As it goes with the combine, the higher your rank, the more your humanity and memories are stripped from you in exchange for authority and cybernetics. It’s entirely likely that the metrocop with the soldiers is a higher-ranking one, one who wasn’t given the chance to become a transhuman soldier before Nova Prospekt self-detonated via portal implosion, but is still loyal enough to be taken along by the soldiers instead of being percieved as a loose end or liability.

[@blackmesaenjoyer]

I think that OTA soldiers were relocated somewhere in the outskirts of City-17 and they took CP officer with them because most Combine soldiers in City-17 are dead or somewhere else and any CP still loyal to the Universal Union can be used as a support and meat shields

[@The_redcoats]

Oh how the turn tables

[@thememester1190]

I imagine at this point, the artificial intelligence behind Overwatch really is dying, slowly becoming less and less coherent before only being able to repeat the word "alert" over and over again by the end of the video.

[@Kream_Komi]

“... And purged of their humanity, by the military machine.” I always loved that part of the speech, the Combine at earth it's nothing more than just robot arms in a factory, overwatched by only a few organic beings who have been put in charge. Loved the video, the ambience details were great, the community really did a good work with the new Citadel model. Loved it!

[@Dino_jacksurvivalboss]

The entire combine 'army' on earth was literally just a bunch of babysitters. Overwatch is very literal in the way that they watch over earth. The only reason they didn't just execute humanity is that they make good soldiers. Humanity isn't even worth the overlords time. The advisors are not leaders more like managers. Dr. Breen saved humanity by subjecting it to the combine rule. He didn't like the combine but unless your name starts with Gordon and ends in Freeman revolting will not end well. Earth is just another world to the combine one within the billions under there rule. The combine won't hesitate to crush earth now that breen is dead and Gordon is here

[@SirKolass]

@@Dino_jacksurvivalboss We don't really know what Advisors are, all we know is that they command the Combine forces on earth,

[@Jin-1337]

@@SirKolass considering the combine were a bunch of different species and civilization working together to make an empire, the Advisors are probably one of the species told to manage Earth and make a use out of them.

[@SirKolass]

@@Jin-1337 Or they could be the species who started the Combine, we don't have any clue to follow really.

[@saladspinner3200]

@@Dino_jacksurvivalboss talking about the population, we don't even know if there are Billions of Humans left on earth. I'd be surprised that even half of us would survive the portal Storms, the destruction of the ecosphere by Xen-species and the invasion of the Universal Union. I would reckon there's only a Billion left at most by the time Gordon arrived at City 17 in HL2.

[@andusensei]

Seeing the Metrocop with the Soldiers was pretty rad. Great work on this, the scene is gorgeous. If EP1 was remastered or something, I could easily see this being a part of it.

[@Bigboyscreeneditz]

Ik right?

[@VolkovVelikan]

The Metrocops were actually trying to escape city 17, since they’re still full human. They basically knew that the combine were starting to lose and bailed

[@imnolongerasking5933]

@@RandomPerson13 "Shit, can't run now. The elites assigned me to be their shield."

[@elegantcat1496]

@@VolkovVelikan I wouldn't be so harsh on civil protection. Most signed in just to keep their families alive. We know that after you kill one of them their family unit gets executed. Plus, it's entirely possible that most of their actions are taken without any real cognition. We know the combine basically dose them with some kind of drugs to keep them working and functional beyond sleep or hunger so for the most suicidal or cruel dispatches they are probably acting on programming. It's pretty grim yet realistic to think that there probably will be a "cleansing" and mass execution of combine collaborators after all of this which is sad considering the terrible conditions CP enlisted under. Also, while we're at it, this whole phase of the rebellion must've been chaotic at the very least, and not at all pleasant to live through. We all laugh at Kleiner's remark and "getting busy" but things would've been much worse in reality. Under the Combine's rule families are broken up and you are surrounded by strangers in unfamiliar territory. Sexual misconduct must've been rampant at this point, without loved ones to protect you or even familiar faces around you it would've been pretty easy for some stranger to take advantage of the most vulnerable. At the end of the revolt, there will be very few innocent people left and in a way, I suspect CP members would be amongst the better beheaved considering they know that their families are alive and know exactly where to find them. In HL2 humans are in such a bad place it's easy to forgot that coveting thy neighbor is only human after all.

[@tragedyplustime8271]

I dunno, the final Episode 1 standoff before the Strider boss fight made it seem like Metrocops had become a separate entity, fighting against both the Rebels and the Combine un order to get out. Hell, I always had the headcanon that some Metrocops killed Rebels, then stole their clothes and acted like them in order to get out.

[@bennyfagor104]

"Oh my god.... striders really tore the hell out of this place..." Such an amazing recreation! There's nothing I adore more than seeing an improved version of HL2 with much more life being put into it like shouting distant citizens, striders patrolling what's left of the streets, and Scanners doing what they're meant to do even when the city they're meant to enforce security in is in complete ruins! And let's not get started on the amazing animations for the Soldiers that make them feel a lot more human! I love the timing of them as well, running up into shot just before Kleiner talks about the purging of their humanity, by the military machine. Amazing job dude! I'd absolutely love to see more of this! The scene building is astonishing!

[@TheParryGod]

Thank you. I'm glad you enjoyed it. I had a real blast putting this together and there's definitely room for more. Time will tell.

[@knockrotter9372]

that strider line really hits different after I played through Follow Freeman again recently, I never noticed how often and indescriminantly the striders just completely dissolved overwatch soldiers just because they were standing in the wrong place. It really brings a bit of a new light to how the city got that way in the short time after Gordon popped the top on the citadel, the striders were just fuckin thrashing EVERYTHING to fight the resistance. Doesn't matter if augmented forces are anywhere nearby as long as the striders kill what they're looking at.

[@adamc117]

Oh I’ve heard that line so many times from the orange box

[@Cysco8575]

Kleiner: Combine forces currently stationed on Earth are now isolated units. Advisors remaining on Earth: Maybe having only one way to enter Earth wasn't really that good of an idea.

[@agent_sus3273]

Vortigaunts: Interfere G-man: Maybe it wasn’t such a good idea to turn a random scientist into humanity’s last hope, and then put him back into stasis.

[@Cysco8575]

@@agent_sus3273 Shephard: Am i a joke to you?

[@agent_sus3273]

@@Cysco8575 To the G-man? Probably.

[@Cysco8575]

@@agent_sus3273 So that's why the Gman put him on a box.

[@agent_sus3273]

@@Cysco8575 Must’ve been a really bad joke to get locked up like that.

[@2broken4u47]

i think episode one is underatted.People dislike it alot and think it was a rather short experience and so on, but god damn does this episode pack a punch. Its basically a civil war that has been present as realistic as it can be and it also shows the rebels being not only willing to fight the combine , but also skeptical of certain people ,(such as kleiners speech , along with some rebel saying that he met odessa himself and he thought he was an idiot) making them more human .

[@TheParryGod]

My favorite of the bunch as well. Some of the most chilling moments for me are in EP1 like emerging to this view after lowlife, the stalker car and the citadel exploding at the end.

[@2broken4u47]

@@TheParryGod btw this animation is slendid!

[@sabotabo7476]

the moment here is where you first step out of the underground and get a full view of the citadel, the nightmarish storm at its tip, the raining ash and the distant sound of thunder. it's the most powerful atmosphere i've ever seen in a game.

[@saintdolanchirosius3704]

It'll be fun when the power vacuum wars start 😂

[@Amis5474]

They are idiots anyways

[@penguinninja1324]

3:26, dude this metro cop is so royal to the combine, even if he’s not brain washed, even if the combine society is gone and they can’t provide him with anything anymore, he still says “pick up that can resistance member now”

[@LonelyKnightess]

In my mind, I'm imagining he's either been pumped full of anti-fatigue pills for the past days of non-stop no sleep urban warfare and is just stumbling along with the first friendlies he found after his team got wiped out, and/or sees following the actual soldiers as his best bet to get the fuck out of the city before it blows.

[@giovannisanfelice1119]

i absolutely adore the way you built this scene, very professional and polished. i played the half-life series (several times) during my teenage years back when my english language knowledge was still at early stages and was only able to translate the essential bits of the campaign's writing. this is the first time i actually understood Kleiner's speech so i can say i really enjoyed those 5 minutes. hope you continue to produce quality cinematic content

[@TheParryGod]

Glad you liked it! I was in a very similar situation when I first played through HL2 and its episodes; except since then I've played through them well over two dozen times :d

[@sabianwatts8515]

Hey dude. Props to you for learning English as a second language. I'm lucky enough to have it as my first language, but it can be super difficult learning it as a second language.

[@echo-4656]

3:20 HOLY UNIVERSE THIS ANIMATION OF SOLDIERS! THIS IS SO GOOD!

[@yacabo111]

Something heartwarming about that CP working so closely together with the OTA

[@diegocejas2854]

@@yacabo111 🤣

[@eumeytimes]

they're valve motion captures bundled with s2fm

[@simonbeavan1061]

@@yacabo111 heartwarming or sickening?

[@randomspeed350]

They are bailing out

[@ValtDewller]

3:22 man those combine soldiers look M E A N. the metro combine mixed in with them is a great touch

[@overlordmgcover2262]

Just perfect! My favourite is the little squad of combine troops with three soldiers and one civil protection officer. What I interpret in it is that they have been lucky and where ordered to advance to a exfiltration point. On the way they picked up a still loyal CP officer and while they make their way to the exfil their squad leader always risks himself first so his squad won't run into a ambush.

[@zacharybrazeau9218]

Really makes you think… the combine must’ve had some sort of care for their fellow soldiers, I mean they use health packs so it would make sense that they would help their wounded as well.

[@overlordmgcover2262]

@@zacharybrazeau9218 I think so too. Sure they were all disposable tools in the end but using traits of the host species like comradeship can be an advantage if it leads to more results and preserves units for later use.

[@Resi1ience]

That metrocop at 3:28 has my full attention. His story is compelling. I want to know what happened to him.

[@midgerm]

chances are: he was a cop who joined for the promise of better living conditions like so many CP"s would have done - and then the rebels seemed to overthrow the combine and the cities in chaos: the combine are his ONLY friends now; the rest of the resistence and civilians have good reason to want to shoot him dead on sight; his reaasons for joining be dammed, he chose his side: the soldiers at least will not shoot on sight - they are, after all, on the same side. so its probably fear making him work with those soldiers after all: would you rather walk the city alone and possibly run into a strider or hunter and have it assume your on the run and have abandoned your duties and turn you into red paste? would you walk the city alone and run the risk of running into a group of civilians or rebels with guns? OR you can travel with a group of combine soldiers, be part of the team; they'll watch your back and keep you safe from any civies and rebels out for revenge and prevent striders and hunters that spot you from killing you for potentiall trying to run away - after all. your not running away, your with a group of soldiers

[@carloagustinpanamenovalien5185]

After all the dark times humanity's had to pass through, we can say definitely that the combines are no more than surviving forces against the sheer revenge of the citizens of Earth, we won, we are now the hunters, and we must take advantage in time.@@midgerm

[@IJArts]

Great work! I especially liked the moment at 3:18 because the movement from the combine felt really authentic and that little moment has it's own storytelling, well done.

[@TheParryGod]

Really glad you liked it! I can't take credit for that, those are Valve's animations. I just stiched them together in S2FM.

[@IJArts]

@@TheParryGod It still fits the narrative very well, and the scene building is also on point.

[@shadowgrimfoxy592]

Did you use hl alyx combine like combine but in s2

[@green_lettuce]

@@shadowgrimfoxy592 no they didn’t

[@igi1225]

i love how the squad made up of soldiers and a single cop gives that feeling of pure chaos over the entire planet amazing work my man also that animation on that small group of survivors is just fucking beautifule ive legit never seen a more realistic animation in my whole life

[@daveynorton]

Motion capture is amazing

[@thefriendlybot1485]

2:11 "In short, the combine are completely cut off" best line in the speech

[@RAD1111able]

That "welcome back to the light" was so refreshing after spending a whole previous chapter in the claustrophobic underground.

[@TheREALBadpun]

Looks great, source 2 really is amazing

[@kcayos3970]

His skill is also amazing!

[@TheREALBadpun]

@@kcayos3970 Yes absolutely!

[@BigHeadClan]

Hah Dr Kleiner - "Do your part!" reminds me of StarShip Troopers, just want to shout back I'm doing my part!

[@thesuperintendent4290]

I'M DOING MY PART

[@nubcake67]

What I love the most about Kleiner's speech is how he starts off unsure and awkward, but as it goes on he becomes stronger and more assured, fully committed to rallying the remaining people of Earth. Absolutely *stellar* voice acting.

[@sabotabo7476]

1:54. i love this part so much. it feels so powerful, even if the odds are still stacked against the resistance. it's the first good news they've heard in 20 years.

[@juneBug412]

at face value, it's quite funny to hear this brainy older fella essentially tell anyone in safety to bone down now that they have the chance in the middle of this profound speech. but *really* thinkin about it, n tyin it back down to its context, it highlights the most saddenin part of the combine takeover. families were not only broken apart by the heartless bureaucracy of the combine, but were prevented from being formed again not only through the strain constant relocation put on all relationships, but even in the most fundamental biological sense. the youngest adults you see in HL2, all people in their mid-20's, including alyx vance, were some of the last babies ever born. save for a handful of lucky individuals, they have little to no concept of family in any sense of the word, beyond the simple solidarity of bein a fellow human goin through the same experiences. they have no future to look forward to, past the faintest hope that they might escape the rule of the combine. but with children, comes hope. it stops being *your* future that you want to secure, but *their* future. the constant death under the rule of the combine likely made most people hyper-aware of their own mortality, and that any good future they might have would be short-lived on account of their growing age alone. why try if after all of this you'll be too broken to enjoy the fruits of your labour, if not long-dead? but your children could not only live to see the brighter future you fought for, they could fight to make it even brighter! it's not just your future at stake anymore, it's *all* futures. the future of the ones you love, and the future of those that they will come to love. the fight truly becomes worth fighting, and under the collective protectiveness of all humanity for their children, the fight is certain to be won. so by all means, takin a moment to get intimate is likely literally the ***MOST*** important thing anyone could do in this moment.

[@Shoxic666]

Crazy to think the Rebels in HL2 were almost all kids before the Combine took over. Most of them probably never had a job or a child or any serious relationship prior to the invasion. Maybe that's why they're so strange in some scenes (dreaming of cheese and such.)

[@pilotmanpaul]

Holy shit, that Metrocop needs a raise! Still fighting even after getting cut off from the Combine. Lol

[@Lusc1nt]

About that raise we owed ya

[@blackmesaenjoyer]

​@@Lusc1ntAdvisors:

[@comradesillyotter1537]

I am DEEPLY impressed with the movement of the combine soldiers, it's extremely well done

[@MetrixGoat]

It's literally valve made

[@SirKolass]

Motion capture

[@stefanbecker3217]

Gotta love that small Combine team at the end, such a good recreation

[@TobeasJ]

Episode 1 was my first ever Half Life game. I had no idea there was a game before it. It was all just so depressing. Everything was destroyed, everything was brown and gray and dark. But I loved every second of it.

[@dominicesquivel3901]

You must have been extremely confused.

[@Horny_Fruit_Flies]

@@dominicesquivel3901 I also started with episode One as a kid XD. I thought the Citadel was made by humans (because how else would Alyx and the others know so much about it?) and the Combine are aliens that took over it and trying to blow it up. Imagine my shock when I player Half-Life 2 after Episode Two.

[@elnombreespeter9015]

*The entire of City 17 it's going to explode* Kleiner: *S E X.* *N O W.*

[@ferdinand5223]

I'm not complaining. That suppression field's no longer there to stop me from unleashing the resonance cascade building up in my pants for the past 20 years.

[@faizfrez2729]

@@ferdinand5223 i mean, i think can do it, but just not make babies out of it

[@sasasa1541]

The Shinzo Abe of City 17

[@zoltanperei4789]

Sex and the City 17.

[@lizardlegend42]

@@faizfrez2729 yeah certainly, as the overwatch announcer states ine of the benefits for well performing CP agents is "mechanical reproduction simulation"

[@ReysaAdam]

I hope you didn't stop making those HL projects, i absolutely love your work! cheers!

[@TheParryGod]

Thank you! Next one's in the making ;)

[@anrykmapping6268]

Wih ada bang resya

[@SladeForelly]

Loved the small combine squad and how they have a metrocop with them that probably performed above his own colleagues

[@kriegertechpriest7011]

Probably shot them too

[@Dr_Al_]

Absolutely beautiful. An iconic scene brought to life in stunning detail.

[@Evil_EmperorOfficial]

At 2:36 there is a strider that collapses from either exhaustion or lack of Biometric artificial calorie energy. You can really see the Combine are collapsing from the inside. That one strider shows just how weakened their Earth Forces are.

[@Paraceratheriumedits_P]

3:59

[@TheZventrapapere]

This gave me the chills! Thank you for the feelings

[@reidepperson8534]

Imagine being Kliener or Eli. They could have been like some of the more cowardly scientists in HL 1, but they decided not only to continue their research but sort of became leaders for the remainder of humanity. What a story to tell the future generations

[@sinctova]

You can hear a rebel shout STRIDEEERR in 0:32

[@J0J0_950]

Idk why but I feel for the Metrocop. Nowhere to go, forced to follow the combine. Before it was just for a slightly better life, now it's for pure survival. I don't think he'd be loyal at this point but he knows he can't just leave and join the resistance.

[@Texturent]

0:33 (distant yelling) STRIDDERR!

[@chezburger57]

Dropships!

[@borkikong8339]

One thing I really love is Kleiner's end to his speech- "Welcome back to the light." A clear twist on Breen's insistence that we were, in his words, stepping backwards into darkness. To hear the opposite referenced by Kleiner as what is, probably, the sickest burn Kleiner can give out. Destroying Breen with strong word choice and juxtaposition.

[@reidhanson4755]

EP1 was by far the best Half Life but it did have some awesome moments. And this speech gives me chills every time I play it or hear it. This video just makes it so much better. I'm so fucking bummed there isn't a HL3 or EP3 (and probably will never be) but I'm so glad there are talented as fuck people out there like you who can give us the same sense of wonder and amazement.

[@reidhanson4755]

BTW because I sort of give a shit. I was the lead writer on a mod called OP42 but left before the mods completion. I'm biased in this but I truly believe I wrote a good script for the post seven hour way. IDK what the lead dev kept in because I left before it's completion but I know there are aspects of my script still in there. I do not, however, know if Adrian's goal was to prevent a portal storm which would allow full control via the combine (which is to imply that the combine are at severely reduced capacity in HL2 and have switched tactics to rely on augmented humans/combine soldiers to oversee the human population). The combine were attempting to do as they've done before and open a mega-portal/multiple portals across earth which they could then travel through unlimitedly and without restriction (not being limited to the citadels and their heavy restrictions). Of course Adrian would succeed in doing so and it's the only reason Humans as a species had even a modicum of hope for Gordon to tip the scales. I'd love to re-write it and give it to someone if they're interested. I remember probably 75 percent of it and I can verify my identify if needed.

[@x_ALLMIND_x]

Thank you for all that you give us!

[@MrClauws]

I know the combine is bad and all, but I hope the fellas at 3:18 are safe..

[@BurgundianLullaby]

they got dead are

[@Crazyscob]

After city 17 explosion they propably died.

[@XiasIV]

I pray all my homies make it

[@MrClauws]

@@XiasIV fr

[@d0ppi0449]

He should do a short film on them and if he does i hope they survive

[@DeadeyeJace]

This amazes me as much when episode 1 came out, damn I wonder what source 2 kleiner would look like. Anyway, I am astonished, nice work

[@LordChevonlier]

4:24 "...as we struggle out of the shadow of our malefactors, welcome back to the light." Gave me chills.

[@Friendly_Lad]

Now I know it was mentioned before but the way you sprinkled in that metrocop was a good little detail. The combine are in pieces now and the remaining forces, whether they be civil protection , standard Infantry, or elites, must band together to attempt to suppress the rebels

[@D3K43]

3:32 , In a certain way, I've always felt sympathetic to the Civil Protection units in the Half-Life series. They are mere humans caught up in something far larger to them, a threat so large and otherworldly that it is almost incomprehensible. So what they most focus on is day-day survival, the need to gain resources and safety. Such needs dictate that joining up with the Civil Protection for greater rations and immunity to other Civil Protection units is the best choice. Now take this particular Civil Protection unit. The best, or perhaps worst for him, has come to pass. City 17 has been compromised and Earth is cut-off from the greater Combine. Rebel forces are gaining strength while remaining Combine forces are grasping at straws, scraping up every combative unit to regain control, including him. He undoubtedly regrets his choice, and is most certainly looking for a way out, but dissent from the Combine carries the punishment of death, and the rebels hate him as well.

[@aglassofcacao8051]

Well, also in a lot of cases, being caught as a former "collaborator" of a falling or a fallen regime doesnt bode well for that person in terms of life expectancy. So actually makes a lot of sense for a Civil Protection Guard to go with the remaining Combines instead. So for them it's probably a choice between getting lynched by revengeful rebels and civilians (Must not necessarly be the truth or that it's actually always happening to surrendering/caught Civil Protection Guards, but in the Civil Protection eyes it might be) or getting out of the city with the remaining Combine units and waiting for the Combines to return to Earth and welcome them as a loyal Civil Protection Guard, for which he might get "nicely" rewarded by their Overlords. Which also probably much better than getting punished as a rebellious Combine subject.

[@midgerm]

some people talk about the metro cop and question his loyalty to the combine but his loyalty to the combine makes sense: think about it - its SAFER with the combine the resistance has EVERY reason to shoot you on sight; you where on the combines side, you wear their uniform, you tormented people for the combine - the soldiers at least wont kill you on sight rebels: "its a CP, KILL HIM!" soldiers: "a civil protection member....you there. come with us, we need to regroup with rest of our unit"

[@-Mopo]

One of the best video game speeches ever, great work on the scene!

[@Aims_Games203]

Hearing Kleiner’s speech accompanied by such a lively backdrop packed with minute details and far far better diegetic sound than just the Episode One menu actually made me feel much more for the resistance, having me tear up at how even though it’s a “temporary state of affairs” and they know that even now, we can still so easily be outdone by the Combine, that even such a fraction of hope is taken as a huge privilege.

[@ImSoGhost]

I can't even begin to imagine how I would even start a project like this. It's like beyond impressive to me. I just finished the entire half life series and I can't help but imagine the crackdream of the entire series looking as gorgeous and well rendered as this. Magnificent work to say the least.

[@faizanraza255]

Great guy, I met him in City 15 a few years back. He was looking for his cat as we spoke. He's not much social in person.

[@kurushimee]

This speech is so powerful and atmospheric that it gives me shivers anytime I hear it

[@tuachixiong5232]

Honestly if I saw Gordon walking away form the screen, while holding a crowbar, it would've been the very delicious icing on the cake I just watched.

[@Bigboyscreeneditz]

Thank you so much for including the metrocop you are the GOAT!

[@damianrodriguez7165]

I never really thought about it but all the humans that die in Half Life 2 are the last of their generation and the last of their entire race until babies are born again. So Kleiner telling everyone to have sex and reproduce is oddly touching as he's delivering the news that humanity will not go extinct.

[@TitanKaempfer]

I just thought about it. Like I knew the implications of this statement, but I just realized, that there are some interesting things happening. There will always be this age gap in humanity, as there are simply no people to fill this gap, like it normally would be the case and this gap will only vanish at the time all the pre-combine invasion people die. But not only this, just imagine the emotions the people must feel when they see the first babies being born. Not only the happiness that humankind won't go extinct, but also the feelings for the youngest people to vividly see their first real baby in a life time.

[@Kingmaxthe2]

2:25 love that strider in the background getting up and then falling back over

[@dgrunklesamiii4615]

I think it went into an underground metro tunnel. You can vaguely hear it continue walking before the stomps are fully muffled by the terrain.

[@deadlybunz]

It's crouching actually, I could recognize that motion they do anywhere

[@SirKolass]

Rest in peace, you'll be remembered.

[@SheffMarkGmod]

0:42 The strider did not even give a damn about his speech and instead just walked away.

[@ScreamingDeagles]

Man this got me fucked up, great work as always. animation stitching is something I can't do yet but someday.

[@DehToadKing]

Kleiner's speech in a nutshell "Sex. NOW!"

[@Bordie3D]

3:19 those soldiers give me goose-bumps.

[@masonswinehart8002]

That is one loyal metrocop

[@gonchiy2134]

Amazing! The women, who sings in background is giving me chills

[@taegamerth2044]

When did she start singing?

[@dgrunklesamiii4615]

@@taegamerth2044 Only women in the background I can think of is the Overwatch superintelligence. With the Citadel being critically damaged, her neurocomputational matrix lost a considerable amount of processing power, so her words became slow, repetitious, and redundant. It wasn't long before the soldiers started to ignore her.

[@SkyTied]

Johnny Silverhand? Hell yeah. Even if you didn't enjoy Cyberpunk you can't say the music isn't brilliant.

[@angelofiron4366]

I think you mean- *Johnny Silvercock.* 😎👌

[@LaVirek]

"Carefull Lamaar, those lamps are quite hot"

[@JvneXII]

I think either I missed this one, or I didn't remember it. But holy ****, it looks spectacular. I loved the sound design on this one, and the scene where the Combine Soldiers ran across the scenery with the Metrocop. A really commendable reimagining of this scene. Fantastic job.

[@dgrunklesamiii4615]

*"Now where did I put that calculator?"*

[@christiansee2380]

The sun is leaking The sun is leaking The sun is leaking The sun is leaking

[@Kell-b9n]

? Are you okay? You should get visit from doctor, you bumped your head

[@DgmeOFFicial]

The sun is leaking The sun is leaking The sun is leaking The sun is leaking The sun is leaking The sun is leaking The sun is leaking The sun is leaking

[@SkizBoots]

What a subtle trip down memory lain this was. Expertly done.

[@MrGermandeutsch]

I absolutely love the small detail of sound traversing at a slower pace, making this scene so much more realistic!

[@TheRyleeFella]

that metrocop with the soldiers is like a freshman hanging out with seniors i wouldve liked to see some rogue cops during the uprising as like stronger rebels or rebels opening combine gates or forcefields

[@SCP-mt7bc]

Well, you have it, the normal rebels, it's good to take off your uniform so you don't get shot by some rebel, even if you're on their side.

[@TheRyleeFella]

@@SCP-mt7bc they can atleast take off their masks or spray paint the lambda symbol on their uniform somewhere

[@VolkovVelikan]

You get the middle ground in the game. A full squad of metrocops with an APC even were trying to escape C17 you encountered them while helping to evacuate civilians in the train station.

[@UnrulyVet]

I would love to see the Half Life series remastered like this. Great Job. Love it.

[@racman9964]

This is pure art! Such a gorgeous scene! Thank you for this

[@splashmob]

beautifully done. makes me wish for a full HL2 remake in this style, though there's no way in hell it'd happen.

[@etherealrat1818]

Curly pfp gang

[@literaldirt]

funnily enough a GeForce leak had potential proof of an HL2 remake

[@hazzmati]

A new HL2 remaster is in the make and it's going to be big. Keep an eye out

[@DirectorReiuji]

@@hazzmati it’ll be running on Source CSGO engine, so definitely will be an upgrade, but don’t expect it to be S2 levels of graphics

[@wawawuu]

No way this will happen? You seriously underestimate the Half-Life community and the generosity of our benefa-, Valve, giving such projects their silent blessing.

[@DlolFace]

Late but i love how you use Cyberpunk Soundtracks for the eerie ambience

[@TheNairOG]

This is so beautiful! Thank you so much

[@MightyCoffeeMaker]

You are doing an incredible work. I would love to have a remake that level, or a full fledged animated movie.

[@SomeGrunt_On_Youtube]

Holy crap this looks amazing! And the metrocop holding the ar2 he probably took off of a dead combine soldier following the other soldiers was just awesome! (And i don’t know why i also liked a rebel yelling “STRIDER!” in the distance)

[@thedoruk6324]

This is simply amazing absolute talent! Although I wonder what is that Civil Protection officer doing with Combine Transhuman Soldiers

[@vonbraunprimarch]

Trying to survive like anyone else in that hell zone.

[@thedoruk6324]

@@vonbraunprimarch he might regret his siding with transhumance operatives he should just have get rid of his suit and go to the human rebels for evacuation

[@vonbraunprimarch]

@@thedoruk6324 Possibly.

[@agentcaninemutt]

The combine tore humanity aoart everything is confusing

[@SirKolass]

@@thedoruk6324 I'm pretty sure most of them did that, except for the few chicken shit metrocops. I believe they just grouped to try and leave the city on their own though, they wouldn't risk their lives for the Combine at that point.

[@hartcored]

This would be an awesome main menu theme for Half-Life: Shephard game which indicates in City 17 while Adrian is trying to survive and understand what the hell is going on after he's awakening in the middle of a rebellion in City 17.

[@ramblinnernd5905]

1:46 At least our boys from Protectors got out!

[@dextergrif]

This would be perfect for Wallpaper Engine.

[@Srcsqwrn]

Awesome work. I really would love to see another location with this announcement playing, this is just atmospheric and Kleiner being on the big screen gives a lot of hope. A tangible change.

[@Whompa02]

Half-Life is just fucking awesome...

[@Momo5775]

I like how the Overwatch seems to be overwhelmed. “Alert, alert, alert,..” It does not give much information or instructions, unlike its normal operations.

[@infinitydott]

god I'd love to have this as a screensaver

[@alexanderthegreat445]

Something this video does really well is highlighting how utterly disorientated and defeated the combine are. Flying and running in different directions, clearly not receiving any orders and just responding to any sos or call out from combine units. This is a military that has been defeated and is now struggling to resemble any kind of force. In this situation, they’re vulnerable to ambush and being picked off. They’ll definitely pick themselves back up and regroup and fight again but they are not the same threat they previously were. Knowing that the citadel essentially contained the reserves of the combine military within it, its loss not only isolates the combine, it makes them extremely fragile. Any loss cannot be replaced and their is no guarantee of overbearing force like they had before hand.

[@LehySnek]

Goddamn you are good. That looks painted, and real at the same time. Very capable editor

[@ssnork4359]

YOUR PFP IS SO CUTE

[@LehySnek]

@@ssnork4359

[@CynicalPear]

I am happy to have gotten into the Half-Life series now other than any time in the the past two decades. Brilliant timing, me.

[@tanybrachid]

This took an already awesome scene and made it EPIC The scale of the destruction... Just wow

[@PotatoNavigator]

This is amazing! Well done! Please make more of these! The bridge scene in Episode 2 would be a good one to remake into your style.

[@bluestone9726]

"Oh, and Gordon doesn't need to hear this. He's a highly trained professional."

[@kasywer]

kleiner is such un underated character, this makes him more badass

[@LungoScrungo]

2:30 Anyone else notice that strider trying to get up and then immediately falling down?

[@FF009A]

I don't entirely know why, but I'm absolutely in love with the picture of a lone CP still running it with Overwatch. That's dedication, and the way it was portrayed was stunning and unexpected.

[@CatsT.M]

Harry S. Robins' performance was great here.

[@robotz2129]

I think it’s cool how in the Half-Life universe it’s not a military who beats the evil alien force but it’s scientists (not counting the rebel force)

[@vanguard6498]

Why not count the Rebels? They fought and died for a week before Gordon returned, they are heros.