Half-Life 2's Scariest Beta Feature | Manhack Arcade | FULL Half-Life 2 Beta Lore

[@Skyrionn]

Would you have visited The Manhack Arcade?

[@introguest]

Hell yea! imagine how cool it would be to control a man-hack, Though I will still kill people, so there's that..

[@ordinalgaming102]

ayo when you talking about grunts, ordinals , wallhammers and suppresors and some other enemies bro. and also manhack arcade is a classic

[@loveskngm31hstsdaily1]

fr tho its neat

[@denifnaf5874]

I'd be one of the guards

[@Buckets747]

I went to it once The lines were too long I gave it a one star on combine yelp.

[@DaRealBruner]

Something I think would be kinda interesting for a beta mod to do is implement the manhack arcade and have the ability to actually play it... Then later in the game during the canal and sewer sections, you actually come across one of the rebel hideouts you visited from the arcade. You slowly put the pieces together and realize you were killing actual people all along.

[@happyface4952]

That would be brutal

[@spzz33]

Dark Interval has implemented it but its really rough. The colors are scuffed.

[@MintyLime703]

Alternatively there could be a part of a mod where a resistance cell manages to capture the arcade and turn the manhacks on the Combine. It could be out of a general show of defiance or maybe an effort to stop an ongoing raid of a resistance base through sabotage.

[@LoganVloedman-gr4ix]

I wish we could get a high quality mod of the beta

[@enricofermi3471]

Raising the Bar Redux is great. No playable manhack arcade though (but you go through the place). Although it's not 100% pure beta recreation, more like "Black Mesa but for HL2 Beta". Dark Interval is also high up there, but so far it's very short - barely 2 hours. But you get to play manhack arcade.

[@draconon7072]

Citizen: "Damn, I can never get past the outlands level. One of the shotgun enemies keeps shooting me out of the sky! Hopefully it's just a bug..." The resistance member who used to shoot clay pigeons before the war: "When will they learn to stop sending those damn things over here!?"

[@joseocasio3740]

lol, I can imagine that bird hunters would have a great time killing manhacks

[@audriusskebas3099]

14:27 another idea for a game "Manner scanner" You are a cartoon like city scanner and you have to fly around and find people who do things that oppose the combine. If you find such people you have to take a video of them doing said action and you get points to upgrade and what not. Bonus points for finding rebel hideouts!

[@totallynoteverything1.]

"they caught your ass in 4k" simulator

[@thagreenball]

​@@totallynoteverything1.LMAO

[@thatdude1435]

Ngl i would play that lol

[@Spiderella3959]

Pokemon Go, Combine edition

[@THEREISCONVICTHERE]

it should be like the manhack game like its real rebels and other stuff

[@samuelantoniocastillomeza5034]

Mixing my love for arcades with a dystopian conqueror force using videoames as an unwilling military recruitment of sorts. Combine are wicked and evil pricks but damn if they aren't creative. Wish we got more official insight of the Manhack Arcade because horrors aside, the idea is genuinely inventive!

[@Skyrionn]

That's the best way to describe them "Wicked". Truly horrendous.

[@EnclavegovtofficialUSA]

it's smart, best way to keep a human quiet is entertainment.

[@Durgon-Man]

Could you imagine if the Resistance took control of the Manhack Arcade during the uprising?

[@Skyrionn]

Imagine the fun we could have

[@therandomlaniusedward2140]

​@Skyrionn the D0G arcade Basically you control one of mass produced D0G units

[@bloxyton]

Controlling man hacks to kill combines sounds fun

[@thefancydoge8668]

I assume they would have to change some of the code to change the objectives to kill combine members and allow the manhacks to kill combine members since I doubt the manhacks were able to harm anyone in the combine without being well, hacked.

[@NuclearDemoman]

Honestly, judging by the way the manhacks move, it might have been a collosal pain in the ass to control.

[@Skyrionn]

Probably

[@thesmilingman7576]

I like to think they somehow controlled it with a trackball

[@l0rf]

The issue I see with an arcade like this is that it introduces a number of in universe logic problems. Are there so many resistance members that the combine can literally resort to them being used as targets in a virtual reality game? It would be so boring to play if you just patrolled a sewer for 15 minutes and only encountered 3 zombies and a barnacle at most. So either the resistance is so numerous that they can be constantly used as targets in a game or the game is incredibly boring. Plus, you know how gamers are. They will absolutely attempt to cause as much havoc as possible. It's just a game, after all. I can totally steer my manhack into the Combine Police or the camera drones and just restart... No, I think the arcade is a cool concept for the vile nature of the Combine but it just doesn't work for me.

[@firedolphin7621]

Hard agree. Interesting concept but falls flat on its face when given a bit more thought.

[@ilikepigeons6101]

this

[@bootygoblinthaseaman3233]

i could see it kind of working if there was an actual tangible reward like more rations or something for good play, but its definitely a flawed concept

[@randomnerd9088]

Beta restoration mods make this work better than how it is depicted in the video. Essentially, making it more of an abstract retro game experience where it's quite clear that players are interacting with both a game AND interacting with the real world thereby blurring reality.

[@firedolphin7621]

@@randomnerd9088 That does make it a bit better, but I still personally think it's too hard to suspend my disbelief for.

[@Nin0z1]

Some bits of the beta were just great, should've stayed. Still, we got a great game. And not only that, but a great new Half Life video from Skyrionn! Awesome work and great narration as always man.

[@Skyrionn]

Thanks bud!

[@imperatoriacustodum4667]

The combine are creative in their ways of control. I feel like the arcade should've been internally like the first concept to really play into the idea that it's simply an arcade - make it easier to manipulate the citizens. Externally (and behind the scenes) it could still retain the very combine-esque look. Like how places decorate the areas everyone's meant to see and not the staff-only areas.

[@therandomlaniusedward2140]

Staff-only areas must have some combine military stuff.

[@Futo_no_mononobe]

I absolutely adore your videos, they feel like actual documentaries of my favorite franchise ever. Please keep doing them, you're amazing!!

[@Skyrionn]

It's the style I go for. Thanks for watching!

[@SerotoninCrunch]

I second that! The style of these videos really make you feel immersed into the series, sometimes it's like a historian detailing the atrocities of war long past, or journalist of a long-time liberated region reporting on what the combine are doing.

[@dimitar4y]

i love how in the lore, the combine are very "competent" but also very incompetent and very "dumb". But they're also absolutely indifferent.

[@dextergrif]

This was one of a few concepts I wish they included in the final game. It sets up how efficient the Combine is at manipulating the populace and how little they care about the lives of humanity.

[@borisalien1882]

RE: 16:07 the building is modeled after the National Palace of Culture, Sofia (Bulgaria). The art director (Viktor Antonov) is Bulgarian which is where he drew inspiration for most of City 17's architecture. The star is probably a callback to the Soviet era. In a couple of points during HL2, City 17 has Bulgarian writing and that set the stage for these games to take place in a pseudo-real Slavic nation, moving Eastward with subsequent installments (Episode 2, Alyx). Location was never clear but this is the origin for the vague Slavic/Eastern European aesthetics.

[@SurrendeR1993]

I watched the Mossman lore about 3 hours ago and was exicted to watch the there announced beta lores and was sad, that I could not find many. And now you released one. Excellent! ❤

[@Skyrionn]

Nice! I do have a few other beta videos. Cremators, Stalkers and The Consul. They should be in a playlist somewhere on the channel :)

[@ricefieldmanager9088]

The way you explain every unit in games makes me wanna call you The All-Knowing Skyrionn

[@Boss-_]

I don't know what Valve thought overall, but I think a lot of the stuff that was cut made the combine a bit cartoonishly evil, like polluting the air and saying "A good citizen saves oxygen" or whatever, and yes, the manhack arcade. The final version is a lot more realistically oppressive, gray and soulcrushing

[@DONG-502]

Well they could just rework everything

[@DONG-502]

Well they could just rework everything that was cut

[@A_Combine_Elite]

Skyrionn i gotta admit you're content is.......AMAZING i like how you're voice is calm and relaxed and straight focused on the context,keep up the good good content you earned a sub

[@ToastedHeadcrab]

I’m manhacking all over the place rn

[@oiyile1971]

Who up hacking their man

[@Pyromaniax]

Love the version that they made for Dark Interval, looks like the most polished one yet

[@Skyrionn]

I've seen a few comments about that. May need to look into it.

[@Gaelic-Spirit]

The Manhack arcade was probably removed because it doesn't make sense. - It would be very obvious in the game and outside of it that people are controlling real drones - It wouldn't make sense for people to be playing it during the revolution - Seeing Gordon Freeman constantly win in the game would be a total immersion ruiner, especially if you've heard of him (he could have his appearance replaced though, doesn't make him less OP) - It's like Microsoft flight simulator, at least a few people would bring a manhack to their communal house or arcade and they or their roommates would see it.

[@dimitar4y]

hey man, good video. Anything that adds high quality depth to the half life universe is awesome

[@entropic-decay]

now I'm just imagining someone playing at one of these and seeing Gordon just, smack them out of the air with a crowbar

[@Skyrionn]

GAME OVER

[@Nogardtist]

if i was a lead developer for half-life 3 i would just make that freeman messed with time and space causing a fatal paradox that gman employed to fix it but its too much of a nudge to fix while freeman goes trough the world of half-life 2 beta to the point manhack arcade is real and the more you play it the more difficult the manhack gets literally upgrading it yourself by playing more and more once you continue the chapter but eventually gman does what it was tasked and halfl-life 3 reality universe reshuffles and the paradox is corrected at the end once gordom freeman disturbs the portal where the consul tries to escape and at that part gman just congratulates freeman for making their job finish and ask gordon to forget all about what happened sure the ending sounds disappointing but knowing half-life is dealing with dimensions that mess with time and space

[@drinklewinkle]

The manhack arcade is an interesting idea but I'm kinda glad we didn't get it in a way. The way this was made seems a little bit on the nose, even for the combine. It's a cool idea having people unwittingly serving via arcades but having it be something that is so blatantly obvious seems a bit goofy, if it was like recreations of half life 1 lets say from a breen account: "Kill vortigaunts and military!" and the military could hypothetically just be militia. Hell you could have a "crush the castle" style game that's just firing artillery or something. I feel like having a game literally just playing a manhack is a bit too much.

[@pilotbug6100]

Yeah I was telling a friend about it. I asked him what he thought the twist was, he instantly saw through it

[@songworks17]

Man, with drones becoming a bigger and bigger part of our modern warfare, I fear that such a "game" might one day become a reality. I would have loved to see the Manhack Arcade in the game, or even better in Half Life Alyx. But I think, from a business point of view, the HL2 beta is too grimdark. The game would probably have been rated R or at least mature. Unfortunately they had to tone it down for retail to sell more copies.

[@shapeswitch_mood7221]

Imagine if when playing HackMan, you taunt the Human Target or be all Friendly. I also see some doing some Speedrun Any%... xD

[@babalonkie]

I remember getting the equivalent of the Deluxe Edition after playing the early demo... i noticed the massive change, especially after reading the developers book... But i was not actually disappointed... HL2 felt right and still impressed.

[@Skyrionn]

Half-Life 2 was still pretty much perfection. There were just a few things I feel we missed out on. That book is amazing to look through too. So much information!

[@lopunu]

Interesting that this was in the beta. The manhack arcade idea was also used in season 2 of psycho pass. Cool concept in both

[@Skyrionn]

Pretty interesting

[@XanderNiles]

Taking control of a manhack would've been really crazy. That arcade sounds like a fun idea.

[@zerrierslizer1]

i remember when i encountered a Manhack for the first time in Half-Life 2, the first time i played it. the thought of something like that, doing what it was designed to do, it terrified me.

[@flare242]

Triage at Dawn is so hauntingly sad piece of music... It always gets me right in the feels.

[@caspar4802]

I love your videos and I’m amazed how you still find interesting topics about this universe. I mean you have made so many videos about half life, your channel is like the unofficial half-life bible :D

[@Skyrionn]

That's a great compliment. There are still so many topics to cover!

[@CIS-m8s]

As a kid I was always terrified when I heard those horrid metallic fluttering, the fact fact they where fast and could come from any where small and compact. I was actually kind of disappointed that they weren't more prevalent in ,ALYX.

[@Neeb-tt9hn]

Please keep doing beta videos there amazing.

[@totallynoteverything1.]

I imagine that the person who successfully manhacks Gordon Freeman would get a generous ration reward

[@totallynoteverything1.]

I also imagine he is highlighted in orange during his escape from the canals

[@greasygurl9386]

a great vid as always, i love the beta content, i hope some of it gets reused in future games (if they come)

[@Skyrionn]

Thanks! This beta stuff is super interesting. I love covering it. Thanks for watching it!

[@saschaberger3212]

Crazy, I didn't know that the beta even has so much content and lore.

[@ThommyofThenn]

Pretty neat innit?

[@Skyrionn]

There's so much!

[@joaquinaizenberg]

"When they came upon humanity" Ayo what is the combine doing with the planets?

[@devilwarr1or]

Man I LOVE your videos! keep up the amazing work!!!!

[@SerpentNight]

Have you considered covering the "Escape From City 17" vids by The Purchase Brothers? Valve was impressed enough by them to give them a nod and its amazing what they were able to do on such a low budget.

[@Skyrionn]

I can't say I've heard of it. I'll have to look into it now though!

[@feller6766]

I really want to see a video about The Combine's forces vs Hell's forces from Doom, a comparison on who's worse and more powerful.

[@Syrhunter1]

A man hack arcade would have been dope, but there's probably some holes in the concept. I think it would have been an interesting addition to the variety of play styles though

[@jaybazza248]

ManHack: My Tummy Gordon Freeman: The leftovers from asian take-away in the fridge

[@notaclass-d1822]

the combine be comically evil for this one, they be twirling their mustaches with this one, as if they were watching a broad they had tied up on train tracks or smth

[@willtell8842]

So the Manhacks see in a form of pyrovision.

[@Skyrionn]

I'd love that

[@doctordogelordtmg9637]

Manhack arcade is a genius idea on the combine's part i would've really loved to see it also comment for algorithm 👍

[@Skyrionn]

Thanks for watching!

[@chipsdubbo5.56]

I really enjoy your videos keep it up!

[@Skyrionn]

Thanks for watching!

[@kriegsmesser4567]

Fun fact: the city 17 uprising was not instigated by the Nova Prospect destruction. It was simply a result of the collective gamer rage felt by countless citizens, having each had their manhack killed by Gordon Freeman 50 times in a row.

[@AngryShooter]

Maybe this is a bit of a reach but the arcade idea feels a bit like what the rumored upcoming Half-Life game code name "Citadel" has been rumored to be, someone in a control station playing a top down strategy game (arcade?), and then there's players on the ground in a FPS perspective, maybe the person in the command center could play either a support role for a team on the ground, or set obstacles to stop them, the game apparently would involve all sorts of characters from Half-Life, including the combine.

[@flammablegoodness1168]

"The words Dark & Gritty may come to mind."

[@delmuswu-tangbroadnax9056]

I feel like if the resistance started carring around a chain 9 tail whip itd be fairly effective against the manhacks

[@muratsmg62]

I know I'm 3 months late but here's another important about Manhack Arcade A Half-Life 2 Beta Mod on Source Engine called "Dark Interval" fully remastered The Manhack Arcade both Location and The Arcade Section itself! With flashing lights and cool beeps and boops. I kinda would like to see Dark Interval's maps in your videos if you cover a HL2 Beta themed video, The maps literally push the Source Engine to it's limit.

[@wirem]

Imagine how much the citizens were tired and scared.. And they found a little light in the darkness by playing the arcade.. They could have some rest and fun despite the fact they were killing their true heroes.

[@phkwhfogjr5dowjf7xkq]

The combine took realism to another level💀

[@keenasp1869]

This is actually one of the best lore channels outthere

[@RJC_Mutant]

Another great video on half life

[@Skyrionn]

Thanks snip

[@TheMrSeagull]

Honestly, it feels a bit too unrealistic for the setting - I don't think too many citizens would want to play that sort of scenario, knowing what the manhacks are and how they're used, even if they believed it was entirely virtual. You've been conquered, rounded up into ghettos, stripped of possessions, freedom, and identity - under constant surveillance and threat of being brutally assaulted and dragged away to Nova Prospect at any moment, and your conquerors offer you a leisurely activity of "pretending" to hunt down your fellow prisoners and brutally execute them. Doesn't really make sense to me. If they were so broken and defeated as to be desensitized to such things, they would also very likely lack the drive to partake in such forms of "leisure". Now, if this was a thing Civil Protection did on their free time, that would make much more sense. Maybe people who excel and show enough enthusiasm are marked for potential combine "promotions".

[@bigbirdy1052]

I was thinking so too. Good point!

[@ReaverSenpai]

HL 2: Dr. Breen successfully brokers a deal HL 2 Beta: Dr.Breen is killed during the 7 hour war before peace is declared Kind of explains why the Combine was so much more ruthless in the Beta.

[@krush454]

another great one my friend!

[@Skyrionn]

Thanks! This is probably one of my favourite ones I have put together in a while too!

[@brickshitter8015]

I love these deep dives!

[@Skyrionn]

me too haha

[@_s0mm_]

I gotta be honest, this is the most efficient way to kill the rebellion off. Imagine a Speedrunner or a person who like grinding for loot on games, killing hundreds to ensure the benefits of their upgrades. And virtual skins (virtual as in the player thinks a customizable skin is on their manhack, because the combine obviously wouldn't allow people to customize a manhack)

[@anonymouse740]

It seems like making 2 different games and releasing the best one is a common theme for Half-Life. They did it with 1 and 2. I wonder if there was a beta version of Half-Life Alyx that no one knows about because it wasn't part of any hack.

[@dsouth7754]

The arcade was sort of an interesting idea, but it was so cliche that any player would see the _"if they die in the game, they die in real life"_ aspect from the beginning. Retail and Beta is probably the best case of addition by subtraction for game releases.

[@gabrielwolffe]

I feel like the Manhack-Arcade could have unintentionally introduced some interesting and disturbing meta-level considerations while playing HL2 itself; if you didn't know the Manhack-Arcade was real, how could you know that HL2 wasn't real, and if you were just piloting Gordon to kill someone who didn't deserve it? At least, that's what I would have probably ended up thinking at some point, and there's already enough meta-commentary built into HL2 that I think the Manhack-Arcade, while cool from a story perspective, might have just muddled the waters a bit too much for me to enjoy the game as much; probably a good thing that it was "cut" in that regard.

[@benthomason3307]

Freeman's Mind demonstrated that manhacks would actually be rather pathetic in real life combat, as that series' Freeman was able to completely hold the ones in the sewers at bay just by standing on the other side of a chain link fence, and it's pointed out that they could be defeated with something as simple as a baseball bat. He actually speculates that they were designed to hunt and kill rats, not people. On top of that, the very concept of the manhack arcade sounds utterly absurd to me. Yes, it's very much _evil_ to trick your slaves into unwittingly slaughtering their own resistance, but it's more important to ask how _practical_ that would be, or more specifically if it would be more practical than just piloting the manhacks yourself. And I think it very much wouldn't, for the simple reason that a pilot who thinks he's playing a videogame wouldn't take his task as seriously as a loyal combine pilot working for you knowingly and willingly. He might be the sort of player who compulsively smashes every crate he comes across, for example, which furthermore would probably drive resistance fighters to wonder why the real manhacks killing them are behaving exactly like the virtual ones in the arcade... There's also the fact that said gamer would not be given any sort of training on how to actually do their job before being sent out into the field. Honestly dropping this concept was very much the right move on Valve's part if you ask me, even if it doesn't seem to necessarily have been for the right reasons going by the explanation you give in the video.

[@OneReallyGrumpyJill]

The more I learn about the beta, the more it seems that Half-Life was meant to be a hardcore allegory of fascism, shame that they had to cut it down so much - honestly wouldn't mind mature remake of Half-Life 2 tho

[@carmelosgro6413]

This reminded me of Grand Theft Auto - San Andreas & Grand Theft Auto 4. You can play video games within a video game

[@beaverjedi1236]

Oh my god... The Combine weaponized video games!!!

[@TravTravRA]

17:57 my tesla spotting a child on the sensors

[@tyefal]

Imagine telling your homies in city 17 you got the gordon freeman secret level

[@dimondcreeper0]

Maybe you could do some lore videos on characters from the entropy zero series

[@Skyrionn]

I've thought about it!

[@Zidan-Gaming31]

So whenever I go to school I see a building callled"Citadel"even tho it's the opposite of the citadel and is very short 😂

[@Tesko249clips]

wow, that is a lot of cinematic shots in this video. And all of them fit the narration. Super entertaining to watch and listen to :)

[@Skyrionn]

Thanks for watching!

[@notaphycologyst6644]

"damn, that gordon freeman boss is really hard!"

[@mrawesome2847]

We need a video talking about the conscripts

[@Buckets747]

Fun fact Lazlo from the coast chapter Actually has a kill trigger so you cant save him?

[@bigbirdy1052]

The US actually had an idea to do something like this, but to stun terrorists with a flying drone. It was obviously scrapped, but it is still chilling to think that is was a real idea.

[@JUVENTINO1602]

epic content bruv love your channel you're a good guy.

[@Skyrionn]

Thanks bud for being here!

[@johnathanegbert9277]

If I played Hackman, I would be disturbed by the screams and stop playing immediately. Even if it killed me. I would just come back, because I am a God-Tier.

[@rgstever]

What I find depressing is that Valve watered their game down for that "T for Teen" ESRB rating. We could have had a much better game if they kept developing on the air purifier scenario version that was leaved in 2003.

[@Raiden__985]

i wish somone made a browser game that is just the game from the manhack arcade from the half life 2 beta called "hackman"

[@therandomlaniusedward2140]

TL:DR Ender's game: but reverse

[@KibethBelgaer]

I would argue that sure there is a psychological manipulation element here, but the combine are specialists in biological manipulation first. A lot of these things would be neurological programming utilizing the same predatory practices of loot boxes/skinner boxes to connect the win with a release of positive hormones/neurotransmitters. This would also be amplified by the wait, sure it could be a thing for competitiveness but by forcing people to wait it makes the hit of the feel good chemicals much stronger.

[@masterofbloopers]

I think I unwittingly made a Creepypasta about this as a kid. One where I play an FPS game that's a bit _too_ realistic.

[@Skyrionn]

It appears the concept has been used multiple times in media too

[@DONG-502]

Where l can find it?

[@Hyperion-5744]

The hydra from the half life 2 beta would be good to cover.

[@neves5083]

I find the manhack Arcade pretty cool. But just like the Consul, it looks too cartoonish for me to really work. It's not like playing a game of beating the other, is more like a game about beating yourself. I dont think it makes a lot of sense. At least in my impression, humanity is for the most part a population that knows it is under occupation and oppression. They obey the combine because they had to. It's not like 1984 where the population direct his hate towards the enemies of state. For the humans in half life the enemy is the state and the colaborators. I don't think they would like to play a game about being a very characteristic weapon that they know that kills their own people every day. Is like making a game about using cars to run over people in terrorist attacks in the streets.

[@Manuqtix.Manuqtix]

I can’t believe hl2 predicted the use of suicidal military drones used by infantry men Maybe it’s also right about the combine maybe they really do exist

[@paranoiia8]

Well we need to admit that it is brilliant. Slap some cartoonist shader to camera feed, connect it to drone in different city disconnect it every few minutes to simulate levels and done! You have inteligent cheap drone controller...

[@HebertVargas]

Another excelent video, thank you

[@Skyrionn]

Thank ye!

[@felixman9691]

Thank you!

[@Zenlore6499]

I’ve not played Half-Life 2 very much, so I could be wrong, but this feels a bit too… predictably dystopian for HL2. I’m glad it didn’t make it to retail. It fits better elsewhere.

[@Skyrionn]

It seems other people feel this way. I completely understand your viewpoint too! I tend to prefer darker, manipulative stories personally.

[@machiner6]

Does this arcade game premise remind anyone of Superhot? Feels like an inspiration for that game.

[@SnakeKoRn]

Woooooohhhw!! Yeah! Another vid !!

[@Skyrionn]

Every week! Thanks for being here :D

[@leomartin7409]

imagine they drive it into the arcade and kill themselves "Hey, that guy looks exactly like me! Kinda pissin' me off, to hell with yAUUGHH AAAAAAAAAAA"

[@Lichcrafter]

Although the man-hack arcade is a cool part of the beta that fits into the grimdark aesthetic, I think it was a good thing it was cut, mostly because it doesn't make a huge amount of sense in-game. First of all, the way it is presented in the beta makes it pretty transparent that you are actually controlling real man-hacks. I think it would be a lot better disguised if it was a completely different game (I mean, right now it was literally called hack-man), where some sort of AI is used to replace the resistance members in the game with some cartoony enemy. The real benefit of having this system is that you are essentially outsourcing the man-hack AI to a human, and the only thing you need from the person are the game inputs. So you can completely change the graphics of the game, as long as the core gameplay is the same as controlling the man-hack. Also, is every man-hack directly controlled by a civilian? If not, it would be embarrassing if a CP deployed a man-hack only for it to not do anything since no one was playing its game. What if a resistance member entered the arcade, and started turning the man-hacks on the CPs that deployed them? So although I think it is a cool dystopian idea, just having man-hacks use AI like they do in the final game make a lot more sense.

[@iancampbell3960]

1:19 RADIATION HAZARD!!!!

[@glenngriffon8032]

Someone needs to make the Beta into a full game

[@Peter_Turbo4]

Raising the Bar: Redux

[@jorho]

14:32 Oh no...

[@Andrew08893]

Will you ever do that video on the Combine Guards?

[@Skyrionn]

They're on the list :D