Half-Life: Alyx - Xen Creature Analysis

==Timestamps==
0:00 - Intro
0:09 - Headcrab
1:01 - Armoured Headcrab
2:04 - Toxic Headcrab
2:39 - Lightning Dog
3:48 - Normal Zombie
4:48 - Armoured Zombie
5:06 - Electric Zombie
6:17 - Jeff
6:56 - Antlions
7:33 - Antlion Workers
8:08 - Barnacles
8:35 - Bonus Scenes
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[@iplyrunescape305]

Forgot to mention wearing hats will serve as a temporary shield from barnacles. They grab the hat always before Alyx

[@maxallen121]

Also that you can use a gas mask in order to prevent coughing from the jeff gas

[@Churrb]

@@maxallen121 I knew preparing by wearing all that gear would save me some effort

[@mrgoo]

my name jeff

[@deadstar8809]

I heard wearing the helmet also protects you from headcrabs? That might be untrue but i hope it is.

[@superspicy8740]

@@deadstar8809 definitely the spiked hat one npc wears

[@derekfurst6233]

The lightning dog can latch on to your face actually. It's terrifying

[@PineCone227_]

@@Imagopher hah, bit of an oversight

[@kabeam5643]

it takes out half of your health too

[@alduinfr]

and bites repeatly

[@expertnugget]

Yea didn't know they could and it scared the shit outta me when it did

[@stiky5972]

Hmm yes, the Xen aliens here are made out of Xen materials

[@user-fq6to8cq8n]

correct, but still the generations born in xen are made of xenian matter

[@monkeyt2675]

Hmmm yes the floor here is made of floor

[@user-tzzglsstle585e38]

@@Imagopher makes you wonder what are the headcrabs preying on exactly at their native habitat

[@Demidar]

@@user-fq6to8cq8n gimme a break with that lore ... its just half life

[@standardzombie3454]

I really wished that Bullsquids were added to the game.

[@gaming-98]

i agree, but how would they have been implemented? most levels past half-life 1 have been overtaken by the combine.

[@NeedyBoBeedy]

@@gaming-98 the chapter where you ride the jet ski thing could work

[@standardzombie3454]

@@gaming-98 They can appear in drained canals or hiding in tunnels eating Headcrabs.

[@gaming-98]

@@NeedyBoBeedy then they'd just be roadkill. houndeyes were cut for that same reason

[@gaming-98]

@@standardzombie3454 seeing as route kanal was a home to a lot of *people* most of the bullsquids would have been killed, at that in most half life games you get a shotgun before you fight them. putting a bullsquid in a hallway is like putting a combine sniper in a wasteland

[@dinodude722]

i always liked the theory that the reviver/lightning dog is some form of hyperparasite to headcrabs, as in a parasite who preys on a parasite. with it entering through the chest cavity headcrab zombies always have it means it theoretically could enter a zombie that still has a headcrab on it, and with its electrical stuff flowing through the zombies whole body it can either kill the headcrab and keep the host, or usurp control of the bodies nervous system from the headcrab and be the one in control instead of it. it also doesn't seem like it can really make zombies itself, it always uses discarded zombie corpses to make zombies and it doesn't seem to have the normal headcrab mouth structure to latch on to people, its mouth is a lot smaller. so yeah, could prey on headcrabs by stealing hosts from them.

[@Underqualified_Gunman]

considering that there is at least one person at valve with a huge love for nature/wildlife study that was very likely what they intended. can't remember who it was but one valve employee is a wildlife researcher. and goes on trips to different places. its part of where the sound sources used for some of HL:A's creatures comes from.

[@jackrutledgegoembel5896]

how would it evolve? there would need to be millennia of human bodies being controlled by head crabs. Doesn't seem possible

[@Underqualified_Gunman]

@@jackrutledgegoembel5896the same question can be asked of normal headcrabs.headcrabs are never shown to infest non-humans implying they are hyper specialized.

[@EvilRaccoonDM]

@@Underqualified_Gunman could be they were attacking combine which are very humanoid

[@Underqualified_Gunman]

@@EvilRaccoonDM the combine soldiers we see throughout the game are humans just twisted into the transhuman cyborgs. depsite being cyborgs the underlying underlying system is mostly the same just changed and modified.

[@Greyrayin]

"As we know coughing makes him very upset" Yeah I don't blame him for not wanting to be coughed on

[@Gomme_EXE]

corona

[@spinosaurus9518]

@@Gomme_EXE firus

[@DHGxMcFlurry]

@@Gomme_EXE shut up

[@green_lettuce]

@@DHGxMcFlurry no u

[@green_lettuce]

@@Gomme_EXE cheers I’ll drink to that. 🍺

[@GreedAndSelfishness]

There was no poison headcrab zombies in this game. In my opinion they were the most disturbing type in Half-life 2. I can understand the fast zombies missing, they would cause players to trip out of fright and break their necks .

[@Skrenja]

I don't agree. I think fast zombies would have been great in small numbers and if they had low HP.

[@Adidas_Crocs]

The poisons zombies are super tanky

[@user-qq1xj5zk9n]

The fast zombies are too terrifying

[@Peebster]

It would have been cool if you had to shoot off each of the headcrabs sorta like the antlions limbs

[@ernstthoren102]

I belive the reason they dont have poison zombies is that they are way too fast. All the other enemies are slowed down in VR so its possible for you to actually kill them and not die instantly. Like if you see a headcrab in HL2 you just move your arm a little but in VR you have to move your whole body. This is comfirmed (kinda) in The Final Hours Of: Half Life Alyx.

[@CullenCraft]

I just realized something that could have made Jeff even better. Most VR headsets have built-in microphones. Jeff could have reacted to any real-life sounds the player makes like coughing or talking.

[@bob-omb1217]

What if there's background noise, like a vacuum cleaner?

[@ytpineapple]

@@bob-omb1217 R.I.P

[@wqqclicc674]

@@bob-omb1217 imagine Jeff's reaction when Alyx says some latin language with vacuum cleaner and screaming noises

[@CombineWatermelon]

@@wqqclicc674 i can just imagine some fucking wacky playing on the mic while in third person and her mouth goes full gmod with the vacuum cleaner they should have recognized that and made npcs ingame react ingame to sounds like that

[@wqqclicc674]

@@CombineWatermelon "yo wtf"

[@royi344]

"YABBA MY ICING!!"

[@NotWendy3]

Alternatively, "Ebat', bolno!", which in Russian means "Fuck, it hurts!" Totally unintended, since the quote is just "God, help me!" in reverse, but given where City 17 is, it still makes sense.

[@unused7629]

the most terrifying part of jeff is that his face is still on his body, and the mouth grew into his head

[@zcgamerandreacts2762]

Correction. His head grew into a mouth.

[@ATP2555ify]

I like how headcrabs stumble when they land, really shows how much technology is advancing in gaming. If HL3 ever comes out, I'd like to see headcrabs be able to zombify victims in real time.

[@AlphaGarg]

Isn't that pretty much what the electric dog does? Except his is even more impressive since he does it to corpses. I'd be surprised if we *didn't* see something like that in a future game

[@Cynna_M]

We saw it happening tho, in hl1 a headcrab got a scientist and we couldnt do anything since they were behind an indestructible window

[@eddiecheese1442]

,@@Cynna_M I think he meant gameplay-wise the part where the scientist got attacked by the head crab was a scripted sequence

[@cooperbond8986]

Half life alyx was only the start

[@xXx_Regulus_xXx]

I kinda hope headcrab zombification is slower than, say, flood infection form creation but getting to see them in various stages would be cool. A new zombie that was still fighting to get the headcrab off but it was already latched on too strongly to take off and didn't have the open chest cavity yet, one that was in the process of making the cavity, maybe seeing where they actually put the food when they eat.

[@cheesewallace5494]

Lightning dogs are honestly kinda cute

[@netn0mad478]

An armored zombie would be super deadly irl because the bullets don’t get lodged in the headcrab They RICOCHET

[@rez9914]

I think heavy caliber, and armour piercing rounds would be able to get lodged in though since Alyxs weapons aren’t really that powerful and just use basic rounds

[@netn0mad478]

@@rez9914 i suppose, but they wouldnt do major damage, just deform from the impact

[@bl4ckrabb1t]

@@rez9914 imagine shooting a tank shell at one and it bounces off

[@simonxu8918]

@@bl4ckrabb1t "we didnt penetrate their armour"

[@youraveragewarcriminal]

Imagine the pain of zombies in half life because the host of headcrab is still alive and if you play his screaming backwards you will hear "God help, help me"

[@Kris1938moo]

thats only when they get burned or most or the time they get burned and play that line

[@youraveragewarcriminal]

@@Kris1938moo Yeah i know.

[@Kris1938moo]

@@youraveragewarcriminal at least u know and the zombie message i no about 2

[@waffler-yz3gw]

thats only in half life 2, in that game the voice lines were reversed but they don't have that in this game so you can clearly hear their slurred speech (that being said, they dont actually say anything)

[@alphenex8974]

>Is Alyx >Doesn't wear an Hev Suit >Gets bitten by a Poison Headcrab >Gets her hp slowly back what If you still didn't understand what I meant: in hl2, you get ur hp back when you get bitten by a Poison Headcrab because Hev suit injects antidote into ur body so basically Poison Headcrab's Poison becomes useless)

[@standardzombie3454]

It's for gameplay balance.

[@unoriginalperson72]

Alyx has a poison immune system

[@SpartanHawk]

The HEV suit would rather inject an antidote into your system when bitten by poison headcrabs, as morphine is just an opioid painkiller, meaning it can only reduce the sensation of pain (analgesia) and cause euphoria, not render the toxin inert.

[@notforsaletoday1895]

@@SpartanHawk Morphine would help tho, as a little pick-me-up, you know :)

[@SpartanHawk]

@@notforsaletoday1895 Indeed.

[@cringekid07]

One thing I hate about the revivers (lightning dogs) is that when they’re on low health they can’t attack and slowly limp away while making dog whimpering noises.

[@the_kryllic]

Still no moss growing on walls smh c’mon Gabe

[@srdjanrikic978]

He wanted the moss since half life 1😔

[@aydinmakesthings]

I kind of wish they had a poison zombie boss. You would fight maybe 5 in total through the game. He would make a loud warning cry before he throws a toxic head-crab. In order to kill him you got to shoot a big bloater boil on his back, only reveled when he runs out of head-crabs. His loud wales would lure near by enemies to your position, similar to what a suppressor does. What do you guys think of my concept?

[@aydinmakesthings]

@human grunt Criticism?

[@cookiejoe5564]

Really great tho ngl, and its actually more scarier in dark moist areas

[@aydinmakesthings]

@human grunt auto correct is amazing aint it lol

[@AlphaGarg]

As a boss, yeah, it could work. I'd put the number down to 1-3 though, give it a good, long introduction, like the monster intros in Dead Space. Hint at it and spook the player before they finally have to face it. Then the following ones could be thrown into areas the player should avoid rather than have to fight through. I'm mainly saying this because they'd waste a lot of the player's ammo to kill, and since they're so slow, they'd be fairly annoying rather than scary. Kinda like the HL2 one, but worse since yours attracts other enemies. Sporadically and thoughtfully, though, definitely a good idea and an improvement over the HL2 one.

[@Headcrab_channel]

I really like it, although, might be horrifying!

[@KittyKet228]

0:44 YOU ARE MONSTER!!!

[@dontkaze]

WHY ARE HEADCRABS IN HL ALYX SO CUTE

[@dontkaze]

@Clanker NO

[@GettinFoxy]

the first time i was about to kill one of those electric head crabs i felt bad because it was limping and and whimpering :(

[@kceflef]

G R A B

[@Cevznel-Bar]

I wonder what a Myrmidont (Antlion Guard) would have looked like in HLA. That would be a cool boss or mini-boss.

[@spoono]

nonono, the last thing i'd want to see in vr is a fucking antlion guard!!

[@mattfromwiisports9414]

I think the pheropods would be cool too, Half-Life Alyx tracks hand movement, so what about the thing you hold, squeeze and throw to make enemies follow you? Missed opportunity

[@AlphaGarg]

Wouldn't have worked for the same reasons the antlions had to be slowed down as much as they were. Antlion guards are all about moving around and not standing still, which in VR for a lot of people is far too disorienting. Until we get some sort of BCI assisted movement system to replace joystick locomotion or teleportation, I don't see it happening.

[@o.liveil7111]

Is it stated that lightning dogs are headcrabs? I’m not doubting your analysis, it’s just that they have such a different design, it’d be believable if they were a separate species

[@MarsterTigermus]

Half-life 1 zombies: oh these are kinda spooky... Half-life 2 zombies: Eh, after the first one it's whatever... Half-life :Alyx zombies: *Sounds of me frantically reloading, dropping the mag twice and panicking as I forget to load the first round, then wasting all the bullets on the body cause I'm too stressed out to actually aim at this point, so I just scream trying to load mag number 2 while the zombie is still a whole block away from me*

[@starstorm5338]

Bro do you not remember the fast zombies in Hl2? That one elevator escape sequence from HL2 Ep1 gave me a heart attack

[@SpetzTheGuy]

@@starstorm5338 yea i hate fast headcrabs

[@AlphaGarg]

@@starstorm5338 yeah but the normal, 'classic headcrab' zombies are really dumb and slow lol

[@candacecoyle6810]

@@starstorm5338 its all fun and games till you find out what a poison headcrab is

[@Isaac_646]

Another great detail is zombies flop and flail because headcrabs find it really hard to move another body.

[@splitjawjanitor5369]

"If you happen to kill a zombie in the vicinity of a Lightning Dog Headcrab, it'll borrow itself deeply into the zombie's chest" Oh great, now we have the Headcrabs AND The Flood.

[@EstebanGilChillington]

They are slightly less bad than the flood since the flood doesn't rewrite your DNA and sometimes keep you alive while transforming

[@shahobiddinismoilov]

Awesome analysis but I don't think 7:33 ones are antlion workers. They're new type of antlions. I don't think orange antlions are the same as HL2's normal ones either. HLA antlions are just different kind. I'm sure normal HL2 antlions and Episode 2 workers exist in the game world.

[@thesilent185]

It could be the same as with Earth's ants: There are multiple species of ant, and there are multiple species of antlion. Some more or less different, but they're still antlions. The Half-Life 2 antlions are not seen inside City 17 (except for Episode 1 when the Defense Field has been shut down) and thus, adapted to a fast lifestyle on the coast and forest since there isn't much prey around there. Since City 17 was new to them in Episode 1, they retain their behaviour. The Half-Life: Alyx antlions however adapted to a lifestyle where there is much prey, many headcrabs, combine etc. and therefore learned they don't need to be as quick as their coastal and forest counterpart. In my opinion, the toxic blue antlion may indeed be a worker; it's just that it is completely different from the classic worker since it's a different specie of antlion.

[@mrblunderbuss4843]

@@thesilent185 hey just to let you know the prey you mean is spelt as prey, the prey you are saying is pray where you pray to... i dont know the baby jesus or allah

[@thesilent185]

@@mrblunderbuss4843 oh... thanks

[@thesilent185]

@@mrblunderbuss4843 fixed it

[@Infamous_Val_05]

What reason do you have to think that other than the design?

[@johndexterzarate6663]

....Jeff is probably the next or even mutated form of the gonome

[@rwb1334]

jeff is an infestation control worker infected by xen fungi

[@literallyglados]

but the gonome is just a zombie thats been around long enough and jeff doesnt even have a headcrab

[@a.k8185]

@Bentley Neil *whoosh go brrrrrrr*

[@toh8210]

@@a.k8185 he didnt miss a joke, stop using reddit shit where it doesnt even apply

[@xweert711]

Have you considered showing off a video of the bullet hole system in Source 2? Namely, how bullet holes in walls actually dig into surfaces thanks to parallax, and how bullet holes kinda "paint" onto certain types of ragdolls and NPC's additively?

[@Goutrial]

yes i was thinking of this as i noticed when you shoot combine soldiers it kinda shoots off their clothing too, same with headcrabs and zombies with their skin

[@andershere4547]

Your almost at 10k I can’t wait!

[@ComradeSeanski]

love videos like this that analysis details from games

[@recklesflam1ngo968]

The Jeff segment was one of the BEST experiences I've had in VR yet. Excellent game all around but that part was just perfect

[@ben2626ttt]

2:19 i feel bad for it

[@herineansidonia6155]

NO

[@rainmanslim4611]

I like to possition myself with a barnacle between me and a headcrab. Its hilarious watching them get eaten. But poison headcrabs kill barnacles when eaten, which kinda sucks

[@sugoha_2548]

Only in hl2, in alyx barnicles don't die from poison headcrab

[@dafunktrunk]

Waddup ya' Half-Life pimps??!!

[@nono7117]

Wish half life 3 has actually more interesting aliens again. Instead of just headcrab

[@tacowaffles5967]

Another cool detail. If the barnacle can't eat something, it won't pick up the same item again. It will actually recognize the taste items.

[@numbug1234]

I looked up on the wiki, and apparently those are not antlion workers, they're a new type of antlion called antlion spitters. It sources the Half Life: Alyx's commentary for this detail.

[@skootz24]

One interesting note about the Toxic headcrabs is that they are invisible to the reflex sights' glowing highlight feature.

[@maskedhobo]

The ant lions remind me of the bugs from Starship Troopers.

[@awesomepantz336]

im kinda glad that the headcrabs in half life alyx give you a warning when they are about to jump because i get so fucking terrified in hl2 when they jump at me with no warning whatsoever

[@birdedup]

the fact how headcrabs can't land perfectly on their feet after leaping kinda reminds me of how tiny frogs have the same problem

[@hadharigamerz]

good uploaf

[@mrboomsnook3671]

I get chills looking at the poison headcrab

[@Believe086]

Nc video now i can speedrun without scared anymore,thankss

[@justandrew6230]

valve just made the headcrabs more adorable like the snarks in black mesa

[@cperson9516]

For some reason, it really bothers me that you can't see the weapon models.

[@dominator5694]

6:22 Wooooo, Half Life's very own Warden

[@juanvilas5341]

I love headcrabs form Half-Life: Alyx they just jump and hope for the best.

[@jaivirsingh6182]

Only a crazy man says this: "if you shoot the headcrab with a shotgun they explode into chunks and its really fun to do."

[@gipsydangeramericasmonster9632]

No, a crazy man would bash a headcrab repeatedly into a wall and say it’s fun

[@MysteriousGamerGuy]

Father Grigori

[@TranscorpHR]

i cant believe they didnt add the poison headcrab's iconic whoosh sound unfuckingbelievable

[@El-Burrito]

I'm not convinced that the lightning dog/reviver is technically a headcrab. It's so distinct from all other headcrabs that we know of that it makes it a completely different species in my eyes.

[@Teknanam]

In the files, its listed as Headcrab Runner. So at at least from a game design standpoint, it was derived from Headcrabs.

[@El-Burrito]

@@Teknanam Okay that's pretty convincing. When I first saw it, I assumed it was a headcrab but it just seems so different

[@moosey7165]

I guess they're not technically headcrabs since they don't jump onto your head, but its still a parasitic organism that reanimates the body. So maybe the original term headcrab is to specific, but I definitely think theyre in the same genus.

[@a_cats]

I think they're probably more distantly related. To compare it with something on Earth, standard headcrabs, poison headcrabs and fast headcrabs would be like apes whereas the lightning dog would be like monkeys. They're similar, but definitely separate things.

[@ASingleApe]

I agree. It really doesn't look like a headcrab in anyway besides the 4 legs and zombie thing. It has a tail with a eyeball on the end and lightning powers, even then any zombies it makes are just from the corpses from headcrabs and not itself.

[@KC_Smooth]

To this day I feel the HL 1 head crabs are the scariest with their bloody white teeth.

[@will7610]

its so hard to believe that after all these years we finally got a new half life game

[@amberreineke4750]

2:17 Poison Headcrab: You underestimate my power

[@detectivewolf6981]

My theory for the ant lions is the environment around them in half life alyx, since headcrabs have been on earth, some of them tend to adapt to the environment just like fast headcrabs creating a while new variant of zombie, but my theory is, since you are enter the quarantine zone you technically play enough to where you see antlion infested caves, especially at the zoo, you can see they have formed massive amounts of hill made from whatever xen material that is, I assume just like the fast headcrabs, they also adapted to the quarantine zone since they aren't by sand and open areas of sand, they somehow evolved to the xen material making them bullet proof, and I assume the antlions counterpart that shoots projectiles also had that change to it as well.

[@orangutanlover6527]

Very late I know but on the Jeff/Brewery level use a dust mask it stops you from coughing. Use them!

[@fightclub.1999]

There is one thing I like about headcrabs in alyx is that they perform a ragdoll when they land

[@herorisk]

what are you using for the npcs? as i dont think its half-life alex it looks like gmod but im not serten

[@alexanderchippel]

For some reason I always assumed that the Antlions weren't from Xen, but from another dimension that the Combine invaded.

[@piotrekczaja]

Propqbly because there werent any in half life 1 and in half life 2 u dont go to xen so yeah (i thought the same way tho)

[@jiraffe9600]

Nothing is originally from Xen. But the Antlions likely did escape come to earth from the portal storms.

[@cap7648]

Fun Fact: in the HL2 mod called Entropy Zero 2 (which is my fav mod ever btw) we find these grenades called Xen Grenades. They open a small portal which sucks in everything near it, objects enemies and whatnot. After it sucked eveything around it another small portal is gonna open, spawning either Antilions or a Bullsquid Dont take 'After it sucked everything' out of context for the love of our Benefactors

[@finodiez9227]

In Half Life 1 zombies had chest mouths, and evolved into gonomes. In Half Life 2 there are more variety of headcrabs and zombies but no evolution. What happened here? Answer 1: the true answer. Valve just goes with whatever they come up without thinking too much about plot holes, generating lots of them in the process. This means that both the gonome and all iterations of zombies in half life 2, are made up for gameplay reasons without any logical background story. Answer 2: the fan theory. According to fans, to in their minds fix the plotholes, they explain it as the combine modified the headcrabs weaponizing them after the 7hour war and the following 20 years, developing new species of headcrabs but taking away their ability to mutate and thus to feed through zombie chest mouths (let alone create one, so now they only have a gap in the chest) or become a gonome (and in some theories even end up evolving into a gonarch) ...and even killing the host, which means...that modified headcrabs by combine keep the host alive because of the screams or instead they just mimic what the human brain was last saying but the host is ded. According to the beta lore, they also weaponized gonarchs as static headcrab spawn stations. At the same time these big momma pods spawned fast headcrabs, while in half life 1 the baby headcrabs were also fast. This could mean that both headcrabs and fast headcrabs are the original ones (or that fast headcrabs are just young headcrabs). The rest are made up by the combine. Or maybe the big mommas are also modified to spawn specific types of headcrabs. The thing is by removing their ability to mutate they can detach from the victim, and also be more controllable as a plague since they cant reproduce (if you believe their final form is a gonarch) or evolve into very dangerous gonomes, a perfected weapon to attack helpless citizens and then send a cleanup team.

[@gimpscam9976]

The ant lions are armored or at least thicker and they’re harvested by the combine hence why they’re so plump and glowing. Regardless valve encourages you to shoot their legs to get their bulb instead of hitting their newly armored body in this iteration.

[@unoriginalperson72]

Can you show footage of the zombie sprinting?

[@salzysisters5799]

I wonder why the sound effects were different for this game. I missed the familiar screech as the head crab jumps at you and death gurgle

[@deetee2011]

I have a theory that the reviver (lighting dog) is not from xen but from whatever the race x Home world is.

[@AlphaGarg]

Oh shit, you right

[@trashmammal9203]

Is anything from xen?

[@trashmammal9203]

@Clanker this is the quarantine zone, not Alabama

[@levigaming-1]

Jeff: ring ring ring ring banana phone everyone: are you sure about that?

[@andrewmunro4884]

Not gonna lie it’s kinda f___ed up that the lightning dog limps away when you deal enough damage to it. I really sends the messages that it really doesn’t want anything to do with you and just wants to be left alone

[@labenvenci1584]

Fun Fact : HLA has unused and mostly referenced systems related to running / Fast Zombies. This sadly can not be fully restored due to it only being referenced in code. A HL3 leftover, it was ment to introduce traditional Fast Zombies or zombies that can sprint. It was cut due to issues relating to VR response time, as they didn't want zombies to overwhelm the player too heavily or fast so only the slow types are used.

[@redelite1173]

Imagine if there was a armored zombine charger

[@deppo436]

The way you have to kill the Antlions in Alyx are awfully similar to how killed Akrid monsters in the Lost Planet games. Even down to the glowing limbs and goo they leave after being killed. Anyone else notice this connection?

[@grailw9221]

yes but we are probably some of the only people in this comment section who know those games' exist

[@oksobasicallyimonkey5804]

Aw look at the little baby feet awwwwwwwwwwww especially when the wiggle on the floor awww

[@ReksratYTB]

I feel bad that the lightning dog limps away when you shoot it. Poor guy got injured 😟

[@jarrettmartin7463]

It's a game the dog ain't real

[@MissNirny]

I love source 2’s npc ragdoll physics

[@soethuaung1144]

Headcrab and other stuff half-life alyx that take it jump flip roll over

[@cdmd1316]

im sorry for the lightning dog in pain as it limped away :(

[@shermintan3726]

Fun fact: If you shoot Jeff and get close without him attacking you (somehow) you can see his skin regenerating, that's why you can't kill him

[@MackieLevyn]

Man the detail is unmatched

[@lugi5215]

why'd they make the headcrabs so cute :(

[@Cool_Hwip]

what is the sandbox your using on PC to show the aliens?

[@CursedBystander]

what game are you using to showcase them?

[@Hotchpotchsoup]

Sad to see how slow all these creatures have become, even one headcrab should be a threatening encounter 😤

[@AANNDDYY]

Bro what addon you've been used for this video?

[@baljeet9310]

there is a different setting for zombie with a randomized chance for the headcrab to die it is not in most modded maps

[@twistedpeanuts6958]

Really good video, it would be really nice if you could show more closeups of the enemies because it's really interesting to see them steadily and up close to appreciate the small details.

[@sovietshnuckums2357]

3:43 actual electric bug bait reskin

[@framed5151]

I feel like it was missed out feature to have the zombie be blown apart like in L4D, of course only to major damage like an explosion or the bloaters

[@Corpcake]

how did you get the vr zombie in hl2? It looks like your in hl2

[@rakosh5209]

If by chance the NPCs shown in this are GMOD addons, does anyone have links?

[@tonic826]

what map did you use for this video?

[@lemongaids7642]

where're these addons on workshop?

[@insanebruh9678]

Have you ever heard of friendly headcrab? It's pretty rare

[@trashmammal9203]

Just remove the beak

[@SkeleTonHammer]

You said there's no point shooting headcrab zombies in the headcrab in Alyx because the headcrab lives regardless - that's not true. I know that sometimes the headcrab survives, but if you NEVER shoot the headcrab, it will always survive. So you still should be shooting the headcrab, because if you do there's like a 90% chance it will die when it falls off. It could also be the case that if you kill the zombie before doing enough damage to the headcrab, that's why the headcrab lives, so if you've done a bunch of body damage and then only shoot the headcrab once or twice, it will fall off and live when the body dies.

[@logangameing2816]

It would be better if there was a black mesa flash back in hl2 of Half life Alyx

[@felixdunham1744]

When you realise Jeff appears in Half Life 2

[@charlsondemong4922]

evidence

[@americandissident76]

The lightning dog zombies remind me of the Archvile

[@cheemsnaner2901]

what mods are you using in this video

[@ASingleApe]

I really don't think that lightning dogs are headcrabs

[@WrathChild-NZ]

wish they kept the very long claws of the zombies like in HL1, its terrifying

[@eritdamian1307]

remember all this happened because a scientist pushed too fast a magic rock to a portal

[@habibpines]

Zombies is one thing, but I don't know If I could handle realistic looking giant hungry Bullsquid charging at me in VR.