Half-Life's Forgotten Expansion (ft. Civvie11) | Trav Guy

"Half-Life: Decay" is a lesser-known gem in the "Half-Life" franchise that was originally released for the PlayStation 2 in 2001. Developed by Gearbox Software, this cooperative game takes place alongside the events of the original "Half-Life" game, but follows a different pair of protagonists: Dr. Gina Cross and Dr. Colette Green.
Whether you're a die-hard "Half-Life" fan or just looking for a unique cooperative experience, "Half-Life: Decay" is an interesting piece of the series' history. Join me and my pals as we dive deep into this often overlooked entry in the iconic first-person shooter series.
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[@ThatTravGuy]

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[@C.A._Old]

Why PC version doesn't exist ? Valve forget about this !

[@C.A._Old]

Also Half-Life: Team Fortress in 1999!

[@PoiSonSonic]

Why do you have stutters in your video? :(

[@Smellbringer]

The crossover someone asked for.

[@riley2216]

It's me I'm someone

[@aaroncabrera8949]

I think all of us are someone.

[@halfastudio]

It was meeeee

[@inconspicuousrobot2685]

THAT WAS ME

[@HazmatHanger]

@@halfastudio AND I DID IT LIKE THIS! *gunshot*

[@themojogamer75]

This video confirms either that A) Trav is in the same place Civvie is and is also subject to abject torture, he just doesn't talk about it B) Trav is the head administrator of The Clown Room Or C) Trav is Civvie's G-Man

[@ThatTravGuy]

I'm not at liberty to say

[@necogreendragon]

I'm voting B.

[@Xayumcl]

I think its A

[@bitterman7258]

@@ThatTravGuy aight its C

[@demi-fiendoftime3825]

It's obviously C cause Trav came from the same dimension as God King of programing and transcendent immortal being John Carmack

[@ShinyGaara65]

Oh god. Trav must've had to brave the Clown Room to do this.

[@PowerArmorV113]

Capstone devs have their own room?

[@lkotro21]

@@PowerArmorV113 They're not even the Pinnacle of Monster Titties! Do you think they'd have A CLOWN ROOM?!

[@gregorysweet867]

@@PowerArmorV113 capstone the pinacel of monster tittes

[@CleverCover05]

​@@PowerArmorV113 no but yes because that line made me choke on AIR. Hot damn sir.

[@RepressedJoker]

The reveal that Civvie does actually have friends shall affect the lore drastically

[@HAWKEYESOLO]

32:27 I like how the Sewer Count is just attached to Civvie at all times.

[@thesidneychan]

But it's the zombie moan sound now instead of the ding lol

[@TARINunit9]

Civvie is the kind of guy to let a joke die and move on. But we are not, we will have our sewer count, and we will never let him forget that

[@sniperluigi9856VA]

so, wait, the words "Sewer Count" along with the count of sewers just appears in front of Civvie's eyes whenever he mentions he found a sewer

[@Ginkami]

Considering how often he's violently confused when it's already there, probably

[@Zakanuva]

Considering that Civvie insisted that the reason why he wouldn't cover _Decay_ with _Opposing Force_ and _Blue Shift_ was "it's multiplayer, and Civvie has no friends", I'm glad to see that he's finally made a friend! ...Wasn't expecting it to be Trav of all people, but it's a start!

[@MoleMad]

If you're wondering about the revolver zoom in that one port, I'm 90% sure it has to do with the fact that the revolver acts that way in the multiplayer deathmatch mode of HL1. The mod just uses vanilla HL1's multiplayer functions, so the revolver's behavior was carried over from that.

[@Jasmine__135]

you're actually 100% right, its exactly like that in deathmatch

[@masonsgames3701]

Yeah man I played a bunch of HL1 DM back during the WON days. Such great times, but some things were different between SP and MP. Like the Tau cannon charge pushback isn't in SP but it's one of the biggest things it's known for.

[@1thevm1]

@@masonsgames3701 I mean the pushback is still there, it's just more horizontal at full charge and not vertical. Still, MP's gauss is the king.

[@sugarsmile7852]

Finally civvie got new friends

[@ChaseMC215]

I think he already started getting new "friends" once he made a appearance in one of IcarusLives' videos.

[@moonlightact1792]

more like his "friends" are now trapped on the dungeon too

[@TheWintersoldier45]

Civvie popped up in Mandalore's Marathon vids

[@Shiratto]

@@TheWintersoldier45I’m not entirely convinced Mandalore isn’t in the dungeon as well considering all the brain poison he may or may not consume willingly.

[@MrPwner911]

@@ChaseMC215 which one?

[@ManiakPL22]

the fucking bad to the bone joke at 26:39, perfection, and this time you actually don't expect it so it's even better then regular bad to the bone memes

[@lealand2601]

Y E S

[@kilmerval]

I'm glad the DCS let Civvie11 be involved in a project outside the facility.

[@SethAurelius94]

Never would have guessed the dungeon allowed visitors especially to a high value prisoner like CV11.

[@jeremieh5009]

Probably so they could squeeze more funding money out of civvie for extralegal activity under the Nevada desert

[@DisorientedWanderer]

The algorithm requires engagement

[@Nightruin]

I would pay money for the uncut Trav x Civvie Decay playthrough

[@Rad-Dude63andathird]

​@@Gator159 Bit dickish there. Could've phrased that better.

[@Darlos9D]

I'm glad to see that Civvie isn't really exaggerating his personality much in his own videos, heh.

[@XSniper74184]

Yeah honestly it was kinda wild hearing him talk and realising, no he doesn't just talk like that off a script. That's just how he thinks normally too.

[@andrewdeluca7352]

Fun fact about the chapter "Intensity". There is a button right next to where you spawn that, if you hit within 5 seconds, will result in Keller cutting his monologue short by saying "Good job doing previous stuff. Let's move on to doing new stuff.". It's really useful if you want to spend less time listening to Keller before you can actually play the level.

[@netto8221]

That "Sewer Count Hud" Got me. I'm trying to imagine "Pro Half-Life Alyx" with that just popping up

[@joshuareesor1756]

34:24 Specifically, he says, "These aliens may not all be here by accident." Combined with something intentionally keeping the rift open, it means the aliens aren't all being teleported to Black Mesa randomly due to the Resonance Cascade but are being sent deliberately to invade it. He's learning about the invasion, not the aliens being at Black Mesa.

[@rodakscreens]

Civvie's shock when the Domestic Violence chapter title popped up is gonna haunt me forever

[@milczyciel]

I just love happy little coincidences like the one when while Civie shouted "FUCK THE POLICE" the in-game credits flashed Randy's Pitchford name.

[@Estolcles]

Or when they made a Randy reference, and they showed a can of Crisco. Definitely a reference for the Civvie fans. ((Unless Trav talks about how greasy Randy is too.))

[@Morningstar91939]

@@Estolcles he did that in his review of Half-Life Opposing Force.

[@LtSprinkulz]

Trav: _Rambling about the revolver's zoom as if it's specially made for the mod_ Me: It's just the zoom from multiplayer.

[@ico1]

I wonder how many times Trav had to edit out Civvie yelling "Play the clip, Katie! " to no one in particular.

[@flamsey]

The reason Gina ended up in Xen, along with a few other scientists is actually explained by a Opposing Force CTF mutliplayer description for the stage Xen Dance. Here's what it says. “The battle for Black Mesa has taken a turn for the worse as the unstable dimentional rifts become more and more dramatic. Now entire groups locked in battle are finding themselves suddenly and unexpectedly teleported across space to the border world known as "Xen". But even in the strange new surroundings, the battle rages on.” ALSO the part we saw Barney in was when he jumped in the portal back from Xen to Earth, not when he's escaping the facility.

[@elikyiael8740]

unfortunatelly Gina is dead in opposite forces, it sucks

[@flamsey]

@@elikyiael8740 well yeah that's what I explain here lol

[@elikyiael8740]

@@flamsey aaaaah sorry mate, i'm dumb i didn't understand everything

[@larrylaffer3246]

It was nice of the Department of Special Corrections to let CV-11 have a friend over.

[@SlimRhyno]

18:31 Civvie perfectly summed up how I have felt every day of my adult life... "Alright, I think I understand this puzzle. ... ... I do not understand this puzzle."

[@Artix3000]

I think it's more likely that the Hoaxer port's Revolver scope is a side effect of the mod being built in Half-Life: Deathmatch, which includes the revolver zoom. I bet if you used impulse 101 the crossbow would be explosive too.

[@cowizbeef1402]

That's exactly the reason for the magnum zoom

[@GmodPlusWoW]

Two words: Balls Invincible. Which is pretty apt for a game with this much Jon St John in it. Also, glad that Civvie clued us in on the channel through this collab. Let's see if we can get Trav up to 100K, eh?

[@samz8691]

What would have helped solo play is that in Gina/Colette's sound files, there's unused NPC follow lines for both of them (Of the "Following you/I'll stay put/I won't go another step" formats like the Scientists/Security Guards), I can only presume it wasn't implemented due to issues.

[@sebastiankulche]

I think "player bots" werent a thing in Goldsource until Counter Strike Condition Zero. It may be hard to implement especially considering the time they used for other aspects of the game plus the cancelled Dreamcast port.

[@lockout5731]

the iconic duo civvie 11 and trav lets the crossover event happen

[@timothymckane6362]

I'm glad that Civvie has the chance to play with some human friends at the risk of being seen by his robotic prison guards.

[@regardlessrampage]

man, my first experience of half life was playing this on PS2 with my sister after my dad got this game for Christmas. What a blast from the past.

[@NotZealot]

THE COLLAB WE NEEDED, BUT DIDNT DESERVE

[@PlayerPaul]

21:45 This version of the revolver is standard in half-life multiplayer. Just log on to any hldm server and pick up the revolver, the sights thing will be there. So I personally think that Decay PC port has this thing just because when playing it with your friends it basically runs a server and there fore HL just toggles the "multiplayer version" of the revolver.

[@YourFavoriteUrsine]

Trav and Civvie "I don't have any friends so I can't play Half Life: Decay" 11, the truly dynamic duo we needed.

[@DoubleOhSeven68]

I'll never forgive this for de-canonizing "Sssshlunk the carrier into the analysis port"

[@nopeboat6436]

Congrats, you made it into my giant Civvie playlist of every video he made, sorted in hyper fixation levels of detail. You are now a part of my obsession.

[@BOBBROMIX]

That's very concerning, keep it up!

[@Sentay0]

No way Trav how did you manage to breach the outer [INFORMATION REDACTED] and you made it past the automated [INFORMATION REDACTED] and even past the sanity bea-[INFORMATION REDACTED], and through the hall of [INFORMATION REDACTED]. Then you managed to carry Civvie all the way back past the eternally damned [INFORMATION REDACTED]. What a legend.

[@Rad-Dude63andathird]

Unfortunately, I'm sure The Department will just send a team of [INFORMATION REDACTED] to retrieve Civvie. I shudder to think of what they do to fugitives... At least he's got a friend now.

[@adamsfusion]

It was really nice of the facility to let Civvie out on a weekend pass

[@galaxycamerata]

The idea of players getting their own exclusive drops so that while they both get everything eventually, they get it at different times, is a really interesting way of encouraging communication and awareness.

[@raikohzx4323]

That revolver zoom-in is from the Half-Life deathmatch rules, so presumably the Crossbow also has exploding bolts as the mod port would be using the MP rules of HL1.

[@ComradeKits]

Admiring an Osprey from the distance is the safest thing to do with an Osprey

[@doomshill110]

So cool to see Civvie here. An unexpected but cool ass surprise :). Great video trav

[@sham7561]

Civvie is truly a treasure.

[@nightfuel1689]

One thing I am always reminded of is the Half-life 1 mod - Point of View with Decay's secret level, pretty much an entire unique campaign created by modders that allows you to play as a vortigaunt with new weapons as well. You can tell that Decay's vort level inspired the entire thing and I highly recommend it if you want to have a fun time since it has the same method of healing as in Decay, plus it can also provide some interesting challenges too.

[@8-BallBlues]

It wouldn’t surprise me if Colette and Gina’s suits were the ones either side of Gordon, because if they were it would’ve gone in an order of Red, Orange, Yellow which would’ve looked really cool.

[@umbreoncomplex]

that's straight up what their suits are yeah. half life decay was literally created based on the idea of "well who wore the 2 suits next to gordons?"

[@Crimzan4]

Damn man, two of my favorite Gaming KZbinrs combined. This video isn't only awesome trav-guy-quality as always, the occasional scenes with the others were great. And as a big fan of Civvie's channel as well this is just a fantastic combination and stuff like the "Sewer Count" later on (esp. how it was edited) was just such a satisfying moment that made me really happy. Thanks for this, Trav!

[@MaverickTheDemonWolf]

WAIT, CIVVIE??? OMG YESSS!! ONE OF MY MOST FAV KZbinRS IS FEATURED IN THIS!! 😁

[@NonEmployee]

22:52 I don't know why, but the gib sound followed by Keller saying "I did it" always makes me chuckle.

[@TheWeekendGoofballs]

26:39 I lost it at the flying, dismembered torso 😂

[@agentburningbutters3655]

26:39 that was so incredibly random, but it made me smile

[@relieved860]

Out of all the people Trav collabed with, Civvie was not who I expected

[@alemilano5576]

My god, Civvie11 is still around, so much nostalgia

[@georgeoldsterd8994]

What do you mean "still around"? He posts videos regularly on his channel.

[@alemilano5576]

@@georgeoldsterd8994 I watched him like crazy and then one day he just was gone from my feed, and I never saw any of his videos until now and it's been like 5 years and the sad thing is imagine how fucked up i am and our society when I can't remember to search for myself a dude I watched all the time

[@FranciscoFJM]

@@alemilano5576 Look at the bright side, you got a shitload of fresh Civvie content to watch! I envy you

[@alemilano5576]

@@FranciscoFJM True, I did already after this video. I just love Civvie's commentary and gameplay, he is legit one of the better youtubers

[@ryanburke1656]

this is so fun, I loved seeing Civvie just hanging around with you throughout the playthrough

[@aaronmarko]

I can't believe you got Civvie to play Decay. This is even more surprising than a Brutal Doom shitpost.

[@endplanets]

7:37 Ah yes, "New guy Dr. Freeman" Who is also employee of the month.

[@Fatih_M177]

Wow! He's a new guy and employee of the month, man's Lucky! He's like Ash from Pokemon, a 12 year old with 22 years of experience!

[@WorldFamousJtart9]

You know I will subscribe to the crubcast thank you very much Travis guy

[@eggsbox]

i love that computer scientists unironically went "bird droid, or boid" and it stuck so hard that most people don't make that connection

[@alex_-yz9to]

here comes rhe BOIIIIIID

[@CloudConnection]

Happy to have helped averted disaster in the pits of Black Mesa with ya, bud 😄

[@nida4602]

Civvie actually has friends now! Seriously though, your content is great. Glad the algorithm showed me this.

[@skeleton_craftGaming]

9:09 The fact that you play as a character makes that line significantly better

[@jacobetz123]

Finally, an excuse for Civvie to cover decay and its not even on his own channel

[@HikingFeral]

Really nice of them to Allow Civvie this time off forcefully reviewing Boomshoots or being violently electrocuted by the wardens. I like to imagine cancer mouse had a hand in this.

[@insurgencybuffoonery8065]

I haven’t seen your stuff but this was in my recommended and I saw that Civvie was featured and I am now very intrigued by the channel. Definitely gonna deep dive your content! Also, whatever you do, DO NOT talk to Civvie 15.

[@OmniscientSloth]

I want to watch the full playthrough with you and Civvie :)

[@grafikz]

21:45 The revolver zoom feature is actually from half life 1's deathmatch, some of the weapons function differently depending on singleplayer and multiplayer. Like how the tau cannon launches you more in multiplayer, making it easier to tau jump...

[@TheFredJack]

Came for Civvie, stayed because ... well, you're awesome.

[@idiotbird115]

Now we just need gmanlives with trav and civve

[@TwistedMecha]

That sequence where you're in the tunnels with the coloured lasers immediately gave me motion sickness when you cut to where he was in the tunnels choosing which hole they had to go into. Gotta love old Source games.

[@SayuriMiki]

I'd kill for a full VOD of you and civvie's playthrough

[@thescience_team]

21:27 the revolver zoom is actually from half life deathmatch mode

[@Luka2000_]

Man playing this on a ps2 with a friend was a blast from the past for me. Also i would never expect a civvie and trav crossover

[@Lenoh]

I guess this was that "reward" that was rumored for CV-11 not using Monty Python references for a month. A good thing, too. The lights dim whenever he's punished.

[@ForgetAboutFreemansCat]

I just realized, I saw one of your videos a long time ago and thats how I learned about half life. Thank you for that, because half life is a very great game. . . that's all I have to say.

[@Splitzblue]

Now THIS takes me back! And I've never actually completed Decay...unfortunately. :(

[@Eliasdbr]

Regarding the zoom for the magnum in the pc port, it is that way because the pc port is a multiplayer mod, and in half life multiplayer, the magnum has this feature. It's a thing similar to the explosive crossbow ammo

[@PikkaBird]

I just thought of something... If Gina and Colette were on schedule, as an NPC says they are then wouldn't Gordon just have been standing around waiting for them to do their thing backstage if he had also been on time? Like, it's not until a few minutes into the procedure that Gordon's told that the sample is ready.

[@anexistanthuman2435]

Best crossover since... I dunno man, this is just awesome!

[@guffy2486]

YES!!!! Finally a get to watch a trav video for the first time and get civie to complete all of hl 1 is amazing.

[@DmanTheCabbage]

In Sven Co-op they've actually removed the ability to change difficulties. Difficulty is now based on what the map creator has set or by the servers skl cfg file. Thats probably why you found Hard mode so easy.

[@Unknown-nu2xs]

The crossover I was waiting for

[@Unknown989uk]

So I pit this video off til today cause it seemed like civvie would say a passing line and leave, I woke up early today and gave in to watch it, it's damn good

[@anamusingidiot2565]

I believe the reason "physics" items don't slide as fast in Sven is because it's a bug caused by framerate weirdness, hence why it's patched in Sven and recently in the 25th Anniversary Update.

[@spook8138]

The random skull at 20:39 was so funny.

[@papayer]

1:10 barely past a minute and I'm already laughing

[@houdaifaelaidi5177]

I can't believe this long video is so entertaining, it was so funny too

[@badroady]

18:00 You'd think that instead of sending you on a long winded goosehunt for either a key or to sneak in the back way, Dr.Rosenthumb would let you try one or two of the crowbars you've accumulated on this flimsy door.

[@ripcord4201]

another legendary review from my guy, Travis!

[@kingbash6466]

Trav Guy and Civvie in a single video: Two titans meet, as it is written.

[@mundaneheavy]

Of course Civvie chose the playermodel that looks exactly like him

[@NMN]

49:59 the Vort melee attacks and health regen reminded me of playing as the Alien in the 1999 AvP game (a classic in its own right)

[@thatdudeintinfoil4509]

Always excited to see that Trav uploaded

[@Arkl1te]

32:24 the sewer count in 3rd person was so hlarious omg

[@flufo]

God love this video (and all your other videos) so much, it's such a niche thing and it's so detailed and well made it's like sitting through the game with you telling me about it FKSJOFOFKDK thank u this video is very comf

[@someonerandom7660]

12:57 cracked at "Balls was smashed."

[@Matt-zu2lu]

I find funny how Half Life Decay doesn’t even get a proper ending but instead just some random easter egg that shows that one of the characters you play as is dead in Half Life Opposing Force.

[@andrewdeluca7352]

I can take a guess at how Decay would end. There is a cut line of dialogue involving Keller talking to a scientist in the Lamda Labs who tells him that something is still keeping the rift between Xen and Earth open. The last missions would involve Gina and Colette finding a way to teleport to Xen. The final mission would likely end with them trying to teleport to Xen, but getting caught in a harmonic reflux due to Barney teleporting out of Black Mesa at the same time. GIna would end up in the Xen cave Adrian finds her in during OP4, and idk where Colette would end up.

[@youraveragecommentor1212]

22:00 the revolver functions that way in the original half life death match, they just brought it over from that, black Mesa wasn’t the first to have it.

[@relieved860]

The revolver zoom comes from the death match of half-life 1,

[@zebitus5731]

I think that's PurpleColonel in the video, right? For real though I love Decay and I'm glad you did a video on Decay especially with Civvie. Though from my Decay experience PC port was a pain to fix and use considering I had to use Hamachi and also fuck with the broken A.I. Also you can set Classic mode using the vote system. One last thing I'll add is that place after Hazardous Course has a cool sun lens flair (also is just really pretty imo) (Also the sun for some reason just disappears for some players) Also aSlo Also LASosalso That one secret me and my friend found instantly but we could never load the Alien Mission which is sad

[@johndoe7270]

This was so funny. Saving Trav guy's content for when we were on the brink of WW3 was a great idea. Hope you are doing well!

[@keithincomics6102]

Never seen this channel before. Came here for Civvie. Was not disappointed. Left a like. That is all.