Half-Life series - Barnacle Eating Behavior Overview

[@MarphitimusBlackimus]

Can you find the hidden baby in this video? And it's most definitely a hidden baby and not a prop I forgot to remove from a deleted scene.

[@dr_billybob1086]

What baby?

[@thewayfayer3268]

@@dr_billybob1086 Did you hear a baby just now?

[@SuperCatfire]

@@thewayfayer3268 damn thing haunts me

[@P9HL2BETA]

3:28 between the rocks?

[@gransoldador9803]

Marphitimus, in the HL:A part ¿Did you play that part on VR or just took it from somrwhere? I heard there's a way yo play Alyx without vr. But, I don't know. Forgive me. My English isn't good

[@crennips5669]

we literally watched a wild life documentary in Half Life universe.

[@davidcenturion961]

LOL is true

[@alexsilva28]

Goes to show how much thought went into designing these creatures

[@JyujinPlus]

Ive done it for Monster Hunter and I’m gonna keep doing it for Half Life

[@JoshSweetvale]

My favourite KZbin video ever is a 'war reporter' in DayZ.

[@whitecliffassassin8050]

IK RIGHT XD

[@remnant4484]

We just watched a man feed his pet Barnacles.

[@worntorn.tacticool3758]

and kill him too

[@ExtraPrivatable]

faze ragchaa is

[@bigstevie01]

Good thing Marphy doesn’t keep Burricks.

[@TheGrimHHH]

You're laughing. A man just fed his pet Barnacle and you're laughing.

[@frostedlambs]

They'd been good pet

[@shorty1k]

First I learn HL1 had a smell system, now I'm learning HL2 had a taste system. This channel...

[@p_filippouz]

HL1 and HL2 were so ahead of its times

[@FitzgeraldKrox]

The "taste" is probably only described so vividly by marphy. It's not really taste or at least I doubt the programmer thought of it that way, it's just a pragmatic function to prevent barnacles from getting trapped in a loop of chewing and spitting out the same object over and over again. Would kinda defeat the purpose of them being obstacles to the player if they can be effectively "disabled" that way.

[@adog3129]

@@FitzgeraldKrox yeah, that's what i was thinking, except it does coincidentally work both ways.

[@FitzgeraldKrox]

@@adog3129 Yeah, I guess what I really meant was that this is more need-driven than some of the other crazy unnecessary stuff they did with hl1.

[@FitzgeraldKrox]

@Leonidas Piledriver pretty sure marphy has made videos on them. Cockroach ai comes to mind off the top of my head, as an example.

[@stepanserdyuk4589]

The way HL2 barnie spits a bone, only to reflexively catch it mid-air with its tongue and try to eat it again is hysterical

[@superrealistic]

"Mm.. Delicious." *Spits it back out to try it again.* "Yummy! I've have to try this again!"

[@bqgin]

Half Life 1: _being chewed on_ 'tis but a scratch Half Life 2: Oh no! I've been captured. _dies_

[@SeanKula]

Hmm yeah that's a shame I always saved scientists from barnacles. Maybe the barnacles snap their victims necks.

[@plantain.1739]

@@SeanKula Posion maybe?

[@SeanKula]

@@plantain.1739 yeah that makes sense

[@Triumph263]

I would assume it was a technical limitation (due to the addition of ragdoll physics) if not for the fact that the beta had it and it works fine. The only thing I can think of is maybe the resurrection process doesn't restore all NPC data (health, weapon, etc.) and they couldn't figure out how to make it work so they removed it.

[@siraethelwulf8914]

@@Triumph263 Most likely it was done because it looks silly for the npc to just drop from the sky in its standard pose. Animating the ragdoll back into a standing position was also not possible.

[@mohammadgalihputra4081]

"At any point during the chewing, the victim can still be saved" Scientist: "Am i a joke to you??"

[@andylynx007]

Well, he shot the scientist

[@CertifiedNEETClassic]

"The victim *can* be saved, I just don't *want* to." :^)

[@NotRemmyCormo]

Yes. It was literally done as a joke.

[@jozinek876]

He killed the scientist with a crossbow bolt straight to the chest lol.

[@Pandalka]

ACK!

[@G-741-S]

"Victims can still be saved" But you killed the Scientist

[@captainkeyes9913]

Exactly

[@soldierorsomething]

What if that scientist was no victim!

[@mado-wh4jv]

"But not from me"

[@user-jl7cz2pe6d]

Scientists aren't people

[@GlareanLiebertine]

Yeah, he saved the Barnacle. Don't you know how bad brains taste?

[@ShopperKungTVplay]

"Look, Gordon a ROPE We can use... HELP ME GORDON!!!" Dr.Coomer famous word

[@Needwagon4Speedwagon]

not cool bro, the guy above me wanted to make that joke

[@kaiokenx20_]

@Gaming i wanted to make that joke

[@chicharonnes98]

wow bro you got the whole squad laughing

[@chicharonnes98]

@Gaming ballsack

[@grr7293]

@Gaming Explosives

[@matheusjingga3903]

"Once, there was an ugly barnacle. He ate so many that everyone died. The end."

[@negativetenstars]

wait what is this referencing again

[@matheusjingga3903]

@@negativetenstars patrick's story

[@Sournale]

He ate so many

[@docpossum2460]

This sentence has no object.

[@thekaninemusthold]

What's Sournale doing here lol

[@melissag1364]

HECU Marine radio: “Sergeant, are you being eaten alive? “That is, uhhh, affirmative”

[@combineadvisorwithinternet6040]

SIR. I. AM. DYING! OH! GOD!

[@romanrover5839]

I like the “uhhhh” part,Like he had to think about it for a minute then confirmed that he is indeed being eaten

[@toufusoup]

Jesus, these things gave me the shivers and they still do now. Just the concept of getting ingested alive by a hole in the wall with teeth is just so unsettling.

[@xeanderman6688]

Ever played Unreal 2? If so, remember THAT planet?

[@Monstertarget]

u gonna cry?

[@abointedtoyblingofmats]

would you shut up

[@kersenify]

@@abointedtoyblingofmats what the fuck is your problem shithead

[@WolfyFancyLads]

You gotta argue what is worse though: Eaten alive by this or dissolved (still technically eaten) alive by that living glob of acid from the Cthulhu games.

[@perlata]

I didn't knew the barnacles in HL:A were so... realistic

[@DZrache]

They look like ballsacks

[@abointedtoyblingofmats]

just shut up

[@somerandomdude444]

@@abointedtoyblingofmats what's you're problem?

[@TheStewMan]

@@somerandomdude444 There's always that one dude with nothing better to do, so they go around and insult people. Or maybe a kid, y'know.

[@somerandomdude444]

@@TheStewMan could probably be having a metal breakdown or something bad happened to him/her

[@gaussman1855]

Fact: The Civil Protection units have an unused animation where they’re grasping their necks from the tongue of the barnacle strangling them, and when they’re being eaten, they get compacted into the barnacles mouth.

[@rey4874]

Oh God that's grim. Source or link?

[@gaussman1855]

I saw it when I was playing gmod with an addon that lets you play animations if a ragdoll has them. When I saw the CP’s animation list, I saw those animations. I don’t know the source of the animations but I guess they were used in early stages of the game’s development but ended up being cut or unused. The addon for gmod is called “easy animations tool”

[@edbo10]

when you say compacted, does the model actually get crushed as it enters the barnacle? that's attention to detail right there

[@gaussman1855]

edbo10 what I meant is that the models arms clip through the body and the legs slightly clip through each other.

[@edbo10]

@@gaussman1855 oh right, clipping would be the better word to use as compacting in this case sounds like the trash compactor kind of compacting

[@in1tiate]

"these inorganic items are stored without limit" *player character looks at pile of tape with malicious intent*

[@inhumanthoughts3509]

Thats resin

[@c0zmozys]

@@inhumanthoughts3509 imo its funnier to imagine it as tape

[@jonahp7493]

"Look Gordon ropes! We can use these to traverse pits"

[@givemesomefuckingsleep1916]

h e l p m e g o r d o n !

[@ilhanmohamed3495]

Famous last words said before disaster:

[@baimo_ofc]

Help me, Gordon!

[@Торнадоплюспетарда]

Look, it's Gordon's ropes! He used them to help with pits."

[@BroccolusPrime1511]

Look Adrian ropes! You can use those to get your brains eaten!

[@gregatim]

if they don't eat steel, iron, and any other objects, just flesh, does that means Gordon Gets decapitated?

[@wanpokke]

And spits out his glasses

[@cupcayuk]

they suck gordon out of the hev like you would with a snail

[@wanpokke]

@@cupcayuk escargordon

[@ExtraPrivatable]

Eye reveal

[@Max-ek3kf]

wouldnt everything get decapitated when being pulled up

[@WolfyFancyLads]

"Remember the taste of inorganic things and won't grab them" How did nobody notices this before!? It sounds like a good defense, you make them taste bad stuff and then hide under it!

[@not_ryuka]

or you could just shoot them

[@Eira_]

@@not_ryuka its a good strategy if you're trying to do a pacifist playthrough though

[@Crowbar]

You can still just feed them something random and pass through while they are pulling the thing up...

[@WolfyFancyLads]

@@Crowbar Yeah, but there's moments when they're clustered together and there's not much debris. Or those god forsaken slippy floor parts...

[@nathanielstanford3115]

I think this was a feature designed to stop barnacles from picking up the same things over and over again. It is cool to think of it as a sense of taste though.

[@sorrynothing5602]

I like how the barnacles seem to adapt after Half-Life 1. They used to prey on humans and could always be escaped, now they try to eat everything and instantly kill unprotected creatures.

[@Techhunter_Talon]

Though it made no sense that they ate only humans seeing as they're from Xen. I'd say their typical prey is usually headcrabs, houndeyes, and any unwary Vortigaunts.

[@asteroidrules]

Seems more likely that it's just engine limitations, they weren't able to make animations for the barnacle eating all the aliens in the original Half Life so they cut it, then Half Life 2 had ragdolling so animations aren't required and they can just eat anything.

[@afungai1649]

Dude, you’re over thinking this lmfao. The goldsrc engine literally couldn’t handle 90% of the barnacle improvements made in HL2 and Alyx. There are no deep lore implications or story reasons for these features to be lacking. It’s just the technology they had at the time.

[@daruistube2007]

@@afungai1649 or maybe they (the person who commented on barnacle evolution) are just projecting their own thoughts

[@burningsinner1132]

@@afungai1649 Yeah, I distinctly remember that Mr. Friendly was supposed to use the attack that blurs the vision, but engine never supported the blur.

[@feathero3]

1:47 That "Ready when you are!" line sounds like a test subject super eager to see what happens

[@ballinbalgruuf8198]

Unused feature: Barnacles can be used to traverse pits

[@gageronii]

Look Gordon ro- HELP ME GORDON!

[@generalfloppa5798]

@@gageronii Gordon: no

[@e-102gammaboitheepicdoomer7]

Wayne: I haven't got a rope.

[@tyrusdalet]

Half Life: Opposing Force says that aint unused

[@greenhowie]

There's a secret area in blast pit you can only get to by allowing yourself to get pulled up by a barnacle. Think you can do that for some shortcuts later when the army guys are after you as well.

[@BigHailFan]

"These inorganic items are stores without limit." *Slowly looks over at mountain of ammo.*

[@andrewaftontheandroidhedge2780]

thats not ammo thats reasin aka the stuff you use to upgrade your guns and make them better

[@L3RNA3AN]

"At any point during the chewing, the victim can still be saved." Dead scientist: yeah, right.

[@darrenaqilawangsech8652]

Meh, better than knowing how it feels like to get chewwd on your head by a mushy tube filled with shark teeth

[@Tengohueva88]

The scientist died by accident the arrow that was supposed to save him killed him

[@L3RNA3AN]

@@Tengohueva88 Oh. Didn't see that.

[@oldbritishguy1742]

2:48 i love it how barnacle tries to eat thing that he intentionaly puked out

[@margaux0078]

8:14 There were reports of people using Barnacles as a hiding place for drugs

[@TheM0nkeyBomb]

Lol this comment... caught me

[@headphone_cat_gaming]

If barnacles were real, this is totally something that a person would do

[@ElephantsDoingCrack]

In alyx, they don't die to poison headcrabs anymore. I tried testing it over and over, but they always live EDIT (July 12, 2021): Who knew a comment section could get this BAD

[@MarphitimusBlackimus]

Alyx stripped out many of the original HL2 features, so things like Barnacle are missing a lot of behaviors or are only partially functioning compared to before.

[@Blurns]

@@MarphitimusBlackimus Alyx sucks for a lot of reasons.

[@thePeterandByron]

@@MarphitimusBlackimus Shame. Generally, Alyx seems too stripped down from the usual unnecessary little details and quirks.

[@thealandude9146]

@@thePeterandByron fr

[@Aibadenshi]

@@MarphitimusBlackimus I think they forgot to add that in.

[@Retrogamepak]

F in chat to the one scientist who was saved too late during the chewing animation

[@halftime919]

He die for a accidental shoot.

[@gustavodutra3633]

F

[@Her_Imperious_Condescension]

He was technically saved, but killed with the arrow that was supposed to save him.

[@marioman1242]

He didn't get saved too late, Marphy accidentally shot him instead of the barnacle lol

[@rey4874]

@@marioman1242 it was no accident

[@AgsmaJustAgsma]

I like how the ability of eating headcrabs gave the Barnacle a reason to be one of the very few Xen creatures from HL1 other than headcrabs to make the cut in the sequel and episodes. It's like as if Valve is implying that they're the headcrabs' only natural predator.

[@sugoha_2548]

Bullsquids already ate headcrabs in hl1 and it's shown in hl2 and alyx that vortigaunts also do that so headcrabs definitely had more than one natural predator

[@AgsmaJustAgsma]

@@sugoha_2548 I had no idea vortigaunts could eat headcrabs in HL2. As for the Bullsquid, I knew that they could eat headcrabs in HL1, which makes their omission in the final build of HL2 even more puzzling.

[@sugoha_2548]

@@AgsmaJustAgsma in hl2 there is an easter egg in water hazard called "the vortigaunt cave" (that you might have heard of since there is an achievement for finding it) and in the cave there is a vortigaunt grilling fast headcrab skewers on a campfire.

[@renownedhonor]

Headcrabs can't see, they only move like bats. So, naturally they can't see barnacles. I mean, those creatures don't make any sound outside of eating.

[@sethleoric2598]

@@renownedhonor didnt they have eyes in hl1?

[@twohandedswordsman852]

*Once upon a time, there was a barnacle. The barnacle was so ugly that everyone died. The end.* -Patrick Star

[@finmueller7827]

The cursed thing here is how you're playing HL:A without VR

[@owoberon4947]

mods

[@Grieos]

@@owoberon4947 Actually, if you type in -novr in console before you start playing HL:A then it'll let you play it without VR

[@Grieos]

@@dvid3068 I never said it was?

[@Grieos]

@@dvid3068 I meant if you type -novr in ADVANCED DEVELOPER CONSOLE.

[@Grieos]

@@dvid3068 Read a book sometime.

[@TheEngieTF2]

Valve likes to put details in their games as much as possible, don't they?

[@Davenzoid]

They started doing it before it was cool

[@Burgerplants]

*Used to*

[@mrbazooka6635]

@@Burgerplants Half life Alyx doesn't exist right?

[@franciscoman22]

@@mrbazooka6635 correct

[@wojtekpolska1013]

@@mrbazooka6635 he meant that HL:A dont have these detailt. for example barnacles no longer die from eating poisonous headcrabs

[@eduardvainraukh5642]

8:02 redditors overfeeding their cats to post them on r/chonkers

[@f-22raptorlandingzone30]

@Comrade don't worry neighborino! When the chonker dies, it'll puke back up all that ammo! So wholesome!

[@khanzy.]

@@f-22raptorlandingzone30 Wholesome 100

[@akunlama89]

That's a weird looking cat

[@cyanide_express]

@@akunlama89 "what cat?"

[@combineadvisorwithinternet6040]

@@cyanide_express That damn thing gives me nightmares...

[@Wheagg]

The model from Alyx is by far the most terrifying.

[@adog3129]

it gets scarier every generation

[@Theakritas_]

It looks like a ballsack, and its larger than how i thought it would be.

[@adog3129]

@@Theakritas_ you look like a ballsack

[@HobeyDator]

@@adog3129 And You Look Like A Turd Ball.

[@adog3129]

@@HobeyDator well you're actually looking very handsome today

[@insertnameherelol6588]

a cute-ish little alien saved you from a deadly head crab jumping on you for his own life 6:22

[@fireaza]

It's a good thing that they decided to patch-in the ability for barnacles to eat Xen creatures. Not just because it makes sense (what were these creatures eating in their human-free home dimension?), but also because catching lunging headcrabs and shoving them into the nearest barnacle is one of the greatest joys in Half-Life Alyx.

[@Livingroomset799Dep]

Once again, HL1 has way more content than anyone who played it realized

[@rompevuevitos222]

HL1 suffers from the same """issue""" as Metal Gear, they have a ridiculous amount of unnecessary little details that don't matter to the main gameplay I mean, imagine if they put THAT many details into a more complex game than just a shooter? ofc i love the features, but i kinda feel that they are wasted for being put on a simple FPS

[@fernandohood5657]

@@rompevuevitos222 Im still happy they went that way, they seemed to spend alot of time and effort in AI, and getting you immersed in the game. It does also show the love they had for their work! But yha i understand some of these deeatails Beeing a bit too much! Specially Since the final chapter of hl1 def deserved more polish

[@CMDKeenCZ]

@@rompevuevitos222 That's true nowadays when we are so used to just blazing through shooters, but back then many of us played FPS games differently. Interactive environments were all the rage, and games like HL and Unreal were such leaps forward we were just making our ways through all starry eyed, taking our sweet time to observe and speculate how things worked and what to look for next. When I showed Marphitimus' videos to my friends, their collective reaction was often less "Holy crap Half Life had that?!" and more "Wow, I remember that!! It's so cool seeing it explained like this". Games just had little background details like that back then and you knew to look, and it made the world feel a lot more lively. There was a dev cost to that of course, and nowadays games are made differently for a reason. It's still a big part of why we all remember the game even decades later though.

[@rompevuevitos222]

​@@CMDKeenCZ Well, most modern games put a focus on graphics despite the new differences being very negligible and don't put as much effort in gameplay I'm not asking for HL's level of depth, but at least something more than just walk down a corridor (and this is one of the biggest issues nowadays, most levels are literally just "go forward" in a very linear stage) and click on the enemy, specially after so many years

[@totallynoteverything1.]

@@rompevuevitos222 why they did that? for example, look at Left 4 Dead 1-2, then look at Bastardization 4 Blood? L4D had more "unnecessary" features for immersion, than Back 4 Blood check this vid out, shows that Valve's dev groups put more love and care to games: kzbin.info/www/bejne/e5W1fYGLfNJ5eZo

[@Komradvsky]

Ah, a new Half-Life fact files video, and so soon too? This is heaven.

[@pymonodew]

I hope they keep adding that kinda small details it really feel like they're living organisms from different worlds

[@dm4544]

"In Half-Life: Alyx, Barnacles can now eat small inorganic objects like guns and ammo." Okay. "These inorganic items are stored without limit." OH BOY HERE WE GO

[@qwefhj3011]

5:53 ayo this edible aint shi-

[@weavorjjohanna5619]

Welcome to the "hang on i play this game for 10 year and i didn't know that" zone

[@Robwo.]

Welcome back to mukbang with the barnacle. Today we'll be seeing what a head tastes like.

[@GewelReal]

Which head 👀

[@BendusProvitionalGhost]

I can't take more of this but... Another crab

[@ReplyequalsNerd]

Starring Nickvacado

[@arken2583]

Is that a kobold pfp?

[@BlazingShadowSword]

@@BendusProvitionalGhost Who is responsible for this shit? (I got it.)

[@natalie6811]

0:52 “Save you... save you... and save- oh no.”

[@jackcooper1507]

Barnicles are absolutely terrifying if they actually exist irl

[@redacted90]

0:45 "At any point during the chewing the victim can still he saved." HECU Grunt: "That is all affirmative."

[@notaphycologyst6644]

I mean, the head is a limb, and you can survive without limbs, right?

[@MegaChickenfish]

Even more strange details. I feel like a lot more of half-life was intended to be backtracked through in earlier versions for it to make sense to have things like that barnacle gib puking. Like you just navigated a hallway full of them, they ate all your scientist pals, oh well that _totally_ wasn't on purpose, then you go back through the hallway and find it's raining gibs.

[@Sodaholic6502]

This is true, early versions of Half-Life had much larger, more open-ended chapters with lots of winding paths and backtracking. Some chapters such as Blast Pit, On a Rail and to an extent Questionable Ethics still somewhat demonstrate this earlier approach to level design.

[@shogun2215]

That would explain why Black Mesa's barnacles can eat Headcrabs.

[@a_creatorsstuff17]

The headcrabs in hl2 onward were modified by the combine, no longer have a quitinous skin nor the 3 pairs of eyes

[@abointedtoyblingofmats]

that would explain your obnoxious mouth

[@cyanide_express]

@@abointedtoyblingofmats stfu stop spamming

[@imadrifter]

@@abointedtoyblingofmats are you alright? What's eating you?

[@SuperCatfire]

@@imadrifter the barnacle

[@mdaffasuryanindra2016]

Imagine how it feels like when a barnacle pulls you in Half-Life Alyx...

[@shitboxoffroad]

It's unsettling, and most of the time I'm like not again!

[@tacoblude8208]

When it comes to attention to detail half life was the red dead redemption of the 90s

[@Smeeeeeghead]

Marph you spoiling us with these HL fact videos so soon!

[@TheTrashman9]

Meh, all of this is kind of basi- "Barnicles will remember the taste of rejected items and ignore them" W H O O O O A .

[@Quackerilla]

This is a load of barnacles.

[@abointedtoyblingofmats]

no it isn't

[@bd9129]

@@sugoha_2548 ur feeding him

[@sethleoric2598]

@@sugoha_2548 his ego is being fed by retaliation, just dont mind him and he'll leave

[@jackpijjin4088]

*"I HEARD THAT"*

[@sonicdash9652]

I HEARD THAT!

[@Kobobble]

"At any point during the chewing, the victim can still be saved" *scientist dies* "Well, almost everyone"

[@generalfloppa5798]

Look gordon ropes we can use thes- HELP ME GORDON

[@emmaluvzrazz]

XD

[@Bananappleboy]

@@generalfloppa5798 HELP ME GOR- *_*bang_** Gordon has had enough.

[@tnttommygun1667]

Bro shot too close to his head

[@jacksongrantham4848]

"Look Adrian, ropes! They'll eat ya brains out!"

[@-Raylight]

0:55 *"Can still be saved"* **proceed to kill the scientist* *_Dame dane, dame yo, dame na no yo♫~_*

[@electricforest17]

Anta ga suki de sukisugite😔😔😔

[@alfredlaalpacadeageofempir9215]

Dore dake, tsuyoi osa-ke demo

[@abointedtoyblingofmats]

unfunny

[@cc_1enjoyer487]

@@abointedtoyblingofmats yeah I know you are unfunny

[@Callistospiralz]

Yakuza fans unite!

[@bappojujubes981]

I've always thought about what I'd do if I ever get caught by a barnacle, turns out I can't do anything since the tenacle would snap your neck before you can resist.

[@jimmybuba2683]

Is atleast a little bit better than being eaten alive rigth?

[@dkskcjfjswwwwwws413]

In alyx its shown that you can resist for a while So barnacles choke you till youre unconscious, break your neck and eat you

[@TF2Scout..]

@@dkskcjfjswwwwwws413 uwo

[@Bananappleboy]

@@TF2Scout.. *_The industrial revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human-_* wait its a different word from another language that translates into "that" i just

[@MLambdaism]

And here's a mistery: Why EVERY barnacle in the series spits out human gibs(or bones) upon their death?

[@ShaunCheah]

There's probably an official explanation somewhere, but my theory is that barnacle spores require a host, which means that the barnacles you encounter (except on Xen, perhaps), were just people or animals unlucky enough to have a spore portal'd into them, driving them up to ceilings where their biomass is converted into a full-grown barnacle.

[@VarunGupta3009]

@@ShaunCheah This is so much more unsettling to imagine...

[@invidirin]

or maybe it's just spitting out the bones and skulls of the previously eaten victims which they kept inside of them

[@oh3681]

The past victim

[@SuperCatfire]

bc they were lazy/didnt have the technology lol

[@omicronixzerus2929]

Something unique about the barnacles in HL:A is that they seem to eat much more slowly. Over the course of weeks or months. They won't settle simply for the head of a creature, they can be seen growing around a creature as they consume it, sort of like a snake swallowing its prey whole. This behavior can be seen in the quarantine containment section. I distinctly remember seeing a CP hanging by the ankle with his entire foot up to his shin consumed. They've certainly changed as the series progresses

[@MrBiplaneDude]

" At any point during the chewing, the victim can still be saved. " *Middle person dies*

[@albertbrzozowski]

Hell Yeah Marphy, never stop uploading!!!!

[@flynntaggart8549]

3:41 i always thought this was done just to prevent them getting stuck in a loop of picking up and dropping the same thing over and over

[@cheshirekershaw]

3:57 no way, that is amazing.

[@bykerof9433]

Joder, como extrañaba este tipo de videos de maphitimus, UN CAPO

[@notjustinyeetroblox9928]

imagine being an AI and just watch as this man with a crowbar watches you get eaten by some alien

[@vrabo3026]

HL2 barnacles spit out corpses in the form of toothpicks, catch them, try to eat them, realize they're toothpicks and then spit them out? ...I always thought they were just ripping stuff off the floor. Made way more sense to me. Still does.

[@mrrazfromnz]

Those are bones...

[@arthurschmidt3104]

@@mrrazfromnz very thin bones that look like toothpicks

[@sethleoric2598]

I thought they were crabl ges

[@jiraffe9600]

@@arthurschmidt3104 Those are some long ass bent toothpicks.

[@arthurschmidt3104]

@@jiraffe9600 I said they looked like toothpicks, the shape is the same

[@005miley]

Headcrab zombie: *gets yanked up* Barnacle: *YEET*

[@breezingwing7513]

3:20 Combine announcer: Individual, you are charged with socio-endangerment, level one Gordon, with a camera: whats up my dudes for this prank we're gonna feed this alien b*tch some soda lol like and subscribble

[@dunkleham]

"At any point during chewing, the victim can be saved" *nails professor in the chest*

[@dennesalcantara980]

Amazing vídeo, dude. Love your half life videos

[@ShinoSarna]

I didn't expect HL2 bit, but I REALLY didn't expect HL: Alyx.

[@redsunclips]

I find the barnacles more disgusting than scary even while playing alyx Jeff Behavior?

[@shitboxoffroad]

Oh man I've gotten puked on so many times in Alyx, the game is so immersive

[@blakebrill3903]

God I hate the idea of getting eaten by a barnacle, just sends shivers down my spine lol

[@mionski415]

3:32 Pick up the can

[@RainingMetal]

Barnacle spits it into the trash can.

[@Silver_Swan_MK2]

@@RainingMetal (Pulls out Stun Stick)

[@Quarthelomew]

The changes in eating behaviors show the barnacles getting more desperate to find food

[@Goaty_1]

In Garry’s Mod, the Barnacles eat anything except Poison Headcrabs, even objects bigger than them.

[@aliendrone]

0:48 At any point during the chewing, the victim can still be saved. Shoots the scientist.. The Scientist: Am i a joke to you?

[@carlthesillyroblox]

It was probably too late..

[@toto_feather8732]

We all know Marph intentionally shot the scientist

[@sound-wave00]

"Oh Barnacles." -Spongebob

[@wronghat4202]

"goblee smack smack" he has such a way with words

[@Koronuru]

"At any point during the chewing, the victim will be saved." (Saved the security and the HECU and killed the scientist)

[@rhager842]

"Look Gordon, ropes! We can use- HELP ME GORDON!"

[@madscientist1045]

Look Gordon , ropes!!! , We can use them for climbing walls!

[@WolfyFancyLads]

HELP ME GORDON!

[@madscientist1045]

@@WolfyFancyLads *disappears* HELLO GORDON !!!

[@WolfyFancyLads]

@@madscientist1045 I KNOW THERE'S A WORLD IN YOUR DREAMS! *AND I WANT TO GO THERE!!*

[@goochencore4128]

could yall please stop spamming the comments of every half life video in existance with unfunny HLVRAI quotes

[@madscientist1045]

@@goochencore4128 where is your passport old sport?

[@MotivatedVergilSparda]

Smoker from left 4 dead: "Finally.. a worthy opponent, Our battle will be legendary!"

[@BiancaRoughFin]

04:59 Imagining the Zombie crying and saying "MY ICING!!". Funny thing about the Barnacles in HL2 is they will even eat a whole Antlion Guardian but they never spawn in the game map unless you use Spawn Codes. :P

[@pandemoniumthepngfromvrchat]

6:08 your basically telling me you can protect yourself from poison headcrabs by making them go into the tounge of the barnacle and do a double kill?

[@lonewolf6693]

2:13 R.I.P male_07

[@eskwua3590]

the barnacles in HL:A look like ballsacks with teeth

[@БогданКрименюк]

That's what you expect to see from a Buttercup pfp

[@eskwua3590]

@@БогданКрименюк ;-;

[@genarozetto4285]

Thats alot of damage !!

[@sonicdash9652]

@@genarozetto4285 How about a little more!?

[@БогданКрименюк]

@Damian 2000 wait, he's not?

[@jUppers]

Of all the things it's really nice to see shit not flying all over the place in hl alyx when small props collide

[@Logan-zp8bi]

HLA turned these things from minor annoyances to being down right terrifying, its like feeding a lion you wanna run but at the same time its fun to watch it eat.

[@They_are_Arthur]

Barnacles have such satisfying sound effects.

[@TheBonkleFox]

Look, Gordon! Ropes! We can use- HELP ME, GORDON!

[@Eragarev]

by HL 2, humans became much more scarce, so barnacles had to expand their palates.

[@Eyepoke42]

your content is as glorious as Gordon himself!

[@SB-129]

I can imagine the metro cop from the start being endlessly entertained by a barnacle complying with his orders.

[@justno297]

this the reason i uninstall half life and scared looking at wall back when i was kid lmao

[@justno297]

@Daninnocent wall, back*

[@erwinsetyo1061]

*wallhack, drone with circular saw

[@anequallygoodchannel.2761]

These things always scared me as a kid. They still scare me honestly.

[@Toyota9993-m6g]

Nobody cares about you being as a kid. Shut up and go get a job already.

[@slothsong080]

If they redesign the HEV suit, it'd probably be a good idea to make it out of soda cans. If you can't have a helmet, the least you can do is taste yucky to barnacle.

[@kyuketsukirook]

I fed a Gargantua to a Barnacle in Gmod. It worked.

[@Bone_Incidents]

in the episodes a zombie is very lucky to run across one of these

[@torrac]

Every time I got sucked up by a barnacle my head would feel ticklish like I was being sucked on

[@afonline2004]

Barnacle ASMR?

[@Crowbar]

then watch out when you play Half-Life: Alyx.

[@richardvlasek2445]

oh my god he didn't use the shakey sickness inducing VR camera when showcasing something from alyx

[@mfaizsyahmi]

It's clearly not VR, he's using mouse and keyboard. You can tell by the telltale "picked-up object hovering in front of player"

[@Fenrize]

@@mfaizsyahmi That's what he said. Along the lines of "he didn't use VR camera and I appreciate it because it causes me motion sickness so it may make it hard for me to enjoy the presentation otherwise"