Half-Life: The GoldSRC Saga

[@ThatTravGuy]

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[@NerfPlayeR135]

2:18:40 OK, I guess "Stopping a hostile alien invasion while the military tries to kill me (GONE WRONG) (ALMOST DIES)" is Trav's kind of jam.

[@ThatTravGuy]

I'm glad someone commented on this cut haha. I left it in thinking no one would notice and it made me laugh.

[@Foxtrot_Lima]

Who up halfing they life rn

[@CrustyFox87]

She Half on my Life until I 2

[@Cel684]

Sigh........ Me

[@superwhatbrosdes5064]

Me

[@Blue-hf3xc]

Me Asf

[@vortigese]

me

[@alewis514]

The remaster from 2023 is actually really cool. Native support includes even full 4K resolution and high refresh rates. They fixed UI elements scaling so I don't need a microscope to see my health in 4K resolution too. Also the HL deathmatch was sprung back to life with crossfire servers being constantly up and populated. HL deathmatch is the biggest chaos arena shooter I ever played.

[@wicodot]

​@@alewis514 1. enormous ui, which you cannot adjust 2. broken mods (now mod developers how to rewrite their base to work on a new version) 3. no settings to turn off WON camera shifting 4. bad menu design (like cmon, finish it) 5. ruined animation sync 6. HD pack is still unfinished and doesn't change surroundings (LD pack is still superior) all that they did is hehe we will add some models to player model selector and call it an big update for hype, same stuff for 20 anniversary update for hl2, not much actually helpful stuff, made for hype (also dead hl2dm and sourcemod plug-ins)

[@a1batross_]

@@wicodot 1. use Xash, we have hud_scale option :) 2. they fixed it 3. sv_rollangle 0 4. use Xash :) 5. what do you mean? Post a bugreport on their github 6. I doubt HD pack was meant to be finished. Now they disabled it by default, which is good.

[@speemus6223]

@@wicodot ?

[@SleepyJoe-v5c]

5:02 actually trav, source is just heavily modified goldsrc with havok physics engine coded into it. So no it didn’t “start in 2004”. The modifications were worked on since 2000 roughly.

[@ThatTravGuy]

Yeah my original video was made 4 years ago, this is a compilation of those old videos. I'm working on the HL2 video and I'll be correcting that with more accurate information

[@SleepyJoe-v5c]

@@ThatTravGuy woah did not expect a reply. Fuckin cool haha. Love the content dude, keep goin!

[@drolenim]

@@ThatTravGuy It took me until I heard you say "with Half Life: Alyx just over the horizon" to realize the first part of the video was old

[@Spongi_124]

After 4 years... he finally figured out you could shoot the mines in surface tension.

[@blioko_]

The peak super-cut is HERE!

[@mr.flatcap4197]

Ah yes, another very long trav video to either weld or fall asleep to

[@ghhn4505]

11:08 "Or more specifically the TEST, CHAMBUURRR"

[@DudeStrange]

It's gonna be so fuckin' funny if the rumors somehow turns out to be true and The HL3 gets announced on tonight Game Awards

[@rat_consumer93423]

Its not happening bro

[@DudeStrange]

@rat_consumer93423 yea i know, but one can always dream of

[@ScorchtheHawk]

(Sigh)

[@DudeStrange]

@@schmovvl yea, 4 hours of sleep wasted for me, and the show itself was mid

[@sgtsnokeem1139]

We'll see an actual bug free working campaign of Squadron 42 before a Half Life 3......maybe. Actually scratch that... We'll never see Squadron 42 lol

[@thatguyfromA6915]

i literally just watched every half life video you made like 3 days ago but i will not complain

[@hereticalpaintjobs]

Hey Trav, you don't know me but I wanted to say keep making these supercuts when you can, it really helps me get through work

[@nicksonblack1698]

0:20 well about that. You know, Marathon 1, 2 and Marathon Infinity exists.

[@electricmiragemedia]

haha yes, my brain did a vinyl scratch when I heard that and came here to write the exact same thing!

[@OrificeHorus]

In the defense of Half-Life... Marathon Infinity is... complex.

[@nicksonblack1698]

@@OrificeHorus but it has story, before half life half life was one of the first, but not the first (nerd emoji here because i feel like nerd right now)

[@bluefates58]

Does System Shock take its story seriously? I haven’t played the game myself but from what I have seen that seems to be the case. So it could be considered tge first since it came out before Marathon

[@KatNoirZGK]

KZbin putting up pictures of Gabe Newell, Mike Harrington, John Carmack and when it comes to Michael Shapiro it's just a picture of the G-Man lmao Is Mike Shapiro the actual G-Man confirmed?!

[@leeshkah]

dont forget the GENE WORM

[@Ohem1]

I have a theory that G-Man is an abbreviation of the physicist "Murray Gell-Mann" because of how physics is a fulcrum.

[@Gollypon]

@@Ohem1 interesting theory, but most likely its from how 'g-man' has been a short term way to say "government man" for decades. pulp magazines and sci fi stories used it alot, which fits with Half Life taking equal inspiration from both modern sci fi horror and classic B-movie alien fare.

[@globe0147]

19:51 you can get the revolver earlier, just after you have killed the tentacle guys

[@papereatingcowboy4363]

The poor barney on 2:14:20 got obliterated 😂

[@FlareBinar]

1:55:00 the model is named Walter in the files, the community calls him Walter because that's his official name. You also have Glasses, Luther, and Einstein.

[@slyguythreeonetwonine3172]

Pro Half Life 2: Scientist Boogaloo when Civvie?!?! Oh wait wrong channel.

[@travosk8668]

You can get the magnum right after you kill the tentacle monster You can shoot the mines out of the ground It’s crazy how many soft locks you ran into

[@csmadisun]

00:00 - Half-Life 41:46 - Black Mesa and Half-Life Source 43:36 - Blue Shift 1:04:39 - Opposing Force 1:42:26 - Dreamcast and PS2 versions 2:18:40 - Decay

[@Solo_FT]

GoldSRC was the best era of gaming

[@s_callahan]

i feel like it had both it's strengths and weaknesses. i personally really like games from all sorts of eras. i think a lot of smaller games fron this current era have been just as strong.

[@alfos.192]

1:28:18 Man was sacrificed for the game's scripting.

[@panqueque445]

I don't know if this is the case for Half Life, but I know that some old games have some HUD elements locked to a certain resolution. So they look minuscule on modern monitors.

[@OlimarRocks]

@@panqueque445 It used to, but the 25th anniversary update released last year added proper UI scaling. these videos were recorded before the update, so the changes weren’t implemented yet

[@boshi7298]

you can get the revolver early if you get out of the water after jumping in the hole to blast pit, you can also get the SMG right at the beginning of we've got hostiles just around the first turret next to a soldier's corpse

[@ianbough4122]

These videos were always some of my favorites to listen to whenever I wanted to relax, and I can't wait for the eventual HF2 videos!

[@reanamacdougall]

Yo let’s go this got uploaded a day after I just binged all these videos

[@Buttersaemmel]

instead of running into the mines, you can just throw explosives up ahead, they trigger the mines too. if i remember correctly there are also some stored around the place that you can find if you explore before entering the minefield.

[@Vathz113]

I swear to god I feel like I watched this. Especially that crash on 14:25

[@MattObviously]

@@Vathz113 I think a lot of this video is reused from his other video. Love the content just not sure why the reupload

[@ghosterino]

From the length of the video, I thought it was Pyrocynical for a moment.

[@cavemanish_thoughts]

fun fact about hl1, if you move the cart in the ams room, the beam will trace the crystal either way, so it cannot be stopped

[@KimFareseed]

26:30 In the desert, I huged the left wall and jumped ontop of whatever I could. Worked like a charm. Otherwise, go forth alien bugs go forth an clear a path.

[@superwhatbrosdes5064]

Great videos! You were on my youtube rewind youtubers just because of how many times i watched these.

[@dullish988]

Actually, in HL1, the rocket launcher used the same missile code as the tanks, so the laser guide can redirect tank rockets too lol

[@ThatTravGuy]

Oh that's funny

[@seancondon5572]

17:15 is what I was waiting for. I can now fall asleep to the remainder of this video.

[@idiovic]

The difference between half-life and essentially every other game franchise is when people ask for a sequel, they aren’t asking for the same thing they liked before, they are asking for their previous expectations to be blown away again

[@xendlevel]

God this is so well made man

[@tomdude2929]

All of the issues you had, I have never heard of or seen before. Is your game just, broken? Were you playing in a weird way?

[@underknight9744]

Finally, content

[@SkylerLinux]

When it come to Valve not being able to count to Three, there is something to it. GoldSrc, Source, now Source 2; HL, HL2, HL:A; Portal and Portal 2; TF and TF2; Steam OS, Steam OS 2, Holo OS; etc

[@orchid9]

HL1 had zoom function on magnum. It was in multiplayer. I'm pretty sure that's where the both the decay mod and black mesa got that idea.

[@scottk7284]

"Sounds like they woke them up at 6 am" The game is 25 years old 😂😂

[@glorbinkolguzzler]

In the blacked mesa, straight up halfing it, and by it... lets just say i mean my life

[@globe0147]

2:40:15 the zoom on the revolver is present in Half life death match

[@owennorcross4407]

trying to make it happen are you?

[@HinkHall]

If alyx is free to access for a short period of time I’ll gladly find a vr headset

[@epremier20050]

4:52 incidentally enough as a coder by trade, the term "src" as a shorthand of "source" is a common directory name of a developing program or game's source code as coders are not really good at making creative names. I am not sure of the actual reason for adding "gold" to "src" to become "goldsrc," but I assume with a game going "gold" (where production of the game is finalized and are put on disk for publishing), I assume Valve just append "gold" to "src" as a convenient way to say this is what the engine will start for the games and expansions that follow

[@PosthumanHeresy]

You know, to be honest, I think Half-Life gets too much credit for the narrative stuff. That's not to say it doesn't have the _widespread_ impact, but I think it's treated as being more of an originator than it is. One of the things that you learn about art as a general rule is that the big influence pieces are typically proceeded by foundational works which themselves don't get as heavily remembered, but without whom the medium would not be what it became. There is no Smells Like Teen Spirit and thus no cultural dominance of Nirvana without The Pixies. There is no Nine Inch Nails or Trent Reznor in general without Ministry (or Marilyn Manson as we know him without Nine Inch Nails for that matter). There is no Batman without The Shadow. There is no Call of Duty without Medal of Honor. And I think it is extremely fair to say that likewise, there is no Half-Life without two games. The second being Strife, which came out a year before Half-Life's Alpha Build was built, so early into the development. But the first was the Mac's competitor to Doom. At the time, Doom was only on Microsoft systems, so Apple needed a competitor. What they got was an increadingly mindscrew, story-heavy FPS whose impact is most recognized for it's spiritual successor series in 2001. I don't think there's a Half-Life without Marathon.

[@gabriel120300]

Amazing work!!!!

[@lone-wolf-2056]

did you make the video before the anniversary update and then post it after the anniversary update? because I can clearly tell from the footage

[@woefullyunprepared2045]

This video dropped 11 days ago and I've watched it 4 times already on top of the remastered video of Prime. Hyperfixation aquired.

[@woefullyunprepared2045]

Oh my god the Guy has noticed my comment, resuming the video asap

[@Cracked-Hunter]

Oh boy I sure love watching compilation of vids I already watched.

[@electricmiragemedia]

First game of its kind with a serious narrative - sorry my friend but Pathways into Darkness and the Marathon series say no no no! Otherwise enjoy your videos!

[@PosthumanHeresy]

19:45 I thought there's one hidden in the pit?

[@SinbadNaiver]

I was not expecting to see that come out today XD

[@reddonut1518]

17:15 I can’t find this video for the life of me I can’t even look it up by name and channel😭 could you please send a link for a desperate fan. Been passively looking for like 2 years

[@Yellowpikachu1]

all i found was this kzbin.info/www/bejne/mHuQe6Stq6aNkKc&ab_channel=OVKatz

[@reddonut1518]

@ same. I fear it was taken down

[@DownSpadeTF]

"HA! Get fucked!" got me

[@Fuuntag]

1:47:38 Randy claims a lot of things…😂 and yes, I’ve met him.

[@SimonG258]

Hey Trav Guy did you know you can get the Revolver in Blast Pit.

[@protoaltus]

Oh you will find my G-Man being Half Lifed until it Alyx. Hell imagine Half Life 2.

[@TheSpudHunter]

good stuff

[@Ox2163]

Mmmm yes. More delicious long-form content.

[@jimbob4171]

This truly halved my life

[@NightEnder]

the half life tetralogy lets goooo

[@Emrealdsux]

oh sick a video to play in the background when im playing touhou luna nights

[@tusk1142]

Travis knows something

[@tusk1142]

Travis knew nothing

[@HellnawNaw-zq2jx]

Jokes on you, I already washed my dishes.

[@JackWse]

You know.. I never had too much of an issue with the long jump control jumping shenanigans, you had to do that enough anyways as that was the way of minor clambering and or mantling by way of Ongnok, Thai warrior, fully clearing the object with your legs and/or chest high ledge.. and I get what they were going for, with the whole oh you're going to make a extra springy jump, by crouching and then using the power of your legs.. like mechanically it actually is kind of nifty.. and then.. double tap.. Yeah that.. that actually that actually makes more sense.. like.. maybe back then it didn't but I'm pretty sure it did cuz I'm pretty sure everybody was like what? And I think a lot of that had to do with jump crouching all the time.. I guess in this case it was crouch jumping instead of jump crouching.. But like crouch jumping was muscle memory for the most part in the early 3D late '90s era.. so now in order to jump even further and do a mechanical thing that is kind of weird because it's it's really not that much longer of a jump that you could already rock it with your air control.. you kind of maybe got the impression that they were just talking about jump crouching really.. and then you know... A few hours later you realize oh goodness.. This is this is a thing it's kind of weird you don't really have to do it to make the jumps... But it seems like you're supposed to do it.. But you know... Oh well.. If it wasn't such an odd thing and just now in my head thinking mechanically like gosh that's kind of cool I kind of want to do something with that with the whole crouch and then jump aspect as far as working on movement and parkour and Half-Life 2 modding, which is not really where I focus but.. Just as accidental side effects of doing things like pushback on kicks and whatnot I have a whole bunch of strangely mechanical combat related traversal that's super smooth cuz you know.. source engine rocks for that... But then of course you got the the conundrum of.. okay so I don't need need to do the splits over a police car, and then copy that form to get up a staircase or minor ledge.. But.. now I've got omnidirectional crouch sliding, which is a wonderful Dodge and makes the antlion boss fights more fun, and is just really cool to try to change up mechanically how you're doing things since it's multidirectional and reasonably fast... And yeah, again it would make mechanical sense, I already have a kick that rockets you into the air when you jump or to bounce off of walls with it and some other things.. and initially I did that for feedback cuz I was having trouble.. But it was worth trying a bunch of things given how feature Rich the mod I was adapting was and allowing you to drop kick shit lol which is awesome cuz it is.. thing is if you're in the air you got no friction in source.. and a more professional implementation would have made sure to limit the player to the horizontal axis with the feedback kick, and initially I was thinking wow that'd be cool to kick away from a exploding barrel.. or get distance which was a problem on a count of the NPC controller being problematic when moving them in space not accounted for like pushing them... And I was desperate to do anything to get the kick to not feel pathetic by comparison to the other kick which I ended up keeping around because I still haven't found satisfaction but.. now I can ricochet off walls and system shock myself into the air for overhead passes.. it's a hitscan game so that doesn't really help, but I'm working on that lol.. But it is .. absolutely cool.. and given how many invisible walls are in Half-Life 2 on a count of box stacking, it didn't really break the game terribly if given some self-control of course. Now I can jump 10 ft into the air, and then immediately slide in any direction with full force out of that jump which is cool.. is it easier to just slide in any direction to get around a wall or something Yes.. is it useful Yes.. is it way cooler to jump 10 ft in the air and then ricochet yourself like you've got full-on wire foo absolutely yes.. Is that better than springing forward for an extra jump.. probably.. does that mean that needs to go away? I don't think so but then lies in the problem of trying to communicate any of these things to people, now you don't need them to succeed you kind of want to make it so that you might need to do some of the cool stuff to succeed, but.. One thing I've noticed over the last 20 years is if a gamer isn't required to do something anymore, and with the rate the games play themselves, especially on a controller where it does it by design.. with limited access to inputs at simultaneous times and requiring and relying on contextual pre-baked animation cutscene basically.. or all the melee in Doom 2016.. a cutscene when you hit a button.. How do you make something mechanically rich and autonomous and communicate that and make it worth someone's time to do it.. people have done it all day with the occasional assassin's Creed that lets you do Prince of Persia stuff sometimes.. a game that is traversal base that took away the jump button and turned a wonderful freeform fighting game combat style into dance dance revolution. You ruined platforming assassin Creed.. But yeah people still have gone the extra mile to pull cool things out of cool things with what they're given often in spite of a system that is designed to automate itself. Honestly, I kind of applaud and I miss that mentality of of doing something that didn't make video game sense or even keyboard and mouse sense and kind of pushed against some logic of pre-established input workarounds for a function like jump crouching.. to do something like the long jump that was biologically mechanically logical for someone that hadn't played a video game, that would kind of make sense if they had ever done a jump before.. Are you playing a game, like this is what it comes down to or are you playing a simulation in 3D space where you take the avatar of someone in extraordinary situations... It is always disappointing when the idea of playing a game comes into contrast with that.. gets in the way of that and limits it and it's potential to actually feel like something..

[@jfuebel]

Hey Trav, why does your voice sounds different?

[@naiyamay2356]

finally. more yapping material to listen to while I play other shit

[@AndrewDasilvaPLT]

So many minor inaccuracies or rounded corners on things and I'm only seven minutes in. Of course I've spent hundreds of hours learning, and hundred of hours playing it.

[@user-yi7zj3lv5t]

I only just played OG Half Life (not source) this year, I didn’t mind on a rail. But I also managed to not spend too much time there either. Aside from obligatory dislike for Xen levels, I didn’t like questionable ethics initially, on the other hand.

[@robyn051]

I can use this video to cope with the fact that the rumors of hl3 being revealed at the game awards today are just that, rumors. It ain’t happenin’

[@TheShkar]

Bro, I don't really know what's happening with those triggers and scripts in your copy of HL. I mean, I don't have such problems, and you would have much better feel and experience if everything was working properly. P.S. You have no idea how it was, hearing Credits theme on release. You may say it's not fitting, but back then it felt like Valve themselves told through screen: "So, how's this game we made? We really tried, was it any good?", while I was searching for my jaw under the desk.

[@AmberDoesOtherStuffs]

Only ate one taco

[@feefety1200]

If you keep making these saga videos people will think you are short on content.

[@barreldaddy1295]

so how long is the ultrakill saga gonna be lol

[@Vathz113]

Ah. It's the saga. Well. Watching it anyways

[@audiosurfarchive]

Hell yeah!

[@germanulrich]

Hope, thats all I have to say

[@GillgameshConsumerOfReality]

*Inhales the copeium* This is a tease for the Half-Life 2 video :D

[@teaoftraffic]

Hello, Gordon!

[@orchid9]

Half-Life Source wasn't broken at release and actually was considered a definitive way to play Half-Life back in the day. It was a legit remaster that run great. It was broken by the updates. So 1) you weren't playing anything broken as a kid 2) you did zero research on the matter for 3 hour long video.

[@limarchenko96]

Half life 1 didn’t have a narrative, no more than quake or doom did.

[@emcmend9960]

*sigh* I really should get around to playing Half-Life

[@fruitylerlups530]

@@emcmend9960 just do it

[@Mechanized85]

No thanks, I running for my life, even i endless time, I will never gonna remember these stink garbage.

[@DirectorOfChaos9292]

Are you gonna make some new videos?

[@ThatTravGuy]

Yeah, this is just something to hold time over until my next video, which is HL2

[@Jungleskog]

HL2 YEAHHHH

[@cristiansalas7197]

Oops! All compilations

[@unknownname1631]

That Trav Guy are you G.I. Joe fan?

[@veryoddnaw]

1:35:10 oh I thought it was meant to say “F U”

[@awyehh]

This might be the biggest cope of my life but I will leave a comment here now for the very small chance you know what will be announced at the games awards.

[@ZeeMid]

mold source.

[@daemonspudguy]

Travis, do you need help? Are these compilations a way of calling for help?

[@RudiHartinger-hp7zc]

No to HD Textures

[@Saver310]

Lets go

[@icravedeath.1200]

Big gay Gordon Peeman.

[@simon_1987]

Half life has a story? Uhh no

[@yannick7896]

Mhmmmm...more slop

[@fart_reverb_2]

20 views in the first minute Yup you're washed💔