Half-Life 2 Developers React to 50 Minute Speedrun

[@sonks336]

It's still unreal seeing Valve and their devs actually talk to us after being quiet for 10+ years.

[@remgl5431]

Finally to ask when hl3 will be released

[@L4sket]

@ooczzy I feel like VR made them interested in the market again, as you can see very much involvement in VR from Valve. It probably has brought back the excitement in developing from Valve itself.

[@nullwand3971]

@ooczzy They hired Kaci Aitchison, who is a Dota 2 host, to do fulltime for Valve, she pretty much revamped the communication part

[@JackieFrankieful]

they are promoting Alyx VR game, IGN contacted valve and asked if they would like to sit and comment on a pre recorded speedrun VOD. And valve said yes because they need publicity for ALYX

[@GazerTheGamer]

ooczzy Apparently one of the community managers who worked on the DOTA 2 tourneys but not at Valve was hired by them. That’s likely why they’re being much more communicative, some restructuring happened a little bit after that hiring.

[@billoverbeck3784]

Combine: The humans are PATHETIC, they already lost in only 7 hours *City 17 Explodes 40 minutes later* Combine2:It was like a storm, i only saw him for 2 seconds going Through the sky

[@mondainicorradi]

😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@miro007ist]

Nice

[@ThePigeon5734]

HL2 Is set 20 years after HL1

[@suicidalbanananana]

@Jardani Jovonovich Metropolice are human, they can take the suit off and still decide their own actions, any higher ranks have been augmented so much they are at best a biped/humanoid (describes body shape, not humanity) with no free will anymore (brainwashed). To put it bluntly, high rank earth combine _are combine_ because of the augmentations, combine do this in all worlds they visit, proven by the fact they have dropships striders etc that are augmented creatures from other worlds. I mean theres even canon lore about how metropolice can earn the right to get their freak on (this is mentioned by the overwatch system) but higher ranks cant because they (a) no longer have reproductive organs & (b) they dont care anymore, all the higher ranks care about is serving the combine, as they are now part of the combine.

[@Wenjo936]

@@ThePigeon5734 but the 7 hour war. The combine as we know it. Hl1 is us introducing ourselves. 2 is after they came for us

[@jonathanfoe5125]

At 40 mins in, when the devs told a story about how they only bumped up the enemy's damage and health for only one playtester to prank him was just pure evil lol.

[@jongyon7192p]

They gotta release that version for speedrunners! haha

[@darknessviking]

i was that playstester, grr so mean

[@PetercAW]

i was the developers

[@zacharyrichardson7189]

@@PetercAW no I was that developer

[@Someguyhere111]

@@zacharyrichardson7189 I made this game :)

[@GeneH339]

My favorite part... Developer: "Well no one thought the airboat section was too long." All 3 Developers: *burst out in laughter*

[@templare251993]

15:20

[@aguyonyt1]

@@templare251993 thank you even though im not looking for it

[@ryanolsen294]

@@aguyonyt1 k

[@caixiuying8901]

@@ryanolsen294 k

[@bubbap89]

@@aguyonyt1 k

[@ct578]

“If we hadn’t written all this code that doesn’t work as intended, none of this would be possible. So in a way this is our speed run too”

[@oamost]

genius

[@aserta]

It's not a bug, if it's a feature..?

[@RearAdmiralTootToot]

sharing is caring

[@chestertamayo1894]

@@aserta it seems like they deliberately allow some bugs for the speedrun community so things like glitches and eploits doesn't technically count as those since the devs left them in the game intentionallu

[@juliusraben3526]

Im not watching the full speedrun, just pieces. But that quote is amazing, if one has seen "empire of the sun". The part were the camp is under attack, Jamie talk about how its their runway? Because the bones of the dead are in it? Its not the best movie(by far), but for some reason it has a place in my heart haha

[@SkamOneOfficial]

Fans: wheres half life three Dev's watching speed run: I'm thinking the next game we shouldnt make anything

[@mb2001]

Skam One Official That explains a lot!

[@jacklideen4296]

But where's portal 3? Or the next major tf2 update?

[@maruftim]

ok im blaming the speedrunners

[@theluiginoidperson1097]

Oh ok- wait... _Next game?_ *Half Life 3* _Confirmed???_

[@highestsettings]

@@theluiginoidperson1097 It's just a menu and a credits sequence.

[@Vladimir_Kv]

Freeman knows his physics so well, he's able to quantum tunnel through everything.

[@beefs0ck911]

That MIT degree really was useful after all

[@Dargonhuman]

He's taking the theoretical part of physics and making them reality.

[@JacketboyPJC]

Well accdg to wiki, his thesis was titled 'Observation of Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen Entanglement' which asks: "Can Quantum-Mechanical Description of Physical Reality be Considered Complete?"

[@glitchy000]

I see his MIT degree really pays for itself.

[@the_furry_inside_your_walls639]

@@glitchy000 Too bad he cut the pony-tail. Sellout.

[@wwld9823]

36:11 I love how this "crate baby" thing was eventually explained in the 20th anniversary dev commentary, internal playtesters got bored after playing the game hundreds of times so they started challenging themselves by putting a baby in the crate from the playground area and trying to bring it with them to the end, which ended up inspiring the gnome achievement and chompski in left 4 dead

[@sudazima]

lets not forget the OTHER secret ending in black mesa HL1 remake, truly torturous but i got it.

[@wanamingo]

22:38 "I worked on the poison zombie" yOU IT WAS YOU

[@cj-3810]

Dmitriy Gridin **THE YEARS OF TORTURE**

[@CannedPsycho-]

I honestly don't remember them being that bad

[@cj-3810]

CannedPsycho Theyre the most spongiest enemy ever

[@mateuszjesionkowski3741]

Shomtgun

[@wanamingo]

@@CannedPsycho- One of the videos I do not recall talked about developers looking at player(tester?) data and how they reacted to poison zombies. It was discovered that upon hearing this particular enemy in the area the players immediately dropped whatever they were doing at the time and started looking for it. Essentially the players placed the poison zombie at the top of the threat list. Also hello, fancy meeting you here :)

[@sliceofsparta8985]

"Follow Freeman!" (Freeman takes off into the air at 80 mph)

[@angryasfman9077]

And Alex/Alyx is no longer needed aaa

[@NDRWS]

"milles" americans.

[@qdude21]

@@NDRWS you are the reason we mock the british

[@layonyatsu7203]

@@qdude21 but is he british there's a lot of people making fun of americans aside of british

[@qdude21]

@@layonyatsu7203 something a brit would say

[@codemancz798]

"My favorite thing about Mossman was when Scott Dalton got hired, and he went through the game files. And he saw a model called "Mossman.mdl" and he thought "Holy crap, we have a mossman?" Like a man made out of moss, like Swamp Thing. And then he loaded it up and it was her. And it was Mossman! And that was his first dissapointment." Wonderful.

[@portaldevice5110]

The unintelligible part is 'and it was her'

[@lotrlmao1648]

"And that was his first dissapointment" Now i want to see his second dissapointment

[@clawzx1195]

@@lotrlmao1648 probably gman

[@strafniki1080]

@@clawzx1195 g spotman

[@happii720]

@@portaldevice5110 17:46 thats the "her" theyre referring to, just a random npc woman they called mossman, hence the disappointment

[@dragojess]

Bonking people in the head with a can to skip dialogue is one of the funniest speedrun strats I've ever seen

[@Akiba_Ch]

Not only that, its the quickness of the bonk, its always so snappy

[@PurpleMoon799]

like how does that even work

[@JesusHComedy]

@@PurpleMoon799gives the NPC Amnesia😂

[@krystianurban5421]

​@@PurpleMoon799 they have a little teleporter button at the top of their heads

[@colemanbubar5098]

​@PurpleMoon799 the npcs are programmed to teleport to their next location if they are "stuck" so that the game will progress.

[@5MadMovieMakers]

So glad I finally found this easy walkthrough tutorial

[@Abigart69]

@syed jawad cheers bro

[@HimSteven]

Edward Reid 89*

[@HimSteven]

Edward Reid 90*

[@Abigart69]

@@HimSteven cheers mate

[@HimSteven]

Edward Reid 91*

[@SnarkyRogue]

"Follow Freeman!" **Gordon sprints to mach 1 and proceeds to soar into the air.**

[@qasai3840]

I seriously cant stop laughing XDDDDDDDDDDDD

[@JewelOfSoul]

I laughed at 39:42 too, like Alright everybody! Let's follow... *HEY WHEARS THE FREEMAN!?*

[@pumpkinspice5848]

Hey freeman

[@Survivor_of_DMVdrivers]

The part where he blew through the seagulls at 6:36 had me rolling. Poor bastards just turned into feathers! :D

[@artyom2801]

Follow the freemans lead and dive bomb into striders and rocket jump.

[@PalaceDude]

The amount of trivia these guys are randomly throwing throughout the whole video is actually gold content.

[@ztm454]

Yeah super interesting dudes

[@CallofDutyBlackOps28]

Golden source content

[@mhammadalloush5104]

@@CallofDutyBlackOps28 get out

[@Scroolewse]

One of my favorites was how they were saying they made the illusion of a gear shift on the car. I wish I could get a video of them just talking about these sort of things for all their games.

[@aserta]

It's beyond gold. WE'VE made it to platinum boys!

[@HangmanOfficialUploads]

Just for anyone wondering, what he's doing is something called "loadclipping". Basically the game has a bit of code that says that when you load a save and you are inside an object, you oughta be moved a little to another direction so you don't become permanently stuck. However, this lets you clip through entire walls and level loads in certain areas if you purposely trigger it in certain ways.

[@clairevoyanceSLA]

how do you manage to be this wrong

[@hansonkerman7286]

thabk :)

[@1e1001]

well for most of the run they're doing quickclip instead which works differently

[@DeSinc]

36:11 *what's the crate baby trick*

[@Trevorbid]

See ya maaaaaan

[@sonsofisstvan1675]

DeSinc asking the real questions.

[@KodusTheOnly]

The man himself asking the real questions lmao

[@nilssonschmillson5395]

Putting a baby in a crate and carrying it through the game in the crate

[@Pub_princess133]

was actually scrolling through comments to find this legend.

[@zombiecf]

“Im gonna tell my kids this was the walkthrough” What a legend

[@m4gmaroni]

Zombiecf More like a runthrough lol

[@sparkz6349]

@@m4gmaroni warpthrough

[@NoraNora-tt4dm]

Yeah im gonna tell my kids too

[@Helperbot-2000]

@@sparkz6349 flyby

[@dinnerboons1504]

helperbot 2000 clip though

[@Jaidynthefair]

Imagine being a civilian in this game and just seeing Gordon Freeman flying at high speeds and using barrels and boxes as elevators

[@Derpington9821]

He is the FREEMAN

[@mrsearaphim4077]

That's what happens when you have a PHD in physics

[@PinkFloydBootlegs]

Gordon moving at like 400 MPH.

[@kamuromat]

civilians rather not dream about cheese but to witness gordon literally bounce around like a madman with high speed.

[@dickkickem]

i see that daily in my town

[@GreekTurkey]

3:55 * chorus of laughter * "There's no testing for that!?" These videos rule

[@GreekTurkey]

18:36 "[laughing] We're in Half-Life 1"

[@apchistuz]

That bug was discovered in 2018

[@qwertyiuwg4uwtwthn]

And the little head shake the runner makes is so perfectly timed lmfao

[@invictam8384]

37:22 You're the combine soldier, on high alert due to the chaos of a man moving at speeds unrecorded. Suddenly, two distant explosions are heard in the distance, one closer than the next. A single second apart. The Strider patrolling outside opens fire, the same sound you're used to hearing thousands of times. It stops. And then, something collides with the floor in your building. You grab your weapon and turn around, expecting to see an alien creature. You see a man in an orange suit barge into your room and, without hesitation, unloads a slug into your chest. As your dying, you use your last gasps of air to look at the man who moves too fast to comprehend. He walks into the table, vanishing from sight...

[@Random36277]

Thank you actually made me laugh so hard

[@doomslayerishere9077]

It’s the better me

[@karhammer]

THIS IS GOLD LMAO

[@artemperesada3454]

@@doomslayerishere9077 it's your dad

[@joshuaxiong8377]

You know this person got an A+ in English class.

[@crow__bar]

Other game companies: "We spent 2 years making this game" Valve: "We spent 2 years making this one level"

[@gtamike_TSGK]

I know that feeling XD

[@tech34756]

Look up the stuff they spent years on and then scrapped.

[@znspyder]

Crowbar collective: We spent 15 years to complete black mesa

[@Spar_kie]

Granted, that two years wasn't all of Valve working on the level, it was one guy or a team of guys working on the level

[@andysutcliffe3915]

I remember the fanfare about the release date, and it just not happening. Then the source code was ‘leaked’ and they had to spend years ‘reworking’ it...

[@Jak_Extreme]

"im thinking in the next game we..." THE *WHAT?*

[@SamRock3888]

I heard that too😂😂

[@WassupWassup123]

i think they are talking about half-life: Alyx but still i jumped off my seat when i heard that

[@Jak_Extreme]

@@WassupWassup123 well,the end sure promised a sequel

[@WyattFredaCowie]

@@Jak_Extreme That's what we said last time 😂

[@nnnyel]

@@Jak_Extreme don't give us hope

[@Lagspikee]

These devs are hilarious. I'd listen to their podcast if they ever make one.

[@R4de]

For sure, these guys are funnier than a lot of youtubers

[@nsagoogle9581]

Hugo Martin from ID software could be a comedian. He is hilarious!

[@noheffthing]

@@R4de youtubers aren't funny. devs are much more interesting

[@Anklejbiter]

@@noheffthing many youtubers are funny, but the problem is that they tend to be drowned out by ones are being likeable by the algorithm, and not by their audience

[@noheffthing]

@@Anklejbiter so only *some* is funny? Eh. Devs are still more fun to listen to

[@Broistarnished]

12:54 “in the next game we shouldnt make anything” literally hinted at half life 3 way before it came out

[@GermaphobeMusic]

12:53

[@gamequick5257]

27:30 confirmed

[@Mishe_o7]

But half life 3 didn't come out

[@dewaputrahamdani2286]

@@Mishe_o7 lol

[@highlander6573]

Speedrunners are the reason Half Life 3 will never come out

[@Nosttromo]

It's so cool to listen to the devs talk so casually about this game they made a long time ago, like some fond memories from times past "I worked on the poison zombie" "did we patch this? I think for episode one yes" "we could fix lots of these glitches they're using if we wanted, but we didn't" SO AMAZING also their reactions, not understanding what happened on something THEY MADE, is priceless

[@aerahtv0000]

yeah, this idea "devs watch speedrun" is gold, thanks IGN

[@Armaggeddon95]

"not understanding what happened on something THEY MADE" Yep, that's what being a developer feels like. XD

[@aerahtv0000]

@@Armaggeddon95 so true:). p.s. i code sometimes too:)

[@gameoriginal4213]

@@Armaggeddon95 i too, develop a program on large scale and didn't know what is going on when it's working

[@devilzero99]

This was neat. Can't wait for the sequel: Speed runners react to valve devs developing HL3

[@XnonXte]

XD

[@johannesziaether3916]

You hit it right ! You can't wait because you'll be dead by its release !

[@Wojtek_Ch]

You're not perfect...

[@VortechBand]

An alternative Summer Games Done Quick

[@nationalsound7181]

You in fact cannot

[@Dazen101]

53:10 I'm here again another year and this is my favorite moment now. They see the glitch, get confused then perfectly explains how it's done.

[@sreya9663]

"Why didn't he take fall damage there?" "Is *that* what you're concerned about?"

[@CixsCR2]

artist name for profile pic?

[@Dakayto]

@@CixsCR2 The artist name is Jay Naylor, look him up

[@fryanne9750]

Is it really jay Naylor?

[@gh0st555]

@@fryanne9750 i

[@sleepyavenue5572]

@@CixsCR2 😐

[@CaboHitman]

-"Follow Freeman" -Gordon proceeds to travel at insane speeds, then leap over entire blocks of buildings. -The Resistance: "Ok, but how?"

[@leg10n68]

Freeman:uses crates and other props to go through walls Guy1:HOW DID HE DO THAT Guy2:I think he... err... took this crate and jumped while he was holding it or something?

[@AshBarkPerson]

I kept up, Gordan had to give me multiple concussions with a binder but I made it

[@underdude9818]

He went to MIT :P

[@Zoroff74]

- Neo/Gordon just showed you the path, now you have to trancend your residual self image and take some shortcuts through the code of the Combine's Matrix.

[@emiliomarbanjr]

- "The combine will never expect where he's coming from" - "He's coming through the walls" Lmao.

[@theluiginoidperson1097]

From that day on, the Combine realized that Gordon wasn't just an individual. He was a whole damn parasite.

[@ther6sshieldmain937]

@@theluiginoidperson1097 He is, Free from the restrictions of most solid objects and the speed limits of every Man/woman.

[@granzon7396]

@@ther6sshieldmain937 yeah Freeman

[@godzillaprime]

Outbreak! Outbreak! Outbreak!

[@ceu160193]

@@godzillaprime Overwatch, request reinforcements.

[@Willowposting]

For anyone confused how he didn't die when falling to the streets in Point Insertion: Skipping the cop in the staircase beforehand skips a trigger that enables the fall damage for Gordon. This means he's able to do this trick without taking any damage.

[@qwertyiuwg4uwtwthn]

OOOOOOH THAT MAKES SENSE

[@seesikopter]

And why was he invulnerable when mossman started the portal?

[@indeed2207]

@@seesikopter he's not, it's just that his hitbox isn't in this part of the level with all the bugs he used.

[@StrikeWarlock]

@@indeed2207 He's basically a projection at that point

[@wlockuz4467]

He didn't take damage, because he couldn't take damage, makes sense!

[@dtanobo]

Easily IGNs coolest series. You can tell they know they struck gold on this

[@TechniqueSan]

It's the best one, mainly because IGN is not actually involved in it.

[@matthewrowell5973]

Well I look through their videos and see most below 50k or 100k. Then you look through the devs react videos and they're mainly in the millions...

[@futureshaman83]

I. Love. It!!!

[@Poroner]

Yeah because they're not even the ones making the content

[@vegasmona]

Technique San lol I agree

[@erichartmanjr]

"Why is the soldier doing no damage to him?" -Dev "Well clearly he's a boat and also a zombie and also doesn't exist," -People who seen the GDQ runs

[@bruh-mx2hf]

Huhh?

[@jeffdredd1172]

@@bruh-mx2hf fr. For those who haven't seen it you wanna fill us in?

[@VancePetrol]

@@jeffdredd1172 Rather than actually going inside the vehicle, the player actually 'becomes' the boat while the regular player model is placed into a 'non-existent' state. People then found a way to glitch the game into thinking you're still in the 'boat' state while also placing you back into the normal player model. Since the latter technically doesn't exist at that time and therefore has no collision, it allows you to fly through everything with the same speed as the boat. I'm guessing the barnacle also changes the player state from 'grabbed' back to 'normal' when he kills it so he uses that to reset.

[@jeffdredd1172]

@@VancePetrol Thanks 👌

[@artemperesada3454]

@@VancePetrol yeah the barnacle moment caught my eye immediately thinking that he uses it to return himself to the normal, grounded state, well not for long grounded

[@pipeisreal]

imagine being a metrocop, you see a man phase through the walls of a train and go at insane speeds, 5 minutes later you hear that same man is now wanted by breen, then 30 minutes later before you and the rest of the city 17 metrocops can set up something to stop him, nova prospekt explodes and the city riots then 20 minutes later the citadel explodes and you die

[@donovanb9020]

Life comes at you fast lol

[@GaminGuy_]

pipe “life moves pretty fast”

[@MJuegaES]

"Seven hour war? How unoptimized."

[@wug6175]

Hi niko

[@CodeRed001]

The Freeman. Object Class: Euclid

[@SigmaHayate]

I love it when initially, the devs were like they don’t have any idea of what he was doing but then later they said like everything was expected. They also complimented on how nice the jumps were. LOL. They were really into it

[@Kanadabalsam]

3:17 “so how many years did you work on that section we just flew through in 10 seconds?” LMFAOOO

[@qjajssIIal]

That had me dying

[@bakainu3559]

At least 14 years ب_ب

[@noobsteedbred3356]

@@bakainu3559 14 years? What?

[@bakainu3559]

@@noobsteedbred3356 you didn't get it?

[@bakainu3559]

@@noobsteedbred3356 someone said 14 if you hear closely

[@THCLK]

"why didnt he take fall damage there?" "is that what you are worried about?" pissed my pants xD

[@bblz9171]

timestamp?

[@JustAHat]

@@bblz9171 25:20

[@Unhipsnow]

mans trimping in hl2

[@rabbitdrink]

these devs used to work at black mesa

[@chadangeles3856]

I dont get it why did you have to piss your pants

[@ReverendTed]

48:55 - It makes me so happy to hear that the HL2 devs know and appreciate "Concerned".

[@MarphitimusBlackimus]

Since you picked a "no voidclip" run, does that mean Valve has officially declared prop clipping to be non-canon?

[@Matt-yy1jv]

Love your channel, old buddy. More roach AI please.

[@lizardizzle]

After all that time Black Mesa and Aperture Science spent on developing teleportation technology too...

[@bzqp2]

Nah - prop clipping is canon. How else would gman travel around the universe so fast?

[@Pllayer064]

@@bzqp2 sv_cheats 1 noclip on ai_disabled 1 noclip off notarget ai_disabled 0

[@johnnya1717]

Prepare to analyze roach AI in Alyx

[@dpurut]

The real mvp here is gordon freeman’s glasses. This man is running through walls at incredibly high speeds and they dont budge once. I need me some of those anti physics spectacles

[@codexstudios]

Those glasses have a degree in theoretical physics as well

[@nopenope273]

Seriously, how can I upgrade my glasses to do that

[@thetrashmann8140]

@@nopenope273 Duct Tape

[@thetopg9604]

@@nopenope273 nail them to your skull

[@wta1518]

All Black Mesa glasses will remain safely operation during collisions of up to 4000 m/s. Rest assured that there is no chance of a dangerous glasses malfunction prior to your victory collision.

[@JallenMeodia]

"I'm thinking the next game we don't make anything" Ah that explains it.

[@zany_fps]

12:50 If anyone is wondering

[@OtakarAtLJ]

so is Next Game confirmed???

[@davell1078]

You mean it's finally happening? HALF LIFE 3 CONFIRMED?

[@Sludgelorrd]

im might be r/woooooshed but what about half life alyx

[@completelyaverageviewer]

Darshan Hankinson ah yes a redditor the joke is because of what the developer said and HL3 not existing “I’m thinking the next game we don’t make anything”, and HL3 comes after HL2, but instead we got HL:Alyx

[@persephassa217]

25:22 "Why didn't he take fall damage there?" - "Is THAT what you're concerned about?!" Had me dying 😂😂😂

[@Scrumbus_]

Devs: *See exactly 3 frames of a citizen crouching over the sand* In unison: "LAZLOW! THE GREATEST MIND OF OUR GENERATION"

[@MrGhostTheBigRoast]

that was hilarious XD

[@Noteworthy_]

27:00

[@natebit8130]

424

[@mb2001]

Company in-joke?

[@onman14]

Laszlo*

[@lloyd9435]

Imagine being a game developer and some random beta tester comes in and does this without any prior knowledge about the game

[@lucaserra2014]

I'd cry on the spot

[@fast1nakus]

well, if you make a new game with an old engine that's exactly what is going to happen. it's not about the game, it's all about the engine. source is an ancient engine with familiar bugs.

[@markhaus]

I’d call them a witch

[@shawn576]

@Joe Nah, just make a to-do list but never actually fix any of the bugs. It's the Bethesda method of software development.

[@Komradvsky]

Further testing is required to determine whether the subject should receive GAMER classification.

[@sleeplessgr111]

I can't believe valve is actually interacting with the community

[@Talisman09]

I'm glad they didn't while creating this masterpiece because people would've ruined it

[@jongyon7192p]

They're not really interacting with the runner since he's not in the call

[@sleeplessgr111]

@@jongyon7192p Yes but this is better than silence

[@danmarculescu9043]

It was a long time ago.

[@1good100]

Since Alyx's announcement the devs have been allowed to interact with the community more. That being said I think this is apart of their attempt to get more focus on HL:Alyx. That being said I'm glad they did it. It's nice to hear devs talk about hl2 in a long format such as this.

[@duhontheguy]

"He's saving repeatedly...?" "Ay he does it like we do" I felt that one, and I'm pleased to know I'm not the only one.

[@DarkLiberatorZone]

This is IGN's best series

[@M3M3M0TH]

Lol

[@Spodogo]

huh didnt expect you to be here

[@DarkLiberatorZone]

@@Spodogo KZbinrs watch videos too

[@Spodogo]

@@DarkLiberatorZone it's just that u don't expect them to comment too

[@_sam29]

​@@Spodogo KZbinrs also have a life

[@thatrandomguy3415]

The start itself is already legendary

[@mark_medina_ign4725]

YES!

[@yes.2875]

*shows the train in a flash* *immediately noclips out of said train*

[@reecebrauer7289]

How did he manage to run so fast and float right off the bat?

[@antonbarkland2194]

Yes! :-)

[@scienceteam9254]

isn't that the start of hunt down the freeman tho?

[@Spike-hl2mw]

I love the image of them standing behind a playtester who is doing all this stuff while they furiously take notes.

[@waffles7038]

Underrated comment.

[@casualrich-lifeiseasy4921]

21:12

[@CorwinTheOneAndOnly]

The fact that these devs accurately remembered things they worked on and could problemsolve and deduce what was happening in real-time just shows how much damn passion they put into this game. A lost class of dev.

[@runninggames771]

Yeah doing all that all by just MEMORY of the code is impressive

[@arashm517]

imagine this guy speedrunning Alyx, he would get skinny like Christian Bale in Machinist

[@bazookabullet101]

I dont get it

[@jefftheprimordialtardigrad5219]

I get the joke.

[@БогданКрименюк]

@@bazookabullet101 it requires you to move.

[@jacobloving6765]

Christian bale lost an unhealthy amount weight in that movie, if that’s the part you don’t get

[@qxarts3896]

Not really, in the game, there is option that lets you teleport and speed runners could possibly exploit it. But motion sickness is another thing lol

[@visiblydisturbed1688]

Normal developer: "I can't believe he's just bypassing all the beautiful and creative narrative we painstakingly crafted" Half-Life Dev: "Honestly not impressed, felt like he could have shaved some time on this run"

[@johnwhite.]

@Lord_haven111 you are not right. Many people still care.

[@Kratos_Messi7050]

This guy messed up we need a better speedrunner.. what about *d e s i n c*

[@EssenSlug]

@Lord_haven111 Played it for the first time this week, I disagree, a stunning game for how old it is

[@KatsuKasuu]

@@momdad4932 it released in 2004, it looks amazing even to this day. There is a community made HD path that really makes it look stunning.

[@reservoirfrogs2177]

@@momdad4932 nah it's better looking than Cyber Punk

[@kicsiqki]

"Why didnt he get fall damage there?" "Is THAT the part you're concerned about ?!" :D

[@AgentFire0]

well, the part seems pretty simple, fast deceleration on a walkable surface -> damage, so it is undeed interesting which unknown condition fails.

[@boqsc0]

25:21

[@kidninja8331]

@@AgentFire0 With the way the source engine and physics engine works, if you are able to hit a curved or slanted surface a certain way you'll slide or surf on it; negating fall damage

[@KingMetalMario]

@@kidninja8331 Actually the reason is that when he jumped over the metrocop, he never went trough the trigger to make him no longer invincible. He lost his invincibility when he loaded the default save on red letter day

[@kidninja8331]

@@KingMetalMario that part I wasent talking about, but that's pretty interesting itself

[@notribadsvault]

This is actually the closest to a dev commentary that we’ve gotten for base hl2.

[@crptpyr]

@@notribadsvault great news from the future

[@bluscout6440]

Steam: you have 2 hours to refund your game Speedrunners:

[@JPVycePlayzGamez]

3 take it or leave

[@JPVycePlayzGamez]

If you know the Patrick meme

[@MASHo1992]

Then it's free real estate

[@TheMegaPingasMobile]

it's actually 2 but yes

[@bluscout6440]

@@TheMegaPingasMobile owh yeah you're right

[@matthewaitkenfilms9477]

reading the chat is such a trip, there's several minutes of a guy talking about salsa

[@juststartingoff]

Casual Mexican people.

[@birb3378]

timestamp pls

[@palmjuice5882]

@@birb3378 you're really interested in salsa, huh?

[@birb3378]

@@palmjuice5882 yup :)

[@Kuz-]

@@birb3378 24:15

[@danklemckspankle9979]

I love how instinctively all three of the devs scream "NO LAZLO!" He truly was the greatest mind of our generation.

[@epicsardines6440]

When did this happen in the video?

[@kaustubhowmick]

Yeah when did this happen

[@danklemckspankle9979]

27:00

[@qjajssIIal]

My memory's bad, who/what was Lazlo?

[@danklemckspankle9979]

@@qjajssIIal he was one of the few named rebel npcs in the game, he dies to introduce the ant lions. He was apparently super smart, he was even going to replace Russel in Half life alyx at one point

[@LegoEngineer003]

39:43 “Follow Freeman” they say, as he literally just flies away in the next 3 seconds

[@pokemanic101]

"How does he have a rocket launcher?!" "I'm going to guess it was written by the same people who wrote the code for everything that came before this moment."

[@theFrizzleFry]

@Hombre de Ley Dude, you are the hero of the comment section! Thanks

[@pokemanic101]

Oops thanks

[@willis936]

20:30 “It has to be watertight.” Found the 3D modeler :D

[@snoodles6672]

It was kinda sad and funny when one of the devs said "I wonder how he is gonna deal with the poison zombie, I worked on the poison zombie like all his effort is just being shaved through in a Matter of seconds

[@madgamer5796]

tbh he kinda deserved that for making the poison zombie

[@ther6sshieldmain937]

If that dev made poison headcrab, he probably deserves that too.

[@TimSlee1]

@@madgamer5796 The poison zombie was my most dreaded enemy in Half Life 2, the bastards would also occupy homes in the Highway level, they'd randomly appear and attack you in areas with loot stashes, more of a nuisance than a challenge.

[@channelnotavailable32]

Speedrunners* "wait there's zombies in this game?"

[@Goaty_1]

@@TimSlee1 this does sound like a skill issue

[@v.kaufmann]

22:40 SO THAT WAS YOU WHO MADE A POISON ZOMBIE! These zombies have been scaring me for 15 YEARS. I never forgive you

[@DamnMascus]

I understand your pain, Victor Kaufman.

[@DamnMascus]

By the way I’m American I just know Cyrillic alphabets lol

[@mkrd]

@@DamnMascus translate this: Ай стинк

[@forgery1177]

We’ve all been there

[@DamnMascus]

@@mkrd ay stink? Idk

[@caseblue2232]

18:33 “Where are we??” “We are in Half Life 1” I never laugh this hard lmao

[@knyt0]

It's so nice hearing them talk excitedly about "in the next game"

[@ignagus77]

They are always working in "the next game" just look at half life alyx and how much time they were spending on doing it

[@Lego1upMushroom]

Soul Of Cinder I believe they said it was 5 years of development

[@richardtickler8555]

portal pac man

[@Patrick-ct6ik]

i love how it’s a complete walkthrough of the game without any spoilers

[@mootwo_]

Well it kinda spoils what some of the levels have to offer, so it won’t be as exciting when you get to it

[@bonebonbo]

Antryg Revok has to k

[@GeoffGerber521]

16:07 "whenever my kid starts playing Half-Life 2 and he gets stuck I'm gonna send him this video and tell him its a walkthrough"

[@hafizullahamin7671]

"it's a walkthrough" not "its a walkthrough"

[@chicharonnes98]

@@hafizullahamin7671 shhh

[@sherlockholmes7630]

@@hafizullahamin7671 weeeeee.. Mr. Scholastic's absolute majesty!!! All hail.

[@wikipediamagnify]

@@hafizullahamin7671 you forgot the 2 atoms next to the s.

[@dylanblack8714]

@@hafizullahamin7671 Where are your full stops?

[@MildMisanthropeMaybeMassive]

52:20 “We can do a Mossman game where the whole game is that doodad in her hand.” Foreshadowing how important the toner puzzles are with the Alyx Multitool Wand would be for _Half-Life: Alyx._

[@LetustheDragon]

"I think the Combine expected to fight someone that followed the laws of physics." Me: Ah, but Gordon has a degree in Theoretical Physics

[@vhfgamer]

I have a theoretical degree in physics.

[@unwillfullyignorant7805]

VHFGamer *visible confusion*

[@justastellarperson219]

Fun fact:newtonian physics as we know it aint real,we just use it cause its handy 😀

[@stevethebarbarian9876]

So they should be able to theoretically stop him.

[@derekmensch3601]

@@vhfgamer alright Fantastic calm down I'll turn Helios one on

[@fyrexia]

“I’m thinking for the next game, we just shouldn’t make anything” ... Wait does that mean speed runners was the reason why half life 3 didn’t come out O_O

[@lelandrb]

We're all speedrunners now :')

[@ye6942]

Shut up Fyrex

[@Skull19O1]

We do have half life 3

[@houghwhite411]

Do it in vr now

[@shygiggling6197]

*Sharpens claymore* ...I guess it's time to start a holy crusade....

[@codemaster9616]

“In the next game we just shouldn’t make anything.” Mhm mhm

[@indiemedley1209]

They've been following that method for years

[@crylune]

@@indiemedley1209 Well, not from 2013 forward when development on Alyx started

[@mashucha]

@@crylune Alyx started development in Feb 2016

[@Devisidev]

@@mashucha so thats why tf2 is so content-starved.

[@LateToTheParty1337]

I heard that too!

[@bassnjourne-445]

"apparently land also was a waste of time" might be the best thing ive heard in this series

[@alexandrenerym]

39:42 "FOLLOW FREEMAN!" Freeman: starts flying

[@PalaceDude]

"Uuuuh, never mind!"

[@JacketboyPJC]

Freeman: "My people don't need me.. WOOOSH"

[@davissilvestrs1996]

Hahaha I lol'd at this/

[@starrybook]

"It's shooting at him from several levels ago." excuse me what

[@norbucso]

That made me laugh. Totally believable. 😂😂😂

[@mauer1]

@@norbucso well you remember the airboat? when he save deleted to summon the airboat and then exited in some weird way, that triggers a glitch with the multiple hitboxes the player has (it also causes noclip until some certain events) this is the reason why he can use props to blink through walls, but also the reason why he doesnt take bullet damage. So in fact you could say, he is shooting at him from several levels ago. Also he is part boat now, so thats the other thing they "jokingly" said.

[@norbucso]

@@mauer1 I just love it. Thanks for explaining. 😉

[@lanakaneti9524]

@@mauer1 "he's part boat now" I'm dead lmao

[@Slimurgical]

Afterimage joke, combine soldier shooting Freeman's after-image

[@AB-dm1wz]

"You've accomplished a great deal in a short amount of time" Yeah, no kidding, G-Man.

[@DeathByAutoscroll]

Finished it in just under an hour and one week (ingame canon time)

[@jaymarten9199]

More like "you've phased through walls and helped no one in such a short amount of time"

[@Kumquat_Lord]

33:21 yes, getting into and out of airboats, literally the only reason he touched it

[@wta1518]

Ah, the yesclip.

[@SumeaBizarro]

"We spent a decade making physics focused FPS adventure game" *One speedrun later* "OK guys, Physics was a mistake back to the drawing board"

[@galactic_dust42]

This is saying a lot about the HL devs mentality, it's pretty horrible. Their first though is always "let's dont allow that, let's remove that etc...". They would prefer to redo the game without any physics, even if it means killing the fun and the enjoyment of the game, just for their little egos of dictatorship. They can keep HL3, it's gonna be a disaster

[@Shy_002]

@@galactic_dust42It’s mostly a joke tho

[@wilburcobb8990]

damn@@galactic_dust42

[@grizzly6153]

@@galactic_dust42touch grass.

[@toddjones1480]

⁠@@galactic_dust42They released a new, physics-heavy Half-Life game one week after this video.

[@nicholaskai6983]

watching this thing as a walk through is like trying to figure out how to make an atomic bomb as it is exploding

[@gregoirebasseville4797]

"Well it is working for sure, but damn if I know how ..."

[@Snollygoster-]

@Soaring Wings Second Stage Oh sure, in principle. But they're notoriously challenging to make and that is not because the basic idea of how they function, but because of all the complexities to get them to that point.

[@nuralimedeuatnu]

@Soaring Wings Second Stage Do you have to use magnets for this?

[@mb2001]

That's an amazing simile!

[@a2zandimakemusic]

27:00 the devs freaking over Lazlo killed me lol

[@wolfcl0ck]

glad to know that they share the same opinion as us

[@Horny_Fruit_Flies]

He was the finest mind of his generation, after all

[@Real_John_F_Kennedy]

Too bad he has a kill trigger on him :(

[@purrspctiv]

This video is a great example of how valve employees always seem to have a supernaturally strong sense of humor

[@KizaruB]

It’s pretty crazy just how clever they are

[@almightyhotdoglady5383]

Usually the smarter people tend to be funny. It would’ve been needed in order to create such a great game like HL2.

[@justinnash4203]

37:23 "That guy had a bad day." Yea when you hear an explosion go off down the street and Gordon Freeman comes flying in through your third floor window to blow you away with a shotgun

[@whenlifegivesyouwins9634]

Hate when that happens

[@madmanmortonyt4890]

HL Devs: *Spends years on one section* waezone: 3 seconds. Take it or leave it.

[@iLiokardo]

SPEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEED

[@AngelPerez-lj3vm]

You just combine 2 different things that's crazy

[@Metarockerlml]

27:00 That moment when you know the devs really love this game

[@Wertyhappy27]

The finest mind he is, the finest mind

[@ThatSmartYoutubeUser]

Truly the finest mind of our generation.

[@infimus9559]

"In future games we are just gonna pinn them in rooms like this for the entire game" Apature desk job is literaly this

[@SunnyBear]

I love how excited the devs got about Lazlo, but then again, he was the finest mind of his generation.

[@WinterDutchie]

Like the Mandela effect, believing its one thing (greatest) when its actually another (finest)

[@nikolairostov3326]

@@WinterDutchie that’s just bad memory.

[@WinterDutchie]

@@nikolairostov3326 Same could be said with the Mandela effect

[@kvdrr]

@@WinterDutchie Don't use terms you don't understand.

[@BulborbStan]

​@@kvdrr Don't make me Mandella your Effect, punk.

[@vestrel2530]

18:48 "yknow Gabe was always saying why don't we see how the portal gun works in Half Life" excuse me w h a t

[@ShykinArcana]

Yeah lmao, just casually drop that bomb shell

[@greenmovie13]

You didn’t notice Cave Johnson mention Black Mesa briefly in Portal 2?

[@mranderson9553]

@@greenmovie13 or how aperture science appears at the end of half-life 2 or how in the portal 2 multiplayer you do something with a disk that does something to approaching soldiers (its been a while since i did the portal 2 multiplayer)

[@illiantear]

Or that Glados mentions Black Mesa in the end credits of Portal.

[@scrambledeggs9801]

@@greenmovie13 so did glad0s lmao

[@baransevim3969]

“No one thought the airboat section was too long”

[@888nevik]

*CANNED LAUGHTER*

[@arsenymun2028]

you are so funny quoting video (not really)

[@mzov_1724]

@@arsenymun2028 you're so sassy with your epic gamer opinion (not quite)

[@KRLAs]

beans

[@KRLAs]

shutup wendy’s

[@veremox]

4:00 "theres no testing for that" AHAUHSUHAAHAHAHHAHAHA

[@Hailey_piggie]

I feel like the one improvement to this series would be to bring the speedrunner on with them, so they can explain how they're abusing the bugs, and why it works to the devs.

[@dani4ever]

That's what double fine did. They invited a speedrunner to run Psychonauts with them. Go watch it it's super cool

[@frumpsterdumpstr1671]

I like to imagine the devs are taking notes for a patch update

[@countrybluegrass]

Most speedrunners would not have any insight into the actual game coding to provide, unless they were employees who worked on coding the game they were speedrunning, or the game's code is open source and the speedrunner had delved into the guts of the application personally and had the experience necessary to understand what they were seeing. The devs can, and do, infer from the inputs and actions of speedrunners what's happening in the code, but the speedrunners themselves are generally only aware of the inputs needed to trigger some sort of bug or exploit.

[@cosmic_gate476]

The run is moving fast enough already for a few devs to talk about it, let alone the runner adding his insight on every move. Lmao you want a clusterfuck of people talking?

[@BloodyFox1]

@@countrybluegrass That's simply not true. Speedrun tech is well researched, and the best speedrunners of a game often have intimate knowledge of how glitches, bugs and exploits work, or _at least_have a general idea of whats happening.

[@MinuteBracelet]

12:00 Having nearly 5000 hours in garrysmod the trick he did with the Airboat was actually to cause a forced removal of the airboat which every now and then gives you noclip for some reason, especially if you did it during the startup animation. It was an exploit in Garrysmod servers for a long time to give yourself noclip this way even if it was not allowed by the server operators. At the end, he used a barnacle to un-noclip himself because getting tounged by a barnacle probably changed his movement type from MOVETYPE_NOCLIP to something else, likely MOVETYPE_CUSTOM. Upon death the barnacle would probably reset your movetype to MOVETYPE_WALK which is the default movetype for the player entity. He does this in all likelyhood because noclip has a max speed and reverse bhopping is way faster. Man, it's actually kind of cool that for once in my life I can look at a crazy moment in a speedrun and know exactly what the hell just happened.

[@alierdemylmaz4536]

5000 hours to understand just one trick, imagine how long do you need to play again and again to prepare yourself for the whole speedrun

[@Ankanogradiel]

Yes that's a forced airboat removal like you said. Since you seem to know about it, it would be a shame not to give you more info. In reality noclip is given to the player as soon as he enters any vehicle (I assume this is some countermeasure to stop calculating unnecessary collisions or something). When you exit a vehicle and delete it before the exiting animation is over, the method for handling vehicle exits for the player is never called. Thus you are left with noclip, BUT there is a twist. In reality we don't use it to get noclip, noclip is just a side effect. The airboat left us another valuable gift. What we really make use of throughout the run is the fact that Gordon's havok hitbox has been "turned off" (masked to COLLISION_GROUP_IN_VEHICLE) ever since he got in the airboat, and never got turned back on. Havok hitbox is the hitbox used for vphysics collisions (props, bullets etc) and quake hitbox is the one used for the world collisions - also responsible for fall and explosive damage I believe. That's the reason the player can pass through walls - like first seen at 14:17 - if he jumps towards them while holding a prop: basically because the hitbox for calculating prop collisions is turned off so it passes through. This comfy bug lets us pass through walls while also being able to damage boost, thanks to the game using hitboxes from two different engines for different things. Neat huh?

[@kuzmavolkov]

@@Ankanogradiel that sounds like cheating man. Might aswell just use console codes.

[@Ankanogradiel]

@@kuzmavolkov if you are talking about the "deleting the airboat" part, we do it in a perfectly legal way without cheating. By exiting the airboat while it is not inside the transition trigger (the entity that handles which entities are going to pass to the next map) and hitting the trigger that changes the level while exiting, the airboat does not exist in the next map so you stay with noclip and other stuff.

[@kuzmavolkov]

@@Ankanogradiel there's a big leap though from using game mechanics, taking advantage of frame collisions with walls and then just outright exploits though.

[@rlenclub]

environmental artist: i'm going to put a chair here speedrunners: *stonks*

[@Helperbot-2000]

You just made my day haha

[@apchistuz]

Level designers*

[@somerand0mpers0n]

time travelers:

[@TheExperienceYT]

@@apchistuz Sad sad hammer editor men*

[@riceman1148]

"The combine is shooting at him several levels ago" *t e i m t r e v e l*

[@disk3001]

"no one thought the air ship section was too long" I am so happy that the Valve team really are as super chill as they make themselves out to be in the few interviews they do

[@flying-magpie]

That was always my main complaint with that level. It's not awful, just way too long. It was nice hearing the Devs joking about it and seemed to agree with that sentiment.

[@aguyonyt1]

isnt it airboat

[@sammatt6678]

True man!

[@TrevarThePastor]

“When my kids play Half-Life 2 I’m gonna show them this and say it’s the walkthrough” 😂

[@MyHandleIsAplaceholder]

That's how I consider speedruns

[@ahraman3285]

Funny coincidences, that i read this as soon as it came up in the video.

[@williamkeltner5119]

Hopefully, the kids won't need Steam to play it, either.

[@cj-3810]

William Keltner Steam ain’t bad

[@thedeegeesaga]

"WTF DAD"

[@colinhale7378]

17:20 - "My favorite thing about Mossman..." This bit absolutely killed me.

[@ReverendTed]

39:39 - This story about pranking John Morello is hilarious.

[@FritzDaBean]

18:35 guys that literally made the game “ where are we?”

[@marshmallowcoolboy5308]

We're in half life 1

[@davidcaceres9184]

​@@marshmallowcoolboy5308blud clipped backwards 20 years 💀

[@mrsquid_]

because it's not a playable area, it's the area you go past on the elevator in like 2 seconds.

[@DavisBoysGotPranks]

18:35 “We’re in Half Life 1” killed me

[@jeezass]

Next stop is dust 2

[@NDRWS]

why

[@gero3015]

@@NDRWS office complex

[@borgir9817]

How did you comment if you die (woosh me)

[@gero3015]

@@borgir9817 its just another expression of finding something funny

[@DonAsirobi]

I love how they not only react to that speedrun but they are also reminiscing about the time when they were developing the game. Giving us little tidbits

[@Laughing_Angel8832]

Imagine seeing gordon enter your city, teleport in your office, them see him in the distance going -200 mph in the sky behind you

[@rotteldastation]

"Hey we worked on this!" *Gordon zoops away at the speed of sound* "NOOOOOO"

[@Devisidev]

that's it that's the video folks.