Making Valve Games Look as Bad as Possible

[@Vernafveik]

The PS1 TF2 looks unironically really cool, this whole video sorta made me wish that more games allowed you to do extreme stuff like this, so more people could play certain games.

[@markhaus]

I hope I can still play on public matchmaking with those changes. That would actually be a fun way to play tf2 on steam deck and just turn the power all the way down to save battery

[@leithaziz2716]

I just call it "Ultrakill Mode"

[@GBgreatness]

​@@leithaziz2716cringe

[@donpollo3154]

@@leithaziz2716 you're not that old are you

[@SynthGirl64]

To anyone who wants your game to look like something straight out of the mid 90s, you can actually disable texture filtering all together using console commands, making textures pixelly instead of blurry, makes the whole game look like a quake mod once again

[@FatherJosephofMomma]

That mod pack just makes l4d look exactly like Unturned.

[@A_Toaster]

Literally my exact thought, especially with the single color textures

[@mccheemser2443]

omg yes!

[@TimSlee1]

Unturned one the lowest settings? Yes.

[@sandwich9509]

It's funny bcuz unturned has really Bad optimization

[@FatherJosephofMomma]

​@@sandwich9509 Does it? It has been SO long since I played. I remember the game freezing up when fighting zombies but that is all I remember.

[@hbaggg]

what youre actually smelling when you "smell heat" is usually the dust that's collected on whatever's heating up getting burnt. that's why you can kinda smell when the heating turns on after a while of being turned off

[@LyritZian]

that makes a lot of sense and is also horribly disgusting

[@s8wc3]

Also any plastic film left on, manufacturing residue on circuit boards and sticker adhesive can make the stinky

[@sims2mw]

repulsive. thanks for sharing

[@thisusernamesucks5373]

You didn't even mention how all of the "dust" we see in the air is actually dead skin

[@Numbabu]

I love microplastics

[@Banaaani]

Game developer here. The pixelated flashlight at 9:48 is probably because lights can use a texture known as a "cookie". This is a round texture that is used for lights to make them appear more realistic by adding detail that would be from a flashlight's glass in real life for example. The Minecraftify option without a doubt also pixelated this texture which is the reason of this weird pixelated flashlight.

[@baklojan5933]

That's is the right, in source they are actually Called "env_projectedtexture" Or just Projected Texture

[@andyblanton6570]

Cookies?

[@jail212]

no way that's garry

[@a84jdu3uc7d]

interesting!

[@MS-qx9uw]

@@andyblanton6570from “cucoloris”, a board with cutouts held up in front of stage lights to shape the beam, add shadows and stuff, related to the gobo but held further away to be less sharp No relation to the edible or browser kinds

[@rappingbeaniedog347]

the ps1 mod pack for the player models for TF2 was pretty damn legit, like a higher powered ps1 game. Especially with the 2D textures doing most of the work on conveying what the lack of polygons couldn't.

[@XER606]

So... Team Fortress 2 art style is so strong that by lowering the graphics down to PS1 levels it just circles back to actually looking pleasing again? That's pretty impressive really

[@superrealistic]

The artstyle is cartoony, PS1 games were toony as well. It would make alot of sense for it to still look good whilst having worser graphics.

[@anonecki]

Stylized graphics always age way better than realism

[@eleveneleven3474]

add some raytraiced light - top notch for me

[@Dovah_Slayer]

​@@anonecki this is true

[@Nahnbie2223]

​@@anoneckifacts

[@ratastic]

my wife left me

[@gigamonke1261]

Grapes

[@gstandsforgorgeous]

Lol Victory Royale, Absolute W

[@Enclave99]

Damn

[@karmitdafruge1]

Happy for you bro

[@Bartholomewsenile]

Bruh me too!

[@NDSno1]

5:05 Phong is actually the name of the Vietnamese computer scientist who invented the Phong shading technique that is now widely used in computer graphics. It gives relatively realistic reflection to materials at low computation cost

[@spycrab2225]

Source?

[@MrWispy-bn2kp]

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bui_Tuong_Phong@@spycrab2225

[@Machiavellli]

@@spycrab2225yea it does work on Source engine

[@Pythnn]

​​@@spycrab2225it is used on the source engine, yes :)

[@JakoTheWacko]

@@spycrab2225 It was literally the first result on google. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bui_Tuong_Phong

[@CheeseBloxian]

L4D2 looked like an actual modern game just because of how its made. Simple models, simple texture, no shadows but some lighting actually fits together so much.

[@podporWidelec]

it looks like Unturned to me

[@EllisHudsonn]

@@podporWidelec😂

[@username5155]

I’m SO glad you didn’t make the stupid “ThE bEsT wAy To MaKe TeAm FoRtReSs TwO uGlY iS tO uSe PyRoViSiOn!” joke.

[@thepunisherxxx6804]

Its still amazing how good, fluent, and realistic the zombie animations and ragdolls are in L4D2, still can be appreciated even with everything super low.

[@LavaCreeperPeople]

Making Valve Games Look as Bad as Possible

[@racer927]

That and appreciating how Left 4 Dead 2 added the dynamic wound system (which culls a part of the model and inserts a modeled wound such as when they take a shotgun blast to the abdomen). It's such a tiny detail for what are supposed to be an enemy you kill thousands of in a single campaign and yet they feel more detailed and expressive than the Special Infected.

[@plsdontbanmeagainyoulibtards]

scuffed l4d2 >>> ultra RTX back4blood

[@tehjamerz]

Meanwhile, CS2 ragdolls are like something out of loony toons

[@arcaderdude]

Remove all the special animations (basically anything other than movement, such as using a medkit, reloading, jockey riding, charger pummeling, hunter beatdown smoker strangling, spitter spitting and boomer puking). One animation could signal anything.

[@blackswan5254]

The fact that you can easily indetify at high distance every class of TF2 at that level of graphics is pretty impressive

[@Penguin-1966]

most unique comment sucking tf2's "recognizable" art style off, at any mere mention of the game love the game have, many hours, but dawg

[@ucnhek]

@@Penguin-1966 what made you so pissy about it bro 😭i dont disagree with you tho

[@borbleborb4586]

that’s what good character design will do to ya

[@OnionSprite]

@@ucnhek comment about tf2's artstyles killed my grandma...

[@SimmonsEnjoyer]

@@Penguin-1966grr I hate when people like things grr

[@prod.n8te]

Portal RTX ended up looking a lot like Teardown, it has voxel graphics (aka 3D pixel art) which makes it look really pixelated and low-res but the lighting in the game is fenomenal. Really interesting video, the long-awaited spiritual successor to Making GMOD as Realistic as Possible

[@Vaporwave_kdh]

Duuude Teardown is so pretty

[@Verchiel_]

Teardown my beloved An absolute masterpiece.

[@clairencoffee]

that's exactly what i was thinking, it's such an impressive game too

[@indestructible247]

*_fenomenal_* spelling bro

[@manboy4720]

games with low-fidelity textures and low poly counts with really good lighting are always my favourite. teardown, deep rock galactic, ultrakill, fear. these games don't have textures so sharp they make your eyes bleed, but they have really good lighting that gives it a style and an atmosphere.

[@realkaibr]

Top tier video as per usual. You inspire me so much, I know you might think your videos are just goofy silly fun but they have a certain unobtainable aura about them as well that's oddly comforting.

[@ratlobber]

thank u buddy

[@SOURCEGUY123]

aura

[@realkaibr]

@@SOURCEGUY123 Brainrot individual

[@AlphaZeroX96]

Apparently Rat doxed someone before. Is that true?

[@TheTedder]

Phong is in fact the name of a Vietnamese guy. Specifically, scientist Bui Tuong Phong.

[@elliotchapman2767]

Ratlobber you have my favorite editing style on KZbin. Genuinely enjoy just looking at your videos and seeing all the neat designs and graphics you create. Keep up the great work! :)

[@Seenoevil351]

your first

[@KyleStone-pe4oc]

⁠@@lobtop1Thom Yorke 😭

[@starlamytruelove]

Thom​@@lobtop1

[@TaxiCabCole]

i can't wait to play tf2 above 10 fps, thanks for the config

[@blackholeguy1529]

frfr on gah 112%

[@mysteryY2K]

@@blackholeguy1529on my mama

[@s7nseer]

Mat_phong 0

[@dryerofdoom]

The ps1 style player models actually really tied tc2 together

[@WayneTheAsianGuy]

What (i havent finished the vid yet and this caught my attention cause im a tc2 player)

[@borowiczko]

@@WayneTheAsianGuy Probably meant TF2, F and C are pretty close

[@DreadfireX]

TYPICAL COLORS 2 IN PS1??/?/?/

[@nt33_old]

ROBLOCKS ON THE PS1??1?!1!1

[@tf2tc2player]

Tfc but with tf2 models

[@Brewski007]

13:07 idk why but KZbin sees this as him saying “Smash The Like Button” Which is funny

[@gennerallyalright]

he says "like this video" and that caused it apparently

[@Icy_Monster]

NOTHING could have prepared ANYONE for how l4d looked like

[@512TheWolf512]

Fun times as a kid, endlessly tinkering with your computer trying to squeeze extra frames out of your valve games. Still remember arguing with other players on gmod blaming my pc for me not getting any kills. To my defense I had like 15 fps

[@512TheWolf512]

Before you ask, I had a single core amd CPU at below 2ghz and a Radeon 9550. Yeah, that's ancient crap from 2002, in 2011.

[@Michelino_M5]

@@512TheWolf512 Props for even playing with 15fps

[@D00MNUKEM90K]

I had an 3 year laptop and it was barely able to squeeze any frames, I remember playing all of the half life games exept hl1 with like 9 fps lmao

[@512TheWolf512]

@@D00MNUKEM90K laptops are in general just weak

[@uningenious]

​@@D00MNUKEM90Kplayed GMOD ZS with single digit FPS. Truly gaming.

[@mercoro]

Great to see your channel growing man! I've been here since your first videos (seriously) and i feel so good seeing a content creator i like, being recognized so much. Love your content man, they're most based on Valve games but i love it.

[@ratlobber]

thank you brotha

[@Nick-ob1ir]

This is awesome. The high quality lights with the low quality game reminds me of the Doom (1993) Raytracing source-port edit someone did a couple years ago. Love this kind of stuff.

[@sohufoaolxcnvidjvoawcsdlznvjrn]

"How ba-a-a-ad can I be" moment 22:01

[@repo12212]

I love you channel man, I love the fact that you mostly cover topics about valve related games because I grew up playing those games so I really enjoy seeing good content made around them still.

[@superpyromaniac]

There's this guy James Lambert making a portal demake for N64 hardware. Pretty crazy how much progress he's made

[@slopmog]

its genuinely so impressive

[@darltrash]

no way he's named lambert

[@flowerthencrranger3854]

@@darltrash Lambert Lambert what a prick

[@wileysneak]

oof so about that...

[@Punttipate62]

​@@wileysneakwhat happened?

[@scraub8913]

What you did to TF2 was actually pretty cool and if I felt like going through the effort of doing that, I would try it for fun. Also Portal RTX was neat.

[@kyarumomochi5146]

The good thing about valve games is that they really just look timeless even on worst graphics

[@DerpyTC]

Valve is the best game studio that doesn’t make games

[@cringe805]

​@@DerpyTCfr tho

[@Maggus07]

"And gm_seveneleven now looks like a map that would belong in a bad psx style indie horror game", wait till he finds out about the game "The convenience store"

[@bajajablaast]

I havent gotten "evil doctor murder kleiner" off my vocabulary for so long help

[@demiiii_xd]

Kind of unrelated but thank you for putting the music you use on the description, really helps sometimes. Ty dude

[@Oniriaki]

6:21 I’M IN A RATLOBBER VIDEO YAYYYYYYY My profile name being on one of my favorite youtubers feels like a dream!

[@EllisHudsonn]

Awesome 😎

[@asteroidrules]

It says a lot about the strength of Valve's art direction that putting in clashing mods does more to damage the game's visuals than any level of settings reduction.

[@subway2227]

Not sure if I should be glad or sad that I recognized that intro from the HGTV 9/11 psa

[@gman_4815]

4:10 heavy: я видел некоторое дерьмо

[@SMCwasTaken]

He went to Ohio and Oklahoma and got traumatized 😂😂😂

[@PosthumanHeresy]

19:52 I've played it, and the raytracing in that game is _seriously_ in depth and hardcore.

[@confusedTurtle_]

Your music choices are pretty GOATed, especially with Einhander.

[@reihera]

Hey so goofy silly little fact Titanfall 2 and Apex Legends run off of a heavily modified version of the source engine, meaning all the stuff you tried in here would probably work there too. You will have to install something called northstar or vanilla + northstar to gain access to the console though. Just saying, could be fun for a part 2

[@slopmog]

are you saying that we can make titanfall 3 in gmod

[@reihera]

@@slopmog Probably not, as the source engine used by titanfall 2 and apex legends is heavily modified, and uses a lot of proprietary file formats and stuff, but all the files for models and such should be compatible with a little bit of conversion. So technically yes, practically no

[@ungezoockt]

based titanfall enjoyer. Good to see you pilot.

[@MAZZ0Murder]

Supposedly a computer I had repaired had gotten so hot it was "smoking". I don't really know if I believed the technician about that... but my grapchic card did start having a meltdown of sorts, so I know what a hot computer is like :O

[@skaltaccount]

4:50 "You may consider this to be cheating, but the problem is... I... I don't care, really." Every tf2 cheater's quote

[@CrustyFox87]

Probably my favorite quote from Ratlobber tbh

[@johnnybravo5726]

dude you have a vision, and I love your essay style. please keep on making vids because you actually bring something unique to the table. keep calm and game on

[@tobithesergal]

22:30 Blud playin unturned

[@Okaydudei]

Nah pixel gun 3d

[@GSpider]

3:22 thom yorke jumpscare

[@DanielWindows]

(scary)

[@marshall6016]

no suprises please

[@TheNerdyCrazyBox]

@@marshall6016 🥁

[@JuzzyQ7]

Id love to see all of these with the resolution dropped to 720p or lower

[@chroment0962]

the gmod and L4D2 ones look like games i can play on the school computers

[@plaidpvcpipe3792]

0:01 the opening quote on this video made me feel good, and hopeful, after a bad week. :)

[@Ç0òlAl3n]

It’s based on a message during 9/11

[@verylostdoommarauder]

The command in Portal just turned it into Ultrakill.

[@bluecube9515]

I need a full version of the L4D2 song. Now. At this very moment.

[@docholiday4129]

Turing down the facial animations in tf2 is so cursed. The mercs in TF2 are so animated, removing that leaves them with this soulless dead eyed stare

[@hexacontaenneagon]

For Gmod, if you want to make it worse, than float into the air for a while using cheats. After a while, you end up floating into a little low poly replica of the default sandbox area!

[@Azypic_Official]

Imma be real, this (*5:28*) looks like one of those "[insert popular game here]: Behind The Scenes" videos.

[@afrocitygaming]

it does and it's hilarious

[@nofun.]

another upload by "ratlobber" with 0 rats being lobbed.

[@BradRLee]

Dude, spoilers! Is it really that hard to be considerate to people that haven't finished watching yet?

[@Conqueringrule]

Honestly some of those have really great potential, with the right tweaking and mods they could have a really sick retro style

[@emissne]

18:52 the light going out makes the portal gun look like some sort of cartoony robot guard who is sleeping on the job who wakes up when the light goes out like some sort of cartoon lol

[@BurnerWah]

Low res portal rtx is genuinely so close the exact aesthetic i want to see out of some game at some point I wanna see games that look like they're running on a ps1 that inexplicably can perform lighting calculations that look like they were done in blender cycles

[@iikeli727]

You should check out Doom II RTX

[@BSEUNHIR]

Missed the chance to disable texture filtering. Sab

[@giedmich]

22:53 - Mr. Bean: "Merry Christmas, Mr. Bean" (Episode 7)

[@Alxrru]

10:35 it's amazing how recognizable cheaple is, even after being cheapilized even further

[@ZeallustImmortal]

"Computer got hot, like so hot I could smell it" dude yes. I dont know what causes it, but when electronics heat up theres a very distinct smell

[@BX56_YT]

5:03 It actually is. The inventor of Phong shading was a Vietnamese computer researcher named Bui Tuong Phong.

[@popsysorare]

mat_phong 0 on good settings actually looks beautiful, cel-shaded art style instead of the typical glossy appearance. Shame it messes with australiums, still my go to setting though.

[@6A5T08WDIa]

There's fixes for "mat_phong 0" on GameBanana that might interest you, just saying.

[@defaultface7273]

It's pretty buggy with some props but it removes the ugly weapon sheens added in gun mettle update.

[@smushy64]

phong IS the name of a vietnamese man. he created the phong shading model used by a ton of real time 3d applications

[@Buttersiscool]

22:36 eoblox

[@brute1604]

bruh that left4dead song was fucking amazing. You weren't prepared for that addon? I WASN'T PREPARED FOR DRUNK HANK HILL SINGING

[@LuckDuck64-hg4cv]

"Don't get me wrong, everything did look noticeably worse, and you would probably get made fun of if someone saw you playing at settings this low." Half of the competitive TF2 player base: DOES HE KNOW?🤨

[@Neomeniaaa]

Honestly, most of these i'd love to play the way you made em. I think the "bad" look isnt really bad, at least not to me. Its not ugly, hard to see, or a mess at all. Just a weirdly cool but different art style

[@quadstrike]

1:00 hey it's me! thanks for the feature!

[@moomin96]

22:25 banger

[@nikolaiostrander2214]

The portal RTX section actually reminds me of the DOOM RTX mod that came out recently

[@13B-POWAH]

22:22 thats unturned gameplay and you cant convince me otherwise

[@pliat]

You could have done way more with portal RTX by using the dev menu, It’s an option to open when you press ALT+X. You can do all sorts of stuff there, like go back to the original game textures and models, or change/turn off the denoiser, etc. so much more to optimise.

[@we_played_Hob_Gobbies_together]

Lol ratlobber being smart? No

[@sparkler5313]

Gotta love that the top comment is just mentioning that the top comment is "my wife left me"

[@imafytpg]

The sun is leaking

[@EphemeraEssays]

Dude, I used to play sniper way back in the day on my shitty laptop and I thought the octagon angular scope was an art direction decision hahaha

[@Gabi_memezz]

Why the hell are those TF2 videos so well edited 😭

[@3Bitjoke]

Sir, your videos are really fun and well made!

[@Zelurpio]

dude really turned tf2 into goldeneye 007

[@Lukepuke311]

3:21 is that thom york?

[@Snyper20]

I fucking died at the left 4 dead 2 workshop reveal. I'm roflcoptering. It's like a clone of Sub Rosa!

[@XanderNiles]

The ones that changed the most and are quite impressive are the TF2 one with PSX graphics and the L4D2 one blown me away. That was Hella amazing to look at. Major props for whoever put all of that effort to decimate the visuals of the game.

[@donovanphillips6278]

I don’t know if it’s on the Gmod workshop, but the “cheaple” model would likely fit into the low-poly style.

[@Kibble_Bites]

Did you tweak the DX level at all when making this video because I'm sure it would have made things look way worse if you did and it breaks stuff and changes the particles for TF2, at least.

[@SUPDOZ]

from a dx81 level user, he did not, in fact change the dx level. It's either at 90 or above.

[@megakarlachofficial]

dx level basically makes the graphics look worse, but it technically does not change direct3D rendering to D3D8, its still D3D9, just with DX8 compatibility/feature level for older GPU that doesnt support all DX9 features.

[@CorticalHomunculus]

Gotta love the top comment is just “my wife left me”

[@maty839]

Lol

[@maty839]

Hey

[@chunguslover]

​@aregulargenericname8794 it was so lol xd that I flew my roflcopter into the federal building in oklahoma city.

[@Giantcrabz]

​@@chunguslover you survived? lol

[@sarahwatts8184]

@@Giantcrabz He just walked it off

[@BanditRookie]

11:09 Integrated GPU gang represent! I had an old refurbished workstation powered by an i3-7100 with HD Graphics 630 for, uh, too many years, before i finally upgraded. Thing actually managed to play Metro 2033 Redux at like 20-30 FPS, somehow. Lowest settings, of course.

[@ScrimmyBingus42]

Glad Richter was having fun on his skamte bord

[@Ultranova537MC]

What you started with on tf2 is literally how I have to play the game

[@firesparx5552]

25:47 best subway commercial

[@FrankBlaskovich]

no way ratlobber made a documentry on what a competitive player sees

[@slopmog]

average pro fortnite player perspective

[@yakidust]

20:48 this part i need to confirm, they literally turned into a badass cool fps zombie game, to a mid garbage anime game...

[@BOT_AHHHH]

Mid garbage anime zombie fps game? I think i have heard a game that checks the words i said, just with a mix of questionable things and also more expensive then l4d1 and l4d2 combine

[@DanielWindows]

​@@BOT_AHHHH he means that workshop is full of anime mods (also I actually install some mods here but it's not anime)

[@fyran6453]

*ok...* *now we want you making goldsrc games look as good as possible*

[@GibusSpyTF]

22:28 when your GPU can only run solitaire

[@wallonfly]

It's been a dream of mine to revisit favorite games of mine and "downgrade" the graphics to polygonal or PS1 style graphics. This vid was really cool. I particularly liked how L4D looked.

[@unholy_person]

a way to make tf2 look even worse is to use -"dxlevel 80" or "-dxlevel 81" making tf2 runing on Direct X 8 instead of Direct X 9 note the performance gain depends on your pc's specs for example you use the top of the line specs that don't really support older Direct X versions anymore will get you less than with older ones

[@anthonylopes9754]

I don't know why but I almost like it when games look low quality, same with old box TVs vs new flat screens. Because the quality isn't crystal clear and realistic it reminds me I'm just playing a game, and i dig that

[@slopmog]

sometimes realism can ruin the experience

[@jadenpicazo9851]

Yeah, my PC is so bad. I have to play on the lowest level of graphics on TF2 it won’t even let me read signs

[@Sah-Leem]

3:22 that Thom Yorke pic is a total vibe but Björk on her PC pic is even more, I love both of their music

[@qtuster]

7:26 average "spy main" configs

[@manny7289]

Takes me back to running tf2 on a potato and still not being able to break 60 frames

[@slopmog]

me still running tf2 potato mode in 2023

[@gawrbage]

4:00 why did you disable multicore rendering? This just worsens performance for no visual differences.

[@JustADeliciousSandvich]

I actually love how some of these look, it's a nice aesthetic to me

[@aaronkaiser98]

ratlobber intros got me thinking and ascending into the 25th dimension and then i hear his voice and then i'm like "oh yeah im watching him now"