More stuff about Half-Life 2 it took me 3500 hours to find/write down/be told by other people

0:00 Suit zoom + crossbow zoom is weird
0:21 No textures in forgotten doorway
0:37 Standing on metal flap things to make yourself lose
0:52 Highways debris blocks train tracks
1:05 Scanner battery floating in air
1:25 Route Kanal train starts moving again
1:40 Merry-go-round with a motor
1:52 Disappearing computer screen
2:22 Picking up pod
3:15 Captions switched around
3:27 Hallway with weird acoustics
3:48 Drawbridge silliness
5:05 Fire becomes larger
5:13 Striders shooting grass
5:30 Exploring the place where pods are hidden
This video's subtitles took 14 minutes.
This project done entirely on March 14.

[@caxxatron1785]

"It will delete you as well" actually being 100% true and not a joke is hilarious to me

[@txcrix9236]

😂

[@Wheagg]

in Soviet Russia, vaporization delete *_you!_*

[@DiggerDeeper01]

What part of the video was that?

[@txcrix9236]

​@@DiggerDeeper01 2:59

[@CturiX.IREALLY]

imagine being vaporized but all you see is a cutout of your location

[@MudchopX]

Imagine you’re a combine and the guy you’re supposed to kill hops in a metal pod laying there like mummy completely immune to your advanced alien pulse rifle

[@lemone12]

gordon really said "🛌"

[@CombustibleLemon77]

Or he throws his pod in a thing, hops in, and gets vaporized and you're like "...that was easy"

[@valentinominosvugner9860]

20th century boy xd

[@LeoYoshi54321]

It's Gordon's Absolutely Safe Capsule.

[@terriblyterrified8742]

gordon going blankie mode

[@bugjams]

The train tracks thing could've been the Combine shelling the area in an attempt to slow down Gordon, after he passed through the first time. Dunno what they hoped to accomplish, but even the Combine make stupid decisions sometimes.

[@ieatgarbage8771]

Sometimes?

[@user-sx7rt4ly1l]

​@@ieatgarbage8771 yes, garbageeater

[@dkskcjfjswwwwwws413]

no just classic half life non realistic environments for example, several places in black mesa overlap eachother, and a few outdoors areas are lower than, or even under indoors areas

[@rogerphone481]

@@dkskcjfjswwwwwws413 dont forget about that room with a charger that has no entrance. the only way in is to climb a barnacle tongue.

[@dkskcjfjswwwwwws413]

@@rogerphone481 why you get more likes than me im RIGHT

[@LotsOfS]

"The game now ends" is such a weird message to be seeing there

[@leo_the_v.3847]

4th wall break

[@AdrianRojasF]

I understand the failure messages after Episode One come from the Vorts, as G-man was cut from you. The Singing Vortigaunt easter egg also hints at this being a game.

[@SpikedZenMain]

@@AdrianRojasF many years and multiple playthroughs later, only after reading your comment did i realize that the g-man connection being severed is the reason the vortigaunts become the new "game-over narrator", holy fucking shit

[@ajxx9987]

​@@AdrianRojasF were they different

[@AdrianRojasF]

@@SpikedZenMain I learned about it recently too! I guess I got better at quick loading before a failstate at that point lol

[@deptusmechanikus7362]

Suit: have a zoom function Also Suit: doesn't have a helmet

[@cappyP704]

His eyes just elongate don’t worry :)

[@davisdf3064]

​@@cappyP704 This is easily explained by Gordon being a highly trained profissional

[@JoeMacdonalds-dg6ew]

Honestly, this video should just be titled: "What 3500 hours of Half-Life 2 does to a mf"

[@somedude3314]

2:51 let my man’s sleep, he’s tired.

[@de-ment]

holy shit this is amazing laughed a lot at the pod segment, never even knew that was possible

[@protocetid]

Gordon becomes a Metapod and uses harden

[@supersonicbros23]

"Watch closely as this train disappears into the tunnel" **Sounds of train getting closer**

[@disposable_income_andy]

Fun fact: the HEV suit and crossbow both zoom in at the exact same amount. There's also a part of the mines in EP2 where the ceiling is partially unmodeled and you can see into the void/blue hell. It's completely accessible and is to the right of the elevator.

[@xDShot9000]

Brushes are still techically modelled in map editor, they just were painted into "nodraw" materials with flags to tell map compilers to purge faces.

[@Nykomil]

I haven't played HL2 but in Gmod there crossbow zoom is just a biiit stronger than the HEV (b key) one

[@dkskcjfjswwwwwws413]

blue hell is in gta san andreas, source has hall of mirrors

[@ThePangia]

@@Nykomil the same applies to hl2, dunno where op found out crossbow and hev both have the same zoom level

[@cbtillery135]

@@Nykomil play Half-Life 2 bro it's usually like 50 cents

[@Blurns]

I noticed that they sounded weird in that hallway, but I always assumed it was just the acoustics of it. And for that part where the Route Kanal train starts moving again, the razor train goes through the tunnel too, despite being too tall for it.

[@desu38]

It is. It's caused by interference.

[@MillywiggZ]

Pretty rude of the Combine soldiers not to carry you to Breen after you tucked yourself into the pod. Guess that’s why they invade rather than say please! Oy!

[@VioletGiraffe]

5:05 not only the fire is larger, but the lambda symbol on the wall is gone!

[@CesarBendy1]

LAMBDA ISNT REAL? D:

[@davisdf3064]

​@@CesarBendy1 Sadly, calculations relating to a light beam wavelength are now not real :(

[@escalatorgoddess2078]

5:27 I never realized the vortigaunts roast Freeman if the Striders blow up the rocket

[@davisdf3064]

They also straight up break the 4th wall by saying "the game now ends"

[@escalatorgoddess2078]

@@davisdf3064 yeah, it kind of creeps me out tbh

[@lambdaspecialist_source]

As a LambdaSpecialist these facts are very informative to me.

[@fauxcuss2]

As a Faux Cuss they are interesting to me as well.

[@lambdacore4127]

my brother

[@zombieoutbreakprod]

LambdaSpecialist doesnt need to hear all this, he's a highly trained professional

[@TheFoolish_Bear]

Indeed

[@DestructoGabe8]

5:20 Strider: *destroys rocket and save combine* Also Strider: Adios

[@BonW]

The one of a kind "Bee Strider", it's deadliest attack kills itself, like a bee.

[@Ze_eT]

@@BonW Or an one-of-a-kind Rocket Buster, akin to a- *_ALERT!_*_ A sentry buster has entered the area!_

[@Werty715_25]

@@Ze_eT SENTRY BUSTAAH!

[@bruhmoment5465]

I'm so glad the merry go round motor is getting recognized, I remember finding that the first time I played through as a kid, and just spent nearly an hour trying to launch myself with the spin physics lmao (also 5:13 WHY does the fire get bigger?)

[@Kuyosaki]

they probably scaled down the flame after testing due to something like obstructing player's view too much but forgot to scale down the following map's fire

[@breezingwing5574]

why wouldn't the fire spread with time? very important lore actually

[@TheFishCostume]

@@breezingwing5574 They explain it in episode 3.

[@keyboard_toucher]

probably to help discourage the player from going the wrong way

[@Kubaadamiec]

they tried to add moss but instead added real fire.

[@mostdakka3295]

That merry go round switch is trully wtf. I played the game countless times now and I had no idea.

[@Mintor94]

same

[@The_Lightning_Sparks]

honestly i'm surprised this wasn't mentioned sooner, i've known about it since i was like, a kid- and i'm in my mid 20's now so like--

[@romanm.3529]

This is called the mandela effect

[@mostdakka3295]

@@romanm.3529 uhh no? Mandela is when you misremember things amd are convinced that was reality. I simply didnt know thay switch even existed.

[@romanm.3529]

@@mostdakka3295 no, you are not misremembering, in 2004 this switch didn't exist. I see tons of mandelas in games, in Half-Life 2 also. When exiting the shaft after Ravenholm, the tracks go to the left now, it used to go to the right. How can you misremember you core memories? Don't gaslight yourself or others, pal

[@lol10801lol]

How dedicated must you be to exploring this 2004 game quirks to figure out that if you go back on that one specific city 17 map the fire gets larger???

[@chri-k]

or that the pistol sounds slightly weird in this one hallway

[@tristanthebuild8050]

​@Kaisa Islamova or only half-a-life

[@romanm.3529]

New stuff is being added

[@meowmeow6676]

if you're obsessed enough about a thing you'll pick it apart into atoms just tp find something cool and new that gives you dopamine

[@meowmeow6676]

@@romanm.3529 you must be new here

[@thecombine887]

I've never actually seen a strider vaporize white forest at the end of episode 2

[@xanderjacques5642]

Well the reason why it sound weird in that hallway is because of source's echoing effect and it's not just in that hallway many places in half life 2 do that.

[@3b0]

2:43 and why he eepy 😂

[@Vexcenot]

I just imagine gordon wrapping himself in the pod like a baby just to avoid getting hurt

[@TheBlownapart]

I think my greatest discovery in hl2 was how great dog's ball was at killing and distracting zombies in Ravenholm.

[@golarac6433]

I love this type of content and even more so when done in your style because you can dig deep down and explain most of the cases. Keep up the good work.

[@jokelot5221]

I just started merry go round in the Black Messa East scrapyard, didnt tryed that before. But there is one weird bug i just accidently figured out just a few moments ago in the same place. Maybe Pinsplash didnt know about this one. When dog starts throwing boxes at the player to catch it with the grafity gun, if you put another box, or a barrel just before a dog grabs one box to throw it from the container, the box that Dog grabs explodes in the container. Im not sure if that is a famous bug, but i just accidently bumped into it.

[@bmFbr]

I'm a Quake modder/coder, and it's funny seeing how various of those quirks are rooted in things that come all the way from the Quake engine

[@POINTS2]

I hate it when I get deleted. Happens to highly trained professionals as well it seems.

[@benjiunofficial]

The disappearing screen looks might just be intended to be an old CRT. They can look kinda grey when they're off.

[@littlechickeyhudak]

I don't think I'd ever actually seen the fail state of the final battle in ep 2 until now lol

[@GammaTheSpaceSnail]

Was the ear**e at the end necessary? Your voice is soothing and the video is quite chill, why ruin it like that?

[@S1nwar]

man i miss experiencing the streetfights for the first time. that was so awesome in 2004

[@9another632]

3:49 Thats something we usually do in Synergy[hl2 co-op] a little trolling

[@baiborisxd]

3:01 The Bad Ending

[@ish2008]

null reference

[@addamoveal3398]

Random girl enters my room also her: 5:37

[@dkctc]

I love your channel and all of your work

[@CatsT.M]

Phasers...nice. Also, you can die at the end of Half-Life 2 right before G-Man says hi and it still continues as normal.

[@Wadethewallaby2001]

3:43 the reason why it sounds like that is because Dr. Magnuson has a room that his basically showed of the radio sound

[@bimalpandey9736]

I can't wait another 3500 hours for you to find more stuffs.

[@lucialambda]

as a fact enjoyer, i enjoyed these facts (early 😉)

[@gman_4815]

Video just came out, but this comment is older than video)

[@SiIIy_]

@@gman_4815 yeah because the video was private before being publicly released

[@lucialambda]

@@gman_4815 perks of being a fact enjoyer

[@entangledatoms7153]

After some time, we’ll know about the things in Half Life 2 so much that we would be able to figure out what the entire Valve team liked to eat when they worked on Half Life 2.

[@matthewduda3605]

Now the vaporized pod one is just weird and creepy.

[@4dblock314]

I found something interesting: The codebase that ep1 and ep2 use checks your moddir and based on the directory you play it toggles some features e.g. LegacyFlashlight: if start a source game whose directory name is hl1, hl2 or episodic then the game will disable the flashlight meter and use the aux power. If the moddir doesn't match with these names then it will enable the flashlight meter. Unfortunately I couldn't find anything else on this matter.

[@WBRI_Brianless]

Love these videos!

[@slamsun6969]

3:27 same thing happens but to most or all weapons if you use the commands "sv_cheats 1" and "impulse 101" in Portal 1

[@VVen0m]

0:36 for some reason I thought he was gonna say "In the finale you can stand on deez nuts"

[@booperscooper1491]

Truly the greatest Half-Life 2 fact ever discovered.

[@ukaszProstacki9]

2:40 depression dream

[@christiancinnabars1402]

Very slightly related, but in the last battle of EP2, _any_ strider you spawn can start to walk towards the missile silo and blow it up. For people less familiar with the source engine, this seems unremarkable, but for 14 y/o me that had it drilled into my head that 99% of npcs in HL2 needed to be named in order to be affected by a scripted command, it was the wildest thing. That fact alone let me play for hours on end on that map, making huge npc battles in a modded EP2.

[@cyber_xiii3786]

Gmod before Gmod

[@Myne1001]

@@cyber_xiii3786 Gmod existed before HL2 Episode 2

[@cyber_xiii3786]

@@Myne1001 oh

[@Myne1001]

@@cyber_xiii3786 yeah it actually began using the 2003 Half Life 2 file leak but didn't officially become a thing until afterwards.

[@BusKitten]

Striders actually need special nodes to walk on. Thats it. No commands needed

[@itsthreesevenmusic]

idk how many more of these you can make but they’re so good

[@Johnny31323]

0:00 This is a normal occurance, because if you zoom, you're telling the game that your FOV should be like 50, but with holding Z, you tell the game once again to put it at 30. Now because both are acting upon the player's FOV constantly, it will be switching between 50 and 30 really fast, but most of the time it will never go to actual 50 FOV since this function is way to fast. One way to fix this is if there was a boolean call of whether which zoom was called upon. If it was the Z keybind Zoom, or the crossbow zoom, and then you can temporarily disable the other until you let go of said hotkey. (Right Click or Z)

[@nakfoor1846]

I found this very interesting. Good video.

[@Legoguy9875]

I've never seen the failstate for the White Forest Strider invasion - I've always either cleared that section first try, died by other means, or just reloaded a save of things weren't going well. That game over message is hilariously condescending, essentially saying that the game knew you were this bad from the start before ending itself. Would've been even better if they went the extra mile and just have the credits play along with it, to really sell the "the game ends now" line.

[@petyooo19]

6:11 *dies of facts*

[@thatsmykulture7266]

Amazing Work

[@whitedude877]

The highway debris blocking the train track blew my mind. Holy shit.

[@Whomobile]

enter pod = nap time

[@TsjuunTze]

As a day 1 Half Life and Half life 2 player I can telll you this: WOW You really know Half life! Respect!

[@ATP2555ify]

3:05 Ah, so that's where entities go to when they're deleted from the game.

[@SneedFeedAndSeed]

In Episode 2 in the area with the first Hunter fight, depending if you visit the transmitter before or after powering up, Alyx's line will change.

[@Oddsfeline]

I love the fact that things are still being discovered about these games

[@imhaikus]

Cool stuff my dude!!

[@pillgrimm]

Thank you for putting on your ASMR voice for this video

[@CaveyMoth]

I still have nightmares about that cat.

[@fbi4189]

I love how there’s still so many things I still don’t know after playing for almost a decade and a half now.

[@thg1nrediar]

Sua dedicação será fruto de muitas vitórias

[@ArpitBhattacharjee]

thanks for the earrape at the end

[@NegatingSilence]

That Potemkin Village thing when you stand on top of the drawbridge is pretty neat.

[@DrCareBearFIN]

There was two things I didnt know of and this did make me want to play it again 100% :D

[@robinrai4973]

Love ya vids

[@azizd4rkg4mer35]

Nice outro bro :) ngl

[@VioletGiraffe]

Wow, amazing attention to details. I haven't played for 3500 hours, but I must have played for 400+, and I haven't found 1/20th of these things.

[@Source4pott]

Great video as usuall m8. Do you think you would do such content for L4D2?

[@superunatural3825]

Gordon got sent to the backrooms when that pod got deleted

[@Flikanik]

Time? Mr Freeman? Huh what are you doing?

[@LED_Lightbulb]

i think the biggest shock ive learned from this is what happens when you fail to stop the striders, i've always saved/ loaded at every strider so ive never let one get to that stage before o.o

[@strayb2d]

As a fact hater, I really hated these facts

[@SU76M]

3:12 That looks similar to TF2's impulse (already don't remember which one exactly) command which erases objects when implied to you.

[@NoahtheEpicGuy]

Might I say, Pinsplash, your voice is sounding quite deep. Half Life 2 Factoid ASMR

[@eddyheaddrascal1858]

2:45 Huge Mother 3 vibes

[@JolanXBL]

@pinsplash I did this on the 360 Orange box. I pushed Alyx through a door that she wasn't supposed to enter (you two split up), and the game copied her to the next area with me. She would be talking through the loudspeaker, while her doppelganger followed (and assisted) me through the level. Later when she's supposed to join back, there became 2 of them :).

[@Infarlock]

It's like facts & glitches series

[@loleq2137]

holy shit your mic is pristine

[@w1ngs2016]

question; if you take the stalker pod to an edge with the gravity gun and enter it as its falling down the citadel, will the death barrier below still kill you when you reach it?

[@Pinsplash]

some did and some didn't

[@scottcantrell9678]

the same effect happens if you get near the window between the airlock and the control room in eli lab

[@thewiseowl8804]

1:40 I learned that one on my first playthrough

[@dawn7724]

I've never seen that fail state in ep2 with the rocket getting destroyed

[@punkinman1317]

you should do some of the bugs and glitches in the previous versions like the release version of hl2 or maybe the day 1 patch

[@the-guy-beyond-the-socket]

the strider literaly died of ligma

[@evilboy3521]

About those train tracks, perhaps they blew up that highway bridge in the hopes of stopping freeman or something and so on etc. etc. Dunno.

[@-gemberkoekje-5547]

I didnt even know you could zoom with the suit

[@fthwh6195]

1:34 train: goes normal* Wee.. disappears*

[@somedudethatripsplanetinha4221]

The one with the train moving again was so goofy

[@IlyaDemidov]

You can take the ball you play with The Dog up to a point where you crawl through the window before antlion guard fight in Nova Prospect.

[@standman-ft7zo]

2:25 new speedrunning strat?

[@senseiusagi6136]

The smg and pistol sound thing happens in every portal test chamber

[@David-bh7hs]

1:40 this is so cool!

[@infernaze9128]

i'm sleep deprived and i swear this guy sounds like the Microsoft/Minecraft TTS/narrator guy

[@miroslavraven1413]

fantastic

[@redisdead628-2.0]

Darkviperau after a week in city 17

[@BritishEngineer]

5:40 half life lore, it’s likely a storage area in banks, then those networks of rails send them to different locations, video game lore it’s obviously a dead leg.