Half-Life 2 facts you actually did know (Half-Life 2 Facts #59-70) (re-recorded)

[@rufusthehunalprophet6648]

7:04 she's like a model striking a different pose after every camera flash

[@TinyDeskEngineer]

However in this case the camera flash is caused by a flashbang

[@Nombrenooriginal]

​@@TinyDeskEngineer a realistic flashbang

[@juliajenuine6075]

I actually got the sideways G-Man bug on my first ever playthrough of HL2 on the Orange Box. I thought the scene implied you were on a park bench or the train seat with him next to you and he was trying to "lay low".

[@kernelbug2294]

🤣

[@JOOJ126J]

it looks cooler tbh

[@digbick1241]

Dont pass btw.

[@Fog-wog]

When Gman speaks to Gordon when he is sitting with him moment

[@kristoferkoessel4354]

@@JOOJ126J yeah it surprisingly adds alot to games character

[@everycafe44]

Here's a cool little fact. The "Squeaky sound" when the radio is taken away or shot at is the original shield scanners sound. In e3_terminal in the Half-Life 2 Beta you are stopped by two of them and they yell at the player using the "Squeaky sound" audio.

[@supersonicbros23]

The Norinco sequencer thing is a sight for sore eyes. That is a legacy element carried over all the way from Half Life 1's alpha test build, used for a model zoo where developers could observe animations by shooting models with the only gun programmed at the time.

[@muzukashiinamae]

Does it have something to do with endings of one half life channel where they shoot a robot with Glock?

[@kostya8764]

@@muzukashiinamae probably yes, but it's not a "half life channel", you're probably thinking about the half-life alpha 0.52 build with polyrobo, the thing that was shot

[@NichoMania2]

09:31 I think I remember this was a method used on purpose in the mod, Nightmare House 2, to make some scary 'you can't see them' ghosts with shadows that are cast by the flashlight, in some spooky scenes.

[@scantyer]

Ah nightmare house 2... memories

[@noyesser]

4:18 Pretty funny to see the antlion guard just crumble like that

[@taurusdengaming4586]

That Ant Lion fact around 4:16 should have been an achievement

[@freshrot420]

For real, "Thar she blows!" -You made that whale guy proud.

[@TM__1566]

Half Life players when they can't figure out the answer of the puzzle and decide to backtrack all the way back

[@Whomobile]

The slow rocket trick is used in a few HL2DM Puzzle maps

[@danielanderson9178]

Honestly the gman speech is better from the side, adds to the off-ness of his character more imo

[@algernopkrieger7710]

Definitely makes it seem impersonal, and gives it an out-of-body feel that's appropriate to the situation

[@pirig-gal]

It'd make it much more powerful if he turned to the camera at the end, at "...smell the ashes..."

[@funotoppuu]

@@pirig-gal maybe someone will do this if the HL2 remake will support modding

[@pipebombmailer]

@@funotoppuu or they could just mod half life 2

[@Nombrenooriginal]

​​@@funotoppuu there wouldn't be a Half life 2 remake tho

[@toaster9922]

That dude climbing up the cable has some really good upper body strength.

[@quintonwinton7210]

with the apc being mistaken as a buggy if you take an apc to the light house you will be required to park the apc inside the garages

[@AVeryNervousWreck]

7:30 I knew about those guys, but I didn't know that one of them climbs up there

[@Wilson_Kelly]

The rocket one is crazy

[@nutzeeer]

seeing Gman from the side int the intro would actually make for an interesting story element

[@-0rbital-]

If you shoot those shadow objects at an enemy, will they do damage?

[@olegmoki]

Yes i guess, they act like normal objects, just mostly invisible, because he has set it up so

[@Pinsplash]

those objects are actually there in hl2 and ep1

[@caramelldansen2204]

Most likely. Object culling is usually only graphical, and the massive increase in performance by removing its visual presence (helping the GPU render more things you're actually going to need to see) is monumental compared to the negligible CPU load of keeping one extra couch in the map; never mind that loading the couch back in would require extra disk bandwidth and CPU power. This, of course, happens to so much more than just a few couches, but the point stands for all of them. TL;DR - It's just visual. Anything a normal couch can do, this should do too.

[@unfa00]

Every time I hear the original G-man intro speech for HL2 in my head I hear "you have been sleep the job" because in some silly mod that's how it was edited. I have to find it and hear it again!

[@NoahGooder]

the longest line of levels you can do in reverse is giving me Half-life 1 flashbacks

[@CrashHeadroom]

I actually knew about the harpoons, I use them everytime I do that level XD I can also explain the APC vital mission thing too. Its a remnant left over from when you could actually drive them like you see in the old E3 vid, and valve forgot to take out the mission failure thing for them.

[@ozfoxaroo]

Well researched and compiled. Good effort on this vid. It's interesting that you pushed the Combine APC into the map containing the railway bridge. I did that in an attempt to see if it would block the train, but instead I experienced what you've described; the game engine doesn't distinguish between the APC and the buggy - "Failure to preserve mission critical resources".

[@_erayerdin]

1:00 ngl i had a little heart attack when you cancelled fast-forward here, causing me to think this is the last point you can go backwards and how it is lame considering what you have done prior

[@erik7317]

"Aren't willing to do anything TOO crazy to go back" *self-made rocket bed frame*

[@Silver_Swan_MK2]

3:42 ahh yes i remember this in Gmod

[@funotoppuu]

The last point is the ghosts from Metro 2033, which can only be visible in the rays of a lantern. However, you can also contact with it without endangering your life.

[@LegoAnimations6370]

1:59 that ''squeaking'' sound has troubled me ever since I played the game for the first time. I always find it a bit scary and out of place. I tried to search information about it but found only ''mysterious sounds in Half Life 2''. Finally that radio alarm unravels the mystery.

[@AMAON_Official]

the sound is from the beta

[@butterss1178]

*Gunship literally killing everyone outside* Odessa: d a m

[@EpicGamer-fl7fn]

Why are you re-recording this? sorry haven't been following you in a while so im a bit confused.

[@nnikitov57]

because he had bad PC and was recording with low resolution/graphics

[@SplotchTheCatThing]

6:50 practicing her one-woman show. Noriko was planning on going into theater, you know. She still hopes she can someday.

[@Innertorium]

The sideways G-Man feels so much more powerful! Interesting fact. Did you know Barney and G-Man are voiced by the same person? Mike Shapiro.

[@tangyorange6509]

Okay the other things were cool but what got me to like was the rocket part-I actually chuckled

[@CutestDemon]

Ngl, sideways GMan looks way cooler, doesnt feel like gman as much since he's always in your face, but still, really nice.

[@ForsakenSandpaper]

4:07 forgot the fact that after harpoon attack npc ragdoll became pickable by gravity gun.

[@Soldier-b7t]

I noticed that in gmod when you kill a npc with a harpoon it won't appear in the kill feed

[@Peluceus]

Not gonna lie, that's a better angle just so gman can turn and face you as he says "wake up and smell the ashes"

[@pixleace1822]

1:25 surely you can get over that. righT??

[@mattconnor1473]

Bit late but there is an invisible barrel in the last level of half life 2 episode 1 when you are running from the strider

[@eltiolavara9]

anyone else randomly backtrack trough most of a whole game just in case

[@Xayumcl]

5:37 Gman Fricking dies

[@Captain_Obnoxious]

7:00 i don't know why but that reminded me of pizza tower taunting

[@TomatoRadio]

It's the short, easily noticeable looping of the animation. Like the animation itself is smooth and then just quickly jumps back to restart.

[@robloxmoviemaker]

The squeaky sound was from the half life 2 beta when it used half life one and had a different story.

[@MinorLife10]

Apparently, impaling destroys the pheropods

[@MiguelPBlueFox]

I didn't know you could break the sofas

[@andresbravo2003]

Quite greatly to discover!

[@XanTheDragon]

5:40 i guess that's solved then, at least

[@miekk1443]

5:40 💀💀

[@shaggyshrimp7126]

You telling me a Lousy Rebel (except Lazlo the greatest mind of his generation.) Gets whopping 30pts of health BUTTTTT GORDON FUCLONG FREEMAN GETS ONLY 25PTS WHAT DID HE DO TO DESERVE THAT. WHAT A TROLLING MEDIC

[@God-qj7jl]

Is this a reupload cause I swear i seen this longer than 10 days ago

[@BoldTint]

Literally has a "Rerecorded" in the title, bruh

[@Minersteev]

what do you mean by too crazy 0:17

[@extrovertdude4271]

It requires some time if thats what he mean

[@slamsun6969]

Le epic

[@Vadim1488]

Такая старая игра, а ещё что-то новое находят

[@lelandstonerock3172]

E

[@pigmentpeddler5811]

Owned

[@Ploaper]

fun fact: a lot of powerful commands in half life 2 are not sv_cheats protected such as a bunch of ent commands which are ent_setname, ent_fire, ent_teleport, ent_create, ent_remove with these you can teleport (ent_teleport Player) make explosions (i don't remember the full command but it started with ent_create) etc. these are sometimes as powerful as sv_cheats protected commands making hl2 into Garry's mod without ever having to type sv_cheats 1 into your console

[@itsvhere4327]

Fun fact: with the command "ent_fire !picker ignite" (or something like that) allows you to set fire to any prop of npc. That way you can telekinetically burn people alive

[@Sethilliano]

True i didnt even realize sv_cheats was off

[@hugoguh1]

@@itsvhere4327 time to play half life 2: bioshock!

[@reefta]

Whats the issue with turbing cheats on?

[@itsvhere4327]

@@reefta Achiements are disabled

[@EeveeEuphoria]

can i just say i really appreciate your effort in making captions for these videos, it's super helpful for someone like me who has a hard time understanding people sometimes

[@somerand0mpers0n]

can confirm i fade away when people are not close to me

[@versusVSversus.]

Launching yourself with that bed frame looks neat as heck

[@wehehe8373]

Gordon: tf you mean we left the percs? 0:19

[@rinsatsuki3374]

9:42 Man, they just straight up stole the couch's physical form, can't have shit in Detroit.

[@markhenry64]

The 'squeaking sound' is a bad sound file, right? Has anyone investigated and found out what the sound file is supposed to be?

[@scantyer]

search for "half life 2 beta clock" and click in a video by SelimTZi, that clock makes the same exact "squeaking" noise

[@zhankazest]

doesnt really sound like a bad sound file anyways to me

[@scantyer]

The "squeaking" sound is from a clock during the beta, for some reason the sound is in the final game like you showed it. Kinda spooky ngl

[@Zapidom]

why is that spooky

[@yourmom-jm8eg]

@@Zapidom because they are cowards

[@kalfy2491]

@@Zapidom i think its because its the only time in the game where you can hear that weird noise

[@caramelldansen2204]

also it's a pretty nasty sound

[@disposable_income_andy]

Not only that, but it's actually the character's death sound and not the sound of the alarm stopping.

[@Isernex]

"and that you aren't willing to do anything crazy to go back" bed frame ignition is a go

[@SeleniumThoride]

I'll add a few more of my own facts and bugs: 1) Using alt-fire on the Pistol and 357 while underwater results in the game spamming the clicking sound effect. 2) You can destroy the TV the G-Man appears in at the beginning of Anticitizen One using a grenade (do this when you can hear the music coming from the TV). Doing this will result in the TV staying on constantly, and the G-Man and the crow circling him don't move. 3) Killing a Combine Soldier when they are throwing a grenade, but just before they actually throw it, will result in them dropping the grenade that you can pick up.

[@long_chin_man]

if you hold alt fire on some weapons it prevents primary fire

[@Definitelyhuman7]

3 is interesting, when I played I always thought the soldiers have a chance to drop grenades

[@Jack-vo7yf]

The APC one I remember encountering naturally! I shoved it into the water because I was afraid it might start shooting at me as I drove away

[@goon-705]

If you go out of bounds during the police chase on the rooftops in the first chapter, you can actually ride the APCs, although it is very glitchy and causes the screen to flash a lot. You can not actually drive the APCs either and you are unable to get out in my experience.

[@Mister_Hyphen]

In the Xbox 360 version you can drive them.

[@goon-705]

@@Mister_Hyphen Interesting, I should note that I do remember driving them (on pc version) but it didn't turn at all, and that only happened once I think.

[@Mister_Hyphen]

@@goon-705 You may have been playing one of the rarer or older versions.

[@CAPTAIN_CLOCK]

It's not necessarily OoB - if you skip the trigger that disables the player's immunity to fall damage, which basically all you have to do is keep going up the first flight of stairs you find, skipping the CP blocking the passage, and then go to the rooftop, you can just jump off the building and you'll land entirely intact. Then you can go and interact with the APCs. I remember this because when I was trying to get into speedrunning HL2 I thought of doing a more difficult, possibly currently obsolete route of trainstation_03, which is called the Baby Clip.

[@MCcreedLP]

07:37 me looking at my phone and thinking: wtf? Never ever saw this.

[@barszczsosnowskiego3359]

Fr

[@DogeisCut]

those "ghost" props could make an interesting map

[@SkeleTonHammer]

As a game designer myself, (one of) the weirdest things about Half-Life 2 is them letting you backtrack through old load zones to begin with. Someone has to specifically allow for that, because by default any new level you make would not recognize the entrance to also be an exit to link to the past map, and yet there's never any reason to go back and in fact going back sometimes breaks minor things. No idea if they intended for you to need to backtrack in a less linear way at some point and just axed it or what. It's also weird how they allow you to take certain things through load transitions that you don't need to take with you. Such a strange feature overall, from a design perspective. The rocket slowing down thing is funny because it's just the kind of simple mistake you'd make with the good intentions of trying to add a small detail to the game without realizing someone would do something weird like shoot into the water and then try to redirect it back out. It's probably just as simple as someone coded the rocket to lose speed on entering water, but didn't code it to regain speed on exit, thinking it would be very unlikely anyone would "dolphin" a rocket around.

[@slothoverlord3984]

Potentially could be to allow for retrieving resources that might have been left behind, or even the vehicles which can be left behind at some points and are meant to be necessary to continue

[@kyle8952]

You can backtrack through old loading zones because one of the foundational ideas of half-life is that the world is one large uninterrupted area. The only reason the world is split into distinct maps is because otherwise it would not fit in ram. The splits are usually totally innocuous and arbitrary places like half way down a road where there could be no in-universe reason why you couldn't just decide to backtrack.

[@kisaragi-hiu]

It's a thing in Half Life 1 as well. As a player, being able to travel back to previous levels when the levels are connected in-universe makes them feel more like one place. A counter example is Doom 2016: even though there are a few levels that are actually connected in-universe and effort had been put into making the connecting rooms be identical, when playing they still just feel like disjointed levels. Put another way, levels are a implementation detail that the player shouldn't have to be aware of, and connecting them as much as possible enhances immersion even if players rarely backtrack.

[@scantyer]

The reason is for immersion. If you backtracked to the previous level and saw the enemies you just killed alive, it would be immersion breaking and arguably not satisfactory. Same thing with bringing items to the next level.

[@Iambeef3]

Also in highway 17 when you go and deactivate the force field thing on the bridge, you go under the bridge to deactivate it and then go back to the level before in order to continue (and get hit by a train) pretty sure this happens elsewhere too but I’m not too confident to say where

[@kilzial2204]

Sideways gman in the intro is legitimately more spooky and mysterious than the original, when the black and white filter comes in the fact you can only see specks of his hair, his main face features and his ear is legitimately mysterious and adds a lot more mystique. The angle also makes it look like you're standing next to him, overlooking something while remembering the past and the present. Valve should've definitely done this angle in vanilla

[@somedesertdude1308]

broooo pixels broooo mystery pixels brooo gooooms

[@Nuggsyyyyyyyy]

​@@somedesertdude1308 what?

[@somedesertdude1308]

@@Nuggsyyyyyyyy pixels on screen

[@Nuggsyyyyyyyy]

@@somedesertdude1308 understandable 👍

[@calcutt4]

7:54 I remember seeing a really slow rocket in a gmod animation and wondering how they did it

[@JackJockyJac]

The rocket slowly hitting the antlion is funny

[@whatzittooyah3244]

Ngl the side view of gman during the intro is slightly more menacing in certain parts

[@scottfarcus1667]

Going backwards in a video game... fills me with such a strange negative feeling. I contempt the idea! The utter waste of time it is, it's like the self-loathing you direct at yourself after an adolescent breakup. Wow, what a thing to experience.

[@thousandpizza]

this guy is the half life of shounic

[@DogeisCut]

i did that slowdown rocket thing on a gmod server once

[@urlv.]

Nice

[@keiko431]

Hey this got me thinking, there's a speedrun of portal 2 but backwards, it's there one for half life 1 or 2?

[@Goo_sag]

afaik there is one for hl2, sourceruns has a video on it

[@dbuwehiwebf]

4:43 this actually happened to me when i was playing half life 2 coop in gmod. i think person looked to the binoculars while i went to the odessa thing

[@Dr_Doctor_Lee]

why does everyone hate odessa?

[@TiagoAlvesNogueira-r3q]

5:37 * roll HALF-LIFE 2 credits*

[@nescafe7944]

Nice

[@PaLaS0]

6:00 an interesting fact to note is that it also allows you turn it in as your car at lighthouse, saw it happen during a livestream by forsen (towards the end of part 2 of his vod uploaded by bee god if you look it up)

[@thg1nrediar]

Good

[@Thesavagesouls]

Imagine being a rebel tasked to activate the alarm when the combine attack and being forced to keep your finger on the button during the whole attack while being super exposed on a small tower. Plus a gunship flying over your head.

[@rlowethewitch8417]

The best animation for Noriko, the crane lady, to play is seafloor_poses.

[@fenixmyaroon8633]

It's a little funny but I still think there's no angle of the gman that doesn't make him seem creepy and off

[@TinyDeskEngineer]

I think the reason Noriko switches animations when hit with explosives is because the people working on d2_coast_01 used a cycler_actor entity instead of an npc_citizen or generic_actor entity.

[@TinyDeskEngineer]

I was almost right, they used a cycler entity instead of a cycler_actor, though.

[@Jonas-km4qx]

A rebellion in Odessa. Valve was able to predict 2022.

[@Graknorke]

I kind of like the GMan speech in profile, looks good

[@caramelldansen2204]

This is really cool. HL2 is such a dope game.

[@officiallylazlo]

shadow couch

[@beard1021]

Ye

[@Gluckanutyj]

7:04 holly shit, this is hilarious!

[@IvanTheScript]

"Putting the APC into the water will cause you fail." Me: ent_setname target Console: prop_vehicle_jeep was setted name to "target" "If you hit Noriko with an explosive, she'll start playing various animations." Me: [entering half life 2 beta 2003] Also me: [points at citizen in train] ent_setname target Console: cycle_flex

[@brewthethings6598]

Hi

[@ihatehandlestheyareannoying]

Is there any way to create those shadow objects? I want to take a shadow crate through the citadel.