Half-Life 2: A Softlock for Every Level Part 2 - Water Hazard to Ravenholm

[@Pinsplash]

"UH this is impossible to do on accident!" welcome to a well-designed video game "why don't you just die?" bruh, please think about it

[@AquaticCog]

Such a rarity nowadays people forget they exist

[@loleq2137]

So true

[@olegmoki]

That's why i love Valve (most of the time)

[@vxpdx]

They say that because they do not own a cat

[@hansonkerman7286]

the best ones are the ones that nearly kill you so they're very hard to do on purpose as well

[@abasgames]

Pinsplash doesn't need to hear all this he is highly trained professional

[@thepizzacarpizza1056]

He is a high professional

[@The_Ninja_Tree]

I love this quote

[@nucleus691]

Gotta love ol physics based games. Most modern games almost glue the player to the ground.

[@kingding9542]

How much does Gordon weigh according to the engine

[@green3814]

@@kingding9542 10 hammerunits

[@yuyutopt]

True, i want more multiplayer fps to have the movement like titanfall 2, the freedom of movement is just jam. But that wont be pleasant for the low filthy casuals that cry at any high skill technique that separate normal and good players and corporate greed wont be happy if their stock go down. It suck but thats the modern trend for fps now, overly competitive unfun meta abuse circle.

[@Janfon1]

@@yuyutopt Abandon PvP titles, embrace co-op games Deep Rock Galactic might be up your alley

[@npc_pigeon]

genuinely surprised how many areas you can just go out of bounds in. i mean i knew there was quite a few but i didn't think it would be almost every map lol

[@Hmanpc]

I do agree

[@namesurname7665]

Akshually, it's not out of bounds. Just outside of the intended playable area. 🤓🤓🤓 OOB is the black void where you can't even move. But yeah, technicalities aside, it is surprising indeed.

[@peacemaster8117]

@@namesurname7665 "Out of bounds" refers to escaping the intended playable area, it's the same thing. The black void is any area where you don't have geometry, including the spaces under and outside the map which Pinsplash enters a lot in this video (1:00 for example).

[@Templarfreak]

@@peacemaster8117 his confusion comes from how the definition kind of varies and is wiggled a bit from game to game for speedrunning purposes. for certain games, speedrunners consider certain areas where you're in a spot where you're clearly intended not to be at still "in bounds" while in other games a similar location may not be considered in bounds. this definition is wiggled a bit for certain games because it just makes a "no glitches" speedrun way more interesting.

[@Mach-2-Fishbed]

7:12 Father Grigori: "Come closer" Gordon: *Grenade jumps out of Ravenholm*

[@supersonicbros23]

Valve: Don't worry we've been through the game several times and weeded out almost all the game breaking bugs. Pinsplash: Hey wanna see what I can do with a grenade and a barrel?

[@Sockren]

key word: game breaking

[@melemon_fox8431]

Whenever they try to fix bugs, it just creates more. In an attempt to fix bhopping, they introduced ABH, ASH, and AFH, which are arguably 10x more OP

[@MegaChickenfish]

This game is very resilient to softlocking with things like how determined the vehicles are to fall the right way up but that just means players have to try harder!

[@thewiseowl8804]

The minecart softlock at 8:15 may be the most problematic one because I can see that happening to a player just messing around. The other problematic one was in that secret vortigaunt area at 4:04. Since you’re still in-bounds, getting stuck there could be considered a lack of forethought...maybe. The extra health was clearly there for getting back and not as a bonus, since you lose it heading back anyway. Also, you'd have to be crazy to venture into that tunnel in the first place and expect to get back safely. The ravenholm ones seemed easier to pull off, especially 7:31, but overall, 99.9999% of players shouldn’t experience any problems. Well done designers!

[@real_xijinping]

3:38 NPC be like "He shouldn't be able to do THAT, now what shall we do?"

[@Monody512]

The best way to fix the secret vortigaunt softlock would be to give the vort the ability to heal the player. They already have an animation for giving suit power.

[@_erayerdin]

in the beginning, seeing your launch yourself and your vehicle with a nade, i said "welp, off to a good start".

[@wuspoppin6564]

This calls for a "getting out of every softlock in «Half-Life 2: A softlock for every level»" video

[@sanitylost4271]

i'm glad you made subtitles for the most important part

[@genghisdingus]

underneath the scrapyard isnt technically a softlock because you can grab a barrel from under the ground and toss it over then prop climb back up

[@g.w.k.y6869]

Huh, I knew the game was easy to break out of, but I never thought it was that obvious and easy. I suppose in some way it's a testament to valve's own confidence in their design given most people never found these easy to escape areas

[@charlsondemong4922]

no one is ever going to think to throw a grenade under an airboat and perfectly strafe in the air and over a wall easily dismissed by a lot of people just to let themselves lose

[@WadDeIz_Real]

HOLY CRAP FINALLY ANOTHER VIDEO I HAVE BEENW AITING FOR AGES FOR ANOTHER VIDEO,

[@Margen67]

Penguins need HUGS

[@WadDeIz_Real]

@@Margen67 thanms man

[@LordZordid]

I reject the premise of this video. Because we *don't* go to Ravenholm.

[@averagedelta]

No sarcasm here, this is very informative in case I mess up somehow in this well-designed video game. I have been playing this for the past few days and now I know what to look out for.

[@NKP723]

I require more

[@gman_4815]

A lot of morphine has been administed...

[@linguini1517]

new challenge: find variations of the SLA softlocks for old engine (saveload crouch-clipping moves you upwards instead of down)

[@F1stBr34k3r]

In Follow Freeman if you shoot a painting in the ceiling turrets room to trigger the turrets you simply get locked out of the room forever - Probably the easiest softlock in the game, I guess VALVe should've made a timer for the room to reset after a minute. If you blow yourself up to escape the turret room without disabling the turrets you also get soft-locked for pretty much the same reason.

[@luissantiago5163]

Oh awesome! This'll be super neat

[@scantyer]

I love how in the first 2 maps, you go to the "out of bounds" area that are supposed to represent the other map

[@melemon_fox8431]

I like this area because of this. In speedruns, you actually fly of the separator to load the other level instead of taking the regular route.

[@loleq2137]

Another banger from Pin. I often enjoy your videos while procrastinating on important work 💯

[@rimickulous]

LOVE the vorticough one

[@CatsT.M]

Yeah, that makes sense. It really is impressive how simple these are...if you know what you are doing that is.

[@roach2424]

me waiting for citadel 01's softlock being ''just end the prev map with low hp''

[@melancholyfoxx_]

I found one, but I'm not sure if this can be called softlock. When the Poison Zombie grabs the headcrab before throwing it, stand on its back. The Poison Headcrab will bite you and you will be stuck in one place. Killing the Zombie will free you. *remark: killing the headcrab (sometimes become invisible)

[@kisaragi-hiu]

Half Life 2 is fun to play in the intended way but also fun to break. I wish more games were like this :( The quicksave system is also amazing. Even if a normal player somehow runs into a softlock, because there are enough autosaves and because manual and quick saves don't overwrite autosaves, it's basically impossible for a normal player to ever lose progress. I find myself questioning whether some of these are softlocks because it's so easy to get out of them, but yeah, they are: a softlock = you can't get out without loading a save (and would be screwed if you don't have a save). (Although IMO 1:38 is a bit ambiguous: you could still escape without a save if you die, but then you still have to load a save to retain your progress. But then since dying is not itself a softlock, a situation where you can die should also not be a softlock… I'm not sure.)

[@scantyer]

pretty sure many games are like this, you just havent look hard enough lol softlocking and glitching the fuck out is a thing in almost every other games

[@xweert711]

It really is a bummer that like 90% of these are just "prop jump out of map and then tuck yourself into some corner". I get the point of the video and all that but I was expecting creative ways to get stuck or just learning something, so when most of these are just "use the same glitch to go out of bounds" it just isn't interesting anymore, because I haven't really learned anything or found any new interesting thing, instead it's just "obviously you will get stuck out of bounds if you go somewhere you aren't supposed to go." It would've been nice to see a complete compilation of ways to get stuck without the prop jump glitch though, instead of one for every single map. The videos would've been shorter but at least it wouldn't just be a compilation of you prop jumping out of every map

[@inflatedego9418]

This looks so cool I wish grenades were real

[@moodyblues4404]

I got good news.

[@Citiesinmotionplayer]

You can theoretically still get past the gate here with the old boatless speedrun strat right? The one that was wallclimbing and clipping down?

[@geckobrain]

pinsplash is the pannenkoek2012 of hl2

[@aresnir2725]

Never understood how to climb on props or speed up like that.

[@adeeta5701]

Look up propclimbing tutorials and abh/afh/ash tutorials on yt if you want to find out

[@dr.leadbetter1315]

I’m not sure if this is the best way but I just bind Jump to mouse wheel up and down and spam pick up and scroll wheel while looking down with a item also for accelerated back hop I jump while sprinting and turn around and crouch mid air and scroll mouse wheel up and down. hope this helps

[@aresnir2725]

​@@dr.leadbetter1315 This looks like pressing a lot of buttons at same time.

[@1257100]

Okay now I understand how you have over 3000 hours in this game

[@damirkosm]

Based

[@scantyer]

based on what?

[@Short-884-]

@@scantyer Based on REAL EVENTS

[@NFSl0]

No, it's not

[@nameless5413]

so is this why the aparature science is not allowed to play with black messa tech? they'd use it in strangest most entertaining ways they can think of .)

[@benismann]

how to get out of bounds on ever map

[@Slucker_]

fascinating

[@melemon_fox8431]

Softlocks are only escapable by restarting the game or loading a previous save. This is not the case for the 1st map (die to drowning), 3rd map (die to gunship), and the 8th map (die to goo (quicksave will always spawn you outside of the tunnel)). Also, in a few clips where you are trapped, you could still escape via death with spare grenades. I think there are a couple ways you can turn these into actual softlocks, but the proper setup isn't demonstrated in the video. In the 1st map, do the same thing but standing in a more shallow part of the water. The 3rd map can be made into a true softlock by guiding the gunship to a future part of the level, and going back to the area in the video. The 8th map can be truly softlocked by doing what you did in the video, but filling up the saved states catalogue with manual saves. Also, if you have grenades then it likely isn't a true softlock since you can just die to them. If you want to know more just reply to this comment and I can clarify anything.

[@Ze_eT]

They aren't escapable by dying though? If you die, you get set back to the most recent save, which in this case is the softlock.

[@nothingbutcontent2000]

Valve pls fix

[@peng939]

3:25 is *technically* not a softlock, no idea what your definition of a softlock is though.

[@Pinsplash]

explain

[@peng939]

@@Pinsplash do you consider a softlock a state from which the player cant get out of without glitches or using any means necessary? (not counting save deletion or loading saves ofc) if its the former, watch this part in hl2 ggo

[@dudeplaysgames8510]

Now break out of the softlock

[@LotsOfS]

You cant

[@asdf6297]

It's called softlock for one reason The only way to break out from the softlock is loading a save or dying in purpose

[@NFSl0]

why would you do that?

[@RYRY1002]

honestly, i think they should remove this whole player movement thing, would fix all of these softlocks. (probably) also saving and loading the game whilst they're at it.

[@macrohotline8834]

This is totaly pointless

[@tauon_]

that's the point

[@YuryScript]

И зачем?

[@njs9401]

нет смысла. Просто захотелось ему, вот и делает такие видео :)

[@griddori]

I like the videos, but I'm just not understanding the content. You just get out of bounds and say it's a softlock? Like you might as well noclip out of the map and say "I'm softlocked ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯" It's cool how many maps you can get out of though, I enjoy watching your videos, but I was just genuinely curious about what is meant by "softlock" in the title.

[@CocoTheMii]

I think, in this case, a "softlock" is any scenario where you cannot progress without dying, restarting, or cheating. I'd personally like to see more soft locks that can be achieved _without_ going out of bounds- things like standing in front of the door in d1_trainstation_01 so it doesn't open. Those are far more interesting than just going out of bounds, in my opinion.

[@DrHeinzy]

That's a funny af comment

[@griddori]

@@CocoTheMii me too honestly. Like you have to go way out of your way to do most of these, and I think that defeats the purpose of calling them softlocks. They indeed are softlocks, but he just goes out of bounds in most of these.

[@peacemaster8117]

@@griddori Like all of Pinsplash's videos, these are novel details to Half-Life 2 die-hards. It's interesting to know that a player can softlock themselves by grenading the airboat over a wall, for example. Not everyone knows that.

[@griddori]

@@peacemaster8117 I understand that is what he does, but I just think softlock is used wrong. I would like to see more unique ways of softlocking over just getting out of the map and being stuck without using the console. If I remember correctly he said he uses softlock as a broad term, but this is pretty much a "areas you can get out of bounds" video

[@benb9151]

"Hey did you know that if you leave the level it locks you from continuing?" 😒

[@Luis_Estevane]

Running out of content I see

[@Short-884-]

@@april-alecsa Calm down dude

[@placeintheworldfadesaway5800]

@@Short-884- He's right, though.

[@Short-884-]

@@placeintheworldfadesaway5800 Tru dat,but a nerve was damaged in the process lol

[@Lertas_AltShow]

i never knew it was that easy to launch an airboat with a fuckin grenade???