RTB Salvation Is Really, Really Good

Raising The Bar Salvation is a spin-off to Raising The Bar Redux. It has you playing from the perspective of Father Grigori, who after escorting Gordon to the mines, has to escape himself from Ravenholm... but not before lighting up a few things.
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NOTE: You will need to have Raising The Bar Redux Division 2 installed for this to work.
Music used in the video is taken from RTB Salvation. You can listen to it on the ‪@raisingthebarredux‬ channel.
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Intro Music:
Unexplained Hazards (OG Intro)
Nuclear Medication (Modern Intro)
OG Intro by Skyclad
Modern Intro Render by Javier Otten
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[@dennisholmgren4107]

To think that people are so passionate about a 20 year old game that they are still creating amazing mods for it! It speaks for the impact Half-Life 2 had!

[@FlyboyHelosim]

And even more so for HL1 and the mods still being made for it.

[@kirtheweasel]

Half-Life will always be relevant 😊

[@SysOpQueen]

Almost 30

[@FlyboyHelosim]

@@SysOpQueen HL2 is nearly 20, not 30.

[@SysOpQueen]

@@FlyboyHelosim HL...2 Half Life is almost 30, HL2 clearly being the sequel to the first. The series is almost 30.

[@raisingthebarredux]

Thanks for another great video RadHaz! We have a 1.1 patch in the works that should amend much of the feedback we've been seeing, including in this video. We hope you'll check it out when it's released!

[@RadiationHazardYT]

Alrighty! Looking forward to it :D

[@marcjeayanmedina5810]

hi RTB:R i love salvation its really fun but is there anyway to fix the fps cap in some areas? ravenholm was the big problem for fps cap nonetheless amazing mod as always!

[@mobs2r]

Father Grigori's shot gun is really interesting in this! I remember I first discovered his gun after killing him in GMod but this is a big improvement while still maintaining the feeling of the original.

[@kitosjek9541]

Well ye it literally was a winchester but nerfed for game reasons

[@49mozzer]

It's not a shotgun. It's a lever action rifle that fires magnum rounds

[@49mozzer]

@@kitosjek9541 Pretty sure it's meant to be a double barrelled over/under shotgun in HL2. Fits more with his reload animation, 2 shot capacity an the fact you never see him cycle it.

[@JM-oh4yi]

@@49mozzer Half-life 2's Annabelle was modeled after a Winchester 1886 lever-action rifle, the under barrel is the tube magazine for the bullets, but It looks like Valve couldn't decide if it should be a shotgun or a rifle.

[@49mozzer]

@@JM-oh4yi The tube on the 1886 is much too small compared to the one on the Annabelle an would allow him to have more then two shots if that was the case

[@1lucia]

You always manage to be faster than I when it comes to new mods :D Great video!

[@RadiationHazardYT]

Ayyy thanks :D

[@randomcatdude]

ayyyy, im the team's vfx artist who made the nailmine explosion :3 nice one

[@RadiationHazardYT]

Hey! Great work!

[@AmicusVA]

Thank you so much for this video RadHaz! This was a lot of work to put together, and performance is a main focus for 1.1 :)

[@RadiationHazardYT]

Nice! Great job on the mod!

[@Real_Gordon_Freeman]

And theres also performance issues in rtbr's ravenholm as well.

[@adrianthe402nd]

​@@Real_Gordon_Freeman It will get fixed by Div 3

[@BoSPaladin-102]

RTBR Salvation is basically what the 4th Survivor is to RE2(original and remake) cause you're trying to escape, you have limited resources and it requires you to decide whether to fight or just run away. Deathless mode is impossible to complete in one sitting though, unless you're a true gaming masochist that is accustomed to speedrunning GoldSrc and Source Engine games.

[@beamour]

The Half-life Community is the definition of a good community, As always good video!

[@Based_Stuhlinger]

Doing what Valve won't.

[@DONG-502]

@@Based_Stuhlinger still waiting for Half-Life 3 or Half-Life 2 Episode 3:-/

[@Based_Stuhlinger]

@@DONG-502 Well they never cancelled it.

[@DONG-502]

@@Based_Stuhlinger hopefully not

[@dingo-gorditas]

i love how gravelly and rough Grigori's voice actor sounds

[@tedisaur9968]

Glad you didn't come across many bugs! That means me and my fellow playtesters did our jobs well! Glad you enjoyed!

[@ValveFanTygo]

Wait ur a playtester? Cool

[@matijajovic8125]

Dark and gritty just became even more darker and grittier! Love the mod, agree with pros and cons, I think cons will be addressed in 1.1 release.

[@FarisChoyrt.]

Imagine this mod ended up like black mesa added to the steam and become standalone game

[@Real_Gordon_Freeman]

Salvation.

[@ElmeriThePig]

This makes me think what happened to Grigori in the retail Half-Life 2.

[@boomdonuts9996]

Father Grigori has always been one of my favourite characters due to how mysterious he is. It’s so cool to see a mod expanding on his character like this. I also like the use of the nail grenade from the canceled RTR (I’ll never forgive Valve for canceling that game)

[@gloveman0]

Salvation is fantastic. Helps with the idea of Episode 4 never coming out and honestly im fine with it. Triumph and Division 3 are going to be fantastic with how RTB's quality has been

[@deepsnow4994]

To be honest, I never understood why "RTB: Salvation" ended up branching out as a standalone modification. Because on its own it doesn't offer a lot of content to excuse the installation size. The campaign is just the recycled Ravenholm maps, that's all you really get in this mod. This mod might as well be just a bonus chapter included with the RTB:R Div. 2 itself, that you could've unlocked after beating original Ravenholm chapter as Gordon in the main campaign.

[@jimjellyjinjamjimbo]

I agree, this would serve well as a bonus chapter to play after completing the game. Maybe throw in some wave defense maps in there from modified singleplayer maps and some of the popular RtB:R story mods that are floating around and RtB:R would have a lot of extra content.

[@SaintRedFox]

the idea of grigori having to burn down ravenholm to destroy its SO GOOOOD wish there where mods like that but set on retail. also, the red sky clouds skybox at the end of the mod is beautiful, genuinely the best skybox ive seen i a mod ever.

[@GenTristan]

It was a very charming little mod! I wish it was longer.... But they had great ideas! I'm sure they got good experience from it and this work will likely show in their future work! was waiting for you to drop this vid, too ever since I played it first day it came out.

[@WAcrobat19]

Ngl, the idea of Grigori actually surviving genuinely feels comforting. Like, he is finally released of his burden from the quarry town he was forced to cast his vigil over.

[@jimjellyjinjamjimbo]

I feel like the kick needs to act as a way to knock-back enemies in order to create some breathing room, similar to the shove from Left 4 Dead, and be tied in to the stamina bar. Other than that I love this mod.

[@bunnyonabunwithagunnicepun5689]

I can’t help but picture Father Grigori as a goat-man hybrid every time he talks, the VA had it *SO* close to the original aside from that one specific detail

[@daonebest3001]

He probably thought gordon was another one of his hallucinations

[@tedstapleton5561]

Sweet! I was hoping you were going to cover this.

[@tom-ks]

Excited to get going with this mod! I'm pretty slow with mods. Personally, still playing Entropy Zero: Uprising, and I'm more excited for RTB: Triumph. Prefer Portal overall, first game I ever played. Loves this vid though! Next stream when?

[@Esitaro3670]

Sometimes i forget that this type of projects are fan mades because of how well made they are, it makes me wish Valve (or some other company) made expansions like in the original Half Life

[@AnotherShinyBudew]

Salvating the Bar.

[@dignusdingus3709]

RTB is crazy, it's like a release of Half-Life 2 from an alternate dimension, complete with expansion packs too (Salvation, and everything else they're planning)

[@SixtyFourJr]

I really wished that Valve had made expansion packs for HL2 at the time it was released.

[@andresbravo2003]

Now this is kicking awesome!

[@melon-qm7ed]

i was hoping you would make a video on this!

[@sanitylost4271]

This intro never gets old.

[@aSkyclad]

Thanks

[@Lucios1995]

I believe I had the stuttering too, I believe I alt tabbed a couple of times into my Deathless run. I put my textures to Medium and that helped I loved the music all around 6:52 LOL you're not supposed to go there, it just breaks at the very end when you're done with the gas cans as a "Oh shi*!" moment to tell you to leave

[@brokendoop]

I thought it was honestly pretty bad. You're expected to save ammo but the right click on Annabelle goes completely against that, it's practically a waste of your right click, why would I want to shoot faster when I NEED to take the time to line up shots to not waste ammo, especially with Half-Life 2 zombies that constantly sway their heads around, with the limited weapon selection this really feels terrible. I played on hard since that's what it was by default, big mistake, I'm not sure if it's better on normal but hard has way too long of stretches with no health or ammo pickups, especially before and during the part where they throw the most zombies at you (before the ending bit, that was abysmal). It sucks that there's very little traps to use and most if not all of them are just the same ones reused from the base game, would have been nice if they took more inspiration from the old e3 demos and added more physics traps. Honestly those engine-propeller traps are the worst, it's so boring crouching under them and waiting for the zombies to die, I wish those weren't reused to much, even in the base game. They could have had some instances with puzzles that provoke you to activate traps to progress, that would have also made the mod feel longer and would break up the gameplay of constantly doing the same thing. They could have also used the kick mechanic that was only used for the environment like twice. The story/schizo stuff felt like it was just there, it didn't play any role and it didn't mean anything, it was an illusion of lore, all very surface level stuff that just makes it seem like they thought "good enough" or "this is cool", like the giant zombie hand and how nothing like that happens again, it's all very random and it's like they didn't have an idea of what they actually wanted to do with it. The burning the zombies thing has the same issues, it makes no logical sense and the models are haphazardly slapped together, its jarringly bad. Why are there zombies on chairs just sitting in the middle of nowhere attached to a fire trap? Why does putting the gas canisters next to the cage somehow cause it to light, why doesn't he just put them out of their misery like every other zombie he's been shooting thus far. Gonome's should have had more weight to their encounters instead of them just appearing in random spots where you literally have to run past them since you don't have the ammo to deal with them. There's also a bug that prevents your gun from showing up if it runs out of ammo and you pick something up that can only be fixed by going to an older save, and if you throw your last -S.L.A.M.- nail mine then it will swap it off the weapon preventing you from swapping back to explode it, pretty obnoxious. I can't really blame them though, wouldn't want this to distract them from the main mod for too long. I did like all the new areas.

[@FrancisL4D]

Gregception

[@headcrabking9054]

When I played salvation, I tried hard mode thinking "Ive only played RTBR once or twice, but I've played a ton of half-life! I'm sure I'm a veteran!" My ass got handed to me so damn hard! Its a good mod, but one too hard for me! I had to use console commands to win, but thats a condemnation of my skills, rather than a criticism of the game. Its fantastic!

[@brickthecreator777]

Wow you can play as dark and gritty father Grigori

[@ivanivanovich8624]

Agreeable, it is really good

[@kelleklaus2045]

what a madman lmao

[@xibit_49_part1]

Well done,brother!

[@scarletcrusader5431]

I never liked how ever since SMOD added Gordon's kick, every single mod now needs a kick. It doesn't

[@asterlofts1565]

Your favorite game came be true! And is dark and gritty like yoi liked!

[@ValveFanTygo]

So good if i attempt to play it my pc explodes from hapiness!

[@supermegabenji1026]

I know this is a Resident Evil like Game but.. I think it's based off the Cancelled "Ravenholm" mod since it's a Spin off, And it was a Ravenholm Game. But, I do hope that they could make a Sequel where Someone visits the Burned down Ravenholm, or what it used to be.

[@tedisaur9968]

If I recall, I remember the devs kept mentioning Doctor Mode from Cry of Fear and Hunk Mode from RE2 as their inspiration

[@TopEditorCoach]

Ravenholm was always the top horror at its time

[@supermegabenji1026]

@@TopEditorCoach It is, But it's sad that a Spin off Ravenholm game got Cancelled. I was also suppose to be a Sequel to Opposing Force which is also Sad.

[@TopEditorCoach]

@@supermegabenji1026 opposing force was my favourite expansion pack but I saw a mod where shepherd was in city 17 or something

[@supermegabenji1026]

@@TopEditorCoach Yeah, It's a Demo but it's almost getting a Full game. It's called "Through the City" It's a Fan sequel but it looks really good.

[@501stcloneboi2]

Hey Rad, do you remember Half-Life 2 Beta Minimalist Mod? Someone is remaking it in RTBR. The first half was released two days ago.

[@EduardoPerez-ti2vu]

Where can I find more info on this please? I cannot find any information

[@501stcloneboi2]

​@@EduardoPerez-ti2vu ModDB, I would share the link, but everytime I try that, YT immediately deletes it. Try typing "rtbr minimalist" in the search bar.

[@mustache9358]

Late happy birthday to your son 👍🥶💥💨

[@ultrapro8937]

Fucking love your video and mod.

[@penguinsushi8442]

This mod really makes you feel like Grigori Freeman

[@Ha1oMiner]

Would love to play this

[@Darkell64]

About stuttering: my beefy ah pc is stuttering both of the raising the bar and this. I don't know why but i can play cyberpunk at ultra settings with ray tracing at 1440p but these two goddamn half life 2 mods are stutter somehow! It's probably engine hits it's own limits and some pc configurations doesn't react well with it. I tried lower the graphics settings but no, it doesn't work at all. They probably uses so many props/objects and it has poor optimization at the same time which is does not help at all.

[@RayLilith]

Salvation makes me salivate

[@Cats-TM]

Have not played a mod in a while, it is probably a good time to play…Hobo-Life.

[@OttisEnjoyer]

The best part of Salvation is that it encourages you to use the funny physics of hl2 because you need to conserve ammo. In other mods you'd never use it in combat because it's less effective than shooting.

[@diamondhamster4320]

Sh@t, I hoped this is a revival of that scrapped HL game which Valve licensed Arkane Studios to make an HL game where you play as Shepherd and stuff...

[@BlackSago_]

Rad hazard, I found somethin

[@HellsAsylum]

Half-Life mixed with Resident Evil? Say no more!

[@Riftman-nb2br]

delta particle new version release 31 december

[@leventesamu4267]

The fact that i tried to play this mod and when i launched it everything was errors and missing texture. Do you have any ideas how to fix it?

[@tedisaur9968]

You need to have Division 2.1 of Raising The Bar: Redux in your sourcemod folder alongside Salvation

[@ndhart3213]

79th?

[@TopEditorCoach]

Ravenholm was the scariest chapter and doom was supposed to win the scariest chapter reward but half life won the reward for the scariest chapter ravenholm will always be the scariest chapter

[@OneSaile]

Half-Life: Lamarr

[@FreemanBgTV]

For my it's sadly crashing 😢.

[@coolsw4g]

annabelle has 8 shots instead of 2!!!!! how inaccurate!!!!!!!! jokes aside this mod is awesome

[@HummanMammel]

This might be a hot take, but I'm not a fan of this. The devs should put everything they have into RTBR. I mean, RTBR doesnt look beta enough and its version of ravenholm barely resembles the old versions of it. The time they spent developing this, the devs could have detailed RTBR and gave it a more beta feeling, but hey its just my opinion. Call me entitled idc

[@AmicusVA]

Salvation is just a way for us to keep busy when we don't have tasks we are actively working on. No resources were taken away from RTBR to make this. Also RTBR is less so supposed to be "the beta" and more inspired from the raising the bar book. Utilizing it's concepts as an alternative universe jumping off point

[@jimjellyjinjamjimbo]

RtB:R is an amalgamation of beta and retail and original elements. If you want a Beta mod, play that. Oh wait, they always cancel those mid-development.

[@WildGoreBox]

4 mins

[@deathcold_longplaysua4846]

So, this mod is basically like playing Killing Floor 1 solo and trying to survive against hordes of monsters. And my problems with mods like these is that, you have to break your head to install it properly. Especially if you are using physical copy of the game that you are trying to install chosen mod in to. But then again, this mod is not for me. And while I somewhat like survival style games, I don't like when it force survival on you. Like, when there is not enough ammo and when you can't even quick save the game manually. And then, when it comes to HL2, I prefer vanilla visuals, but tons of single player mods change it. Most of them does it for no reason (looking at you MMod). So yeah, despite the fact that I like this mod from what I saw, I'm gonna give it a pass.

[@trafficlight5445]

First Edit:second actually

[@Real_Gordon_Freeman]

I was 47 seconds ago.

[@trafficlight5445]

​@@Real_Gordon_Freemanoh ok, damn y fast bro

[@FrancisL4D]

You lost the heart top 10 saddest anime moments

[@user-og6hl6lv7p]

Waaaayyy too many highlighted objects and obvious markers. It's rather embarrassing how they missed a fundamental aspect of the Half-Life series. Blatantly pointing out what the player needs to do via UI pop-ups and quest markers is a massive, MASSIVE failure in terms of understanding what makes Half-Life unique from everything else.

[@wholefttheydogatcentralpoint]

I love rtbr, but i honestly didn't care for this spinoff. Ran much worse than rtbr, felt kinda half-baked, and the gameplay was... Boring. Gotta say though, the voice acting and weaponry animation/gunplay were quite good.