The Secret Resistance Base | White Forest | Half-Life Deep Dive, Lore & Story

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The White Forest Resistance Base is one of the most important locations in the Half-Life Universe. Although not introduced properly until Half-Life 2: Episode 2, this base is the home of a major moment for the Resistance Movement.
Who built this base? What happened here that was so significant to humanities future and what secrets does it hold? In this deep dive, I explore the lore and story behind White Forest in Half-Life.
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00:00 Introduction
00:52 Origin & Abandonment
06:45 Sponsorship: The Ridge Wallet
07:44 Rediscovery
14:33 The Uprising
19:56 Legacy
21:16 Behind the Scenes & Misc
23:31 Closing Thoughts
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@Skyrionn
@Skyrionn 2 жыл бұрын
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@rockhound3.14
@rockhound3.14 2 жыл бұрын
Skyrionn funny story about GnomeChompsky 23:35 ... my brother played the entire game thru with the gnome, right, made it to the rocket. Launched the rocket and noticed gnomechompsky still sitting on the ground.. he didnt know you had to physically place him within the rocket. A quicksave, saved him many agonizing hours.
@TheAlphaWoomy
@TheAlphaWoomy 2 жыл бұрын
That achievement was tough especially during the vehicle section because it was hard to keep the Gnome on the vehicle.
@Skyrionn
@Skyrionn 2 жыл бұрын
I'm gonna try it again one day!
@therome4315
@therome4315 2 жыл бұрын
@@Skyrionn Have fun trying to get past the hunter chopper.
@DoctorProph3t
@DoctorProph3t 2 жыл бұрын
After some practice it’s not so bad, turns are tricky, but that fucking chopper had me picking it up every 20 seconds.
@therome4315
@therome4315 2 жыл бұрын
@@DoctorProph3t After failing from that chopper, I quit my quest to get that achivement. I'll probably try it again.
@MichaelMaxwell747
@MichaelMaxwell747 Жыл бұрын
I just kept shooting the gnome as far ahead as I could with the gravity gun and picking it up again could never get it to stay in vehicle for more than fifty yards.
@planetearth2249
@planetearth2249 2 жыл бұрын
The naming of White Forest definitely reminds me of the naming of Black Mesa, honestly [color] [geographical landform]
@Omega-jg4oq
@Omega-jg4oq 2 жыл бұрын
What a nice detail
@Skyrionn
@Skyrionn 2 жыл бұрын
Brilliant
@n0m4r22
@n0m4r22 Жыл бұрын
I wonder what else can be named with that kind of template
@planetearth2249
@planetearth2249 Жыл бұрын
@@n0m4r22 Green Canyon maybe? That would be interesting
@n0m4r22
@n0m4r22 Жыл бұрын
@@planetearth2249 Yea, hmm... Red Glacier?
@CrabGamingTF2
@CrabGamingTF2 2 жыл бұрын
Honestly this was my favorite Half Life map. It was very calming and seemed like a chill place to be at
@Skyrionn
@Skyrionn 2 жыл бұрын
Same! It was refreshing to visit somewhere that felt a part of the HL universe but also looked nice
@samuelantoniocastillomeza5034
@samuelantoniocastillomeza5034 2 жыл бұрын
I would love to live in White Forest during it's thriving years. I think the stronghold still is on foot. Hope eventually we learn what hapoened with it and it's residents after both the death of Eli and the change of this in HL: Alyx.
@Skyrionn
@Skyrionn 2 жыл бұрын
After the release of Alyx. I have hope that we may get some sort of conclusion
@Craigevansagain
@Craigevansagain 11 ай бұрын
The White Forest Base is one of my favorite locations in the entire Half-Life 2 series. It's in a very beautiful and peaceful forest. I would love to live and work there! I really hope The Combine didn't take over this awesome base following Eli Vance's death otherwise his death as well as some of his fellow resistance heroes' deaths would have been all for nothing.
@josephmontanaro2350
@josephmontanaro2350 2 жыл бұрын
the cool thing is black mesa is implied to be a former or current (as in joint private venture/ military base given the continued presence of US Armed forces even before the cascade such as the silos and the AH-64 you see on the tram ride) USAF ICBM base as well, in an alternate cold war these two instillations would have been swiping ICBMs at each other. I'm surprised no one ever made a multiplayer mod using both maps with a cold war based asymmetric game (attack and defend style semi stealth game where depending on the maps teams take turns playing as Western or Eastern SF teams trying to sabotage the opposing teams strategic assists against regular security forces of the respective factions with different win conditions and modes (one being destroy the silos before they can launch, one about gathering intelligence as a spy without detection where your by yourself or with one or two other players with very limited firepower against an entire security team (taking pictures, stealing documents, killing HVTs, etc.)) would make an amazing mod TBH
@professorsponge1554
@professorsponge1554 2 жыл бұрын
it always caught in my head that the Gman knew about white forest, but him knowing about it never seemed to benefit the combine. then Alyx came around we found out the combine captured him, implying he was not working with them
@Skyrionn
@Skyrionn 2 жыл бұрын
It feels like we were given about 70% of the pieces of the puzzle and we just needed another game to make sense of it.
@TheHumanBallsack
@TheHumanBallsack 2 жыл бұрын
I doubt I'll ever get to play Alyx but... the Combine captured G Man???? I thought he was an omnipotent alien?
@BahpuAgain
@BahpuAgain Жыл бұрын
@@TheHumanBallsack yea… maybe u should see what they had to make to capture him haha
@Wyatt0987654321
@Wyatt0987654321 Жыл бұрын
I believe Gman let himself be captured by the Combine, after seeing his grasp on Gordon be broken by the Vorts.
@kimblandino
@kimblandino Жыл бұрын
G-Man and the universal union are actually bitter enemies.
@tactial_bonkz3711
@tactial_bonkz3711 2 жыл бұрын
it’s just pissing how mossman betrayed the resistance and then was like “ you hurt Eli I will now quit the combine”, but anyways very nice vid you always make me learn
@Skyrionn
@Skyrionn 2 жыл бұрын
Everyone seems to hate Mossman :D
@Hyuttah
@Hyuttah Жыл бұрын
@@Skyrionn i mean how can you now? Shes such a square
@bno6156
@bno6156 Жыл бұрын
Never trust a traitor.
@kingelite1102
@kingelite1102 8 ай бұрын
Honestly I thought Mossman and Eli planed to have her sell out black mess East so they could get close to Breen and kill him
@brothers_of_nod
@brothers_of_nod 2 жыл бұрын
The nostalgia of taking down those striders and dealing a crippling blow to the Combine
@Fastcurrents
@Fastcurrents 2 жыл бұрын
man thank you so much, i request, please please please keep these half life lore videos coming. love, it's something i absolutely love on KZbin.
@Skyrionn
@Skyrionn 2 жыл бұрын
I'll keep posting them as I find great topics to explore ☺ thanks for watching them!
@kainevittulainen
@kainevittulainen Жыл бұрын
I really appreciate you bringing up the black mesa incident in each video, it makes it so even someone with almost no knowledge of the series can understand the background of the setting!
@abbapgr
@abbapgr 2 жыл бұрын
Excellent work on this and all your other videos. You really do a good job of turning up stuff I never knew about!
@steezayay
@steezayay Жыл бұрын
I've been binge watching all of your Half Life 2 lore videos. They're all amazing and very interesting. Its really nice to get something like this since Valve never made episode 3 (I'm still pissed off to this day... half life was so popular and amazing how could they not finish it...) Thanks for putting time, effort, research, and creativity into these videos. You have gained a new subscriber!
@saifshaikh3191
@saifshaikh3191 2 жыл бұрын
I love Half Life lore series. I watch this before I go to sleep. It's relaxing and the way he explains is very interesting.
@ymmatinthehat
@ymmatinthehat 2 жыл бұрын
i doubt black mesa owned white forest, it’s like black mesa east just eli naming it in memory of black mesa and in turn carrying on the legacy of black mesa and white forest was just a more extensive bunker that they came across. Cuz ya know breen would have known of white forest and instead of the combine following gordon there they would have already known
@andrewmannson7543
@andrewmannson7543 2 жыл бұрын
Makes sense,however Breen wouldn't have guessed the cheap, old and decaying former cold war base that he bought for Black Mesa, was being used by The Resistence
@andrewmannson7543
@andrewmannson7543 2 жыл бұрын
And it makes sense for Black Mesa to expand beyond America, in case they got a crackdown (not such as the cleanup) and needed to flee or save their most sensitive informations and tech, they have a foreign base out of the US's jurisdiction
@slyseal2091
@slyseal2091 2 жыл бұрын
@@andrewmannson7543 What? The first thing Breen (or at least a rational person) would do is check all the places that Eli can know of and use as a base. It's a basic system of ranking the possible locations value, with the next step being places that Eli doesn't know of (as far as you know) but are still good locations for a base. What you're suggesting is that criminals wouldn't hide with their friends because "it isn't as comfortable as a real hideout".
@andrewmannson7543
@andrewmannson7543 2 жыл бұрын
@@slyseal2091 he probably thought it was destroyed or invested, afterall poetal storms ravaged the earth and destroyed infrustructure around the world. It isn't unlikely to think your old place in Bulgaria is still okay after the many disastrous portal storms. And maybe he did check White Forest but that was long before the Rebels entered or took it over for their base of operations, the rebels weren't always in White Forest
@DoctorProph3t
@DoctorProph3t 2 жыл бұрын
@@slyseal2091 Breen was an arrogant man whom was enslaved and killed by his own hubris, he dismissed the gravity gun out of hand having no idea what it was simply because it didn’t enter his mind to bother with some junked up Human device. Arrogant man.
@gunswinger3110
@gunswinger3110 Жыл бұрын
I remember playing the final battle with the striders and constantly being launched super high into the air because of the collission bug with strider legs which would cause you to fly upwards really fast if a strider leg stepped on you. That last battle for White Forest was definitely one of the most memorable moments in Episode 2.
@robertsdzelzkalejs4255
@robertsdzelzkalejs4255 2 жыл бұрын
Cool vid man. I like Half life/Portal lore so much!
@Skyrionn
@Skyrionn 2 жыл бұрын
Brilliant. Thanks for watching!
@exoticz2464
@exoticz2464 2 жыл бұрын
This is definitely my favorite channel this year, im loving the in depth half life 2 lore
@LeonTReal
@LeonTReal 2 жыл бұрын
Just got this video recommended. Glad you're still on it!
@Skyrionn
@Skyrionn 2 жыл бұрын
Yay! Maybe the algorithm is changing
@MrAdam802
@MrAdam802 Жыл бұрын
Awesome, love White Forest. One of my favorite places in Half-Life.
@Error404----
@Error404---- Жыл бұрын
I just love the tune Last Legs
@CatLikeSleep
@CatLikeSleep Жыл бұрын
Love your work man 😀
@Skyrionn
@Skyrionn Жыл бұрын
Thank you so much 😀
@MichaelMaxwell747
@MichaelMaxwell747 Жыл бұрын
Great video and your screenshots look fantastic. I have The little Rocket Man achievement for Xbox 360 and PC. A pain in the ass to get . My toughest achievement is one free bullet on both also.
@Skyrionn
@Skyrionn Жыл бұрын
Thank ye! I'm gonna replay through all of the Half-Life games soon and see if I can get it this time!
@einname220
@einname220 2 жыл бұрын
never stop ... love it
@Skyrionn
@Skyrionn 2 жыл бұрын
I'll keep going. Thanks for watching!
@grumpybollox7949
@grumpybollox7949 Жыл бұрын
the faster pace make a difference man. i like that better
@newcastleman86
@newcastleman86 2 жыл бұрын
White Forest was the best part of the game. Played Half-Life 2 eps 2 not to long ago. after all these years, this game is fucking fun to play still. Never did get that Gnome achievement.....someday! John, would you try for the gnome achievement?
@Skyrionn
@Skyrionn 2 жыл бұрын
Im thinking about trying it on stream one day maybe. I haven't played the episodes In a while though 😂
@Shotgun9009
@Shotgun9009 2 жыл бұрын
That achievement seems difficult but you really just have to keep track of good old Chomski and be patient, got it so so long ago, you should totally get it bro
@Skyrionn
@Skyrionn 2 жыл бұрын
I may give it another go at some point
@erfinda498
@erfinda498 2 жыл бұрын
This video reminded me that i never managed to beat that final part of Half life 2: Episode Two with the Strider attack, i was good enought with the normal shooting, but shooting these bombs at the striders always took too long and at some point there were always too many at once which made me lose against them. Maybe i'll try that again next weekend.
@Skyrionn
@Skyrionn 2 жыл бұрын
100% try it again :D
@volatile_gaming9475
@volatile_gaming9475 2 жыл бұрын
tip run over the hunters with the car before you attack the striders
@erfinda498
@erfinda498 2 жыл бұрын
I tried it again now after over half a year, and i did it after only 3 tries! It was actually very exciting since i started from my latest save where there were only two more waves of striders and there were only three bomb locations which were very close to the rocket left, so i decided to wait at the rocket and fire with everything i still had left with the resistance members which were at the rocket. It got very close at the end when only one strider and one or maybe even two hunters were left because i didn't even know that hunters can shoot the bombs off striders. I had to defeat the hunter with the strongest i had and when i got back to the strider, he was probably just a few steps away from destroying the rocket and i probably had only one more try with the bomb before the strider would get too close to the rocket. After all, i won and i was very happy about it. A funny thing which happened to me is that in the third try when trying to shoot a hunter with a rocket, the rocket circled around it a few times and then i decided to aim at the ground instead of the hunter which finally made the rocket explode. It was kinda funny to see him standing there and waiting until he could at least try to run without getting hit by it.
@3DWorldMan
@3DWorldMan 2 жыл бұрын
hey good timing, just finished episode 2
@Skyrionn
@Skyrionn 2 жыл бұрын
Perfect. I hope you enjoyed it!
@Jasmine__135
@Jasmine__135 2 жыл бұрын
"See Gnome Chomsky safely to White Forest, Doctor Freeman"
@wirmaple7336
@wirmaple7336 2 жыл бұрын
I appreciate the efforts people like you put in these videos, too bad I can't donate from here
@binglemccringle705
@binglemccringle705 2 жыл бұрын
just wanna point out, there should be a
@Skyrionn
@Skyrionn 2 жыл бұрын
That's very kind! Just commenting, sharing and liking is super helpful! ♥️
@Grimpy970
@Grimpy970 6 ай бұрын
Missile silos are generally only single-use installations. I'm only aware of one at Vandenberg air force base in California, and it doesn't launch conventional scientific payloads. It's exclusively for testing icbm's. It just seems odd to me that black mesa had 2 different facilities that both had expensive reusable underground silos instead of standard launch pads. They're not testing weapon delivery at these places- the whole 'rocket science' thing is pretty basic to them at this point- it's all about payload testing, which can be done on the ground on a test range. They're not as cool looking, but they make way more sense 😅
@nunyabeezaxe2030
@nunyabeezaxe2030 2 жыл бұрын
A physicist (Richard Feynman?) had to make a point that physics is not magic to students, but Half-Life's physics is pure "magic." I world where a gravity gun is pretty much a mage's staff. Teleportation. Aliens using powers to fight off a power wizard. Half-Life borderlines genres of fantasy and science-fiction, but it doesn't do science-fantasy like "He-Man." It is its own genre and I love it :)
@littlechickeyhudak
@littlechickeyhudak Жыл бұрын
I love half-life's version of sci-fi. It sort of has the industrial aesthetic that I love from Star Wars, but the actual science is more reminiscent of superhero movies.
@Yadiel730
@Yadiel730 2 жыл бұрын
every time you post I smile :) can't for Gordon Freeman lore.
@Skyrionn
@Skyrionn 2 жыл бұрын
It's great to see your name pop up! I hope you enjoyed it!
@codymcgrath2.3bviews3secon7
@codymcgrath2.3bviews3secon7 2 жыл бұрын
Working late gonna stick this on. Keep up the uploads! Only put the bell on now means I can get the vids instantly now
@Skyrionn
@Skyrionn 2 жыл бұрын
Appreciate it! I've never even thought about asking people to put the bell on. Could help with the algorithm maybe
@codymcgrath2.3bviews3secon7
@codymcgrath2.3bviews3secon7 2 жыл бұрын
@@Skyrionn Yeah definitely mate, cool to see the face reveal by the way. Keep up the good work love the videos
@lukefrohling
@lukefrohling 2 жыл бұрын
Thank you :)
@Skyrionn
@Skyrionn 2 жыл бұрын
@s_h_v1.0.87
@s_h_v1.0.87 Жыл бұрын
Just beat the strider battle at White forest on hard difficulty, came here to relax my mentally exhausted brain, cheers
@flyingcoconut2284
@flyingcoconut2284 2 жыл бұрын
I didn't knew black mesa owned white forest. I thought it was discovered by the rebels after it was abandoned by the soviets.
@user-uv5ie2st4b
@user-uv5ie2st4b 2 жыл бұрын
Beacuse it probably was discovered by the rebels.
@gloriousblobber9647
@gloriousblobber9647 2 жыл бұрын
@@user-uv5ie2st4b also because the rebels had scientists that knew of its existence
@raptorrixx99-wv2hl
@raptorrixx99-wv2hl Жыл бұрын
"Ooooooh that base!" "Yeah, Greg accidentally blew it up last week." "You should've seen that explosion dude!" "It was great!^^"
@TryingToImproveOnArtHere.
@TryingToImproveOnArtHere. 4 ай бұрын
White forest is so BEAUTIFUL❤❤❤❤❤️🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩 Why do I see a freeman there? 5:41
@thenexus8384
@thenexus8384 2 жыл бұрын
Hey Mr. Skyrionn, i was wondering if you could do a video on Otis (if you haven't already) And, keep up the great work
@Skyrionn
@Skyrionn 2 жыл бұрын
I'll check it out and see what I can dig up :D
@thenexus8384
@thenexus8384 2 жыл бұрын
@@Skyrionn thank you sir, have a great rest of your day/night/evening
@thg1nrediar
@thg1nrediar 2 жыл бұрын
Yessss finnaly
@Skyrionn
@Skyrionn 2 жыл бұрын
Hope you enjoyed it!
@supermaster2012
@supermaster2012 2 жыл бұрын
Skyrionn: White forest. Clerk: Sir, this is an Arby's. Skyrionn: Bow to me for your Queen is my patron.
@CrysisYaDig
@CrysisYaDig 2 жыл бұрын
do one on the Uprising and the Battle of City 17
@Skyrionn
@Skyrionn 2 жыл бұрын
I'll add them to the list ☺
@dbh_
@dbh_ 2 жыл бұрын
Keep it up
@Skyrionn
@Skyrionn 2 жыл бұрын
Will do. Thanks for watching!
@Hyperion-5744
@Hyperion-5744 2 жыл бұрын
I don't have the gnome achievement yet but i'm stuck on the part where i'm getting chased by the combine helicopter and the gnome keeps falling out of the car.
@therealevilmudbug
@therealevilmudbug Жыл бұрын
I've heard putting the gnome in between the seats keeps it in there for longer, maybe try that
@Leah96xxx
@Leah96xxx Жыл бұрын
I got the Little Rocket Man achievement..... and I'm now mentally and physically scarred
@Skyrionn
@Skyrionn Жыл бұрын
Congrats. Truly, its a tough achievement.
@Bratjuuc
@Bratjuuc Жыл бұрын
White forest does feel different from anything else in all of the HL2 episodes. It feels, still, peaceful, like home. I guess it is the consequence of it being unknown to the Combine
@Skyrionn
@Skyrionn Жыл бұрын
I 100% agree
@TheHumanBallsack
@TheHumanBallsack 2 жыл бұрын
Honestly, I'd rather live in White Forest than the street I currently live on. It looks so serene and expansive
@Subject_Keter
@Subject_Keter 2 жыл бұрын
If the Resistance taped strap metal to helmets and wore them, how much would successful headcrab attacks drop by?
@DoctorProph3t
@DoctorProph3t 2 жыл бұрын
We saw zombie HECUs and zombines, so safe to say regular helmets and face coverings don’t mean shit against that powerful beak that headcrabs have.
@darklord7479
@darklord7479 Жыл бұрын
@@DoctorProph3t Gas masks on combine soldiers and like 3 types of the Hecu in game had no helmet and in op4 their is the bandana , balaclava , and beret which wouldn’t do anything to headcrabs. But a helmet could easily stop head crab beaks.
@MrEbawu
@MrEbawu Жыл бұрын
boosting that algoritm
@GojoGunning
@GojoGunning Жыл бұрын
Please don’t stop making half life lore videos
@Skyrionn
@Skyrionn Жыл бұрын
I'll do my best!
@Level48tt
@Level48tt Жыл бұрын
What’s the song at 22:00
@codyeaster290
@codyeaster290 10 ай бұрын
Triage at Dawn.
@emerson5225
@emerson5225 2 жыл бұрын
If Black Mesa bought the white forest base...How did Breen never talked about It to the combine?
@DoctorProph3t
@DoctorProph3t 2 жыл бұрын
Why would he? Why would he detail every possible piece of property that BM owned, when the Combine are so advanced and overwhelmingly powerful that they can discern that for themselves and trust in those findings? Why would they trust a collaborator at his word? It makes more sense they simply ignored it than Breen didn’t tell them.
@overwatchvoice-092
@overwatchvoice-092 2 жыл бұрын
Combine Dropship when?
@wallace2595
@wallace2595 Жыл бұрын
White Forest
@ordinalgaming102
@ordinalgaming102 2 жыл бұрын
thx for giving us info on the resistance base i will make sure you dont get punished and you will get turned into one of us the IRT
@Skyrionn
@Skyrionn 2 жыл бұрын
Never. We've won already.
@ayan.debnath
@ayan.debnath 2 жыл бұрын
Yes, I have this Achievement
@saifshaikh3191
@saifshaikh3191 2 жыл бұрын
I have managed to achieve chompsky rocket award.
@thecalham
@thecalham 2 жыл бұрын
I only achieved gnome chomsky while playing synergy hl2 ep2 campaign in a 10 person lobby
@Skyrionn
@Skyrionn 2 жыл бұрын
That's sounds so fun! Congrats on achieving it
@TheFullswordslord
@TheFullswordslord 2 жыл бұрын
I remember the first time I entered White Forest and heard a voice line by Barny...
@Skyrionn
@Skyrionn 2 жыл бұрын
It's a shame it was a mistake. I'd have loved to have fought alongside Barney at White Forest
@miketherecliner
@miketherecliner 2 жыл бұрын
Spill the tea 🍵
@Skyrionn
@Skyrionn 2 жыл бұрын
ooo girl. So much tea
@codykristapovich9333
@codykristapovich9333 2 жыл бұрын
Do the lore of Jackson from the half life games
@TheHumanBallsack
@TheHumanBallsack 2 жыл бұрын
Michael Jackson was in Half Life?
@whatthefuck1852
@whatthefuck1852 2 жыл бұрын
Random thought: you said we don't know which Eastern European country HL2 takes place in, but there's kind of a hint: the XCCР signs. Iirc Croatia was communist for some time, the Russian word for Croatia is Хорватия (don't know the Croatian name though), and XCCP looks like a standard abbreviation for a soviet state (NCCP, where N is the first letter of the state's name, was used a lot in the USSR). Even though I don't think Croatia was a part of the USSR irl, it still could be in HL's universe.
@Skyrionn
@Skyrionn 2 жыл бұрын
There were a few theories that it could exist somewhere between Belarus and Ukraine but I didn't want to theorize too much in the video. I like that it's a part of the mystery though!
@Opanker_
@Opanker_ 2 жыл бұрын
Well there is a place called New Little Odessa so I assume it at least borders the black sea
@whatthefuck1852
@whatthefuck1852 2 жыл бұрын
@@Opanker_ well, there are a lot of places that have these kinds of names but are nowhere near the original location. Odessa would imply the city being near the coast, and imo the New part implies this is a result of more or less significant migration, and Croatia seems to be a plausible option: it's far enough from Odessa to not mistake one for another, yet close enough for the people not to be assimilated, and isn't landlocked (I thought it was for some reason)
@whatthefuck1852
@whatthefuck1852 2 жыл бұрын
@@Skyrionn that's interesting, is there a chance of us getting a video on that?
@Matrix_985
@Matrix_985 2 жыл бұрын
@@Skyrionn The developers already hinted City 17 and its surroundings set in place in Bulgaria (Art Director for HL2 is Viktor Antonov, a Bulgarian). However, various places in Eastern Europe (with a small dose of Northern Europe, like Finland) are also present. If you compare City 17 to Sofia, Bulgaria, you will see similarities.
@RidgeWalletYT
@RidgeWalletYT 2 жыл бұрын
Burnt Titanium ftw 🔥
@joshuatudic420
@joshuatudic420 2 жыл бұрын
I did do the achievement, but because I was playing with Mmod, it didn’t count it
@Skyrionn
@Skyrionn 2 жыл бұрын
Awh shame! All of that effort.
@DanielWindows
@DanielWindows 5 күн бұрын
white forest
@ryleepabatao1502
@ryleepabatao1502 8 ай бұрын
White forest
@leonardofilho7397
@leonardofilho7397 Жыл бұрын
When i first played Episode 2, i thought White Forest was Dr. Magnusson, because of his white hair
@larrydaboi1841
@larrydaboi1841 2 жыл бұрын
I really doubt that Blak Mesa bought the White Forest base it doesn't make sense that a company making deals with the US goverment buys an abandoned base somewhere in eaatern europe.
@masonmanfree7804
@masonmanfree7804 2 жыл бұрын
Since Black Mesa was Gov. owned, maybe they had Black Mesa buy land in the Soviet Union as a semi secret foothold. If Aperture bought up tons of land, i can see Black Mesa doing so as well.
@xX_Pokeman_Xx
@xX_Pokeman_Xx 2 жыл бұрын
He did mention that City 17 is in America, which would make sense here, although in the context of what is given in the game, doesn't make sense at all. Now, given if City 17 really did take place in its original setting, than saying it took place somewhere in America makes perfect sense. Also, since it IS an American base, it's likely that the US government hadn't turned the land back over to whatever Eastern country it came from when they abandoned it.
@user-uv5ie2st4b
@user-uv5ie2st4b 2 жыл бұрын
Breen was the director of Black Mesa so he would have known about White Forest, so the combine would have probably searched and maybe even used it as their base, and why would Black Mesa even buy it in the first place, White Forest is located somewhere in eastern europe so it makes no sense for an US Company to buy land in eastern europe, especially one that makes experimenta weaponry.
@larrydaboi1841
@larrydaboi1841 2 жыл бұрын
@@masonmanfree7804 yeah, but Aperture bought that land on US soil, Black Mesa would is not only puarchaising a base on foreing land, it is also in the Soviet Union, their main rival from the second half of the 20th century
@larrydaboi1841
@larrydaboi1841 2 жыл бұрын
I have been making a more logical lore for some years now about the White Forest base. Basically, it could have been a ICBM missile. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the base would still be used storing at least 1 missile. When the 7 hour war began if there was a second missile would have been launched to an unknow target (perhaps a portal or a heavy infested area with xenian creatures). A missle was not launched either because the war had ended before it could be launched or something had killed the personnel. The resistance and Magnusson probably had found the base in a search party for a new base or resources. Since building a rocket from scrap in the context of the combine occupied world would be almost impossible, they could have used the missile that was never launched. After all those years the base was in a bad shape, there were rundowned parts such as the secondary silo and some flooded parts due to broken pipes. The missile would be in a bad shape, probably with the warhead broken among other parts, that would explain why the rocket was almost ready in the events of the episode 2, it would have taken years to find suitable replacements for the broken parts, building it from scrap would need machines which would probably be all gone by the time of the events of half life 2
@FightingMachineTripod
@FightingMachineTripod 2 жыл бұрын
What is the next half life lore be?
@Skyrionn
@Skyrionn 2 жыл бұрын
Eli Vance ☺
@FightingMachineTripod
@FightingMachineTripod 2 жыл бұрын
@@Skyrionn then after that can you upload hunter-choppers
@kinnay999
@kinnay999 2 жыл бұрын
nooooo, not a hl:a spoiler, i cant watch the video :'( but many thanks to put it at the start
@Skyrionn
@Skyrionn 2 жыл бұрын
Sorry! It's a very brief spoiler but a spoiler regardless
@AngryTrafficCone
@AngryTrafficCone 2 жыл бұрын
Noice even though I haven’t even watched the whole thing I finished (Edit)
@wheatbread8735
@wheatbread8735 2 жыл бұрын
No one has yet
@Skyrionn
@Skyrionn 2 жыл бұрын
Hope you enjoyed it!
@AngryTrafficCone
@AngryTrafficCone 2 жыл бұрын
I did :D
@BiddaMeanwater
@BiddaMeanwater Жыл бұрын
1:33 Bulgaria cuz half life alyx
@whiteelephant3673
@whiteelephant3673 2 жыл бұрын
So, Arne Magnusson is kinda the embodiment of White Forest itself?)
@Skyrionn
@Skyrionn 2 жыл бұрын
Basically yeah 😂
@receptionsystem
@receptionsystem 2 жыл бұрын
COULD YOU STOP HAVING HALF LIFE ALYX SPOILERS FOR THE LOVE OF GOD I JUST WANNA WATCH THESE
@Skyrionn
@Skyrionn 2 жыл бұрын
I'm sorry! It's a brief spoiler, but still a spoiler sadly!
@DoctorProph3t
@DoctorProph3t 2 жыл бұрын
Play the game then
@zaptainkuboom5520
@zaptainkuboom5520 2 жыл бұрын
👋👍
@Skyrionn
@Skyrionn 2 жыл бұрын
@RaheebD
@RaheebD 2 жыл бұрын
Second
@Skyrionn
@Skyrionn 2 жыл бұрын
Hello
@ziongite
@ziongite 2 жыл бұрын
I think originally Gman was meant to be the embodiment of Gabe or the team making the game, because he literally plays all sides. For example he convinced the humans to use the xenian crystal sample he gave them, which in turn resulted in the combine finding earth. However then on the flip side he also has helped Gordon at certain times as well. So it seems he helps both sides, why? Well obviously it's to further the plot of the game, so you can keep having conflict and drama, which is exactly what the creators themselves and Gabe were doing, which is why I think originally the Gman was meant to just be the embodiment of them. However I think with new Valve now, they will probably make him into something specific.
@DoctorProph3t
@DoctorProph3t 2 жыл бұрын
Perhaps in inference, not literally. How would Gabe Newell know of his own importance in Valve during HL1? That doesn’t make sense. Gman acts to drive the narrative, he’s the antagonising force behind all the events giving them purpose and reason. That’s all. Don’t read too far into it.
@PaRaDOX-de8bk
@PaRaDOX-de8bk 2 жыл бұрын
all my homies hate judith mossman
@Skyrionn
@Skyrionn 2 жыл бұрын
From these comments, I can tell haha
@wheatbread8735
@wheatbread8735 2 жыл бұрын
150th
@Skyrionn
@Skyrionn 2 жыл бұрын
Congrats
@jaidendeprez1842
@jaidendeprez1842 2 жыл бұрын
According to Valve, Hl Alyc is not cannon
@masonmanfree7804
@masonmanfree7804 2 жыл бұрын
Idk bout that. It just opens up the possibility of different timelines so ANYTHING can be cannon as long as its on its own timeline or universe.
@reddrahvett623
@reddrahvett623 2 жыл бұрын
Source?
@DoctorProph3t
@DoctorProph3t 2 жыл бұрын
I’m looking it up and can only find official statements that it is canon and some mouthpiece articles claiming it’s not. What is your source?
@DoctorProph3t
@DoctorProph3t 2 жыл бұрын
@@masonmanfree7804 a cannon is a gun. Canon is established and minted lore.
@olehoiii
@olehoiii Жыл бұрын
Who uses a wallet anymore? I have my visa, credit card, ID and drivers license in my phone.
@astroturf2957
@astroturf2957 2 жыл бұрын
First
@wirmaple7336
@wirmaple7336 2 жыл бұрын
sad fact: nobody cares
@Skyrionn
@Skyrionn 2 жыл бұрын
I care ☺
@lagarona851
@lagarona851 Жыл бұрын
Internet de calice de marde vous êtes des png
@chris-ii9op
@chris-ii9op 11 ай бұрын
8:22 I am proud to hear you pronounce Arne correctly by now. During the Arne episode that was the only thing that was awful since you never pronounced the E in Arne
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