The best way to ruin a great game - Half-Life 2: Overcharged.

A beautiful mess.
Link to the mod:
www.moddb.com/mods/hl2-overch...
Songs:
Fork in the wall (NMH)
Klaymen Shuffle (neverhood)
N. Sanity Island (crash twinsanity)
Level Editor Music 1 (Battle block)
Main Menu Theme (Battle block)
Dynamite Fishing (Max and the Magic Marker)
Comet Observatory
Cup Head songs I cannot name without youtube flagging this video

[@JollyWangcore]

Edit: Just to be clear I do honestly think overcharged has some good ideas and a LOT effort put into it but I really do think it's a perfect example of "just because you can doesn't mean you should" and feature creep. If this mod added half the amount of stuff with twice the amount of polish I'd probably have quite liked it. Also this video bought to you by me accidentally turning off my compressor which means the audio sounds a bit shit. Sorry about that. Also also it turns out youtube compression murders the scene 2:40. Sorry about that as well.

[@stanleybochenek1862]

it starts with-

[@ch4r878]

No worries the vide still seems alright

[@Omabatfartsbruh]

you know why the letter c brought this video to us? content make more of it you fat fire lizard

[@FranTheMedic226]

Oi, another good one jolly! well done, lad!

[@TabiTheCat]

play entropy zero twooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

[@JohnBread69]

This mod is the equivalent of liking candy so much that you put 20 different candy bars into a bowl and melt them together in the microwave to eat as a meal

[@haroldbalzac6336]

That made me sick just thinking about it.

[@dakota48]

And that is how diabetes was invented

[@manboy4720]

and then you barf in the kitchen sink and there's an acidic, bitter taste left in your mouth afterwards. only then did you realise that maybe it's a good thing to only have so much candy at once.

[@gaiusfulmen]

@@manboy4720 That's pretty specific bro. You OK?

[@Ruskah0307]

I mean, in moderation, that sounds pretty awesome

[@Eira_]

i love that they upgraded the HEV suit from mark 5 to mark 6 just so that they could add a weather forecast. clearly that's the one thing gordon needed to fight the combine

[@pankek5431]

Well you wouldn't want to fight the combine at 9:57 on a rainy day, would you?

[@Toro563]

It also adds an mp3

[@blubasaur9053]

It’s like an iPhone. Tiny changes and data updates, whole new model.

[@lukebrainman]

Fair enough, just like IPhone generations nowadays

[@jockeyfield1954]

"Sorry babe, the Mark 6 exclusive weather feature stays enabled during combat."

[@thedonttouchthatdialguy]

Jolly: *complains about the useless night vision in the daytime sections* Also Jolly: *complains the nighttime/tunnel sections are too dark to see*

[@mettawatkutaninwat5411]

Night vision doesn’t mean making everything green.

[@SinAster_19]

​@@mettawatkutaninwat5411night vision goggles irl:

[@projectkepleren]

​@@SinAster_19not all of em do that tho

[@ThePaperKhan]

​​​@@projectkeplerenwhat goggles you use? Both pairs that I have owned were green... Maybe you are thinking thermal goggles. I don't own a pair, but the ones I've used I'm pretty sure we're grey/gray. Then again some night vision goggles are red, but I've never had the chance to see one irl

[@PadparadZha27]

​@@ThePaperKhansome are light blue entirely different

[@aeroosprey]

Could you just imagine Alyx's perspective of waking up Gordon Freeman and then the moment you turn your back he books it straight to a window and jumps

[@shloinguslover68]

me when my fellow deep sea diver opens the valve, thereby letting 200 atmospheres of pressure into the chamber we reside in

[@toastergaming7783]

Kids at the zoo when their parents leave them unsupervised for 2 seconds

[@DaRealDemobird]

@@toastergaming7783*Harambe Flashbacks*

[@arcadeinvader8086]

well he tried to kill himself already and stupid alyx just revived him and made him do it again

[@Constable.Chauvin]

​@@shloinguslover68 funniest shit i read here

[@CustomsByOrangeH]

I can't believe nobody in chat told him you can kick while driving the boat to fly around.

[@JollyWangcore]

YOU CAN WHAT?!

[@petrspetsnaz630]

holy shit.

[@Dr.MarsDour]

Jolly, you gotta upload a short of you doing this!

[@bradlauk1419]

Bullet time flying kickboat

[@FriendlyHouseCentipede]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/rXqxmaqjodmtrKc It was possible in SMOD, and considering the kick seems to work almost like SMOD, I think it would still work

[@Hbot208]

Man, that one scientist from Half-Life 1 was right all this time... "Don't let it overcharge!"

[@stevethepocket]

Oh man, this video would have _definitely_ benefited from opening with him just saying "Half-Life 2: Overcharged" followed by the clip of Barney saying "Whaddaya mean 'overchar-' [EXPLOSION] Because that sums up this mod perfectly.

[@VaciliNikoMavich]

"What do you mean overcha-"

[@saschahofmann2421]

ERROR wha- *DEATH*

[@tensixty124]

@@VaciliNikoMavich “wdym overcha-“

[@sirgideonofnirtheall-knowi1881]

Quantum Capacitance _Overcharge it anyway_

[@Dibdab9303]

This feels like when you install 5 pages worth of addons in gmod and then try to play through the hl2 campaign

[@artsyscrub3226]

Then you forget and don't play for a bit and come back and get blasted with everything and you're like "why did i do this?!"

[@awhahoo]

I have like… 900-1000 addons so thanks for the idea

[@floreroafloreril1458]

​​@@awhahooAight be honest how many of those are weapon bases and SWEPs

[@awhahoo]

@@floreroafloreril1458 unknown. Vast majority are maps though. And a lot are also disabled, id say probably around a quarter, idk tho

[@floreroafloreril1458]

@@awhahoo Figured around a quarter, yeah, back when I had 500gb allocated to addons most were either SWEPs or vehicles. Lol Now that I have less than 30gb to allocate I got my collection down to around 140 addons. The load times and performance are great though, so I doubt I'll ever come back to having more than 200.

[@danknecoarc7174]

I was honestly a little surprised the portal gun wasn't a weapon in this mod

[@SophiaAstatine]

That'd require a bit of work to implement, as you can't just copy the functionality of an existing weapon and call it a day. I'm sure they tried, but I'd imagine the result was too awful even by their low bar.

[@nottherealpaulsmith]

imagine being breen and seeing one of your old employees randomly appear in your office aggressively doing the can-can

[@JohnMBlue1992]

one legged one person Can-Can!

[@Filipokerface]

"WHAT'S THE MEANING OF THIS"

[@videosfer100]

not sure about you but i'd be terrified

[@dappert4730]

Despite this being a HL2 vid for some reason I still read this as Neil Breen and had the strangest mental image

[@Life-uu5yo]

Yoooo Neil breen!

[@ayathados6629]

I think the image of Gordon Freeman doing a flying crane kick into a houndeye while duel wielding the pistols is truly what Valve meant by "Run, Think, Shoot, Live" advertising for hl1

[@theguywithawierdname]

Kick, Lean, Reset Graphics Settings, Crash

[@munastronaut8147]

Shoot, Crash, Reload, Run, Think

[@asj3419]

The "think" part is reserved for the mod options menu.

[@BPKPhoenix]

I do recall "Gordon Freeman" saying something along the lines of making Houndeyes into a sport and opposing teams kick it to death and score goals? Seems about right, they wrote that part down and put it in here.

[@comedyreliefguy5112]

@@BPKPhoenix Perhaps… Opposing Forces?

[@WolfyFancyLads]

Fun fact: The cockroach AI is part of a pulled scenario from Half Life 1. The original intention was for Black Mesa to become ran down, overrun with bugs and vegetation, as a result of the cascade. However, they didn't have a good reason why an entire facility would suddenly be overran by nature in a desert in a single day. The cockroach is all that remains of this idea, simply because it was the most plausible thing of it. Cockroaches also swarm to gibs! (and Bull Squid can be distracted with gibs too)

[@npenplz]

oh that’s a really neat idea! Where’d you hear about that, i’d love to read more about that

[@npenplz]

@@WolfyFancyLads thank you! (Incase the comment gets nuked at some point, the channel is @MarphitimusBlackimus)

[@ttracs]

And then this idea got used for portal 2

[@TrinSpin]

@@npenplz I appreciate that you accounted for the future so I could find out the source, too

[@SockUuno]

This thing really does prove one of the reasons Valve decided to reduce the amount of weapons you have available, and why enemy placement really matters, and bugfixing, and a hundred other stuff

[@Shenaldrac]

Yup. It's a very inexperienced mindset to think that quantity trumps quality in game design.

[@Dibdab9303]

To quote ultrakill’s developer: “If you guys were making this game, it would suck.”

[@bigboysdotcom745]

​@@Dibdab9303insane ego but probably true

[@LordVader1094]

Tbh they should've kept more of HL1's tech weapons

[@LordVader1094]

​@@bigboysdotcom745Not ego, just fact. Getting ideas from a million different people never goes well.

[@gabe0rion205]

i love the idea of gordon walking into the ocean and floating offshore and into lost coast for NO REASON as a part of the retail game

[@thinkingboi9508]

Nah, it was all a dream while Gordon drowned in the ocean, when Lost Coast ends Gordon's body floats to the shore and gets stuck in the sand, allowing G-Man to revive him

[@sugarkane1571]

I personally think it’s Gordon teleporting with the power of narratives, like a cartoon flashback ripple effect except everyone can see it and he just fades away, and then ripples effects back on a different section of the beach carless.

[@rothric5077]

@cock Pull off your skin.

[@charlesdemers1197]

Hey Superintendent

[@dotdot5906]

It's actually like those flashback scenes from Peter Guy "It's almost as bad as that one time i was in lost coast without a car"

[@unitredacted9051]

I have to applaud the dev team for creating the most ambitious goals and then failing to achieve all of them.

[@thearcheovistofsolkeeperof6326]

Sup Nine Tailed Fox

[@DyonisX]

Any of them*

[@NikolayHizenprof]

Well, the kick was good

[@generallyunimportant]

@@NikolayHizenprof yeah, no, from the vid it looks just like the mmod one but with too much dmg by default

[@NikolayHizenprof]

@@generallyunimportant yeah, it's op. So what?

[@trindalas]

I’m kinda surprised they didn’t let you dual wield the crowbar and wrench and kick both legs at the same time as swinging both weapons tbh, lol.

[@cynthiablackthorn]

Fuck it might as well turn into a helicopter at that point and fly

[@trindalas]

@@cynthiablackthorn in this? I wouldn’t be surprised.

[@TheBonkleFox]

At that point you hold a knife in your mouth while dual-wielding the crowbar and pipe wrench like some sort of utilitarian Roronoa Zoro.

[@Twiddle_things]

​@@cynthiablackthorn turned himself into a helicopter, halfiest shit I've ever seen

[@G-Cole-01]

at that point they might as well just allow you to spindash with that

[@koye4427]

Fun Fact: When you get stuck in the vehicle at 54:00, that's actually just a thing that happens in regular Half Life: 2. The difference is that the vehicle is normally locked

[@Megajaybreaker4]

You can, but all the ones you can reach are locked.

[@mcloons3891]

@@Megajaybreaker4 *normally* locked

[@Megajaybreaker4]

@@mcloons3891 I have no idea what I was talking about on this one (maybe the edit changed it a lot), but I’ve found a way to get to a unlocked one for a short time(just jump out the window while meeting Alyx and spam E).

[@mcloons3891]

@@Megajaybreaker4 Yeah, I've seen that done in speedruns. I kind of remember doing it with the one a map away from the lighthouse bit, but that might've been gmod or synergy/console.

[@Megajaybreaker4]

@@mcloons3891 I don’t know why it would be done in speedruns when you can’t leave a APC, but the one I was talking about will make your screen have a yellow glow for a second before dying.

[@sakaraist]

POV : You're a highly trained urban response unit, The last thing you see is a man running at you with akimbo glocks before wildly crane kicking you into another dimension.

[@LeafseasonMagbag]

The last think you see looks like a geography teacher wearing hazard orange Storm trooper armor.

[@sniperluigi9856VA]

this is just an average day for a Floridian police officer

[@TheEmeraldSword04]

Minor correction; those are USP Match's not Glocks.

[@bloopahVIII]

permanent off-world assignment

[@horatio2560]

@@TheEmeraldSword04 those are glocks

[@kilowyatt1107]

I think the feature that drives me up the wall the most is that they thought it wouldn't be really annoying to add collision to every corpse so you have to awkwardly jump over them

[@NoahGooder]

I have seen the collission thing I believe in a old garrysmod addon.

[@crestfallenneet2167]

Also Bethesda games. Feels like a cool IMMERSIVE feature but then it gets annoying when you kill like 5 super mutants who tried to rush you through the same doorway and now it's blocked because you collide with the pile of their 7 foot tall corpses.

[@alexalcalaortiz368]

@@crestfallenneet2167 bethesda games have no collision for corpses? maybe F76 but i have not played that

[@crestfallenneet2167]

@@alexalcalaortiz368 not by default, added by mods, and it's a fairly simple variable change. The scenario I just described is why that's not enabled though, and unfortunately there doesn't seem to be a way to make it only apply to certain entities.

[@FrancisHatesStairs]

if i recall correctly its a simple console command available in original half life 2.

[@bipedleek241]

Everything in this is just so perfect, from the surprise lost coast transition to losing the car to the needless smudge on the crossbow scope, it’s a masterpiece

[@iLikeTheUDK]

wait CROSSBAR SCOPE???? this is like mod sharknado

[@MetaBloxer]

34:42 Messing up literally just a door is borderline impressive.

[@nfwrambo]

We should have listened to that scientist that told us not to overcharge it

[@kdh6387]

"It's a prototype" "It's much too unpredictable!" "What do you mean, 'overchar-'" - devs, moments before the release of HL:Overcharged

[@SomeGrunt_On_Youtube]

@@kdh6387 *BOOM!*

[@Mister_Hyphen]

@@SomeGrunt_On_KZbin "Walk into room and see smoking boots." "Pick up cool gun." "Epic music."

[@Eagle_of_Liberty]

I laughed so hard when it teleported you to Lost Coast; it seems they made a trigger around the beach to make it look like if you go too far into the ocean, you end up in Lost Coast... Just brilliant.

[@Splinter-ge9pf]

I also like the detail where it's one of the only "working" things in this mod

[@Sockren]

and i still love the fact that he just vanishes instead of washing back up to highway 17.

[@ZizZap4]

34:34 this is giving me major "The Raphael Parable" vibes. The player can choose to play the game however they want, explore whatever emotionally driven story they want to, set the kick damage insanely high.

[@soggyeggroll2003]

The vent at 13:50 is actually the same in vanilla hl2, for some reason when you break the cover the entire vent expands. With the mod the vent is already expanded and the cover is where its supposed to be

[@headsgrowback1]

Jolly: "wow, night vision. What a useless idea that has no need here" Also jolly: "god it's so dark, I can't see a thing. Really wish I could see in the dark somehow"

[@michaelj.caboose372]

Okay but like, look at the night vision and tell me that looks any more visible

[@habibpines]

I Rather walk in the dark rather than seeing things with that crappy filter.

[@neaneoneunuo9651]

Isnt flashlight a thing anyway? Why didnt he use that??

[@charlesdemers1197]

That’s what I’m saying lol 😂🔥😂

[@Mobysimo]

​@@neaneoneunuo9651 He had it on. It didn't do anything

[@TheEngieTF2]

"Adding more NPCs, weapons, and complicated additional gameplay features into the game would definitely make the mod x10 more better than SMod!" - The developer after smoking 50 cracks

[@kimikothetanuki314]

@@DaRoachDawg 40 benadryls

[@battedbook5811]

This can't be good for me, but I feel great.

[@l0lLorenzol0l]

He is Russia, so that would likely be injecting a entire Krokodil

[@AbsoluteSchizo]

Or vodka.

[@Pigness7]

Crack Life 3

[@Bozothcow]

54:35 Area portals are used to occlude parts of the map when the player is far away, helping to reduce the load when rendering. Somehow they managed to destroy the area portal, but it still has its texture applied to its faces.

[@JukoYT]

Rly late, but they probably got the leaked valve vmfs, and than optimised them by func detailing the house (valve never properaly optimised their maps for faster compile times), they also accidently func detailed the areaportal itself making it visible ingame

[@rafidsadman]

25:20 Father Grigori's crabwalk is simultaneously the most hilarious and the most disturbing thing I've seen in anything Half-Life

[@qwellen7521]

So glad the modders added back the cut enemies from the beta like the iconic ERROR.

[@czokopies1356]

If there is error in this mod then i want it

[@SomeGrunt_On_Youtube]

Honestly my favorite Beta NPC

[@Nathan-kk6lb]

The best part is that those appear to be regular Combine Soldiers, and their AI and sounds seem to still work. I don’t know how you manage to break Half-Life 2 enough to only unload the Combine Solider model and nothing else, but somehow these modders did it.

[@patrickloser7919]

to be fair somewhere (i think in the readme?) it is stated that if you had some error combine you had to do X (cant remember). i for example had no error enemies.

[@roytheidiot4844]

@@Nathan-kk6lb They were supposed to be “Coast Soldiers”, but modder fucked up.

[@ciknay547]

I love how they added lost coast as an easter egg, but entirely failed to account for the fact the player wouldn't have their car afterwards. This shit is great.

[@breathewoody7035]

Best part is, they removed the trigger that spawns the car per level. In base Half-Life, if you move on without your car, it will spawn it again once you go into another level. In this mod, they seemingly removed it for whatever reason.

[@breathewoody7035]

@TechDogg35 Fr

[@NoNameTaken117]

That's weird, when I finished lc I came back with the buggy and a full squad of rebels protecting me

[@Shifty989]

@@NoNameTaken117 maybe it matters where you trigger it? I mean he probably entered the lost coast in an unintended way

[@NekoinaBox2000]

@@Shifty989 nope... it was intended...

[@c0ntriL]

18:16 I need a compilation of the Charmander mouth opening with jolly making the popping sound with his mouth.

[@andruwowen8485]

POP

[@NovaProspekt19]

I wanna vomit

[@neptune3326]

I genuinely don't think I've ever been more shocked by a Half Life 2 mod than when he went into the water and somehow ended up in Lost Coast.

[@BierBart12]

Classic platformer secret level style

[@cool_bug_facts]

I love the implication that gordon just casually started swimming for miles on end at sea on a whim

[@MPolo10]

That was hilarious lol

[@morde_powerliftin_shakes6181]

Imagine being a combine soldier and all you see is man standing on one leg, kicking and swinging his gun coming for you at mach 100

[@grimmreaper5349]

The last thing you see is him starting to swing a shotgun and kick at the same time, and then turn towards you, instants after, you are promptly discombobulated

[@planetearth2249]

I'd pray for dear life at that point

[@jonathangrafton4016]

I like to imagine that Gordon is flying around, kicking with both legs and using his gun as a melee weapon.

[@stevethepocket]

This escalates so gradually from "nothing seems to have changed at all" to utter insanity, with such perfect pacing to when each new ridiculous thing-both intentional and unintentional-is introduced, it's hard to believe this isn't just a brilliant parody. A troll fic (e.g. _My Immortal_ and the like) in mod form, if you will. Like, take those ERROR model soldiers for example. They show up after you've already been fighting those particular enemies for hours, and stick around just long enough to remain funny before going back to normal. (Not to mention, it's the sort of thing that would be caught in testing if they played through the game even once.)

[@Slicetheidiot]

THIS

[@thundersoul6795]

It's the perfect shitpost mod, a thing fairly common in eastern modding and apparently unheard of or at least severely underappreciated in the west. There's this weird expectation that everything _has_ to be "serious" and "balanced", it's really odd.

[@ArcturusOTE]

@@thundersoul6795 This is hilarious and all But is it actually intended to be comical?

[@trianglemoebius]

Either those were supposed to be shotgunners (which don't appear in Lost Coast, but you need to switch to LC assets to see the fisherman - they just forgot to have the assets set back when you return), or more likely they're the "Optical Camouflage" troopers from SMOD. The corpse he finds on the second floor of the house that he thinks is a texture glitch is using the optical camo, so it's possible they stole the code of SMOD and forgot to also steal the model that goes with it.

[@PlayMadness]

I get your point, and I agree, but the fact that your example of a troll fic is one that is still debated to be legitimate to this day and not the confirmed Half-Life 2 troll fic Half-Life Full Life Consequences bothers me more than it should.

[@MinkMonk]

3:55 The moment you realize the mod didn't change the buildings, that's just default Half Life 2.

[@h.p.wallnut9912]

So lore wise this is just the alternate universe where Gordon decided to learn martial arts so he could use his thunder thighs to kill anyone and anything with naught but a kick. Excellent mod 10/10.

[@davisdf3064]

To be honest, those legs can carry 2 tons of ammunition plus his body plus the suit.

[@lopertyl6534]

Yakuza Life 2

[@VictorTwo2]

@@lopertyl6534 essence of crowbar Golden pulse rifle Bullsquid drop Goro freeman Idk what else to put i'm not really into half life lore

[@sleepofgc]

F.E.A.R.

[@EvilMightyTrash]

@@lopertyl6534 Now I want someone to mod Gordon over Akiyama

[@teatanks6481]

My favourite part is how the devs basically responded with "cope about it" to the criticism about the mod. Truly a passionate and well intentioned mod team.

[@Gnar05]

Literally the Devs are like GenZ

[@cyberneticsquid]

@@Gnar05 cope about it

[@nathanhale4430]

@@Gnar05 seethe about it, a lot of games are ruined now because they cave into demands, the customer isn't always right

[@priestoffern1608]

i mean… it’s a free mod

[@twinzzlers]

@@nathanhale4430 Except the customer is right this time.

[@Ladle69]

28:37 Gordon is a highly trained professional with black belt in theoretical physics.

[@d0kt0r17]

35:35 flamethrower? More like framethrower am I right?

[@cac_deadlyrang]

framelower

[@dachemistofx1667]

@@cac_deadlyranggyah yah yah nah nah hah

[@specialism640]

Imagine being the Dev team “Hey a KZbinr played our mod” “Or really? What’d he think” “He enjoyed kicking over literally everything else”

[@trindalas]

Not everything, he shot at least 2 enemies… although knowing what Jolly is like it was honestly surprising he fired even a single bullet.

[@user-uf7xy6yw7g]

"... And were searching fire extinguishers for the whole game"

[@MetaBloxer]

There are two ways to read the last line, and they're both correct

[@frostcore2214]

'He really loved beating highway 17 without the car"

[@theinfecter45v45]

@@frostcore2214 in another word: "he enjoy pain"

[@fjnordthedwarf4004]

The image of Gordon Freeman just hopping around on one leg constantly side-kicking while rapidly hot-swapping between twenty identical weapons is honestly more terrifying than his usual 'mute psychopath with a crowbar' meme persona

[@v_salat]

this is advanced warfare

[@masonwhite3698]

Imagine being a CP officer, cowed into submission by the Combine, and the first thing you run into in the field is some dickhead dual-wielding Berettas, bouncing around on one leg while using the other to kick everything within three feet of him like a deranged Chun-Li. I'd be more scared of him than the aliens.

[@DanteTorn]

So basically Gmod machinima Gordon?

[@mccperin]

it's the best way to scare the combine off earth. g-man made a good investment

[@evieisleavie]

Gordon, the one-legged human blender.

[@Numinon]

I now have to imagine Gordon entering the water, then proceeding to just aimlessly drift and float staring at the sky, arriving at the Lost Coast, fucking shit up, going back into the water, drifting and floating to repeat the process.

[@Paccyd33]

10:00 I love how this Implies that you’re just running around hopping on one leg

[@Avossk]

This mod is Smod for a new generation, it's stupid, buggy, completely undermines the careful game design Valve had in mind for the game, but it also has this childish innocence to how it was made where you can tell whoever was the project lead was just like "wouldnt it be cool if our mod had THIS thing" and never considered if that would make the game better or worse and I kinda respect it for that even if the end result was a mess

[@humanharddrive1]

SMod was good tho

[@g-manfreezer1998]

Smod was at least half decent

[@flyboy_nathan4112]

I think that's the whole point of nodding, if I wanted the experience the devs intended, I would be playing the base game, seeing a load of shit thrown at the wall is just part of the mod

[@slackingstacker]

Avossk this is nothing like SMOD lmao

[@RockRedGenesis]

Best way to implement feature creep. Wish George Broussard was like this, Duke Nukem forever may have still been late and needed Gearbox to finish it, but it would have been more fun!

[@Vooman]

22:40 "Imagine if your crack team of elite operatives got killed at the front door." "No, not *at* the front door, *by* the front door"

[@the.nerd.knight2078]

i mean that door was particularly viscous tried to chew off the combines leg

[@toolatetothestory]

That would be terrifying to hear over a radio

[@thestrengthofyourwill9831]

I'm starting to think that the dev team didn't understand why some enemies didn't make a return in Half Life 2. Because seeing them jammed into this game feels jarring and doesn't make any sense from both a lore and game play standpoint

[@ItsYee64]

Jolly going to Lost Coast was like one of those secrets in games that makes no sense with how you have to find them. Also I would like to know how exactly they fucked up so badly that they made the Area Portal texture visible.

[@manjackson2772]

It made perfect sense. He got lost and walked off the coast

[@drowchild8767]

I like to think that all those camera drones managed to get a single frame of Gordon's boot before being destroyed

[@jakobphillips3204]

"So, what did the drone get of the Anticitizen?" "Only the fact that he wears size 13 Nikes."

[@DanteTorn]

Unfortunately, it allowed the Combine to track him via his bloody footprints.

[@andyfriederichsen]

Every Combine APC in vanilla Half-Life 2 is "locked" so you can't get in them. This is because they still are enterable (Valve planned on having the player use one at some point but that idea was scrapped) but entering them is so broken that it results in you being unable to leave the vehicle or even drive it.

[@Shifty989]

that's why they added their very own vehicle and not just any old model but the drilling machine from 1990 movie Total Recall or at least that's what they were aiming for, right?

[@andyfriederichsen]

@@Shifty989 The digger vehicle was the excavator from the HL2 beta.

[@nnikitov57]

Not every single of them locked, the first 2 APCs you encounter (that shoot at you when you run on the rooftops) are unlocked, if you manage to get to them. And you can even drive them on the xbox 360 version, although the viewpoint is broken.

[@nnikitov57]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/roK3eIqJg5dof5I

[@Shifty989]

@@andyfriederichsen Well frick. And here I thought they did something original

[@shadixyt]

I genuinely love the Lost Coast inter-spliced as a secret; that is genuinely a fantastic idea.

[@snezor2783]

Just want to say that the absolute funniest and most hilarious part of this is when Lost Coast just appears. I'm a Lost Coast Certified Enjoyer, and the fact that they just... smacked it into this mod? Is just so insane. Like wow, it's just. There!

[@calvintrouy2672]

The fact that it transitioned to Lost Coast because(?) he went into the water is actually fucking hilarious.

[@Quizerno]

I agree 100%, it's like some secret level shit you'd see in a 90s shooter but brought into HL2 for no logical reason.

[@ninjaguyYT]

I dunno if I'll watch the whole thing. Around when does that happen?

[@gabrielmelo4764]

@@ninjaguyYT 39:00

[@Le0nnh]

It's just the fact that the mod devs went through the effort of doing it all. Like how many people just go out into the sea randomly lul

[@Quizerno]

@@Le0nnh I mean, I would since I like details in videogames. But I wouldn't expect anything to be there LMAO

[@thatguybrody4819]

They took the term "throw it at the wall till it sticks" but instead of just throwing a few strands they yeeted the entire pot and not only got spaghetti everywhere, but busted a hole in the wall with the pot. Can't wait for part two.

[@neoqwerty]

the spaghetti was flying around like in Internet Historian's artist rendition of the Costa Concordia

[@BigPuddin]

And there was even more spaghetti revealed inside the hole in the wall.

[@gastlygod10]

Plot twist: it was Source Spaghetti

[@Onychoprion27]

Damn now I want spaghetti and I don’t have any in the house :(

[@twatsuckler7968]

@@Onychoprion27 you can always die

[@DelphanGruss]

This is exactly what the G-Man was warning us about when he said 'Prepare for Unforeseen Consequences'.

[@mrbdwastaken]

gonome: *doesn't die from a car being dropped on him from 10ft above* also gonome: *dies from a single kick*

[@TomottoSoup]

I love how you go into the binds to make your shotgun automatic and you promptly forget to do so.

[@blueyandicy]

@uNnHkP8mza this video however was definitely a high point in terms of it though

[@IDoABitOfTrollin]

​@uNnHkP8mza u don't have to watch

[@logandarnell8946]

@@IDoABitOfTrollin how dare someone have criticism, they should just go away instead!

[@itlh6296]

​@@logandarnell8946I thought it was the same person because of the pfp until I read the name lol

[@NNinja1255]

@@unnhkp8mza522But wouldn't that mean that his personality makes the content instead of just his editing?

[@spiralhaze2070]

34:39 I feel like that door opening on the wrong axis twice and phasing into a wall is the perfect encapsulation of this mod.

[@flyguydev2008]

The door hated the mod that much

[@Scrumpyboi]

It decided to be a door in a better mod

[@gratuitouslurking8610]

Jolly: This I like Door: ARE YOU SURE BOUT THAT

[@MagnorCriol]

"I must go, my people need me"

[@reynanlamsen2007]

​@@MagnorCriolNice reference bro

[@Scorchlette]

Overcharged is like when you stuff a bunch of mods into Minecraft and just hope it works. It's stupid, dumb, chaotic fun and I love it.

[@mrozzy8582]

Father Grigori walking like a frog was the best part of the game 25:20

[@MysticTheDarkElf]

You know, I see *exactly* why the Combine soldiers were sliding down the stairs at around the 53 minute mark. The modder didn't set up the stairs to be a slope, but individual steps instead... like we're back in the late 90s with mapping.

[@professorbroomhead5175]

I love the visual image of Combine soldiers running in terror from Gordon Freeman hopping after them on one foot while reloading two pistols and doing the can-can.

[@gordonfeetman5306]

I like to think Gman saw you slowing down time and kicking at 2000 mph so he just teleported you to lost coast. Then when you lived through lost coast he got pissed off and dropped you off "In a battle you have no chance of winning"

[@npenplz]

Fun fact! Gabe has played this mod and said in a recent interview that this is objectively the best way to play any video game ever

[@TheBreakingBenny]

Source?

[@x6568tank]

​@@TheBreakingBennyme

[@npenplz]

@@TheBreakingBenny no not half life source

[@TheBreakingBenny]

@@npenplz Half-Life: Source is in all the modlovs Nikolay Aulov has made... in terms of stability, for one

[@ventrox3991]

half life 2 overcharged is literally the sequel to crack life, when you think of it as crack life 2 this game is fucking amazing

[@genericname3516]

45:39 Honestly I was expecting to see Gordon dual wield automatic rocket launchers at this point, and I wouldn't have batted an eye.

[@thehonorablereverendaddiso1943]

Oh my god I need this

[@charlieking7600]

@@thehonorablereverendaddiso1943 play Serious Sam 4. You can dual wield rocket launchers.

[@qwertyiuwg4uwtwthn]

@@thehonorablereverendaddiso1943 crack life campaign

[@Cyynapse]

it says so much that not only does this game have a kick button. but a melee button and also 3 different melee weapons. its like the devs saw some games have kicks and melee buttons and didnt once realize why no other game had both bc they serve the same purpose

[@Dovah_Slayer]

Also, the mod team could've just replaced the crowbar with the stun baton (and a lot of the weapons really could just be replacers) this mod adds so much and a lot of it is redundant or broken or unnecessary or all 3

[@D_YellowMadness]

The secret entrance to Lost Coast would be a really good idea if they either gave you back your car afterward or made it skip all or most of Highway 17. Some good places they could've put you would be a pallet on the shore of the antlion beach, the shore outside of the building where you get the bug bait, or the lighthouse area.

[@sitkinator]

54:35 Those funny colored windows are supposed to be area portals, it’s basically a thing you put in Source maps (usually on windows or doors) to optimize maps and make the game only see and process what’s in that area portal's view. I’m guessing they never tried to turn them into normal brushes that with these kind of textures would not be visible and only do the function they are supposed to.

[@dkskcjfjswwwwwws413]

did they just make normal solids and put the fucking areaportal texture on it thinking it worked like hint brushes? brooo....

[@commanderboom2626]

But that building was already there in the base game, meaning that they would have had to turn the areaportals... back... into... world... brushes... I think their logic process is above our understanding

[@deactivatedHonda]

@@commanderboom2626 considering they possibly decompile hl2s maps, it was probably a bug in the decompiler which broke the areaportals

[@JACKRAT87]

I can't tell if Jolly is being sarcastic or genuinely amused by some of the added content in this mod. Either way, this was a fun watch.

[@levergatRapha]

As someone that watched the 7+ episodes on twitch, then tried it by myself, it's a mixed bag but the fact that you could play it as a F.E.A.R game with akimbo,kick and bullet time is indeed cool... The itel bloat and doom plutonia levels of ennemy spam? Well ....

[@wandtpag]

He certainly is bemused...

[@dkskcjfjswwwwwws413]

@@levergatRapha fear is balanced this mod just lets you one shot everything with slow mo kicks

[@dkskcjfjswwwwwws413]

@@wandtpag funnily enough he literally is bemused yeah

[@jobelplayedminecraft3700]

this is classic jolly tho, i can sense a pattern in here, and not in a good way

[@BPKPhoenix]

"Their only experience of humanity was a crane kicking madman bunnyhopping down a steel corridor." -GMAN, Overcharged Universe.

[@unfa00]

This mod should be called "Two-And -A-Half-Life"

[@the_furry_inside_your_walls639]

54:34 Fun fact: Those blue textures are actually tool brushes. They are used to help the map function and aren't suppose to be visible in the final render. Either the devs broke something there, or they just wanted the windows of that particular house to be painted blue with some letters for extra detail. If it's the latter, then it's a rather suave look for what is an otherwise rather unimpressive abandoned building sitting somewhere on the coast of Eastern Europe. Edit: I just noticed it on other buildings on Highway 17, and this time not even all of the windows are painted. Truly some bold architecture for the modern era.

[@RKBock]

it's not just bold, it's bold and brash!

[@susa.k.a.pinkguy2036]

@@RKBock more like belongs in the trash

[@chrisfratz]

@@RKBock more like, belongs in the trash

[@RKBock]

@@chrisfratz I'm so sorry, I really like your answer, but I suspect that, like the first comment that answered the same thing, yours will also disappear. either, because someone doesn't get the reference and reports it, or because some AI is overly cautious.

[@kitasan_onegai]

The text is area portal but got cut off because the placement. It was used for optimization for houses or closed area, basicly when you are certain distance away from the window, it will unrender everything behind that window, or when you got close, based on your view cone it will only render what considered visible to your field of view. The dev did break the map, it should only be visible when you are debugging or testing the map, my guess because they have to add changelevel trigger to the lost coast level int the coast beach and forget to check few flag when compiling plus no play testing at all.

[@calsalitra4689]

You know, I just had a thought. You know what this mod needs? Quadruple wielded pistols! You hold the third and fourth pistols with your feet. When you triple wield you can't kick and move more slowly, when you quadruple wield you can't move at all. Possibly add in quintuple wield if you want to get creative on how Gordon manages to shoot the thing.

[@Razumen]

Don't need feet to walk, just get Father Gregory to crab walk under Gordon.

[@lukevankleef4245]

I've seen a Doom mod that lets you fire four shotguns at once. I think it was Soviet Overkill, though I might have it confused with something else.

[@burningsinner1132]

@@lukevankleef4245 Russian overkill. It adds several characters with different fighting styles and big pile of stupidly overpowered guns. Like Machine guns that shoot miniature MiG fighters that carpet bomb the area in a straight line.

[@lukevankleef4245]

@@burningsinner1132 Oh yeah, thats what its called. That mod looks like a lot of fun.

[@cmb9173]

when quadruple wielding, you can move by slowly hopping around on your ass

[@Guile_The_Exile]

That reload for the dual pistols is pretty dang cool, I'll tell ya that for free.

[@bananahands1]

Sounds like something that Jonathan Ferguson, keeper of firearms and artillery at the Royal Armouries Museum in the UK, might say

[@richardvlasek2445]

isnt it literally just the reload animation for the dualies from csgo lol

[@waffler-yz3gw]

i'll tell you it for $4.99

[@creeperjo7]

wait... he made the pfp change 3 hours ago... why does the character not... how... h... how did he add it to this video?????

[@IcedLun]

same thoughts lol

[@droideka1890]

This looks like someone played the HL2 campaign in Gmod and thought to themselves “you know what this game needs? EVERYTHING!”

[@sometimesidreamaboutcheese]

with a voice of Gary Oldman

[@CowCommando]

That's the first ever realistic dual wielding reload I've ever seen. Every other game just goes with the below the camera reload to hand wave it. That was sick!

[@StarkRaven59]

There are a few games that manage it, like the Left 4 Dead games. At this point it's mostly just Call of Duty that's too scared to show off a dual reload.

[@shagaru1234]

pretty sure its stolen from killing floor 2

[@bradlauk1419]

CS:S has had a reload ani on the dualies since like 2002 that looks good. They drop the mags and load new ones in on an open slide then close both slides at once.

[@0mikr0n]

The reload method was first seen in a game in The Specialists, a HL1 mod, to reload the Castor Troy double 1911s.

[@aUsernameInnit]

the animation were done by arby26 who used them frequently for his l4d2 pistol mods. the animation is literally stolen from the l4d workshop..

[@Silver_Swan_MK2]

16:06 Senator Armstrong's POV on Raidens

[@daraygona7058]

Fun fact: The rotten corpse in a citizen suit in HL2 it's face actually is a slightly photoshopped altered image of someone post mortem autopsy photograph.

[@LeriHunter]

It feels more like a GMOD map one would create for themselves after having installed 500+ addons to have fun than a full HL2 mod.

[@quint3ssent1a]

Jolly's impression of the mod can be plotted as a sine wave: from "this is shit, how do they even released that" to "YEAAAH, BABY, THAT'S WHAT I WAS BEEN WAITING FOR"

[@Mordecai02]

I don't think Jolly realizes just how much damage the Stunstick does lol

[@mercfox4387]

44:20 Jolly wasn't going to kill that man because it was only one target. He waited until he could take out an entire group.

[@portal2kid]

Fun fact: those teal colored windows are called “area portals”. They are often used in windows and doorways, they usually black out the area covered by the portal from a distance. Typically they are supposed to be compiled as a func_areaportal. Here, they weren’t, therefore why you can see them.

[@TDRR_Gamez]

The completely unintentional comedic timing of this mod and anything Jolly says is beyond words

[@OlaftheGreat]

The fire extinguisher is actually a Black Mesa™ Turbomatic Hypercompression Cum Cannon™ (patent pending)

[@toastergaming7783]

Black Mesa was later sued by Aperture Science for using their Aperture Science Experimental Reflective Semen Gel™ without permission

[@froyo4u]

42:50 forgot to install the CS:S textures bro

[@Site-234]

The game is braking it self

[@dr.rubbertail5407]

This mod feels like a standard 600+ addon GMod playthrough, it even includes all the jankyness!

[@noadsmagee5512]

Pretty sure most of these features were stolen from gmod

[@dusknightgem6679]

Yep

[@KreepKarnage]

literally the "HL2C - Modded" addon.

[@EliteLoserZR]

Imagine the horror a combine soldier or metro cop feel when they see a man, with an HEV suit giving a weather forecast, aggressively bunny hop, kick, swing weapon, lean, and fire a weapon towards them.

[@kelakakku]

11:42 That bullsquid is jacked

[@combineadvisor572]

I played this mod and it came with several softlocks. You cannot play the rest of Dark Energy after doctor breen hits you with the gravity gun. In episode one, alyx keeps randomly disappearing. Neither of these are fixable even by cheating Also, in Follow Freeman, you can kill striders with the shock roach as easily as killing them with rpgs

[@emersonawesome3778]

After seeing how this mod plays, as well as how the Dev Team responds to criticism, I have come to the conclusion that the driving force behind this entire mod is Tommy Wiseau

[@madmonty4761]

tommy knows his movie is bad

[@KwadDamyj]

"O hai Eli Vance, how's your secks life?"

[@spookyscarylamppost3431]

Tommy actually know his movies are bad and aren't a bitch about it, the devs on the other hand...

[@ovencore2549]

or uwe boll who boxed all his critics and won each time

[@neoqwerty]

@@ovencore2549 that man was in the wrong career path

[@IKEACherryChair]

This mod is like trying to challenge manslaughter charges in court by saying "Actually, it was COMPLETELY planned, thank you very much, and I ALSO killed 12 other people in the process that aren't detailed in the charges!"

[@pyth3n]

I never thought I'd hear crash twinsanity music used again these days

[@sirbonple]

I KNOWWWWWW i literally had an explosion of nostalgia in my mind

[@ryankunst668]

I think "Overcharged" is a perfect name for this mod as it encapsulates exactly what the mod does.

[@spacegators1775]

Overcharged is like someone trying to play Half Life in Garry's Mod but they have a bunch of mods installed

[@zelpyzelp]

Considering how most of this mod's assets are lifted directly from other mods and Source engine games, yeah that's pretty fitting lol

[@Darkington]

Watching this go from a 1/10 to a 10/10 mod was like a fever dream.

[@Typical_Toxic]

this mod is a perfect example on why you shouldn't throw everything at the player.

[@sadrytmid]

0:58 Wait you actually changed your Jolli to a new design in the old videos? Holy shit i thought ive gone insane