The Torturous Chaos That Is 32-player Half-Life co-op

[@GenericName23]

Sven coop if it was good:

[@systemreb00ted]

LOL, this is actually pretty much the same as SVEN coopthough

[@RidgeRacer]

@@systemreb00ted But better.

[@SneedFeeder]

​@@systemreb00ted ​@systemreb00ted Sven Co-op has multiple sections stitched together so there is less level load interruption plus the limited spawns and team healing/revive actualy encourages teamplay. Half-Life Co-op is very barebones and is only good for fucking around.

[@systemreb00ted]

oh really? It did feel kind of bad! That's cool! Weird that a mod does way better than the official version.@@SneedFeeder

[@CocoTheMii]

⁠@@systemreb00ted​​⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠half-life doesn't have an official co-op mode. the server owner is using a mod called "half-life: coop" to enable this. what you're seeing is essentially a custom deathmatch server with pvp disabled. half-life's campaign is very much designed for singleplayer and needs augmentations to actually be enjoyable in co-op. sven co-op does this, but half-life coop uses the vanilla maps.

[@Squiddlewheel]

4:58 this part where the room falls silent and everything is covered in blood is horrifying.

[@RidgeRacer]

I think this was most definitely the biggest WTF moment in the entire run for me. Left me completely baffled all the way through reloading back into the server after it crashed.

[@justhere4637]

​​@@RidgeRacerI haven't watched Twin Peaks, but I imagine a scene like that would fit in there or some other weird/horror TV show.

[@tough4501]

6:10 that hecu soldier was like "this time we are gunna get freeman" only to be brutally jumped by 32 people

[@d3vs3b96]

😂😂😂😂

[@queuedjar4578]

I adore how eveyrone's immediate thought process when spawning in and being stuck behind a crowd of people is to place a tripmine on the wall and jihad themselves.

[@1MonoComplex]

“MY GOD, WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!”

[@zerotheero]

4:41 oof, getting spawncamped by the houndeyes. also my friend the CL_FlushEntityPacket returns, haven't seen him since Counter-Strike Online lmao

[@polymerproduct_spTh]

6:42 caramelldansen playing over the mic is amazing

[@xanshark]

i tried it this morning, it went from "haha funny lets blast linkin park and 2000s electronic music" to straight up racism 💀

[@MildMisanthropeMaybeMassive]

Ah the spirit of the 90's is alive in Half-Life DM.

[@donhonk]

@@MBVTemjinfound the loser

[@RidgeRacer]

Hate that. You might've noticed I had to censor chat a few times in this video too, it's unfortunately very prevalent in old Valve games; and not exclusive to just their games either I reckon. Was fun while it lasted huh 😢

[@RidgeRacer]

@@goti4no820 If only it was that simple. It still normalised hateful speech, it's wrong whichever way you look at it.

[@brickstonesonn9276]

Gamers try not to be racist challenge (impossible):

[@SomalianIchimi]

DOOR STUCK DOOR STUCK Poor Gman lmao Immediately teleported to City 17 and hear Breen's rage.

[@A_Senitent_Ford_F150]

Making the Black Mesa incident look like a bloodbath

[@aleksander_kuznetsov]

i can't imagine how crack-life would be in co-op mode, with 30 people playing in a single server.

[@RidgeRacer]

Imagine the Houndeye room.

[@romanloev5376]

DO YOU SUCK DIX

[@Ryan3d]

"My God! What are you doing?"

[@AcidRyo]

Most peaceful evening at black mesa

[@AlexanTheMan]

That one guy blasting era-appropriate music is a genius.

[@RidgeRacer]

As soon as someone started playing music, I immediately asked for Dreamscape lmfao. So glad they accepted my request. Wish I saw their name! I'm on Linux and the new update has a bug that makes it so scoreboard and voice chat names don't show up..

[@AlexanTheMan]

Now that's some internet culture glowing right out ya there. Hopefully that bug gets fixed.

[@gravytrader]

2:22 Poor 1889420 never even saw it coming

[@Headlessgenie]

God fuckin damn the explosive warehouse would have to be hell

[@RidgeRacer]

Actually someone just breezed right through that map, I completely forgot that was even in Surface Tension, lol! Speedrunners are crazy.

[@Joseph_Suita]

the entire map becomes engulfed in blood .01 seconds after spawn

[@kesorangutan6170]

This is basically Gman Squad :D

[@aulosrazr_7285]

YES! If only the server went all gman, we got the Gman Army

[@RidgeRacer]

Now THAT brings back memories.

[@James---]

This is truly the way Half-Life was meant to be played.

[@AndrosynthNuclear]

I don't think the HECU was prepared for 32 heavily armed morons steamrolling through the facility and leaving a massive trail of blood and sheer chaos in their wake, obliterating friend and foe alike

[@RidgeRacer]

FORGET ABOUT FREEMEN!

[@townescentury]

The enemy never stood a chance.

[@AndrosynthNuclear]

@@RidgeRacer That's what the gargantuan itself said as it tried to make a break for the train tunnel while getting pelted with 20 RPG shots at a time. It didn't get far.

[@RidgeRacer]

@@AndrosynthNuclear Gotta give it props for trying!

[@SomalianIchimi]

I can imagine it lights a cigarette with its flamethrower hand while telling us about the story of Black Mesa "survivors".

[@Mart-E12]

At the end a dude is already in city 17 lmao

[@RidgeRacer]

Quantum speedrunner.

[@cyber_ortek]

What Resonance Cascade looks like if it happens in Alien Worlds where we invade them:

[@JuiceyDev]

Imagine being a grunt and you see 25 dudes with crowbars and grenades jumping at you at the same time.

[@chillokay5189]

Half life co op is a blessing

[@Klemes67]

This is canon.

[@1MonoComplex]

Real

[@oculuis]

3:00 I have no idea why, but watching the G-Man get violently beaten with a crowbar on the right side of my screen was hilarious!

[@RidgeRacer]

Just one of those horrific scenes you don't really have time to stop and look at in a place like this, you just take it for granted hahaha

[@ahumanbeing8371]

The entirety of black mesa decided to fight this time

[@RidgeRacer]

There's no I in Science Team. ah

[@TheTechCguy]

It was exactly like this back in the days of Half Life Deathmatch, as well. Everybody bunching up together like that. Lol. Nostalgia!

[@Andres33AU]

Can you imagine if there was friendly fire, lmao.

[@RidgeRacer]

We wouldn't even get into the HEV suit.

[@B1aine92]

when update came out I joined a server for this and someone was blocking a doorway for honestly multiple hours. I left and came back hours later and they were still there

[@ctrov1]

you should’ve been there when they were all screaming “TWENTY FIVE YEARS!”

[@daydream605]

Imagine being in black Mesa and teleporting in as an alien, then suddenly witnessing 32 Gordon Freeman's running at you bhoping at super sonic speed and aimbot. You tell the planet xen to go anywhere near.

[@MrFireWolf]

6/10 not enough people screaming take cover

[@sliferjam]

Gordon Thirtytwo-men

[@GrandDadGaming]

Me and the boys getting out of black mesa (there were no survivors)

[@DirtyHairy1]

"Co-op" needs a redefinition

[@GreenEarth20]

actual masterpiece

[@EpicPhazee]

I had to check the upload date. Feels like something out of 2004 with the bad mic quality and music playing in someones background haha

[@RidgeRacer]

Honestly! This specifically was so much fun, lol, an odd comfort. I grew up playing Valve games since the original release of Half-Life, and I've probably spent more hours of my life in GoldSrc/Source online games than anything else over the last two and a half decades.

[@scotdotwtf]

that last part with breeen loosing it was so funny and the timing 😭

[@railworksamerica]

How the black mesa incident would’ve really gone down

[@rushy4062]

Amazing what humanity can achieve when we all come together

[@wirmaple7336]

imagine being a regular grunt and witnessing 32 players brutally gibbing themselves and everyone that comes across

[@aaronstudebaker5056]

Think I played this server. It took 20 minutes to slump the carrier into the antimass spectrometer because people were purposely blocking it.

[@RashataanVuul]

This feels so nostalgic that I could cry 😢

[@Ctrl.felixfluff]

Dude, that's funny, I was in that lobby. I was the first person to the left, trying to escape the map on the rocket map

[@Ctrl.felixfluff]

1:53 I was also to the left of that Barney.

[@RidgeRacer]

@@Ctrl.felixfluff Oh hey that's awesome man lmao

[@zxc930213]

Caramelldansen(speed up), 009 sound system - dreamscape, paul van dyk - for an angel. If someone wants to know the songs. 😂😂

[@AlexanTheMan]

Thanks, I had vaguely recognized "For an Angel" but I forgot the name, it's a classic.

[@RidgeRacer]

Hero

[@fizas]

So much soul... we're so back bois

[@Gizzor]

blast pit co-op is the worst i never get that far on my own and when im playing co-op someone is half way done by the time i even get to the first stop

[@arir43]

I played this and can confirm it is entirely chaos… but so much fun.

[@adamlim2869]

This is too funny bro thanks for the insane eardrum exploding - eye blinding footage

[@rtxa]

8:00 old youtube music

[@albertcava4071]

¿Song name?

[@AlexanTheMan]

​@@albertcava4071 That's "Dreamscape" by 009. An old supplier of KZbin's defunct AudioSwap feature.

[@Zack54]

I've been playing in this server for a couple days now. It is a mess when there are more than 15 people playing. There are people who actually want to play, there are people who is... Degenerate, and there are people who doesn't care to play or let anyone else play. The voice chat is also chaotic, there is always someone playing music or loud noises. Overall is kinda fun sometimes, like the Gonarch fight, everyone using the Gluon gun and the audio of the game being extremely saturated, or the Nihilanth fight. Other times, it isn't fun at all, like the map that you have to take Barney to open the door (Seriously, that map is garbage when there are too many people, in one playthrough we like 1 or 2 hours just in that map. There were so many people killing Barney over and over). Anyways, good out of 10. I kinda like the server

[@RidgeRacer]

Somehow we made it through the Barney escort on the first try when I played. I feel like this video possibly contributed to an uptick in trolls..

[@jacques-jean]

Then it's a bit like life, sometimes fun, sometimes not fun at all

[@Zack54]

@@RidgeRacer Maybe. Or maybe depends on what hour you play. I play very late around midnight to 5 a.m. (GMT -3) and complete the playthrough once or twice. There are always people doing a little trolling, specially in the first map of "We got hostiles". If you are ahead of everyone and die, prepare to wait until the doors opens because someone already pressed the button and let everyone trapped, and the buttons have an insane cooldown. Still, is kinda fun try to finish the map before anyone else.

[@vovlasc9817]

now thats a lot of blood...

[@Greedyselfish97]

This is the video game equivalent of that meme where a group of guys at the urinal gang up on that one guy.

[@SajtosNokedli]

12:38 Dögös Robi has entered the chat

[@confettigraffiti6055]

this is mesmerizing

[@RidgeRacer]

There was something about just following a train of maniacs through the Black Mesa research facility.

[@KingLich451]

i guess you could say that this was a... train wreck

[@DogsRNice]

I want to see 32 player half life 2 coop lol

[@RidgeRacer]

Sounds like something you could pull off in Obsidian Conflict.

[@romanloev5376]

Just wait for hl2 anniversary

[@AtsukoR33]

Where's the missile silo part? Would have imagined that one being a pain. One detonation, game over.

[@RidgeRacer]

Unfortunately I joined just as they had almost wrapped up On A Rail. Would've loved to have the whole game recorded. How long would it take 32 people to slip into one hazard suit? Longer than you might think, I'd wager. Edit: Do you mean the explosive-laden room in Surface Tension? I had to refresh my memory because it wasn't an issue at all, some speedrunner just wiped the floor with that map lol :D

[@AtsukoR33]

@@RidgeRacer Yeah, that's the one i meant, the one place wired with all the Tripmines.

[@skraegorn7317]

It’s like fine art

[@oreothedoom]

“Ow my fuking ears”

[@GrandDadGaming]

"ow my fucking sides"

[@NoExplosionsMcgee]

ABOUT THAT BEER I OWED YA

[@RidgeRacer]

It's me Gordons! The Barneys, from Black Mesa.

[@Da_B]

This is just the normal valve games experience.

[@COBALTGE0]

Was dope playing with y'all STOP AUGH NO NO STOP

[@RidgeRacer]

Dude you were a riot. Glad you were there.

[@terslok]

bruh I think the server is gone now, it doesn't show up in my favorites tab anymore 😔

[@RidgeRacer]

RIP to a real legend (Is what I'd say if it wasn't there anymore, but it's still up! 47.150.130.73:27015 )

[@Denzel-h7g]

@@RidgeRacerhero

[@randigo9992]

Imagine if this was canon, like if players in lore were a some of Gman employees who wanted to bring chaos to Half Life universe and imagine that from scientist's or HECU perspective, like out of nowhere there appear skeletons and other weird funny guys who shoot everywhere and kill everything and make an absolute chaos

[@LouisPhilippeLebouthillier]

This is pure chaos

[@xinomixi1404]

Now i wonder if there was two teams to fight each other, aliens and humans, what if like in the og compaign vortigunts tried to slow down players beating resonance cascade?

[@berin13]

This is art.

[@borealisaristocles4825]

para los que pregunten del porque crashea más amenudo que source, se debe a el tecnologia de 32 bits que no permite superar una ram de 5 gb y una cache de 1 gb (es posible sobre pasarlo con metodos poco ortodoxos pero no se recomienda) Hasta que freehl no este estandarizao por la comunidad, no es que se pueda hacer mucho.

[@A-devs]

half life's 25th anniversary update is such a great game to play :)

[@cozz124]

truly the greatest thing to ever exist

[@mixmakmax2847]

fake, barely any players yelling the N-word

[@Ca7-o5k]

Imagine half life with 100 players

[@StopFlaggingVideos]

im good

[@RidgeRacer]

@@StopFlaggingVideos lol word

[@mobiusone6154]

that would be insane

[@StopFlaggingVideos]

@@mobiusone6154 couldn't even get past spawn with 32 players already, you get one mfer who decides to afk each start and its like midday intersection traffic. you get several of them, and NOBODY moves, just endless explosions and gibbing at spawn

[@mobiusone6154]

Dayum@@StopFlaggingVideos

[@pault.6653]

Hey, sorry for the dumb question- but if I wanted to make a server like this myself I would need some kind of mod, right?

[@RidgeRacer]

Yeppers, this one: www.moddb.com/mods/hlcoop

[@Cross1C]

@@RidgeRacerhow can we use it now with the new update. And how can we install it

[@Cross1C]

@@RidgeRacercan u make a guide?

[@NoName-st5so]

I remember hl opposing force has co-op back in a day, chaos was pretty much the same 😂

[@chasin699]

just like gaben intended to

[@bleached.eyebrows32]

least vulgar (and probably racist) half life server chat users:

[@bradlauk1419]

Canon

[@himitsugawa4226]

I noticed one thing - Goldensource HAS swimming animations for characters. Source doesn't. And how can I join this mess and fun as well? :D

[@RidgeRacer]

Look out for the server, it was called "Half-Life Co-op | High difficulty", but I'm not sure if it's still up or populated, the HL1 hype train is slowing down.

[@ShepHard_199]

i was the gman lol

[@RidgeRacer]

Love that people are recognising themselves in this moshpit, lol

[@ikagura]

Lovely sight.

[@matejadjordjevic5317]

Perfectly imbalanced. As all Half-Life co-ops should be.

[@KingEinzeller]

D-Day vibes intensify

[@pir_hana]

I was literally playing this a few days ago

[@itsukashido]

love this server

[@MakerManX]

Its fun to watch but looks tedious to play lol

[@RidgeRacer]

It was honestly really fun to play, in the sense that we weren't really actively hindering each others' progress. Everyone had basically agreed that this is hell and we might as well laugh at it together =P

[@windedStar]

Bloody funny!

[@RidgeRacer]

Tell me about it, I laughed so hard I had actual tears in my eyes on multiple occasions throughout the run.

[@bastianramos4800]

Form ray tracing walk remainted

[@eric25029]

everytime I try joining online I always get the Failed To Contact Server. how do I fix this?

[@dechmusic]

I wish I could find at least one 8 players or 10 players server

[@RidgeRacer]

The 25th anniversary hype has died out a little, sadly. Hopefully when the new bugs are fixed there'll be a tiny little jolt in the playernumber for a little bit. Half-Life multi is one of my favourite things in the world! Needs more players :D

[@nekokonata]

avg player count is still much higher than it was just a month ago though. most shooters wished they had as many players as HL still has

[@dechmusic]

@@RidgeRacer well. I tried Half-Life multiplayer. It is great. But the fact, that most servers have 32 players limit killed all my interest in it for now

[@jvlliano]

wait, directly in hl server browser? how, i thought it would be sven coop

[@RidgeRacer]

There's a Half-Life Coop mod that just straight up implements completely barebones coop in HL1 with adjusted difficulty, nothing more nothing less. The concept itself is actually pretty nice, I can imagine it's a proper blast with 4 or 8 players max, who just want a dead simple coop experience without setting up Sven Coop. That being said, I'll always prefer Sven, it's such a great mod.

[@sam-sp5zk]

what version? 2.0 ?@@RidgeRacer

[@RidgeRacer]

@@sam-sp5zk Yeah, Half-Life: Coop 2.0 on ModDB is what I'm sure this server was running.

[@CHMernerner]

software rendering for Flexing cpu?

[@RidgeRacer]

Hardware, 640x480 without texture filtering like Gabe intended. Software was, and still is, somewhat broken on Linux.

[@CHMernerner]

@@RidgeRacer TNT2 OPEN GL SUPREMACY

[@wollllll]

Can u tell me what’s the mod name for this cool?

[@arir43]

hlcoop. It’s a publicl deathmatch server that’s up rn

[@RidgeRacer]

www.moddb.com/mods/hlcoop

[@caracasnuclear]

W T F is really happening here!? A concerned citizen.

[@Matronammfly]

Is this Sven co-op or actually half-life

[@RidgeRacer]

Just plain Half-Life with this mod: www.moddb.com/mods/hlcoop For a more in-depth co-op experience with more weapons, more modes, improvements, etc., Sven Co-op is definitely a much better choice, but for a regular plain-old vanilla Half-Life Co-op experience with, say, 3 to 6 other friends, this mod will work just fine!

[@Matronammfly]

@@RidgeRacer Does the mod work with the current update?

[@RidgeRacer]

@@Matronammfly Don't know about servers, but the client (what you see me playing on in the video) is using the 25th anniversary update.

[@OhNoEveryoneDied]

@@RidgeRacerthere’s 2 servers with the mod one is modified campaign (maps missing and rearranged for it to work better) and the other is old sven coop maps

[@lalifreefire]

ip?

[@aurablur]

LOL

[@gonzalocabuche2124]

Elon musk 😂😂

[@chaoticentityinc9594]

McDonald's