Transhuman Astartes of the Combine Overwatch, Part 1

For best enjoyment, use the captions I made.
So I was bored one night during the holidays. And this idea hit me like a freight train. My favorite 40k animated fan film was being observed by my ever loyal eyes when I had an epiphany. There was no voice acting of any kind. Made sense given the project was done by one man and the budget was probably used for assets and rendering or whatever. But I thought it weird that no one screamed. No one called anything out. And at the time, I was preparing to play more Half-Life on the channel. So thus... this idea.
Keep in mind that this little weird thing I edited together with duct tape using a couple programs was nothing more than just some idle fun. Not trying to profit off of his work otherwise I would have made a more clickbait title like Astartes Fan Film But With Half-Life Voice Files. Bet that would have flooded the video with views. But I don't particularly care about numbers. I have my few fans and I'm fine with that since they're dope as hell. Honestly, I want to keep my channel smol. Both my YT and Twitch channels.
If the owner of the film wishes for me to take it down, I will. If GW wants to take it down.... I say good fucking luck. I'm a 40k fan and a believer in letting fans do as they want with the content that makes them happy. Anyway, hope you enjoy this little project and I hope the audio doesn't desync. That's been an issue with my editing for some reason on a couple videos.
Headcanon Lore of this fan edit of a fan film:
A pacification squad of the Transhuman Astartes of the Combine Overwatch have been dispatched to pacify a rebel ship which has caused trouble in the region. The squad deployed is comprised of several units. Namely Reaper, Hammer, Shadow, and Oculus.
Reaper Team: The spearhead offensive force. First in, last out.
Hammer Team: Behind Reaper, these are generally the reinforcing units.
Shadow Team: A small team of four that follow behind the others, typically moving alongside them in adjacent corridors, acting as their "shadow".
Oculus Team: The observers of the operation. They remain behind to watch camera footage from helmets and hacked ship cams.
Under Captain Eriad, this Pacification Squad is to clear all hostiles and locate the Priority-One Objective, codenamed Third Eye.

[@TheWolfWhoCriedDuke]

Disclaimer for the people who don't read Descriptions. You know who you are, silly beans. "Not my animation/OC/IP, just a fan edit/fan project." A spur of the moment fancy.

[@trashynecromancer1155]

*gets blasted by twin-linked multilasers* "contact."

[@TheWolfWhoCriedDuke]

"Contact. Target Ineffective." Basically saying he got shot and it didn't do shit. I love Astartes in the 40k-verse simply because they can shrug off stuff like this. Though, in the original fan film you can see that he bears the burns from the gun throughout the rest which was actually really cool, letting me keep track of that specific character.

[@anon_lulz7334]

Gets hit with a multilas Contact Responds to armour response of breached void seal which is available to everyone in the squads HUD: Target ineffective @@TheWolfWhoCriedDuke

[@nerad64]

So you took the Astartes Fan Film and put Audio to it? This made it more intense, I hope the film maker will see this. But you have to be careful, Astartes is on the official Warhamer TV Site, because they hired the guy.

[@TheWolfWhoCriedDuke]

Yup. I await government agents at my door every day hahahaha. Glad you liked this little project of mine. I love the Astartes fan film and while the original is amazing in every way possible, I just wanted to add some audio to see what it would be like.

[@impossiburducklov2342]

astartes communicate in battle using runes and glifs in interactive hud with their eyes -

[@TheWolfWhoCriedDuke]

I am now imagining an Astarte sending an emoji to his battle-brother and this thought will forever live rent free in my mind.

[@henryheavy8044]

death trooper voices would also work too

[@TheWolfWhoCriedDuke]

I was thinking of trying it with a multitude of audio from different IPs. Helghast and Death Troopers were both on the list.

[@henrybenson1501]

This goes really hard, good stuff

[@TheWolfWhoCriedDuke]

Thanks. Was uh..... not expecting this many views tbh.

[@TheWolfWhoCriedDuke]

It took me hours to get the right audio and match them up. Hours for what amounted to three minutes of the fan film itself. Pain. Kek. But it gives me a deeper appreciation for the potential time it took to make the animated film itself. One scene must have been a day or more of work if not more.

[@dr.skillz77mgpl92]

1:16 I felt so bad for Jackson, Liebgott and Aliza. I actually might have rooted against the Space Marine for the first time

[@TheWolfWhoCriedDuke]

Liebgott tried to protect Aliza. She was a new recruit. And Jackson. Oh poor Jackson. He was weeks from retirement. I'll get to work on Part II soon. I swear hahaha.

[@zacharysheetz3701]

well done It really does add to the carnage. Especially bits like, "Run for your li........" and you feel that earlier stab now, with a simple "UGH." More please.

[@TheWolfWhoCriedDuke]

Thanks. The trouble really was matching my simplistic placement of Half-Life 2 audio to this guy's smooth and fast-paced animations. He favored action shots with very little downtime. That had me spending a lot of time zoomed into the audio and timestamps of his animation so far. Every placement of audio was a task in and of itself. Not only this, but astute viewers will recognize that Half-Life 2 audio is not echoed in any way. So I had to add the echo in myself with a reverb to try and match the size of the ship. I even adjusted audio to play in either ear depending on their position on screen. Lastly, cutting audio to match a character's death. Cutting audio meant slapping on silence, something that is more tedious than in any way difficult, on each file. This allows any echo and reverb to have a runoff and sound a bit more natural. Sorry. I rambled. Point is, thanks. For something that was a bit of a passing passion project to augment this guy's amazing fan film (Honestly the original is so good I hate calling it an animation as it deserves the suffix "film") and then to get this much love for it was rewarding. I'm going through various things irl but I plan to finishing with a Part II.

[@zacharysheetz3701]

@@TheWolfWhoCriedDuke WOW. I am even more impressed now. I understand having multiple projects. Although I don't do what you do; but I am patient. Thank you for your work and effort.

[@TheWolfWhoCriedDuke]

Ah, don't be impressed with what I did. It's easy. Just tedious. The real talent was the animation. Being so zoomed in on the audio and watching scenes in slow motion over and over several times all gave me such an appreciation of it. Nothing wasted. No mistakes from what I could see. It was beautiful. And I had this epiphany that this was the same feeling I'm sure those snobs get when looking at artwork in a museum. Awe. Pure awe.

[@zacharysheetz3701]

@@TheWolfWhoCriedDuke Humility is healthy. Be aware that art comes in many forms, and requires several things to be good: knowledge of a craft, patient will to deal with meticulous bits, and imagination. Imagination can't be taught. You have it or don't. Many would-be artists don't. You imagined what sounds would work where, and how the size of the ship would effect it. In our world of billions, many artists fall through the cracks and have their work trivialized because technology saturates us with entertainment; and hack liberals push for notions of equality that dilute concepts of being special. "When everyone is special, no one is." Like the art snob passing through a museum, going through countless works, and though you are one of many as 1 in a million is still 1 among thousands in our world of billions, I recognize your abilities. You are among the small percentage with actual imagination, like the animator. In other words, take the compliment buddy.

[@TheWolfWhoCriedDuke]

Well thanks, bud! I really needed that today. :)

[@bendeyette5864]

Please keep going with this I love this!

[@TheWolfWhoCriedDuke]

I'll see about finishing the rest. This was a fleeting passion project. A spur of the moment edit of my favorite fan film. But I will wrap it up with a part II and maybe III soon.

[@stuntmasta305]

Honestly I like it without the audio

[@TheWolfWhoCriedDuke]

Oh same. I just had this little idea to spend my idle time. The original audio is definitely dope as hell.

[@poussinmoumoute]

audio make it incredible too

[@calebllafayette4634]

This is pretty good my Goodmen, I look forward to part 2.

[@kamarad]

this is a stolen video. Not original content. Search "astartes".

[@TheWolfWhoCriedDuke]

@kamarad You didn't read the description then. It's a fan edit of a fan film. Ultra confusing. Never claimed to have animated it, hahaha. I have nowhere near this dude's skill level.

[@TheWolfWhoCriedDuke]

@calebllafayette4634 I'll get to it eventually. Been busy with an idea for a streaming project. Glad you liked my weird edit of an already kickass fan film.

[@blacktemplar5874]

Very Good edit!

[@TheWolfWhoCriedDuke]

Thank you! It was admittedly far more effort than something like this should have been. After all, I wasn't animating anything so I had assumed it wouldn't take too long.

[@pierrerolland6458]

beautiful !

[@JoeyMangi]

Masterfully done

[@TheWolfWhoCriedDuke]

If you mean the original animator? Then yes. It's a beautiful piece. Something that must have taken time and great effort. If you mean the Astartes, then I'd say you should have expected nothing less. If you meant my edits, I am humbly happy you enjoyed it.

[@ralfsintke1602]

This is not how space marines sound like, nor would they be this chatty. The original was and remains a Masterpiece as it is

[@TheWolfWhoCriedDuke]

100%. The original is so good that I find it of far better quality than some TV shows such as the Halo series. I wish we lived in a universe where GW wasn't such a shitshow of a company and instead simply hired the man, gave him a budget and a team, and let him go to town. Sadly... that isn't the case. Anyway, OG animation, or as I prefer to term it, fan film, was amazing in every respect. This video I have uploaded was, and always will remain, just a little goofy passion project of mine and a sort of love letter to show the original creator that I loved his creation. They say parodies are the highest form of compliment/flattery. And I hoped it would come across that way given how much I loved the fan film. It inspired me in my personal writings and reinvigorated my love for the lore. I'm rambling. Sorry.

[@catsndogs98]

Ok ok

[@andrewcrane5105]

Over and over shall this video be uploaded and renamed

[@TheWolfWhoCriedDuke]

Of course. The original, without my lame edits, is absolutely amazing. And I mean the pre-GW ownership as Omni-Man stated in his own comment. It was one of the few fan films that reinvigorated my love for the IP. And this edit of that fan film is my way of saying that I enjoyed it and wanted to do a small spin on it. Because a creator knows their content is loved when people start to edit or build upon it. I mean, I even painted a Retributors Squad of minis.

[@VLFBERHTwolf]

Astartes fanfilm was better off out of GW's hivefleet hands.

[@TheWolfWhoCriedDuke]

Agreed, friend.

[@user-cm6kt7zy7d]

Приветствую. Всё хорошо, но не чувствуется скорости-реакции Астерс. Я про реакцию, которая и обеспечивает победу, на врагами и Врагами Империума. Типа пока нормальный, не модифицированный, да даже модифицированный(типа скитария), тянет спусковой крючок... Астерс успевает среагировать и уйти с линии огня и-или атаковать. Здесь, нелогично как-то, ибо смысла невидно заморачиваться с модификациями, генными манипуляциями, годами тренировок... Когда можно было бы запихнуть обычного бойца, в механизированные доспехи!?! Или вообще киборгов нашлёпать, благо производство, сервиторов и скитариев на поток поставлено. Ибо здесь видим очень умелых бойцов с очень хорошем вооружением. Даже этот 2:49 эпизод не отражает реакцию космо-десантника. А здесь 3:03 Он бы погиб... это не танк, что бы сдерживать такой 3:07 огонь.

[@TheWolfWhoCriedDuke]

I agree to an extent. Their lore-accurate reactions aren't really show here. Then again, it was more about visuals than lore-accuracy in this fan film. At least I think.

[@user-cm6kt7zy7d]

@@TheWolfWhoCriedDuke Хай. Согласен, картинка хорошая. Меня же помимо всего, раздражают: вспышки выстрелов у болтеров... И летящие гильзы 1:37 у тех же болтеров. Понятно, что Я, придираюсь, но наличие гильз говорит, о крайне примитивном оружии. Наш АГС-30 или Мк-19, очень простые машинки, да ещё и узкоспециализированные. Но в Вахе, есть магия, а значит не могут, точнее крайне опасно применять пороховое-огнестрельное оружие. Маг взорвёт порох в пороховницах... С другой стороны болт, это же Единые для Всего Империума боеприпасы!!! И болт 22,2 мм, заряжает от комиссар, и сестёр битвы, до космодесантник, и кустодианец... И те же болты пуляет танки и самолёты! Скорость же задаётся самим болтером... Автоматически задавая давление рабочего газа. Например вышибает - перегретым паром. А порох, ну это... уже морально устарел. Как минимум 1:45 под унитарный патрон. Не намного сложнее было бы сделать раздельное заряжание: отдельно пули, отдельно порох...

[@TheWolfWhoCriedDuke]

True enough. But I think stagnation is the primary theme of the Imperium. So having gunpowder cartridges makes sense. But yeah, I agree with you.

[@marekogarek6329]

I like the original better, Astartes know what they are doing, they don't need those announcements. They are always ready for anything.

[@TheWolfWhoCriedDuke]

So damn true. There is definitely a certain badass visage to the silence of them. Their silence is loud. Incredibly so. The ever so subtle movements and gestures seem to be more than enough to communicate between comrades while leaving others in the dark. That said, you've got to admit that the few times an Astarte DOES speak, everyone listens. And that was something which inspired the original idea behind this little fan project of the man's fan film. I know for a fact that my audio additives aren't the greatest. They definitely don't fit the setting all too much. But I enjoyed the process of my extremely simple additions. It was fun to make. Hope you at least enjoyed it. Again though, silent Astartes are based as hell and definitely far better than this garbo.

[@chengchin5073]

You don't hear them because their speaking in their private vox channel, you guardsmen have no access astarte comms

[@TheWolfWhoCriedDuke]

True. But now you have me imagining a group chat between Astartes hahaha. "Brother Hiscarii, have you seen this new meme? It pokes fun at the lack of intellect in xenos."