All I’m imagining with this ambience is that this is how everyone in city 17 slept,which also includes actual characters like barney and kleiner. Also if you had told me years ago that I was using city 17 ambience to get to sleep due to my insomnia I wouldn’t believe you but it does work surprisingly well in its own twisted way
Idk why but this gives me quite relaxation and comfort, knowing that this ambiance is part of my childhood, whenever i hear this, i get so nostalgic, i wanted to go back when i first play this masterpiece game.
Even when it is bad, there is always a sun after the rain. You do not know any of us, but believe me, we are with you. You can make it, no matter what and no matter how hard times are. I am proud of you, that you are not giving up.
For 2004, it was unreal and incredible. Such physics and graphics - it just got me mad. But the atmosphere of HL2 is what made me eternal fan of it - though I havent played for couple of years.
I still find the atmosphere brilliant. I still haven't seen the feeling of such overwhelming oppression done so subtly like as in City 17. You can feel how small humans are compared to the Combine empire by sound design alone.
It sounds kinda nice, but life in geniral is a nightmare. There's a metrocop who lives next to where I do, and he gives me daily beatings. Just ignoring all of the awfulness, this does sound nice.
The atmosphere for this game is PERFECT. The dull, washed out colors, the way the quiet, empty atmosphere is interrupted by the Combine announcements...it just works so well
Even with the technological limitations of an old game engine to render a high number of units & characters, it makes sense that City 17 would be so sparsely populated given that the Resonance Cascade & subsequent Seven Hour War wiped out more than 75% of humanity
true as hell , this game give you vibes that no matter how much time passes not a single damn game will make it like Half life and not even close the atmosphere of half life only itself is peace of art
@@ZAKORAV I absolutely agree. The game has an amazing vibe to it and no single game gives a similar vibe, and it's not even close. The atmosphere of Half Life 2 is second to none.
@@urazoktay7940i love the ambiance especially in the first chapter (route kanal) like imagine getting hunted down by the government of a whole country (or in half lifes case the ruler of the world)
@@thebetterandrewREAL No, the Citizens you see in the game are the last of the human race, they were the children that grew up during the Universal Union's occupation.
The sounds that you actually hear there are actually similar to the sounds that you hear in Eastern European cities like Bucharest or Sofia, actually pretty cool keeping in mind that city 17 is actually inspired from one of those cities 🏙️
Not to mention the distinct architecture of City 17 that bears a striking resemblance to Eastern Europe and the use of Soviet-era trains on the Combine’s railway network.
We keep hearing car horns in the background, I wonder what the context of that is. I doubt the Combine allows all that much non-state road traffic to begin with, if they even permit car ownership at all. The Combine themselves probably make extensive use of AI, which wouldn't necessitate manual use of a car horn. Same goes for the ambulance sirens. 🤔
Tbh idk but maybe the Combine allows some cars to be used if they work or reuses them for other purposes. Like how they copied human law enforcement systems and military but replaced them with humans affiliated with the combine, maybe they did the same with cars, but there wasn't many working ones. IK from Gmod the whooping noises you hear, are called Manhack Alert or Scanner Alert. I guess when a Scanner or Manhack spots someone or something bad it does that. The APC's have their own alarm noises also. 5:40 Distant one.
This just reminds me, is there an HL2 mod that takes place during the 1 week long time Gordon was basically nowhere, as a result of the teleportation accident? During that time the uprising started, and it would be cool to have that as a game from the perspective of an average citizen first witnessing the start of it, then trying to survive the escalation, then joining in as a new rebel combatant. It could even work as an MMO RPG FPS kind of thing.
I thought I recognized that siren!!! I thought it was Star Wars initially, but couldn't place my finger on exactly where it was from. Well done M8, Ad Victoriam!
@@Krzaczor-ym9gd You're likely thinking of the alarm sound which plays on Hoth in BF2, which sounds similar if you haven't heard it in a prolonged amount of time.
Way more philosophical thought than I expected to see in this comment section but I couldn't agree more. I'm 17 so I wasn't even around when the game came out, but I grew up playing it (which still feels very recent,) but most of my playtime of HL2 is from 10 years ago now. It's also awesome though, in a way, that no matter how many years pass, Half Life fans keep congregating in these comment sections. Definitely a testament to their timelessness.
@@LawmanMediaim 17 as well and thanks to my brother i was gaming at 4 and a half with my first own bought game being farming sim 12 in tesco CD!!! Then experience of golden age internet and Minecraft when i was just a tiny lad! To getting bullied in team fortress at almost 6 by 15yo kids hahahaha but yeah man im glad i experienced my earliest childhood the way i did internet compared to that now is so boring and sensitive full of weirdos but in few years as i said one person will like these comments after long time and if we ll notice we can just look back at us when we were typing these and had way less responsibilities 😢
@@the.j. it's a reference to some tiktok of a chinese drone with a form of city speaker on it talking to the public during a lockdown. though i'm pretty sure "control your hearts desire for freedom" was a mistranslation, though it's something similar
This feels like Chicago, the citadel reminds me of the sears tower, and overwatch reminds me of the thousands of police reports whenever someone steals a bag of chips from a 711
@@temrenalican4570 bruh you think a galactic empire with advanced technology , that prevent birth , enslave humans and cut food from them and also put things in the water that make you F O R G E T , will turn you into a stalker after alot of experiments , will take away your humanity and turn you into a clone if you joined their forces , kill anyone who seems off to them, is better than a government that is oppressive to their people by silencing their opinions in one way or another and force them stay inside of North Korea?
Can we just agree half life 2 is the most immersive universe in gaming history literally
yeah man nothing compares since this in 04
yes. yes we can.
I agree wholeheartedly.
Nothing compares to Half Life 2 agreed. Half Life 2 is unique.@@milhousevanhouten3796
100% agree
All I’m imagining with this ambience is that this is how everyone in city 17 slept,which also includes actual characters like barney and kleiner. Also if you had told me years ago that I was using city 17 ambience to get to sleep due to my insomnia I wouldn’t believe you but it does work surprisingly well in its own twisted way
Idk why but this gives me quite relaxation and comfort, knowing that this ambiance is part of my childhood, whenever i hear this, i get so nostalgic, i wanted to go back when i first play this masterpiece game.
It’s not only nostalgic, its also perfect to use it as Ambience for sleeping
yeah fr
23:50 pigeon pushes a barrel
Dear god
@@channelchannelchannelchannel there’s more
@@blipsauce1143 no
Man, hate it when an alien invasion happens randomly when i'm on a walk
Not again, its the fifth time this week!
Paraphrasing a comment that used to be on this video, "I've spent so much time in the Source engine, it's like a second home to me."
1 hour sounds of alien oppression to sleep/relax/study to
12:08 Always found that alarm satisfying
It's so weird and satisfying, it's something You would hear on an empty street
@@MrLocazo212What do you mean, wouldn't an empty street be silent?
It's in the hl2 sound files, in ambient/alarms/apc_pass.wav i think
It's in the hl2 sound files, in ambient/alarms/apc_pass.wav i think
Even when it is bad, there is always a sun after the rain. You do not know any of us, but believe me, we are with you. You can make it, no matter what and no matter how hard times are. I am proud of you, that you are not giving up.
@@IloveHalfLife this is probably a bot
@@JESUS-THE-LIVING-GOD-IS-KINGeither way the script was written by a person.
probably a bot bot thank you so much for your support i don't know what to say
- male rebel 07
I like how this was posted on a video about a game where giving up is common. Like when earth surrendered after a horrid 7 hour fight
For 2004, it was unreal and incredible.
Such physics and graphics - it just got me mad.
But the atmosphere of HL2 is what made me eternal fan of it - though I havent played for couple of years.
I replay whole series every couple years :)
I am not touching hl Alex untill I get vr, I found way how to make vr from phone)
Half Life 2 is the best game ever made.
the combine are actually good! city 17 is quite good, you should move here.. now.
Yeah okay Dr Breen
“Yo dudes, the empire’s pretty chill” type stuff
I still find the atmosphere brilliant. I still haven't seen the feeling of such overwhelming oppression done so subtly like as in City 17. You can feel how small humans are compared to the Combine empire by sound design alone.
I would actually live in a world like this with the ambience
It sounds kinda nice, but life in geniral is a nightmare. There's a metrocop who lives next to where I do, and he gives me daily beatings. Just ignoring all of the awfulness, this does sound nice.
you do
You already do
@@rumpus5633nah its not as cool and epic
@@City17Citizen how's city 69 dude
took a 45 minute nap while this was playing in my headphones, unironically the most comfortable nap i've ever had
honestly, the near future doesn't seem so distant from the way society is manipulated in the HL universe
Attention please, unidentified person of interest confirm your civil status with local protection team immediately
gmod dark rp
such an immersive atmosphere, always find myself coming back here
The sirens bring me back so far 😫
Give it 5 years and it will be in your city where you will live. Gaben warned us.
Never shoulda smoke that shit, now we in city 17
pov: every classic gmod map. this brings me memories...
I want to live in PreWar city 17
@@Tqbrock go to Bulgaria's capital
Transdimensional totalitarian ASMR for a good night of sleep.
Lo-fi hip hop beats to confirm your status with your local Civil Protection team to
@@Jaxymann "Sociocide, prepare to recieve verdict"
The atmosphere for this game is PERFECT. The dull, washed out colors, the way the quiet, empty atmosphere is interrupted by the Combine announcements...it just works so well
Indeed. I think it's the most atmospheric game ever.
0:10
Heard this in the Fallout TV show and immediately thought of this
I havent checked up on Fallout after New Vegas and now I am dreading to look up "Fallout TV show"
@@WolfmanDude The show is actually really good
same! i stopped watching to look this up.
From which scene?
I use to play this in the background when I was studying for my finals
That’s weird
@@DenitoX7 nah u are
@@Lemongrabbs you are lolllll no lies
@xX_YourMumIn1080p_Xx fax
Does anyone else wonder what that "WOO WOO WOO" yodeling like sound is?
It's an APC, actually.
@@JoshTheVeryReal I dont hear that sound when a APC drives past me
It's a metrocop siren
@@JoshTheVeryReal I thought it was a distant helicopter going down
i'm pretty sure its a scanner
The creepiest part about city 17 and other half life 2 cities is that they’re all so empty
Even with the technological limitations of an old game engine to render a high number of units & characters, it makes sense that City 17 would be so sparsely populated given that the Resonance Cascade & subsequent Seven Hour War wiped out more than 75% of humanity
A normal aftermoon in Romania
it really was based on romanian, balkan architecture.
@@boatswain48 yeah I know👍
@@boatswain48and Ravenholm was based on Voronezh 💀💀💀
@@Adrianshephard5Nuh uh! More like Ferentari
Fr fr
0:09 woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo
banger
Masterclass
I felt that
I could listen to this for hours
same
Half Life 2 is the best fps game ever made.
Facts
It's popular despite how few people know or have played it
true as hell , this game give you vibes that no matter how much time passes not a single damn game will make it like Half life and not even close
the atmosphere of half life only itself is peace of art
@@ZAKORAV I absolutely agree. The game has an amazing vibe to it and no single game gives a similar vibe, and it's not even close. The atmosphere of Half Life 2 is second to none.
@@urazoktay7940i love the ambiance especially in the first chapter (route kanal) like imagine getting hunted down by the government of a whole country (or in half lifes case the ruler of the world)
1:12 i know its a distant sirene, but, i always thought that was the sound of a lost lonely toddler playing with the echo
you do realize all toddlers and kids in half life 2 are dead right?
@@thebetterandrewREAL why???
@@barrenwasteland8 combine killed them and made reproduction impossible
@@thebetterandrewREAL No, the Citizens you see in the game are the last of the human race, they were the children that grew up during the Universal Union's occupation.
That’s actually so sad to think about
Such a dark vibe this gives
Read this in Yoda’s voice I did
@@cairo_z96 Me too unfortunately, i read
"Don't drink the Water"
“They put something in it to make you forget”
@@JustAPersonWatchingYT ''I don't even know how I got here''
@@DyingVCloud *throws a piece of rubbish at the NPC*
"Stop that!"
"Doctor breen again? I was hoping i could see the last of him in City 14."
@@ajengleodita8007I wouldn't say that too loud, this is his base of operations
I find it remarkable that a setting that suppose to invoke a feeling of stress is so nostalgic that it becomes almost soothing.
This is my true home I belong here
Beware of Metrocops
the atmosphere in this game is just fantastic
The sounds that you actually hear there are actually similar to the sounds that you hear in Eastern European cities like Bucharest or Sofia, actually pretty cool keeping in mind that city 17 is actually inspired from one of those cities 🏙️
Not to mention the distinct architecture of City 17 that bears a striking resemblance to Eastern Europe and the use of Soviet-era trains on the Combine’s railway network.
the artist of Half Life 2 is from Sofia
23:50 "The Force is strong with this one" - beware of HF2 pigeons!
Half life 2 episode: 3 return of the freeman
Leaked fotage of pigeon using the vortecens to move object
woo (woo) woo (woo) woo (woo) woo (woo) (woo) (woo) (woo) (woo) woo (woo) woo (woo) woo woo woo
The most beutiful and creepiest one... I remember when ive heard it in gmod for first time...
woo woo
@@TreeLover-69420 woo...woo...woo....woo...woo..
ATTENTION PLEASE UNIDENTIFIED PERSON OF INTEREST CONFIRM YOUR CIVIL STATUS WITH LOCAL PROTECTION TEAMS IMMEDEATELY.
somewhat comfy despite the lingering feeling of hopelessness and despair. perhaps theres not much to look forward to in life when youre in this state.
woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo
ive never seen the citadel light up like that
The citadel must be on full alert
What I hear everytime I go outside:
same..
Really love your ambiences. Hope you are ok, and that you can keep getting better.
what headphone ear would you like the weird whale alarm to come from?
"yes"
Is this what it's like to be in the Combine neighborhood.I understand why the civilians feel hopeless
Average day in the depressing UK
Fun fact: the image you see on screen isn't city 17. But actually down town london
Best day in happiest Germany (NRW):
happiest day in poland
Attention Protection Team: status evasion in progress in this community. Respond, isolate, inquire.
Was reading this as the exact voiceline played
@@Elaver same!
Source engine is pure magic
im sad cuz there is no half life 3 or counter strike with new source engine
@@AmmarYaser-w9i*counter strike 2 left the chat*
@@AmmarYaser-w9i*counter strike 2 left the chat*
dude lets play gmod together @@RealBlackSago
This ambience make me just leave my key inside the car without worrying it get stolen.
We keep hearing car horns in the background, I wonder what the context of that is. I doubt the Combine allows all that much non-state road traffic to begin with, if they even permit car ownership at all. The Combine themselves probably make extensive use of AI, which wouldn't necessitate manual use of a car horn. Same goes for the ambulance sirens. 🤔
its probably the apcs
Tbh idk but maybe the Combine allows some cars to be used if they work or reuses them for other purposes. Like how they copied human law enforcement systems and military but replaced them with humans affiliated with the combine, maybe they did the same with cars, but there wasn't many working ones.
IK from Gmod the whooping noises you hear, are called Manhack Alert or Scanner Alert.
I guess when a Scanner or Manhack spots someone or something bad it does that.
The APC's have their own alarm noises also. 5:40 Distant one.
This just reminds me, is there an HL2 mod that takes place during the 1 week long time Gordon was basically nowhere, as a result of the teleportation accident?
During that time the uprising started, and it would be cool to have that as a game from the perspective of an average citizen first witnessing the start of it, then trying to survive the escalation, then joining in as a new rebel combatant. It could even work as an MMO RPG FPS kind of thing.
I slept under this for an hour while Visual Studio was installed on my computer.
it only takes a couple seconds..
Why do I get the feeling this’ll become relevant soon (If not already)?
Доктор: вам осталось жить 5 минут что бы вы хотели послушать перед своей смертью?
Я: City 17 ambient
Доктор: но он идет 1 час.
Смерть: Я подожду.
Так же я: позволь ещё поставить мировой рекорд по прохождению half-life 2
Смерть: да ты охерел?
@@Noexithere пххахах, гениально
What an interesting sound effect Fallout decided to use.
I thought I recognized that siren!!! I thought it was Star Wars initially, but couldn't place my finger on exactly where it was from. Well done M8, Ad Victoriam!
@@Fischstix95 im pretty sure it was used in a game about star wars but im not sure which, it sounds like a sped up imperial siren
I KNEW I WASNT CRAZY
@@Krzaczor-ym9gd You're likely thinking of the alarm sound which plays on Hoth in BF2, which sounds similar if you haven't heard it in a prolonged amount of time.
@@Xeiruxx Nah, im thinking more of a rebel/republican ship either in a game or in the shows
I legit fall for sleep every with this, and when it got removed I was, but now that it's back I'm happy thx for coming back
germany with friedrich merz as chancellor
buchstäblich 1984
💯
Playing this audio outside makes me feel like I’m in some sort of isolated state
"Time, Dr. Freeman. is it really that, time again?"
E3, year: unknown.
_VALVE represents third game of Half Life_
if i go outside and i hear this im cooked
How did I relax to this
This is what will await us if we do nothing in 3/5 years.
In few days that turn into years comments are going to be like a graveyard 7 years ago flashed like nothing it’s like the game released yesterday
Way more philosophical thought than I expected to see in this comment section but I couldn't agree more. I'm 17 so I wasn't even around when the game came out, but I grew up playing it (which still feels very recent,) but most of my playtime of HL2 is from 10 years ago now. It's also awesome though, in a way, that no matter how many years pass, Half Life fans keep congregating in these comment sections. Definitely a testament to their timelessness.
@@LawmanMediaim 17 as well and thanks to my brother i was gaming at 4 and a half with my first own bought game being farming sim 12 in tesco CD!!! Then experience of golden age internet and Minecraft when i was just a tiny lad! To getting bullied in team fortress at almost 6 by 15yo kids hahahaha but yeah man im glad i experienced my earliest childhood the way i did internet compared to that now is so boring and sensitive full of weirdos but in few years as i said one person will like these comments after long time and if we ll notice we can just look back at us when we were typing these and had way less responsibilities 😢
I wrote this like three days ago and it's already 2 weeks..
2 months already..
5 months
yo I paused the vid and I still hear it my headphones buggin
Nah you just living in city 17
*"Control, your hearts desire of freedom."* 🇨🇳
☭
what
@@the.j. it's a reference to some tiktok of a chinese drone with a form of city speaker on it talking to the public during a lockdown. though i'm pretty sure "control your hearts desire for freedom" was a mistranslation, though it's something similar
@@Photom101 ah, thanks
@@Soviet54🗿
This feels like Chicago, the citadel reminds me of the sears tower, and overwatch reminds me of the thousands of police reports whenever someone steals a bag of chips from a 711
Anyone else want to move to City 17 with me?
pack your bags, I’m coming with you
Yeah why not, just leave me out of the whole combine control part.
@droppers dude droppers why are you here!!! What are the odds!!!!
(Also im coming with you lads)
@@Zeleven87 ayyy zeleven! what a surprise too! I'm gonna try to get to the next dabido stream here so maybe we can tune in together
When you leaving? I will go as soon as possible. Half life 2 is in my top 10 reasons to still want to be alive
britain asmr
This is meant to sound eerie, yet it feels so calming
yeah
No shit sherlock, I even fell asleep to this.
woah woah woah woah woah
how it feels living in north korea:
Exactly what I was thinking, except they're not as technologically advanced, and more oppressive I bet lol
@@temrenalican4570 bruh you think a galactic empire with advanced technology , that prevent birth , enslave humans and cut food from them and also put things in the water that make you F O R G E T , will turn you into a stalker after alot of experiments , will take away your humanity and turn you into a clone if you joined their forces , kill anyone who seems off to them, is better than a government that is oppressive to their people by silencing their opinions in one way or another and force them stay inside of North Korea?
or in ukraine
Average day in New Haven, Connecticut
real af for that this state sucks
average day in cali
i think thats what draws us ct guys here. we live this everyday 💀
@King07062 speak for yourself I hate it here but can't afford to leave because of how much it costs to exist here
@@overlordzathra ??? i never said it was good? tf u think half life is?
Me estoy volviendo adicto a este tipo de videos.
Respond... isolate... inquire.
48:13 what is the background sound that goes woa woa woa woa
just a siren
APC crossing noise
manhack alarm or apc alarm (i looked in the game files before)
If your still looking for it, the specific file name your looking for is "scanner_alert_pass1.wav" under /ambient/alarms
This sound will play in my head when I’m walking outside and I get so confxued
i finally found the content i never knew i needed
This helps me sleep
haha help to concentrate too
This why I always got the CROWBλR on me
"we're living in the best time in human history!" how the average young independent person lives:
Как будто кто-то Санкт-Петербург снял с видом на Лахта-центр
Какой нахер это халф лайф 2
Whenever I hear this background sound , gives me the chill everytime
You mean this one 1:18
this and some benadryl
a lot of benadryl
Soo many memories with this ambience
benzos?
Не прошло и года, и опять плохие новости. Спасибо большое, что вернул видосы на канал.
Istg this is literally how my town sounds like
which town???
Attention protection, code 345
2020 quarantine ambient
How come I find, the sound of a dystopian society where humanity has been slave, Relaxing 🤔
you're one of them, are you?
This one's a Combine-planted agent for sure.
nostalgia for the game
oddly relaxing
I use it to sleep
Imagine you are city 17 civilian and then out of nowhere youbget kidnaped transform into stalker.
No. Only rebels are turned into stalkers.
*G E T O U T O F H E R E , S T A L K E R !*
Who noticed the left wall is just a mirrored copy of the right wall?
🤯
Why you had to ruin the magic 😢
It’s so the mortar lines all draw the players focus towards the citadel
Like a Time Machine…
to the past or the future?
These days both answers seem equally right.
@@BrunoBluthgeldNo, the present
Wish this was on spotify
When you enter China frfrfrfr
Wrong. This is how the world will look in 5 years. China was only the foundation of the new world order.*
i have been listening it for 2 hours, real good
Aquí tranquilo leyendo 1984 escuchando esto de fondo 😅😅
Nah, el ambiente de la beta de Hl2 era mucho más deprimente y era mas 1984.
just what I need to relax.
this is what I have been waiting for