Half-Life: Blue Shift - Hidden Entity Names and Jokes
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- Опубліковано 9 лют 2025
- Part of my Half-Life Fact Files series: • Half-Life Fact Files
In this edition, we once again blue ourselves to take a sneak peek into the hidden entity names and gags that Gearbox's level designers tucked away into the maps.
Music:
Half-Life: Opposing Force (Chris Jensen) - Tunnel
Half-Life (Kelly Bailey) - Vague Voices
Half-Life (Kelly Bailey) - Military Precision
Half-Life (Kelly Bailey) - Hard Technology Rock
Half-Life: Opposing Force (Chris Jensen) - Bust
Half-Life 2 (Kelly Bailey) - Tracking Device
![INSECURITY [SFM]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/cGtRTFNMXCU/mqdefault.jpg)
Looks like whoever was scripting a teleporter room was having a breakdown
Yeah, seems like the author haven't enjoyed scripting this at all.
Admittedly it's a pretty big setpiece; many moving parts and scripted sequences they probably had to test out a lot too.
Can you imagine having to listen to that scientist give the same talk over and over again while trying to get the room working right?
@@noahwilliams8996 More likely it was listening to a lead deciding that it was time to implement a brand new feature at the very last minute, just when the level designer wanted to go home already
Marph documented it on his Twitter (@SlappyCromwell) on the 23rd of April if you want to see a timeline.
Half-life writing team: Relaying power to auxiliary rotary dampener
Half-life programming team: spin_thingy
SPEEN
spooooooooooooooooooooooooooon
it spins, thats it
@@Ribbons0121R121 you are a man of culture my friend
@@TheDarkraiDimension491 yeow
Otis is the thiccest security guard working at black mesa
Gordon is the thiccest scientisct ua-cam.com/video/_-pMVMsPYIw/v-deo.html
*E X T R A T H I C C*
Barney, I'm trying to sneak around, but I'm *d u m m y t h i c c* and the clap of my ass cheeks keeps alerting the Vortigaunts
OH MAH GAWD YO ASS IS HOT
@@Galeq. why thank you
that "what's in the box" part at calhoun's locker really explains why he has those alien conspiracy books. dude found a weird ass motherfuckin THING and wanted to figure out what it was.
Chumtoad?
@@nicefloweytheoverseer7632 yes.
@@nicefloweytheoverseer7632 nickname: weird ass motherfucking THING
Laughed seeing the plant in the corner's name, has too be some backstory too that one.
50 bucks it was a developers ex
@@TheRedKing247 I'm in
TornadoATP
I’ve known some monster Amandas.
A M A N D A
I wonder why that plant is a monster_generic and not just some prop entity
"joemomma"
Half-Life was truly ahead of it's time.
yeah lol, never thought i would see a joe mama joke all the way back from the 1990's
@@hfghhgfhfghfgBlue Shift came in 2001
@@RedrD-oh6wu2001? 9/11?
@@hfghhgfhfghfg Yes, the first ever blue shift copy dropped out of the plane after the hit on the towers.
@@RedrD-oh6wulets go!!
Fun fact: while falling in the elevator, you’re not really falling. Instead, the elevator slips down a bit, and then a texture of a wall rapidly goes up and up to create the illusion of falling
That sequence was already packed with stuff so that was good thinking on the developer’s end.
makes sense considering that computers weren't as powerful back then, programmers used to need to optimize everything as much as possible
Honestly I still wish that we had that kins of optimisation in modern games... would make them run so much better, and spare people hundreds of thousands of euros on a graphics card to get maybe 2 more FPS lol
Whoever made the first stage of the teleportation sequence before the power cell must have been having an awful day
I thought they were referencing how Barney must be feeling about the situation.
Where is this at? I'm too lazy to watch the whole video.
Ay-ay-ron TRAIN 8:14
@@endmysuffering2925 u could literally just sit there and watch it, what's lazier than that lol
@@dirtypure2023Or you could not be a dick and just tell him. Also, it’s spelled “you”.
Imagine them talking to each other when working on the game:
"Hey did you finish working on *spiny thingy* ?"
"Yeah I am done"
>jolly plays blueshift this video
God I love half life 1 community
Just watching it and this video comes up in my notifs
now we need DeSinc to bunnyhop through the entire Blueshift and the trilogy will be complete
It's such a small world lmao
ikr cool tho
@@Halfpipesaur or to Quadrazid to fly at lightspeed ending it in 10 min
"The level designers often used _humorous_ entity names for the maps' scripted events."
0:28: *_cheese_*
So that kind of humour exist back then? I like that.
That designer dreamed about cheese.
Not as ahead of its time as Spinning_Whore and SHITFUCK_END1.
Who moved his cheese?
I don't know who this guy is, but he looks like he's made of CHEESE hahahaha
Since when that became humour?
Go-Go Gadget Multi Manager!
It look like refrence from inspector gadget like when it say go go gadget (in 1999)
@@raf3604 Erm... that's the point?
@@avtomatkalashnikova1947 yes
@@avtomatkalashnikova1947 like go go gadget heli,anything what he say
*You:* A chair
*Me, an intellectual:* SPOOOOOOOON
SPEEEEEEEN
@@FunkatronicDingus my name: john chair, my mission: SpEeEEEeeN
**tosses boot** Well that's great
Is that a reference to tick?
Vinsauce...?
"The level designers often used humorous entity names for the maps' scripted events."
10:00 is pure comedy then
someone got really depressed by the end of the development for this game
THANKS RANDY
It just degrades
Have you seen the developer notes in the actual code? Im suprised they were sane in the end.
Near the beginning:
4:42 JOEMAMMA & JOEBITCH
Near the end:
9:02 makeitstopplease
9:46 kill_will_to_live
@@radektomasek5870 Wait what does the notes say?
all those selfaware names during the Rosenberg cutscene is a Freeman's mind episode by itself.
Lol
Someone needs to send that "kill_crap_engine" trigger_relay entity to Bethesda
I live right next to Bethesda my guy
Aštrēdd_Evølvēd If only the company was there.
"kill_crap_engine"
SAME ENGINE SINCE MORROWIND BABY
4:36 Gearbox was ahead of it's time.
Hey, 9:16
fuck joe. hate em
Who's Joe?
@@MagicMaster667 J O E M A M A
@@LNSO2006 we got him boys.
3:52 oh my god indeed what a lovely little man
He's just a little guy.
Now I can play Blue Shift again knowing the information
@@Barbaric-Yawp What are you? A rocket scientist?
*Gordon Freeman noises*
@@meso_p *Whoop* *Whoop* *Whoop* *Whoop* *Whoop* *_-CROWBAR-_**_ GORDON FREEMAN NOISES INTENSIFY_*
Dear God, what are you doing?!
*CEULHOUN YOU KNOW YOU CAN'T*
1:23 - so you're telling me that there was a unnecessarily hi-res model of a half-eaten sandwich there for this entire time
It's one of the junk gibs that appears when you break a trash can in the original game.
You mean a completely necessary hi-res model of a half-eaten sandwich
the sandwich is half-life
@@Poracheapa and half-bread
*Heavy lurking around
The fact that the plant in 2:34 is named Amanda kinda reminds me of this one indie RPG game called Suits where if you interact with the plants they all have female names.
Weird coincidence.
Maybe it’s a reference to that
@@remyrichardson8614 Sorta unlikely -- assuming I got the right game, Suits was released around 15 years after Blue Shift
@@JetFalcon710 maybe vise versa lmao
@@remyrichardson8614 Oh yeah, probably
6:37
Considering the limits of the Goldsrc engine, I still find it impressive how they managed to get that fancy train crash in. I don't understand how the barrels or the func_tracktrain managed to rotate while going on a track (which is the only way I can see them moving so smoothly). Parenting entities didn't exist in the Goldsrc engine, so it couldn't be a func_rotating parented to a func_tracktrain. Anybody mind explaining that bit?
I have no knowledge of mapping in Goldsrc, but just looking at that clip, the barrels and train don't start to rotate until after the train stops, so could it not be that they are made invisible, and swapped with clones that use func_rotating?
i dont think they're actual props with the original function, instead generic actors designed for that specific sequence
The thing is that there is actually two trains on this map, one with all the barrels and the train itself, and the impact one which doesn't have barrels on it. They're disappearing and appearing when needed.
The entity that is using on all moving objects in this scene isn't func_tracktrain, it's a regular func_train with set speed 'n stuff. The rotation is made by putting some numbers into "Angular Velocity (y z x)" I believe, so there's no need in parenting func_rotating onto another entity.
I love how in Computer Science our teachers tell us that the variable names in our programs are important...
11:00
The Chinese chicken
You have a drumstick and your brain stops ticking
Watching X-Files with no lights on.
I thought the Barneys are called Burnie, Bort, Barfy etc
Here after Jolly's video, i suppose...
"Cave Johnson, new owner and CEO of Black Mesa. That's right, you've been bought"
Oh I know where you come from :D
Got that jolly ref
They just started numbering them
How bout Barney #2, Barney #3278
2:34
Is Amanda the lead developer of TF2 nowadays?
women amirite
@@screamsinrussian5773 it's a joke about potted plant you dunmie
@@khorkhi7107 yeah I know
tf2 is being developed by a potted plant
Good morning to you too Amanda. Feeling green as well today
"Who is joe?"
4:31 scripted_sequence *joemomma*
Joe-a-bitch_mm
and they thought freeman could spacetime travel
@Frentista yep hl:opposing force predicted the joe mama meme
“Have you been cheating on Joe?”
“Who’s Joe?”
“Joebitch_mm”
That was way ahead of its time
gotta love all the foreshadowing
"It's gonna be a long day-"
"Surprised this place hasn't been shutdown yet-"
HL1 did it a bit better in an ominous way, but Blue Shift does a decent job too.
5:25 finally, we know Gman's true name
kill_crap_engine
i see someone had a bad day
How about you 9:15
LMFAOOO
the synchronization at 7:42 with the music and sound effects is amazing you a genius man
valve should give you some award for your dedication to half life.
Na, that might cause them to spend more then a dollar.
Sadly, Valve does not acknowledge their fans, not even VNN's dedicated coverage
@@SEGAClownboss Tyler got invited to the Valve HQ, and got a free Vive from them. Isn't that acknowledging him?
@@JonasTisell A free Vive that he missed out, let's not forget!
They would gift him Artifact
Valve on halflife: having the time of their lives.
Valve on tf2: losing their sainity every second
Blue Shift was developed by Gearbox, not Valve
So, Are You Telling Me, That Otis's Canonical Name Is "Otis Bigbooty"?
Yes yes indeed
I think it’s Otis Laurey if I remember right
8:10
Accursed Farms presents: Calhoun's Mind
In case you or anyone else hasn't seen it there is a Barney's Mind which is pretty good: ua-cam.com/video/aGgO8O6JuM8/v-deo.html
I can beat blue shift in about 2 hours so I expect Accursed Farms to take about 5 years, conservative estimate
2:36 The plant pot working on it's previous job before being assigned to the TF2 dev team
0:52 - A basketball court, I guess that explains the mysterious ball near the train tracks.
But it's a football
10:03
How did they knew i had a desktop folder named like that!?
Wait, do you even know what's even in that folder?
Yep, that sounds like Gearbox to me
So that's how they came up with poop trains
At 5:42 SvenCoop actually reveals their names that way. At first I thought they were joking at the coop recreation of blueshift, but I guess they didn't make that up
Nice.
3:40 "What's in the box?!"/ "Oh my god" is reference to movie 'Se7en' i think
AAAAAAAAH, what's in the BAaaaaax?
Se7en hour war lol
Gearbox likes to put se7en references in their games
what’s in the FUCKIN BOX?!?
Box box box box, what's in the box?
7:39
If you're wondering, it's usually a PITA to make rotated geometry like that in solid brushwork, so the process was simplified by just using a rotating door and telling it to go to a certain position.
The name "kill_crap_engine" really emphasizes the Pain In The Ass part of things
Amanda is one of the fiercest monsters in the half life series
> black_knight
Ok that doesn't sound too bad
> none_shall_pass
...What?!?
Flash that buttery gold
H3mmer the robot: “No python!”
Someone really didn't like scripting part of this game.
4:36 gearbox was ahead of their time, truly
They were looking into the future
4:30 That was way, WAY ahead of its time.
1:57 - always doubt that scene is accurate. Gordon never walks calmly - he all the way is just randomly jumping and running in train wagon all the way.
Most of these sound like inner thoughts.
I like to think of them like that too.
Otis_bigbooty
"knock_da_f_out"
Genius.
This reminds me how Gearbox Guys hated GoldSrc with all their heart yet they still made it out alive
Mad lads
"kill_crap_engine"
Love it when you upload. You always post something interesting or funny.
Scientists were spicy as hell hahaha. "Shouldn't you be guarding some donuts and coffee right about now ?"
6:28 Sam and Max freelance police
Sucking face ‘cause they ain’t got hands!
I just realized where the Freeman's mind introduction music comes from... and now I know the G-Man's true name is Patsy. o_o
G-man: Gabriel patsy
Don't worry gabriel isn't a canon name :kek:
@@smailchali5102 deep lore
Patsy, be cool if Valve confirmed that. Imagine the internets reaction!
He goes by many names.
5:41 mr cranky and silent bob sounds like a comedy show
6:00 when killing a scientist leads to the "good ending" lol
"It's a wonder this place hasn't shut down yet"
...little did he know, Black Mesa would shut down forever a couple days later.
Even after 2 decades these games have a lot of secrets wow. I doubt someone else can make masterpieces like Half Life.
I love the way Barney says "what is that smell?"
Now, everytime i see a plant, i'm gonna say "Oh, hello Amanda!".
12:13
"these chumps will not bite you, they want to have fun!"
then out of the corridor came chump two and chump one!
I love it.
2019:
*otis_thick*
*dummythicc
otis_thicc_af
*otis_moanster_thicc
Rule 34 of otis_thick
otis_dummy_thicc
Ugh Barney I'm trying to kill aliens but I'm dummy thicc and it keeps alerting the marines
2:48 Monty python :)
3:31 Happy Gilmore :)
Tis but a scratch.
He_ max
He_sam
6:26
And the most importantly
Ba_sluggo 6:38
They’re the Freelance Police!
"gogogadget_mm"
I also like to build brown trams in Crap-Life.
These guys were so advanced they predicted the joe mama jokes
The fingerprints of Randy are all over this.
8:28 Tube: *func_door PHALLUS*
Odd how they didn’t name the obviously penis shaped portal beam emitter that. I wonder if Ted Backman designed the Anti-mass Spectrometre and Lambda reactor portal in the original game considering they also clearly looked like metal willies cumming lasers into metal vaginas. After all, Ted was not only a teenager at the time, but he was the one who got hired by Valve because he designed the cut Mr Friendly after all.
@@lionocyborg6030 I don't even remember this comment lmao.
@@Krey_ I sometimes forget my old ones too.
@@lionocyborg6030WTF😂
4:34 ARE YOU KIDDING ME
Half life is such a huge part of my life. it always appears at key moments in my life....
hendrixnow hell yeah so true
Half a nice life!
You had a half life ;)
3:20
Scientist: You are completely wrong
8:14
Certainly looks like _someone_ at Gearbox wasn't having fun with goldsrc mapping.
So, func_conveyor "poo" was what made me lose it and crack up. Good to know that's where my sense of humour's at.
Sooo... we're not gonna talk about the fact that amanda's an entity?
Let alone labeled as "monster" meaning she's a Computer. Played. Unit. (C.P.U.)
5:11 Only one that got a laugh out of me lmao
11:58
There it is. A reference to The Tick's earth-shattering battlecry. Now I can die peacefully.
Plant = Amanda
Pelones
2:18 lol, Gearbox memed Free Bird before it came a mainstream
11:30 - the computer science teacher when you change the wallpaper
11:05 da chinese chicken, ya have a drumstick and ya brain stop's tickin'
7:21 So thats where redstone master mumbo jumbo got his name.... neat
I think it might be a reference to the character from Banjo-Kazooie.
10:05
Trying to name something you don’t care about the name of be like
Every single temporary file of a project I work on is named something along the lines of “dhdhwusijdhefh”, “auausuruejee” or my personal favourite “djdusisjhshssjdhdjfjlahhshdhejfujcajchttajsjz”
7:27 mumbo jumbo name from banjo-kazooie
0:22 So this is the guy that the rebels dream about
When you decide to put your 12-year-old son in charge of making the maps for your game.
at 7:09 you started the freeman's mind intro
oh well time to make a quote
is that an mp5? it is! now i can solve up to 800 problems a minute!
Gearbox really just gave up after Opposing Force didn't they...
4:31 FUCKING JOEMOMMA?!
There is no way that food court platform wouldn't have a railing but then again ...
That was Black Mesa ...
2:15 I CAN CHANGEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
FREEEEEDOMMMM YEAH
*Epic guitar solo 4 minutes long*
Damn Otis be caked 😩😩😩😩
love the scientist just named "crunchie"
4:44 Blue Shift did it first
Some of these names are just REAL specific
Whoever decided to name the entities like this must be very professional.
Rule 34 of Amanda the plant
Yus
Right away
_soon..._
YESSSSS
Right away