One of my favorite modes from back in the day was Flood, you had to build a raft and then after the level had flooded, distroy other player's rafts to earn more money to buy more props for your raft next round.
I remember back before Gmod 13 released in 2013 there used to be minigame servers, where you'd hop in and play any one of dozens of fun little minigamemodes. Stuff like Melonbomber and Trash Compactor (as well as Pedobear Escape, Laserwars and lots and lots of others) would be regular rotations in those.
I made the 2 maps named fatkid_hospital and fatkid_subterranean, and I can say that you can find on friday or saturday nights a full 32 count player base
It was so low pressure to win that I liked to spend hours building sleds, they didn't even have to be fast, it was just fun seeing my own creation bomb down a hill
Yeah, I remember GMT filling me with pure excitement and curiosity in a way not many games have done since. Ultimate Chimera Hunt especially scratched that nostalgia itch I have for the Mother series. I really wish someone would revive it (with the original creators' permission of course). P.S. Does anyone remember that janky Elevator mode? That was fun with friends.
Gmod tower was mind blowing back in the day I remember having my friends in my hotel room and we would play funny youtube videos on my in game tv, all the mini games were a good time, miss those days
There's a newer gamemode me and my friends have been playing a bit that's like zombie master called Overwatch (not the overwatch you're probably thinking of) where one team is the resistance from hl2 and the other is one person playing as the combine overwatch controlling and spawning the combine in an rts-style gamemode it's pretty fun, as the overwatch you can spawn (depending on the map) metrocops, soldiers, elites, manhacks, snipers, turrets, scanners, hunter choppers, and on the white forest mission you get to spawn in striders and hunters. also as a side note my friends and i have also been playing melonbomber recently, that game is especially fun when you get a bunch of people together in vc to play it
My current GMod obsession is a gamemode called Jazztronauts. You (and maybe other players, but it works solo) break into any community made map on the workshop, steal everything you can, and return to the hub (an interdimensional bar run by cats). Along with it's unique concept, the characters and story is pretty good too.
I actually remember playing GMOD Fat Kid back when it was actually decently active and it certainly was an experience alright. A very…4channy experience. I’m pretty sure there was also a special round event where the fat kid was a brony and all of the skeletons were replaced with MLP playermodels. Also tysm for giving Trash Compactor some love and attention
@@Yousie6 I figured, which is why I worded it like that. I remember also going to the Swamp’s cinema server a few times, and immediately regretting my choices every single one of those times lol
The fat kid server I played on had gif search in text chat enabled for some reason, so in the text chat there'd be a constant stream of gross out gore or giant titties, it was a perplexing thing to see on the side of your screen while trying to run away from a fat kid..... This one also had the MLP event round so I was wondering if it was the same one lol. Also I think the event was called "autistic fat kid", not really sure though
This is great dude. I'm 23 now and gmod was the first game I bought on steam when I was like 10. I just recently decided to browse through the old servers that nobody plays anymore and it's almost sad knowing you're never gonna be able to have those experiences again but so much time has passed its pretty unbelievable that people still play this game. I used to play harbor rp with my friend religiously.
yeah my friends and I played military rp ttt prop hunt when I was 13 or 14 I had this bad laptop that would barely get 20fps and couldve heated a siberian igloo
the normal Zombie Survival was one of my favorite ((and still is)) one of my favorite gmod gamemodes. god i miss melonbomber too. melonbomber was one of my favorites too.
I loved playing Morbius. Doesn't anyone remember Morbus? There was also that game where you climb a steep hill dodging falling props. And that other one where you jump from platform to unstable platform trying to survive the longest as a cannon shoots balls that knocks them down.
YES. I used to love Morbus. It scared the shit out of me and made me so paranoid who the alien was. Its so sad all these awesome gamemodes have died out
Extreme footbally throwdown is not only buggybut one of the most fun gamemode to play in good bursts. I wish people continued playing that gamemode and I do hope it has some spritiual success for s&box
The fish gamemode was such a wonder of the community. blew up outta nowhere in one day with multiple servers filled to the brim only for it to die off less than a month or two, still think about it to this day and sure hope someone will make a new one for S&Box
There was a gamemode called industrial nightmare 3 / Liver failure, you basically roleplayed in a post apocalyptic town in filth, flesh and disease. The gamemode was taken down by the creator but the devs are working on a new version. There is a good video describing the gamemode and a steam guide if you're interested.
I remember Sassilization. Basically an RTS with miniature figures you walked over. Defend your city, collect resources, attack enemy cities using units you build. Also GMod Tower had a variety of modes including Ultimate Chimera Hunt.
Thank you for introducing zombie master to me. It is a genuinely genius inventive idea, and I am surprised that it hasn’t been made into its own standalone game yet.
The melon prop is funny to me because not only is this the only proper food item in HL2, but you can also just go through a burnt down and destroyed apartment only to find two melons on the kitchen counter looking like they were bought the day before
Appreciate the shout-out for ZM:R, work has been slow but we're working to finish our B7 build which will be the first release on Steam. Let's just say we have a lot cooking with this update.
I played a game called Bomberamn Jetters on the GameCube when I was a kid, and it had a multiplayer mode that was essentially exactly like this 7:33 Safe to say that they guy that made Melon Bomber just played Bomberman and copied it, which isn't a horrible thing since this is GMod
there was (or maybe still is) a gamemode called "fish" where you would fish, gain resources, could build little houses, buy upgrades, stuff like that. there hasnt been a game like it since. sometimes you would fish up an item or spawn enemies, the maps that were made for that gamemode always seemed so peaceful
dunno if this one is dead or not because i haven't played gmod in a while, but one of my favorites has always been sledbuild there was something fun about building the most random thing, putting a seat on it and using it to race other people's creations
I'm the "creator" of trash compactor (the Gmod gamemode anyway) and I wanted to say thanks for the shoutout! It's cool to see someone mention that funny thing I made all those years ago.
when you said at the start "name 3 gmod modes" i instantly thought of desert bus, star wars rp and nazi rp probably the only reason i said desert bus was the conversation i had with a friend about it a few minutes earlier
"Razborka!" was one me and my friends would play a lot inbetween our TTT sessions. It was basically just a simple deathmatch gamemode packed full with STALKER memes but oh my god we had fun with that one. I think that's one of those things that I'll always miss the most about the golden age of Source modding: all those simple but fun little things that were active for a short while, but were simply good multiplayer fun and generated tons of memories.
The man garry himself actually joined trash compactor back a few years ago, he answered some questions and thanked people for playing gmod and left after like 20 minutes
these gmod videos you've put out have given me a newfound appreciation for the game I haven't felt since I first found the game as a kid, gotta check out trash compactor sometime with friends, that sounds really fun.
The homogenization of Garry's mod game modes is the biggest crime in the world. I remember my favorite mini game server turned into a TTT server because people would join and only vote for TTT. Me and a lot of the early community on that server felt terrible because we were basically forced out.
All of the gamemodes you brought up look like ones that I'd play with a small group of maybe 4-5 friends compared to gamemodes like Zombie Survival, TTT, or DarkRP. All of which work best on large population servers. I can't imagine a 15 player zombie master, fat kid, trash compactor, or melon bomber game going well, but maybe that's just my own perspective.
The gmod server browser is plagued by darkrp ripoffs these days. I remember all the creative and simplistic gamemodes that were lively back in the day.
The one I LOVED back before was Devinity 2, It's INSANE how detailed that gamemode was and how it genuinely is just a full on game conversion. Sadly the server running the gamemode hasn't been on since like 2016 or earlier
I worked a bit on Devinity, I'm the Sunrise: outer edge guy, the most popular of the sunrise servers Here's some pre-alpha footage when we were testing stuff: ua-cam.com/video/iA44dc8mLP0/v-deo.html
Those Zombie Master maps look familiar, seems like the same maps the original mod had back in 2007. Really haven't seen them in a long time but I do recognize playing on them back then. The Source modding scene was really lively at that time, great memories.
i think the problem is the browser itself. before you can view servers, you have to select a gamemode, and popular gamemodes are always at the top. the oldschool browser forced you to view everything at once, so as not to prefer any server over the other beyond your filters. this allows new or unpopular gamemodes to get more exposure.
Morbus is a good one. Like a weird cross between ttt and the Thing. It got some attention on youtube a long time ago and I was lucky enough to play it during that time, but it died out and I almost never see any servers up. Sad cuz its actually really fun.
Wow what a find for video! I learnt a lot as a programmer (and learned hammer) trying and failing to work on the Zombie Master mod, which was already mostly dead by time I came around. I was definitely not up to snuff back then talent wise to do anything with it so almost glad it didn't go anywhere, honestly. Had no idea there was a gmod version!
Zombie master was the best, I never knew it had a gmod version though. Some people are still working on the source mod. I'd love to see that game get a resurgence
If you do a follow up video, my favourite niche gamemode is Slave of Gmod. From memory, I think it was created for the same contest as Melonbomber. It's a recreation of Hotline Miami in gmod, except multiplayer.
Also I played Melonbomber (and actually hosted a server for it). I don't think the topdown perspective dates it, it's actually newer than TTT, DarkRP, and Prophunt. It's a lot newer than Zombie Master. It might even be newer than Murder but don't quote me on that. The top down perspective was done for gameplay reasons, not technical ones. It's a Bomberman clone, after all. Other game modes I remember fondly: Pirate Ship Wars. This game mode was a janky messy. You'd be lucky to play a full round without the server crashing, since this game mode pushed the physics system to its limits. It was pretty fun though. I liked the map with the waterfall at the start, since most rounds you'd die on the waterfall and never even get to fight the other team. Hilarious. I was also always interested in GarryWare, a WarioWare-style game mode. But I had a lot of trouble getting it to run in the post-Fretta era.
I remember my favorite gamemodes were space build, slope, and deathrun. Though ttt will always have a special place the amount of times I would actually get to play the game made it frustrating. I would get rdmed within 5 seconds of the round regardless of the role most if the time.
there's a cool gamemode that i don't see many people talking about called horde, it's not super underplayed but it doesn't seem to be anywhere near as popular as some of the main gamemodes. it's a lot like killing floor, but in gmod!
There was also that gamemode where 2 teams attach props to their boats at the beginning of the round to make them more durable, and when the timer goes off, they shoot each other/the bases. They either go down by getting shot or by drowning
Me and my friends have always coveted an otherwise dead gamemode called dropzone which is a fighting game type mode with a ridiculously large amount of mechanics and abilities. I’d highly recommend it to anyone with a group of friends to play it with
I played one called Mario Boxes (I think it was called) loooong ago. It was a sidescroller where you were a box trying to kill other boxes and capture their flag. Most maps were based on old NES games and you could find all kinds of weapons and tools (like a grapple) in the maps.
When commercial GMOD first came out, I used to love Melon Race. Every player is a melon and has to race against every other melon through an obstacle laden race track. The twist being that you have the health of a regular melon prop - and when your melon breaks you're out.
There’s an old GMOD gamemode that I’m sad I never got to play during it’s prime called “Breach”. It looked pretty fun, it was basically a round-based multiplayer adaptation of SCP Containment Breach, with players taking on different roles like Class-D, Scientists, Guards, etc etc. The gamemode kinda died when a man named Hubert Moszka created SCP Secret Laboratory, which was basically his successful attempt at porting gmod breach to the Unity engine as its own seperate game. Secret Lab is awesome on its own, but gmod breach looked pretty fun too and I’m sad I never got to experience what that was like. There’s some servers still hosting the breach gamemode, but they’re all Chinese and Russian, and have some weird mods added into them that kinda clutter the experience.
Oh lord this is gonna hit some people who see this but I remember around 2012-2013 Garry’s Mod had this huge MMO gamemode people were trying to get it to work. I just can’t ever remember what it was exactly called
A really cool, and pretty much unknown gamemode i used to play is smash, hosted by moronyard. It's like trash compactor, except all players are on top of physics platforms and have to avoid giant rocks falling from the sky, which destroy the ground you're on. Last player alive wins. Super underrated.
i remember an old gamemode where you had races and upgraded your car all the time to get better placements and the maps of it were creative af. don't remember the gamemode name anymore tho. also GunGaym was my fav version of gungame with halo maps, more movespeed and unique weapons. and the finish of the dildo launcher was always a joy
i just found your videos and i love the coverage of these half life and gmod related topics. i miss the old times and these videos always give me a huge nostalgia kick
I still remember a VS Boss mode where there was actual weapon unlocks that were unique it was really fun! Unfortunately I don't remember the name or server of that particular Gamemode.
Nearly unheard of but fun game mode, Tactical Tool Game, like a tower defense up to 3v3 where one team places structures and various object to inhibit the other team from reaching a capture point,etc. pretty fun stuff of course it’s hard to summarize in one comment.
i loved this gamemode where you used the minecraft block tool to build a fort in like 1-5 minutes with a team, and then after that you would just shoot the crap out of the other team until the other was dead cause their fort was destroyed
Zombie master was so much fun. I actually remember also playing a standalone source mod (not sure if it was actually the same name) when Garry's mod was still in infancy.
I remember fishing on the hl2dm puzzle maps ages ago and tried the fish gamemode in gmod and it felt like a spiritual successor but idk which came first
I haven't played Gmod since about 2016 😬 A few game modes and HL2 mods eventually became stand alone games.... There is quite a large number of custom modes you can go through. It's a very social game, most require a lot of team work or peer to peer communication... Assuming of course you're not just in sandbox lol
It's really a shame that DarkRP and TTT kind of ate everything. I remember playing Sledbuild/Boat Build Battles a lot. There was also a server that occasionally ran what was essentially entirely working Half Life 2 Deathmatch ported to gmod. Great fun.
I'm going to sound crazy but I still don't think that woodland has ever looked better than in Source. There is something about those trees that feels like late autumn; sunsetting; wearing flannel.
There was that one gamemode where it was somewhere between RP and DM, it was pretty much free for all but you could form alliances and take over buildings, make money, get gun vending machines, raid other bases, there was a LOT of custom guns, but sadly I don't remember the name does anyone remember it?
my favorite used to be Slope, you'd run up a hill like in Fall Guys with stuff rolling down the hill to kill you but the plugins don't exist anymore so playing the gamemode is basically impossible now
I spent like most of one summer during middle school primarily playing melon bomber with a friend and we had a lot of fun playing it, came across some pretty cool people too. what cut it short of us was they banned my friend because his name was in cyrillic claiming it was either a slur or offensive text, which it wasn't, I tried to get him unbanned but they ended up banning me too.
just wanna clarify, 0:25 we didn't use the GMod server browser. That came out in the 2013 update, which was the end of life update for GMod that effectively wiped out all the original gamemodes. It took years for anything decent and new to come out but it was too late, TTT and DarkRP had already taken over. The player count for the game may have kept growing but everything besides those gamemodes just shrank and never recovered. A few gems exist but they're played by tiny communities, almost not at all, and are more or less minigames that were meant to be played alongside other minigames, not as a 24/7. The 2006-2012 gamemodes that were eventually repaired never returned to the same quality standard because the original developers are gone and the new developers that picked up their source code (or acquired leaks/stolen code) never played the old gamemodes.
You didn’t even mention the best one of them all called Extreme Football Throwdown all I can describe it as pure chaos and destruction mixed with some kind of sports mini game
Gmod was my all time favorite, so many summers of me and my friends hovering over my dad computer taking turns on TTT then getting upset and rdming on my computer because they were mad at me IRL. Nothing worse then getting banned for something you didn’t do
One of my favorite modes from back in the day was Flood, you had to build a raft and then after the level had flooded, distroy other player's rafts to earn more money to buy more props for your raft next round.
Bro now thats a fucking Roblox Game 🪦
@@javierabreu956 this was most likely before, that bad roblox game
@@MuffinManWasTaken duh
@@MuffinManWasTaken the roblox game isnt even that bad. But I havent played the gmod version so idk
@@javierabreu956 every single gmod gamemode is now on roblox💀💀💀
the best part of this video is the footage of me juking everyone in prophunt with 300 ping
This lad probably from Jurassic Park (Australia).
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no one fucking cares, furry
Do you like baguettes (France)
welcome to moscow, comrade (Russia)
I remember back before Gmod 13 released in 2013 there used to be minigame servers, where you'd hop in and play any one of dozens of fun little minigamemodes. Stuff like Melonbomber and Trash Compactor (as well as Pedobear Escape, Laserwars and lots and lots of others) would be regular rotations in those.
those servers pretty much concocted my childhood
That was the shit when I was 10. Nothing was more exciting than when everyone voted for a gamemode you wanted to play lol
the phrase "pedobear escape" just sent me waaaay back
@@toastedcherries hi cherries
And now it's just RP servers... RP servers everywhere.
I made the 2 maps named fatkid_hospital and fatkid_subterranean, and I can say that you can find on friday or saturday nights a full 32 count player base
The hero was all needed.
Bro i spent over 400 hours on your maps i love you
Im sorry for using aimbot ;(
You made my childhood that’s insane thank you man
@@darkcrim7397 i only released it less than 2 years ago
another good one is "ragdoll combat". everyone is a ragdoll that controls poorly and you have to punch everyone else to death.
unironically my favorite gamemode to ever exist
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I was very sad that barely anyone ever played the mode nowadays
Best Gmod game mode fs
The sleigh race gamemode where you had to build your own sled and race against other players down a hill was my favorite
sledbuild owns, i loved building a fully furnished shack as a sled
such a classic
It was so low pressure to win that I liked to spend hours building sleds, they didn't even have to be fast, it was just fun seeing my own creation bomb down a hill
@@kommandre there used to be a meta one you'd make that would glitch down the hill super fast haha.
OG creator here, fun times!
Ultimate Chimera Hunt was really fun and had a nice population, especially around the Gmod Tower days. I miss that gamemode. Sad to see it dead.
Well, there is Tower Unite but many people prefer the original
@@ExtrnalSorce2 yeah i wouldnt have minded that it split off into a standalone game if it didnt come with a newfound price tag as well
Yeah, I remember GMT filling me with pure excitement and curiosity in a way not many games have done since. Ultimate Chimera Hunt especially scratched that nostalgia itch I have for the Mother series. I really wish someone would revive it (with the original creators' permission of course).
P.S. Does anyone remember that janky Elevator mode? That was fun with friends.
Gmod tower was mind blowing back in the day I remember having my friends in my hotel room and we would play funny youtube videos on my in game tv, all the mini games were a good time, miss those days
@@Daniel_Lancelin I miss UCH so much! I thought there was a server on gmod that was just UCH. It might have shut down.
There's a newer gamemode me and my friends have been playing a bit that's like zombie master called Overwatch (not the overwatch you're probably thinking of) where one team is the resistance from hl2 and the other is one person playing as the combine overwatch controlling and spawning the combine in an rts-style gamemode
it's pretty fun, as the overwatch you can spawn (depending on the map) metrocops, soldiers, elites, manhacks, snipers, turrets, scanners, hunter choppers, and on the white forest mission you get to spawn in striders and hunters.
also as a side note my friends and i have also been playing melonbomber recently, that game is especially fun when you get a bunch of people together in vc to play it
It has a sick spinoff called the hunt which is like a full pve version which is just fighting combine with stealth mechanics
That was the overwatch I was thinking of lol (havent played the gamemode, just figured it would refer to HL2s overwatch)
Overwatch was actually the name of a Half Life 2 Mod that did that exact premise, it's from like 2008, and sadly died long ago.
@@coenisgreat yeah i knew it i was not sure if he was talking about this but yeah most of the old online hf mod are now dead
My current GMod obsession is a gamemode called Jazztronauts. You (and maybe other players, but it works solo) break into any community made map on the workshop, steal everything you can, and return to the hub (an interdimensional bar run by cats). Along with it's unique concept, the characters and story is pretty good too.
Yeah that’s one of the most creative/fun mods and barely anyone talks about it
I might try that if I get my hands on gmod
I gotta hunt this down, this sounds fun af
I actually remember playing GMOD Fat Kid back when it was actually decently active and it certainly was an experience alright. A very…4channy experience. I’m pretty sure there was also a special round event where the fat kid was a brony and all of the skeletons were replaced with MLP playermodels.
Also tysm for giving Trash Compactor some love and attention
the reason why it was very 4channy is cause of the swamp(?) server group is like that, the server hosts lol
@@Yousie6 I figured, which is why I worded it like that. I remember also going to the Swamp’s cinema server a few times, and immediately regretting my choices every single one of those times lol
i remember Fat Kid man i miss when GMod was still really popular and you’d get lots of weird one week gamemodes like that
The fat kid server I played on had gif search in text chat enabled for some reason, so in the text chat there'd be a constant stream of gross out gore or giant titties, it was a perplexing thing to see on the side of your screen while trying to run away from a fat kid.....
This one also had the MLP event round so I was wondering if it was the same one lol. Also I think the event was called "autistic fat kid", not really sure though
@@goodolnonamee i remember that lmao
this is one of those channels that oozes style and humor in a way i wouldn't be surprised to see you break 400k in the future
This is great dude. I'm 23 now and gmod was the first game I bought on steam when I was like 10. I just recently decided to browse through the old servers that nobody plays anymore and it's almost sad knowing you're never gonna be able to have those experiences again but so much time has passed its pretty unbelievable that people still play this game. I used to play harbor rp with my friend religiously.
What do you play nowadays? I keep going back to GMOD and can’t find anything.
yeah my friends and I played military rp ttt prop hunt when I was 13 or 14 I had this bad laptop that would barely get 20fps and couldve heated a siberian igloo
sitting around for an hour waiting for the addons to install with centurylink crap internet
the normal Zombie Survival was one of my favorite ((and still is)) one of my favorite gmod gamemodes.
god i miss melonbomber too. melonbomber was one of my favorites too.
I loved playing Morbius. Doesn't anyone remember Morbus? There was also that game where you climb a steep hill dodging falling props. And that other one where you jump from platform to unstable platform trying to survive the longest as a cannon shoots balls that knocks them down.
YES. I used to love Morbus. It scared the shit out of me and made me so paranoid who the alien was. Its so sad all these awesome gamemodes have died out
@@williamh8713 I played a shit ton of Morbus back in the day.
Morbius
Morbus morbius I remember when u would load in or smthn it would say MORBUS in a deep voice I think
Dude what was that steep hill gamemode ?? i've been looking for it for so fucking long
0:28 "Cool interesting game modes!" On Screen: Werwolf Nazi Germany Berlin RP
Extreme footbally throwdown is not only buggybut one of the most fun gamemode to play in good bursts. I wish people continued playing that gamemode and I do hope it has some spritiual success for s&box
I was the only one of my friends who liked playing eft id beg them to play it for a bit and id fuck em up, only football game I like lol
The fish gamemode was such a wonder of the community. blew up outta nowhere in one day with multiple servers filled to the brim only for it to die off less than a month or two, still think about it to this day and sure hope someone will make a new one for S&Box
GoFish? OG creator here, fun times!
There was a gamemode called industrial nightmare 3 / Liver failure, you basically roleplayed in a post apocalyptic town in filth, flesh and disease. The gamemode was taken down by the creator but the devs are working on a new version. There is a good video describing the gamemode and a steam guide if you're interested.
It comes back every few often
@@PootisSaver no, nightmare 3 will not go up again
the time it did just recently was not official or approved of
I remember Sassilization. Basically an RTS with miniature figures you walked over. Defend your city, collect resources, attack enemy cities using units you build.
Also GMod Tower had a variety of modes including Ultimate Chimera Hunt.
Thank you for introducing zombie master to me. It is a genuinely genius inventive idea, and I am surprised that it hasn’t been made into its own standalone game yet.
Did you played reborn or Gmod?
@@ryko1478I’ve played gmod, no idea what reborn is. U have never played zombie master if that’s what you mean
Slaves of Gmod is one of my personal favorites, it’s just Hotline Miami in Gmod
The melon prop is funny to me because not only is this the only proper food item in HL2, but you can also just go through a burnt down and destroyed apartment only to find two melons on the kitchen counter looking like they were bought the day before
I like how you mentioned literally everything that I grew-up on
Appreciate the shout-out for ZM:R, work has been slow but we're working to finish our B7 build which will be the first release on Steam. Let's just say we have a lot cooking with this update.
I played a game called Bomberamn Jetters on the GameCube when I was a kid, and it had a multiplayer mode that was essentially exactly like this 7:33
Safe to say that they guy that made Melon Bomber just played Bomberman and copied it, which isn't a horrible thing since this is GMod
my lawyers will be in touch
chair guy video coming soon
there was (or maybe still is) a gamemode called "fish" where you would fish, gain resources, could build little houses, buy upgrades, stuff like that. there hasnt been a game like it since. sometimes you would fish up an item or spawn enemies, the maps that were made for that gamemode always seemed so peaceful
dunno if this one is dead or not because i haven't played gmod in a while, but one of my favorites has always been sledbuild
there was something fun about building the most random thing, putting a seat on it and using it to race other people's creations
Happy you enjoyed it! #OG
Dude I fucking love your intro's man. Your music choice is ON POINT and the visuals are super aesthatic too.
Big *[AS]* vibes.
whats the intro track called
@@WOGBOY It's Tribute by Moodymann
@@ruig finally thankyou 😘
I'm the "creator" of trash compactor (the Gmod gamemode anyway) and I wanted to say thanks for the shoutout! It's cool to see someone mention that funny thing I made all those years ago.
when you said at the start "name 3 gmod modes" i instantly thought of desert bus, star wars rp and nazi rp
probably the only reason i said desert bus was the conversation i had with a friend about it a few minutes earlier
"Razborka!" was one me and my friends would play a lot inbetween our TTT sessions. It was basically just a simple deathmatch gamemode packed full with STALKER memes but oh my god we had fun with that one.
I think that's one of those things that I'll always miss the most about the golden age of Source modding: all those simple but fun little things that were active for a short while, but were simply good multiplayer fun and generated tons of memories.
The man garry himself actually joined trash compactor back a few years ago, he answered some questions and thanked people for playing gmod and left after like 20 minutes
Ratlobber you have slowly become a new youtuber I look forward to watching! Good shit all around!
these gmod videos you've put out have given me a newfound appreciation for the game I haven't felt since I first found the game as a kid, gotta check out trash compactor sometime with friends, that sounds really fun.
"scared of a bunch of water, then get out the rain, order a rapper for lunch, and spit out the chain"
The homogenization of Garry's mod game modes is the biggest crime in the world. I remember my favorite mini game server turned into a TTT server because people would join and only vote for TTT. Me and a lot of the early community on that server felt terrible because we were basically forced out.
I would love if this series was expanded upon, there are still alot more good gmod gamemodes that get 0 coverage like ultimate chimera hunt.
people still play ultimate chimera hunt? I loved playing that like 10 years ago
Honestly, zombie master is very similar to RE:resistance or whatever it was called… very interesting
Flood, extreme football throwdown, elevator source, ZombieRP. We're all great, wish they were still played!
so you're telling me Citadel, Valve's next title, is literally an advanced version of Zombie Master?
An old mode I used to love was Climb, never really saw a lot of servers have it asides from Sassilisation.
just found your channel and im having the time of my life, this is a source engine gold mine, im loving it.
All of the gamemodes you brought up look like ones that I'd play with a small group of maybe 4-5 friends compared to gamemodes like Zombie Survival, TTT, or DarkRP. All of which work best on large population servers. I can't imagine a 15 player zombie master, fat kid, trash compactor, or melon bomber game going well, but maybe that's just my own perspective.
The gmod server browser is plagued by darkrp ripoffs these days. I remember all the creative and simplistic gamemodes that were lively back in the day.
I remember one where you had to weld parts together and they all had health, at which point they would battle and the first one to break lost.
The one I LOVED back before was Devinity 2, It's INSANE how detailed that gamemode was and how it genuinely is just a full on game conversion. Sadly the server running the gamemode hasn't been on since like 2016 or earlier
I worked a bit on Devinity, I'm the Sunrise: outer edge guy, the most popular of the sunrise servers
Here's some pre-alpha footage when we were testing stuff: ua-cam.com/video/iA44dc8mLP0/v-deo.html
Those Zombie Master maps look familiar, seems like the same maps the original mod had back in 2007. Really haven't seen them in a long time but I do recognize playing on them back then. The Source modding scene was really lively at that time, great memories.
Hope you’re having yourself a good day so far man , love your content and looking forward to seeing more!
I'd love to see part2 of this, maybe gamemodes that weren't covered on youtube
i think the problem is the browser itself. before you can view servers, you have to select a gamemode, and popular gamemodes are always at the top. the oldschool browser forced you to view everything at once, so as not to prefer any server over the other beyond your filters. this allows new or unpopular gamemodes to get more exposure.
Morbus is a good one. Like a weird cross between ttt and the Thing. It got some attention on youtube a long time ago and I was lucky enough to play it during that time, but it died out and I almost never see any servers up. Sad cuz its actually really fun.
Your content is good and im glad the yt algorithm gods allowed one of your videos to pop up in my reccomended
ratlobber videos are art. what do we call them? rattype videos? lobtype? the complete aesthetic is so refreshing and new
I ran a server that had a now dead insurgency like game mode called Ground Control. Those were great days…
male_07 never seen a melon. so he opened grenade box to find a melon. and he finded.
Wow what a find for video! I learnt a lot as a programmer (and learned hammer) trying and failing to work on the Zombie Master mod, which was already mostly dead by time I came around. I was definitely not up to snuff back then talent wise to do anything with it so almost glad it didn't go anywhere, honestly. Had no idea there was a gmod version!
Zombie master was the best, I never knew it had a gmod version though. Some people are still working on the source mod. I'd love to see that game get a resurgence
Same. The description of the zombie master is definitely accurate.
If you do a follow up video, my favourite niche gamemode is Slave of Gmod. From memory, I think it was created for the same contest as Melonbomber. It's a recreation of Hotline Miami in gmod, except multiplayer.
Also I played Melonbomber (and actually hosted a server for it). I don't think the topdown perspective dates it, it's actually newer than TTT, DarkRP, and Prophunt. It's a lot newer than Zombie Master. It might even be newer than Murder but don't quote me on that.
The top down perspective was done for gameplay reasons, not technical ones. It's a Bomberman clone, after all.
Other game modes I remember fondly:
Pirate Ship Wars. This game mode was a janky messy. You'd be lucky to play a full round without the server crashing, since this game mode pushed the physics system to its limits. It was pretty fun though. I liked the map with the waterfall at the start, since most rounds you'd die on the waterfall and never even get to fight the other team. Hilarious.
I was also always interested in GarryWare, a WarioWare-style game mode. But I had a lot of trouble getting it to run in the post-Fretta era.
I remember my favorite gamemodes were space build, slope, and deathrun. Though ttt will always have a special place the amount of times I would actually get to play the game made it frustrating. I would get rdmed within 5 seconds of the round regardless of the role most if the time.
ill always miss ultimate chimera hunt. Legendary gamemode
Me and the boys playing AuschwitzRP
there's a cool gamemode that i don't see many people talking about called horde, it's not super underplayed but it doesn't seem to be anywhere near as popular as some of the main gamemodes. it's a lot like killing floor, but in gmod!
There was also that gamemode where 2 teams attach props to their boats at the beginning of the round to make them more durable, and when the timer goes off, they shoot each other/the bases. They either go down by getting shot or by drowning
Me and my friends have always coveted an otherwise dead gamemode called dropzone which is a fighting game type mode with a ridiculously large amount of mechanics and abilities. I’d highly recommend it to anyone with a group of friends to play it with
I played one called Mario Boxes (I think it was called) loooong ago. It was a sidescroller where you were a box trying to kill other boxes and capture their flag. Most maps were based on old NES games and you could find all kinds of weapons and tools (like a grapple) in the maps.
Oh man, I loved that one. That and fortwars were the best.
When commercial GMOD first came out, I used to love Melon Race. Every player is a melon and has to race against every other melon through an obstacle laden race track. The twist being that you have the health of a regular melon prop - and when your melon breaks you're out.
Just found your channel, love you content so far man!
There’s an old GMOD gamemode that I’m sad I never got to play during it’s prime called “Breach”. It looked pretty fun, it was basically a round-based multiplayer adaptation of SCP Containment Breach, with players taking on different roles like Class-D, Scientists, Guards, etc etc. The gamemode kinda died when a man named Hubert Moszka created SCP Secret Laboratory, which was basically his successful attempt at porting gmod breach to the Unity engine as its own seperate game. Secret Lab is awesome on its own, but gmod breach looked pretty fun too and I’m sad I never got to experience what that was like. There’s some servers still hosting the breach gamemode, but they’re all Chinese and Russian, and have some weird mods added into them that kinda clutter the experience.
Oh lord this is gonna hit some people who see this but I remember around 2012-2013 Garry’s Mod had this huge MMO gamemode people were trying to get it to work. I just can’t ever remember what it was exactly called
There was a great Stargate community, I only visited their server 2 or 3 times but it was just great!
I love the choice of music your using with the gameplay footage. It really fits in the mood of the video 👍🏾
A really cool, and pretty much unknown gamemode i used to play is smash, hosted by moronyard. It's like trash compactor, except all players are on top of physics platforms and have to avoid giant rocks falling from the sky, which destroy the ground you're on. Last player alive wins. Super underrated.
i remember an old gamemode where you had races and upgraded your car all the time to get better placements and the maps of it were creative af. don't remember the gamemode name anymore tho. also GunGaym was my fav version of gungame with halo maps, more movespeed and unique weapons. and the finish of the dildo launcher was always a joy
i just found your videos and i love the coverage of these half life and gmod related topics. i miss the old times and these videos always give me a huge nostalgia kick
I still remember a VS Boss mode where there was actual weapon unlocks that were unique it was really fun! Unfortunately I don't remember the name or server of that particular Gamemode.
Player VS Boss, still exists and occasionally has a full lobby.
Player Vs Boss extreme is still active
honestly my list of gamemodes wouldve been Melon Race and LIDAR scanner (which is technically a gamemode)
Nearly unheard of but fun game mode, Tactical Tool Game, like a tower defense up to 3v3 where one team places structures and various object to inhibit the other team from reaching a capture point,etc. pretty fun stuff of course it’s hard to summarize in one comment.
i loved this gamemode where you used the minecraft block tool to build a fort in like 1-5 minutes with a team, and then after that you would just shoot the crap out of the other team until the other was dead cause their fort was destroyed
god bless the old fretta servers, which nobody else seems to remember and makes me question whether I made them up in my head
Zombie master was so much fun. I actually remember also playing a standalone source mod (not sure if it was actually the same name) when Garry's mod was still in infancy.
I remember fishing on the hl2dm puzzle maps ages ago and tried the fish gamemode in gmod and it felt like a spiritual successor but idk which came first
I haven't played Gmod since about 2016 😬 A few game modes and HL2 mods eventually became stand alone games.... There is quite a large number of custom modes you can go through. It's a very social game, most require a lot of team work or peer to peer communication... Assuming of course you're not just in sandbox lol
It's really a shame that DarkRP and TTT kind of ate everything. I remember playing Sledbuild/Boat Build Battles a lot. There was also a server that occasionally ran what was essentially entirely working Half Life 2 Deathmatch ported to gmod. Great fun.
Knew fat kid would come up with this. Bunch of good memories on it over the years, happy to see it gets a spike in popularity every once in a while
all of your intros are just something different man, love em
I'm going to sound crazy but I still don't think that woodland has ever looked better than in Source. There is something about those trees that feels like late autumn; sunsetting; wearing flannel.
There was that one gamemode where it was somewhere between RP and DM, it was pretty much free for all but you could form alliances and take over buildings, make money, get gun vending machines, raid other bases, there was a LOT of custom guns, but sadly I don't remember the name does anyone remember it?
my favorite used to be Slope, you'd run up a hill like in Fall Guys with stuff rolling down the hill to kill you but the plugins don't exist anymore so playing the gamemode is basically impossible now
I spent like most of one summer during middle school primarily playing melon bomber with a friend and we had a lot of fun playing it, came across some pretty cool people too. what cut it short of us was they banned my friend because his name was in cyrillic claiming it was either a slur or offensive text, which it wasn't, I tried to get him unbanned but they ended up banning me too.
Zombie Master is essentially what Resident Evil Resistance tried to do
morbus was one of the most enjoyable, intense game modes on gmod, surprised it wasn't on the list
1:18 ey yo bro wtf?!?
You I wasn’t sure if I would recognize any of these but the thumbnail with sips for melon bomber got me I remember those old YOGS videos
Started grooving when i heard moodymann
Hey man I was that random ass person speeking polish in your discord server if your wondering
just wanna clarify, 0:25 we didn't use the GMod server browser. That came out in the 2013 update, which was the end of life update for GMod that effectively wiped out all the original gamemodes. It took years for anything decent and new to come out but it was too late, TTT and DarkRP had already taken over. The player count for the game may have kept growing but everything besides those gamemodes just shrank and never recovered. A few gems exist but they're played by tiny communities, almost not at all, and are more or less minigames that were meant to be played alongside other minigames, not as a 24/7. The 2006-2012 gamemodes that were eventually repaired never returned to the same quality standard because the original developers are gone and the new developers that picked up their source code (or acquired leaks/stolen code) never played the old gamemodes.
I love that Melonbomber squishes the map after a while. Makes it so bloody frightening as it goes on.
You didn’t even mention the best one of them all called Extreme Football Throwdown all I can describe it as pure chaos and destruction mixed with some kind of sports mini game
Gmod was my all time favorite, so many summers of me and my friends hovering over my dad computer taking turns on TTT then getting upset and rdming on my computer because they were mad at me IRL. Nothing worse then getting banned for something you didn’t do