@@B.L.U.S It's Literally So Easy To Understand And Translate In Common English Compared To What Comments I'm Used To Reading That I Wheezed. Translation: If Air Is A Wall Then I Need To Walk Trough Real Walls Since They Are Not Actually Walls.
imagine being a combine soldier working in the citadel seeing some guy in a metal warning vest sidestepping around a cliff hundreds of feet above ground
I love how the previous map's final clip takes him directly into Kleiner's lab -- specifically, the HEV suit storage space, lol. Kind of gives sort of an uncanny feeling really, walking out into this room in a similar fashion as you have before, but nobody's there and all of the furniture & equipment is gone. Kind of like walking into your empty bedroom one last time when you're moving away ._.
@@Mordecai02 Yeah.. I mostly found areas that you're not meant to be in or outside of playable area/in scenery to be mysterious or even eerie/creepy when i was younger. And always was fascinated to explore and get outside in most games.
Pinsplash, I have a few HL-related mysteries for you to solve or explain: - On some playthroughs of the second map of Route Kanal, the citizens who are supposed to be executed by the CP will not spawn where they should, but are instead found standing around at the part where the drainpipe lady tells you to ”keep going friend, that station was raided[…]”. What causes this to happen? - When Alyx gets captured towards the end of Anticitizen One, some Combine soldiers will sometimes spawn on the other side of the collapsed bridge once you’re down in the ravine, and fire at the rebels you leave behind (if any are alive). It only happens very rarely, so what exactly is needed to trigger this event? - In Surface Tension, there’s the part where you have to turn a valve inside a building to open a hatch to the cliffside map. The valve room sometimes has crossbow magazines on the floor, but sometimes they’re not there. Is there some glitch that causes them to not always appear, or is it some intentional design? - HL1 has a bug (unless it got fixed sometime recently) where the contents of the Xen ammo canisters fail to get added to your inventory if they contain grenades/satchels/tripmines, but you’re out of that particular item (I expect the same would also happen with snarks, but obviously none of the canisters contain them). Why does this happen?
For the first one I think is related to some trigger with the barnacle (the one where the crow goes to it), in my experience every time I avoid that trigger the citizens will spawn there, my guess is that they are there before the trigger and the trigger teleports them to the CP
1) Put simply, the room with the drainpipe lady is actually where the citizens spawn. When you touch a trigger earlier in the map, they're teleported to the spots where they get shot and killed. This trigger is relatively small, which makes it possible to skip by climbing over the trains at the start of the map. Skipping it will mean the citizens are never teleported away from their spawn location. This will mean they never die, except for one - a trigger later in the map, which is harder to skip, arbitrarily kills that one. This is probably because they would otherwise escape to safety before the metrocops can mow them down. Interestingly, this same second trigger also tells the citizens to run to positions which would get them killed, but they refuse and stay at their spawn locations. 2) There's a trigger at the end of the bridge that spawns three combine soldiers on the inaccessible side. This trigger only enables after alyx has been captured and you've jumped down into the canal. Additionally, it can only be triggered by an NPC allied to the player. The difficulty in triggering this comes from the fact that any citizens that survive the generator square immediately stop being part of your squad and are forced to run to specific positions, so it becomes really hard to get them into the trigger. I only managed it by spawning in a new citizen with cheats. I can't imagine how you'd do it in normal gameplay. As for 3) and 4), I don't have a setup for looking at HL1 maps, so I won't be the one to solve these. At least, not today.
@@bsmith9890 what is that trigger? is it the one that forces a failure state? edit. yeah it's a failure state trigger, for if you fuck up the jeep jump.
The damage system in Half Life 2 is amazing. You can drop a grenade, and as it's going off, shoot an RPG right at your feet, and only take a handful of damage. Meanwhile you can fall off a moderately high wall and take 75 damage.
@@lukabrasi001 I don't know what that means, but... Fall damage is not affected by armor, while the explosive damage is. That's why, when you have a lot of armor, you can take less damage to both a grenade and rocket launcher while taking a lot of damage with fall damage
Light Energy, not our Benefactors, Avoid Freeman, Citizen One, Disentanglement, Nova Doubt, Safesand, Lowway 17, We go to Ravenholm, Black Mesa West, Safe Waters, Off route Kanal, Just another day, Off point Intersection.
Yeah I learned that one playing zombie mod on Counter-Strike: Source. Trying to build or break barricades showed me just how fucky the physics really are.
In the Portal Speedrunning community, the "solid clipping" is referred to as save glitch due to the requirement of saving and loading. It's used heavily in Portal to shoot portals through walls as save glitching in a specific way with a portal moves your player model but keeps your camera stationary allowing you to shoot portals through walls.
yeah, those dead ends are a bit confusing. A dead end is when you are able to get to the trigger but the trigger is non-functional / non-active for some reason, so there's not even a theoretical possibility of moving back to the previous level - do I understand that correctly?
"Hey. Last time we did some super simple tricks that a few people thought were a bit tough, so today we're gonna use tricks that only 3 people can actually use."
I used to do this a lot as a kid in Half-Life 1 & 2 but mostly with noclip and other console commands. I liked exploring a map with all the enemies dead and also out of bounds areas. It's way more fun to reach out of bounds areas without console commands though and rather through neat movement tricks or prop tricks.
this video was so relaxing that I started falling asleep. but once I heard "fucky wucky" my eyes shot open and i jolted up and had to make sure i didnt dream that
Who would have expected to be able to enter Nova Prospect prison, and just turn around and go all the way back to that rebel hideout you first found after Ravenholm. Or from the dam near Black Mesa to be able to go back to Ely’s lab!
imagine being a combine survivor of Freeman, and then you just see him coming back rock climbing, activating the hl2 long jump module, jumping through walls, and flinging through the void
For some reason, this video helped me realize what I don't like, repetitiveness brought on by lack of variety. Combat comes in 6 flavors, those being: * Headcrabs & Barnacles * Headcrabs & Zombies * Antlions * Small Combine forces (CPs, Manhacks, APCs) * Big Combine forces (Soldiers, Overwatch) * Boss Combine (Hunter-Chopper, Gunship, Strider) These 6 scenarios are occasionally spiced up by help from allies or gimmick weapons, with the occasional start n' stop vehicle section or physics puzzle. If you're unlucky, plot scenes that are fun the first time around and boring the second).
Those risky jumps in citadel_02 give me the same kinda vibes as when you make a tricky sprint-jump around corners on the sides of cliffs from one block to the next in minecraft Edit: 26:06 As a lagomorph once said: "DO A BARREL ROLL"
This was a really good video, such a neat challenge. Love that even if you knew it would be a dead end ahead of time, you still went and did it legitimately.
I wonder if the VR version could make this easier or harder? There's a fair bit of clipping using physics objects in this, and the VR version allows a very fine level of manipulation over the rotation and orientation of held objects. Plus, you can hold two physics objects at once.
The trigger is actually two triggers stacked on top of each other. Both are called "fall_trigger". One handles the player falling off the bridge, while the other handles the jeep. Both of them force you to reload your last save, but there'll be a different message shown depending on which one is triggered. I have no idea why he calls it the "fucky wucky trigger". Presumably it's jank in some way.
Imagine watching the citadel cameras and you see Gordon Freeman using his absolute pure muscle legs to stay balanced on a quarter inch ledge and blasting himself around
It would be cool if someone made a quick and dirty mod that allowed you to return to the previous level through a trigger for the levels that don't have it. So that with a few tweaks and tricks a full reverse play-through could hopefully be done, or create a button at the entrances to each level that allowed you to traverse to the previous level and pop out at the end of that level.
This in Half-Life 1 ua-cam.com/video/unCiL4Pz0QA/v-deo.html
just watched it! such a good video
Now make one for episode 2 an episode 1
"Shit, I left my briefcase on the train."
*proceeds to travel backwards on all 4 dimensions*
@@TinyDeskEngineer *proceeds to make the time go backwards*
but in the end it doesn't even matter cause he couldn't get to the train 😭😭
@@PebsBeans funny how you say “in the end it doesn’t even matter” on an hl2 video
@@fyretnt that was the joke
"The obvious path has been blocked by an invisible wall"
*proceeds to phase right through a very visible wall instead*
Ok so if not walls are walls so I need to walk walls because they are not walls
@@B.L.U.S huh?
@@Pewwgun I made this to make no sense and i succeeded
Not even i understand it anymore...
@@B.L.U.S not even the best reader can understand it
@@B.L.U.S It's Literally So Easy To Understand And Translate In Common English Compared To What Comments I'm Used To Reading That I Wheezed.
Translation:
If Air Is A Wall Then I Need To Walk Trough Real Walls Since They Are Not Actually Walls.
imagine being a combine soldier working in the citadel seeing some guy in a metal warning vest sidestepping around a cliff hundreds of feet above ground
Meanwhile City 17 repairs itself and all the fighting suddenly stops
I hate living in city 17 onggg💀💀💀
@@trolled1791 can't have shit in city 17
@@oneshotw1z630 and the passage of daytime reverses
imagine being that guy, but irl
alyx: "gordon, you made it through ravenholm? thank god!"
gordon: wanna see me do it again?
“want me to go through ravenholm and back? want me to do it again?”
The incredible story about how City 17 went from being a dystopia, to a destroyed warzone, and then right back to an (intact) dystopia.
11:35 Kleiner: "My God, how did you get here? and when?"
Gordon: "That's an interesting question in more ways than one"
I love how the previous map's final clip takes him directly into Kleiner's lab -- specifically, the HEV suit storage space, lol.
Kind of gives sort of an uncanny feeling really, walking out into this room in a similar fashion as you have before, but nobody's there and all of the furniture & equipment is gone. Kind of like walking into your empty bedroom one last time when you're moving away ._.
@@Mordecai02 Yeah.. I mostly found areas that you're not meant to be in or outside of playable area/in scenery to be mysterious or even eerie/creepy when i was younger. And always was fascinated to explore and get outside in most games.
inaccurate, gordon can't talk /j
There is something so Half Life about using a God damned tin can as a disposable portable teleportation device
Localised teleportation right below the combine's noses all along.
well at least half-life universe, that sounds more like something Aperture Science would do
@@nuxx1876 same universe
@@gudmansal3468 thats what i meant, theyre both in the same universe
Adrian got displacer cannon, Gordon got displacer CANnon.
Pinsplash, I have a few HL-related mysteries for you to solve or explain:
- On some playthroughs of the second map of Route Kanal, the citizens who are supposed to be executed by the CP will not spawn where they should, but are instead found standing around at the part where the drainpipe lady tells you to ”keep going friend, that station was raided[…]”. What causes this to happen?
- When Alyx gets captured towards the end of Anticitizen One, some Combine soldiers will sometimes spawn on the other side of the collapsed bridge once you’re down in the ravine, and fire at the rebels you leave behind (if any are alive). It only happens very rarely, so what exactly is needed to trigger this event?
- In Surface Tension, there’s the part where you have to turn a valve inside a building to open a hatch to the cliffside map. The valve room sometimes has crossbow magazines on the floor, but sometimes they’re not there. Is there some glitch that causes them to not always appear, or is it some intentional design?
- HL1 has a bug (unless it got fixed sometime recently) where the contents of the Xen ammo canisters fail to get added to your inventory if they contain grenades/satchels/tripmines, but you’re out of that particular item (I expect the same would also happen with snarks, but obviously none of the canisters contain them). Why does this happen?
I think we should like this to see if pinsplash sees it, I wanna know the answers to these too
For the first one I think is related to some trigger with the barnacle (the one where the crow goes to it), in my experience every time I avoid that trigger the citizens will spawn there, my guess is that they are there before the trigger and the trigger teleports them to the CP
1) Put simply, the room with the drainpipe lady is actually where the citizens spawn. When you touch a trigger earlier in the map, they're teleported to the spots where they get shot and killed. This trigger is relatively small, which makes it possible to skip by climbing over the trains at the start of the map. Skipping it will mean the citizens are never teleported away from their spawn location. This will mean they never die, except for one - a trigger later in the map, which is harder to skip, arbitrarily kills that one. This is probably because they would otherwise escape to safety before the metrocops can mow them down. Interestingly, this same second trigger also tells the citizens to run to positions which would get them killed, but they refuse and stay at their spawn locations.
2) There's a trigger at the end of the bridge that spawns three combine soldiers on the inaccessible side. This trigger only enables after alyx has been captured and you've jumped down into the canal. Additionally, it can only be triggered by an NPC allied to the player. The difficulty in triggering this comes from the fact that any citizens that survive the generator square immediately stop being part of your squad and are forced to run to specific positions, so it becomes really hard to get them into the trigger.
I only managed it by spawning in a new citizen with cheats. I can't imagine how you'd do it in normal gameplay.
As for 3) and 4), I don't have a setup for looking at HL1 maps, so I won't be the one to solve these. At least, not today.
For #3, I think someone explained that loot drops change depending on what weapon(s) you use the most.
@@windowssonic5953 That’s in Source games. HL1 has no such system.
i love how he says "the fucky wucky trigger" so proffessionally
Timestamp?
@@bsmith9890 No
@Kaisa Islamova holy shit thats hilarious lmao
@@bsmith9890 what is that trigger? is it the one that forces a failure state?
edit. yeah it's a failure state trigger, for if you fuck up the jeep jump.
@@caramelldansen2204 Thanks for the explanation
The damage system in Half Life 2 is amazing. You can drop a grenade, and as it's going off, shoot an RPG right at your feet, and only take a handful of damage. Meanwhile you can fall off a moderately high wall and take 75 damage.
is it damage gating? or armor mitigation?
@@lukabrasi001 I don't know what that means, but... Fall damage is not affected by armor, while the explosive damage is. That's why, when you have a lot of armor, you can take less damage to both a grenade and rocket launcher while taking a lot of damage with fall damage
He didn't play Half-Life, he played Life-Half
alternatively efil-flah
Or full life, since the first half is from start to end, and the other would be end to start
@@Psyden5757 if we had full life we wouldn't be here watching/making obscure HL videos.
@@Psyden5757 half-life: full life consequences
ƎꟻI⅃-ꟻ⅃AH
good thing gordon has a phd in theoretical physics
I thought it was a theoretical phd in physics... 😳
He's a highly trained professional
"e=mc^2! That's the equation to phase through walls! Now I can get out of this place!"
gordon has many theories about physics, and i think he's right about most of them
"that means you can theoretically solve this puzzle!"
The one combine that set those forcefields up only to realize that some random dude is gonna phase through it by ramming into a box
Years of academy brainwashing wasted!
I like to imagine this as an alternate ending where Gordon kills Breen and just B-hops all the way home
Gordon freeman time travels by walking in the wrong direction
alternate universe where gordon has to escape the citadel,and get back to the trainstation
Someone will make a mod
@@kazcav4973 you smart ass lol
@@Wheagg there is a mod where you can play the game backwards
this is literally hl2 ep1
Now watch this video in reverse for a weird Half Life 2 playthrough
You sick man, take my like and leave
Light Energy, not our Benefactors, Avoid Freeman, Citizen One, Disentanglement, Nova Doubt, Safesand, Lowway 17, We go to Ravenholm, Black Mesa West, Safe Waters, Off route Kanal, Just another day, Off point Intersection.
Just another day lmao
Shooting at a barrel moves it towards you? Physics!
Yeah I learned that one playing zombie mod on Counter-Strike: Source. Trying to build or break barricades showed me just how fucky the physics really are.
its tenet
Fun fact, in CSS in some angles and on some props it does the same (i was a expert on zombie survival servers)
In the Portal Speedrunning community, the "solid clipping" is referred to as save glitch due to the requirement of saving and loading. It's used heavily in Portal to shoot portals through walls as save glitching in a specific way with a portal moves your player model but keeps your camera stationary allowing you to shoot portals through walls.
Babe wake up, new pinsplash upload
Yes honey.
please stop waking me up at the end of the day or i will fucking break up with you
now I wonder how a speedrun of a modified version where all level load triggers actually exist and are reachable would work
There’s a mod where you can play the game backwards and there are speed runs of it
I like how you did not just mark a section as a dead end, but showed it was possible to get to the trigger, even if it does not work.
yeah, those dead ends are a bit confusing. A dead end is when you are able to get to the trigger but the trigger is non-functional / non-active for some reason, so there's not even a theoretical possibility of moving back to the previous level - do I understand that correctly?
@@vaakdemandante8772 the trigger exists but no level is set to it i think
@@lukabrasi001I think it's a flag that makes it not activate on touch. I think it's explained in the HL1 video, or in the comments.
@@TomatoRadio yeah when the devs put the flag so it can’t be activated like that
16:06 Gordon learned how to quantum tunnel, really putting that degree in theoretical physics to good use, huh?
You know you've played a game a lot when you start recognizing out of bound areas...
Alyx: "gordon, you made it through ravenholm? thank god!"
Gordon: Goes back. :D
Copy, you Not funny Man
"Hey. Last time we did some super simple tricks that a few people thought were a bit tough, so today we're gonna use tricks that only 3 people can actually use."
@@defaultprofilepictureguy2526 oh, that's all?
man i remember thinking as a kid "what if we go back".the video was so good to watch to quinch that thirst.
Combine: invades entire planet in the hopes of obtaining local intra-universe teleportation technology
Gordon: tin can
I really enjoy your down-to-earth editing style. Banger vid as always
I used to do this a lot as a kid in Half-Life 1 & 2 but mostly with noclip and other console commands. I liked exploring a map with all the enemies dead and also out of bounds areas. It's way more fun to reach out of bounds areas without console commands though and rather through neat movement tricks or prop tricks.
would've been so cool to take the super gravity gun out of the citadel
If I'm not mistaking, the super gravity gun is a map specific setting, so it will just turn back to normal once you leave the citadel maps
@@loloreelyou can reenable it via console command too
The NPCs must be like, "Gordon! What the hell are you doing here?! Go back in the citadel, your grounded!
I think for this specific case they should have been called “dead entrances”
this video was so relaxing that I started falling asleep. but once I heard "fucky wucky" my eyes shot open and i jolted up and had to make sure i didnt dream that
This is an amazing backwards run, never thought this could be possible.
20:32 I was so waiting for that barrel to explode
Who would have expected to be able to enter Nova Prospect prison, and just turn around and go all the way back to that rebel hideout you first found after Ravenholm.
Or from the dam near Black Mesa to be able to go back to Ely’s lab!
Bro: "Oh shit i forgot somthin', brb."
how far bro gotta go back:
imagine being a combine survivor of Freeman, and then you just see him coming back rock climbing, activating the hl2 long jump module, jumping through walls, and flinging through the void
"Gorden you made it through ravenholm..." *Turns around and Immediately goes back in*
26:03 Beta version of the REAL man's speedrun tactics: The DOG JUMP!
as grayfruit would say: thats a neat little grayfruit reference
Furthermore: DO A BARREL ROLL!
those citadel strafes and ledges makes me feel like they could repurpose this map into a bhop map
Alyx: Gordon you made it through ravenholm thank god.
Gordon: proceeds to go all the way back through ravenholm
Gordon here being that responsible kid rewinding the tape before returning it to the rental store.
Ofc there is a strategy called "Breen-Blast" haha, great video as usual
18:02 The finest mind of his generation
For some reason, this video helped me realize what I don't like, repetitiveness brought on by lack of variety.
Combat comes in 6 flavors, those being:
* Headcrabs & Barnacles
* Headcrabs & Zombies
* Antlions
* Small Combine forces (CPs, Manhacks, APCs)
* Big Combine forces (Soldiers, Overwatch)
* Boss Combine (Hunter-Chopper, Gunship, Strider)
These 6 scenarios are occasionally spiced up by help from allies or gimmick weapons, with the occasional start n' stop vehicle section or physics puzzle. If you're unlucky, plot scenes that are fun the first time around and boring the second).
Those risky jumps in citadel_02 give me the same kinda vibes as when you make a tricky sprint-jump around corners on the sides of cliffs from one block to the next in minecraft
Edit: 26:06 As a lagomorph once said: "DO A BARREL ROLL"
My man went from Anticitizen One to just Citizen.
Wow, you move around very free, man.
Nothing can contain the free man, not even the intended level flow
15:15 me trying to suck through a straw on an empty drink
"My job here is done. Still have to catch the bus home. Better hurry!"
*smugly* "here, let me buy you a drink"
Drinks let you Phase through walls
ALYX KNEW
Someone should make a mod about freeman forgetting something on the start of the game and the whole objective would be to go back
Why does this man does not have more subscribers at this point, this is true content
This reminds me of how deus ex devs excepted you yo backtrack entire missions early on
You mean accepted?
@@robuxyyyyyyyyyy4708 you mean expected?
@@ixxxxxxx Robux
All these peoplenwould rather correct something obvious than say anything of substance
@@imonke5303 hey the other guy started it, and thats not exactly of substance either
“Fuck this, i wanna go back to city 17.”
0:15
Some idiot couldnt process being able to stand on an object and press your mouse inside their brain…..
20:15 _What a thrill..._
This was a really good video, such a neat challenge. Love that even if you knew it would be a dead end ahead of time, you still went and did it legitimately.
The ability to clip through walls, prop jump, b-hop... these are what you are really taught when you get a theoretical physics degree.
quick clip is fun. it's like skyrim with bowls and buckets
11:13 THERES A CRATE BACK THERE!?!?
I just looked a crate starts back there just like that.
17:19 Casually ker-smacks the antlion away. Refuses to elaborate.
"Shoo! Shoo, I say!"
Hello, Gordon! I see you've managed to break through time and space.
It's amazing how you can basically move on foot through the entire citadel if u have the j&r skills.
This is the moment Gordon became a free man
Damn man I can't imagine the amount of time spent setting up these jumps
respect
the quickclip deadass looks like a jumpcut
Canals is long but considering the amount of sequence breaking done I'm more impressed by Prison and C17
Citadel 2's strat made me think about how a half-life 2 hide and seek game would be amazing
So Garry's mod?
I wonder if the VR version could make this easier or harder? There's a fair bit of clipping using physics objects in this, and the VR version allows a very fine level of manipulation over the rotation and orientation of held objects. Plus, you can hold two physics objects at once.
If you can stand the nausea from clipping everywhere and have a keen vision, probably easier.
Did you decide call it the fucky wucky trigger or was that actually in the game source code?
19:38
The trigger is actually two triggers stacked on top of each other. Both are called "fall_trigger". One handles the player falling off the bridge, while the other handles the jeep. Both of them force you to reload your last save, but there'll be a different message shown depending on which one is triggered.
I have no idea why he calls it the "fucky wucky trigger". Presumably it's jank in some way.
@@Tiftid I think reload your last save results in a softlock and progress loss. He might have triggered it and lost time
@@Tiftid he probably just calls it that because it fucky-wucks with you, foolishly believing you could just drop down easily
"Gordon, you made it through Ravenholm?"
Goes back to Ravenholm.
19:38
This caught me off guard.
Amazing how the game still remembers the state of everything in a level 13 maps later
Imagine watching the citadel cameras and you see Gordon Freeman using his absolute pure muscle legs to stay balanced on a quarter inch ledge and blasting himself around
Imagine your a combine soldier swing gordan freeman speedrunjing and glitching
16:21 Combine Soldier begins to feel like a rap god
someone should mod backtracks into all of the dead ends, like a reverse pod for citadel, and stuff like that
add level triggers that fix the blocked passages, if you start the game at the end, let the blue gravity gun break doors and blockades
life-half 2 is exists
these videos are weirdly relaxing
watching this feels like a dream
Man this really shows how dragged on "Folllow freeman" and "Anticitizen one" are.
I wouldn't have complained if it was set in a more interesting set piece
No wonder the citadel felt so damn short.
d3_citadel_02 was made with advanced movement in mind
all the effort you put on it. you are awesome.
Tremendo trabajo!!!
So, you can backtrack through many areas, but will wind up completely deaf from explosions. Good to know!
Cool video, your commitment is amazing
Wonderful video
Shadows of the empire we would get to the end only to turn back to collect all the challenge points.
20:06
"You made it through Ravenholm!
thkgd"
you gotta crank up that bitrate bro
It would be cool if someone made a quick and dirty mod that allowed you to return to the previous level through a trigger for the levels that don't have it. So that with a few tweaks and tricks a full reverse play-through could hopefully be done, or create a button at the entrances to each level that allowed you to traverse to the previous level and pop out at the end of that level.
Legendary challenge-runner YMFAH uses solidclipping in Bethesda games. He calls it "Speed Transfer" for short range or "Load-warp" for long range.
24:37 Gordon casually flying towards Combines
If speedrunners has taught me anything it is that, where there's a will there's a way.
I wonder what the longest streak would be in HL1 - somewhere around Surface Tension to the beginning of Residue Processing perhaps?
from now on, im gonna be calling it the fucky wucky trigger