I like how he always sounds surprised at the start of every video. Its like gman is keeping him in stasis until he’s ready for jolly to play his half life mod, then he puts him back in
15:46 Smartest soldier in the entirety of the Combine: "Oh hey, it's Gordon Freeman, his body-count is in the high triple-digits of people just like me. Y'know what, I'm just gonna passively stand here as non-threateningly as possible."
Cool things this map has that normal hl2 maps don't have -Destructible enviorement such as, door, some wall destruction -CPs are able to use AR2 without bugging out -Custom combine unarmed working properly -Combine vs Combine action looks really good
But then again the map is so unbalanced, you get the pog weapons in a matter of literal minutes. Plus you can't move three steps without accidentally picking up a medkit or battery.
@@yasyadefen1135 Only if you are afraid of opening doors and end up with a crowbar every time before you open them. Most of the time Jolly spends on managing resources, as if it were a balanced map.
@@graealex "Wow, this map that is supposed to be short gives me all the stuff that I'd probably use so quickly! This sucks!" Come on, it's not a problem, it's a small mod made by, probably, one or two people based on a NPC interaction and story gimmick. It's sure as fuck better than running around with just the goddamn submachine gun, shooting the same CP's for half of it and shooting Combine soldiers for the other. You can't really "break the flow" with giving good weapons early if the fights aren't designed around you specifically not having these weapons. Especially if most of them are short skirmishes at most, except maybe the part where they basically just give you an orbital cannon because why not.
@@BoldTint It's not a challenge, that's the point. Imagine playing HL2 and getting an overpowered machine gun and a rocket launcher in the third room...
I love that this map focuses on the brief CP splinter faction that takes place around the time of Episode 1. It was barely established in the game so it's nice seeing more development around it
@@Dr.Oofers Well it's never really properly established but you know that section towards the end where you have to escort all the evacuees to the train station? There's this short moment where one of the combine waves are CP units, devoid of any soldier backup. Apparently it's here they're trying to take the train station for themselves and flee the city since the Combine can no longer uphold their end of the deal by offering them a better life
@@Dr.Oofers - Go to the Barney conversation in Urban Flight. _"Now we have to fight our way past every chicken shit metro cop who's having second thoughts about defending City 17."_
I absolutely love the idea of in-fighting in the combine forces. They were never established as a hive mind, so that'd be a great source of conflict in the story.
@@peppermillers8361 Really? I mean, I could see CP not wanting to carry out orders from High Command in a city that is about to be blown off:They are still human despite their allegances to the combine.I really didn´t saw this plot point in episode 1. I gotta replay it again
@MrTigracho It's sort of implied from the CPs making their way towards the train station during the Escort Mission, although for some reason they still try to kill you.
this map is really cool, and the stuff like the combine shooting at you and destroying the wall, the ability to control the mortar, and the civil protection killing combine soldiers were all really interesting. however i think it would've benefitted from the player not being gordon freeman, but instead just a regular resistance member, like barney. the player wouldn't be able to sprint or collect suit armor, but they could also be receive reinforcements from rebels at points in the map, like when the player is able to open up that one combine gate to return to another point at the beginning of the map.
I'm pretty sure you're not explicitly Gordon in this. It's just removing the rebel voice lines referencing Gordon is a lot of effort and the game is built around having a HEV suit which is difficult to explain plot wise.
i kinda dig that there's a little bit of added spice to the default HL2 stuff. i dunno if it was hardcoded into the map or this is some new modding suite but stuff like the jumping zombies and the mounted RPG are super cool and it'd be sick to have those resources for future mods
I love how he always ends up with the crowbar as his selected weapon before moving to the next room, always trying to switch to a proper weapon while hiding in a corner and not getting hit by enemy fire. Just to do the exact same thing in the next room again. You'd think he'd learn after the first three times, but noooo.
I think that woman was depressed because she couldn't find any pathing between her and safe evacuation. When the city's about the explode, you think about these things.
Oh i remember this mod, showcased Metropolice and Combine soldiers in combat between themselves. It even gave you options to approach the goal differently, sneaky or action packed.
How many years of HL2 content, and he still has absolutely no idea what he’s doing like it’s his first playthrough. Honestly, I would like that for myself, just to be able to re-experience a game’s mechanics for the first time again.
this is essentially expanding on the ideas of EP1 where some civil protection are trying to escape the city and try to hijack the train yard the rebels are using.
1:52 Once a Lambda Cache has been initialised and ran for the first time, it will persist for further invocations (and remains warm for up to around 15 minutes of inactivity when attached to a VPC, and around 5 minutes when not)
i love how insane this youtuber is and i dont get why the combines would just leave a orbital cannon for you to use just to come back and die within seconds
Always kind a wondered why Civil Protection wasnt teaming up with the rebels at the later stages of Half Life 2 and beyond... cause we see them doing their own thing at some point not following the combine anymore just using their stuff still. These guys are pretty much just normal people who saw this as the only option to even the slightes amount of comfort, or better rations I guess. (most I would at least assume) Yeah there would be some bad blood between Civil Protection and Rebels if they joined forces, but why not? Slightly better chances of survival against the actual combine.
we could view CPs as collaborants who sold themselves out to the occupational forces to terrorize fellow citizens to keep public order, for extra rations and privileges i dont know much history but i kinda suspect that when u overthrow the regime, the collaborants, the ones who humiliate and beat u and ur friends, are the last guys i'd want on your side
9:46 the idea of fighting fair is typically keeping to a certain level so the opponent doesnt go above a certain level. like say, keeping to melee when you have a gun so the opponent decides the rockets are unneccessary. or to stop everyone from going scorched earth. that moment was just dumb on the combines part.
Jolly don't know if you'll see this but you should play iron lung. It's a hour long game and requires you to be able to map out your location with a map and coordinates.
I like how he always sounds surprised at the start of every video. Its like gman is keeping him in stasis until he’s ready for jolly to play his half life mod, then he puts him back in
it's his divine punishment
Jolly was a PsyOp made by Valve and GMan to keep us Half Life fans happy while also not needing to make HL3, Portal 3, etc.
Wake up Jolly, and smell the new mod.
_Rise and shine Mr.Wangcore, Rise and shine._
That WOULD explain a lot.
"Somehow the Suppression Device returned." That's some sequel trilogy humor right there! XP
15:46 Smartest soldier in the entirety of the Combine: "Oh hey, it's Gordon Freeman, his body-count is in the high triple-digits of people just like me. Y'know what, I'm just gonna passively stand here as non-threateningly as possible."
I'd argue it's quadruple digits by the end of Episode II.
I was suprprised it worked! Considering how homicidal Gorgon was in thoughout the game.
Glad Jolly remembered password after 9 months of dealing with Australian wildlife
He is just playing half life irl, too busy
hello again
HeisenJollier
You're Heisenberg
I read the last words as wild fires for some reason
Cool things this map has that normal hl2 maps don't have
-Destructible enviorement such as, door, some wall destruction
-CPs are able to use AR2 without bugging out
-Custom combine unarmed working properly
-Combine vs Combine action looks really good
But then again the map is so unbalanced, you get the pog weapons in a matter of literal minutes. Plus you can't move three steps without accidentally picking up a medkit or battery.
@@graealex So? The whole map is 20 minutes to go through.
@@yasyadefen1135 Only if you are afraid of opening doors and end up with a crowbar every time before you open them.
Most of the time Jolly spends on managing resources, as if it were a balanced map.
@@graealex "Wow, this map that is supposed to be short gives me all the stuff that I'd probably use so quickly! This sucks!"
Come on, it's not a problem, it's a small mod made by, probably, one or two people based on a NPC interaction and story gimmick. It's sure as fuck better than running around with just the goddamn submachine gun, shooting the same CP's for half of it and shooting Combine soldiers for the other. You can't really "break the flow" with giving good weapons early if the fights aren't designed around you specifically not having these weapons. Especially if most of them are short skirmishes at most, except maybe the part where they basically just give you an orbital cannon because why not.
@@BoldTint It's not a challenge, that's the point. Imagine playing HL2 and getting an overpowered machine gun and a rocket launcher in the third room...
I love that this map focuses on the brief CP splinter faction that takes place around the time of Episode 1. It was barely established in the game so it's nice seeing more development around it
Wait really?
When is it mentioned/alluded to in episode 1?
@@Dr.Oofers Well it's never really properly established but you know that section towards the end where you have to escort all the evacuees to the train station? There's this short moment where one of the combine waves are CP units, devoid of any soldier backup. Apparently it's here they're trying to take the train station for themselves and flee the city since the Combine can no longer uphold their end of the deal by offering them a better life
@@georgemccartney8906 Civil Protection are bottom of the barrel Combines. Of course they'd send them in first.
@@Dr.Oofers - Go to the Barney conversation in Urban Flight.
_"Now we have to fight our way past every chicken shit metro cop who's having second thoughts about defending City 17."_
The creator of this mod made it when he was only 16, ain't that neat? Went on to work on Entropy Zero 2 as well :)
This feels more like a flex then a fun fact, richter.
Cool
I absolutely love the idea of in-fighting in the combine forces. They were never established as a hive mind, so that'd be a great source of conflict in the story.
Pretty sure the Combine are pretty hive mind-y but the Civil Protection are just humans that were working to get fed.
That was a plot point in Episode 1, it's just not told to you right away.
@@peppermillers8361 Really? I mean, I could see CP not wanting to carry out orders from High Command in a city that is about to be blown off:They are still human despite their allegances to the combine.I really didn´t saw this plot point in episode 1. I gotta replay it again
@@MrTigracho they mention it in the commentary
@MrTigracho It's sort of implied from the CPs making their way towards the train station during the Escort Mission, although for some reason they still try to kill you.
This mod is nice
It introduces things and shows dangers in a good way
And there's a bit of everything
this map is really cool, and the stuff like the combine shooting at you and destroying the wall, the ability to control the mortar, and the civil protection killing combine soldiers were all really interesting. however i think it would've benefitted from the player not being gordon freeman, but instead just a regular resistance member, like barney. the player wouldn't be able to sprint or collect suit armor, but they could also be receive reinforcements from rebels at points in the map, like when the player is able to open up that one combine gate to return to another point at the beginning of the map.
I'm pretty sure you're not explicitly Gordon in this.
It's just removing the rebel voice lines referencing Gordon is a lot of effort and the game is built around having a HEV suit which is difficult to explain plot wise.
i kinda dig that there's a little bit of added spice to the default HL2 stuff. i dunno if it was hardcoded into the map or this is some new modding suite but stuff like the jumping zombies and the mounted RPG are super cool and it'd be sick to have those resources for future mods
holy fuck i think that's the first time i've seen a strider get vaporized
8 months passed by and today i have my baby from my wife in my hands... and this video dropped. Thank you man
Finally something to take your mind off that nagging baby
Congrats
Name the baby Jolly
We need a suppression field irl
Congratulations!
Damn the seamelss transition at 12:55
There's actually a lot of those. Hard to notice but I cut out some reloads and a fair bit of standing about.
3:55 "Im a genius :) ... OH NO". Literally the meme
16:17 that one combine soldier really couldn't care less about gordon freeman showing outta nowhere
Without his weapon, he is nothing.
What's up with him
He's one of those guys that only joined to get better ration.
15:45 just casually doesn’t notice the combine standing on the left then disappear when he looks at him
Congratulations, you noticed one of about 10 sneaky cuts in this video.
I quite regularly cut down time spent standing around talking.
i bet he's not going to regret that he didn't put it on his main instead in the future
His main is often reserved for videos with much more editing (having finished this one yet, so idk if it qualifies).
11:30 jolly talking about crates giving me flashbacks to the "too many crates" video
I love how he always ends up with the crowbar as his selected weapon before moving to the next room, always trying to switch to a proper weapon while hiding in a corner and not getting hit by enemy fire. Just to do the exact same thing in the next room again. You'd think he'd learn after the first three times, but noooo.
Jolly and learning go together like water and oil. That's why we love him
I see you're new to the channel. Welcome!
He just like me fr fr
@@OhShitSeriously I'm not new to YT channel, but I always miss his streams because I'm on the other side of the planet.
@@graealex Not sure if this means Australia or the US, cause Jolly is in Australia.
15:45 I like how that combine soldier in the left just suddenly dematerializes
It's actually edited, cut. You can see if you look at the way the rebels suddenly change their position slightly
That makes me realize that crates filled with headcrabs would be absolutely horrifying.
"It's hard to ignore your problems when they're actively clawing at your face."
It do be like that.
5:45, really cool they added a destructible door to a HL2 map
Don't zombies usually do that to any prop?
@@Matt-td8xw doors are not physics props
I think that woman was depressed because she couldn't find any pathing between her and safe evacuation. When the city's about the explode, you think about these things.
Oh i remember this mod, showcased Metropolice and Combine soldiers in combat between themselves. It even gave you options to approach the goal differently, sneaky or action packed.
Damn, that crowbar has gotten bigger. I guess we could say the supression field has been lifted.
the nine months was worth the wait for the birth of this hellish creation. I'm too lazy to keep up with twitch
By now, I simply assume the Citadel's destruction was Jolly's doing all along to get back at the crates taking over City 17
"You know what's more fun than making a sand castle ? Destroying some else's !"
.... And you just described Rust
I've really missed your videos! So glad to see a new video.
3:54 "I am a genius! _OH NO!_ "
sweet, you make my day when you upload Jolly!
How many years of HL2 content, and he still has absolutely no idea what he’s doing like it’s his first playthrough.
Honestly, I would like that for myself, just to be able to re-experience a game’s mechanics for the first time again.
Unexpected Jolly upload is a good Jolly upload
Jolly really loves the "its more fun to tear down a sandcastle then build it" metaphor
If it wasn't for this video, I wouldn't have installed and played a Half Life 2 mod that's not a Steam for the very first time. Thanks Jolly!
I love your vids Jolly!!!! Been watching since you had 2k subs
Ever since you uploaded again I find myself going back through older vids for my HF fix
This seems like a well-made little mod, except for the exposition at the very end lol
Wow. After all these years, it looks like you even know what your doing sometimes. Amazing.
Always a highlight when Jolly uploads!
18:16 Where did the biohazard goo go?
That zombie _really_ likes goo.
mod maker needed that area to suddenly be safe for rebels to walk through when Jolly comes back with the hostages, so no more goo.
i really like the transition at 12:54
also the thing at 18:55 was a Gunship doing the same thing the Striders do in HL2:EP2 to destroy buildings
that jump animation... first time ive ever seen it lol. didnt know they could do that
I think it may be unintentionally related to the Combine soldiers being able to jump in MMod.
1:46 insanely slick edit
This was one of the actually pretty cool mods for Half-Life 2, it had a lot of nice details and a nice story.
Short and sweet, good work to the dev.
"Somehow XYZ" is always the best Kind of Writing.
It's always a good day when jolly uploads
uploaded just in time for dinner!
Your videos are very good company for meal times
15:57 I'm guessing the combine soldier would have tried grabbing the gun jolly just took
Solid Snake could learn a few things from Jolly’s crate leapfrog skills..
this is essentially expanding on the ideas of EP1 where some civil protection are trying to escape the city and try to hijack the train yard the rebels are using.
Wow, he literally said "I'm a genius. Oh no!" Timing like that doesn't come every week.
1:52 Once a Lambda Cache has been initialised and ran for the first time, it will persist for further invocations (and remains warm for up to around 15 minutes of inactivity when attached to a VPC, and around 5 minutes when not)
9:07 - Humanity summed up in one sentence and also why we can't have nice things.
This mod is really fun, but I feel a timer would make it a bit more exhilarating and fast-paced
A video? On THIS channel?
I must be having a nice dream :D
i love how insane this youtuber is
and i dont get why the combines would just leave a orbital cannon for you to use just to come back and die within seconds
HES BACK!
I began to imagine what kind of Gordon Freeman we'd have if Jolly had been the one who started the series 'Freeman's Mind' instead of Ross.
Always kind a wondered why Civil Protection wasnt teaming up with the rebels at the later stages of Half Life 2 and beyond... cause we see them doing their own thing at some point not following the combine anymore just using their stuff still.
These guys are pretty much just normal people who saw this as the only option to even the slightes amount of comfort, or better rations I guess. (most I would at least assume)
Yeah there would be some bad blood between Civil Protection and Rebels if they joined forces, but why not? Slightly better chances of survival against the actual combine.
we could view CPs as collaborants who sold themselves out to the occupational forces to terrorize fellow citizens to keep public order, for extra rations and privileges
i dont know much history but i kinda suspect that when u overthrow the regime, the collaborants, the ones who humiliate and beat u and ur friends, are the last guys i'd want on your side
This was one hell of a mod
i love this channels name so much
"Titty 17 is on the verge of destruction." -Jolly 2023
7:55 this crap got me so good because in the time i have played and used source engine i have never seen an npc traverse a ladder before
6:47 freeman finally uses his brain
I see ’clicking that bell’ paid of. More content from Jolly is always great.
Woah, jolly is alive! That's good.
This mod seems really nice.
i love ur content i watch u since 2019 i think
This video really feels like one of "gordon's mind" series
Recently Jolly narrates his streams literally saying everything he thinks, not an oopsies yet so far
This was a great mod.
I was wondering why this video isn't 60fps then I remembered it's a Jolly video. Prolly couldn't figure it out.
I really thought jolly was dead now I know only his channel was dead 💀
Long time no see, honey. I see you've improved your improvisation skills
14:18 well, I mean, I guess that's one way to foreshadow that something's about to happen....
"I have big gun"
-jolly (ranchers)
10:55 casually pulls a pin on a grenade and puts it back in his pocket
Certified Jolly Classic
Jolly uploading good shit again, hell yeah
HE LIVES!
Jolly is really good at gaming
Oh, he's alive
Jolly, when will i get to see my children again? It’s been 7 years
I HAVE COME TO SEE THE RETURN OF JOLLY WOLLY ON MY PAGE AGAIN
9:46 the idea of fighting fair is typically keeping to a certain level so the opponent doesnt go above a certain level.
like say, keeping to melee when you have a gun so the opponent decides the rockets are unneccessary. or to stop everyone from going scorched earth.
that moment was just dumb on the combines part.
Where have you been man we missed you 😔
Just leaving one turret facing the wall xD
YOU'RE BACK!!
The video begins with a big hole. Seems good
He be alive.
in B4 it randomly gets pulled from UA-cam for an arbitrary reason by Jolly
WE’RE BACK BABY!!! WHOOO!!
Jolly don't know if you'll see this but you should play iron lung. It's a hour long game and requires you to be able to map out your location with a map and coordinates.
yo where the f have you been dude
I was thinking that it is film about Avalon Vale
more videos when
😍😍😍😍😍😍😍
Did you know that SNAFU stands for "situation normal: all fucked up"? No idea why Jolly's streams would remind me of this factoid...
I love hl2 :)