Saving Every Scientist in Opposing Force
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- Опубліковано 26 чер 2024
- Saving Every Scientist in Opposing Force, Blue Shift and Decay - The hit expansion packs by a rogue developer where you hit slightly different looking aliens in even more steel corridors
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Music by Otis McDonald - www.otismacmusic.com/
Intro Song: "BirdBrainz" - Otis McDonald
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Art: The Good Shepherd by Pricy's Priceless Art - profile.php?...
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I used clips from the following:
Half-Life Series
• Gman Squad Episode 5 -...
• Opposing Force 19:23 s...
• Get tf out (the Test C...
• [SFM] Half-Life: Oppos...
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0:00 - Intro
0:47 - Preamble
2:51 - Rules
3:25 - Incoming
4:05 - Welcome To Black Mesa
7:28 - We Are Pulling Out
10:48 - Missing In Action
12:56 - Friendly Fire
15:59 - We Are Not Alone
17:52 - Crush Depth
20:29 - Vicarious Reality
21:54 - Pit Worm's Nest
23:07 - Foxtrot Uniform
25:44 - The Package
30:00 - World's Collide
31:13 - Opposing Force Total
32:57 - Decay
33:37 - Decay Total
34:14 - Blue Shift
37:14 - Blue Shift Total
37:41 - Gearbox Canonicity?
39:06 - The Good Shepherd
43:26 - Outro
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On behalf of all of us here at Black Mesa, I just want to say the accident wasn't your fault, it's been 7 years Jam you need to let it go
Sometimes, I dream about cheese
@@supersonictumbleweed"Dont shoot i'm with the science team! *gets beaten to a bloody pulp by crowbar* Hack! No! no! Ack!"
Look Gordon! Ropes! They could be used fo
Help me Gordon
bro i never died and that wasnt wikipedia that was playstation
@@alyx8815 "Look at me Gordon! Haha! Parkour ParkoAAAAAA HELP (insert gruesome munching noises here)
Honestly, if if Otis was right at the center of the nuke blast, he’d just walk it off. That man is a deity.
Otis would've singlehandly prevent the Combine invasion if he wasn't busy trying to get candy.
@@ssteel"Mmmm, candy"
If his mom hadn't grounded him for two weeks he could have saved everyone
@@DeadPerfection What about the possibility that Otis joined the Metrocops for better food?
@@PrisonMike196 Canon
16:47 Sorry to say this but that dead security guard is very much cannon.
He’s the security guard that was back in the survey team’s supply depot. The reason he’s dead in OpFor is because he died fulfilling his promise to Gordon to quote: “cover you while you're waiting for that portal to warm up.”
I can understand how you missed that though as he literally makes no attempt to actually fulfil this promise unless the player directly commands him to follow them into the chamber
Canonically he followed Freeman, then, after a few minutes helping Gordon clear up the aliens, he feels sleepy and takes a nap.
(I don't remember 100% but it makes sense why he is there -- dude is almost impossible to keep alive if he does go to the chamber with you)
@@iug5672he survived when I brought him into the room on hard first try.
Ahh, but you don't know what happened after Gordon jumped into the portal!@@Megajaybreaker4
@@iug5672As long as you fight with him it can be pretty easy to save him while he fulfills his promise (at least in easy-medium)
Well shit I was bout to say that
I absolutely adore your interpretation of Adrian's character. Considering how you, as a player, are never tasked to kill any scientists, and they don't actively try to defend themselves against you, it only makes sense that Shepherd took the lambda side.
I like how he actually groups up survivors instead of just leaving them after saving them.
Yeah, whilst playing black mesa i did the same. Its cool seeing other people do the same thing but in opposing force!
And leaves weapons and useful stuff for them
@@DoggaGames Same thing with leaving useful stuff with the B.M.R.F Personale, like leaving medkits or weapons to the scientists if im at full health or ammo
I was obsessed with doing this as a kid. I don't recall why. I just did it
Please make video where you're saving people in Blue shit, I will really appreciate it ❤️
For the scientist that didn't go through the portal, my theory is that he can see the future and decided to stay until the nuke went off.
Does the energy of the nuke go through portals?
Did Xen get nuked as well?!
@@iwantagoodnameplease no, gman would’ve stopped the nuke in that place as his “employers” had control of xen because of Gordon so I think gman would’ve been “fired”(killed probably) if he got xen nuked
Honest radiation reaction:
43:18
I love the idea of the Gman releasing Shepard from stasis in the ruins of Black Mesa, long enough to where the technology has been picked clean and the radiation subsiding to safe (enough) levels.
The Gman does this not out of malice, but as a reminder to Adrian just what he fights for. Adrian would roam, lost, confused, in a world thats no longer his own. He would be a lost shepard, until one day, he sees that Lamda symbol once again.
It probably wouldnt take long for radiation levels to be fine after a few weeks (assuming that most of black mesas industrial green goo has been buried with the rest of the facility)
About those 3 extra scientists you could theoretically save in Blue-Shift.
They are currently developing a remake (like Black Mesa) and it would be cool if you could save those 3. Even it's just for fun without any gameplay implications.
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HistoryScope didn't know you liked Half-Life.
In Black Mesa, if you succesfuly save all the sciencist and security guards you can save, they do things in the final room of the chapter and talk with you and talk about making that place safe for everyone they see. We need that in the Blue Shift remake
Isnt that remake called like Operation: black mesa
The two Vortigaunts you meet in the chapter "The Package" at 28:15 are indeed an error. As you mentioned at 17:02, no Xen military forces being encountered after the chapter We Are Not Alone is a deliberate choice. The presence of these two Vortigaunts after the fact can be explained by how we know Gearbox developed the expansion. From the entity names applied to what are now enemies like Shock Troopers and Voltigore, we can see Gearbox were using the original HL1 aliens (namely Alien Grunts and Alien Slaves) as placeholder stand-ins for the new Race X aliens that they had not yet finished implementing. They simply forgot to replace these last two Vortigaunts in "The Package" with Shock Troopers, and we can further confirm this by observing that, if their scripted sequence is not interrupted (as you were able to in the video, making them docile), the two Vortigaunts will self-teleport towards Adrian's position on the mortar platform, an ability only Shock Troopers possess.
In Foxtrot Uniform, the Marines you leave behind at 24:18 are inevitably destined to die. What most players tend to not realize is that the surface area with the explosive containers where you first meet these Marines hiding from the Black Ops snipers just before you enter the Voltigore tunnels is the exact same area you return to when you later climb out of the tunnels and meet the three new Marines heading for the dam. When you climb down the ladder into the tunnels at 24:21, you hear a massive explosion above you. This is the (essentially booby trapped) explosive containers on the surface detonating, completely collapsing the loading dock you just left the two Marines inside of and wiping out the remaining Black Ops presence up there, allowing Race X to move in and take over by the time you resurface. This does mean that the new group of Marines you meet in this same area at 24:51 must have materialized from out of nowhere, however.
Love to see a Marphy response out in the wild!
The legend himself
Very good touch
That's a nice little unforeseen cameo from Marphy.
Marphy the legend himself.
This guy spent hours of his life saving NPCs, what a legend.
Reminds me of a bald man with a distinctively colored bugatti
Actually just like me fr fr
When our AI overlords seize power, he will be their righthand man.
Only to kill a bunch of them at the end...
@@despair4110idk man, if you’re talking about who I think you are, I think he was a massive prick
Here is the total for every game and expansion.
There are 426 deaths/casualties.
226 of them were scientist/researcher casualties.
79 of them were Black Mesa security guard casualties.
57 of them were Black Mesa survey corp casualties.
And 64 of them were HECU marine casualties. (For opposing force)
There are 70 survivors of the incident.
37 of them were scientist/researcher survivors.
18 of them were Black Mesa security guard survivors.
0 of them were Black Mesa survey corp survivors.
And 15 of them were HECU marine survivors.
There are 58 people you can save.
31 of them were scientist/researchers.
15 of them were Black Mesa security guards.
0 of them were Black Mesa survey corps.
12 of them were HECU marines.
Some HL2 survivors that survived from the destruction of black mesa via nuke was
Isaac Kleiner
Eli Vance
Barney Calhoun
Alex Vance - Its canon that Gman saved her from the blast when she was a infant. (Didn't appear in HL1 and was only mentioned by Gman in HL2EP2 of saving her)
Gordon Freeman
Dr. Breen aka Wallace Breen (Didn't appear in HL1 and was only mentioned by Alex in HL2 to be his old Administrator in HL1)
Dr. Magnusson aka Arne Magnusson (Didn't appear in HL1 and was only mentioned by Magnusson in HL2EP2 that Gordon was the one who ruined his casserole in HL1)
Wow man, this comment deserves more attention, the way you formatted it is just *chef's kiss* perfect.
@@lvoryRose Thank you, took me a good hour to write this on this video and the HL video too.
Dr breen actually appears in HL1 talking to gman
@@tutel1447 Dr.Breen is not shown in HL1. He was only mentioned by being called "The Administrator", I've played all 3 games and haven't found him a single time.
Oh and don’t forget otis
27:30 just the sheer thought of being that scientist walking through a portal some random marine made filled with hope that you can finally escape but then find yourself on a deeper level of Black Mesa. Alone. Would be soul crushing my dude
Pretty sure the dead guard in the portal room is meant to be the guard at the end of lambda core who tells you "I'll cover you while you're waiting for that portal to warm up." You can bring him with you into the portal room.
maybe
ye but who would bring him with them? It's a death sentence
@@ledanoir1239 I did. But in my defense, it was my first time playing the game, and I didn’t want to go into the room alone.
I love the idea that Otis goes from how his is in the game (playing him as a bit of a goofy loser type, implying he lives with his mom) to being a Combine-killing terror who has yet to be killed or captured. I'd love to see him return in a Half Life 3. I imagine he'd be anticitizen three (behind Gordon and Alyx).
The combine killed his mom
They must pay
@@FloodlightGamingReal yes
@@FloodlightGamingReal absolute gigachad
shouldn't Barney be anticitizen three?
@@Octol1ngnah he was actually part of the combines police force, making him an anti-cop or, if you think Entropy zero 1 & 2 should be cannon, the good cop.
I actually really like that idea of The Good Shepherd. That was just all around inspiring, it would be more than beautiful to see Gordon and Adrian firmly shaking hands while their other hands hold a crowbar and wrench respectively.
I like it, but I dont like the idea of Adrian would simply kill his brothers in arms that easily.
@@WingMaster562I honestly think that he'd link up with other grunts after they realize they've been practically backstabbing their country and begin helping scientists to safe areas while also marking themselves with the lambda symbol. After all, they've been left behind and have started to be silenced by their own country men as well, so why not make things right and protect the people you signed up for?
Friend of mine who has been recruited to US military claims that soldiers can disobey orders if the outcome is for the better.
Adrian didn't become a mindless Soldier but a true Soldier.
@@yeboxxxchannel2505 sure, until they get hit with Article 15
@@WingMaster562
Ok what? Care to elaborate please?
The attention to detail and persistence is what makes these great. You look for ways the survivors could meet up and increase their odds, and leave them supplies. It's truly something new and I'm excited to see what you bring next!
Thank you so much! Reading comments like these genuinely make my day and absolutely give me tons of inspiration to cook up some more quality content 👀
16:48 he actually is! He is that guard briefing you about going to zen and in the end he says "i'l cover you while you are waiting for that Portal to warm up" so you are clearly meant to take him with you into this room and it seems like canonically he dies, even if that's not what you did in your playthrough of the main game
Otis really needs a game for himself.
this ✊😔
Quarter Life
half life: fat life
@@jakedoesyoutube *HALF-BIT* *QUARTER BIT* *THE!!!! WRIST!!!! GAAAAAAME!*
Half Life 2: From The Ashes.
Plot: You play as Security Guard Otis Fontaine, who has somehow survived the Resonance Cascade AND the nuking of Black Mesa. As the years pass and the Combine take over Earth, they seek to sift over the rubble of Black Mesa to take whatever remaining secrets lay in its radioactive and Xen-infested corridors. As Otis realizes this, he also begins to notice that where the place where he is has begun to crumble in and around him. Now he must find a way to leave the facility, find out what has happened to Earth, and escape.
Gameplay: Think of it as similar to Half Life 2, but with scenes of PTSD from Otis' life before the disaster, as well as being able to use Otis' security clearance to think of differing ways to figure out puzzles. Otis would also get the Desert Eagle and be allowed to use two different modes for it. As for armor, I'd imagine he would start out by equipping body armor from old armories and dead guards, but would eventually find a well-preserved PCV from a rather large HECU marine's corpse and use that at about the halfway point to spice things up a little. The PCV would be somewhat glitched out and only charge until it was at fifty percent before stopping and refusing to take any more.
Weaponry: Mostly stuff from Half Life but updated into the Half Life 2 engine, though some of the Half Life 2 weapons would appear, including the Pulse Rifle and Stun Stick, which would act as the secondary melee and an occasional puzzle tool.
Ending: Otis would eventually come across a random portal and find himself teleported to White Forest, unaware of what is going on around him. However, he would then run into Barney and officially be welcomed into the Resistance.
9:43 That Otis artwork is so fucking cool. Imagine if he shows up in the next Half-Life game like that
It kinda looks like the grittier art direction the HL2 beta was going for at first
16:50
In the first game, that Guard said "I'll cover you while Your waiting for that Portal to warm up."
Probably, there is a Choice saying Leaving the guard so he can be safe or Take him with you in the Portal Room to Defend that Scientist.
I'd like to propose an alternate canon to what you described at the end of the video of Good Shepard. While Shepard himself would come to hate the Military, I don't see him taking out his anger on his fellow soldiers. Maybe the one interrogating the Scientist at the evac zone but it becomes quite clear that everyone is now abandoned at Black Mesa and the Black Ops are out to kill everyone, especially the soldiers. While sure the Soldiers had orders to kill, we see that even in HL1, there were HECU marines who were questioning the orders and really did not want to do this. After being abandoned, there really would be no reason for them to kill Black Mesa personnel (outside of warped perception). In addition, turning on people you likely knew and trained with to save what are effectively strangers is is not really a good thing to begin with, especially when said people aren't in situations (in this case, areas) where they can harm civis (being the scientists).
Though we do see Marines still go after scientists and shit in the game, I imagine this is coding oversight (because this is Gear Box we're talking about) and in reality we'd start to see Soldiers, Security Officers, and Scientists start to team up for escape out. All of them would come to have a really obvious hatred for the US military and dislike for the Black Ops sent to wipe them out and all of them now needing to survive in the Combine controlled world with the Combine hunting down soldiers to add into their synth armies. I imagine that those soldiers and the security officers would be the first active combatance for the Resistance and help to train the Rebels in combat for the long guerilla war ahead. Plus with these soldiers being HECU Marines now experienced against Xen life, they can help the Resistance in surviving out in the wastelands also. Really this outcome just makes a lot more sense for Shepard's perspective on things and outlying how he's a good person by saving absolutely everyone he can.
But what if some of them dont want to be heroes, and instead choose to follow the evil orders regardless of adrian's wishes? They were sent to do a job, and now adrian is telling them to disobey those orders, how can you guarantee that theyll choose Adrians side over the US military?
I second this. It's not really in good taste or reason to just attack anyone in uniform (especially ones who help you and could be convinced to stop aggression after you prove you are acting in their shared interests). If the soldiers hear their own were turning on them, they could act erratically in fear (likely creating one or two more skirmishes the scientists could get caught in). It could even potentially create a united escape effort (unlikely, but literally the best thing you could hope for beyond outside help).
Also, just the fact that a lot of those soldiers are in the exact same position as Shepherd. Kinda leaves a bad taste if you think of that.
Seconding this. This seems far more plausible than Shepherd turning on their own mates with whom they've gone through thick and thin for years. If anything, after his fellow Marines see the Black Ops sent to kill them, they'll switch sides with Shepherd as well. Sure it'll take some work to get the Black Mesa personnel and the HECU who were assaulting them mere hours earlier, to work together. But you don't become a Good Shepherd without leading different people to a common goal. And you certainly don't become the 'Good' Shepherd by shooting your squadmates in the back even to those who haven't shown any aggression to civilians.
honestly I just cant see shepard turning against all of his marine buddies.
@@dylanzlol7293 Yeah, I mean, in the original Half Life, it's really telling how even the couple of guards that express how much they don't want to be killing civilians don't hesitate for a microsecond to open fire on you. It's pretty much the exact same situation as the vortigaunts. Sure, maybe they don't want to be killing people, but they are anyways, because they either can't or won't disobey.
He went out of his way to wipe out every last vortigaunt and soldier he could find in the original game to make things safe for the civilians, because no matter what their feelings on the matter are, they are an active danger to the civilians in the complex. No sense going back on that with the soldiers now just because he's a soldier now too. Especially when they're the most likely of anyone to wind up becoming combine soldiers after the war (they even have the same kick animation as the HECU one in the beta), making them a danger to everyone twice over.
The sequel we've all been waiting for.
And the sequel we needed.
I was waiting for this for months (if it wasn't months then it felt like months).
Was waiting for this for a while, glad it's out
Actually this was just an expansion pack
*The sequel would be Half-Life 2*
i needed this
You know i think i got a lot of inspiration from you with my current additude of trying to save everyone i can in generally everything. Though while i usually like playing healing classes i think the general "No man left behind." and "Its never late to save someone." parts of it are heavily from you. So thank you.
42:39 I've got a slightly different headcanon. Outside of the soldiers whom are explicitly capturing/torturing/killing the Black Mesa personnel, how many of them either didn't receive the orders (like Shepard) *or* could be convinced by "the guy from our unit who literally saved our hides!" to go rogue with him? You even actually hear a Marine in Half Life complaining that "government coverups weren't in the job description (when I enlisted)". Hell, several of the marines working *with* Shepard have actually engaged the Black Ops in combat, so they know even *they* are in the crosshairs just by being there. "The aliens are shooting at everybody equally" + "that guy from our unit who saved our hides went rogue, think he has a point?" + "I didn't sign up for killing people whose only crime was a case of wrong place at the wrong time" + "Holy shit, *WE* are at the wrong place at the wrong time *too* !" might actually get the Marines working with Shepard to work out some form of truce.
Shepherd did his best to save everyone, like a true hero. I also don’t recall if it’s possible for friendly soldiers and scientists to be in the same area so that’s gonna be fun to see
Yeah they can be together. The in game lore explanation is that the Corporal’s group never got the order to kill the scientists because their helicopters got downed.
Nah I lied
Honestly, lore wise: I could see most soldiers that were left to dry in black mesa team up with the black mess staff. I mean, the mission has obviously gone FUBAR and at that point, it’s each man for themselves and they’re on their own versus two back to back alien invasions and black ops teams raiding the place. I mean, it would be their best bet to do so considering most of the marines are either dead or pulled out and the ones left aren’t really combat effective anymore.
@@deeznuts-kw6yv Hardly anyone left to team-up with, frankly.
When you meet those two first soldiers in "Missing in Action" you can sometimes get them to detect the scientist in the crawlspace down below, and if the scientist detects them he will start to panic and cower. I don't think you can actually get them to attack because the angle is too odd. Maybe I saw them throw a grenade once? I'm not sure. It was many years ago.
According to the wiki, on Easy difficulty, which enables aim assist, the assist triggers on Gina Cross’s body. Which implies she might be alive. Just unconscious.
But if that’s the case, that would still mean she is stuck in Xen.
Corpses are NPCs in GoldSrc (HL1 Engine), so that's probably why. Plus she'd have drowned by then.
@@alpacalover0 she could be like…really good at holding her breath
@Seal Walrus you’re in denial about me being in denial
@@alpacalover0In fairness Gordon should have a helmet and art shows it without so we can see our protag. We could argue that for Cross and Green are the same and they actually have helmets. Or that it could use the same model but not be her, like all guards having the Barney or Otis models.
@@Vort23 I agree about the helmets, but HEV suits unfortunately have limited oxygen supplies, so she'd be dead by this point anyways unless she somehow has extra oxygen and is playing dead for unknown reasons.
30:40 “You’re a good guy Corporal” -random security guard
Your editing style is so engaging, leagues ahead of bigger creators for sure. I really believe that your editing is second to none, and the way you engage audiences is great as well. immaculate writing and pacing imo.
I never realized how damn scrappy the scientists are in this game. Like a guard, military grunt or even the survey team have armor, weapons or training. These scientists are just livin inside the walls. I guess it makes sense considering Barney is the only guard we know in canon to make it out when at least 4 scientists did the same (Eli,Breen,Mossman and Kleiner)
Magnusson as well from Episode 2, you have the option to ruin his casserole in the microwave before you go into the test chamber
mossman doesn't count bucko
I think part of that though Is just that there's way less security guards than scientists, probably about 1 security guard for every 10 scientists
@@sirrivet9557I'd say most could of went to go fight the main areas of the outbreak but it's just not posible since cascade affected everything but yeah with how little guards you come across in any area is just bad even during the military coming in you never see any body's let alone evidence of anything black mesa no matter how you look at it was entirely cause guards were under manned and under equiped hell even apiture(prob wrong but i never rember how to spell it) was guarded better with no personal to gaurd it but turrets black mesa was doomed to fail even a simple "robbery" could probably get through black mesa with little to no resistance and considering they even have a train yard at mesa it may aswell be about 1 gaurd for every section and this counts the time it takes to get through them even with some obsticals the games take about 3 or so hours to complete so for even the small areas like 3 or so doors you need others to open since i think almost every area had atleast one it probably took Freeman and others about 30 to a hour to get through even if there's gaurds for doors and more the responce time to anything would be insane with the entire facility it prestine condition
@@arandomsystemglitch2398 Aperture Science I think it's spelt.
I like you how include soldiers in the casualty report.
Also, I don't think Shepard would start going doom guy against the marines, I feel like he might see them being as deceived as the Black Mesa personnel. I also think the soldiers would stop killing scientists once they realized that upper command has betrayed them and this whole plan is just a waste of good men.
Idk man, Half Life's story got so crazy and confusing they really should have just *nuked the whole thing.*
-Also, Gina is probably alive in the secret rooms because in easy mode your aim assist moves towards her, implying she is probably just unconscious.- (Turns out it can also aim assist aims at corpses sometimes.)
Yeah the orders become null and void if the person giving you orders abandons you and orders your death. No point in following orders as you would be basically helping your enemy. Plus those marines, scientists and security guards can work together to survive.
She's underwater. Even if she was knocked out she would've drowned by that point.
@@Michaels_World_ oh, i didn't see the water.
Corpses in the GoldSource Engine are NPCs and not static objects, which is why hitting them draws blood.
The nuke is the thing that alerts the combine iirc
16:52 The guard actually IS canon. In Half-Life, the guard that is with the scientist in the place where you get the long jump thing. Says that he would come and help you. But everyone usually does not realize this. So you are meant to take him with you. Which means when Gordon jumped in, the guard died, from the alien things.
Wow, the sequel has arrived pretty quick! I like how in the "Welcome to Black Mesa" you had a "trolley" problem and you had to choose between one scientists and another, that was quite interesting. Also, that headcrab jump was neat, saving that security officer was satisfying to watch.
This was so pleasant to watch, thank you for making these videos!
The fact that you released this so quickly after the Half-Life one and also put in the effort to add Decay and Blue Shift is just amazing.
You can totally bring a guard into the portal room with you in hl1, and it's actually canon, as he says he'll provide cover before you go in. It's just optional if you grab him or not.
29:50 Guard: Hey you, what are you doing with that?
Gman: * inhales * _Nothinggg youuu need to worry about......_
Guard afterwards: I think he armed some kind of bomb! One of these has to be the off switch, right? _I guess I'll just press all of them!_
Bomb: *WARNING. EMERGENCY INSTANT DETONATION ACTIVATED. HAVE A VERY SAFE DAY. GOODBYE.*
Guard: Aw sh-
Now save everyone in half life 2
I personally don't think Shepard would end up killing marines for the reason of spending years of his life knowing and making friendships with them but I do believe he would go AWOL
Maybe he would just subdue and disarm them
@@ezrabraman6437 "Now sit in corner with the scientists, and stop being stupid!"
Your closing speech regarding Adrian siding with Black Mesa personnel almost made me cry. I'd never thought of this before. I'd never thought a franchise I'd known for so many years would be able to make me feel so emotional. Thank you.
The only two things i didn't like is the name he gave to Shepard (I just dont like it, it could be better) and he forgot about Eli Vance, we could say Eli met Adrian in some point and decided to make the Lambda Rebelion based on him... Maybe
Adrian is his cannonical name.@@ForgillMaster51
I'll be honest I don't think, shepherd would betray the military. But I also don't think he would kill the scientists, I think he would be on the side of the military and his fellow soldiers,but I think he would just let the scientists go
An interesting coincidence is that this head canon, the good Shepherd (which I really like this head cannon) kind of coincides with the canceled Ravenholm game where you play as Adrian and meet up with Father Grigori, cuz he’s a church leader and Sheperds name is a biblical one
It's really thoughtful of you how far you go to preserve and support the people in these games. It makes me wish that this was a feature in the game from the start, even if it doesn't grant anything. Almost like easter eggs.
The good Shepard thingy was fun to listen too. I would think he took the rout of save everyone, in the face of an alien invasion, not once but twice, shepard tries to save himself from moral conundrums and save as many humans as possible to resist them. The less aliens the better for everyone at black mesa and earth.
Your videos have a ray of optimism and idealism in them which cuts through all the cynicism and defeatism I am surrounded by everyday. It's inspirational in its own way, going through all this to save them - an example to live by
Its beautiful, I love it too :)
At 42:56 the Bible quote “from” pulp fiction killed me
I like the way you group survivors and somehow try to help them even in dangerous situations (such as medikit or putting each other's visible area😀). Not only does it go so well with Half Life's narrative style, but it seems like it's part of the story where you're trying to really help, not just achievements or quests to save these NPCs.😌
I also like that you don't give up and keep going even though there is a set dark and grim ending.
p.s.
Would like include credit of female assassin art in the description? 😅 Artist is
"just-rube".
Man, Otis has a Deagle. Of course he will do a better job than anyone else.
don’t dog on our boy Otis like that
Otis is the best security guard. He tears trough people.
Something I love about Half Life 1 is how it now feels like the beginning of some kind of modern mythos, with heroes and prophets destined to save the world (and an ending that doesn't conclude the story, Epistle 3 reading like a prediction of the end times). The Free Man, the Good Shepherd... they're treated like figures of legend over mere men
You are forgetting the good guard that owe you a beer.
So they are The Free Man, The Good Shephard and the BAR Calhoun.
Imagine that way after Half Life 2, humanity has somewhat degenerated but still manage to recreate civilization, so they wouldn't understand certain aspects of the past as we do today. Some technology would have seem magical, especially if Vortesence becomes more prominent in a post combine Earth. To these new peoples, they may have saw Black Mesa as this place of magicians and clever men trying to advance humanity. Perhaps working as that age's Garden of Eden.
2:15 The marines and security don’t exist anymore and half-life two then when extinct after the seven hour war, I think. But I don’t know where the roses the third type went.
Love this series and how people find new things to do in these old gems
Saint: “Alright G man, I saved the lives of many scientists of black mesa, weakened the xen force, and survived all of the hazards on the way, what do I get?”
GMan: “Your own pocket dimension!”
Saint: “Awesome!”
GMan: “That serves as a prison.”
Saint: “…”
Saint: “What?”
Better than just being insta killed by grand employers 💀
Better than getting a “job offer” to go face more danger, I guess.
@@agent_sus3273but that would mean saving more lives!
Hey Saint. I actually managed to save the soldier from 9:45 on the steam version of the game. It took me a lot of tries but if you manage to get a grenade near the vorts it somehow breaks the script but they will kill him with their electro attacks, hence multiple tries. You just have to jump lob a grenade in the perfect location to get them. :)
This is kinda funny because each playable Half Life character (excluding Alyx) falls into a category in the survivor table thingy
Gordon is a scientist
Adrian is a marine
Barney is guard
Gina and colette are members of the survey team
Hell man!
I love this!
The effort and thought you put into this video is commendable.
I do regret not discovering your channel earlier.
And those “rambling” of yours are awesome. Game me goosebumps both times and The good Shepherd is my new head cannon.
Just like rebel Otis.
Thank you!
30:41 he could just see his rank on his vest lmao
can't wait for saving every citizens in half life 2
12:20 no thats RATHONGOR GOD OF THUNDER he was just taking a nap and recharging
Save the rebels in half life 2!
I have never left a comment on a youtube video before but I wanted to say: These videos are super entertaining and put together really professionally. I'm was honestly surprised to find out you don't create youtube videos for a living. Keep up the great work! :-)
Honestly, thank you very, very much for taking the time to write up a comment man. Your words are genuinely lovely and it means the world to me!
You managed to crank this out already? Mind blowing. You do great work!
It's been a month.
@@ryantalley5284
That's beating a game in a more difficult fashion (3 of them in this case), recording all the necessary footage, recording all the necessary dialogue, and then editing it all together into a cohesive and entertaing video. That's a lot of work for just a month!
@@feathero3 I'm hearing doubt.
He was motivated by Alyx
"Come on, Gordon, crank that thing"
4:35 best part is that Coomer is named after a valve employee that worked on Half-Life: Greg Coomer. Not only that, but Gordon Freeman's face is modeled after Greg Coomer's
At 19:00 I would also suggest activating the booby trapped door scanner because the scientist might try to use the scanner and get killed when you leave
16:55
Before you go to the teleporter in the lambda complex you can actually get a guard to follow you into the teleporter-chamber, so the dead security guard is cannon.
The guard doesn’t always follow you though.
Not gonna lie, as you said you are a sucker for enviromental story telling, I'm a sucker for good writing, that Good Shepard part at the end nearly brought me to tears thinking about, remembering Half-Life Reinstated, the SFM series for the Saxxy Awards, combined with the knowledge of how much trauma this man most have obtained, makes me wonder just the final thoughts going through his head before he was put through stasis, I like to think he had tears in his eyes as even then he would worry he didn't save enough, but at the same time, pride, pride in that he saved so many.
41:22
Damn dude I've never really liked half life that much but after that narration at the end i might go and give the game a try
When I was little I was that kid who played Halo trying to keep all the marines alive. Meaning I love this concept, hope to see you trying similar things in other games!
Same. I would do a headcount after every firefight.
I dont think Adrian switched sides and killed grunts. It is far more likely he's ignored order, and saved everyone. Altough it was'nt shown in game mechanics, other soldiers didnt attack last survived barney, and walked down to fight geneworm.
True, though even Half-Life implies that in some areas the HECU did keep Black Mesa Security Personnel alive, only to turn on them if or when Gordon Freeman got close. Such as the guard posted at the armory in Surface Tension. He's standing guard right up there above a HECU outpost and my assumption has always been they kept him around because only he had access to that armory. In Questionable Ethics a HECU spawns if you trigger the first Kill Device Thing and to get to his location he had to walk passed at Security Guard. Granted, I don't think the maps in these game are to true scale; they have nonsense geometry and no bathrooms and you can imagine other explanations, but none the less I suspect that in some cases the HECU took people prisoner or else employed them for their own ends. I mean we do see at least one captured scientist, so not everyone was shot on sight.
12:10 He's not dead, he has electric powers.
i genuinely love these types of challenge videos, thank you for going through shit like this that nobody else is dedicated enough to do. Good vid!
I really like videos like this. It’s a nice nostalgic trip for me since I obsessed over half-life as a kid, and I love how much effort you put into taking both the spirit and letter of the challenge seriously by approaching it from both a canonical perspective within the franchise’s universe as well as a technical one with understanding and manipulating quirks in the game engine to forward the goal of the challenge. The spliced in memes are a charming and chuckle-inducing cherry on top.
I’m happy the obvious care, forethought, and creativity you put into your videos is paying off for you in the algorithm.
I got recommended this an hour after it was uploaded probably since I watched the first one and now I’m convinced you’re worth a sub.
i also love the masked soldier aesthetic, something about it feels advanced and futuristic, like the soldier dawns not a helmet but an outer shell to show they have become something more than human, a avatar of war a symbol of strength
Shepherd pulled a Cadia, I love it, “Black Mesa broke before the guard”
Thank you for making this, I loved this video and your other Half-Life one. These are my most valued youtube videos
Saving Every Scientist in Half-Life is on my 'best videos of all time" playlist.
This video somehow surpassed that at "The Good Shepherd" part. Absolutely brilliant. I am TOTALLY going to write fanfiction about that.
Drop a link when you do
I consider this the canon ending for opposing force.
Along with the half life one.
I mean the half life one vid is literally what happened canonically (Except for the people saved through loading and saving tricks). The end part of this vid is just his head canon, though I’m sure did Adrian help most scientists.
16:48 In the original half-life the Guard and Scientist you meet before the chamber the Guard agrees to help you in the chamber while it powers up, and you have a choice to bring him or leave him. Most people dont even listen to that conversation, so dont know about this! So he is cannon.
Wonderful video, just like the previous one. I think your sorta minimalist thumbnails with a defined style are a good attractor of viewers, but the dedication to the "challenge" and lore-knowledge combined with your soothing voice and slick editing is what keeps people watching. Great job.
I always personally believed that despite the nuke being well...a nuke, that with it being a surface detonation(not even above ground mind you) that it wouldn't have destroyed ALL of BM. BM has some crazy underground concrete labyrinths to hunker down in. Though of course anyone surviving now has to deal with a whole new set of issues.
Yeah, explosives in general are less devastating when detonated on the surface. A lot of people who are underground are likely to have some sort of filtered ventilation system (since it's hard to get air down there as is) and are likely to not be affected by the lack of oxygen near the blast.
Unfortunatly black mesa had a lot of nukes since it was a missile silo, so it was a chain reaction, meaning black mesa died all the way
@@Mewingman45Just because Black Mesa used to be a military silo, does not mean that they retain any nuclear weaponry. As far as we understand, the only explosives inside the facility are the explosive containers and grenades, as well as the satchels and tripmines brought by the marines.
It is very likely that some survived the nuclear detonation. Chances are that by the third day, survivors that had not fled already were well hunkered down, as seen with the science team at the beginning, the guards at the parking lot, and the one guard in the deep storage area where the Race X have their main portal in. They could likely survive, and possibly even safely evacuate the facility, as the Race X is completely wiped out with their leader, the Xenians are all taken back to home base excluding the easy-to-deal-with wildlife, and most HECU troops likely were too anxious and were in the surface where the bomb hit them, that being if Shephard didn't use them to bypass doors before exterminating them.
A well narrated and edited challenge run dotted with juicy memes is a recipe for success.
these are some of the best half life media ive ever seen on this site, and the good shepherd part gave me chills. keep up the amazing work!!!
32:57 u call this a clickbait? I call that a bonus!
30:43 Maybe he saw Shepard's shoulder straps?
Yeah, he'd be able to tell just by looking at his attire.
38:50 and also the smaller teleporter we see at the end of Blue Shift is an old prototype that while requires less energy than the Lambda Complex one (that one needed an entire nuclear reactor to work) not only required Barney to go to Xen to properly set it up before it could teleport the scientists to the parking lot at the end of Blue Shit, it is also more unpredictable and unstable as it ends up teleporting Barney to different locations before properly sending him to the end of the game
Exactly, Black Mesa knows about portals. Good comment mate 👍
This video is such greatly done and it's edited perfectly and the end of it was so heartbreaking and warming i am in shock
2:25. Let me explain why there aren't any big headcrabs in Half life 2. The Combine changed the biology of the Headcrabs ruining their reproductive cycle. The big boi Headcrabs are stage 2 of the Headcrab cycle. They start as a regular Headcrab then they become a zombie then they become a big boi zombie then they become a gonarch. The Half Life 2 Headcrabs were mutated by the Combine to be a fear machine.
16:47 im pretty sure that guard is the one that is next to the scientist when you reach the lambda complex, since you can actually take him with you to the teleporter and he can help you
39:00 counterargument: the military are also human beings, and they also have regrets, that one grunt in hl1 himself said that he wasnt there to kill civilans, and was unhappy with the chain of command
Yeah. And then he turned his gun on Gordon without a microinstant of hesitation. Doesn't matter how bad they feel about what they do, if they keep fucking doing it. Mad dogs get put down. Same as the vortigaunts.
@@VeryPeeved who shot first tho, also using the vortigaunts is a terrible example lol
@@bitterman7258 The military. They shot first. In basically every interaction, right up until Gordon gets smart enough to shoot them on sight as a matter of course, because they won't hesitate.
And yeah, you're right, the vortigaunts are a bad example. After all, they had a good excuse.
@@VeryPeeved the military does too, they were following orders
@@bitterman7258 so were nazis
You cranked this out quickly! Love your work and am excited to see what is next!
Really love these videos! So good. Love the little story at the end and the clips sprinkled in, too. Awesome work!
Oh my god, this man has an insane way of storytelling, especially on the last part. It's so goddamn captivating, I love it man. Please, keep doing what you're doing.
Not enough youtubers do the whole light storytelling angle, keep this up I'm loving it.
30:48 or he figured he was a corporal based on his rank badge, but that wouldn't be as fun.
It's not visible on his character model, AFAICT.
The Intro is the one of the best intro's i have ever seen. Such a good idea and how it was executed made me rewatch it for more than 10 times. Pure art. The video itself was made really good for a channel with this low amount of subs. You need more attention! Wish you luck, you did one of the best works I've ever seen about this game.
Watching videos like these are my favourite to put on after I finished a workout session, just to kick my feet up on the recliner and relax. It's just so chill, thank you for making good content! And also congrats on the massive success, 150k views in 4 days for someone with 12k subs and 8 videos is crazy!
The sequel we didn't deserve, but got anyway!
Absolutely loved the ending! I always enjoy making headcannon with my actions in game, so hearing such a cool concept made me light up
I loved how, in this game, you had every opportunity to actually save the surviving Black Mesa personnel as a HECU grunt that went there and survived. It definitely makes Shepherd stand out in a good way, contrary to what the rest of his buddies were ordered there to do along with the Black Ops units that followed. Nostalgia! 💯👌😎🙏
30:41 i always thought that this security guard calls player "copral" because of the shoulder straps that player wears. and the security guard, as a man who certainly served in the army, knows how to read them
Oh my god, you did it again. I know my comment will be lost in the sea of great comments posted on this stellar video, but I just want to so that I am incredibly mesmerized. I can’t believe you were able to do essentially the entire thing once more on another video, you are such an absolute mad lad! This also makes me hope even more for a Freeman-Shepard team up, especially when Gordon finally starts going after G-Man and finds a way to free Shepard from his eternal prison. Anyway, I hope you will have an incredible day, and that you will get your well deserved rest, lad!
Thank you very much honestly! ahaha I meant it when I say I read every comment 😄 it brings me so much genuine joy reading all of this; thank you, It's stuff like this that makes me passionate!
@@Saint_Jam Mate, don't thank me. It's YOUR content that attracts this much love. Everything I say is merely a reaction to so much... positivity, so much wonder so much LOVE placed into your videos. Anyway, I won't talk as much, because I don't really want to use up to much of you free time. I hope you will have a very pleasant day, lad.
I'm still watching the video, but I like it so far! It was also very poignant to me on how the number of survivors dwindled in the chapters, showing how the situation is deteriorating
I was also wondering about the possibility of a video of you trying to save every scientist in the Black Mesa remake. I figured there would be just enough differences between the games to be unique and while there are other videos out there, I prefer your style where you think beyond just saving them and go the extra mile to give them a better chance at survival. The chapter graphic also helps out a lot.
I admire your dedication to those videos. Good work
I'm loving this and the headcanon you gave at the end.
Phenomenal video man, I remember as a kid playing video games and trying my best to save npcs and clear out as many enemies as possible for them or leave them supplies in hopes of it helping them. Your two videos for half life reminded of those times and gave me some unique nostalgia. Regardless, the editing, commentary, and pacing was all very well done, something that a big professional youtuber would produce, so i'm hoping that's a sign of things to come for you. :)