I mean, we actually see what he went through in Half Life: Blue Shift. He actually managed to teleport out with a bunch of scientists and drive away before the nuke went off. Now, if you mean in the intervening years between HL1 and City 17, yeah, that's more open ended.
The idea that everywhere the storm touches becomes a habitat for the xenian wildlife is so cool and pretty scary. no wonder the usa got crossed off in half life. we got done in by Xen and done in by the combine
The portal storms were covering entire continents according to the newspaper in Half-Life: Alyx. The biggest one was located in Europe, USA wasn't destroyed.
The Seven Hour War really does seem like chaos beyond comprehension. Alien creatures literally phasing into reality all around you, the very landscape twisting into a strange new world right in front of you, and no help coming because this is happening everywhere all at once. Honestly, its a miracle we were even able to last seven hours from the sounds of it.
Honestly, if the Beta version of the Portal storms is actually still canon, then I'd argue that THOSE were far more horrible than the seven hour war. Xen creatures appearing all over earth. Headcrabs attacking people in their homes, the sea becoming infested with Ichtyosaurs and giant Leeches, the remnants of the Nihilant's army attacking everyone on sight. Then the whole evacuation madness: People piling into larger cities, anarchy, the lack of food, sickness and poverty everywhere. Absolute collapse of any form of law and society. The only thing the Combine had to do at that point was get rid of the Xen wildlife and take over the already destroyed and scared remnants of Humanity
0:42 nice touch adding mir instead of iss, if im right i think the resonance cascade happens in 2000 or around there, iss wasn't even crewed yet at the time.
@@NeneriiMarc Laidlaw mentioned the incident taking place in 2003 in Raising the Bar. That's where people are getting that from. Edit: it was a date that came up whilst brainstorming, never actually used. They made the year kept vauge for a reason.
Reminds me of the red zones in Command & Conquer (Tiberian sun specifically) Sprawling, bleak wastelands littered with deadly alien wildlife and the ruins of past battles. All the while constantly blasted by storms that seem not of this earth. Very nice little short video, great job on this!
I was just about to comment that and then saw your comment. Although I was more reminded of the Tiberian Wars menu screen. Man the Black Dawn OST is such a mood.
One of the things I've always found depressing about Half-Life is the fact that, even if humanity wins in the end, much of the Earth is uninhabitable. Aside from the purpose of control, another reason everyone was relocated by the Combine is that areas like City 17 are among the few places left with somewhat intact infrastructure and no infestation by hostile alien fauna. Not to mention that most species on Earth are either extinct or close to extinction (including humanity lol) by the time Half-Life 2 begins.
Yes, Half Life 2's gameplay is very empty, there are only combines along the way and some remaining creatures from Xen on planet Earth, there are no animals other than birds, abandoned places and silence, not to one type of animal, and practically no fish in the oceans, Who would have thought that just one experiment could screw up an entire planet in such a short time. And most of this blame lies practically with the bullsquids, who with their hostile activity, extinguish themselves and anything with life that he's finds.
With that in mind, Dr Breen wasn't really lying then when he said it was "safe here" at the start of HL2, if the world outside the Combine controlled cities is like this, then it most definitely was.
Yup. Most of Earth's wildlife is dead, the oceans are half-drained (and also dead), Earth geography is irreversibly changed and things will never be the same. Even if the Combine left and never came back (which is unlikely considering they're an intergalactic empire beyond our understanding), Earth is still DEEPLY fucked.
Really digging the concept here. Reminds me of this one fan level of Black Mesa where you play a security guard who has to go BACK into the anomalous materials lab, and into the test chamber, where the anti mass spectrometer has been consumed by a portal, with xen flora and roaming portal anomalies were infesting the surrounding laboratories. What you've depicted here ties in well with the implications that HL:A gives us, with north America crossed off the map with a big X. With big ominous portal storm clouds spewing interdimensional fungi and hostile xenians, rendering massive swaths of land a biohazardous waste, it really highlights the horrific situation. Something that I do want to point out, we did have an example of what one of the effects of a portal storm was, in HL2:E2, where some type of energy wave is emitted from the citadel ruins that collapses a bridge. Alyx refers to this as reminding her of the "first days", though, this could refer to the effects of the combines arrival. Would be kinda cool to see a super portal similar to the one created by the citadel, perhaps like what the anti mass spectrometer did in that one fan level.
The most terrifying thing is that during the portal storms, there were most likely some of the surviving personnel in black mesa who still hoped to escape.
@@rach_66 Yes, but I think that black mesa was so huge that there could certainly be survivors trapped by debris in deep and remote parts of the complex.
I know that extraction shooters are a controversial genre, but I always thought that Black Mesa (before nuke) and the surrounding area would be a perfect setting for an extraction type game. You've got all different types of enemies around, crazy loot from the labs and xen, and a vast and changing environment. This video just captures that atmosphere perfectly
Imagine black mesa but in a post nuke desolate state and in Portal 2 style it's overgrown and overtaken but with Xen flora, crumbled walls and partially functional lab equipment covered in alien fungi.. the test chamber site still standing in the midst like an ancient temple, sunlight coming through, Xen fauna nested in smoking crevices, green vortexes of energy, debris whirling around in the wind..
She saw the outside, and she was met with a wheat field and blue skies. So it kinda implies that in the end the earth actually survived the whole Xen affair.
@@molanohouse maybe.. maybe not.. i don't think valve really focused much on Half Life in the story direction of Portal 2.. perhaps back in 2007 they had different plans for Chell .
I don’t know if this just me but the way you made the Portal storms makes it remind of the Day After Tomorrow. Like before the Winter or Blizzard. Like when is Raining and lighting In the movie and Also this is Great!!
Imagine what’s going on in Earth’s oceans. Trillions of leeches sprawling in every direction. Consuming all known sea life, reducing the ocean’s biodiversity to 1 seaborne organism. Irrevocably. The exception only possibly being the ichthyosaur, keeping the leech population in check. Ocean life still completely destroyed in either scenario.
i really want to see more of what was happening around the country during and after those two days. to see everyday life practically change within 48 hours to what we know would be so cool. this is perfect
An Incredible Depiction of what a Portal Storm is! Given Half Lifes Show dont tell mentality, we never really KNOW what a portal storm looks like besides Episode 2. This is the most accurate I'd say. A Big Portal in the sky showing the other dimension like a window, and then the Teleportation's being the actual phenomenon bringing the aliens into the world. And all of this causes Meteorically Phenomenon such as actual Storms. Its a Storm in 3 ways 1- A "Storm" of Teleportation and Rapid Infestation 2- a Literal Storm of Rain, Lightning and Wind 3- The actual Phenomenon itself of the Visualized rift in the sky. Love it!
Meanwhile, GLaDOS, Chell, and various others are chilling underground at the Aperture Labs facility, blissfully unaware of all this. My headcannon is that GLaDOS has an idea of what earth looks like, and when she turns her attention outside her facility, grows unhappy that the world has been soured by Xen, Combine, etc, and gets to work cleaning up the mess.
This is both terrifying and cool af. It's clearly how I imagined what the portal storms would look like, constantly transporting xenian life to earth making entire continents uninhabitable for native life
Gives a deeper meaning when the G-MAN says, "prepare for unforeseen consequences". That one experiment. All of that destroying Black Mesa, combine invasion, a country wiped off the map.
I recently played Dark Interval part 2, and that mod really shows the horrors that the seven hour war unleashed onto earth. This video is a great depiction as well
I'd like to imagine the portal shifting to a different hue and distorting is one of the first combine entities getting ready to enter earth, thus beginning the 7 hour war. Very sick depiction of the portal storms, no wonder Alyx was so afraid of the tiny one you see in Episode 2.
I was always fascinated by the idea of what happened in the immediate aftermath of the Black Mesa Incident - after the destruction of the facility, but before the Seven Hour War. This animation captures it perfectly. Absolutely stunning.
When fighting the combine, its hard to imagine how the entire world's military could've lost to them in 7 hours, until you realize they were already a couple days into dealing with an alien invasion when the aliens with guns showed up.
Dude i love the atmosphere with the unnartual lighting and the dark sky with the floral with all of it being interupted by a portal storm just MMM it also gives a plausible explanation to why america doesn't exist anymore
Imagine returning to Black Mesa, what's left of it. Most of the base was deep underground, and the detonation was at surface level so large sections of the facility must still be intact, including the Lambda Reactor.
When i saw Mir in the orbital shot, it just made me think: Imagine being onboard the ISS during the resonance cascade, watching your homeland get destroyed from above and the portal storms through the tiny portholes.
This reminded me of the final (hidden) chapters of Residual Point. Returning back to the ruins of Black Mesa, but with a Xen-ish sky (most likely the Portal Storms).
The portal storms explain a lot for why Earth fell in 7 hours. The human population was basically exhausted after fighting a years long war of attrition with alien life forms wreaking havoc on global ecosystems. We just didn't have the capacity to defend against the Combine when they attacked too.
only issue is, this isn't what the portal storms are; the portal storms in the 7 hour war refer to the ones seen in HL2:EP2, based on a newspaper in HLA and HL2 talking about portal storms, and even showing an image which is a render of a civilian near one of the portal storms seen in EP2. it's likely the resonance cascade didn't cause these, but a combine superportal, like in EP2.
Fun fact: Sol, our sun, only looks yellow from Earth's surface because it's being filtered through Earth's atmosphere which scatters higher frequencies. Outside our atmosphere, Sol appears white. Not-so-fun fact: You will never be able to un-learn this, and now every piece of media that gets it wrong will bug you slightly. :3
While this is quite cool, i personally don't like the concept of the storms making the environment xen-like, i feel like black mesa itsself should 100% be infested with xen life, but i think the portal storm likely just caused mass destruction, like its show in episode 2
A very good depiction of why the USA was scribbled out on Russel's globe.
Definitely..
Im just imagining huge chunks of Xen just landing in random cities
I thought it was because the us decided nuking itself to deny the combine control was a better idea than surrender
@@itsmegoodbye9227the combine hasn't appeared yet, this is the height of the black mesa incident not the 7 hour war
@@Nenerii wondering how long it was after the incident when the Combine showed up.
It's terrifying to think what Barney had to go through.
you mean getting anakin skywalkered/darth vadered?
Yeah..
@@IvanSpaceBikeri dont get it
I'd love to see a mod where we make it thru this with barney
I mean, we actually see what he went through in Half Life: Blue Shift. He actually managed to teleport out with a bunch of scientists and drive away before the nuke went off.
Now, if you mean in the intervening years between HL1 and City 17, yeah, that's more open ended.
The idea that everywhere the storm touches becomes a habitat for the xenian wildlife is so cool and pretty scary. no wonder the usa got crossed off in half life. we got done in by Xen and done in by the combine
The portal storms were covering entire continents according to the newspaper in Half-Life: Alyx. The biggest one was located in Europe, USA wasn't destroyed.
Holy shit that is horrifying, this makes dying during the incident feel like the best option
They were the lucky ones
i'm sure a lot of people took the "easy" way out
but what about the infinite free eye puppies
@@chocolate_maned_wolf those things have a fucking beak and can pulverize my insides with a single screech. no thanks.
Living will envy the dead, as they say
The Seven Hour War really does seem like chaos beyond comprehension. Alien creatures literally phasing into reality all around you, the very landscape twisting into a strange new world right in front of you, and no help coming because this is happening everywhere all at once. Honestly, its a miracle we were even able to last seven hours from the sounds of it.
Let alone survive it..
7 hour war didn’t happen until almost a year after the resonance cascade and portal storms started.
@@sbraypaynt Are you basing that off of Neinfeld's video? Because according to Marc Laidlaw, the 7 hour war happened "days" after HL1.
@@roman11777 No, this is based on an earlier draft of how the Combine invaded earth. HL2 Beta lore
Honestly, if the Beta version of the Portal storms is actually still canon, then I'd argue that THOSE were far more horrible than the seven hour war. Xen creatures appearing all over earth. Headcrabs attacking people in their homes, the sea becoming infested with Ichtyosaurs and giant Leeches, the remnants of the Nihilant's army attacking everyone on sight. Then the whole evacuation madness: People piling into larger cities, anarchy, the lack of food, sickness and poverty everywhere. Absolute collapse of any form of law and society. The only thing the Combine had to do at that point was get rid of the Xen wildlife and take over the already destroyed and scared remnants of Humanity
0:42 nice touch adding mir instead of iss, if im right i think the resonance cascade happens in 2000 or around there, iss wasn't even crewed yet at the time.
It happen on may 16th 200x most people believe it happened in 2003
@loco4locoi never heard anyone say it was 2003, it was always 2000
@@NeneriiMarc Laidlaw mentioned the incident taking place in 2003 in Raising the Bar. That's where people are getting that from.
Edit: it was a date that came up whilst brainstorming, never actually used. They made the year kept vauge for a reason.
Reminds me of the red zones in Command & Conquer (Tiberian sun specifically)
Sprawling, bleak wastelands littered with deadly alien wildlife and the ruins of past battles. All the while constantly blasted by storms that seem not of this earth.
Very nice little short video, great job on this!
Exactly what I was thinking of, come to think of it CnC music wouldn't be out of place here
I know right
That's what i was thinking tooooo
@Spartan_Tanner the CnC3 menu theme would be perfect over it
I was just about to comment that and then saw your comment. Although I was more reminded of the Tiberian Wars menu screen. Man the Black Dawn OST is such a mood.
One of the things I've always found depressing about Half-Life is the fact that, even if humanity wins in the end, much of the Earth is uninhabitable. Aside from the purpose of control, another reason everyone was relocated by the Combine is that areas like City 17 are among the few places left with somewhat intact infrastructure and no infestation by hostile alien fauna. Not to mention that most species on Earth are either extinct or close to extinction (including humanity lol) by the time Half-Life 2 begins.
Yes, Half Life 2's gameplay is very empty, there are only combines along the way and some remaining creatures from Xen on planet Earth, there are no animals other than birds, abandoned places and silence, not to one type of animal, and practically no fish in the oceans, Who would have thought that just one experiment could screw up an entire planet in such a short time.
And most of this blame lies practically with the bullsquids, who with their hostile activity, extinguish themselves and anything with life that he's finds.
With that in mind, Dr Breen wasn't really lying then when he said it was "safe here" at the start of HL2, if the world outside the Combine controlled cities is like this, then it most definitely was.
Yup. Most of Earth's wildlife is dead, the oceans are half-drained (and also dead), Earth geography is irreversibly changed and things will never be the same. Even if the Combine left and never came back (which is unlikely considering they're an intergalactic empire beyond our understanding), Earth is still DEEPLY fucked.
@@Vogoolthey should make a follow up game where it’s just you and rebels trying to purify land
@@amadeusjohansson Half-Life 4 is just an RTS where you have to reclaim Earth or something
Really digging the concept here. Reminds me of this one fan level of Black Mesa where you play a security guard who has to go BACK into the anomalous materials lab, and into the test chamber, where the anti mass spectrometer has been consumed by a portal, with xen flora and roaming portal anomalies were infesting the surrounding laboratories.
What you've depicted here ties in well with the implications that HL:A gives us, with north America crossed off the map with a big X. With big ominous portal storm clouds spewing interdimensional fungi and hostile xenians, rendering massive swaths of land a biohazardous waste, it really highlights the horrific situation. Something that I do want to point out, we did have an example of what one of the effects of a portal storm was, in HL2:E2, where some type of energy wave is emitted from the citadel ruins that collapses a bridge. Alyx refers to this as reminding her of the "first days", though, this could refer to the effects of the combines arrival. Would be kinda cool to see a super portal similar to the one created by the citadel, perhaps like what the anti mass spectrometer did in that one fan level.
pretty sure you're talking about black mesa azure sheep
@@akjackhd5804 yep, that’s the one!
Alyx actually calls it a Portal Storm, if I'm not mistaken.
Wasn't Alex pretty much just a baby during the events of Half Life 1? I may be mis-remembering the specifics, there, though.
The most terrifying thing is that during the portal storms, there were most likely some of the surviving personnel in black mesa who still hoped to escape.
didn't black mesa get nuked?
@@rach_66 Yes, but I think that black mesa was so huge that there could certainly be survivors trapped by debris in deep and remote parts of the complex.
This would be a very good opening if Half-Life ever had a film
I hope Half life never gets a film bc. every movie from a game is crap AF. HL is too good to be a movie
AUGHHH I LOVEE THE WIDE SHOTS YOU DO AND I LOVE THE CLASSIC XENIAN FAUNA
Woah this is sooo cool! That's one period of half life history that is rarely covered by fan art and your depiction is amazing!
I know that extraction shooters are a controversial genre, but I always thought that Black Mesa (before nuke) and the surrounding area would be a perfect setting for an extraction type game. You've got all different types of enemies around, crazy loot from the labs and xen, and a vast and changing environment. This video just captures that atmosphere perfectly
Imagine black mesa but in a post nuke desolate state and in Portal 2 style it's overgrown and overtaken but with Xen flora, crumbled walls and partially functional lab equipment covered in alien fungi.. the test chamber site still standing in the midst like an ancient temple, sunlight coming through, Xen fauna nested in smoking crevices, green vortexes of energy, debris whirling around in the wind..
Imagine Chel seeing this after getting out
That would make a good Portal 3.. Chell going out and wandering the wastes and ruins, open spaces, exploration and survival mechanics..
@damonnugent1993 with the cube
She saw the outside, and she was met with a wheat field and blue skies.
So it kinda implies that in the end the earth actually survived the whole Xen affair.
@@molanohouse maybe.. maybe not.. i don't think valve really focused much on Half Life in the story direction of Portal 2.. perhaps back in 2007 they had different plans for Chell .
@molanohouse So when does Portal 2 happen? Way beyond Half Life's timeline?
Of COURSE I get this 7 hours ago 😭
Pick up that can.
How many hours....
lmao
7 days ago
I don’t know if this just me but the way you made the Portal storms makes it remind of the Day After Tomorrow. Like before the Winter or Blizzard. Like when is Raining and lighting In the movie and Also this is Great!!
Imagine what’s going on in Earth’s oceans. Trillions of leeches sprawling in every direction. Consuming all known sea life, reducing the ocean’s biodiversity to 1 seaborne organism. Irrevocably. The exception only possibly being the ichthyosaur, keeping the leech population in check. Ocean life still completely destroyed in either scenario.
Xen wildlife: New home!!
The Combine Union: OUR home
Best depiction of the black mesa incident
i really want to see more of what was happening around the country during and after those two days. to see everyday life practically change within 48 hours to what we know would be so cool. this is perfect
An Incredible Depiction of what a Portal Storm is! Given Half Lifes Show dont tell mentality, we never really KNOW what a portal storm looks like besides Episode 2. This is the most accurate I'd say. A Big Portal in the sky showing the other dimension like a window, and then the Teleportation's being the actual phenomenon bringing the aliens into the world. And all of this causes Meteorically Phenomenon such as actual Storms.
Its a Storm in 3 ways
1- A "Storm" of Teleportation and Rapid Infestation
2- a Literal Storm of Rain, Lightning and Wind
3- The actual Phenomenon itself of the Visualized rift in the sky.
Love it!
I love the idea that the residents Cascade caused this sort of hazard zone nobody touches
This is giving me some REAL Tiberian Sun vibes and I'm all for it.
Meanwhile, GLaDOS, Chell, and various others are chilling underground at the Aperture Labs facility, blissfully unaware of all this. My headcannon is that GLaDOS has an idea of what earth looks like, and when she turns her attention outside her facility, grows unhappy that the world has been soured by Xen, Combine, etc, and gets to work cleaning up the mess.
This is both terrifying and cool af. It's clearly how I imagined what the portal storms would look like, constantly transporting xenian life to earth making entire continents uninhabitable for native life
The alien ecoystem infecting earth, the green flashes from a storm. Gives me Tiberian Sun vibes.
Gives a deeper meaning when the G-MAN says, "prepare for unforeseen consequences". That one experiment. All of that destroying Black Mesa, combine invasion, a country wiped off the map.
I like this; I get the impression that while the storms were ongoing there was no border between Earth and Xen.
I'm guessing that the last portal opening with the blue tint is the combine coming through.
I recently played Dark Interval part 2, and that mod really shows the horrors that the seven hour war unleashed onto earth. This video is a great depiction as well
Wow that looks really good.
Wow that's a pretty good depiction of the portal storm after the resonance cascade! You HL videos are awesome man!
I'd like to imagine the portal shifting to a different hue and distorting is one of the first combine entities getting ready to enter earth, thus beginning the 7 hour war. Very sick depiction of the portal storms, no wonder Alyx was so afraid of the tiny one you see in Episode 2.
I was always fascinated by the idea of what happened in the immediate aftermath of the Black Mesa Incident - after the destruction of the facility, but before the Seven Hour War. This animation captures it perfectly. Absolutely stunning.
Some of the best lighting and cinematography I've seen from SFM
Now I REALLY want to revisit Black Mesa and Arizona (yes yes I know, it was nuked but I want to see what became of it)
Damn, it took this long to depict this moment in Half Life? I'm surprised more people haven't done the immediate aftermath. Great work.
When fighting the combine, its hard to imagine how the entire world's military could've lost to them in 7 hours, until you realize they were already a couple days into dealing with an alien invasion when the aliens with guns showed up.
"Not again. Not another Black Mesa."
Dude i love the atmosphere with the unnartual lighting and the dark sky with the floral with all of it being interupted by a portal storm just MMM it also gives a plausible explanation to why america doesn't exist anymore
Imagine returning to Black Mesa, what's left of it. Most of the base was deep underground, and the detonation was at surface level so large sections of the facility must still be intact, including the Lambda Reactor.
I think at half life 2 moment black mesa will destroyed all because it had alot structural failure
That's impressive.
Positively horrifying. It's a true miracle humanity survived at all.
Haunting and desolate. Fantastic work!
When i saw Mir in the orbital shot, it just made me think: Imagine being onboard the ISS during the resonance cascade, watching your homeland get destroyed from above and the portal storms through the tiny portholes.
Loving the incredible sense of scale here. Instant sub 😊😊😊
This was awesome, keep it up!
It's masterpiece!
Meanwhile someplace in Michigan there are robots tending to the wheat farms on aperture’s surface
It looks amazing
Rise & shine Mr. Freeman, rise &….shine.
holy shit this is actually really good chat
I absolutely love this depiction
I see someone was inspired by the new Xen assets from the new Black Mesa: Blue Shift - Focal Point release! 😉
I think I need to see the prelude or the arrival of the combine before the 7 hour war
Beautiful work !
so beautiful
This will certainly be bad for the economy.
HL3 intro be like:
This reminded me of the final (hidden) chapters of Residual Point. Returning back to the ruins of Black Mesa, but with a Xen-ish sky (most likely the Portal Storms).
this is magnificent.
The portal storms explain a lot for why Earth fell in 7 hours. The human population was basically exhausted after fighting a years long war of attrition with alien life forms wreaking havoc on global ecosystems. We just didn't have the capacity to defend against the Combine when they attacked too.
At least it's comforting knowing the Combine isn't as incomprehensibly strong and vast as it's made out to be in fan media.
Imagine an RTS featuring the 7 hour war....but from multiple perspectives on the planet. Half Life: Combine
If the area around Black Mesa is this bad, the nearby towns and cities must be even worse!
Well at the very least, the xen inhabitants and it's wildlife are free from the nihilanth and also have a new world to call home...
But Michigan was still fine I guess lmao
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This is nice i like it.
Of course it turned out cool...
Is almost like the Red Zones from Tiberian Sun..
We're going to the war with this one 🗣🗣🗣
The red weed.
Gordon: My fault gang 💀
All he did was push a cart 😭😭😭 I’m pretty sure it was the gman because I heard somewhere that he delivered the extra volatile zen crystal
I saw this guy on reddit.
Aw man I thought this was abiotic factor
This reminds me of fallout 1 and 2s cutscenes
Hope NuclearPotato takes notes! :DDDDDDDDD
only issue is, this isn't what the portal storms are; the portal storms in the 7 hour war refer to the ones seen in HL2:EP2, based on a newspaper in HLA and HL2 talking about portal storms, and even showing an image which is a render of a civilian near one of the portal storms seen in EP2. it's likely the resonance cascade didn't cause these, but a combine superportal, like in EP2.
still very nice, despite this
I think is Nihilanth's death cause this portal storm. Thats how zen invade earth before combine
I'm actually surprised this was done in SFM. It looks more like it was from blender or some other kind of animation software.
Isn't sfm this kind of software?
u gotta collab with Animux
Combine takeover?
Fun fact: Sol, our sun, only looks yellow from Earth's surface because it's being filtered through Earth's atmosphere which scatters higher frequencies. Outside our atmosphere, Sol appears white.
Not-so-fun fact: You will never be able to un-learn this, and now every piece of media that gets it wrong will bug you slightly. :3
This can't be good for the housing market
Where are the “Particle Storms”?
Cool
Half Life fandom is back?!
it never left
😍
Love thiissss!
Combine saved the world.
While this is quite cool, i personally don't like the concept of the storms making the environment xen-like, i feel like black mesa itsself should 100% be infested with xen life, but i think the portal storm likely just caused mass destruction, like its show in episode 2
I think is cool indeed.
Its like a xenian battle royale