How Long Could YOU Survive In Half-Life?

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  • Run. Think. Shoot. Live. Half-Life's motto. But what if you also had to "Eat." and "Drink."?
    Could a regular human person survive living in Half-Life's chapters?
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    0:00 Intro
    1:27 Chapter 3: Unforeseen Consequences
    4:19 Chapter 4: Office Complex
    5:27 Chapter 5: We've Got Hostiles
    6:42 Chapter 6: Blast Pit
    8:33 Chapter 7: Power Up
    9:18 Chapter 8: On A Rail
    10:08 Chapter 9: Apprehension
    11:15 Chapter 10: Residue Processing
    11:49 Chapter 11: Questionable Ethics
    12:08 Chapter 12: Surface Tension
    14:12 Chapter 13: Forget About Freeman
    14:36 Chapter 14: Lambda Core
    15:30 Chapter 15: Xen
    17:19 Conclusion

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  • @GermanPeter
    @GermanPeter  19 днів тому +59

    A couple points that have been brought up that I wanted to address:
    1) "Xen has breathable air because of a secret scientist!" - Not wrong, but we don't know HOW well he's doing. It's possible he's slowly suffocating to death.
    2) "What about Barney? He can breathe on Xen just fine!" - Same deal, as he doesn't stay there for long. Plus, Blue Shift and Opposing Force might not even be canon.
    3) "But the aliens can breathe both on Xen and on Earth!" and "But we see the Bullsquid drink the healing fluid, so it's fine!" - We don't know how the aliens' biology works. What's fine for them might very well not be fine for us. Flamingos can also drink salt water, after all.
    4) "The coolant in Lambda Core may just be water after all" - Also not wrong, in which case you could survive there for a year or so. Lack of ammo and fire is going to be a problem however, same as radiation.
    5) "Eating humans will give you diseases" - Only if you don't cook them. Not a scientist though, so don't take it from me.
    6) "You don't get enough nutrients from eating just X" - Said that in the video, you'd suffer for sure. But this is about survival, not about living healthy.
    7) "Zombies won't infect you if you eat their meat" - Considering a single headcrab can turn the ENTIRE human body into a zombie in under a few hours, I doubt it's safe to eat ANY part of them, even if you don't turn.
    And something I forgot to mention myself:
    The Hive Hand shoots out bees, which also periodically recharge. So theoretically, we don't even have to resort to cannibalism in Surface Tension, but can just pop a couple of them in our mouth. You can even shoot them into walls, where they'll stay for a bit, which might be safer.

    • @Enoonb
      @Enoonb 19 днів тому

      Damn. I'm glad I checked the comments because I was about to write down 1 and 3. Oh, well.

    • @Rm_Edih-o6j
      @Rm_Edih-o6j 19 днів тому +3

      Hivehand bees should be turned into a gestation snack (like chips.)

    • @pman56789
      @pman56789 19 днів тому +14

      Blue Shift is canon, there's a direct reference to it in Half-Life: Alyx. The idea that the expansions are non-canon is an issue that the Half-Life community itself has created - Valve commissioned Gearbox to create them and expand upon the Half-Life universe, whether or not they would be relevant in future games. Even then, Gearbox literally consulted Valve about Half-Life 2's plot elements - the nuke from Opposing Force was Marc Laidlaw's idea, for example, and Barney Calhoun and Isaac Kleiner are both major characters in Half-Life 2 that were first introduced in the expansion packs.
      I don't know why people keep having this discussion. If Valve says otherwise, they're canon, end of story.

    • @blukat9903
      @blukat9903 19 днів тому +1

      6:04 the room up ahead is a cafeteria if you take the detour at the end of the chapter through some vents you will end up in the other side where food is stored and prepped

    • @TheCelestial
      @TheCelestial 19 днів тому

      ​@pman56789True

  • @ShallowVA
    @ShallowVA 20 днів тому +324

    The reason Magnusson was so mad about ruining his casserole is it was the only real food in the lab, and he had to resort to cannibalism and drinking sewer water to make it out of Black Mesa. No wonder he's so cranky!

    • @TimSlee1
      @TimSlee1 20 днів тому +21

      He might have always been cranky, but I'd sympathize with him if he had to go through that.

  • @kilzial2204
    @kilzial2204 20 днів тому +83

    So, there is actually a game that explores this. Its called Abiotic Factor. It places itself in a Half-Life 1 style facility where you fight their artistic interpretations of the zombies. Its pretty much 1-1, even down to the voices and artstyle it clearly attributes itself as a faithful HL1 Mockmake.
    However the difference is its a pure survival RPG. Its extremely fun and I've played through it several times, theres so much content and so many different ways to play. It basically is saying "How would you survive the resonance cascade as a regular scientist?"

    • @GermanPeter
      @GermanPeter  20 днів тому +23

      Yeah, a lot of people have been suggesting it, and it made me look at the Steam page. Definitely looks faithful, but I don't know if it's for me.

    • @kilzial2204
      @kilzial2204 20 днів тому +10

      @GermanPeter I personally would recommend atleast trying it and refunding it if you don't enjoy it. It definitely can drag on a little bit as it's kinda a time sink with multiple days needed to finish it. I find it to be a fun spin on Half Life as there's also quite a lot of puzzles. I can answer questions if needed since I've sunk a lot of hours into it lmao
      Nice take on the "Would you survive" trend btw, very good editing.

    • @Verbosal
      @Verbosal 19 днів тому +4

      You've got to play with friends, it's so much more fun!

  • @ThatSmartYoutubeUser
    @ThatSmartYoutubeUser 20 днів тому +163

    Depends who’s controlling gordon, if you’re a scientist and a sociopath in an orange suit is swinging a crowbar while hopping down the hallway towards you? Oh brother just sit and pray

    • @WigglyStuf
      @WigglyStuf 20 днів тому +23

      Sit and shake your head, German hl style

  • @cac_deadlyrang
    @cac_deadlyrang 20 днів тому +97

    6:34 You _could_ steal Meals, Ready-to-Eat, First Strike Rations, and/or Unitized Group Rations from the corpses of dead marines or their supply crates if available.

    • @GermanPeter
      @GermanPeter  20 днів тому +60

      No, I forgot to mention that we're not dealing in hypotheticals. We can only eat and drink what we SEE. So no "Hmm Otis probably has a chocolate bar on his person" or anything. If we can't physically hold it, it doesn't exist.

    • @themysteri0usstranger
      @themysteri0usstranger 20 днів тому +43

      @@GermanPeter but there ARE rations in crates when you break them, isn't there a sprite for the crate gib?

    • @Pigness7
      @Pigness7 20 днів тому +1

      ​​@@GermanPeter yeah but you can SEE Otis pull a donut out of his ass

    • @donowa5637
      @donowa5637 20 днів тому +6

      ​​@@GermanPeteri assume the same also applies to the additional threats of xen, the us marines, and maaaaaybe hostile BMRF personnel that might show up some time after the chapter in question

    • @Снайпер_Хренов
      @Снайпер_Хренов 18 днів тому +8

      ​@@GermanPeter There are MRE models among the military crate Gibs

  • @OmegaEnvych
    @OmegaEnvych 20 днів тому +88

    Need to clarify - most Nuclear Reactors use common water as a main coolant solution, generally running it through two contours - one - through nuclear fuel - other through cooling vats so contaminated and clean water don't collide. Considering there is no radiation icon when we are swimming through coolant, I assume it's clean water (well, as clean as non-purified river or lake water can be)

    • @MortalChamp
      @MortalChamp 20 днів тому +5

      It isn’t coolant like really fucking hot?! (If said exposed to cooling machines)

    • @Spudstered
      @Spudstered 18 днів тому +1

      @@MortalChampyou could still grab it in the thermos and then allow it to cool down

  • @Pigness7
    @Pigness7 20 днів тому +44

    Someone call the payday gang to take care of all this murkywater

  • @saltypotato42
    @saltypotato42 20 днів тому +11

    Probably shouting 'Oh my god we are doomed' while walking right into a tripmine and died.

  • @TrustyGun2
    @TrustyGun2 20 днів тому +35

    I'm going to point out that in one of the arenas that the Nihilanth teleports you to during his boss battle, there is an average suitless scientist just chilling on a ledge. Not only that, the Xen creatures are able to breathe perfectly fine on Earth; suggesting that the two atmospheres are actually breathable. This doesn't help our chances, of course, but yeah.

    • @GermanPeter
      @GermanPeter  20 днів тому +13

      Yes! I learned about that AFTER writing, recording and editing the video :P At the same time though, can we be certain that he's doing fine? Like, if your room was filled with deadly gases like CO2, I'm sure you could still survive a while, just not very long.
      As for the aliens, they have vastly different biology, so we can't say that what's fine for them must be fine for us. Some plants are toxic to humans but fine for animals.

    • @WigglyStuf
      @WigglyStuf 20 днів тому +2

      @@GermanPetergood point

    • @thatonemeganium
      @thatonemeganium 20 днів тому +4

      @@GermanPeter But if you stay in that room with the scientist and just wait - nothing will happen, regardless of how long you wait, implying that the air is breathable enough (even if it is not 1:1 oxygen) to survive. The lack of food and water is still lethal though, i am sure.
      And in Blue Shift, Barney goes to xen without a suit too, and he is fine (again, if you just sit there and do nothing, you will not suddenly die)

    • @Mr_Scoopy
      @Mr_Scoopy 20 днів тому +12

      @@thatonemeganium also, xenian life has been surviving on earth for 20 years since their arrival. We still see Headcrabs, Vortigaunts, and Snarks in HL2 or Alyx

  • @Rupsytheknight
    @Rupsytheknight 20 днів тому +39

    16:13 Um, actually in the final chapter there is a scientist in the gargantua room, whos alive WITHOUT a helmet or HEV. Plus Barney did not wear any helmet when he went to Xen (if the expansions are canon). Also in the resonance ccascade scene, we see bullsquids drinking from healing pools. Not sure if humans can also but it is heavily implied.
    Also I don't think that the infinitely spawning marines should count in surface tension....

    • @GermanPeter
      @GermanPeter  20 днів тому +9

      I held off on calling Blue Shift and Opposing Force canon, since Valve has never actually acknowledged them. They could very well be in the same ballpark as something like Plutonia and TnT for Doom.
      As for the scientist, I said in another comment that yes, he IS alive, but we don't know how well he's doing. Maybe the air he's breathing is fine... for now. Considering he's sitting on the ground and leaning against a wall, I'd say he's not doing the greatest.

    • @geqoph
      @geqoph 20 днів тому +21

      @@GermanPeter I don't understand your logic behind "valve never acknowledged opposing force or blue shift as canon so they don't count" while you strongly believe that gordon freeman wears a helmet despite not being shown with one anywhere, not in the games or any official art afaik

    • @thatonemeganium
      @thatonemeganium 20 днів тому +13

      @@GermanPeter VERY TECHNICALLY, half life alyx has a blue shift reference (a floppy disk with games on it, one of which appears only in blue shift) meaning that hl1's dlcs are canon.

    • @VinVonVoom
      @VinVonVoom 20 днів тому +12

      ​@@thatonemeganiumAlso Barney in Half-Life 2 is credited as "Barney Calhoun" and Calhoun is from Blue Shift

    • @atoxicperson6794
      @atoxicperson6794 20 днів тому +2

      @@VinVonVoom wait, is this famous r/ultrakill moderator Vvix0?

  • @TinyDeskEngineer
    @TinyDeskEngineer 20 днів тому +9

    If I were in the Black Mesa facility, I would've died to reasons completely disconnected from the resonance cascade.

  • @kakophonien6514
    @kakophonien6514 20 днів тому +45

    Cancermaxxing

  • @cheesepop7175
    @cheesepop7175 20 днів тому +14

    6:29 The rules are that you start from nothing, if you had no weapons there is no way you could survive for a week since there's enemys that will kill you with their SMG on sight.

    • @GermanPeter
      @GermanPeter  20 днів тому +12

      I'm pretty sure you find an SMG on a corpse early on.

  • @MagnitudePerson
    @MagnitudePerson 20 днів тому +7

    Black Mesa Inbound is the safest chapter, I would just ask barney to get me a tram on my way home to my apartment, and if the BM sector calls gordon just tell them you resigned from work

  • @knuxenglish
    @knuxenglish 19 днів тому +4

    I could possibly live until the facility gets nuked because a headcrab would probably get me early on and those keep the host alive.

  • @fenrirsrage4609
    @fenrirsrage4609 18 днів тому +7

    Man imagine Gordon Freeman just runs into a bunch of Scientists that came from Abiotic Factor. They'd probably find ways to make Black Mesa liveable and surviveable in no time.

  • @mog-myownbestfriend
    @mog-myownbestfriend 20 днів тому +5

    I knew you would be propositioning the consumption of people jerky from the thumbnail, but I wasn't expecting you to bring it up as fast as possible

  • @ravick007
    @ravick007 20 днів тому +12

    Never let yourself end up in a survive situation with German Peter...

    • @yellotheepiko
      @yellotheepiko 20 днів тому +5

      Thats what I was thinking- 0_0

    • @Rishiਸ਼ਰਮਾ
      @Rishiਸ਼ਰਮਾ 16 днів тому +1

      i mean seeing humans in half life as food source is crazy. 😭😂

  • @h01manan
    @h01manan 18 днів тому +1

    I feel as if Gordon were able to open the soda machines without breaking the door, those are usually refrigerated and could definitely help with food spoulage

  • @tovarisch3490
    @tovarisch3490 20 днів тому +5

    5:27 Id say your ignoring one major factor, The marines, they seem to be carrying an ALICE pack which for their mission likely contains a 24 hour rat-pack each or more if they weren't expecting to be resupplied, not to mention the water they would need for the ration packs and themselves, although that is kinda too easy (Water likely being 3 litres each from three canteens)

    • @GermanPeter
      @GermanPeter  20 днів тому +5

      If you can't see it, it doesn't exist. They just carry some indistinct backpacks, but what's inside them, we don't know. They could be filled with cinder blocks for all we know.

    • @tovarisch3490
      @tovarisch3490 20 днів тому +2

      @ yeah, I saw that reasoning in another MRE comment, that’s fair enough, although I do now know what to do if I do find cinderblocks in there, cannibalism

    • @tovarisch3490
      @tovarisch3490 16 днів тому

      @@GermanPeter It did just strike me however, in half life decay and its port, the marines are shown carrying their two canteens on their belt, if we go off the fact that you counted the packaged food previously, you could argue that each 1 litre canteen counts, minus 1 litre likely already drunk giving you another litre remaining for you. so in this one VERY specific circumstance, you get some extra clean drinking water

  • @nfwrambo
    @nfwrambo 20 днів тому +6

    Xen’s atmosphere is breathable because the aliens can survive on earth without a suit so the atmosphere can’t be that different. Also there’s a scientist with no suit in one of the rooms the Nihilanth sends you to. Just need to figure out water and food. Maybe you could get milk from the gonarch or something and eat her baby headcrabs

  • @RelKier_is_jdude
    @RelKier_is_jdude 20 днів тому +11

    Amazing video, just several notes to the Xen. A) Xen likely to have breathable atmosphere as aliens don't die in our world and there a suitless alive scientist in the Nihilant level, just hidden on the cliff. B) ight after cascade resonance we may see how bullsquids dring healing water, this mean one of two: bullsquids reselient enoguh to not die from it, or this is water of degree that doesn't kill a bull.

    • @GermanPeter
      @GermanPeter  20 днів тому +6

      Even keeping that in mind, that'd bump Xen's survival time up to a few days at best.

    • @XxDarkxMoth17xX
      @XxDarkxMoth17xX 20 днів тому +8

      @@GermanPeter Which is a pretty big jump considering the time we could've survived were only mere minutes.

  • @Fatih_M177
    @Fatih_M177 19 днів тому +1

    I personally think that if Xen creatures can survive on earth, there's a possibility humans can survive on Xen too!
    Maybe the atmosphere is slightly different there but still similiar.
    But then again, maybe Xen creatures have some bizarre adaptable anatomy that allows them to survive on earth so who really know.
    Anyways, really cool video, would honestly like to see more like this!

    • @GermanPeter
      @GermanPeter  19 днів тому +1

      I don't wanna make conclusions about Xen based on how well aliens adapt to it and Earth, since like you said, their anatomy might differ wildly.

  • @SWAGMASTER-m8h
    @SWAGMASTER-m8h 20 днів тому +4

    i terms of self defense: THERES LITERLY SHOTGUNS AND BOMBS IN EVERY OTHER OFFICE XD

  • @MagnitudePerson
    @MagnitudePerson 20 днів тому +8

    this video is weird, because it assumes the places you can go are limited to the chapters. in surface tension you could in theory leave the area once you get to the topside
    Limiting to just staying in chapters makes no logical sense if you think about it

    • @GermanPeter
      @GermanPeter  19 днів тому +3

      Yeah, but then we could just say "Oh Lambda Core is totally fine because we can just go back to Surface Tension and chill there!"
      It's about seeing if the individual chapters are livable.

  • @Fugnut-model-No.001
    @Fugnut-model-No.001 20 днів тому +3

    3:22 crazy line out of context

  • @func_e
    @func_e 19 днів тому +3

    i loved this dawg
    i got nothin else
    this was just fun
    well done have a good day :D

  • @Joshinken
    @Joshinken 20 днів тому +14

    The half-life zombies arent infectious in that way. A zombie is created by a human getting controlled by a headcrab, one human per crab. As long as the crab is dead there is no risk in eating zombie meat

    • @GermanPeter
      @GermanPeter  20 днів тому +4

      "No risk"
      Say that to the green pustules all over their body lol

    • @RelKier_is_jdude
      @RelKier_is_jdude 20 днів тому +11

      @@GermanPeter This is HD pack feature and thus more likely uncannon. I think we have more risk of tasting rotten meat as even trough human is technically alive, there is no guarantee that they doesn't rot.

    • @Joshinken
      @Joshinken 20 днів тому +6

      @@GermanPeter not present in the original pack or on the hl2 and hla zombies, only on hd models
      I maybe wouldnt go to zombie meat as a first choice, but i don’t think I’ll get turned if i eat it, i just think I might die in other horrific ways from eating whatever that is. By no risk i did mean no risk of zombification, sorry. Its definitely a risky eat, considering the teeth growing from the chest

    • @GermanPeter
      @GermanPeter  20 днів тому +4

      Oh right, that's an HD thing. Still, considering the entire human body can get corrupted just by a single headcrab on the noggin, I doubt it's fine to ingest any part of it.

    • @WigglyStuf
      @WigglyStuf 20 днів тому +3

      Headcrab might have alien diseases

  • @Shy_Abi
    @Shy_Abi 20 днів тому +6

    The engineers tried *everything* to make me *behave,* to slow me down...
    Wait, this isn't Aperture Science.

  • @gabriel_linf
    @gabriel_linf 20 днів тому +2

    I am not ashamed to admit that i would die as soon as the resonance cascade rolled around.

  • @Mal_Havok
    @Mal_Havok 20 днів тому +9

    I think I’d be an Otis if I’m being serious

  • @johnpisser1983
    @johnpisser1983 20 днів тому +2

    Just played Black Mesa and I kept thinking "no way gordon survived that"
    And he has a HEV suit!
    People already mentioned it, I am playing Abiotic Factor with my friends at the moment.
    It did not change my sentiment on the possibility of surviving in a secret research facility thats overrun by aliens and militants much.

  • @dylanzlol7293
    @dylanzlol7293 20 днів тому +5

    2:18 gordon's stash lol

  • @Seb-Storm
    @Seb-Storm 20 днів тому +3

    If we resort to cannibalism I would shorten the time as this leads to deseas and malnutrition. Also, for surface tension with the infinite spawning soldiers, we would get sick and wouldn't be able to fight for more human flesh

  • @fnoigy
    @fnoigy 18 днів тому

    I love that the infinitely respawning Marines are considered a decades-long supply of meat.
    "HE'S STILL EATING OUR SOLDIERS!! IT'S BEEN YEARS!!"

  • @Slonitram
    @Slonitram 20 днів тому +4

    Since this is a video all about survival inside of a test facility mid catastrophe, you should try a game called Abiotic Factor if you haven't already. It's pretty much the concept of this video in video game form, cannibalism included.

  • @chen939
    @chen939 20 днів тому +2

    it sounds like he's been playing abiotic factor, perhaps

  • @azordash_games
    @azordash_games 19 днів тому

    Great video as always. I just finished a playthrough of Half Life so this was very enjoyable to watch!
    I would love to see more of these from you!

  • @spakwi
    @spakwi 20 днів тому +1

    I've watched you for a while and known you for your TF2 stuff. Recently i started playing Half-Life again and i've been seeing you in the comments of most of the videos i watch about it. It's fun to see you're also a fan of the series!

  • @Sundance967
    @Sundance967 15 днів тому

    I think that cooking with the rocket test fire in Blast Pit would cause issues, as it’d obliterate anything organic in its blast, but the fumes of whatever would be cooked would most likely cause health issues

  • @blukat9903
    @blukat9903 19 днів тому +1

    Some maps has monstermaker entitys that infinitely respawn aliens most of them in xen and some take up to 3 hours to respawn the aliens (one cut respawner had a 5 hour timer on a single headcrab in the first xen map) so if you can take off your helmet and breath you can live forever

    • @GermanPeter
      @GermanPeter  19 днів тому

      I said no respawns. As for your other comment, the Hive Hand has been addressed in my pinned comment.

    • @blukat9903
      @blukat9903 19 днів тому

      @@GermanPeter I didn't see my comments coming up when i send them i thought they are getting deleted by youtube for some reason so my bad on this one

  • @Pigness7
    @Pigness7 20 днів тому +2

    This is an interesting question for portal because idk where ratman got so many cans of beans

  • @juuuulie7544
    @juuuulie7544 18 днів тому

    fact-checking these scientifically is way WAY out of my league, but I really ant to compliment the way you came up with this idea an structured it so that it is both brutal with the fact that some areas would be uninhabitable/must rely on things as insane as cannibalism but also the fact that there's leniency in things like infinitetly respawning npcs or water sources, It makes me think of how a Half-Life exploration/survival game would play out, and the ways you described a person being able to live could be exploitable areas in game to make use of with clever thinking.
    all in all, AMAZING video and much appreciated from you considering you have gone thorough so much, i wish you the best!

  • @LolO36675
    @LolO36675 20 днів тому +1

    0:27 its nice too see someone else with the exact same recommended videos

  • @SWAGMASTER-m8h
    @SWAGMASTER-m8h 20 днів тому +3

    the govermt after he googled "human nutrient facts"

  • @RandoEmmy224
    @RandoEmmy224 20 днів тому +1

    3:30 Technically you can eat Headcrab Zombies without turning into one since they're mostly just mutated humans with headcrabs controlling them but not only that's basically canibalism but also depending on how mutated a zombie is at the very least you might get even more deseases

  • @tpd1864blake
    @tpd1864blake 19 днів тому

    I would probably survive for several hours up until the military shows up. Then, I’d probably be killed pretty quickly if I’m trying to escape, otherwise if I just hide somewhere in the facility, I’d either be caught out by random teleporting aliens or I’d survive all the way until the nuke goes off

  • @guilhermenascimento9125
    @guilhermenascimento9125 18 днів тому +1

    The fact that gman just nukes the place anyway 😂

  • @minihalkoja590
    @minihalkoja590 16 днів тому

    Good thing about radioactive sludge is that it contains so many calories that you don't have to eat anything else for the rest of your life.

  • @windowsvista3193
    @windowsvista3193 16 днів тому +1

    I could probably survive the head crabs and a few others and maybe I could take 1 or 2 blasts of the vortigaunts energy blast thing(I don’t know what it’s called) and I will probably die to a bull squid or I just don’t come into work and I miss it all

  • @sletter1100
    @sletter1100 20 днів тому

    Knowing my luck, I'd probably get telefragged by something within the first 5 minutes of the resonance cascade.

  • @PacmanPac-m8y
    @PacmanPac-m8y 3 дні тому

    Blood is considered a food according to us army manuals and requires extra water to digest due to high salt content, among other things.

    • @GermanPeter
      @GermanPeter  3 дні тому

      Yeah but I'm not in the army so I'll be fine

  • @ireneparkin3360
    @ireneparkin3360 18 днів тому

    Glad you had to answer this question instead of Radiation Hazard.

  • @Jenny_MCII
    @Jenny_MCII 20 днів тому

    G-Man in your playthrough should be the one preparing for unforeseen consequences.

  • @mrbrusselpatch316
    @mrbrusselpatch316 20 днів тому +4

    In blue shift there was a food court.

    • @GermanPeter
      @GermanPeter  20 днів тому +1

      Yeah, and in Half-Life 2, there's a Ted Cohrt. Your point being?

    • @rajinselalu8796
      @rajinselalu8796 20 днів тому

      ​@@GermanPeteridk maybe you can steal the foods or something

  • @teh_supar_hackr
    @teh_supar_hackr 20 днів тому

    You'd last longer in HL2 if you end up not rebelling in City 17. Them Combine are vicious

  • @GunSpyEnthusiast
    @GunSpyEnthusiast 20 днів тому

    " Sir, our two recently missing scouts on the Surface Tension mission have been confirmed dead. "
    " send 2 more. "
    " Sir, we've been losing the scouts that we send on that route sense the war has begun 8 years ago. we've barely been able to find 2 soldiers able and willing. are you sure we shouldn't advance on that position via another rou- "
    " by god, I'm not sending men to die because *we* didn't have any intel on the situation! Now you can send them immediately or go yourself! "

  • @Medick
    @Medick 20 днів тому

    unless gman decides that im the main character of another game im dead, not even a question

  • @Noxx55
    @Noxx55 17 днів тому

    I don't think you'd want to be cooking food burning off from a destroyed tank. The stuff it's burning from is probably so carcinogenic it'll turn your digestive track into nothing but tumors if you even look at it funny. But I know, this is fun video game logic. Great vid!

    • @GermanPeter
      @GermanPeter  16 днів тому +1

      I think the fires are like the water. It's too difficult to say what is and isn't toxic, so unless it burns bright green, it's fine.

    • @Noxx55
      @Noxx55 16 днів тому

      @@GermanPeter "If the fire is yellow, it's fine my fellow"

  • @duncanquan5471
    @duncanquan5471 14 днів тому

    now I need, absolutely need to see one of these for HL2, heck for all of the HL series, opposing force, blue shift, decay, hl2, hl lost coast, the episodes, this has awakend something within me in which I must know how long YOU could survive in City 17.

  • @bizmasterTheSlav
    @bizmasterTheSlav 18 днів тому

    Now, I wanna find out how much cannibalism do we have to do in the sequel. Also, how edible would combine soldiers be?

  • @atoxicperson6794
    @atoxicperson6794 20 днів тому +1

    11:02 theres a broken ladder on the left side which you can get to ingame by stacking boxes. So you can haul the corpses like that

    • @GermanPeter
      @GermanPeter  20 днів тому +2

      You are not gonna be able to carry the Ichthyosaurs up there, though. No way in hell.

    • @atoxicperson6794
      @atoxicperson6794 20 днів тому

      Perhaps if you were able to prepare the body and cut the meat into smaller chunks I could see it being carryable but I doubt there are any tools fit for the job in that place @@GermanPeter

  • @judsongaiden9878
    @judsongaiden9878 17 днів тому

    5:13 Did you ever see 'Dead Heat'? There's a scene where a headless beef carcass comes to life! 🤣

  • @salih2D1
    @salih2D1 20 днів тому

    Dude you have found such a goldmine here continue with these vids man in every valve game!

    • @Baeath
      @Baeath 19 днів тому

      That is the greatest profile picture I've ever seen in my entire life of existence, what an absolute specimen of a creature.

  • @Zenlore6499
    @Zenlore6499 20 днів тому +1

    I will drink as much coolant as I want, thank you very much!

  • @thedirector5079
    @thedirector5079 20 днів тому +1

    Pretty sure the water in the reactor is drinkable since usually, coolant water is like some of if not THE cleanest water on earth. At least in Nuclear Power Plants. Also, the Bull chickens drink the healing liquid, furthermore I think all the aliens that need water drink the healing liquid. AND ALSO in Xen, in the 3rd chamber the Nihilanth teleports you to has a Scientist just chilling out there on a ledge high up near the ceiling. Haha, funny scene in Freeman's mind. And barney and shephard are completely fine in Xen!

    • @dracmeister
      @dracmeister 20 днів тому

      Bullsquids also thrive in Radioactive waste. Just because they can drink the healing pools, doesn't mean we could-not without generations of evolution.
      I don't think it's safe to assume that if x alien species is able to do this and that on Earth it's safe for us.
      Like what if Xen's atmosphere is just very different to ours and that the aliens just have evolved to be very different to our breathing.
      The Scientist in one of the Nihilanth's chambers probably is just happenstance.

  • @-SpookieDookie-
    @-SpookieDookie- 20 днів тому +1

    You doing alright man?
    You're sounding a little less peppy than your usual vids. Just want to make sure, since you're always a beacon of positivity, and your good-vibes are contagious!

    • @GermanPeter
      @GermanPeter  20 днів тому +4

      Oh, I'm actually trying to be less energetic in my videos. It's pretty straining and I despise listening to my old ones because of it.

  • @themilkman6969
    @themilkman6969 16 днів тому

    i would posit that the xen healing fluid is potable, not because you see the bullsquids drinking it but because you get healed by it

    • @GermanPeter
      @GermanPeter  15 днів тому

      I addressed both those point, in the video and the pinned comment.

    • @themilkman6969
      @themilkman6969 15 днів тому

      @
      that is fair, yes. i would still take a sip of the space gatorade, though. maybe it tastes good but kills me, like lead or beryllium.

    • @themilkman6969
      @themilkman6969 15 днів тому

      @
      that is fair, yes. i would still take a sip of the space gatorade, though. maybe it tastes good but kills me, like lead or beryllium.

  • @Dolphin002
    @Dolphin002 20 днів тому +1

    Haven't watched the video yet but I'm guessing surface tension will be the best with how big it is, followed by Xen because of the healing pool
    I was right about surface tension but completely wrong about Xen, I forgot about the jumps
    [insert all the stuff about Xen that everyone else has already said]
    I do also think the heal pools would be drinkable, after all if simply touching it heals your injuries then why wouldn't drinking it be beneficial too? Even if that isn't the case, it would still likely prevent you from dying of starvation of dehydration because it could "heal" that.
    With all that in mind, Interloper would be easily survivable forever IF you managed to somehow get past the first map. All you'd have to do then would be to sneak past the tentacle without it hearing you and then get to the heal pool.

  • @AlfredoPuente8
    @AlfredoPuente8 20 днів тому

    14 hours, the time it took me to beat Half Life 2.

  • @snakefoolery2177
    @snakefoolery2177 20 днів тому

    ehrm actually for Xen, barney survived in xen when he got plonked in there by rosenburg and his ass only had security uniform.

    • @gudmansal3468
      @gudmansal3468 14 днів тому

      this reminds me of an argument about gordon having a helmet that progressed into “barney has been to xen” then it just ended in “barney was in xen but he had ‘helmet’”

  • @thesmilingman7576
    @thesmilingman7576 20 днів тому +1

    14:09 they're trying to kill you anyway so I say it's self defense

  • @h.a.z.m.a.t5072
    @h.a.z.m.a.t5072 20 днів тому

    If hate to go hiking with this guy upon seeing what qualifies as “fresh” water

  • @IdidotBrazil
    @IdidotBrazil 19 днів тому

    While most of the comments point out about the scientist on xen, people forget valve showed freeman without a helmet at the end of half life alyx.

    • @GermanPeter
      @GermanPeter  19 днів тому

      He's not in Xen in that scene, though.

    • @IdidotBrazil
      @IdidotBrazil 19 днів тому

      @@GermanPeter Ok he may not be in xen but that still proves gordon doesn't wear helmet and he had the same model at the wip version of the hla ending where we could directly see him.

  • @janpierrebuaron2670
    @janpierrebuaron2670 20 днів тому

    Becareful when you want to live in hl1 mods ( even though they are mot cannon ) especially half life brutal, if you are a scientist in brutal mod, you'll get obligerated by gordon freeman who has anger issues.

  • @SighFi
    @SighFi 18 днів тому

    ABIOTIC FACTOR MOMENT!!! 👏👏🗣🗣🗣 🔥🔥 nah but fr this is honestly such an interesting question and it's clear you're not the only one thinking this specifically about half-life from that game's existence alone which i think is neat. of course all of this is assuming you don't get picked off by the hecu or xen forces (as someone not wearing an hev suit) though ahaha
    banger vid as always though hell yeah. idc if it kills me to death though i'm sipping that xen baja blast it looks tasty as hell

  • @TheOnlyBloke
    @TheOnlyBloke 19 днів тому

    >"No respawns counted"
    >Counts the respawning marines

    • @GermanPeter
      @GermanPeter  19 днів тому

      The "no respawns" refers to things not coming back once they're gone. The marines aren't respawning, the osprey is spawning new ones.

    • @TheOnlyBloke
      @TheOnlyBloke 19 днів тому

      @@GermanPeter Still, if we're taking things at least semi-realistically (as much as you can, given it's Half-Life), the Osprey isn't going to be holding an infinite number of marines; maybe 6-8, at the very most.

    • @GermanPeter
      @GermanPeter  19 днів тому +1

      Nope! We're not going by realism here. This is a video game world, operating on video game logic. You, the player, are a human, and are therefore bound by the laws of physics and biology, but the NPCs aren't.

    • @TheOnlyBloke
      @TheOnlyBloke 19 днів тому

      @@GermanPeter Ah, fair enough. Regardless, really enjoyed the video. Keep em coming :)

  • @CommanderFoxclone1010
    @CommanderFoxclone1010 13 днів тому

    Black Mesa gets nuked at the end of Opposing Force so if we assume it's canon then we'll survive like 24 hours if we actually stay there

    • @GermanPeter
      @GermanPeter  13 днів тому

      Didn't watch the intro 😂😂😂

  • @GunSpyEnthusiast
    @GunSpyEnthusiast 20 днів тому

    You can easily live for years, nay, *decades* in Chapter 2: Black Mesa Inbound.

    • @GermanPeter
      @GermanPeter  20 днів тому

      That's chapter 1, and I doubt that's true. You can't really leave the tram in a lot of sections, and if you hop out in the ones where you can, you don't have anywhere to go. Oh, and no water of course.
      In "Anomalous Materials", the only thing that's better is that there's more scientists running around, but other food is really scarce, and you don't have any water either.

  • @cynthiaedith4122
    @cynthiaedith4122 18 днів тому

    So in this scenario are we like a scientist or is this like Wily Wonka where we just got invited in

  • @Marine_Dude
    @Marine_Dude 16 днів тому

    If Xen creatures can breathe on earth just fine, then I assume Xen has breathable for humans air too

  • @notme9823
    @notme9823 20 днів тому

    It’s great to see a upload from you

  • @zombrotato981
    @zombrotato981 20 днів тому

    This is a pretty unique video for the channel. I think it would be neat if you did the same for other games like portal or doom ect

  • @nukeboy7633
    @nukeboy7633 12 днів тому

    usual nuclear reactors, assuming that back mesa uses a, albeit weird but normal reactor to produce power will be cooled by distilled water, so whilst it IS water in those coolant tanks, that water has very little salts, and ergo is not all that drinkable. even without it being dirty, mind

  • @ashtonlambert9395
    @ashtonlambert9395 18 днів тому

    It depends on what type of player is playing as Freeman

  • @ANGRYMUNCI
    @ANGRYMUNCI 20 днів тому

    10:12 The water looks like it is contaminated with oil and those barrels and rust look like they probably contaminated it

  • @krakixel
    @krakixel 20 днів тому

    The funny thing is that even if Black Mesa gets nuked, not all of it does. The earlier chapters would be in a different section of the complex as the nukes that go off do.

  • @yairmimran729
    @yairmimran729 15 днів тому

    I love how the answer is literally to stop and just go touch grass

  • @AlexQuinn-f2r
    @AlexQuinn-f2r 18 днів тому

    Considering the Xen life are predominantly wild, defensive creatures- simply avoiding proximity to the security staff at Black Mesa and the automated defence systems until you can loot a security guard's corpse for his wearable equipment (a presumably disposable battery-powered UHC radio, spotlight security torch, 9mm Glock semi-automatic handgun and SPAS-12 pump-action shotgun and armoured helmet and vest PPE would give you an edge to start with
    Given Black Mesa is filled with hazardous areas- it would be likely that respirators and emergency supplies or areas with maintenance, service or engineering tech such as level C or potentially level B PPE would be in designated locations- the more hazardous issue would be donning the protective gear safely without being ambushed
    Assuming you can get topside ASAP before the military arrive- scaling the buildings to get past enough of the road blocking security checkpoints would be possible and picking up first aid kits on the way would definitely help- beyond that- following Barney's escape method and taking an abandoned idle or parked car with keys would mean you can get to the nearest city and then bail as far east as you can go
    If the military arrive during or before you reach the surface you are kind of just fucked- even if you made it out- you could be tracked and apprehended later

  • @captainmackerel4482
    @captainmackerel4482 18 днів тому

    I think this is the plot of Abiotic Factor

  • @Снайпер_Хренов
    @Снайпер_Хренов 18 днів тому

    I assume the Combine medkits contain nutrition solutions. Also, you CAN eat in Hl2: Dark Interval

  • @The-future-is-in-the-past
    @The-future-is-in-the-past 20 днів тому

    Damn its been a bit since I saw a vid of yours. Hope all is well good vid btw

  • @nightmarezer0507
    @nightmarezer0507 20 днів тому

    Maybe the Coolant Tanks (before Xen) are water. Just because it says its Coolant doesn't mean it is not water. Water can be used for cooling as well.

  • @ApocAnarchy
    @ApocAnarchy 18 днів тому

    Dude, i really wanna know how the black mesa remaster those folks made would fair? That was way better with lots more water and actual environments that don’t look like the minecraft end!

  • @Blahaj13
    @Blahaj13 20 днів тому

    I study xen creatures so, if you do eat a houndeye or bullsquid just make sure to remove the throat of the bullsquid because thats were the acid is stored. And remove the organs connecting to the blue stripes one the hooundeye, that's were the shock comes from.

  • @HaraldsVišņevskis
    @HaraldsVišņevskis 17 днів тому

    13:00 Cacti are posoiness, but not all. Better to cook the cactus, so to not risk potentially poisoning yourself. (Credit to gudmansal3468)

  • @asrobox
    @asrobox 20 днів тому

    good video. best content to watch at 3 am with 50% conscience enabled.

  • @comedicidiot
    @comedicidiot 18 днів тому

    Glad to oblige a fellow scientist

  • @GunSpyEnthusiast
    @GunSpyEnthusiast 20 днів тому

    14:54
    Isn't water a common coolant in some types of heavy machinery, like nuclear power plants?

  • @sargessoldier7801
    @sargessoldier7801 20 днів тому

    I was just thinking about this the other day why are you reading my thoughts, GET OUG