I carried a dead rat to the end of Half Life Alyx to prove VR is better
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- Опубліковано 29 чер 2024
- Consider this a speedrun. I want to see this turn into a competitive category.
i would go to speedrun dot com forward slash half life alyx forward slash rat percent, but I dunno how to do that
/ camwing
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Script, VO, animation, & gameplay by Cam
/ @thecamwing
Editing, compositing, & VFX by Sam
/ @invertedhorse
Music used (in order):
Portal 2 OST - You are Not Part of the Control Group
• Portal 2 OST Volume 2 ...
Portal 2 OST - Robot Waiting Room 6
• Portal 2 OST Volume 3 ...
It's the 70s by Jon Presstone
(Storyblocks exclusive)
Little Inferno OST - Over The Smokestacks
• Over the Smokestacks, ...
Fibbage 3 Lobby Music (Instrumental)
• Fibbage 3: Lobby Music...
Saudade Bossa Nova
(Storyblocks exclusive)
Kilimangiaro by Francesco Lomagistro
(Storyblocks exclusive)
Bob's Burgers OST - Jeff
(I cannot believe this hasn't been copyright claimed)
Half Life Alyx OST - Strider
• Half-Life: Alyx OST #6...
Calm, relaxing piano
(Storyblocks exclusive)
Tropical Elevators by Jon Presstone
(Storyblocks exclusive)
0:00 - Intro
2:24 - Why am I doing this
4:35 - Let's do this
10:17 - The parts of the game where it gets real scary
13:57 - Superweapon
18:05 - Jeff - Ігри
We had a lot more footage that didn't make it in, in case you were interested in watching an idiot manchild play with a dead rat for 8 more minutes
ua-cam.com/video/eL9vWKfLKtE/v-deo.html
Boneworks is better than Half Life Alyx in my opinion.
you know you can carry a gnome and get an achivement
I do know that, great observation
@@kot000 :P
"Don't scare me like that, little guy!" *headshot of affection*
A little 9 mil, as a treat.~ Ɛ>
Before watching the video, I saw this comment and interpreted “headshot” of affection as meaning something like “moment” or “prime example” of, but nope.
He literally shot the lil guy in the head… affectionately.
Like a kiss on the forehead
This all reminds me of that one run where some other dude tried to get a push cart as far as he could through half life 2, but that cart gains way more meaningful powers than long distance toilet torturing, instead it stops a freakin train in its tracks and learns how to launch your character to the stratosphere
17:04 lol
Playing on one screen will never simulate the primal panic of trying to beat a headcrab to death with a trash can lid
Oh, you too? I legit punched by boyfriend trying to swat away a headcrab that was jumping at me. In my defense, he walked into the VR square, and that is a Tanya hazard zone.
Ha ha... I smashed a glass accidentally and got glass stuck in my hand. In my opinion, it actually made the game more immersive.
We need a pod where the walls are just the pin board that you put your face into and poke your eyes out but the imprint is funny
@@TanyaSapienVintage Never get close to someone playing VR. I punched my shelf bc I got a bit too close and panicked, somehow my controller was better off than my hand 💀
We have a headcrab plushie and my partner was playing Alyx on VR... as soon as he took of the headset, somehow the plushie fell from the shelf in front of him. Oh the little girl scream I heard...
i can’t believe camwing kidnapped jerma for his half life video
what a menace
correction: he KILLED jerma, dumped his body in a trash can and then use his carcass to record for his footages
a bloody psycho
Jacquees!
Jerma is real?
*was
@@Moircuus he is actually just 5 rats in a box
@@halfsinenah he’s scout
21:42 - I need y'all to understand how funny this shot is.
Imagine yourself in the shoes of a Combine Soldier: Following the collapse of the Vault, you're on high alert, seeking any non-Combine force that dares encroach upon the vault. Suddenly, a rebel charges from out from the shadows straight towards you!
Startled by her sudden appearance, you don't have time to whip out your weapon before she lobs something straight at you.
...it's... a dead rat.
She threw a dead rat at you.
...
You watch as the rebel scuttles back into the shadows.
[Unrelated side note] I agree it IS a shame very few people talk about this... and more-so how very few people can actually experience HL:A in it's intended form... (the recent Steam hardware survey says only 1-2% of all Steam Users have a VR headset)
This comment changed my perspective on the entire playthrough. Incredible
There’s only three more tasks to accomplish before becoming a Crow war chief.
This reminds me of hl1 playthrough where he role plays the entire thing.
That's because VR is still a gimmick. It's too expensive for what it offers and the hardware requirements for using it are still high. And for HL:A, it was designed for the Valve Index and its individual finger sensors. It was their killer app for those thinking if they should spend 1 thousand dollars on a VR headset.
@@BrunodeSouzaLino HL:A was designed with the Valve Index in mind, but it's also designed with considerations/special controls for other native PC VR kits.
I literally played through all of HL:A on a pre-owned 2016 HTC Vive (which only cost £300, less than half it's original retail price) and I feel my experience of the game wasn't hampered/cheapened by not buying an Index because Valve actually bothered to test and adapt the game for other - cheaper - controllers.
Honestly, Index owners should feel ripped off because HL:A barely uses finger tracking outside of being able to crush small objects... literally Aperture Hand Labs and Moondust (both of which are tech demos for the controllers) utilise finger posing more than HL:A.
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"HL:A being designed only for Index" nitpick aside, I agree... VR just does not have a proper use-case for the average consumer to justify purchasing it.
It has some interesting use-cases in medical and simulation fields, but that's it. Nobody has really found/invented a reason for people to buy a VR kit outside of entertainment purposes.
My pet rat, Maggie, died last week. It's been hard letting go, and I wish I got to hold onto her for the rest of my playthrough. Thank you for this video, for a moment I got to feel as if she was with me again.
Rest in peace, Maggie. I'm glad you could find some solace in this vid, losing any pet is rough emotionally.
luckily the rat is dead so itll be just like real life! vr is truly immersive!
@@liliths-dog… 💀
Okay not going to lie when I first read this I laughed really hard
I not only want to see dead rat become a regular on Camwing, but a legitimate rat% speedrun for Half-Life: Alyx.
6:00 That's the cutest thing I have ever seen
edit- 6:01 That's NOT the cutest thing I have ever seen
the cerveza crystal joke will probably be really outdated in a few months but so worth it for right now.
also good video
Yeah, we really debated including it at all, but there were so many glass bottles everywhere it was hard to resist
@@camwing Please continue, it was very very funny every time lmao
@@camwing the best one is when the zombie launched it and it's revealed the music is proximity based
..cereVEZA CRYstal..
@@idontfuckinknowdude this implies the bottle is playing the music
@@HOURHAK as it should
I remember doing this when the game came out on my first playthrough, found the lil remy in the trash and kept him with me. My younger brother said it was worth making content out of but I never did. Seeing this video makes me so happy, and I wish I did make a recording back then. It was hilarious fun
Same, actually. I had a ton of fun trying to get him to the end of the game 4 years ago, so I figured it'd be a perfect birthday celebration. Honestly I'm glad I'm not the only one who tried this, because it's genuinely my favorite way to play now
worlds first NYC%
This is why some games are amazing you can just give yourself a whole new main quest that isnt the main game
Wait a second, you mean to tell me that the intended way to play the game is the better way to play the game? Say it ain't so!
Camwing and his iconic dead rat are always a delight in these videos
There is no way.
I saw this dead rat too and brought it with me the entire game as well. I talked to it. Named it Jerry. I Literally when playing that no one was stupid enough to do this but me. I was wrong.
My brother and I killed a rat in our playthrough and have been carrying it with us
Same but don't remember where I picked mine up? After a bunch of nades I just found it and picked it up. It was so glitchy. I didn't keep it with me the entire game but still had it for a few levels.
Pretty sure I tried to do that but lost it at some point and just kinda gave up on it after that.
I carried that darn Gnome Chomski clear through Half-Life 2. That's probably "better" than carrying a dead rat. Maybe. Well, I guess not.
well you are a caht
I did that too until I got to the car section and I just couldn't, too hard
Wow, this video was such higher production quality than i was expecting from a smaller channel, and i mean that as a compliment haha. Amazingly put together with great voiceover, animation, and a nice clear premise. I really enjoyed this video man and i can't wait to see more in the future. With more like this you are bound to blow up soon, keep up the great work my man!
I highly recommend checking out his other videos, specially the open world traversal, limbo-likes, and heathcliff ones. I fell in love with the channel with all of them, and I'm still CRAVING MORE.
"oh also, i generally try to keep this channel pretty PG, but half-life Alyx is an m-rated game with a fair amount of violence and disturbing imagery, so" - proceeds to shove dead rat into human corpse
7:46 "Grab something that represents us."
*Proceeds to throw a dead rat onto the table.*
"Okay, that's YOU."
As someone who doesn't own a VR Headset, I do want to own one for Hotdogs, Horseshoes and Handgrenades. It's essentially a "gun museum" type of game, where you have a bunch of accurately modeled real-world guns to play around with. What makes it so compelling for me is I don't want to own any firearms, but would love to mess around with them, and the idea of doing so in VR sounds fun. An extra note is that the game can include all sorts of guns, even ones that are very rare or expensive, so more people can get a better appreciation for them that normal shooters don't provide (due to liberties in design or function).
You can get a quest 2 for 200 and an off brand link cable for like 20 bucks rn. probably as cheap as its ever gonna be to get into VR.
@@baniakjr I am poor
Yep, that's pretty much what H3VR is!
5:55 LITTLE INFERNO MUSIC DETECTED
as someone who loves the work behind titles and thumbnails, the title is great! You expanded on "lets bring a rat through the entirety of HLA" into "heres why vr is better". Such a great idea!
holy crap, CreemSmile?
@@Glxch hi
2:30 love the, "or the apple one, if your stupid."
The cerveza cristál bit made me laugh out loud and I got my phone taken away (it's 2am)
Camwing is becoming a "video essays on digital hands" channel and I'm here for it
Huh
You're right
When I saw that you had a 3d model for your “mascot” I knew you were one of *THOSE* UA-camrs…
*The ones I have to watch every video of.*
brain damage brian is the best name ive ever heard in a while
a hell of a video, 10/10
This was the most wholesome relationship between a person and a rat I've ever seen, and the rat wasn't even alive. Truly an impressive, emotional story.
You know, I'm not sure how this proves VR is better, but I'm rooting for that Rat all the same.
3:52 "But can you do this!?" Jesus Christ I was not expecting a rat to be horrifically stretched out
What a funny yet horrifying moment
16:10 That's actually one of my favourite lines in the game, because to Alyx the lightning thing really DOES look a lot like her D0g (pre-upgrades).
This was the video that brought to this Channel and I just finished binging every video and I am so glad I came across you!
I thoroughly enjoyed every second of this video! I look forward to every future project!
No matter how old I get, seeing a good model glitching out like your rat buddy will never not be funny
I lost it every time the rat spaghettified
Honestly the strider walking over me, the first time, was an amazing feeling
I loved that
6:00 that sounded so majestic
Alyx is one of my favorite games!
its a story telling masterpiece. Even if the story was simple. But every environment felt real, and it was so fun peaking around corners to shoot aliens, and solve puzzles. I cant go over every bit, but i spent more then a hundred hours in this 15 hours long game.
I do hope Valve will make more vr games like Alyx. Because they have the basics down pretty great
You're doing an amazing job man. I happened to have seen 3 of your videos now (one of them was the satisfactory video). I gotta say, I had it well withing my mind that you must have at least 1M subs. Your editing is awsome and so is your animation, comedy, gameplay and pacing. I really think it's a matter of time before you hit 1M, and I doubt it will even take that long :)
Wow man, your storytelling, animation and editing is insanely good and keeps me watching all the way through. You'll go very far in youtube! Subbed!
Great eding, cheesetastic adventure.
Loved the "Cerveca Cristal" flying by and fading out, made my chuckle.
Holy, your entire personality, editing style and narrative abilities are god damn amazing, instant all notifications enabled fooooor you :D
I completed the game carrying wooden crate with dozens of caned bugs, injectors and grenades since your wrist pockets can carry only 2 items. Where jump was involved, I tossed box and then picked up every single item.
I remember Alyx coming out the very same day we entered lockdown in the UK. Spending that day heading into a VR "quarantine zone" in the Half Life universe while everyone in the country was suddenly locked in a real life quarantine was probably one of the most surreal experiences of my life. And it oddly made the experience so much more immersive and meaningful. Probably the best game I've ever played. For about week after I had this odd feeling like I had the kind of memories you form from being in a real place doing a real thing, rather than playing a video game. Really hard to explain.
I don't like rewatching videos, but this one has been out for a month and I've watched it 6 times already. Nice job dude!!!!!!!!
Stumbled in from Shorts, subbed after 5 minutes because I know what top tier content looks like. Good luck man. You're small now, but you'll blow up I'm certain.
Another perfect video. Always a delight when you upload.
I'm without words... Your videos are amazing, I can only imagine how much work you put in each one of them, but you """only""" have 50k subscriber. I feel privileged to know you. Thanks for the quality you bring to this platform and gaming word.
This video is very well produced, camwing. Very well done. Bravo.
Dude ur animation style is so goood
This is my first video with this channel, and I must say I love how your sona looks and moves
Didn't expect to spend today watching camwing playthrough my favorite game franchise of all time with a dead rat, But I'm not complaining.
There are several more rats in the game, alongside the one you get after you break out of the transport for the first rat. I only know a few of where you can find these rats.
-Obviously, After you crash from the transport, you can get the one in the trash bin on the right.
-After you get off the train from Russell's lab, once you go down into the sewers there is a rat that scurries away at the bottom of the stairs, You can shoot it and carry 2 rats.
-In the place where you do your first multitool puzzle, there's a rat underneath the fence grating.
-In some Combine Interface puzzle "brain jars" (the things you rotate to get a laser through a hole in the Combine Interface, there are a select few models of these which consist of Brains, Circuits, and alive rats.
-There probably are a few more before you enter the QZ, i don't know where they are though
I did not know that you could kill Jeff. I just locked him in that trash compactor and left him for the next unfortunate sod that stumbled upon him
So I did something similar, though somewhat more forgiving. While at the distillery Russell mentions it's been a long time since he's had vodka, so I pick up a bottle and stored it, sacrificing an inventory slot for the rest of the game, to keep a bottle for Russell. The tractor beam into the vault was a heart breaking moment for me as I watched the bottle leave my inventory and I scrambled to try to grab it, only for it to break right in front of my face. Was absolutely devastated. Legit had to take a moment to go cry when that happened before returning to the game and finishing it. I call it the bottle for Russell challenge.
Good video
High production value
Nothing to complain about
Verdict: not enough subscribers
Everywhere I go, cerveza cristal haunts me
I love the human ability to pack bond with anything basically.
When I played this game I got weirdly attached to the gnome. Sure, the achievement blablabla, whatever. I got that gnome a name (Rob Bobbertson), I set the Lil guy down next to me when I needed to sit down and take a break from the jumpscares, I mimicked sharing a vodka bottle with him after the Jeff section.
I see much similarity with what you did with the rat, even if it was just for a bit
17:21 this is pure gold!
The collision joke being used on the Valve Man is some subversive comedy in a blinding gold light
Who needs gnomes when you have rats?
I played the game for the first time recently (borrowed quest 2) and it was amazing
I can't believe you got me with the cerveza cristal gag
so underrated love this yt channel
I tried to keep the companion cube in portal, I was not successful.
nice 3d model and d2 animation implementation :3
This game sucks. It’s so obvious there needs to be two rats for double handed rat% runs that it’s insane valve never considered this.
An unbelievable oversight from such a good studio
You made me gigle, well done
Now this is how a game should be played
This video slaps so hard my guy
I played HL:A with a bucket in my offhand at almost all times, so I could keep extra grenades and stims on me at all times, using the gravity gloves caused the bucket to glitch and send everything flying, but it was worth it for how funny the constant ability to lob a bunch of grenades at anything in the map is
I really need to get around to doing what I'm calling the Three Gnome Run. Which is going through the whole game with the bottle opener, garden gnome, and a traffic cone on my head.
Ngl I think rat is better than dog. Like hear me out rat can do all the same things as dog. Maybe can even fling some cars while being hand held
4:20 (nice lol) there's actually an addon on the workshop that replaces every green bottle in the game by a Cerveza Cristal
12:15 words cant explain how it feels to be in that spot with a headset on
Keeping it pg: carries around a dead rat. Adds up yep :D
22:14 him trying to inject the rat is comedy gold
Im glad you were able to overcome the allegations and avoid the long arm of the law long enough to make a new video, great stuff keep it up!
How DARE you make me tear up for a (long) dead rat?
pro tip, you can pick up dust masks to equip to your face before jeff, keeping your hand free and stoping the cough
HUH, can’t believe 2 of my favorite youtubers did the same kind of “challenge”
this channel is so underrated
"To prove VR is better."
The thing that would make VR better is not costing an arm and a leg just for the gear, let alone the hardware to drive it!
I want the true friendship run take the gnome and the rat through the entire game
"I have a brain injury. My brain is injured. Ow." - Brain Damaged Brian
4:55 looking forward to seeing how a whiteboard marker helps with rat transport.
If vr is so good why dont you out the rat in your pocket
I have rats in my pocket right now
Anything with Rats gets my like.
8:19 With every passing day he grows stronger
Man, I'm so glad that nothing happened to Ely Vance, because he survives five more years.
i love videos like this because they are so uniqe my fyp has just been "the BLANK of blank in 9-15 minutes"
You made the Rat enter quantum limbo, may physics have mercy on us.
I absolutely did not expect cerveza cristal to make an appearance
great video!
I did it too. I have a clip proving it, not uploaded, but I carried the rat along as well in one of my playthroughs. No else else knows, I think. Do not let my sacrifice be forgotten.
My secret strat for Alyx was to always carry a desk drawer or milk crate around and load it up with extra grenades and healing items.
I love Bob’s Burgers so I genuinely gasped when I heard one of the songs from the show being used 😭
I think you're the first person to successfully identify that song, well done
Very well preserved rat carcass there.
What a cute little rat! And so capable too!
I did this same thing but with a bucket, top 5 gaming experience
its confirmed, cam isnt tall, his head is just really tall
When I played through I didn't realize the dust caused me to cough because earlier I had found and put on a respirator which keeps you from coughing haha