It was a pleasure to be of assistance, and much gratitude for allowing me to help out! I'm always happy to see players learn about the inner workings in the Half-Life series.
“Obviously you don’t want players to see scientists typing on thin air while using the bathroom” You don’t know me, you don’t know what kind of stuff I’m into.
Gus escapes Black Mesa and evetuntually leads a colony of survivors that through wit and tactical skills manages to stay hidden from the combine and thrive
You forgot one verrrryy interesting trivia: The trash compactor. The two parts of the trash compactors are actually two trains and if you get on top of them you can stop, reverse or forward them like any train the game, it even shows the little icon that shows which speed you go.
Easily one of the most challenging videos I've had the pleasure of editing, this stuff was really technical and extremely difficult to capture in a way that was watchable/understandable thanks to Half-Life's frame lag when you break boundaries or no-clip. Hats off to shesez polishing it and doing all that camera work
Apologies for the **Very** late reply, do you know anything more about the effect that happens when you leave the boundaries of source games? Im investigating the entire thing and all i actually know is theres a couple more things named it; Hall Of Mirrors, HOM, Frame Buffer, and Afterimage Thanks in advance.
After all these years, it’s weird hearing Mike Shapiro voice new lines for the first time in a cameo like this, seriously how did you do this? Surprised you didn’t get him to say ‘Black messah’ as a joke in the Gman voice.
A lot of voice actors do commission work. For example, the original NBA Jam announcer will read any damn thing you send him in the NBA Jam announcer voice as long as you pay. And he's not that expensive, either. Most bit voice actors like this aren't.
@@CreekGamingMontages No, no... I meant the fanmade one where a guy got hit with a crowbar and they used UA-camrs to voice characters. Its name shall not sully this comment section.
@@CreekGamingMontages ugh. Yeah, that's the one I meant and the source of the "Black Messsa" meme. Probably the only good thing to come from it (although they used a rejected alien design for some enemies, which could have been cool if handled properly) - don't worry about it, I should have been less ambiguous.
Me: "Thats not the dialogue i remember...Thats some good acting...He sounds just like him!" *checks the description* "Hold up" That is actually really awesome!
Come on guys give Calhoun a break, he's got different posts to watch over he doesn't have time to worry about a beer, he's a hard working guard who works Nine to Five.
Not gonna lie, when Mike said "He does show up at the most unexpected... TIMES" I went full internal scream of joy mode when he said time in G-mans voice.
14:26 I actually found this one by accident in game. On my first playthrough I thought the way I had to go was to ride on the barrels. That doesn't work as the barrels move from under your feet, but it was too late by the time I'd figured that out so I just kept going along with the barrels. Reached the end of the loop with 30hp left and reloaded my quicksave
Veras Freeman’s Mind is still an absolutely stellar series, and the second one is just as good. Hell, maybe even better (but it’s only partway through so it’s hard to judge)
For the assassins, if they go with a certain death animation, their goggles will somehow move up, and you can see their eyes without noclipping. Yes, I spent a bit *too* much time with those assassins, don't look at me like that.
@@yukich6957 It's also worth noting that the Female Assassins changed models between Half-Life and Opposing Force. Aside from the well known removal of jiggle physics, the parts of their masks that cover their mouths is different; you can see their lips in Opposing Force.
I must say, I always will appreciate the fact you take from the most avid, and devoted people of a game to help you with the videos. People like Stryder7x, Marphy Black and StiPo are all just examples of people who really deserve a chance in the spotlight, especially with what effort they put into their videos. And you premiering them is honestly amazing to see. Thanks to both of you and anyone behind the scenes for what you do. Boundry break is a masterpiece at times.
"i still owe you a beer!" 5 years later... "I still owe you a beer!" 12 years later... "Now, about that beer i owed you." "But you never bought me that beer." "I know." "So, when are you-" "It's me gordon, Barney from black mesa!"
When I first played Half-Life, I actually thought that "barrel loop" is the intended way to go. I felt a bit pranked when I popped out at the beginning again, but it was cool to see how the game works. You loose surprisingly little health though doing one full loop...
14:07 I think the red bars are for deciding where to place those pipes as well as a few other objects for that level. The red bars could possibly act as a sort of measuring grid to help the developers center them properly.
14:27 Yeah, I discovered that on accident during my first playthrough of half life when I botched that segment, and I took that route as a quicker way back to the start. Didn’t know it wasn’t intended for players, cool to learn!
This was such a great nostalgia trip for me! When I was a kid, Half-Life was one of the few non-Edutainment games I had. So I would play it nonstop over and over again. Then when I learned how to access the developer console, I would spend all my time doing exactly what you did here. Albeit with 100% less knowledge of what I was doing and 200% less Mike Shapiro cameos. In fact, boundary breaking Half-Life and modding it was how I would first learn coding and how certain aspects of game design worked! I eventually moved from studying coding to art / design, but it gave me the good warm fuzzies watching you show off stuff I remember stumbling upon as a kid! Great work as always from you!!!
I used to make Quake maps way back in the day, and the trick with unseen rooms for lighting is one you learn pretty quickly. Moving brushes like doors or elevators have the lighting baked in just like the static parts of the map (and unlike entities like enemies or pickups, which just take the lighting level of the surface directly below them), and it's based on its position as the map starts. If you have a brush starting inside a wall or something, it'll be completely unlit because no light source will reach it.
9:20 About the long water box, it's actually used with func_door where after you use the valve to raise the water level, the water box moves upward like the door function.
He says "blast from the past", so he's likely referring to Black Mesa (the fanmade remaster of Half-Life using a new engine), as it's nearing completion and should almost certainly be done by late 2020.
@@Funee Xen's finished but it hasn't been fully released yet, unless they dropped it and I didn't see it. It's still getting it's finishing touches and being playtested.
This is your best video since starting your channel simply because you got the voice actor for Barney Calhoun to do the intro. That was frickin' awesome.
Gman is one of the most influential video game characters of all time, especially when you consider the fact that he has had like 6 mins total screen time over 21 years
I was playing Sven Co-op last week, and I got to this part 14:25, but I missed the jump to go inside the pipe. So I swam up that entire loop thinking it was either a place the player wasn’t exactly supposed to be at, or I was going the right way lol. Also, I did survive the acid for that long, thanks to the H.E.V Suit’s Armor.
The Half-Life series has always interested me, having played through most of it myself, as well as having watched a lot of playthroughs between UA-cam/Twitch over the years, and anything else inbetween when it comes to videos that check out some interesting 'behind the scenes' / easter eggs, etc! This one is truely the icing on the cake though, especially given you guys went the extra mile to have Mike Shapiro actually do some voice acting/dialogue in character after all those years! 😮👍👏
He's gotten a few popular voice actors help with intros in the past too, it's cool of them to take the time to lend their voices again, and it probably makes Shesez's day
The pink-black lambda texture, as well as Gabe's face, is a special texture called "aaa_trigger" and is very important in map making (its appearance can be either of those two). It should normally be invisible, as it represents an area in which when touched by player, triggers something. For example, when you're taking damage from an environment, you're standing in one of the trigger brushes designated to function "hurt". Or when you come closer to an automatically opening door, you touch a trigger that opens the door to simulate its motion trigger. In some occasions, the texture can be visible in-game, and often happens when noclipping out of bounds. The very fast scrolling effect, as well as texture's unusual appearance, may be so they can be seen better in the void outside playable area. Same texture/s can be seen in some counter-strike 1.6 maps, such as de_rats. The "aaa_" part in its name is, I assume, to find the texture easier in map editor's texture browser window. Because all I have to do is hit "a" in search bar and there it is. However, Gabe's face isn't only one used for functional textures. Two more, which are called "clip" and "origin", use a very low res image of what appears a close-up someone's face, showing just nose and eyes. None can be seen in-game as far as I'm aware of. Their functions, in short, clip is for making invisible barriers and origin is an axis used for rotating brushes (e.g. traditional doors, turbines, etc.) Also, the way lifts and water rising works in goldsource, is pretty smart. Instead of mappers painfully searching for exact coordinates to which point in height they should rise, they can just put those boxes to serve as a "ground", and then lift's brush will simply rise up until it sits on same level as that ground.
honestly this is the kind if video that every aspiiring level designer need to watch. the tradeoffs that are made to get the look and feel needed despite an engines short comings. i dont know, this seems really relevant due to the level of detail you go into without wasting any time! excellent
He did an episode on Half Life 2, and now Half Life 1. Half Life Alyx is coming out soon, for VR only unfortunately. That's three games. Half Life 3 confirmed.
I love this because we've all noclipped and saw all these mysterious planes, rooms, cubes, and more. But didn't know what they were for and this helped a ton.
I speculate that the "Blast from the past" mr. mike shapiro was mentioning is a Half Life 1 Remake in the new Alyx-Source engine. Probably to test if after Alyx there is still interest in a "Classical" Half Life
in Black Mesa (fan remake of Half-Life), the tentacles do have a little area below them. After you kill them, you're able to jump down and see some of their remains and Xen webbing stuff. neat how they added that.
Yeah, the GoldSrc engine (that HL1 uses) is built on the original Quake 1 engine, so you cannot have any holes in the geometry that exposes the void or it will be unable to compile the map properly. Therefore they just walled off the corridors since the next map would normally load in without the player seeing those stubbed areas.
Funny story, the first time I played Half life, i got myself on the looping track for the toxic barrel, thinking it was part of the gameplay. It was a fun ride.
It was a pleasure to be of assistance, and much gratitude for allowing me to help out! I'm always happy to see players learn about the inner workings in the Half-Life series.
HI
Wonder of the golds o r c e engine
This was really cool. You are a champion!
Woah I thought you were dead!
When’s the blinking video?
MarphitimusBlackimus Thanks! I’m glad this episode was made thanks to you!
“Obviously you don’t want players to see scientists typing on thin air while using the bathroom”
You don’t know me, you don’t know what kind of stuff I’m into.
Keep your kinks out of black mesa, they have enough problems
The Smol Gay Cinnamon Roll what I use/abuse no clip for is the least of black mesas problems.
Joe Wilkinson oh
@@SexyLilSeaOtter OPEN FIRE GORDON OPEN FIRE
Honestly what did i expect from someone whose handle is “SexyLilSeaOtter”
Gus is my favorite Half-Life character! Remember when he rode on that forklift? Man, that was super cool!
Up next, Half-Life: Gus!
He escapes on his forklift b4 the military nukes Black Mesa
Gus escapes Black Mesa and evetuntually leads a colony of survivors that through wit and tactical skills manages to stay hidden from the combine and thrive
plausible, plausible.... a puzzle based HL game where your main tool is the forklift
The G in G-man stands for Gus
"Later in 2020 there is another big surprise so stay tuned for that blast from the past."
*HALF LIFE BARNEY CONFIRMED*
It's called Blue Shift
The Californian Refugee He means something like half life alyx dipshit
@@theformerkaiser9391 why are you so disrespectful?
@@Ziros00 because he's a fascist headcrab
It should be called Whole Life
You forgot one verrrryy interesting trivia: The trash compactor. The two parts of the trash compactors are actually two trains and if you get on top of them you can stop, reverse or forward them like any train the game, it even shows the little icon that shows which speed you go.
watch desinc
Reminds me of how the train in Fallout 3 is just a character with a train for a head.
@@MariktheGunslinger Can you send me a link to that? I have to see it.
@@tamasperci4168 ua-cam.com/video/eVShIBd_1ic/v-deo.html
@@bagalobo5133 Which video?
Easily one of the most challenging videos I've had the pleasure of editing, this stuff was really technical and extremely difficult to capture in a way that was watchable/understandable thanks to Half-Life's frame lag when you break boundaries or no-clip. Hats off to shesez polishing it and doing all that camera work
Apologies for the **Very** late reply, do you know anything more about the effect that happens when you leave the boundaries of source games? Im investigating the entire thing and all i actually know is theres a couple more things named it; Hall Of Mirrors, HOM, Frame Buffer, and Afterimage
Thanks in advance.
Dam
You got Barney's voice actor, that is so cool!!
are you joking or being serious?
Reminds me of this weirdness - ua-cam.com/video/M_AnIizeH1Q/v-deo.html
The half life 2/source version of kleiner not the first but still kinda funny
@@ironicivan4928 it's real, boundary break really got Mike Shapiro (the voice of Barney and G-man) to be featured in this video.
He also got the voice actor for scout for the tf2 video
@@AngDavies wait, he wasnt the same scientist voiceactor?
Mike speaking normally just sounds like G-Man talking without all his weird gasps and stutters and it freaks me out
After all these years, it’s weird hearing Mike Shapiro voice new lines for the first time in a cameo like this, seriously how did you do this?
Surprised you didn’t get him to say ‘Black messah’ as a joke in the Gman voice.
That "game" deserves to be lost forever...
A lot of voice actors do commission work. For example, the original NBA Jam announcer will read any damn thing you send him in the NBA Jam announcer voice as long as you pay. And he's not that expensive, either. Most bit voice actors like this aren't.
@@CreekGamingMontages No, no... I meant the fanmade one where a guy got hit with a crowbar and they used UA-camrs to voice characters. Its name shall not sully this comment section.
@@CreekGamingMontages ugh. Yeah, that's the one I meant and the source of the "Black Messsa" meme. Probably the only good thing to come from it (although they used a rejected alien design for some enemies, which could have been cool if handled properly) - don't worry about it, I should have been less ambiguous.
@@CreekGamingMontages that... was possibly the BEST outcome to an argument I've seen in a comment section in... I think my entire life!
Me: "Thats not the dialogue i remember...Thats some good acting...He sounds just like him!"
*checks the description*
"Hold up"
That is actually really awesome!
Wait that was MIKE?! Getting him to voice act all that is absolutely crazy, especially considering even Tyler from VNN needed an impersonator.
The impersonator was a damn good one though he made sound extremely convincing including he's little Kleiner tid bits
He tends to do that, probably just didn't want to partake in something the size of VNNs event.
I mean, they got Kleiners voice actor for a meme about coffee cups
@@patchmoulton5438 imean, Black Mesa's Kleiner, yeah...
@@patchmoulton5438 that wasn't kleiners voice actor, that was a good impersonator
"wow, that guy does a pretty good Barney"
"wait, *WOT* "
My reaction as well!!
You'd think by now Barney would've already bought Gordon a beer.
i’d say itll be in alyx but its a prequel to hl2
@@linkthehero1234 half life 3: The beer
@@xXLifesLiesXx in 2052 The beer strikes back for the valve super gameputer
Don't judge me man
Come on guys give Calhoun a break, he's got different posts to watch over he doesn't have time to worry about a beer, he's a hard working guard who works Nine to Five.
Marphy is a legend. His fact files videos are very interesting and he made the Revenant Series for Doom
Nice classic roblox pfp
Says *e n g i n e e r g a m i n g*
I think without Marph we world have never have found the hidden details scattered throughout half life
The most surprising thing in this video was learning how Mike Shapiro is pronounced.
I have literally never heard the name Shapiro pronounced that way.
@Damian 2000 Same. I think he has a habit of mispronouncing names.
@@ToyokaX At the end of the video Mike pronounces his own name and pronounces it like "pie". I always read it as Shapeero like De Niro as well.
@@KingPBJames Yea, you're right. I forgot to edit my message afterwards.
Ben Sha-pie-hole
10:55 what if we kissed in the gaben cube 😳
😳
😳
@@thelvadam5834 ...
@@badusername9903 ...
@@hatandhoodie_ ...
Not gonna lie, when Mike said "He does show up at the most unexpected... TIMES" I went full internal scream of joy mode when he said time in G-mans voice.
When did he do it?
ahmed4363 at the end
same, but it was external
"unexpected... TtTtiIiIimMmMmEeEeEsSsS"
okay, I blushed
10:54 This game predicted what people were going to do with Garry's mod long before it was even conceived
*t-pose*
Brooo
Garry's mod source2 vr...
One day
Simple brain: The mystery behind the G-man
Galaxy Brain: Who's that on the forklift
Gus is overall the best character in the half life series and the most impactful. The thing mike was announcing was HλLF-LIFE: GUS
When Mike said "times" my stomach plummeted. Shows how strong the character of G-Man is
14:26 I actually found this one by accident in game. On my first playthrough I thought the way I had to go was to ride on the barrels. That doesn't work as the barrels move from under your feet, but it was too late by the time I'd figured that out so I just kept going along with the barrels. Reached the end of the loop with 30hp left and reloaded my quicksave
same
this just brought back intense memories of watching Freeman's Mind after school in 2013
Its still going. AccursedFarms is partway into Half-Life 2 now
You should check out his Game Dungeon series too, it's awesome!
Veras Freeman’s Mind is still an absolutely stellar series, and the second one is just as good. Hell, maybe even better (but it’s only partway through so it’s hard to judge)
We need to get Mike Shapiro and Ross Scott to do a bit together.
And Ross is still going strong to this day.
G-MAN HAS GOT HIS PASSPORT IN ORDER
XD
feed me, my- my coins, mr. freemaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan
Yeah he found his other coat
DOES HE HAVE CREDENTIALS
Hello Gordon
For the assassins, if they go with a certain death animation, their goggles will somehow move up, and you can see their eyes without noclipping.
Yes, I spent a bit *too* much time with those assassins, don't look at me like that.
Your Half-Life is full of Assassins. There is a name for Freemen like you...
As a Man who beat Half Life 1 a hunderds of times I confirm this
And I thought its just somewhat a reskin of an assassin until now xD
@@yukich6957 It's also worth noting that the Female Assassins changed models between Half-Life and Opposing Force. Aside from the well known removal of jiggle physics, the parts of their masks that cover their mouths is different; you can see their lips in Opposing Force.
@@RainingMetal low poly jiggle physics
Hmm yes, their two big handguns.
1:50 it’s G man’s passport, Gordon really should bring his
He should look for it on Wikipedia the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit
im bubby
@@freedom-man real
ikr
@MarketGardener I hear they can help you see faster
I must say, I always will appreciate the fact you take from the most avid, and devoted people of a game to help you with the videos. People like Stryder7x, Marphy Black and StiPo are all just examples of people who really deserve a chance in the spotlight, especially with what effort they put into their videos. And you premiering them is honestly amazing to see. Thanks to both of you and anyone behind the scenes for what you do. Boundry break is a masterpiece at times.
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Shezes X Marphy Black collab with legendary Mike Shapiro as special guest?
E P I C !
Rescued at last! Thank God you're here!
Don't shoot! I'm with the science team!
STAPH!
NOOOOO!
...ok?
I can hear this in my head XD
@@DJL3G3ND Found the millennial
FREEMAN YOU FOOL!
FOR GOD'S SAKE, OPEN THE SILO DOORS! THEY'RE COMING FOR US, IT'S OUR ONLY WAY OUT! OH MY GOD, WE'RE DOOMED!
"i still owe you a beer!"
5 years later...
"I still owe you a beer!"
12 years later...
"Now, about that beer i owed you."
"But you never bought me that beer."
"I know."
"So, when are you-"
"It's me gordon, Barney from black mesa!"
A surprise later in 2020?
Obligatory: “half life 3 confirmed?”
Dont get your hopes up. We still have to suffer through Half Life Alyx... VR is bad....
@@nottoday9182 im not, kinda _half_ joking because of the whole half life 3 confirmed meme.
waitwhat ? How is it bad?
@@nottoday9182 please elaboate on the bad part, VR pilot w/ like 300 hours here on a DK2
@@nottoday9182 prepare to have your mind blown
When I first played Half-Life, I actually thought that "barrel loop" is the intended way to go. I felt a bit pranked when I popped out at the beginning again, but it was cool to see how the game works.
You loose surprisingly little health though doing one full loop...
Same here
Ah, hearing Mike Shapiro's voice was a nice little treat.
14:07 I think the red bars are for deciding where to place those pipes as well as a few other objects for that level. The red bars could possibly act as a sort of measuring grid to help the developers center them properly.
holy you got mike Shapiro himself to voice the intro
14:27 Yeah, I discovered that on accident during my first playthrough of half life when I botched that segment, and I took that route as a quicker way back to the start. Didn’t know it wasn’t intended for players, cool to learn!
Blue shift and opposing force have really interesting out of bounds eastereggs and such also it is different considering it was made from gearbox
Yea like the event names they're hilarious it's like they were bored and decided to make the event names be jokes
This guy has a receding Hairline
Like the Gaben rooms
1:41 cigarettes inside?
Ahem...
THAT MAN IS A BLOODY SPY!
This was such a great nostalgia trip for me! When I was a kid, Half-Life was one of the few non-Edutainment games I had. So I would play it nonstop over and over again. Then when I learned how to access the developer console, I would spend all my time doing exactly what you did here. Albeit with 100% less knowledge of what I was doing and 200% less Mike Shapiro cameos.
In fact, boundary breaking Half-Life and modding it was how I would first learn coding and how certain aspects of game design worked! I eventually moved from studying coding to art / design, but it gave me the good warm fuzzies watching you show off stuff I remember stumbling upon as a kid! Great work as always from you!!!
14:25 You can actually experience this in-game without dying by having enough suit energy and following the path the barrels are going.
I would go watch another Boundary Break, but I’ve seen them all. XD I really enjoy your videos! Keep up the good work and have a nice day!
Valve: Gabe, why are you putting your face into cube?
Gaben: It's a joke from the future, you don't understand yet
1:49
I would argue that this is not an "electronic device" but some sort of an ID card.
Hm, might be his P a S s P o R t
seems to be a passport of some sort hm
Well, Benrey let him through, so it must be his Passport. Now all he needs is a PS+ Membership which gives you a bonus 10 PlayCoins(TM) each month.
Am I the only one for whom the audio and video is completely out of sync?
Something seems off
Now i know this comment is 4 months old but my audio is completely out of sync too
I used to make Quake maps way back in the day, and the trick with unseen rooms for lighting is one you learn pretty quickly. Moving brushes like doors or elevators have the lighting baked in just like the static parts of the map (and unlike entities like enemies or pickups, which just take the lighting level of the surface directly below them), and it's based on its position as the map starts. If you have a brush starting inside a wall or something, it'll be completely unlit because no light source will reach it.
9:20 About the long water box, it's actually used with func_door where after you use the valve to raise the water level, the water box moves upward like the door function.
5:32 "For educational purposes"
**Starts trying to zoom into the guy's "business" at **5:44****
OH SHIT YOU'RE HERE TOO
Hello
Do you know who ate all of the donuts?
5:08 5:21*
What's funny is that the barrel section isn't blocked off to the player normally. Provided you have the health to do so, you can swim that whole loop.
16:46 Did he just announce something?!
He says "blast from the past", so he's likely referring to Black Mesa (the fanmade remaster of Half-Life using a new engine), as it's nearing completion and should almost certainly be done by late 2020.
Ultra Cactus It’s been done, Xen has been done since December 2019, so I don’t think he was referencing that.
@@Funee Xen's finished but it hasn't been fully released yet, unless they dropped it and I didn't see it. It's still getting it's finishing touches and being playtested.
"...that folks may be keen to *learn about"*
This makes it seem like this is something we've yet to hear about.
@@lightlytoastedrye good point, now I'm keen to hear about this unknown event
i love how you can get the actors to give a little bit of their time for intros. it makes the whole video worth it.
Always thought it was Mike "Sha-pee-ro", that was the most surprising thing in this video!
I never doubted that Gordon had a pony tail.
Mike shapiro talking in this video? OH MY DOG WASSUP!
1:08 - You legend, you made him do it!
This is your best video since starting your channel simply because you got the voice actor for Barney Calhoun to do the intro. That was frickin' awesome.
imagine that houndog in that room with gabe watching, from all directions, and suddenly, puf, teleported to gordon who then proceeds to kill it...
"I suppose you don't want the player to ever see someone using the bathroom period." Tell that to Kojima.
Not sure if anyone's mentioned it, but with the Bradley tank, you do get to see the inside, when you destroy the tank, the back door flies off.
MY GUY ACTUALLY GOT MIKE SHAPIRO UP IN THIS???? AND MARPHY BLACK??? ngl i was not expecting this level of effort, nice work
His channel has grown so much!!
What was the other big surprise later in 2020?? WHAT WAS IT MIKE?? WHAT AREN'T YOU TELLING US?
I really was out here thinking “dang, that’s a real solid Michael Shapiro impression”
Gman is one of the most influential video game characters of all time, especially when you consider the fact that he has had like 6 mins total screen time over 21 years
If my man Barney gets a DLC it better be called "Gray Shift" where you can play as Metrocop Barney
He already had a dlc tho
Well, I guess it was called an expansion back then
@@officialromanhours I think that's what he was referencing with the name "Gray Shift" because the expansion is called "Blue Shift"
Amazing how I coincidentally became a half life fan and watched some popular videos as well right before this video was released..
1:50 it’s G-man’s passport!
I thought it was in his other suit!
It's coat actually
Wow this episode was legendary!! so much great information, it's interesting to see how creative these developer were back then..
“Blast form the past.” Sounds like he’s hinting to something,
4:55 imagine the world shattering resonance cascade, an event that changes history forever, happens and at the time you were on the shitter
The sound is not in sync. You're already talking about one thing but it's still showing the previous things that were mentioned.
10:03 MAGAZINE!
I was playing Sven Co-op last week, and I got to this part 14:25, but I missed the jump to go inside the pipe. So I swam up that entire loop thinking it was either a place the player wasn’t exactly supposed to be at, or I was going the right way lol. Also, I did survive the acid for that long, thanks to the H.E.V Suit’s Armor.
thank you, barney calhoun, a security guard at the facility
0:05 YEAH! ITS PLAYING THE HALF LIFE CREDITS THEME
This episode has just started and it's already A M A Z I N G ! Mike and Marphy!
The Half-Life series has always interested me, having played through most of it myself, as well as having watched a lot of playthroughs between UA-cam/Twitch over the years, and anything else inbetween when it comes to videos that check out some interesting 'behind the scenes' / easter eggs, etc! This one is truely the icing on the cake though, especially given you guys went the extra mile to have Mike Shapiro actually do some voice acting/dialogue in character after all those years! 😮👍👏
why is the audio ahead of the video
HELLO, GORDON!
LOOK GORDON ROPES! WE CAN USE THIS TO TRASVERSE PITS!
You got the ACTUAL guy who voiced barney to do the intro? holy shit
He's gotten a few popular voice actors help with intros in the past too, it's cool of them to take the time to lend their voices again, and it probably makes Shesez's day
He got Davd Hayter to do the Metal Gear episode
he has be recording for 3 for the last 20 years probably needs a break
The pink-black lambda texture, as well as Gabe's face, is a special texture called "aaa_trigger" and is very important in map making (its appearance can be either of those two). It should normally be invisible, as it represents an area in which when touched by player, triggers something. For example, when you're taking damage from an environment, you're standing in one of the trigger brushes designated to function "hurt". Or when you come closer to an automatically opening door, you touch a trigger that opens the door to simulate its motion trigger.
In some occasions, the texture can be visible in-game, and often happens when noclipping out of bounds. The very fast scrolling effect, as well as texture's unusual appearance, may be so they can be seen better in the void outside playable area. Same texture/s can be seen in some counter-strike 1.6 maps, such as de_rats. The "aaa_" part in its name is, I assume, to find the texture easier in map editor's texture browser window. Because all I have to do is hit "a" in search bar and there it is.
However, Gabe's face isn't only one used for functional textures. Two more, which are called "clip" and "origin", use a very low res image of what appears a close-up someone's face, showing just nose and eyes. None can be seen in-game as far as I'm aware of. Their functions, in short, clip is for making invisible barriers and origin is an axis used for rotating brushes (e.g. traditional doors, turbines, etc.)
Also, the way lifts and water rising works in goldsource, is pretty smart. Instead of mappers painfully searching for exact coordinates to which point in height they should rise, they can just put those boxes to serve as a "ground", and then lift's brush will simply rise up until it sits on same level as that ground.
1:55 thats his passport
honestly this is the kind if video that every aspiiring level designer need to watch. the tradeoffs that are made to get the look and feel needed despite an engines short comings. i dont know, this seems really relevant due to the level of detail you go into without wasting any time! excellent
He did an episode on Half Life 2, and now Half Life 1. Half Life Alyx is coming out soon, for VR only unfortunately. That's three games.
Half Life 3 confirmed.
3:26 looks way better than what they used in the final version. looks way more secret underground research facility like.
gman saying "TIMES" at the end quadrupled my heart rate
15:00 both tanks or ifvs are bradleys, but one is designed for combat while the other is for a scripted seqeunce that looks really cool
I wonder what the other big surprise was supposed to be coming later in 2020.
I love this because we've all noclipped and saw all these mysterious planes, rooms, cubes, and more. But didn't know what they were for and this helped a ton.
I speculate that the "Blast from the past" mr. mike shapiro was mentioning is a Half Life 1 Remake in the new Alyx-Source engine. Probably to test if after Alyx there is still interest in a "Classical" Half Life
Whilst we wait we can play Black Mesa an fantastic reimagining of Half-Life in Source (they only tried to fix the downfalls of the game)
3:50 woah! That looks much better than the hallway we have now, wonder why they changed it.
Oh my god! Barney's voice actor! Did he get you that beer?
in Black Mesa (fan remake of Half-Life), the tentacles do have a little area below them. After you kill them, you're able to jump down and see some of their remains and Xen webbing stuff.
neat how they added that.
I was so excited to watch this Half-Life video that I almost blinked!
I'll have you know that the Bradley, despite its tank-y looks, isn't actually a tank. It's more of a tracked armored personnel carrier.
time mister Shesez is it really that time again? Wow im so happy you've finally done a video on Half life, love the vids keep at it
Man it’s so cool you got Mike Shapiro to voice Barney in this. It’s so nice to see this show evolve.
3:13
I'd call that more closed off than "completely unfinished" lol =D
Yeah, the GoldSrc engine (that HL1 uses) is built on the original Quake 1 engine, so you cannot have any holes in the geometry that exposes the void or it will be unable to compile the map properly. Therefore they just walled off the corridors since the next map would normally load in without the player seeing those stubbed areas.
Funny story, the first time I played Half life, i got myself on the looping track for the toxic barrel, thinking it was part of the gameplay.
It was a fun ride.
Shesez, Marphy Black and Mike Shapiro. Truly the most ambitious crossover of all time
5:03 in PS2 version, there is no scientist model. There are only their legs.
"Hmm, that guy sounds a lot like Gman" "OMG IT IS HIM!"