Half-Life's On A Rail Isn't Bad | Cascade
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On a Rail got more fun the more that I played it.
Same here
Same
It is fun to play but I found it too long
It’s great once you know the route
And by the end of the chapter, it was like the heavens had opened up
The only non-linear section of the game is literally on a rail AND IS CALLED ON A RAIL
Just like the section where you have to blast the pit monster is called blast pit
Oh yeah like when you power up the generator in the chapter called power up
And that chapter where you reach the surface is called Surface Tension, in reference to the scientific property. Half-Life chapter names are full of puns
@@tomas_crusader1756 Many of the replies seem to be missing jstn9914's point. The title is the REVERSE of what you'd expect. It's not just a pun, it's an ironic pun.
@@syberpunkanother example of a funny chapter name is Foxtrot Uniform in opposing force, which if translated from the NATO phonetic alphabet spells out F U
I never had a problem with OAR in any of the games, it's just long enough and different enough, and gives more insight on the marines vs aliens fights throughout black mesa. Exploration also works cause it makes the place really feel vast. Overall I would say that OAR is pretty much early fame Surface Tension
Same, when i first played on it it made me think that theres more to this facility of what was it developing and I always wondered why was there a rocket.
Im an idiot. I see hard part of the game. I do impulse 101
I liked it as it showed how old the facility is, not black Mesa itself but where it had been built. The rocket launching facility was what it was built on so you see the older parts of black Mesa, I loved the ambience that the new remake added too. I can see why people would be frustrated with the original games layout with the arrows etc, but I know my way round so I guess that doesn’t bother me. Even if you got lost it wouldn’t take long to find your way. I never even knew this chapter was disliked
"On a rail" was my second favourite after "Surface tension".
@@Jwallworth
True. Small minds tend to an easy ways.
A lot of people I knew were avoiding "complicated games" sticking with NFS and Call of Duty.
The things that OAR does well are the tone/atmosphere (imagery and music), combat, the multiple paths (you didn't mention one cool side area that takes you underneath a scripted vort/marine fight), letting the player dictate the level's pace, and the incredible variety of enemies (headcrabs, zombies, barnacles, houndeyes, bullsquids, leeches, marines, automated turrets, fortified turret emplacements, rocket launchers, tripmines, explosives, and a sniper). This chapter features some of the best combat sequences of aliens and marines and is essential in conveying the scope of the invasion, the marines' almost single-minded focus on Freeman yet also questioning the morality of killing civilians, and the fact that the marines are fighting a battle they can't win. It also has very memorable imagery, such as the bridge over a flooded pit, a destroyed elevator in a side area, the marine ambushed by headcrabs, the colorful walls with flowing electricity, the machinery hauling industrial material to the right and left, the small side area with a bullsquid eating a marine with a barnacle and some graffiti and spray can, the rocket launch, etc.
As for the things that suck, the combat tends to be rather difficult and sometimes annoying with marines, as well as dicey with a couple of vort ambushes. The combat for me can be taxing to the point where I dread the last fortified turret emplacement just before the outdoor section, because as your video demonstrates, you kind of have to save the MP5 grenades specifically for the marines manning the turrets. Also it seems that there are two cases of bad texture work, one includes z-fighting on the entrance to the bottom-most section of the rocket where the marine is fighting headcrabs, and another is an untextured part by the floor in the first battle area with vorts against HECU. Also a lot of people criticize the abundance of grey corridors but I feel that it's essential for depicting the gritty, dark overtones of the chapter.
If you haven't already, I would recommend reading Wangman's pitch bible for OAR Uncut found here: www.leakfree.org/t/on-a-rail-uncut-re-adding-cut-areas-scenes-expansion-project/11920/3 as well as the longer, interesting comments (especially Vic's) on the RTSL Replay Experiment project for said chapter here: www.runthinkshootlive.com/posts/half-life-on-a-rail/
About the bad texture work: The z-fighting to my knowledge was only added to goldsrc in an update for half-life, (probably added in the steam release) meaning that all the z-fighting seen throughout half-life and it's expansions was probably not a case of bad texture work.
Also, if you view it from the right angle, the missing texture becomes un-missing, so it's most likely some other goldsrc bug. (possibly added in the steam release)
BTW, the On a Rail uncut link no longer works.
"You change train direction by shooting signs, which is unintuitive..."
This really took me aback because when little kid me played this back in '99, shooting the signs was the most obvious thing in the world. There's an arrow sign? It looks like it spins? Shoot it to spin it!
I wonder if because it was a common trope in cartoons and other media at the time. I wonder if it's like watching people play HL2 for the first time today and not even realizing there's a physics puzzle to solve, when at the time of release, 20 years ago, the physics were so hyped up that people were always looking for ways to interact with the objects in this new way.
The only problem I had was with the clunky cart controls. They're not the most intuitive, and when you hop on and interact with it, you're glued to it. If you reflexively look to the side and hop off, you just accelerated it and now it's not at all where you wanted to be.
I think what makes it a chapter that I'm not looking forward to when playing HL is just that you are constantly getting sidetracked with all the side passages and such for the player to explore. And while I love exploration, it also takes away from any sense of urgency as you are constantly stopping the car every few minutes. It makes the chapter feel almost like a slog, combine that with all the enemies and it can be a very exhausting chapter that feels a bit gimmicky. It does have some good moments, but those are really the times when you are not on the train itself.
You're really great at explaining and organizing your points about On A Rail!
Your editing is top notch too
i like this chapter because your so far removed from where you started and where you need to go. it makes it feel like a real journey and the atmosphere is nice
Black Mesa handled On a Rail very well imo. One of the things I hated was that the rails shocked you in the original. It’s good that an unnecessary hazard is gone.
On a rail is acutely my favorite map. I just really like it. The carts a cool mechanic in this chapter which for me makes it very fun!
The part with the crane in the way was literally the only reason i didn't like this chapter. I was so confused the entire time and to this day I still don't know how to get to the lever because I ended up just walking along the side of the track until the next train/cart/thingy loaded in with the next map.
Edit: also it wont cost you any health if you walk on the concrete along the sides and not directly on the track (hence the tram ride PA: "Please, stay away from electrified rails")
I like how their was a ad with the kfc colonel in it before the video started
9:28 I remember stumbling upon this broken elevator in my playthrough. It felt like a literal in-your-face message stating:
"All ways to the surface, cozy offices and fresh air areas ARE CUT OFF. You're stuck in these old tunnels infested with things that try to kill you. And also it's probably night already, oooo👻"
Uninteresting fact: when I played HL1 for the first time (before intently reading the lore) I thought that the engine, we used to burn the tentacles earlier, is attached to a rocket we launch in this chapter. As if we looped around for two chapters and ended up just above the silo area.
On A Rail was always my favourite chapter because of it nonlinear structure, so I can explore map for secrets and also YOU'RE DRIVING A DAMN CART.
When I played as a kid I shot the signs before I knew I was even supposed to ride the rails
I remember that on my first playthrough back in 2000, I didn't even use the cart on the entire chapter because it just went away after I fell and I never found it xD
After my friend told me it could be stopped I played it the intended way and it's one of my favorite chapters behind Surface Tension. I really thought people would hate Residual Processing rather than this...
there’s some really good combat sections in this chapter actually
Fun fact, before you launch the rocket, alien teleportations are random, and non-targeted. After you launch the rocket, however, they become targeted against Freeman specifically. The whole point of the satellite in orbit was to make the connection between earth and zen more clear. You inadvertently make your opponents more dangerous as a result.
I played this game orginally on an older laptop, but I never finished the game until I played it in vr... this level was so much fun in vr.
I think the part I dislike about On A Rail is just the military's setups, especially the turrets and bunkers
I just dont like fighting them
on a rail was my favorite chapter in the original half-life
Honestly, I actually like On the Rail a lot.
It actually induces the sense of travel and gives you some proper scale - it also introduces some interesting traps and other elements - you finally see grunts fighting against the aliens for one, you get the signs that situation is getting more desperate with military trying to fortify the place.
And the cart itself gives you an obvious sense of direction at all times.
The black mesa rocket launch section in my opinion is 10x better than the original OAR
I think on a rail is good but only reason it's so low on the list of Half-Life maps is because every other map is better in some way. The rocket launch is really cool but most of the chapter is riding on a cart so it gets outshined by almost every other map.
Never played Half Life 1 back in the day. Was waaaay to young back then. But I did play Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine and there was this Level called "King Solomon Mine" which featured a smiliar setup. Little puzzles and arenas to solve. Switches to switch to change the routes of the track. And that was my favorite part in the game by far. Remeber playing hours just driving around in that mine cart xD. Those were the days :D
So yea i can imagine why you find this part of Half Life so intriguing !
i couldnt figure out how to make the cart keep moving so i just ran past everything
I never figured out the shooting signs thing, because I just do the trip mine trick with jumping over the barricade, mainly because I can't figure out how to power the cart.
Edit: I know now, but I still prefer to skip Power Up.
I'm on a rail! I'm on a rail! Everybody look at me, cuz I'm rolling on a rail!!
Before playing this chapter I was worried that it's reputation would be true for me but I actually quite enjoyed it
Lil Bro Black Mesa acts like it's done us a service by cutting out on a rail, only to also cut out all the good Gameplay and good map design of other maps as well 💀
I really like it, maybe I’m just a weird train guy but even on my first play through I liked it.
"It is'nt bad,It's boring"
-Me, 2021
this is probably my favorite chapter of the entire game.
To me, on a rail is similar to the water temple and great bay temple in the n64 zelda games; a lot of people hate them or consider them to be too confusing, but I think they're actually the best dungeons
I mean, how could you get mad at this chapter? It's like a good story. It has a beginning, middle, and end. And a great Climax.
When it was free during the build up to alyx release, i played up and past this part. It was fun to me for my first time. Definitely confusing though.
Nah, I was ok and even liked on the rails on my first playthrough (I mean I just completed this chapter a few minutes ago and now seeing reviews) the only reason I hated it was the part where you needed to jump through a INVISIBLE Iron crates to open the door.
The problem isn’t the rail signs (I shot them almost immediately since I saw a lot of rail movies and understood ambushes) it was like I said those invisible crates that I had to jump through because I did it without jumping it and had to WALK all the way to the top
Honestly on a rail is fun on a first playthrough; after that first playthrough it just feels tedious and my favorite part of it on replays is the fact that you can bhop through it.
on a rail is 10x more fun if you just walk
Any vehicle level from hl2/consequent episodes is a thousand times more tedious than this minecart segment from the first game
this reminds me of the mission in one of the metro games where you control the rail cart and choose if you want to stop at some spots to collect supplies or continue on.
Never understood the hate for On a Rail. Felt like natural, organic exploration to me. Also there's nothing finer than observing 2 enemy factions at war with one another while oblivious to you. Then you can influence the fight. It makes the game world feel more natural and independent of the player. Love it.
1:54 isn't that the entirety of Half Life? Run. Think. Shoot. Live.
Someone said it. I love On A Rail.
I always felt confused why everyone hated On A Rail. I loved it when I was a wee-wee kid. This chapter has vibe to it, you can get lost in there, get immersed in it's open environment. When I replayed the game when I was older I understood the pacing issue there with babysitting a fucking train that always gets lost god knows where, but overall I still find On A Rail interesting and wouldn't call it bad. It's very different, more explorative and less linear. Maybe Valve should had put trainline map at some places... it'd help to understand the layout.
The only thing I found wrong with it is that it required incredible coordination with enemies and the cart
This video also explains why you must play black mesa with "on a rail: uncut" workshop mod activated ;)
I. LOVE. THE. ROCKET. I love it launching!!
i never really disliked on a rail, both when playing it as a kid and replaying it years later. i liked the rail cart and the chapter felt honestly pretty easy to me, at least in regards to navigating. the combat was a little tricky and clunky at time, but it was fun. i honestly didnt like how black mesa just replaced most of the chapter, because while i dont dislike black mesa's changes but i wish it was more faithful to the original in these kinds of aspects.
Dang, I have always loved “On A Rail.” I consider it one of my favorite chapters.
Thank you for your analysis, brother!
True,
great video.
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It was hard to keep viewer retention while streaming it lol. Literally just skipped the tram part and got it done so much faster
6:20 thought that was some alien chicken as a kid
Both On A Rail and Xen are much maligned but absolutely amazing segments of the game.
I love On a Rail, and what I consider it's spiritual successor, Highway 17.
exactly
well,you're not wrong,but also not right
On A Rail may have had a frustrating Begining, but my god was the climax incredible
I've beaten this game many times and didnt know that i could shoot signs to change cart direction
I love this level too.
Once you beat on a rail for your first time next time its a fun chapter
the entire section can be skipped with 4 tripmines and a good memory of the layout by the way, LOL
like i play half life a bit too much and on a rail has to be one of the least annoying chapters because of how easy it is with the tripmine skip
I just played HL for the first time last month and I didn't think On a Rail was that bad. Zen was way more frustrating.
The only reason I despise it is because I didn't know you had to shoot the signs for years. It never came to me that maybe that's what I'm supposed to do, since.. it makes no sense and there's no real hint towards it. So I never used the cart, this is why I absolutely DESPISE the chapter.
Ive only beaten on a rail without the train because it was a pain trying to defeat the giant blue thing so i just skipped it with laser mine boost
On. A. Rail. Often being a highlight of my playthrough, even on my first playthrogh, On A Rail consistently keeps me on my toes. When I see a double sign on a pivot, I SHOOT IT. THAT'S HOW GAMING WORKS. Fun, engaging, varied, and suspenseful. 10/8.426
Same. Even if I like Black Mesa more than the original, this chapter is better in the original (I always play it with On a Rail Uncut). The Xen chapters, on the other hand, Crowbar Collective nailed it even if it's very different and longer (despite numerous complains about Interloper). They really made GabeN proud in my eyes.
HOWEVER, there's SOMETHING going on later this day. Chon Kemp is going stream On a Rail, and there's SOMETHING on the background. THAT area IS NOT in the current On a Rail that we have in Black Mesa. However, the context is that he will be streaming BOTH Black Mesa's On a Rail and his On a Rail Uncut.
I have a lot of issues with Black Mesa that I'll probably make a video about some day. But I think one of my biggest is how they handled this chapter.
@@PurpleColonel Definitely, my nitpicks are We've Got Hostiles and this chapter. As for the former, it's nothing major. It has something to do with using 2 elevators to get to the surface and when going back down via a vent, that same vent is closer to the surface. The latter one is definitely the major nitpick. Then, there's Interloper... Length-wise, Xen is perfect in Black Mesa even if it's very different, and very long. This chapter, I am fine with the length... and I am pretty sure other than the infamous plug puzzles, "their" complains are the green crystals (Jolly is one of them, but also says that BM's Xen is better), and the 2nd half of the chapter (conveyor and elevator sections).
As for the A.I... nope... I won't go into that territory. There are just things that just only works with the original, and things that only work with the re-imagining. This applies to the music as well.
Who is this guy Freeman. I remember on a rail.
On a Rail got better as it went on. I personally really disliked the maze-like structure of some of the chapter, and I got lost at a couple points. For instance, that distraction that had the elevator room and the explosives, along with the room that had the rocket and the Headcrab ambush. I figured, with the largely linear structure of the game, that you had to actually do something there. Turns out there was nothing, and I had wasted like half an hour or more of my time - mostly in the sewage section trying to platform. I enjoyed the combat sections though, and the end of the chapter where you launch the rocket is honestly a great highlight of the game.
10:00 wait the cremator was going to be in alyx?!
You were meant to shoot the signs? I just gave up and ran the chapter on foot.
In the chapter On a Rail, i liked the most that you had to think in order to progress, but i disliked the fact that the chapter is sometimes confusing and it feels like a maze too.
On a Rail Is My Favorite Chapter In Entire Half-Life lol
wait you didn’t think to shoot the signs
I played hl1 after hl2, but I like On the rail as well as any car section in hl2. ;D
I beat on a rail in a couple of hours and I liked it
Seeing as I played Half-Life for the 1st time this week I can confidently say that On A Rail was a bit annoying and outstayed it's welcome by half an hour or so
This mission tbh was so annoying the first time I played it I had to ask so many friends how to beat it (I didn't check youtube because it wasn't popular )
Best chapter in the game. Gameplay and story wise. Black Mesa's uncut mod is the best part of that game too.
A shame that is not compatible with the final version yet.
3:15
If the best part of a game is that I don't have to play it, then it's not a good part of the game.
On A Rail basically not in Black Mesa is the worst thing about Black Mesa
Recently i played half life for the first (its so good so far) and i just got done with on the rail... Its honestly one of my fav level so far, i heard so much negativity but after playing it for the first time (with no walkthrough) i was confuse y it was hated?
I'm honestly more of a fan of On A Rail than Residue Processing.
Poorly equipped, forced to save ammo to blow 2 laser tripmines while forced forward and in close proximity, unless ya save the satchels.
I hate it because it presents very little combat opportunities, since you can end all fights with the revolver and explosives, or maybe im just that cheesy in games lmao 😂😂
Gotta remember that it's in a video game, designed for entertainment, so unfun literally is bad
4:48 I hated that bastard...
I think he just convinced me that the level is bad.
I'm ashamed to admit, I played the original Half Life for years without realising there was a soundtrack. Only after leaving the original install CD in by mistake did I discover it for the first time! It really does add to the atmosphere. This is a great series by the way, so much detail, a real nostalgia trip. Thank you!
Well theres no music on the downloadable CD version cause the music originally played on the CD instead of being stored as an MP3 like in the steam version
@@kabeam5643 yes exactly! I was playing this pre-steam. After installation the CD was removed from the computer (because why bother keeping it in!) But that meant no music. The same was true for the original Quake which also had a pretty good soundtrack by NiN
Except there is not?
@@EnjoyCocaColaLight There is not what?
Weren't you the guy that talked about Half-Life's atmosphere without it's OST in r/halflife?
If the cart stopped when the player jumped off it maybe people would dislike the chapter less.
Honestly that bugs me a lot in Black Mesa, especially when I just want it to go somewhere so I can meet up with it later.
@@PurpleColonel Cant you turn it off in settings?
@@josephdodds1715 Ofc you can’t it’s a game mechanic not a setting
I used the slow moving cart as a shield for the rockets
I loved it
@@Dognuhtz Ive just checked and you cant any more, but in older versions of black mesa there was a train cart emergency stop toggle in the gameplay options
Before I played half life for the first time I heard about how bad this chapter is. But when I got around to actually playing it I had almost no trouble with it. I don't understand how people find the loop confusing its literally just 2 circles.
At the time the game was released to have a PC was already confusing. Everyone who had a Computer were called a "computer guy" in my country. :)
It's not unlike people who get lost in the Halo:CE level "The Library", most of us can figure out where to go or signs we're going the wrong way, but others will get endlessly lost and never pick up that they are backtracking instead of advancing.
It depends heavily on the perception and attentiveness of the player
Yeah, and the loop has extremely recognizable landmarks.
I was genuinely excited to see how painful it would be and was supremely disappointed by how not shit it was
@@SpiffoGaming Same. With the exception of the mounted turrets.
The music that plays when you launch the rocket. Such a great moment.
What is it called again?
@@awhahoo Drums and Riffs ua-cam.com/video/raqLH-raNvw/v-deo.html
@@chflarforkorp2060 Thanks!
drums and riffs is the best half-life song due to the context otherwise it would be like 2cnd best
yeah it makes you feel as if you just beat the game, since its supposed to stop the invasion. its great
Get Apprehended loser
I like bhopping through the whole chapter, I can't play half life like a normal person anymore
You're too far gone.
jk
I can't play half life at all without playing like I'm going for the world record speedrun lol
@@flaminghollows3068 imo depends on if he does the OAR tripmine skip lol
I can't either, I'm probably going to start speedrunning though.
i cant play hl1 normal either i just turn airplane mode and start bhoping
That "paranormal wailing" is actually supposed to be a houndeye pack according to the files.
EDIT: Reverfied myself that nothing in the files has any correlation to houndeyes, but the_horror# does awfully sound a lot like alien dogs howling, and iirc there are a lot of houndeye packs in the level.
I always thought it was the screams of the people who died down there
I believe the same sound was used in L4D2 for hordes
i assumed it was people in other areas of black mesa being killed by aliens
I think I heard someone theorize somewhere that it was the Nihilanth fucking with Gordon and projecting distressing stuff into his mind
Makes sense but it's confusing that OAR is the only chapter we ever hear those screams. Def makes the chapter more unique tho
"The worst level" guys just shoot the wall arrows thats it lol
either that or you just bhop your way out as well as doing puzzles made for people who ditched the tram
@@remlet3753 every time I stop the cart to kill the soldiers and aliens then continue
This is the first time I realised you had to shoot the arrows. Every time I played half life I just abandoned the first cart and hopped along the side of the railway
@@sambuxton931 lol same. I just walked on the side of the rail and solved puzzles, didn’t even think the tram was necessary
Still better than interloper
I never realized how truly brilliant the sniper in this chapter was. I always found myself thinking "Why would they put this random one-off thing here just to drain health?"
But what I realize now is that as this video stated it is literally there as a curveball to players who have gotten too comfortable with the shoot/explore/collect items loop. They don't repeat it again until 3 chapters later in Surface Tension with the dying guard. It's just long enough that most players have forgotten about the first sniper but not so long that attentive players wouldn't be able to pick up on it. It teaches the player to always be on their toes in every new area they head into rather than just falling into a rhythm for the whole game.
Valve really are masters of pacing and I hope no one forgets that.
I think the problem with the sniper is that its presence is so poorly conveyed. First, this is the first introduction to the sniper in this game, so any new player coming here will have no idea that snipers are even in this game, let alone how to deal with it. 2) The section takes place at night and as such its impossible to see that there even is a sniper.
Playing through this game as a tween, I never realized there was a sniper. I took damage so inconsistently that I thought for the longest time that it was just a glitch and the game was just damaging me via rail electrocution. It wasn't until later that I learned that there's a sniper, and not until this very video where I finally realized where the nest is. This Sniper could work if it was the 2nd or 3rd appearance of a sniper so that the player might be able to figure out what is shooting at them, but as it stands this sniper does none of the things you claim it does.
@@Absolute_Zero7half life 2 introduced snipers way better by simply… having them shoot shit? idk have the guards freak out over a headcrab before it gets sniped before they start talking about how much they hate freeman
The song that plays during this chapter was honestly fitting for what valve was going for when it comes to half-life’s atmosphere
Please keep on making more of this quality content! As for On a rail I think it also serves one more purpose that you did not mention: being the(pacing-wise) mid point of the game. It is revealed that the H.E.C.U are starting to have problems with containing the invasion and are starting to bring their heavy equipment in. And if you do not want to(or can't due to your health situation) engage in a couple of fights between aliens and marines you do not have to. If you are low on resources you can hunt around for crates, H.E.V. charging outlets etc. Sad that such an important part of the game gets so much hate. Just like Xen...
Xen is an important part but the gameplay is horrible and you'd be lucky to survive for a minute without being bombarded with waves of enemies (I'm looking at you, Interloper)
@@Turbs94945 Not really. The amount of enemies you face is larger but not unfair(except on hard with the 1 sec vort attacks). The thing is that xen promotes a different, more careful and stealthy style of play. I like this because it reflects the fact that you are hopelessly outnumbered in a cold, alien dimension. You have to be careful and avoid fights if you can. But if you rush in like a tard expecting to be Dick Kickem or something then you will get buzzsawed back to New Mexico.
For me, Xen is okay, except in the Chapter Interloper where the checkpoint become scrare and make the game frustating in hard mode.
@@Turbs94945 I'm going to say it. People who hate Xen are just bad at the game. It's really not difficult to get through all of Xen without dying once. The game gives you health stations, you get plenty of ammo, there's areas to take cover, etc., so how the hell do people keep having trouble with Xen??
@@innoclarke7435 For me, I don't really like Xen because
1: It doesn't look that good
2: The bossfights aren't really fun
3: There are moments where you *have* to take fall damage, or at least it's really hard not to, which is annoying
4: The first chapter is WAY too short and is boring
It's ok and not that hard, but it is one of the weaker parts of the game
I love On A Rail but only because when I was younger, I was too afraid to play Half-Life after the resonance cascade starts. I loved trains at that age, so I really wanted to play with the train you use at the end of the tutorial some more. When I actually played through the whole game I loved On A Rail because I was finally able to do that. I dislike Apprehension, the next chapter, because to me it feels like that was the chapter that messed up the pacing.
I’m gonna be honest and say I really didn’t like this chapter. But instead of being critical I’m gonna praise the black mesa uncut version. I love how to rails don’t kill you and it’s linear and un linear at the same time. I loved this and would recommend it
Me too. I despised the crap out of HL's On A Rail and still do to this day, but BM's uncut/retail version of it rocks my socks.
I like the mod that combines Uncut with the Loop mod.
On repeat playthroughs this chapter ain't so bad to be honest. The direction change is not intuitive at all, but once you get used to it, you can breeze through it pretty quickly.
And because of this, I don't know why devs of Black Mesa decided to cut down a huge chunk of the chapter only to make the Xen chapters two or three times longer than Surface Tension.
zen was honestly amazing. Interloper made me want to resonance cascade off a cliff.
@@TeaserTravlein
Fair enough.
You speak so clearly that the auto captions actually understand you