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That all clear was never given...

may i ask where these sound files are located?

This is an incredible piece of analog horror, it makes this amazing game just even more awesome.

0:29 forget about freeman

Living in Florida I always hear this broadcast at the request of the national weather service (to the surprise of noone) to hear this for the X-rays in New Mexico is chilling

3:08 Meanwhile... "Shepherd, you've made it. I take it you didn't find Freeman? Forget it, Corporal. We are pulling out - the airstrike has started. Get to the hangar while we await evac!"

3:45

I didn't know there was a zombie virus going on i was thinking that headcrabs was the only probleam.

75 miles to 150 to the entire state of New Mexico evacuated within the space of a day. The asking of general public if they have relevant firearm skills to help in the fight, just makes you feel how this event quickly spiraled out of control. Just the very beginning, before the 7 hour war began and the real invasion came.

Something these EAS messages in black Mesa always made me imagine was the type of The Mist (2007) scenarios going on from the civilian perspective once the xen creatures leaked outside the facility. Half life was actually inspired by The Mist

It only takes 3 broadcasts for things to go from bad, to worse, to EVEN WORSE.

Who else came here from Incredibox⁉️💀😈🎧🔥

this shit was really cool, brings home the scale of the disaster thats not really portrayed in the original game.

Hour 1: Lets try and hide this Hour 4: This isn't Good make sure nobody stays behind Hour 7: Welcome to hell...

"Do not remain in your homes." That for me is the most disturbing line; on a subconscious level, home is the safest place to be, and to hear that even that is now no longer safe can shake a person to the core.

0:22 I like how this was sampled to be used in an incredibox mod for one of the voices alongside the god damn keemstar scream

If you somehow hear “disaster of unknown type” on a real eas, you’re kinda cooked

When the EAS starts disclosing information about unknown hostile force you feel *Confused* When the EAS starts disclosing acute military info in regards to its reaction of said force you feel *Unease* When the EAS orders an entire state of the union to evacuate due to presence of such a force you become *Deeply Concerned* When the EAS implicitly discloses that the military IS LOSING to what ever has appeared, by asking if you are combat capable as a civilian you become *Mortified* *When the EAS corresponds a direct civil defense warning for the entire country relating to the situation you Panic*

You know things are bad when the EAS is stating to report to your nearest military officer if you know how to use a gun, period.

I really need the text to speech for this

*Hmm, April 1st is coming up....*

headcrab and other xenian forces: haha ima destroy you! gordon freeman: Oh no you wont! half life 2: Combine: Haha! i rule the world! Gordon freeman and the resistance: Oh you’re not!

0:21 Incredibox Monochrome Voice 2 origins.

i stopped to hear every one of 'em!

WHERE LINK

I'll go ahead and break the imersion here. The EAS tone they're using isn't exactly valid to this disaster. The buzzing noise is actually data similar to the old dial up systems. The data reads ZCZC-EAS-RWT-012057-012081-012101-012103-012115+0030-2780415-WTSP/TV Funny enough Moder Warfare 2 (2009 AKA the good one) used this exact same EAS tone. There's a comment on the video ruclips.net/video/xeXD7t16v8s/видео.html by Felamine that explains this message.

"Do not return to the warning area until the all clear has been given." And the all clear was never given, forever.

Black Mesa (and admittedly the original Half-Life) had some silly moments that took me out of the game. The EAS broadcasts, however, were top notch world-building.

9:47am - "Disaster of unknown type" & a 75 mile radius evacuation zone. 12:01pm - Previous message expired. Black Mesa to be fully quarantined, and evacuation zone expanded to 150 miles. They list a number symptoms as either a cover for the real disaster happening in Black Mesa, or they really didn't know better and thought the disaster was just radiation fallout. 4:16pm "This is not a test" A state of emergency is declared by the president. They finally acknowledge that there's "an unknown hostile force" present in Black Mesa. And in 5:42pm the president issued orders to conduct airstrikes to the facility. It's really scary how the situation degraded so fast in one day. And then after all of this, Black Mesa gets wiped off the map with a nuclear explosion.

I swear to god, DO NOT set the third broadcast as your ringtone. almost got arrested...

for me its the voice that brings it all together, it sounds more intense and, kinda creepier then your average text to speech (idk if this voice is AI or an actual actor) it has more emotion while at the same time maintaining the emotionless governmental feeling that makes these things so creepy

i love how the last EAS has an extra long attention grabber tone, because this is incredibly urgent.

The alerts and their corresponding situations in Black Mesa and surrounding areas in New Mexico (some details of which are my guesses): Alert 1: At the beginning of Office Complex, which takes place in the early afternoon of the first day, about 2-4 hours after the resonance cascade. Black Mesa has sustained catastrophic damage all over, power failure, electrical wires falling and causing shocks, toxic radioactive leaks, and fires from flammable material, pretty much everything turned lethal; this causes a lot of death already. In addition, the lower-tier Xen wildlife (Headcrabs, Houndeyes, etc.) fall through the newly opened dimensional rift and are openly hostile toward anyone they see; this causes even more death on top of that caused by the hazards in the facility. Survivors like Eli Vance and Gordon Freeman are desperately trying to get to the surface to warn the world about the true scope of the disaster. Meanwhile, the entire desert of New Mexico, having lost all electricity, is in a sudden state of panic and confusion. What probably happened was that a large shockwave at the moment of the resonance cascade (9:47 AM) violently shook a 60-100 mile radius around Black Mesa, snapping the electricity lines severely. However, so far, no Xen aliens have appeared out in the desert yet, the dimensional rift yet beginning to widen. The local authorities, tracing the origin to Black Mesa, deduct that a life-threatening incident has unfolded and issue the immediate evacuation order for civilians in a 75-mile radius. Already warned by the shockwave and power failure, most civilians comply, some even gathering supplies quickly and rushing out in a panic. Alert 2: At the beginning of Blast Pit, around sunset on the first day (8:00 PM, if the date of May 16, 200-, is correct). Over the course of the afternoon, the situation in Black Mesa and the New Mexico desert deteriorates. The dimensional rift worsens, and in addition to the lower tier Xen wildlife, bigger Xen wildlife (like Bullsquids and Tentacles) and some Xen military (like Vortigaunts and Gargantuas) appear in Black Mesa. By evening, the first signs of Xen wildlife appear in the New Mexico desert, causing a nightmare for those still not evacuated by scaring them with the sudden portals and killing the unfortunate ones. Reports of loss of body control (caused by Headcrabs), internal bleeding (caused by Houndeyes), acid (caused by Bullsquids), and shocks and burns (caused by Vortigaunts) start coming in. It is around this time that the Nihilanth notices the dimensional rift and begins organizing a powerful army of Vortigaunts, Alien Grunts, Manta Rays, and Gargantuas hoping to launch a full-scale invasion (which comes true the next day, in Questionable Ethics and Surface Tension). The state department of New Mexico, informed of the disaster at Black Mesa and receiving reports of possible alien involvement, tries to cover up knowledge about the disaster (maybe it was one of the primary sources that funded research at Black Mesa?). The state department extends the evacuation zone to a 150-mile radius and talks about symptoms of a possible outbreak of radiation sickness, further scaring evacuating civilians. The military dispatched to Black Mesa are given orders to cover up the incident by eliminating science personnel that survived the initial disaster. Alert 3: At the climax of Surface Tension, late in the afternoon of the second day. Now Black Mesa is a brutal war zone such as never been seen before. The Xen army put together by the Nihilanth successfully launches their full-scale assault on Black Mesa, completely overwhelming the human forces. At this point, the number of Black Mesa scientists and security guards still alive is about 1/10 to 1/20 of their number before the disaster, and they are desperately trying to survive. The military has a majority of its soldiers brutally wounded or killed in agonizing pain. As the fierce battle is hopeless for them, they start to make a hasty exit from Black Mesa, leaving many of their own soldiers behind. As for the New Mexico desert, the now-abundant Xen creatures are freely roaming open regions of the desert up to a 30-40 mile radius from Black Mesa. It is now impossible to hide what is really happening from the public, the whole North American population is watching the events, and the US president and the national government take command over the battle. The US president quickly orders a barrage of airstrikes all around Black Mesa. I also think the US government (possibly spurred by the G-Man) authorized the Black Ops to infiltrate Black Mesa to eventually nuke the facility in a last ditch effort to contain the alien invasion. Details like these emergency broadcasts make this one of my favorite games of all time. If they remake Opposing Force, I hope they continue doing these emergency alerts. In Opposing Force, the situation gets even worse.

Everybody gangsta until "an unknown hostile force" shows up

Siren head: OOOH I LOVE THIS SOUND!

Mr White shittin is pants rn

Just imagine how chaotic it was on the streets in the entire New Mexico....... And also the fact that those people never returned home since the Black Mesa Incident

If Black Mesa was this bad think about the 7 hours war

2nd 1:50 3rd 3:45

Man everyone gangsta till the unkown hostile force is declared present

This just makes the game so much more realistic. It's so good.

I wonder how do the citizens know where black is isnt BMRF supposed to be extremely secret

never had a fictional eas make me shiver

You can tell that Black Ops has planted the nuke in the second announcement, because that message tells people to watch for the signs of radiation sickness and they're anticipating the nuke going off and issuing the wider evac order to get everyone out of range of the fallout.

image when your son/darter plays this video when your driving

All 3 Black Mesa EAS Transmission Broadcasts 0:00 First Transmission (Beginning the Black Mesa Disaster) 1:51 Second Transmission (Updated about the Resonance Cascade Disaster) 3:46 Third Transmission (After The Disaster and During The War)

When they said entire New Mexico is under evacuation, it just feels you with horror, what was happening outside Black Mesa...

3:23 being possesd by an unearthly beings, seeing unearthly beings appear out of thin air, being electricuted by unearthly creatures, being stung by unearthly creatures, being bitten , scratched or spat acid at by unearthly creatures . being pulled from the ground by unearthly creatures , please be advised to use a crowbar, or any other weapon in your possetion to avoid this fate...

silly question but has anyone tried decoding the initial tones? are they custom made and valid EAS data, or are they just copies of test alerts maybe? (SAME Encoding, I think it is?)

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