Def the resonance Cascade. Everything escalating, the scientists yelling, the teleporting and green orbs. Everything was falling apart all in around a minute. Also you should do the tf2 timeline.
if you watched the Half Life 2 ani doc when the hunter choper spammed a ton on bombs it was just a bug but the devs thought it was so cool that they kept it in
I remember my awe as a kid when I noticed that a Combine soldier fell of the Hunter chopper you destroy at the end of Water Hazard. Until then I believed the first appeared until the very end of Ravenholm.
I appreciate the subtle nod to Freeman's Mind with the speculation on how the chopper could fit so many bombs (the answer is that the pilot is obviously a magician on the side)
I like to think the Hunter Chopper has a bit of an overconfident personality during half life 2 until you give it a taste of its own fang once you get the boat gun. It just moves in a certain... way, I suppose
Yeah, I don't get the impression they trained for a fair fight too often, probably a flight of bombing ant lions every so often... From a game play perspective the pilots desire to be in your face as much as possible was pretty cinematic.
the combine onearth areocupation and opression units they arent expecting any fair fights they are a police state, the real war machines are the synths by comparison
Got the Game recently and i love how the helicopter reacted when you shoot it before coming out of the tunnel. It Looks like they jumped a bit from their sits before reacting
I'd argue this is the most underrated combine weapons, also when freeman destroyed this was, in my opinion, when freeman went on the combines hit list. 3:25 no wonder it went down
Well assuming a few things, if the humans did have a military and the combine had a military, the chopper was the apex of their seen capability so it is the logical escalation point. The whole scenario is in a way baffling as it really seems to be one chopper, it bugged out for field repairs after its first damage taken by pure coincidence it would sure appear freeman then hunted it down to its forward air field to destroy it suggesting a fairly capable threat... So yeah I tend to think of it less of a hit list as much as it proved to be a problem where breens forces failed to handle it.
@@Seanlawle1yeah, breen clearly recognized him and was seemingly pretty distraught realizing it so I can assume he was a witness of Gordon’s rampage through black Mesa
I almost jumped out of my seat when you mentioned S.T.A.L.K.E.R being on your list of games to cover in the future. There is so much potential there like the different factions, the locations and all of the scientific stuff like the C-Consciousness and the X Labs. And after the release of S.T.A.L.K.E.R 2 there may be more interest in the original trilogy. You then could also mention real life events and facts like in this video, which was a pleasant surprise.
@@Skyrionnas much as I love half -life, the world of S.T.A.L.K.E.R is still so esoteric to me after finishing call of Pripyat. theres soooo much stuff in there that fits your channel’s style
That final battle against the chopper before you went into Black Mesa East was one of the most satisfying boss fights of all time. The way that thing had been pestering you for what seemed like hours, when you finally were able to shoot it down I think all of us raised our fists and shouted "YESSS!" the first time we did it.
I remember my first time playing HL2. I struggled with the Hunter Choppers badly. I was so happy when I finally got past the Route Kanal one. Getting to actually shoot back at them in Water Hazard was probably one of my favourite parts, the feeling of "Hell yeah! Get a taste of your own medicine" was great
I know that by gameplay purposes, the hunter chopper is kept as a tanky enemy NPC. But if we go on and think on how it would work when considering real life aspects. A well aimed RPG guided missile, it would most likely be aimed to hit the main rotor at the top of the helicopter, or hit the blades, or also hit the rotor blades behind, which would disable the hunter chopper’s maneuvering control. No matter how strong the helicopter’s armor is. The hunter chopper would be easy game for a well trained Resistance anti-air squad, which would be trained in real life missile weapons training, like training soldier on how to operate a Javelin missile, plus the added advanced technology of laser pointed guided missiles, a missile which is also really accurate and quick to maneuver, where the laser is pointed at.
I am so proud that you have had a place in the video ( I think it was noclips, not sure). I teared up when I've heard you giving your gratulations. Man, really, I totally love your content, all of it, and you deserve even more. If I wasn't homeless, you'd be the very first channel I'd be going on Patreon for. Stay as awesome as you are.
The bombs must have been inflatable. It would make a lot of sense, actually. You could have two gas cartridges that contained non-explosive gases that, once combined, would create an explosive compound or mixture. An example would be hydrogen and oxygen in stoichiometric ratio. There are, however, much more potent mixes. An additional benefit would be that the bomb would float on the surface.
Honestly, from all your work so far, you'd easily be the best person to do videos on S.T.A.L.K.E.R. lore! I'm relatively new to the franchise, but I love everything about it and I'd love to see you make S.T.A.L.K.E.R. content :)
S.T.A.L.K.E.R is a really fascinating world. I have only completed the first game so far but I'm taking my time - noting everything. Videos will come when I'm confident with the world :)
@@Skyrionn Played through SoC and CoP, tiny bit of clear sky but never finished. Now with Heart of Chornobyl coming out TOMORROW, the entire fanbase is going nuts and it's awesome :) one of the best communities for gaming franchises in my opinion
What type of entity is the combine? I mean is an empire but it behaves like a living being that takes whatever works for it and removes or adjust anything that may seem useful for it's survival, but what is it exactly?
@@sean7221 Bro take your shitty politics somewhere else. It has nothing to do with an ethnicity you wack job. They make you think it’s the “banking clans” so you ignore the mega corps not ran by the “banking clans” that actually hold the most money and power. But no no, keep concerning yourself with a 2000 year old genocidal war, ignore the corporations and the politicians who are doing exactly what you claim the “banking clan” is doing. Yea man, you’re so woke, you’ve totally figured it out. You totally didn’t have the wool pulled over your eyes. It’s every single corporation, every single politician. But they all direct your eyes else where, and you fell for it hook line and sinker.
yes please, love your deep dive on HL universe, if the STALKER will be same quality (which I expect) it will be awesome, there is so much to dive into!
i don't think the hunter chopper is biased off any particular existing helicopter, the large vertically mounted rotor is not a feature found in a existing chopper and would not be easy to add as a modification, i think its an original design either by reverse engineering human made equipment or its designed by humans in the service of the universal union using combine technology. i will add that the small wings are normally called pylons
I feel like the combine within the cities like to mainly stick to traditional human vehicles like helicopters and apcs what's the exception seeming to be striders. It seems like they save the techno organic vehicles for outside the city. Of course, up until an actual war breaks out on the streets, then they use whatever they have. Maybe it's to not freak the ordinary populace out or maybe the techno-organic vehicles are too imprecise because of their biological components to be used in the city 🤔
I theorize the Helicopter would be 100% useless on any world not identical to Earth, and therefore not used on any other worlds the combine invaded or attacked. It's designed to maneuver in Earth's atmosphere and gravity and likely has a combustion engine on it somewhere.. so without the right amount of oxygen it's not even starting up, and if the gravity is too low or too high, it's flopping all around or crashing to the ground spectacularly.
Loved the video of course, but.. STALKER!!! :D I'm sure you already know, but, stalker is loosely based on "Roadside Picnic" by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky. -- It's extremely cool. And while the game diverges from the novel, it sill captures a lot of the vibe. I loved stalker as a kid. The book only makes me enjoy it more.
5:59 Unlike Mi-24, it can't Troop Transport I mean there's already a better one but at least it will help a lot like a Small Reinforcement of a Squad or 2 Squad of Overwatch soldiers (Since Mi-24 can hold up up to 8 Soldiers) These Choppers are more into AH-64 or Mi-28!
haha after years i started to play hl2 and just finished canals level, and got pissed at that chopper, so i exited after beating it and see you dropped this video 🤣🤣
I have an suggestion for next video: The Overwatch Nexus. Even though we don't get as much information about it, id like to think it would be intresting.
It’s a pity you can’t really do anything on Garry’s Mod maps. That does class under Half-Life 2 but there’s not really much story unless you try and form a story behind the maps. As for the Hunter chopper. It’s another that exists in the fan Combine inspired faction of my world. Though I only refer to it as a Helicopter. Though it’s weaker as it only has the gun and missiles.
This thing makes no sense considering a gunboat could do its job better and you never see any other vehicles like it again. My guess is that Valve built the chopper early in development before the gunship, and didn't want to cut it.
Can You make a video about the non-cannonical lore of the first expedition team in newly released Black mesa blue Shift ? Its a pretty attractive topic in my opinion.
I'll admit that whenever I hear the sound when the Chopper is about to shoot, I get so desperate and scared. That was during the first moments I played Half Life 2, I disliked the Airboat section mainly because of how much the Hunter-Chopper scared the heck out of me- and the bombs
I think that combine chopper was based of Russian helicopter because America is crossed with big red X on map in HLA, so they couldn’t have technologies from USA.
Happy 20th Anniversary to an incredible game!
What is your best HL moment?
Def the resonance Cascade. Everything escalating, the scientists yelling, the teleporting and green orbs. Everything was falling apart all in around a minute. Also you should do the tf2 timeline.
Getting both games for free on each anniversary 🤑🤑
On the bridge spending an hour trying to shoot seagulls with the rocket launcher
Combine units marching on the bridge in ep2.
@@JF1LMS fr that was cool
if you watched the Half Life 2 ani doc when the hunter choper spammed a ton on bombs it was just a bug but the devs thought it was so cool that they kept it in
The hunter helicopter terrified me when i was younger on my first play through it kept appearing and disapearing and the bomb barrage. left me scared
It was just really annoying
same, i was left in the safe places too scared to go out
I remember my awe as a kid when I noticed that a Combine soldier fell of the Hunter chopper you destroy at the end of Water Hazard. Until then I believed the first appeared until the very end of Ravenholm.
I would love a VR game where you play as an overwatch aerial operator doing recon, prosecuting anti-citizens and delivering supplies around City 17
That is a great idea.
@@Josef-v8i good mod idea.
I appreciate the subtle nod to Freeman's Mind with the speculation on how the chopper could fit so many bombs (the answer is that the pilot is obviously a magician on the side)
A man of culture I see.🫡
I like to think the Hunter Chopper has a bit of an overconfident personality during half life 2 until you give it a taste of its own fang once you get the boat gun. It just moves in a certain... way, I suppose
Yeah, I don't get the impression they trained for a fair fight too often, probably a flight of bombing ant lions every so often... From a game play perspective the pilots desire to be in your face as much as possible was pretty cinematic.
the combine onearth areocupation and opression units
they arent expecting any fair fights they are a police state, the real war machines are the synths by comparison
Got the Game recently and i love how the helicopter reacted when you shoot it before coming out of the tunnel. It Looks like they jumped a bit from their sits before reacting
I'd argue this is the most underrated combine weapons, also when freeman destroyed this was, in my opinion, when freeman went on the combines hit list.
3:25 no wonder it went down
I would agree but when he entered breens office through teleportation would of triggered the hive
@Seanlawle1 yeah now that i think of it that makes much more sense
The APC is the most underrated one
Well assuming a few things, if the humans did have a military and the combine had a military, the chopper was the apex of their seen capability so it is the logical escalation point. The whole scenario is in a way baffling as it really seems to be one chopper, it bugged out for field repairs after its first damage taken by pure coincidence it would sure appear freeman then hunted it down to its forward air field to destroy it suggesting a fairly capable threat... So yeah I tend to think of it less of a hit list as much as it proved to be a problem where breens forces failed to handle it.
@@Seanlawle1yeah, breen clearly recognized him and was seemingly pretty distraught realizing it so I can assume he was a witness of Gordon’s rampage through black Mesa
I almost jumped out of my seat when you mentioned S.T.A.L.K.E.R being on your list of games to cover in the future. There is so much potential there like the different factions, the locations and all of the scientific stuff like the C-Consciousness and the X Labs. And after the release of S.T.A.L.K.E.R 2 there may be more interest in the original trilogy. You then could also mention real life events and facts like in this video, which was a pleasant surprise.
There is quite a bit to cover. I'm loving playing through them currently
@@Skyrionnas much as I love half -life, the world of S.T.A.L.K.E.R is still so esoteric to me after finishing call of Pripyat. theres soooo much stuff in there that fits your channel’s style
"DEADLY ANOMALIES, DANGEROUS MUTANTS" 🗣🗣🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
The bombs could always be fabricated inside the chopper bay
The hunter-chopper is also very closely based on the South African SuperHind variant of the Mi-24
Defeated by a nerd on an airboat
Then that same nerd defeated it with its own bombs with an orange gun.
To be fair, it used the chooper weapons to it to kill it, both the gun and its bombs xd
You call him a nerd, I call him a highly trained professional.
@@blackfox7448 Sorry I didn't remember one piece of dialogue from a rebel in Water Hazard. Lol
@@nashadkajr.3111 which makes him a nerd
You know what would have been a cool mission for half life you have to hijack a hunter chopper and fly somewhere
That would have been cool
Indeed.
The problem with that is that they have complete air superiority over the planet.
I suppose in Half-Life 3 we will be flying Soviet Mi-8 helicopter towards Borealis.
cod black ops
That final battle against the chopper before you went into Black Mesa East was one of the most satisfying boss fights of all time. The way that thing had been pestering you for what seemed like hours, when you finally were able to shoot it down I think all of us raised our fists and shouted "YESSS!" the first time we did it.
My favorite enemy in the game, one of the best helicopter designs I've seen so far.
A great example of how the Combine can improve human technology.
100%
I remember my first time playing HL2. I struggled with the Hunter Choppers badly. I was so happy when I finally got past the Route Kanal one. Getting to actually shoot back at them in Water Hazard was probably one of my favourite parts, the feeling of "Hell yeah! Get a taste of your own medicine" was great
Episode 2 :
In part I think the Hunter-Choppers are an homage to the black helicopters described in George Orwell's "1984".
You know when i read that book i thought the exact same thing in reverse i guess...but it is erringly similar
I know that by gameplay purposes, the hunter chopper is kept as a tanky enemy NPC.
But if we go on and think on how it would work when considering real life aspects. A well aimed RPG guided missile, it would most likely be aimed to hit the main rotor at the top of the helicopter, or hit the blades, or also hit the rotor blades behind, which would disable the hunter chopper’s maneuvering control. No matter how strong the helicopter’s armor is.
The hunter chopper would be easy game for a well trained Resistance anti-air squad, which would be trained in real life missile weapons training, like training soldier on how to operate a Javelin missile, plus the added advanced technology of laser pointed guided missiles, a missile which is also really accurate and quick to maneuver, where the laser is pointed at.
I always thought the Ornitopter from Dune had a combine look . Something that the combine would make reinventing the helicopter terrestrial concept .
Speaking of which, there is a mod on the steam workshop which turns the Chopper into a DUNE Ornitopter
@Spartan_Tanner no way,so cool! Thanks i Will search for that
I am so proud that you have had a place in the video ( I think it was noclips, not sure). I teared up when I've heard you giving your gratulations. Man, really, I totally love your content, all of it, and you deserve even more. If I wasn't homeless, you'd be the very first channel I'd be going on Patreon for. Stay as awesome as you are.
I like to imagine the combine deploying choppers in xen for chits and giggles
this really halves my life, too.
The bombs must have been inflatable. It would make a lot of sense, actually. You could have two gas cartridges that contained non-explosive gases that, once combined, would create an explosive compound or mixture. An example would be hydrogen and oxygen in stoichiometric ratio. There are, however, much more potent mixes. An additional benefit would be that the bomb would float on the surface.
It's crazy seeing the quality get better and better.
fun fact: in the Beta the Hunter Chopper was modeled after a Soviet Mi-8 heli them whemt he game came out it got changed to its now iconic design.
It would be really dumb, since Mi-8 is primarily transport vehicle.
@@ceu160193 well, there was a reason for why it go changed
Ah yes, the man-made beast of the half life universe's sky (i also wasnt expecting danno cal drawings to be in your list of patreons nice)
Honestly, from all your work so far, you'd easily be the best person to do videos on S.T.A.L.K.E.R. lore! I'm relatively new to the franchise, but I love everything about it and I'd love to see you make S.T.A.L.K.E.R. content :)
S.T.A.L.K.E.R is a really fascinating world. I have only completed the first game so far but I'm taking my time - noting everything. Videos will come when I'm confident with the world :)
@@Skyrionn Played through SoC and CoP, tiny bit of clear sky but never finished. Now with Heart of Chornobyl coming out TOMORROW, the entire fanbase is going nuts and it's awesome :) one of the best communities for gaming franchises in my opinion
Love your content man. I’ve been watching all your half life lore since I started the half life series last year.
I appreciate you
Happy you're still making these
Same
DUDE, ANOTHER VIDEO, HELL YEAH(I commented on an older video today, glad to see there is still stuff to tell about)
Hope you enjoyed it!
@Skyrionn didn't have time yet, but the Hunter Chopper definitely is a topic I'll watch a vid about.
Man you really are going to make the last thing you ever do the overwatch soldiers
I'll get around to it eventually. Just covering what I find the most interesting first!
Always a pleasure when you release another vid
What type of entity is the combine? I mean is an empire but it behaves like a living being that takes whatever works for it and removes or adjust anything that may seem useful for it's survival, but what is it exactly?
A parasite, the Combine benefits while it's host(s) suffers.
Reminds me of a certain banking clan tribe on earth 🤔
@@sean7221 Bro take your shitty politics somewhere else. It has nothing to do with an ethnicity you wack job. They make you think it’s the “banking clans” so you ignore the mega corps not ran by the “banking clans” that actually hold the most money and power. But no no, keep concerning yourself with a 2000 year old genocidal war, ignore the corporations and the politicians who are doing exactly what you claim the “banking clan” is doing. Yea man, you’re so woke, you’ve totally figured it out. You totally didn’t have the wool pulled over your eyes. It’s every single corporation, every single politician. But they all direct your eyes else where, and you fell for it hook line and sinker.
babe wake up, new skyrionn lore video just dropped
*Gman starts dancing* 🕺✨
2016 called. They want you all to stop using this meme. The secondhand embarrassment is excruciating.
You don't know how long I've waited for this
yes please, love your deep dive on HL universe, if the STALKER will be same quality (which I expect) it will be awesome, there is so much to dive into!
i'm actually surprised the hunter-chopper has a cockpit - the way it acts in game makes it feel like an autonomous living creature
I could listen you for hours like I had listened to Dr. Breen's speech everyday
If theres ever a new half life game and we dont get to fly one of these, im gonna be very upset
Can't wait to see some videos about the Stalker universe!
I'm in the research phase currently. Loving playing through them
Your lore videos are unbelievably soothing and pleasant to watch.
Sorry for being a nerd, but Human->Stalker transformation is not a "genetic alteration" as stated at 2:26 AFAIK
It is rather surgical in nature
I love all the combine vehicles!
Always when i see Skyrionn videos about lore, i get grateful that the events that happened in Half-Life 2 did not happen irl.
*Real Life 2*
*beep* system shock next year? *boop*
I'll show this thing a relentless predator
ohh that's not...
we are really running out of stuff to talk about in hl2 if the hunter chopper got a 16 minute video
900th like, really love your videos on the combine in HL2! Hope to see more videos on the lore, your other videos are great too!
Very interesting learned quite a lot more about this chopper great video!
Awesome. Thanks for watching!
Well...what a pleasant surprise today to have this gem of a video drop 😎 💎
Aim to post as often as possible!
Love this. The last ditch bombs was a gotcha they kept!
i don't think the hunter chopper is biased off any particular existing helicopter, the large vertically mounted rotor is not a feature found in a existing chopper and would not be easy to add as a modification, i think its an original design either by reverse engineering human made equipment or its designed by humans in the service of the universal union using combine technology. i will add that the small wings are normally called pylons
Oh you want more universes to explore ?
Try Red Alert & Command & Conquer
Or Deus Ex or Prey
I'll add them to the list. I haven't played Deus Ex. Both Prey games are grey. Which one are you suggesting?
OMG STALKER! I can't wait. Please do them in order, perhaps Anomaly too, since it continues the trilogy.
we got helicopter lore
Yes we did
I've always thought the Airboat Gun came off of a different Hunter-Chopper that is not seen in HL2, given how different the two Pulse Cannons are.
SKYRIONN I BEG OF YOU MAKE A GRUNT LORE VID I WANNA KNOW HOW THEY’RE MADE
Thanks for showing Polish Mi-24😂
Glad to see anything correlated with my country
20 years.... man.. this is insane
Ikr
We were all saying that in the 2000s about things from the 80s. It's not crazy, it's life. Time passes.
Ngl I didn't know the Scrapyard Chopper launches a barrages of missiles
L4D would be great to explore
Sure will be
Honey wake up helicoper lore just dropped 🗣🔥
I feel like the combine within the cities like to mainly stick to traditional human vehicles like helicopters and apcs what's the exception seeming to be striders. It seems like they save the techno organic vehicles for outside the city. Of course, up until an actual war breaks out on the streets, then they use whatever they have.
Maybe it's to not freak the ordinary populace out or maybe the techno-organic vehicles are too imprecise because of their biological components to be used in the city 🤔
When i first got half life 2 i played on my laptop in car because of a roadtrip i was water hazard and i felt that i was actually in the airboat
I theorize the Helicopter would be 100% useless on any world not identical to Earth, and therefore not used on any other worlds the combine invaded or attacked. It's designed to maneuver in Earth's atmosphere and gravity and likely has a combustion engine on it somewhere.. so without the right amount of oxygen it's not even starting up, and if the gravity is too low or too high, it's flopping all around or crashing to the ground spectacularly.
Loved the video of course, but.. STALKER!!! :D I'm sure you already know, but, stalker is loosely based on "Roadside Picnic" by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky. -- It's extremely cool. And while the game diverges from the novel, it sill captures a lot of the vibe. I loved stalker as a kid. The book only makes me enjoy it more.
I can’t imagine playing Half Life 2 in 2004 with a crapy computer and playing against the hunter chopper at the end of Water Hazard.
5:59 Unlike Mi-24, it can't Troop Transport
I mean there's already a better one but at least it will help a lot like a Small Reinforcement of a Squad or 2 Squad of Overwatch soldiers (Since Mi-24 can hold up up to 8 Soldiers)
These Choppers are more into AH-64 or Mi-28!
Do the beta next.
haha after years i started to play hl2 and just finished canals level, and got pissed at that chopper, so i exited after beating it and see you dropped this video 🤣🤣
I have an suggestion for next video: The Overwatch Nexus. Even though we don't get as much information about it, id like to think it would be intresting.
Also great video!
It’s a pity you can’t really do anything on Garry’s Mod maps. That does class under Half-Life 2 but there’s not really much story unless you try and form a story behind the maps.
As for the Hunter chopper. It’s another that exists in the fan Combine inspired faction of my world. Though I only refer to it as a Helicopter. Though it’s weaker as it only has the gun and missiles.
To this day I crap my pants when I see it following me in the tunnel
The Dishonored/Deathloop would be a fun franchise to dive into!
3:33 Poland mentioned! 🗣️🗣️
For some reason the name Hunter Chopper gives me 40k Ork vibes
This thing makes no sense considering a gunboat could do its job better and you never see any other vehicles like it again.
My guess is that Valve built the chopper early in development before the gunship, and didn't want to cut it.
I really like the hunter chopper, i wish there was a combine jet fighter with a similar design
That would be cool
He's here again
You should do INFRA, very interesting Source game with a lot of story
So many people have suggested that
imagine if the combine encountered the strogg.
fun fact: the hunter-chopper model was originally a russian Ka-27
Hunta choppa
Can You make a video about the non-cannonical lore of the first expedition team in newly released Black mesa blue Shift ? Its a pretty attractive topic in my opinion.
welp, guess thanks to tangent Brain I need to go listen to KOSMusic cover the Airwolf theme
The Relentless P-Word...so It got those assault charges?
such a cool piece of.. aircraft?
is that the word?
whatever, it's cool
Could you make video about cut content from episode 3?
I could take a look to see what there is
I'll admit that whenever I hear the sound when the Chopper is about to shoot, I get so desperate and scared.
That was during the first moments I played Half Life 2, I disliked the Airboat section mainly because of how much the Hunter-Chopper scared the heck out of me- and the bombs
I’m not sure why, but I always assumed they were unmanned and more like drones
And to think the beta version of the hunter chopper was a repurpose of the mi-18 transport helicopter xD
I would like some help finding the Video about The Overwatch AI here. I can't seem to find it.
HONEY WAKE UP SKYRIONN POSTED A VIDEO
Those bombs need to remodeled to fit in the machine lol
Did you record these scenes post-20th-anniversary update?
I did not - I finished this video a couple of weeks ago before the update came out.
Half-Life 3 is coming, i can feel it.
same
the combine war would be over by now
W video.
We've seen earth over run by combine and Xen... Think we will get to see another planet/civilization over run by the combine in the next Half Life?
I think that combine chopper was based of Russian helicopter because America is crossed with big red X on map in HLA, so they couldn’t have technologies from USA.
deep dive the 0 point energy manipulator