I used to spawn a single enemy on one side of the map and start on the other and hunt them with intentionally lowered health to increase the sense of danger, some really good spooks came out of it. The AI pathing on this map is pretty decent.
I've been studying human fear for a while and as far as I'm able to tell, that effect with the lights on and nobody home subconsciously makes you think that whatever happened was so fast and dangerous that nobody even had time to flick a lightswitch. Whatever it was happened suddenly, at least for some. I love that sort of effect. Show, not tell.
"..makes you think that whatever happened was so fast and dangerous that nobody even had time to flick a lightswitch." is a perfect way to say it. It's extremely terrifying and I love it.
It's like everyone just vanished out of existence from where they were standing. It really taps into that fear of the unknown, especially like what this map did. It didn't exactly tell a full story, but it left enough evidence to tell the player that something went _horribly_ wrong.
I like how he doesn't constantly spit low-hanging fruit jokes every 5 seconds, ruining the mood. He actually immerses himself like you should in a experience like this. We need more RUclipsrs like this.
@@drsnakhenry653 ‘low-hanging fruit’ references a joke or comment that’s easy to make in a situation - the obvious joke. Cosmic was saying that Librarian doesn’t go around making the obvious jokes.
@@jennal4143 I appreciate how kind you were explaining a very simple concept to someone, most people would've been extremely rude about something as simple as that, but you decided to explain it in a very calm and nice manor. I applaud your kindness sir
There's a relatively new map on the gmod workshop that got featured on the front page recently called gm_mallparking. It is not quite as horror-themed as gm_shambles but it does give me some serious liminal space vibes as it takes place in an underground parking garage of sorts. That and just a lot of nostalgia. It's also a lot bigger than I expected when I first checked it out myself.
Maybe everyone in the boarded up houses are still hiding and the only houses you can enter are the ones who didn't make it. The only reason you're the only one there is because you are the one they're hiding from. This could be why the power is still on and the church bells sound distantly, there are still people, you just can't see (or find) them...
@@nov_icee I'm not sure which house it's in, but there's a newspaper on the floor of one of the houses that says "FIGHT OR FLIGHT" on it. It talks about an apocalypse happening but doesn't directly explain what kind of apocalypse it is. All it mentions is natural disasters and aliens, but it isn't clear if either of those are the actual things behind the apocalypse or not
Someone should take all your fears that you describe in these videos and make the perfect map to terrify you. Where you really are being watched from the shadows, lured into dead ends, and things are running around in the shadows just beyond your flashlight.
I do really think that he wont be able to play it. Imagine like urban exploring gone wrong without the cheesy screams and stuff, and more footsteps far away, shadows just outside the flashlight and a strong feeling of being watched. The perfect spooky map.
18:09 "what is this garden gnome... is it real? more importantly, what does it look like? and is it watching me right now?" is easily the funniest quote from your gmod urbex videos. could easily be a movie line
You were correct regarding this map being based on English architecture. In the description of the workshop page for this map, the Creator (who I garnered from the comments has passed away, RIP) said they based it on their own neighborhood.
@@samuraijackoff5354 that's horribly tragic, especially at such a young age too. at least his content lives on for more people to experience after his passing.
I have a theory about the whole "lights on but nobody's home" thing: it's sort of related to liminal spaces. I've always kind of thought of liminal space as the "uncanny valley" of places. Something is clearly Not Quite Right, but it's subtle; there's something wrong or illogical with an otherwise normal place or scenario. Media nowadays is chock full of apocalyptic scenarios, so that by itself no longer reads as "wrong" to us. Nor does the concept of being Not Quite Alone; at this point, we've seen every iteration of that (someone's there but they're evil; someone's there but they're friendly; someone's there but they're not real; etc.) and none of it really reads as particularly creepy because we're just so used to it. But add a detail we aren't used to, something that makes no logical sense, and it re-adds some of that horror in the form of liminality (can that be a word? idk). There IS no good reason for the lights to be on. Logically, even if there are people left, the power system wouldn't be maintained. It's pretty much the first thing to go in any real-world disaster. And, maybe worse, without people and life and the normal goings-on of the world, there's no reason they SHOULD be on. They're not needed, they're not useful. They're this random frivolous detail that adds to that whole surreal feeling, that "this isn't right but I can't put my finger on WHY" sort of deal.
There was a myth in that map about a gnome that followed the player around the map and sometimes you could spot it, its probably fake but interesting none the less
Hey Librarian, There’s a recent map called “Tokyo University Hospital” on the workshop. I think it might be worth exploring because there’s a ominous feeling about the map and a really scary Easter egg. Hint: turn the lights off at the start and go into the elevator and press the button at the very bottom.
@@chaoscowboy189 It's gm_tokyo_hospital and all it is a Mercy Hospital from L4D but cleaned up and has supposed "paranormal activity" though I haven't been able to find such on the map.
Fartomatic (Fartomaticatron) was the author of this map. The inclusion of his name is a cheeky easter egg of sorts. The slightly creepy and mostly sad thing is that he's actually no longer alive.
@@nov_icee He actually fell very ill in very late 2014, passing in January 2015. Currently he was last online 2059 days ago, he still sits there on my friendslist.
I really prefer these more creepy or atmospheric oriented maps than the outwardly horror ones. It just meshes better with your commentary style in my opinion. Anyway, thanks for another great VR video. 👍
I think the "haunted" versions of maps are really the best style for him. They give that creepy feeling, like you mentioned, but they have an active aspect to them.
Yeah but that's just it. Atleast you know they're dead, even if you don't know why. And they're likely not going to get back up or something or they've been mind controlled by something or other, ect. Basically you know where they are now and probably won't have to worry about it later.
"No, not the Physics Gun. Not gonna keep my immersion if I keep reminding myself I'm basically God in this scenario." That's a thought prompt that hits me every time I'm setting up Tacti-Cool GMOD shit and shooting courses and what not. Despite being set to Ignore me, despite being set to not have any thoughts, the genuine look of concern on the faces of citizens and what not gives me the impression that NPCs you spawn exist in a G-Man-esque void until you spawn them and they KNOW their SOLE PURPOSE to exist is simply to be killed *OVER AND OVER AGAIN.* Like some kind of personal Hell. Literally, and I shit you not, one day I was going through doing my assassin/liquidation team shit where I clear the map of not just enemies but also civilians too. And I always set this guy up to be talking to this front desk lady. So I do my usual shit of clearing the map when I get to her and right after shooting her, this guy turns around, looks directly at me and just says "That's it. I'M PISSED!" before kinda trying to run at me before getting gunned down, himself. It's just shit like that that gives NPCs way more life than you expect or really even want. I also got the "Bad Friend" achievement that run for gunning down 5,000 friendly NPCs.
i actually found a half life 2 episode one voice line that says exactly that line "thats it, im pissed" its supposed to trigger when you kill their "buddy" cit_buddykilled12
I love the fact that you can tell the fear and uneasyness is genuine and not some show put on for viewers. The flinches, the sudden pauses and snaps of his head to distant sounds, those are all fear responses that aren't really falsifiable on command. The constant checking behind him and in open doorways, the slow movement as a whole. You can tell he's actually unsettled. Mad props to you. Only found your channel the other day but immediately a fan. Keep it up.
you get that by going to school in america and get a gun HAHAHA haha america change your gun laws your kinda killing students in shcool becuase they steal there parents guns
1:45 that's change ringing, you have someone on each bell and you ring them at varying speeds so they come in and out of phase, does sound a bit like someone throwing the belfry down a staircase but it has quite a nice jubilant sound to it, especially if you live somewhere with enough belltowers and they all do it at the same time. It's fairly common in England especially for weddings, but I don't know if other places do it that much because a lot of places nowadays have mechanical controllers rather than a room full of people on ropes.
Unrelated, but at 4:04, the moment you entered that room and said "How's this for a creative prompt?" I immediately tensed up in fear. I had dreamt this exact scenario, laying in bed watching this exact video in that EXACT scene as a CHILD. It's definitely not a false memory either, because I had thought about it, and I know I had before, multiple times in the past before this video was ever uploaded. It was as if dejavu had just sucker punched me in the jaw. I'm going to continue with the video but I'm still at 4:04. Idk why, I just felt as though I had to say that.
Once in a blue moon RUclips recommends me something that's just out of the realm of what I normally watch and knocks it out of the park. The Ashville video is what got me here, and I'm loving the stuff you're doing, the map walkthroughs are strangely fascinating.
I believe this is made to be a roleplay map, empty houses mean the player(s) can decorate their own homes and live in them. I've played this with friends, and we roleplayed going to each other's houses for sleep overs and stuff. Used the media player mod to drown out some of the ambiance though.
I remember seeing VanossGaming use this map for a zombie apocalypses skit video once. It's cool to see you explore this since I never thought about it back when I originally saw the video. Also RIP to the map creator, didn't know about the car crash. Creator made a great map, sad that they passed away.
I'm only up to 24:10 but When the video started I almost instantly recognized the map, I remember I put zombies and weapons about the place. I remember very specifically looking from the first house TL went into at the second house, and just *feeling* something there. I remember spawning a sports car and driving around a bunch, going house to house killing hords and getting progressively better guns. I remember that first water bit, going through it just to find it leading to another house, no sewer network or anything. Just your usual GMOD vent but underwater. So you can imagine how that felt for me, when I saw it I couldn't tell if I had just forgotten that area or if the map was updated. Then there was the outside area. You could never go outside the fence. There was never any sniffling in that second house. Never any basement. *That version of the map was supposed to be the final version iirc.* The map quickly went from "haha lets see how TL manages to freak himself over a map that does nothing this time" to "familiar but *off*, not necessarily just different but *wrong*". This...is gonna be interesting.
Bravo on finding the bodies dude! Played this since I was a little kid, never found that. Its honestly kind of a little bit disturbing to know now, that the corpses were there the whole time.
26:53 I'm gonna go with dragged down - that's a splat, then drag motion to the blood stain. I think if something was sloshing up out of a bloody brew, there would be more splatter along the drag-path. Ha, that's the story those decal assets tell me, anyway.
Decal assets, prop location, noises, everything you find in a map like this tells you what happened here in a way you have to piece together. The end day happened, people panicked, they boarded up their windows and doors, some more successful than others
19:43 is when this map went from creepy to absolute cynical abandon it got so creepy in that house especially as librarian tries to read the news paper while there is snifflings chimes and buzzing and that news paper predicts the total collapse ... Sooo well done.
You're spot on Librarian. I'm English and live in suburban Hertfordshire just north of London. First thing I thought when I saw the street at the start was that this looks very British lol. It does look quite typical of our neighbourhoods.
Wow I remember when you started to grow and I was thinking "I really hope he keeps making these" and you've really kept up with the content, thanks for that
You know, this would probably make a good setting for a short film, wondering through a seemingly abandoned town while the entire time being given hints that you're either not alone or somehow just missed the people as they either fled or were done away with by some unknown entity. Then of course the locked garden hatch to the sewer which lead to the static remains of the citizens, suggesting something far more... eldritch.
The way the doors were broken down and the blood in those houses makes it seem more like someTHING rather than someone was searching for people Almost like “the quiet place” it seems like something invaded and killed everyone
I have the feeling the *player* is the thing they were trying to fight against since you *are* a literal god and can do anything but I guess you got through
it being set in the uk is pretty spot on, this almost looks like the type of places near my area with the farmland mixed with the suburbs, british suburbia has a creepy atmosphere at a night alone as is and the houses usually feel liminal - my grandparents house feels almost build specifically to be unnerving with the back bedroom (or the backroom if you will) having a mini corrodor that leads to the main open part and it creates a blind corner in the room that is unbearable, not to mention how that room and the hallway is divided by a steep staircase to the loft which at night is terrifying to glance up at
These games all follow a similar theme and you always point it out, the feeling of another person being out there, there's man made ambiance, there's lights on, signs that people were there but aren't there any more, and it makes even the viewer feel desperate for something to pop out, for some proof of something else being there but you don't get it and that makes it more frightening, it's a perfect form of horror.
I can tell you a little bit about exactly what happened, if you read the whole paper in the house where there is a sign that says HELLP the date on the paper is on December 4, 2012 when the Mayans said the end of the world would be on December 21, 2012 so I think the map is a reference to that day and also I think the paper said something about aliens or something like that and also that the UK economy was ending in a disaster.
Few years ago me and my friend were playing this map, played for a good few hours and went into the lower sewers, i distinctly remember the sound of a camera flash behind me and my friend.
I'm trying so hard to be unnerved, but I can't stop remembering VanossGaming playing zombies on this map. Especially 8:47. (the video im referring to is called 'escaping the apocalypse' btw)
Knocked down doors means something broke into multiple houses, did people get out in time? You never find a body so where did the blood come from? It's rarely ever too much blood so it's possible they were carried or consumed whole
hey! i just want to let you know the vrmod supports Full body tracking so if you were to get FBT you could basically move your legs torso hand and body separate from everything
Me and my friend would get on this map when we got beck from school, and he would both go to random parts of the map and one of us would hunt down the other useing just knives. Good times and quite spooky
The church bells make me think of a baptism or a wedding; when it's all over & everyone is walking out the front dbl-doors the bells indicate something joyous has occurred, I think or imo. 😀
5:59 I wish more would actually make the stairs not so steep. Scale is definitely something that a good portion of map makers struggle with, and not just with stairs. Also, stair clipping is helpful even in gameplay. Seeing your screen jitter on up stairs can bother the eyes even when playing on a flat screen.
The first time I ever saw this map was of a group of RUclipsrs using it for a zombie apocalypse video which I watched when I was very young also btw you make great content
The thing I find creepy about a lot of these maps is there’s almost always evidence of something having *just* lived in the area, but you are always too late to have seen what had once occupied it. A barrel fire probably wouldn’t stay lit for that long, and as you said with the house lights being on.
I'm British and Oh god GM Shambles like straight from the start looks like your average UK street and resembles what the road I live on looks like so much
This map doesn't really give me eerie vibes, but instead nostalgia. The main reason being i lived in a very similar looking area in upper england when i was a young child (I'm 14 now) and also because of the orange street street lights that Librarian himself said ''gave him a comforting feeling'' that gives me driving on a Motorway (highway) with my dad at night. The remake/edit of the map shambles_day gives me a cold winter morning/evening feel. 10/10
Every time i hear the bells i can only imagine some giant anomination shambling around the map makling these weird ringing bell noises, getting closer and farther away aimlessly wandering.
There is something quite unsettling with the fact it's set in a place that looks very similar to where I live (English architecture). Most horror maps aren't set in England so seeing one set here is much creepier for me.
This map really reminded me of a dream that I've recently had where it was Halloween in the suburbs and lights and stuff were on peoples' front yards yet..... nobody was there.. just me wandering around the streets at night.
Gm_Shambles is my favorite map, really fun to play on and do stuff with and at the same time it's just a wonderful map on it's own, it was amazing seeing you traverse it in vr
I don't know how "Much" anxiety you get but you do better then I ever did. Back when I did youtube and twitch I tried about 6 times playing a variety of horror games and I ended up telling people "Sorry not sorry, no more horror." lol I can watch or do real world anything but for some reason first person horror games especially raise my anxiety to almost panic attack levels so they are forever a no.
Source game maps hit that weird primal spit in my brain when in singleplayer. There's a feeling that Half-Life 2, Garry's Mod, and Black Mesa share in which it feels that there's something else in the map that's actively looking for you. A decade later and I still find myself barricading doorways behind me when playing HL2 because a part of my monkey brain convinces me that not only is something following me but that it's getting closer - something that not even Resident Evil or Silent Hill has managed to pull off. I'm positive that there's a Herobrine-esque backstory just waiting to be born out of the source engine, and the only reason it hasn't been written already is because the ones who try going that far end up missing or something.
GM_Shambles reminds me of a Something terrible happened on the Surban Area were they have to board up the windows. This is perfect a Horror Map for anything you want for example like Trevor Henderson famous monster like Siren Head or Famous creepypasta legend Slenderman.
Maybe it is a pugetory set for your character after some event your sent into a duplicate of your home town to find out a mystery or be punished with lack of people
watching this made me think about how cool it'd be for a horror webseries to take the format of someone with a channel like yours just exploring maps and such. not like the gmod "args" we see but more along the lines of everymanhybrid where very slowly something starts going wrong. bonus points if it actually establishes itself as a normal channel first. this is your chance librarian. (joking but imagine how cool that'd be. kind of like dear david actually)
It is much worse to have the lights on and everything perfectly clean but with absolutely no one around because it gives you that feeling that something is wrong, because an abandoned destroyed town you expect something scary or dangerous but a perfectly normal town where everything works but basically empty you don't know what to expect because everything is normal but there is no one. Also the simple fact of looking at that street, with all the lights working with all the houses, gives you a feeling that you are going to turn around and in the distance you will see a figure standing in the middle of the street, this is why in never go out at night.
This map heavily reminded me of Everybody's gone to the rapture, just houses left open, lights kept on as if everyone had suddenly just poofed out of existence at the same time
My theory is that that people are still in the houses that have boarded up windows and closed doors, and the ones who didn't board the house up in time died.
the worst part about this to me is that there are no corpses or anything... there's just blood. but you never find out who's blood it is so you never even find out how long ago whatever happened happened
When i downloaded this map i was like "Oh, this would be a good map for some npc battles!" and it was, but i was paranoid as fuck, always checking my back. The background sounds were the worst, and yes I felt like i was being watched like him.
R.I.P., Fartomaticatron. You made one of the greatest Gmod maps of all time, but then life took you away from us too soon. Say hi to Kitty0706 for me and watch out for the gnome while you're at it. Godspeed you brilliant bastard. Godspeed.
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American man explores England for 40 minutes and experiences his own personal hell
so a average british chewsday'?
Man explores England (derogatory)
so true bestie
That's not England at all. The roads are way too huge.
Must be in the rich part
I used to spawn a single enemy on one side of the map and start on the other and hunt them with intentionally lowered health to increase the sense of danger, some really good spooks came out of it. The AI pathing on this map is pretty decent.
what kinds of enemies did you use?
which npc? (just for educational purposes)
Running zombie would be terrifying
Any SCP npc that can follow you would be terrifying.
You should try doing it in void maps like gm_bigcity void. I tried that once with a cry of fear monster, it was the most horrifying shit ever
I've been studying human fear for a while and as far as I'm able to tell, that effect with the lights on and nobody home subconsciously makes you think that whatever happened was so fast and dangerous that nobody even had time to flick a lightswitch. Whatever it was happened suddenly, at least for some. I love that sort of effect. Show, not tell.
"..makes you think that whatever happened was so fast and dangerous that nobody even had time to flick a lightswitch." is a perfect way to say it. It's extremely terrifying and I love it.
The Furrapocalypse.
Furries rising and going rabid.
@@Poodleinacan awoocalypse
It's like everyone just vanished out of existence from where they were standing. It really taps into that fear of the unknown, especially like what this map did. It didn't exactly tell a full story, but it left enough evidence to tell the player that something went _horribly_ wrong.
@@myst1que_mach1ne Stop being scared, it's just Life After People lore.
The nostalgia remembering Vanoss played this map with his friends hits hard
The zombie survival vid was lit
Miniladd became Pablo in real life tho
Oh god, the nostalgia... IS REAL.
Ah yes, the American ADHD guy where popular references and loud = funny. I am very glad I never consumed any of his videos.
@@Reichstaubenminister thanks for your opinion. I still can't find who asked though.
I like how he doesn't constantly spit low-hanging fruit jokes every 5 seconds, ruining the mood. He actually immerses himself like you should in a experience like this. We need more RUclipsrs like this.
fruit jokes??..
@@drsnakhenry653 ‘low-hanging fruit’ references a joke or comment that’s easy to make in a situation - the obvious joke. Cosmic was saying that Librarian doesn’t go around making the obvious jokes.
@@jennal4143 ohhhhh
@@jennal4143 I appreciate how kind you were explaining a very simple concept to someone, most people would've been extremely rude about something as simple as that, but you decided to explain it in a very calm and nice manor.
I applaud your kindness sir
@@an-average-box
It's so sad that is something to be impressed about nowadays.
There's a relatively new map on the gmod workshop that got featured on the front page recently called gm_mallparking. It is not quite as horror-themed as gm_shambles but it does give me some serious liminal space vibes as it takes place in an underground parking garage of sorts. That and just a lot of nostalgia. It's also a lot bigger than I expected when I first checked it out myself.
I'll have to check that out. Is sounds interesting.
I literallty thought of him while i played that map myself
ah thats a good map, really good for scene building as well
Played it in VR myself. Instantly thought it would fit his videos very well.
It’s so good!
Maybe everyone in the boarded up houses are still hiding and the only houses you can enter are the ones who didn't make it. The only reason you're the only one there is because you are the one they're hiding from.
This could be why the power is still on and the church bells sound distantly, there are still people, you just can't see (or find) them...
there's a newspaper explaining that there was some kind of apocalypse that killed everyone off
@@Tulip_bip could you explain the newspaper a bit more or where is it?
@@nov_icee
I'm not sure which house it's in, but there's a newspaper on the floor of one of the houses that says "FIGHT OR FLIGHT" on it. It talks about an apocalypse happening but doesn't directly explain what kind of apocalypse it is. All it mentions is natural disasters and aliens, but it isn't clear if either of those are the actual things behind the apocalypse or not
@@Tulip_bip cheers
@@nov_icee you can see the newspaper at 19:53
Someone should take all your fears that you describe in these videos and make the perfect map to terrify you. Where you really are being watched from the shadows, lured into dead ends, and things are running around in the shadows just beyond your flashlight.
I do really think that he wont be able to play it.
Imagine like urban exploring gone wrong without the cheesy screams and stuff, and more footsteps far away, shadows just outside the flashlight and a strong feeling of being watched. The perfect spooky map.
Gm_construct13 beta
Oh, and obscenely high roofs.
And water.
18:09 "what is this garden gnome... is it real? more importantly, what does it look like? and is it watching me right now?" is easily the funniest quote from your gmod urbex videos. could easily be a movie line
You were correct regarding this map being based on English architecture. In the description of the workshop page for this map, the Creator (who I garnered from the comments has passed away, RIP) said they based it on their own neighborhood.
How?
@@uglymelon6721 How to what? That the creator is died? He died around 2015 during a car crash. He was only 24, may rest peacefully.
@@samuraijackoff5354 that's horribly tragic, especially at such a young age too. at least his content lives on for more people to experience after his passing.
@@samuraijackoff5354 damn.... That's really unfortunate
Could've sworn that was debunked. The author dying that is.
I have a theory about the whole "lights on but nobody's home" thing: it's sort of related to liminal spaces. I've always kind of thought of liminal space as the "uncanny valley" of places. Something is clearly Not Quite Right, but it's subtle; there's something wrong or illogical with an otherwise normal place or scenario. Media nowadays is chock full of apocalyptic scenarios, so that by itself no longer reads as "wrong" to us. Nor does the concept of being Not Quite Alone; at this point, we've seen every iteration of that (someone's there but they're evil; someone's there but they're friendly; someone's there but they're not real; etc.) and none of it really reads as particularly creepy because we're just so used to it. But add a detail we aren't used to, something that makes no logical sense, and it re-adds some of that horror in the form of liminality (can that be a word? idk). There IS no good reason for the lights to be on. Logically, even if there are people left, the power system wouldn't be maintained. It's pretty much the first thing to go in any real-world disaster. And, maybe worse, without people and life and the normal goings-on of the world, there's no reason they SHOULD be on. They're not needed, they're not useful. They're this random frivolous detail that adds to that whole surreal feeling, that "this isn't right but I can't put my finger on WHY" sort of deal.
The Earth vored everyone.
@@Poodleinacan earth chan isn't real she can't hurt you
God wakes up and comes down to earth, he's zooming around in noclip holding a physgun, you see him open the npc tab
Wake up, YHWH. Wake up and smell the ashes.
@@penzorphallos3199
"5 more minutes..."
*2000 years pass*
I RDM the nearest man to me
@@tylerweis5484 you broke #67892 of our rulebook. Prepare for a 20 year ban.
Disgusting background pfp.
There was a myth in that map about a gnome that followed the player around the map and sometimes you could spot it, its probably fake but interesting none the less
I think is fake, but you can find the gnome though
im gnoght a gnelf
In the garden of one of the furnished houses, there's an empty pedestal with the sign 'Beware of the Gnome'
@@professionalnerdharper Yeah no shit, that's probably what prompted Codec to comment this.
I've also heard in this map that there is a gnome ritual at the bottom of a well at the corner of the map
Hey Librarian, There’s a recent map called “Tokyo University Hospital” on the workshop. I think it might be worth exploring because there’s a ominous feeling about the map and a really scary Easter egg.
Hint: turn the lights off at the start and go into the elevator and press the button at the very bottom.
I can’t find it, link?
@@chaoscowboy189 It's gm_tokyo_hospital and all it is a Mercy Hospital from L4D but cleaned up and has supposed "paranormal activity" though I haven't been able to find such on the map.
This is what it feels like when your parents forget to pick you up from school and you have to walk back home late at night
Fartomatic (Fartomaticatron) was the author of this map. The inclusion of his name is a cheeky easter egg of sorts. The slightly creepy and mostly sad thing is that he's actually no longer alive.
What happened?
@@namelessxdread he died in a car crash at the age of 24 i believe
@@nov_icee I'm always skeptical because it seems like for every creepy map on gmod there's always a rumor about how the maker died.
@@nov_icee He actually fell very ill in very late 2014, passing in January 2015. Currently he was last online 2059 days ago, he still sits there on my friendslist.
@@SlugGaming holy fuck if this is real then damn
I really prefer these more creepy or atmospheric oriented maps than the outwardly horror ones. It just meshes better with your commentary style in my opinion.
Anyway, thanks for another great VR video. 👍
I second this
I think the "haunted" versions of maps are really the best style for him. They give that creepy feeling, like you mentioned, but they have an active aspect to them.
Back into the creepiness of gmod maps, perfect for the creepy season
30:50
No corpses is worse imo than finding a pile of them. Because atleast then you have the comfort of knowing what happened to them. You know?
Ah yes this corpses died by UNKNOW REASONS
i dont think that
Yeah but that's just it. Atleast you know they're dead, even if you don't know why.
And they're likely not going to get back up or something or they've been mind controlled by something or other, ect. Basically you know where they are now and probably won't have to worry about it later.
no way man
"No, not the Physics Gun. Not gonna keep my immersion if I keep reminding myself I'm basically God in this scenario."
That's a thought prompt that hits me every time I'm setting up Tacti-Cool GMOD shit and shooting courses and what not.
Despite being set to Ignore me, despite being set to not have any thoughts, the genuine look of concern on the faces of
citizens and what not gives me the impression that NPCs you spawn exist in a G-Man-esque void until you spawn them
and they KNOW their SOLE PURPOSE to exist is simply to be killed *OVER AND OVER AGAIN.* Like some kind of personal
Hell.
Literally, and I shit you not, one day I was going through doing my assassin/liquidation team shit where I clear the map
of not just enemies but also civilians too. And I always set this guy up to be talking to this front desk lady. So I do my
usual shit of clearing the map when I get to her and right after shooting her, this guy turns around, looks directly at me
and just says "That's it. I'M PISSED!" before kinda trying to run at me before getting gunned down, himself. It's just shit
like that that gives NPCs way more life than you expect or really even want. I also got the "Bad Friend" achievement that
run for gunning down 5,000 friendly NPCs.
i actually found a half life 2 episode one voice line that says exactly that line "thats it, im pissed"
its supposed to trigger when you kill their "buddy"
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I would have gotten a heart attack if that happened to me lol
im proud of your tacticoolness!
@@fantasybabydino thats so fucking odd.
@@cabtaxi i agree, i can see how it might have been added into garry's mod, but still kinda weird to add a feature like that into half life 2 yknow
Love the ending where you showed us what you found while not in VR. It reminded me of those old video game urban legend videos on RUclips
I love the fact that you can tell the fear and uneasyness is genuine and not some show put on for viewers. The flinches, the sudden pauses and snaps of his head to distant sounds, those are all fear responses that aren't really falsifiable on command. The constant checking behind him and in open doorways, the slow movement as a whole. You can tell he's actually unsettled.
Mad props to you. Only found your channel the other day but immediately a fan. Keep it up.
you get that by going to school in america and get a gun HAHAHA haha america change your gun laws your kinda killing students in shcool becuase they steal there parents guns
Your fear of high ceilings is probably because of the idea that something could be clinging to or hanging from it
Ah, this brings me nostalgia, i remember the vannoss crew playing this map, i loved it. This video gives me so much chills.
Ah! That's why it seemed familiar, they did a zombie video in this map, right?
@@fgp0032 indeed they did
ruclips.net/video/LKOeaFSNQpM/видео.html
@@nuggetsoup8150 2014?! That was ages ago, oh my god
"There once was a man named Pablo. Pablo was not a very nice man. He liked to.. h a v e s e x w i t h s m a l l c h i l d r e n ."
@@generalskyshadow977 same goes with his creator.
"This map look really normal"
Turn around to glitching windows
1:45 that's change ringing, you have someone on each bell and you ring them at varying speeds so they come in and out of phase, does sound a bit like someone throwing the belfry down a staircase but it has quite a nice jubilant sound to it, especially if you live somewhere with enough belltowers and they all do it at the same time. It's fairly common in England especially for weddings, but I don't know if other places do it that much because a lot of places nowadays have mechanical controllers rather than a room full of people on ropes.
Unrelated, but at 4:04, the moment you entered that room and said "How's this for a creative prompt?" I immediately tensed up in fear. I had dreamt this exact scenario, laying in bed watching this exact video in that EXACT scene as a CHILD.
It's definitely not a false memory either, because I had thought about it, and I know I had before, multiple times in the past before this video was ever uploaded. It was as if dejavu had just sucker punched me in the jaw. I'm going to continue with the video but I'm still at 4:04. Idk why, I just felt as though I had to say that.
@@oxymoron02 lmao
How can you have watched this video as a child?
@@jasonlp4928 I don't think that was the point
@@ULTRAKILLPenelope Not exactly an easy to ignore detail.
@@jasonlp4928 They said they had a dream where they watched it as a child. Most likely meaning they had a dream where they were a child hearing that
Ah man, I remember being scared shitless when I first played Shambles. It really is nostalgic nowadays, still get the creeps tho.
Once in a blue moon RUclips recommends me something that's just out of the realm of what I normally watch and knocks it out of the park. The Ashville video is what got me here, and I'm loving the stuff you're doing, the map walkthroughs are strangely fascinating.
Same
Also, I love your pfp
I believe this is made to be a roleplay map, empty houses mean the player(s) can decorate their own homes and live in them. I've played this with friends, and we roleplayed going to each other's houses for sleep overs and stuff. Used the media player mod to drown out some of the ambiance though.
this dude is so underrated. props for the good content! keep it coming!
EDIT: You should try the map gm_liminal_space_cursed by Dadaskis :D
Cry of fear pfp
@@Firezok that would also be really cool to watch
This is the first time I've actually felt anxious while watching one of your VR videos, the ambiance of this map was just done so damn well.
I remember seeing VanossGaming use this map for a zombie apocalypses skit video once. It's cool to see you explore this since I never thought about it back when I originally saw the video.
Also RIP to the map creator, didn't know about the car crash. Creator made a great map, sad that they passed away.
I'm only up to 24:10 but
When the video started I almost instantly recognized the map, I remember I put zombies and weapons about the place. I remember very specifically looking from the first house TL went into at the second house, and just *feeling* something there. I remember spawning a sports car and driving around a bunch, going house to house killing hords and getting progressively better guns.
I remember that first water bit, going through it just to find it leading to another house, no sewer network or anything. Just your usual GMOD vent but underwater.
So you can imagine how that felt for me, when I saw it I couldn't tell if I had just forgotten that area or if the map was updated.
Then there was the outside area. You could never go outside the fence.
There was never any sniffling in that second house. Never any basement.
*That version of the map was supposed to be the final version iirc.*
The map quickly went from "haha lets see how TL manages to freak himself over a map that does nothing this time" to "familiar but *off*, not necessarily just different but *wrong*".
This...is gonna be interesting.
His friend / family / someone who has access to his computer could've uploaded it.
Bravo on finding the bodies dude! Played this since I was a little kid, never found that. Its honestly kind of a little bit disturbing to know now, that the corpses were there the whole time.
26:53 I'm gonna go with dragged down - that's a splat, then drag motion to the blood stain. I think if something was sloshing up out of a bloody brew, there would be more splatter along the drag-path.
Ha, that's the story those decal assets tell me, anyway.
Decal assets, prop location, noises, everything you find in a map like this tells you what happened here in a way you have to piece together. The end day happened, people panicked, they boarded up their windows and doors, some more successful than others
@@forecastlotus3899 What exactly happened, you didn't really give a detailed summary.
@@adammezza5362 i dunno
19:43 is when this map went from creepy to absolute cynical abandon it got so creepy in that house especially as librarian tries to read the news paper while there is snifflings chimes and buzzing and that news paper predicts the total collapse ... Sooo well done.
37:33 ooh, there's an idea. What if the reason you can't find anybody is because you are the one responsible for what happened here.
20:30 oh, that's a cool way of handling the credits!
18:12 my mind immediately went "oh, not the freakin' gnome joke again!"
RIP the map creator he was a good person hope he is in a better place now
You're spot on Librarian. I'm English and live in suburban Hertfordshire just north of London. First thing I thought when I saw the street at the start was that this looks very British lol. It does look quite typical of our neighbourhoods.
Wow I remember when you started to grow and I was thinking "I really hope he keeps making these" and you've really kept up with the content, thanks for that
11:19
Actually you can, unless you install a mod that enables drowning. Gmod doesn't have an oxygen system by default like Half-Life 2.
You know, this would probably make a good setting for a short film, wondering through a seemingly abandoned town while the entire time being given hints that you're either not alone or somehow just missed the people as they either fled or were done away with by some unknown entity. Then of course the locked garden hatch to the sewer which lead to the static remains of the citizens, suggesting something far more... eldritch.
That tire swing was scary
The way the doors were broken down and the blood in those houses makes it seem more like someTHING rather than someone was searching for people
Almost like “the quiet place” it seems like something invaded and killed everyone
I have the feeling the *player* is the thing they were trying to fight against since you *are* a literal god and can do anything but I guess you got through
This has become my favorite channel. I always look forward to these long videos. I turn out the lights, grab a blanket, and enjoy the ambience.
it being set in the uk is pretty spot on, this almost looks like the type of places near my area with the farmland mixed with the suburbs, british suburbia has a creepy atmosphere at a night alone as is and the houses usually feel liminal - my grandparents house feels almost build specifically to be unnerving with the back bedroom (or the backroom if you will) having a mini corrodor that leads to the main open part and it creates a blind corner in the room that is unbearable, not to mention how that room and the hallway is divided by a steep staircase to the loft which at night is terrifying to glance up at
These games all follow a similar theme and you always point it out, the feeling of another person being out there, there's man made ambiance, there's lights on, signs that people were there but aren't there any more, and it makes even the viewer feel desperate for something to pop out, for some proof of something else being there but you don't get it and that makes it more frightening, it's a perfect form of horror.
I can tell you a little bit about exactly what happened, if you read the whole paper in the house where there is a sign that says HELLP the date on the paper is on December 4, 2012 when the Mayans said the end of the world would be on December 21, 2012 so I think the map is a reference to that day and also I think the paper said something about aliens or something like that and also that the UK economy was ending in a disaster.
That post-outro sequence gave me some serious 2010's video game urban legend vibes and I freaking loved it. Those videos kept me up at night as a kid.
The fact that you got scared of your phone reminds me when I scared myself one time by my hand.
Few years ago me and my friend were playing this map, played for a good few hours and went into the lower sewers, i distinctly remember the sound of a camera flash behind me and my friend.
14:25
“Is that an owl?”
*slaps face* MY DUDE THAT IS A COYOTE
A coyote in England?
15:32 gave me the goosebumps and chivers
I'm trying so hard to be unnerved, but I can't stop remembering VanossGaming playing zombies on this map. Especially 8:47.
(the video im referring to is called 'escaping the apocalypse' btw)
The lights still being on means that nobody had time to turn them off.
It means they did not leave calmly.
Knocked down doors means something broke into multiple houses, did people get out in time? You never find a body so where did the blood come from? It's rarely ever too much blood so it's possible they were carried or consumed whole
I remember back when a few people were seeking refuge and was searching for left boots on this attic. 8:49
hey!
i just want to let you know the vrmod supports Full body tracking so if you were to get FBT you could basically move your legs torso hand and body separate from everything
Me and my friend would get on this map when we got beck from school, and he would both go to random parts of the map and one of us would hunt down the other useing just knives. Good times and quite spooky
The church bells make me think of a baptism or a wedding; when it's all over & everyone is walking out the front dbl-doors the bells indicate something joyous has occurred, I think or imo. 😀
5:59 I wish more would actually make the stairs not so steep. Scale is definitely something that a good portion of map makers struggle with, and not just with stairs.
Also, stair clipping is helpful even in gameplay. Seeing your screen jitter on up stairs can bother the eyes even when playing on a flat screen.
The first time I ever saw this map was of a group of RUclipsrs using it for a zombie apocalypse video which I watched when I was very young
also btw you make great content
Have nothing to say like other people other than your like the only RUclipsr that makes me feel peaceful
very happy you did this map :D
it's probably my favorite map. Also, "Farto" is the Creator of the map who died. R.I.P Farto
The thing I find creepy about a lot of these maps is there’s almost always evidence of something having *just* lived in the area, but you are always too late to have seen what had once occupied it. A barrel fire probably wouldn’t stay lit for that long, and as you said with the house lights being on.
you honestly made me get back into youtube, thank you
I'm British and Oh god GM Shambles like straight from the start looks like your average UK street and resembles what the road I live on looks like so much
This map doesn't really give me eerie vibes, but instead nostalgia. The main reason being i lived in a very similar looking area in upper england when i was a young child (I'm 14 now) and also because of the orange street street lights that Librarian himself said ''gave him a comforting feeling'' that gives me driving on a Motorway (highway) with my dad at night. The remake/edit of the map shambles_day gives me a cold winter morning/evening feel. 10/10
Always love these long-form exploration videos, keeps me company for about an hour at work
Librarian, 14:26 That is a Tawny Owl. The cyootest hoot hoot.
i had so much fucking fun running on this map,we just spawned in 10 gorillas and then ran from then for another 3 hours,perfection
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Watching these before bed are great. Keep it up dude.
Every time i hear the bells i can only imagine some giant anomination shambling around the map makling these weird ringing bell noises, getting closer and farther away aimlessly wandering.
your my new favorite youtuber, keep up the good work!
There is something quite unsettling with the fact it's set in a place that looks very similar to where I live (English architecture). Most horror maps aren't set in England so seeing one set here is much creepier for me.
This map really reminded me of a dream that I've recently had where it was Halloween in the suburbs and lights and stuff were on peoples' front yards yet..... nobody was there.. just me wandering around the streets at night.
Gm_Shambles is my favorite map, really fun to play on and do stuff with and at the same time it's just a wonderful map on it's own, it was amazing seeing you traverse it in vr
The orange glow is comforting because we would find comfort by the glow of campfires when we were still developing as a species
I don't know how "Much" anxiety you get but you do better then I ever did. Back when I did youtube and twitch I tried about 6 times playing a variety of horror games and I ended up telling people "Sorry not sorry, no more horror." lol I can watch or do real world anything but for some reason first person horror games especially raise my anxiety to almost panic attack levels so they are forever a no.
Source game maps hit that weird primal spit in my brain when in singleplayer. There's a feeling that Half-Life 2, Garry's Mod, and Black Mesa share in which it feels that there's something else in the map that's actively looking for you. A decade later and I still find myself barricading doorways behind me when playing HL2 because a part of my monkey brain convinces me that not only is something following me but that it's getting closer - something that not even Resident Evil or Silent Hill has managed to pull off.
I'm positive that there's a Herobrine-esque backstory just waiting to be born out of the source engine, and the only reason it hasn't been written already is because the ones who try going that far end up missing or something.
Empty fenced in fields behind houses like that are actually pretty common in Britain. They tend to get used for things like car parks.
I love how you explain how you feel about the maps as you play. Keep up the great work! :)
GM_Shambles reminds me of a Something terrible happened on the Surban Area were they have to board up the windows.
This is perfect a Horror Map for anything you want for example like Trevor Henderson famous monster like Siren Head or Famous creepypasta legend Slenderman.
You are a king of liminal exploring. Liminal "tomb raider" :)
I used to play this map with the Zombie survival gamemode, scrounging for supplies and sneaking around was really fun.
The gnome being in a devil trap was the last thing I expected at the bottom of the well
Maybe it is a pugetory set for your character after some event your sent into a duplicate of your home town to find out a mystery or be punished with lack of people
watching this made me think about how cool it'd be for a horror webseries to take the format of someone with a channel like yours just exploring maps and such. not like the gmod "args" we see but more along the lines of everymanhybrid where very slowly something starts going wrong. bonus points if it actually establishes itself as a normal channel first. this is your chance librarian. (joking but imagine how cool that'd be. kind of like dear david actually)
You're so wondrously earnest in these videos and it just soothes my weary soul.
Well yea but I never sleep then like rn it’s 3am I need sleep actually no I neeed COWFEE! Squeal!
It is much worse to have the lights on and everything perfectly clean but with absolutely no one around because it gives you that feeling that something is wrong, because an abandoned destroyed town you expect something scary or dangerous but a perfectly normal town where everything works but basically empty you don't know what to expect because everything is normal but there is no one.
Also the simple fact of looking at that street, with all the lights working with all the houses, gives you a feeling that you are going to turn around and in the distance you will see a figure standing in the middle of the street, this is why in never go out at night.
when the bells started ringing and you looked up that was a certified oh god moment
This map heavily reminded me of Everybody's gone to the rapture, just houses left open, lights kept on as if everyone had suddenly just poofed out of existence at the same time
My theory is that that people are still in the houses that have boarded up windows and closed doors, and the ones who didn't board the house up in time died.
the worst part about this to me is that there are no corpses or anything... there's just blood. but you never find out who's blood it is so you never even find out how long ago whatever happened happened
When i downloaded this map i was like "Oh, this would be a good map for some npc battles!" and it was, but i was paranoid as fuck, always checking my back.
The background sounds were the worst, and yes I felt like i was being watched like him.
4:24 Heart dropped, thought there was a face but its just lighting.
Yeah it was pablo mini ladd face
R.I.P., Fartomaticatron. You made one of the greatest Gmod maps of all time, but then life took you away from us too soon. Say hi to Kitty0706 for me and watch out for the gnome while you're at it. Godspeed you brilliant bastard. Godspeed.