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What Happened to the Bullsquid? | Cascade
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- Опубликовано: 4 сен 2024
- The Bullsquid is one of my favorite Half-Life enemies. But what happened to it? Where did it go? All this and more in this episode of Cascade!
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Headcrabs never retaliated against Bullsquids. Headcrabs are coded to use the "Fear" relationship with Bullsquids, but because this relationship type has no actual defined behavior, it just means they ignore Bullsquids. This same relationship oversight partially carries over to the Scientist, and that's why Scientists don't react to Bullsquids or Alien Grunts (but not vice versa).
Ahh thank you. I didn't have a copy at hand but I could've sworn they used to fight back...
Huh, that explains stuff.
Why did they leave it empty like that tough? One Half-Life's main appeal was the AI, how could they forget to code a part of the AI?
@@curple3 They probably didn't have time to finish it.
@@Yveldi Time, Dr Freeman? Is it really time again?
@@curple3 because they had to can an entire game and restart.
Valve: creates a bunch of unique, interesting and iconic alien enemies.
Also Valve: cuts almost every single one after the first game.
my only problem with HL2
@@colbyboucher6391 The combine troops are reliant on a lot of direction from AI hint and nav nodes baked into the maps for their coded behaviors to reach their full potential, they can be very effective at suppressing, flushing out and killing the player if the map actually tells them how they can navigate it and where cover and other important map features are. Placing them in the middle of a virtually empty map leaves them essentially blind and unable to recognize cover or other tactical opportunities aside from the player's location.
@Mialisus Race X were a Gearbox invention. Valve signed off on them, but Laidlaw and other story artists never had a hand in their design or implementation.
I at least partially blame the beta-testers; even while making the first game Valve had some interesting behavior planned for the enemies, as they were trying to make a sort of ecosystem where you could exploit each creature's behaviour to your advantage, either to avoid combat or have them aid you at defeating some of the more aggresive enemies where combat couldn't be avoided, like for example, the Houndeye was gonna be neutral and only attack you if you provoked it first. But apparently the beta-testers just jumped in and blasted everything that moved without even paying attention to what these creatures where doing at all, so Valve scrapped most of the more interesting enemy behaviour to make them more aggresive, because they assumed everybody else playing the game was gonna be just as much of a braindead dudebro who didn't give two shits about immersion.
@@colbyboucher6391 I've seen a video on the Combine AI and it's got its fair share of complexity too. I don't know if it's as good as the HECU, but it's not as braindead as it looks. The reason they're so bad in-game is that a lot of the behavior is built around confined spaces, and most of the game's combat setpieces are big open spaces. You can see a bit more of how they're _supposed_ to act in areas like Nova Prospekt.
"you have been bullsquidding for 1157 days"
good lord
not enough
3 years
That's what Gordon was doing in stasis
My god, what are we doing?
Rookie numbers.
We don't actually encounter an ichthyosaur other than during the teleportation sequence at the start of HL2, so the bullsquids are probably the same, living life to the fullest and we simply don't wander into their habitat.
Bullsquids and hound eyes are confirmed to still be around in half life 2. But of course, you don’t ever see them because valve would rather have you fight 7 zombie varieties
@@nono7117 Seven? All we have are 4 zombies in hl2, being the classic zombie, fast zombie, poison zombie, and the zombine
@@ZAdist1709 torso zombine and torso fast, but there is only 6 in the end
@@user-xu6jm4kq3y you're really considering the torso's a proper variety of the zombies
That one room in hl1: am i a joke to you?
Bullsquids would’ve been so cool in the Canals section in Half-Life 2.
it would make sense if the combine uses them like the headcrabs
i agree it would have matched the toxic water so well
@@jh047o No, Bullsquids are far too aggressive, and too large to keep comfortably contained in those number; this is doubly so if the Bullsquid isn't lacking in accuracy with its spit like in Half-Life 1, but instead deadly accurate like in Black Mesa. I wouldn't be surprised if the Combine hunt them down whenever they get close to their installations.
@@3dmaster205 have you played decay ?..if black mesa can easily keep them unharmful, the combine can much more easily make tech to contain them without trouble.
@@3dmaster205 The Combine are all about adaptation and annexation. There is no way they would want to annihilate a species with so much potential as a weapon against rebels.
I really like the concept that in-game, we aren't given names for the aliens. I mean if you were in a crumbling facility where aliens are erupting out of the walls, I don't think you would have time to find out their names.
to add to this I like how every alien's name in half-life is a simple combination of two words, in a hazardous situation, you're not gonn a have time to come up with a better name than 'bullsquid' or 'headcrab'
Except that the events following the resonance cascade are not the first encounter with the Xen aliens. We learn this in the chapter "Questionable Ethics", where we see the labs in which these creatures had been studied. In the Xen chapters we see that there were expeditions to Xen, studying the place.
So yeah, there would have absolutely been time to give name to these creatures.
@@MadMatty01 it's not like everyone in Black Mesa, let alone the world, had clearance to know those names
Yeah, but the later levels show that Black Mesa was already getting into Xen and invading there, and having captured a good number of specimens and kept them locked up for study... and weapons testing. Most notably in "Questionable Ethics".
So, the creatures were no doubt already named, even if the scientists in the less classified parts of Black Mesa didn't know about them. So they could have had later scientists drop the name.
@@3dmaster205 Yes. And in Opposing Force we even
a) see the latin name for the giant red fish on a piece of poster
and
b) see a holographic message from a scientist working in the bio labs, calling the Barnacle by its name and then saying that he has to go to anomalous materials for an important experiment.
This shows IMO that they studied the creatures extensively and gave them (even latin) names AND that people in anomalous materials knew about it.
If you listen closely, you can actually hear Bullsquids shout in Nova Prospekt if you check the ambience sounds.
Do you know the file names
@@MauricioJara I think that was edited in by the youtuber who made that video
I never heard that before Chezz that was a surprise
@@damikel4738 really?
@@damikel4738 awww man :(
The virgin antlion worker vs the chad bullsquid
Virgin bullsquid vs Chad bullchicken
WHO WOULD WIN FIND OUT IN THE NEXT EPISODE IN GORDONS BIZZARE ADVENTURE!
@@bradenmorgan4939 now I imagine the golden wind song but the voices in the back scream "Gordon" instead of "Jojo"
@@bradenmorgan4939 I would put gordon saying something but...
@@hollowtrappedinaelevator320 gordon has no voice box
I was half asleep nearing the end of this so the rant woke me up, and I thought the G-Man said, "I will receive, head."
This is more cursed after half life alyx
@@AnimationJ oh god
Based G-Man
@@AnimationJ “I must extract from you a small repayment owed for your own survival...”
**unzips pants**
@@purpleemerald5299 "This is where I get off."
1:49 Your Honor, it was self defence
underrated comment
FINALLY SOMEONE IS ASKING THE RIGHT QUESTIONS
yes
@@nervousnorvus1944 eis
@@ginoalbertofranceschetti it took you one year to say us
@@Steak69fan it took you 2 years to find out
All I want in the next Half Life game is the Bullsquid and Houndeye
Houndeye NEEDS to make a comeback. The Reviver was a cool new enemy but I really wanted to run into a pack of hounds down in that Reviver intro area, reminiscent of the pen with about a half dozen dog crates.
I hated those doggos.
But I somewhat love them too.
Instead of bringing back the hound eyes, they made a new alien for Hla that we never see in any other games
@@wyattmurphy7153 for some reason valve is afraid of referencing half life 1?
@@dontoverthink4766 They did have snarks at least
It really sucks because bullsquids and other old hl1 enemies would have made a great reappearance in HL:A. The small mostly enclosed spaces of HL:A are perfect for the corridor-shooter designed enemies of HL 1.
Agreed. They actually went back to hl1 for some of the soldier ai, and it turned out really well.
Especially considering that they did add the Antlion worker, it's basically like a more agile Bullsquid. Bullies would have worked perfectly in some underground map in Alyx. Just imagine moving slow in some dark wet sewer and and your start hearing some nasty ass eating sounds in some dark corner. You shine light on it and then suddenly you hear loud growly screeching and there's a mess of bloody tentacles in your face. After killing it, you go back to check the corner and you find a gory mess of a corpse or what's left of it. That would be a pretty damn dope reintroduction
Now I want to make a mod for hl:a
Leadhead, Ross Scott, and PurpleColonel all uploaded today.
A good day for HL content creators indeed.
It really was crazy when that happened.
3:33 Glad to know that I'm not the only one who commits MP5 grenade suicide when I screw up a run and end up with low health.
"What about the Valve attack on the Bullsquids?"
“Go I will. Good relations with the Bullsquids, I have.”
* gets hit by snot ball *
* Blows it up with RPG *
I think the evidence of the combine draining both surface and groundwater in HL2 could account for the Bullsquid's absence, as it is implied to be an aquatic creature. Simple habitat loss on Earth could definitely be to blame
4:42
Fun fact: the scientist have unused voicelines saying the name of headcrabs and gargantuas.
I love how you put *dramatic reenactment* over a bullsquid killing 9 Elis.
Bullsquid, now I know I was wrong
Valve messed up, and now you're gone
Bullsquid, I'm sorry I neglected you
Oh, I never expected you to run away and leave me
Feeling this empty
Your RUAUGRH right now would sound like music to me
Please come home, 'cause I miss you, Bullsquid
Bullsquid, come home
(Bullsquid, come home)
Bullsquid, can't you see Valve was blind?
I'll do anything to change your mind
More than a pet, you're my best friend
Too cool to forget
Come back 'cause we are family
And forgive me for making you wanna roam
And now my heart is beating like the saddest metronome
Somewhere I hope you're reading
My latest three-word poem
Bullsquid, come home
Bullsquid, come home
(Bullsquid, come home)
Bullsquid, come home
(Bullsquid, come home)
Bullsquid, come home
(Bullsquid, come home), ah
Bullsquid, come home
Bullsquid, come home
Bullsquid, won't you come home?
I wonder when a character in half life has a pet bullsquid called gary
Beautiful
Good SpongeBob reference.
5:18 Don't tell Rule 34 artists that the bullsquid canonically rapes.
XD
oh dear
1:22 That animation was just WAY too accurate to the actual movement somebody would do when damaged like that
The bullsquid website is such a great discovery. I'm really surprised bullsquids haven't returned.
Half life: Lmao trash aim
Black mesa: *dies*
Half-Life: splat
Black Mesa: GUUUSSSHHHH. SPLATT. SSSSIIZZZZZLE. beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep
Black Mesa also turns their spit into a shotgun blast so if you try to melee them you will quickly get murderized
@@Zmeeed01 a recolored shotgun blast
1:39
Ah, memories of the sven co-op bullsquids. Blast pit, first map, trying to snipe a bullsquid at the entrance to power generator room. Bullsquid has 100% accuracy, and on some servers - it will instagib players.
Good times
@Mialisus Perfection
Bruh, the lack of bullsquids in the sequels pisses me off.
That's why you boot up an SMOD and voila bullsquids and houndeyes
That can be said about a lot of cut enemies. Houndeyes and Ichthyosaurs were supposed to make appearances too, but nope. Hell, even the Gargantua was supposed to be in the game.
@@SuperHellKnight666 Thats the one thing HL2 disappoints me with. enemy variety. so much cool cut creatures.
They had a aquatic version. That is scary
Yeah, antlions arent nearly as cool and the combine kinda suck most of the time due to not being built to fight outside in big areas and then doing it anyhow.
Speaking from a zoological point of view, I think that (like a lot xen creatures actually) earths ecosystem would deal it a deadly blow pretty quickly. It’s too slow and generally defenceless against earth predators like canines or big cats. I think it could find a niche in places without any large predators and plentiful medium prey though.
(Just gonna elaborate on ‘earth ecosystem’ since it’s pretty clear that the released Half Life 2 took a less ‘earth is dead’ approach to showing the environments and animals than the development versions.)
I don't know if eating something that spits acid is a good idea. It might y'know, be toxic.
@@vladimirlenin462 I never said that terrestrial predators would predate on the bull squid specifically, but as a possible competitor it could be killed off and not eaten.
@@locomotivefaox Oh sorry, i misunderstood you
Bro, how many earth predators spit acid from their mouths? It's not only heavily implied that the Xen Fauna from the Portal Storms killed off most of Earth's native animals (To the point where the only native earth animals seen in HL2 are birds), but I'm almost certain that earth's predators would not survive from having acid spat in their faces. I'm also not quite sure what you mean by them being slow and defenseless, Bullsquids are actually pretty fast in the game and they can also spit acid in rapid succession.
@@helghastloyalist8968 Spitting acid doesn't matter that much if you're predator is either a stealthy powerhouse or a pack of multiple animals.
My favorite part is when that one bullsquid spawns near a bridge but breaks it because it was too fat.
i always just assumed they failed to adapt to life on earth
missed potential by not calling the video "you know what's BULLSQUID?"
Liam
Manchester
@@Vycter_Real Liam
"A big load of Bullsquid" would be a hilarious post-combine swear.
1:06- I mean what did you expect it’s eyes are in side it can’t aim
that part right after the crushers when you think you're safe and suddenly a bullsquid teleports behind never fails to make me waste my ammo in fear lol
The Landsquid looks like a demon from the new Doom games with all the organic armor and spikes
Black Mesa did really good with the bull squid. The attacks have an area of effect splash, and it's really effective. The first one I ran into really got me good lol
0:41 You could technically consider them the 3rd alien you encounter, since a Protozoan is present in the scene.
Me having an old original cd copy: wait were those things innacurate?
"I am rather looking forward to *this* analysis."
"That means the bullsquid is the only cool Half-Life enemy that hasn't reappeared in anything since the first game."
*Weeps aloud in alien grunt fan*
Yoooo we really squiddin.
Same thing that happened to Corporal Shephard.
Bullsquids got uncanon'd, can we get some Fs in chat for the poor not canon aliens?
"Spit some of the least accurate projectiles"
Me who only played black mesa (the remake): they are accurate as hell
Yeah how they manage to arc that stuff hundreds of feet is a mystery
Blegh. What an inferior experience.
@@toxic_shr00m hahahahahahah
Should’ve played the original then you’d understand lmao
Just play the actual Half-life.
The most recent outing that I fought bullsquids was in Snowdrop Escape, it was glorious.
I do understand the lack of usefulness they have to the HL2 campaign though. Any mod that adds them and houndeyes back in (like smod) sees them having little to no impact on the gameplay quality.
any other mods that re-add them besides smod? if i could get a base hl2 with more enemy variety id be a happy man.
@@Tycitron6000 there was a mod called HL2 enhanced that did, it was basically Smod8 without the additional events, but with the extra gore and weapons.
You can't download it anymore though, but you wouldn't want to. Every map change crashed the game.
So I'd just recommend Smod8 Redux, it does some other things to shake up the dynamics of HL2 that aren't too intrusive.
Other than that, there's Raising the Bar which is an amalgam of all the HL2 beta concepts, enemies, and campaign elements. They've even got a cremator fight. Sadly it's not finished yet, but it's at least alive and well.
"the bullsquid hasn't appeared in a game in over 20 years"
>black mesa: *Am I a joke to you?*
If we count mods then everything is always being made
@@PurpleColonel black mesa is not a mod.
@@PurpleColonel yea it's not a mod black mesa is a offical remake to half life 1
@@csonbea1 Its not official.
@@PurpleColonel I agree, while Valve themselves did support Black Mesa, that doesn’t mean it’s official, and even if it was, the appearance of the bullsquid is still the same as it has been, because Black Mesa is a remake of Half Life 1, which doesn’t change the fact that it still only appears in Half Life 1 and it’s expansions
It’s very sad that one of my favourite Xen aliens never came back for more games.
Bullsquids are super cute! Whenever I replay Half-Life, I always just sit around with them and dodge their attacks.
For the record, yes, I would let a bullsquid mate with me.
Cringe
@@toxic_shr00m ew
@Scratchy false
@@toxic_shr00m Ah- I-… HUH!?!?!???????
3 Half Life vids from some of my favourite YTers in 1 day, awesome :)
Out of curiosity, who made the other videos?
@@sirchameleon7501 Leadhead and Accursed Farms
im kind of proud that i knew exactly who you're talking about. Thanks :)
@@LemonFilmsForever Thanks, RUclips just decided not to tell me about either of them even though I've been watching Leadhead for a few months and Freeman's Mind for a few years. What an interesting site
@@sirchameleon7501
I remember being scared of the water my first time playing Half Life 2 because of the teleportation sequence where you see the ichthyosaur. it would have added some intensity to have the ichthyosaur in the deep water and bullsquids in more shallow water. I never thought about this before but I guess Gabe Newell Is to Half Life what George Lucas is to star wars or I guess now what Disney is to star wars
2:12
Leeches? The Ichthyosaur?
They’re not amphibious, they exclusively live in the water.
I wanna see Gargantuas again, that would be cool.
7:52 colonel got a bit angry
Technically he meets the bull squids first , in hl1 when u push the cart in he gets teleported to xen and sees the bullsquids first and then later the vortigaunts
Thats Correct
i think you can see the vorts flash in and out before you even teleport
When you push the cart and cause the resonade cascade, two vortigaunts teleport in, but then quickly teleport out when they touch the ground, followed by Freeman being teleported to xen and seeing the Bullsquids.
Bonus fun fact: if you position the cart and/or yourself in the right spot, you can catch the vortigaunts before they teleport out, and carry to the next map after the cascade is over, so they won't teleport out anymore and you can do some funky stuff, like getting a security guard to that room and getting a gun before ever getting the crow bar getting a chance to skip it entirely, and most importantly, die to then because you forgot you catched them
I'll be honest. From the quality of the video I thought you are a popular RUclipsr with 100,000+ subscribers. Only after watching your video from start to finish I've noticed you are at 8K right now. Well you got me subscribed too now.
Keep it up man. You are making genuinely interesting content. You got humor. Pleasant voice to listen to. And good editing skills. Plus RUclips algorithm is on your side as it brought me here.
6:25 What kind of lobotomized idiots does Valve use for play testing?
Honestly, if bullsquids were supposed to jump out of inconspicuous mud heaps without a single hint at the ambush or something like that personally I wouldn't be happy with their existence. If they were supposed to sit behind the corners and wait for you to get in their line of sight like in HL1 then yeah, that was a silly reason to remove them entirely, especially if they can't swim.
Bro it really hurts its only present in HL1, he's one of my favorite aliens, along with the bat looking one whose name I forgot
PurpleColonel: "People love the bull squid. It has it's own website."
I T H A S W H A T ?
6:32 they should have kept them in the boat area. All that toxic water would have kept the player from swimming there anyways
The bullsquid has a bird like behavior. When its standing near food/meat it will lift one of its legs. Thats what birds do when they feel safe.
Who the hell decided to get kinky with a bullsquid 2:59
Any researcher from a good chunk of BMRF tbh.
"This thing spits green stuff. What exactly is that stuff? Let's vacuum a sample up and find out"
And I believe Lamarr has went through much more rough stuff, when Kleiner decided to got his hands on her
"least accurate projectiles" have you seen combines at further than 10 meters
there are 2 things I remember about these as a Kid:
- My best friend who was older and had the game before me , describing these to me : " Imagine a olive green manta-ray with black spots but instead of fins on its sides, it has legs and spits acid" I was spooked.
- When you kill them, they sometime cry, which somehow, made me feel bed for killing them.
Crazy how the bullsquids AI is better than every NPC in Cyberpunk combined
“Just like every other alien”
Mostly true. There’s at least two scientist voice lines that refer to headcrabs as “crabs” or “headcrabs.” Beyond that I believe you’re correct
Does anyone else remember the bull squid reskin from Heart of Darkness napalm edition where it was a reversed torso?
Playing HL2 on release, the lack of Xen fauna really irked me. Grunts, vorts, controllers and gargs I could understand. But the more wild Xen creatures? All we got were headcrabs. And look! More. Headcrabs. 🤨
Barnacles
We got a half of good ones (Headcrab, Vortigaunt as an ally) and a half of the worst ones (Barnacle and Ichtyosaur)
I remember hearing that the leaked Green Bullsquid variant was a version ment for EP2.
In EP2, Bullsquids were ment to make an official appearance, as Aquatic / Land enemies but they were cut late in development.
The aquatic bs and the elite metrocop where in the game in early 2004
love the jump bullsquids do when you startle em XD
>made the players too afraid so it was removed
Oh how far we have strayed...
it's my persona; head canon that the bull squids are a sort of primate of the antlion, maybe like the monster of the week said, bull squids just mated with so many species that eventually the antlion workers were created.
1:48 he really did take that personally
Bullsquid's colour scheme makes sense in HL1 because it makes them somewhat blend in with the brownish Xen environment. The bright yellow-and-black one also makes sense due to their venomous (and possibly poisonous) nature but they aren't that small to rely on scare tactics as they don't have issue with attacking humans on sight which are larger than them. The one at 6:04 looks like it's trying to blend in with freshwater coastal grass which could've made sense if bullsquids are able to adapt extremely quick.
The gator-like bullsquid would make much sense since gators and crocodiles are very similar to bullsquids in both physique and behavior so considering the fact that portal storms raged in almost every part of earth, it would be really likely that both species will eventually mate and more hybrids will be born (or hatch).
no
Random fact: The bullsquid texture is most likely originating from a picture of an insect belly.
5:38 Looks exactly like the spit of the Scrag from Quake 1.
Marc laidlaw states that some of the hl1 enemies (like bullsquids and houndeyes, etc) are in said universe just in diffrent places.
What if you could ride one like a Bizarrian from Golden Axe?!
0:47 More like a toad than a leopard.
"The FUCKIHNG Controllers!" made me instantly like and subscribe, I wasn't even in control of my body anymore
I will say this, the blackmesa remake really did do them justice with their spit attacks making them much more of a threat
The Alpha Bullsquid's coloration reminds me of the description of the Dilophosaurus in the Jurassic Park novel.
Scientists: how interesting just look at that,why just look at those peculiar markings
Bullsquid:just look at that my dinner is ready "runs after it"
bullsquids remind me too much of Abe's Oddysee guards lmao
Sligs
You should do videos on the other Xen aliens like the Houndeye, Tentacles, Controlers, Alien Grunts. You should also do videos on the cut aliens and talk about what they would most likely do in terms of lore and gameplay.
Fun fact: the leaked green (hl2) bull squid texture has a hidden signature in an unused part of the texture map. This signature is also seen on an unused part of the skull texture. I don’t think it appears on any other texture, and I don’t know who’s signature it is.
1:49 The bazooka got me 🤣🤣🤣
2:08 actually the tentacle can be found at the end of blast pit in the water like area, but everywhere else they appear besides one other time they are out of water, of course they can’t move and so I don’t think that counts as being amphibious and the time they aren’t partially submerged is in a encounter you have to force your way into to see where they come out of or else you will get stuck so it more seems that tentacles are plants like the xen trees but I wanted to point it out
Xen trees aren't plants
They are cessile predators that might be a juvinile tentacle
oh@@denifnaf5874
"it has its own website" hit me like a ton of bricks, way funnier than it probably should be
0:09 AHHHHHHHHHH
0:36 went extinct
"They are frequently found underwater" literally the only time I've ever seen a bullsquid in water is that one place in residue processing
You can actually see one in Blast Pit, under the big rusty pipe you have to climb.
@@TheLambdaTeam oh yeah that too
These videos are brilliant, we need more Half-Life content from you; you’ve listed a few things which are pretty new to most people, great job.
1:04 The projectiles are only accurate when you're on low health
Whenever I saw the ballsquid, the texture of its back reminded me one thing
Hot pockets
"Getting within melee range of these guys is a bad idea"
*beats bullsquid by hitting it with a crowbar*
"..."
*explodes self*
-Bullsquid strong
-Semi-Powerful
-Showed up rarely
-Never mentioned again
BullSquids are based af
i always thought the missing enemies from hl2 meant the combine made them extinct.. i mean, you see that they were using headcrabs and barnacles as traps, but they had no use for the bullsquids so they killed them all. at least, that's what i thought.
The day they bring back bullsquids is the day Adrian Shepherd is called back into service
I love how the Bullsquids attack even each other to show how aggressive they are
I almost forgot that the Xen controllers existed. But I never forgot the Bullsquid.
Bull Squid/Slig:"Hi, haheha, 'ere boy, get 'em!"
6:43 squidy goodness