Sorry about missing the Training/Briefing. Recorded this playthrough ahead of time so was unaware at the time it was a different set up. Really didn't expect Opposing Force to have so many new things! Enjoy the playthrough :)
The reason Shepard can use hev chargers and barney can't is because Shepard has a "Powered Combat Vest" or PCV, which is just the hev suit but it's a vest, barney just has a regular vest, which acts like any other vest would
39:47 Security guard: *accidentally kills you by friendly fire* "Erm...i'm just slowing you down.." Lmao Can't get enough of the random Half-Life npc interactions
Love how Mapo has logged 20 hours into the Half-Life series and still manages to be surprised when he enters a new area and finds it contains hostile enemies.
Op Force is definitely my favourite of the Gearbox Addons. Blue Shift brought HD models but was mostly Half Life+, Opposing Force is different enough to feel like a proper expansion. Loving the content, and here's to a great series!
I prefer Blue Shift's level design, plus it's the only game of the three where you actually interact with a unique character in Dr. Rosenberg, so that makes me like the story more too.
25:22 I just choked on my coffee with that. The janky-ness of this game lends to some pretty funny content! Also that last enemy type should be called a Spittin' Chicken.
@@jasonmoustache1693 so he spent weeks playing these just to take a break before a game that’s far better than anything he’s playing currently? Great🤦🏻♂️
@@MrDash711 He's avoiding burnout on the series. Would you rather he blazes through the entire series in a month, without that same energy and enthusiasm? I agree HL2 is the better game, but I'd rather he be excited to play it rather than have to force himself to.
Ah, the good ol' days of yore when Demo Discs were the main way to learn about and experience new games. I think I still have my Op Force demo disc actually, really need to go digging and find it
Mapo! A quick but important heads-up for half-life 2 since you start recording quite ahead of time! The correct order to play half life 2 games is half-life 2, half-life 2 episode 1 and then half-life 2 episode 2. Maybe you've been made aware of it already but you wouldn't be the first person I'd see being confused and starting with episode 1, so I'd rather be safe than sorry :)
In environment design? Not really, no. It's actually less detailed. Blue Shift wasn't even supposed to be a standalone expansion pack. It was supposed to go with Dreamcast port of Half-life like Decay goes with the PS2 port, so of course it's short just like Decay as you weren't supposed to be buying it individually.
I just love how the protagonist in Opposing Forces is called Shepard. Can't avoid references to Mass Effect even though the games are like 10 years apart or something lol
You can't reference something that won't exist for another nine years. Also it's just a surname, you might as well call the main protagonist from Stargate Atlantis a reference if you're setting the bar so low.
50:10 Tiles that break are musty, while those what don't are clean. Opposing Force and Decay are harder than Half-life and Blue Shift, except for the final levels of the original in Xen, so if you struggled with easier games, it makes sense you would have a hard time with a harder one. Thankfully both are short, with Opposing Force being slightly longer than Blue Shift for an hour or so, so you won't have to struggle for long.
In Blue Shift, you see 2 soldiers throwing 2 guards in the canal before getting to the surface and they talk about how Shephard's team didn't make it. The time where Shephard was on the helicopter/Osprey took place during the first hours of the incident, while the rest of the game started during "Surface Tension" chapter from HL1 (Chapter 12) 37:17 About that, Gearbox didn't write the codes right so Otis the guard will only drop the weapon if he draw it.
Man, thank you, first of all. Reliving my youth %) Thanks for spin-offs too! HL Deathmatch was my fav back in the day. Can't wait for Half Life 2! Cheers!
Man, I wish you could play Deus Ex (first one) someday. This game would be just fantastic for you. A lot of lore, and dialogues to enjoy. Seriously, this is masterpiece.
THIS! I’ve always asked for this! Deus Ex (2000) is a masterpiece, and along with Splinter Cell Chaos Theory, they’re both games I’d love Mapocolops to play. Especially Deus Ex, as it has an incredible story, and Mapo is so much into the lore of the games.
Mapo don't make fun of that candy machine police man. After my first playthrough of opposite force I've decided he's my boyfriend and I won't have any slander thrown his way
Barney has only body armour and helmet. Freeman has hev suit, and shepard has special suit (he is part of special unit, h.e.c.u. if i remember correctly), thats why they both can use suit chargers
Tutorial of how to play Opposing Force using a basic pistol instead of the assault rifle or the shotgun! This was my favorite, I loved the soundtrack so much at that time. 50:20 falling ceiling has a humid darker color, easy to see with night vision.
Fun fact: those vortigaunts that come down on the elevator at 19:55 are nicknamed “banjo” and “kazooie” in the game files. There’s tons of funny little jokes hidden in the names of things in op4 and bshift, marphy black did a good video on them.
I wonder if Opposing Force was the very first FPS to use the by now ubiquituous "flying into a secret mission in a helicopter with the doors open which immediately gets shot down" opening?
I know that destroying crates is painfully boring, but actually all kind of crates can have supplies (in fact in the garage at the end of the video there's an RPG in one of the bigger crates). Also the longer you charge your wrench's swing the more damage you can cause
Not that boring, fling a grenade into a room and it destroys up to a dozen crates. Or you can just tear them open with the shotgun, it's only really boring if you go around opening them with a melee weapon while several of your guns have full ammo and you are loaded down with explosives.
28:02 It is possible btw to jump to the green box across the way there from the conveyor and then into the tunnel. Just fyi for future play throughs you might do at your leisure! 😊
"need some more ammo" sums up my entire experience of this game so far. also the zombie kept killing the police officer at the start and i was stuck and had no clue what to do until i watched this. I guess my game glitched The zombie didnt move the next time i restarted.
Opposing Force is pretty brutal with the old instadeath puzzles isn't it! I wonder for that first puzzle with the cargo lift over the electrified goo, whether you could have made the jump without taking damage by moving the lift back to the middle, and used that to get over to the crates next to the exit. Also I completely forgot there were new enemy types in Opposing Force, the evolved headcrab zombies are really cool!
Oh man! Nostalgia! Ive had a cd with a lot of mods for Hl in early 2000s. I took it to school and we installed OpForce to all pcs in our computer class and spent a lot of time playing lan, especially on a map with trolley)
A few pieces of advice... The head crabs always give a low coo which gives away their position. The vortigons have to charge up their electrical blasts before they fire, giving you a few seconds to dodge them. If you shoot an ally soldier, even by accident, nine times out of ten he will fire back.
It was painful to watch you not realize the ceiling tiles had clear indicators which break, they are dark in texture :D Anyway, entertaining as always , Cheers !!
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. I never really understood that quote before starting these playthroughs.
You can tell Opposing Force and Blue Shift weren't made by Valve; you never got this frustrated with the main game IIRC. Gearbox did a good job, but it ain't Valve.
Decay might be a bit problematic because it is two player and on PS2 (although it can be played on PC via an unnofficial port), you can play it single player if you switch between the characters to do the tasks required. I never played it, I hope you do it, so I experience the story here.
Unfortunately as I recorded ahead of time, jumped right in and finished the playthrough before everyone had mentioned to try the training as it's quite a short expansion.
hey mapo, just to let you know, there’s a cord you can climb coming up (it looks like a pole), it’s not apparent at all and I got stuck for an hour trying to figure something else out, I don’t want anybody to have a bad hindered experience, this is just a heads up for what comes next
So you're gonna skip the training room? (Imagine if the pinned comment doesn't exist) As a consequence of your action you are gonna suffer alot (not that much but still ya know)
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Sorry about missing the Training/Briefing. Recorded this playthrough ahead of time so was unaware at the time it was a different set up. Really didn't expect Opposing Force to have so many new things! Enjoy the playthrough :)
Thanks for your explanations man!
Hope you enjoyed your playthrough as much as we will :)
PS: even though you’ve missed the best part :p
I actually missed it the first time aswell. Thought it would be no different than the previous tutorials.
@@adriencrocoll Oh, what's featured in the tutorial?
@@Jigsawn2 well let’s just say that the developers seem to have enjoyed the movie Full Metal Jacket ;)
Nothing to be sorry about! You had no way of knowing.
The reason Shepard can use hev chargers and barney can't is because Shepard has a "Powered Combat Vest" or PCV, which is just the hev suit but it's a vest, barney just has a regular vest, which acts like any other vest would
39:47
Security guard: *accidentally kills you by friendly fire*
"Erm...i'm just slowing you down.."
Lmao
Can't get enough of the random Half-Life npc interactions
40:37
Love how Mapo has logged 20 hours into the Half-Life series and still manages to be surprised when he enters a new area and finds it contains hostile enemies.
Op Force is definitely my favourite of the Gearbox Addons. Blue Shift brought HD models but was mostly Half Life+, Opposing Force is different enough to feel like a proper expansion. Loving the content, and here's to a great series!
I prefer Blue Shift's level design, plus it's the only game of the three where you actually interact with a unique character in Dr. Rosenberg, so that makes me like the story more too.
yeah but blue shift is cooler cuz you can see gordon freeman on the train heading to black mesa
25:22 I just choked on my coffee with that. The janky-ness of this game lends to some pretty funny content! Also that last enemy type should be called a Spittin' Chicken.
Or zergling/hydralisk
Super excited for him to get to Half-Life 2. Keep it up Mapo!
He'll be taking a break in between this and HL2, and most likely a gap of a different game between HL2 and Alyx as well
@@jasonmoustache1693 did he say so?
@@beepst He mentioned his plans on the Discord.
@@jasonmoustache1693 so he spent weeks playing these just to take a break before a game that’s far better than anything he’s playing currently? Great🤦🏻♂️
@@MrDash711 He's avoiding burnout on the series. Would you rather he blazes through the entire series in a month, without that same energy and enthusiasm? I agree HL2 is the better game, but I'd rather he be excited to play it rather than have to force himself to.
When you get the science gun, right-click fire it. Trust me. Even blind playthroughs should know this beforehand.
The what?
@@wta1518 The science gun of course, the gun that shoots science.
@@krashd That sounds like the kind of thing that I would find behind a vitrified door in Old Aperture.
@@krashdcave johnson ass quote
50:00 The tiles that collapse have a different texture, that's how you tell which ones break and which ones are stable.
He’s stupid
I once saw a guy bash this game beacuse it was "trial and error" but it's honestly hard to not understand the puzzle
I love your channel. It’s uncut nature is still managing to be interesting. You don’t drag on or stay silent.
I actually played Opposing Force demo over the main game as my introduction to the series over a CD from a magazine back in 2000.
Ah, the good ol' days of yore when Demo Discs were the main way to learn about and experience new games. I think I still have my Op Force demo disc actually, really need to go digging and find it
Mapo! A quick but important heads-up for half-life 2 since you start recording quite ahead of time!
The correct order to play half life 2 games is half-life 2, half-life 2 episode 1 and then half-life 2 episode 2.
Maybe you've been made aware of it already but you wouldn't be the first person I'd see being confused and starting with episode 1, so I'd rather be safe than sorry :)
Also, avoid playing Alyx before playing HL2 + EPs since that game requires you to know those stories.
25:30 Shepard definitely has been eating his Weetbix, good lord haha.
49:58
Turn on the night vision.
Hell, you don’t even need that.
The ceiling tiles that give way look visibly dirty.
Dude, it feels as if Opposing Force was released after Blue Shift. It's so more detailed.
In environment design? Not really, no. It's actually less detailed.
Blue Shift wasn't even supposed to be a standalone expansion pack. It was supposed to go with Dreamcast port of Half-life like Decay goes with the PS2 port, so of course it's short just like Decay as you weren't supposed to be buying it individually.
Wanted to find this playlist again but couldn't remember your name, but searching for "marcopolo half life" got me right back here :)
I just love how the protagonist in Opposing Forces is called Shepard. Can't avoid references to Mass Effect even though the games are like 10 years apart or something lol
Adrian's last name is spelt differently, though. It's "Shephard."
You can't reference something that won't exist for another nine years. Also it's just a surname, you might as well call the main protagonist from Stargate Atlantis a reference if you're setting the bar so low.
it's a pulp fiction reference
50:10 Tiles that break are musty, while those what don't are clean.
Opposing Force and Decay are harder than Half-life and Blue Shift, except for the final levels of the original in Xen, so if you struggled with easier games, it makes sense you would have a hard time with a harder one. Thankfully both are short, with Opposing Force being slightly longer than Blue Shift for an hour or so, so you won't have to struggle for long.
In Blue Shift, you see 2 soldiers throwing 2 guards in the canal before getting to the surface and they talk about how Shephard's team didn't make it. The time where Shephard was on the helicopter/Osprey took place during the first hours of the incident, while the rest of the game started during "Surface Tension" chapter from HL1 (Chapter 12)
37:17 About that, Gearbox didn't write the codes right so Otis the guard will only drop the weapon if he draw it.
Man, thank you, first of all. Reliving my youth %) Thanks for spin-offs too! HL Deathmatch was my fav back in the day. Can't wait for Half Life 2! Cheers!
11:06
You just missed Gman. He was chatting to the guard and went through the closing doors on the left.
23:00. This expansion actually has a 'briefing'.
Also: 'Yeet!'
Man, I wish you could play Deus Ex (first one) someday. This game would be just fantastic for you. A lot of lore, and dialogues to enjoy. Seriously, this is masterpiece.
I recently finished a playthrough of it myself. Took a while to get the hang of it. Good game and story.
THIS! I’ve always asked for this! Deus Ex (2000) is a masterpiece, and along with Splinter Cell Chaos Theory, they’re both games I’d love Mapocolops to play. Especially Deus Ex, as it has an incredible story, and Mapo is so much into the lore of the games.
Yes yes yes yes yes!
Mapo don't make fun of that candy machine police man. After my first playthrough of opposite force I've decided he's my boyfriend and I won't have any slander thrown his way
Boyfriend? That's my husband you're talking about Raisu.
@@Mapocolops god bless otis
Barney has only body armour and helmet. Freeman has hev suit, and shepard has special suit (he is part of special unit, h.e.c.u. if i remember correctly), thats why they both can use suit chargers
The ceiling tiles have a literal visual indicator on them.........
true- it was dark tho
@@NoVIcE_Source ..his character has night vision.
@@krashd unfalse
Tutorial of how to play Opposing Force using a basic pistol instead of the assault rifle or the shotgun!
This was my favorite, I loved the soundtrack so much at that time.
50:20 falling ceiling has a humid darker color, easy to see with night vision.
Have fun ! And remember, Opposing Force is harder than blue shift and the original so take care of your health x)
The "ankle" hit cracked me up :,)
Fun fact: those vortigaunts that come down on the elevator at 19:55 are nicknamed “banjo” and “kazooie” in the game files. There’s tons of funny little jokes hidden in the names of things in op4 and bshift, marphy black did a good video on them.
I wonder if Opposing Force was the very first FPS to use the by now ubiquituous "flying into a secret mission in a helicopter with the doors open which immediately gets shot down" opening?
Dude the security guard killing him over and over is just the funniest thing
Mapo trial and error-ing his way through the broken tiles when you can clearly see which will break was indescribably painful to watch.
you just described it though
G-man stands for Government Man
Does G-Spot stand for Government Spot?
I know that destroying crates is painfully boring, but actually all kind of crates can have supplies (in fact in the garage at the end of the video there's an RPG in one of the bigger crates). Also the longer you charge your wrench's swing the more damage you can cause
Not that boring, fling a grenade into a room and it destroys up to a dozen crates. Or you can just tear them open with the shotgun, it's only really boring if you go around opening them with a melee weapon while several of your guns have full ammo and you are loaded down with explosives.
28:02
It is possible btw to jump to the green box across the way there from the conveyor and then into the tunnel. Just fyi for future play throughs you might do at your leisure! 😊
Did you ever find out that you can get little HP from those vending soda machines?
Fun fact - combat knife has instant kill from behind. Not sure about every enemy.
2:58 That's not something you hear every day lmao
"Half is not more than half."
-Bilbo Baggins
"need some more ammo" sums up my entire experience of this game so far.
also the zombie kept killing the police officer at the start and i was stuck and had no clue what to do until i watched this. I guess my game glitched The zombie didnt move the next time i restarted.
For the collapsing roof bit - some of the panels were obviously wet and that's (probably) a tell which ones will fall and which ones will not.
its pretty impressive that calhoun was like the one and only guard of this secret facility who was actually capable of having the skill and brains :D
Opposing Force is pretty brutal with the old instadeath puzzles isn't it! I wonder for that first puzzle with the cargo lift over the electrified goo, whether you could have made the jump without taking damage by moving the lift back to the middle, and used that to get over to the crates next to the exit. Also I completely forgot there were new enemy types in Opposing Force, the evolved headcrab zombies are really cool!
Man cant wait for you to start Half-life 2...you are in for a treat bro!
for the bit of acid you were trying to get past, you were supposed to go to the boxes on the other side,
Oh man! Nostalgia! Ive had a cd with a lot of mods for Hl in early 2000s. I took it to school and we installed OpForce to all pcs in our computer class and spent a lot of time playing lan, especially on a map with trolley)
I think I might love you Mapo, I have so much fun watching your stuff - great game selection too! =D
A few pieces of advice... The head crabs always give a low coo which gives away their position. The vortigons have to charge up their electrical blasts before they fire, giving you a few seconds to dodge them. If you shoot an ally soldier, even by accident, nine times out of ten he will fire back.
Okay, now I have to rewatch the beginning on another channel. Thanks for screaming over the soldier's lines, Mapo.
this is a let's play with commentary, I am sure there will be a no commentary video for you if that's more to your liking
@@Mapocolops I like your commentary, Mapo. That's why I'm watching you. But you were talking over the soldiers lines and there are no subtitles.
I appreciate it, it's unfortunate that there are no subtitles available, but talking over gameplay will happen unfortunately
i hate how in every half life 1 game you end up trapped in black mesa in some sort of way
10:54 see G-Man talking the guard.
There so much shit going on!
It was painful to watch you not realize the ceiling tiles had clear indicators which break, they are dark in texture :D
Anyway, entertaining as always , Cheers !!
Wait there's more? Nice 👍!!!
I feel that you need to use the walk button if you want to move the box slowly. This applies for some platform parkour
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. I never really understood that quote before starting these playthroughs.
37:58 looks like you dude lmao
You can tell Opposing Force and Blue Shift weren't made by Valve; you never got this frustrated with the main game IIRC. Gearbox did a good job, but it ain't Valve.
No area in the expansion packs looks as unfinished as Surface Tension's second half.
Decay might be a bit problematic because it is two player and on PS2 (although it can be played on PC via an unnofficial port), you can play it single player if you switch between the characters to do the tasks required. I never played it, I hope you do it, so I experience the story here.
Play the training mode of this game, as it os different and has some details that complement the game's story.
You should play Half Life Point Of View
It's an amazing HL: Mod
You really should play training course, it's definitely worth it. (Sorry for my English if I made errors)
Unfortunately as I recorded ahead of time, jumped right in and finished the playthrough before everyone had mentioned to try the training as it's quite a short expansion.
hey mapo, just to let you know, there’s a cord you can climb coming up (it looks like a pole), it’s not apparent at all and I got stuck for an hour trying to figure something else out, I don’t want anybody to have a bad hindered experience, this is just a heads up for what comes next
nice 21:05
I hope that you try Metro 2033 trillogy 🙏
"Hallf-Life needs subtitles." -- Mostly it needs you not to talk/yell over in-game dialogue. 😐
nah hl1 does needs subtitles, especially for the soldiers
Harsh.
1:00:12
don’t mind me
So you're gonna skip the training room? (Imagine if the pinned comment doesn't exist)
As a consequence of your action you are gonna suffer alot (not that much but still ya know)
Play the damn training, this is different from the other 2
Already recorded and finished, before Blue Shift came out as I record ahead of time so sorry I wont play the damn training.
@@Mapocolops well, that's a damn shame, going to watch your damn video anyway. Lol
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