To celebrate seven years of heavy posteriors, here are the original clean recordings of " *My Ass Is Heavy!* ": drive.google.com/drive/folders/1CZyNIB-Ur_gxEf7J9g1CPmNPIHKGxsL3?usp=sharing
Most memorable part of this was realizing that you could tell what the soldiers were up to by listening to what they say. Pretty normal nowadays, but back in Half-Life's day enemies would normally just make noise or chatter. So the one time I heard "LET'S GO!" and all of a sudden had soldiers charging in my face, I realized I had to stop and listen!
Stored as individual words? Well, that explains why they had so much static added, to hide part where they were stitching that many audio files together.
It allows more things to be said but also to be space efficient based on how many single words you'd be repeating in each sentence if you had recorded every line separately.
ThatGenericPyro [A RUclips Channel] Half life is ahead of its time as you can see from every video he made about it. If Half life was the last game ever made, it would have been the greatest and last video game ever
oh yeah. my friends and i would make shit with these voice files back in the day, i even wrote an admin mod plugin similar to vox but for the grunt voice that would play it for the whole server, and also accepted other sound names syntax worked something like: "checking my ass hole.... oh! god!, alien! in! my! ass! 'hc_attack1' 'bodysplat'" it's been like 15 years but i remember those days well
Human Grunts have to be my favorite NPCs ever, they always gave me some kind of goosebumps whenever I found one while playing HL1, just by the fact if there's one, there's a squad. Getting close to a corner and start hearing the heavy static sound in the distance was nerveracking. Also the fact of each one of them being able to survive three point-blank shots of a shotgun, and their accuracy was so cheap. Combines in HL2 are just so... weak, easy to kill, calm, that it took out all the fear factor that Human Grunts had in HL1 that induce into a player of "oh shit, here they come." How the hell did they loss the war against the Combines?
MysticRixel Human grunts are tough but fun. Combine feel weak, don't know how they won when they can't even use a shotgun well. BMS human grunts are fucking stupid, they are way too hard purely because of their aimbot like accuracy. Don't know how Combine won when they have terrible aim even on Hard, the Grunts look more trained for the situation in universe wise.
MysticRixel They lost because the Combine Soldiers in Half-Life 2 we’re not present yet, they probably fought Combine Hunters or something similar during the Seven Hour War.
No tey dont, sometimes they use this system but there are different voice lines. This is justa good system to be abl to make different sentences, Just like hte announcnment system. The grunts sound so badass. No other shooter enemy comes close. I changed up CS with Hgrunt speech in the radio and for hitting players ive added them saying like "Oh medic" etc. Ofc used the death sounds as well and changed the MP5 in CS to sound like the HL one. It got sucha great sound.
It's kind of an unfair comparison, since their voices are distorted, and they're designed for that stiff, clear military walkie talkie type speech, but this sounds more convincing than text to speech today.
Amazing how it doesn't sound too unnatural despite stringing together individual words. I mean, I know it helps that it's military radio chatter, but it's still impressive.
_[BZZT]_ This is some weird shit. _[BZZT]_ _[BZZT]_ Oh my god, your ass is hot. _[BZZT]_ _[BZZT]_ Hell, you are a creep. _[BZZT]_ _[BZZT]_ *I NEED THAT ASS!* _[BZZT]_
Capt. Charleston: I tried to send thousands Marines to do this dirty work for terminating the alien incident, and now I have an insane scientist on the lose.
Someone should make a website that's functions like how he's using it - Enter text formatted like he's shown, and get the dialogue in your browser. It'd be really fun.
Maxwell Edison you can do it with the pa system in any goldsrc game (hl1 and it's expansions work) open the console and type "say (words here)" without quotes and it should try to say it if it has the words
yeah there is one but using the word “dictionary” kinda makes it backwards so if you wanting to put in “alpha ass!” you would put in ass! alpha and when writing the words remember to write in lower case
Those aren't using the sentence system, they are single wav files, and that's because they are part of the hgrunt dialogue from before the sentence system was implemented, you can find those same voice lines in the 0.52 alpha
It's honestly really impressive just how well the lines flow together. It's still a little janky and weird, but it honestly sounds more convincing than the assistant on my phone sometimes.
Simple but effective plot twist...Man i still remember the first time i encountered these soldiers. I was relieved that help had arrived and it was time to take out the aliens. Then they killed a scientist and it was instantly clear...All out war.
It must have been absolutely *terrifying* to hear the staticky robotic voices of the soldiers through the crappy PC speakers everyone had in the late ‘90s and early 2000s.
It's really interesting to compare this to the very similar system used in hl2, you can tell how it evolved from this more primitive one into hl2's system where the soldiers call out grid locations and bearings of the player, have names and will refer to each other by name when they're killed or injured etc. It's cool how the tech has evolved.
HL2 uses a very similar system. Not only is there a sentence for every other occasion, but you can actually find elements of cut story content in some of the sentences.
Holy crap, I had literally no idea they had anything like this in the game. I was sure it was just a few prerecorded phrases. And if I understand correctly they modified the pitch per word to make the different combinations of the same samples sound remotely coherent. That's utterly amazing.
I loved these speech sequences so much. They were so engaging and terrifying. Black Mesa is amazing but the grunt speech in that game was too vanilla. I really wish they would have kept this version of it or something very similar. (maybe someone could make a mod for it).
YEY Grunts! EDIT: There are also some quotes activated by scripts, also, after the player is killed the Hgrunt Commander (If there was any or if survived) Will come up to your body and dance... (Yes that spastic move is called victorydance) If there was no commander in the squad, a random grunt will do the same thing. Commanders also have an unique animation used only by the leader, it looks like hand signals. EDIT 2: After quite a while of wondering, I've just now realized that the "victorydance" is also used to shoot anything on upper levels which explains why they always play the shooting animation while celebrating.
Also other monsters like Alien Grunts have "victory dance" too, they go to enemy corpse and eat it, anims also called victory dance and have "fail" animation, when they can't reach body, also I agree what soldiers anim of victory dance looks like he shooting the body, probably valve planned do like they check body and finish off the wounded but they probably forget add firing effects, also they do that for killed monsters too, for example if grunts fight aliens and didn't see the player. Another interesting thing with Opposing Force allied human grunts, they hostile to the security guards ans scientists, despite they all are allies to the player. And they made as another type of NPC, because game still have grunts from Half-Life which you can spawn with impulse 76 console command or if you launch Half-Life map in OpFor, and they still hostile to the player, some mods what made using OpFor .dll utilize that, they retexture them to make them distinct from ally soldiers and add them into maps as another type of enemy soldiers.
The Allied grunts are a completly new NPC they're enemies to the BM personnel since their orders haven't changed, it's like the sciencetists and security are allies to Freeman but enemies to Hgrunts and Agrunts. in multiple community made maps they both fight even to they're technically from the same unit, the black ops also are hostile with ally grunts but not with the original hgrunts. (You can also change the Agrunt model into the original Hgrunt model, it's somewhere on Gamebanana in skins section if you're intrested.)
By request, here is my MyAnimeList profile: myanimelist.net/profile/Slappy_Cromwell I said I would do this in the comments section of my previous video, but seeing as that was three months ago now, I am making this the pinned comment on a completely unrelated video as penance for procrastinating for so long. I hope this act will atone for those I have wronged.
Just a note - The "charhing at enemy" speech requirement actualy requires the "monster" to move more than 40 meters. Which means that a unit may use it when they have "moving to cover" schedule over the "moving the cover" one.
3 Reasons i don't hear this in my game: 1: Is they're throwing to much nades and they're exploding 2: Is that i keep shooting at them 3: Is that i Don't have the Game
I recently played Half-Life: Source for the first time. Buzzed through it in about 6 hours. I think I know this game pretty well. And yet you keep finding new, bizarre stuff in there. Nice video, by the way.
I used to agree with people that the HECU felt stronger than the Combine Soldiers, but I recently did a HL2 playthrough and that was definitely not the case. The coast levels are pretty easy, sure, but that's just the tutorial for fighting Combine soldiers - open spaces with lots of places to maneuver. The coast immediately transitions into Nova Prospekt, which is just hell for fighting Combine Soldiers. Corridors, catwalks, linear ways to approach positions - a ton of good places for Combine soldiers to attack. The biggest thing is the shotgunners. You will shit your pants when you see these guys, they eat your health for breakfast. Not even just close-range, I've had these dicks kill me at medium range because they had some supporting fire which easily took a dump on my HP. The main reason the HECU were difficult was because they were bullet sponges. They eat up your bullets like candy, then gun you down without mercy. Sure, there are definitely other reasons, but I think that's the biggest. Overall, Combine soldiers benefit a lot from their positioning, while the HECU's difficulty mostly stems from their ability to take a fat dump on your arsenal. Obviously, HECU soldiers in good positioning will still benefit greatly, but they don't need to rely on it. Now, I still do think that the Combine soldiers could use more health just like the HECU, but there's still a lot of difficulty in facing them. To be honest, I don't even wanna imagine what a Combine Elite would be like if the regular soldiers got a health buff similar to the HECU, considering the Elites have 20 more health than the regs.
HL2's human goons suffer from three things: they lack speed, they lack damage output, and they lack the sponginess of the HECU. It's been proven that the Combine AI in HL2 is quite complicated and rather good, but they lack the bite of the HECU.
@@g--stef4756 I agree with you. Combine soldiers are pretty slow compared to the HECU and they do little damage to the player, they literally do 3 damage damage to the player on normal. If the soldier speed was increased to closely match the HECU and the base damage for npc weapons was increased to 4-5 damage on normal, I believe they’d be more of a threat.
So that's how the black hgrunts get their voices heavy, interesting! I still love the "That is... Uhh... Affirmative.", Sven Co-op continued this sentence by adding "sir, over" in the end, and the "Squad, neutralize Freeman!" (Bogies, in Sven Co-op's case.), can't forget "We've got hostiles!" and "Squad, neutralize hostiles!". Additional edit: Wow, I didn't know that they used "bogies" for alien lifeforms, and hostiles for human targets, in SC it seems like they say both, or I'm wrong. And tha ending was quite funny.
"My! Ass! Is! Heavy!" ~ Human Grunt, 2017 I actually modded the sentences.txt file to replace every HG line in the game with that. I hate to be THAT GUY, but if you want to check it out, I uploaded a video of it on my channel.
*Hey Marphy, you could make a video about the Grunts A.I, aswell as the Alien Grunts A.I, the Marines have a rank system, if i remember correctly, The Beret, Balaclava, and Heavy are Squad Leaders, always in groups of 2-4 grunts each, if one of the squad leaders die, grunts sepparate, either panic, or rush you in a "suicide manner" (because you are going to kill them anyway, depending on difficulty) and more!*
Really interesting video! You should try and do the same video for the Civil Protection and Combine Soldiers in HL2 because a lot (if not all) of their lines are also stored as individual words/small sentences. Combine Overwatch and radio codes etc. have always interested me, I'd love to learn more 😊
You know, the second game has the Source engine, making it near impossible to play on low PCs. Now, the first one, has the Goldsource engine, which makes it WAY easier to play on low end PCs. and tbh the shotgun needed a buff in dm :c
Awesome, great job as always Marphi. It's really cool from Valve that they added so many different words to the game. It would be nice if you did the same with combine, I think their communication is really interesting. Many people can't understand what they say including me so it would be nice if we had a good quality video for that, you're the guy to do that tbh.
These are some of the best and most recognizable enemies in gaming. So purposeful and properly fleshed out. They could have just given them the the squad lead, gunner and shotgun types and left them to relentlessly go after the player with no thought or regard for self preservation and it would have worked... but they do so much more then that.
To celebrate seven years of heavy posteriors, here are the original clean recordings of " *My Ass Is Heavy!* ": drive.google.com/drive/folders/1CZyNIB-Ur_gxEf7J9g1CPmNPIHKGxsL3?usp=sharing
I have found my new notification sound.
h
stay alert for freeman
stay alert for hostiles
stay alert for _anything_
stay alert for Forklifts
Stay Alert for Terrorists.
stay alert for crazy SUV driver
Stay alert for oxygen
Oh, shit! We got anything ! We will kick your ass ! Move in !
ＳＱＵＡＤ， ＱＵＩＥＴ ＤＯＷＮ．
Someone played a line over the server, really loud during a 1vs1 in a CS match that went on for about 3 min while admin was present.
"QUIET!!"
XDD
_U H H H, R O G E R T H A T ._
N E G A T I V E
* SILENCE! *
*Mister, you are going down.*
Be honest: between the gunfire, ambient sounds, and explosions, you never understood a word these guys said before this video.
RarefoilB and even with the audio actually separate from everything else, I still only got about half of it.
Stop telling me what i have an have not understood before, dad.
I mostly heard lets go, shit or grenade
*M Y A S S I S H E A V Y*
I always remember SQUAD, QUIET DOWN! delivered at what seemed like earsplitting volume.
Most memorable part of this was realizing that you could tell what the soldiers were up to by listening to what they say. Pretty normal nowadays, but back in Half-Life's day enemies would normally just make noise or chatter. So the one time I heard "LET'S GO!" and all of a sudden had soldiers charging in my face, I realized I had to stop and listen!
was that a fucking Diablo reference?
@@CannibalSoggoth no you actually can listen to what their gonna do next and take action
@@Uniformtree000 I know, I was just talking about the Diablo achievement "Stay awhile and listen"
@@CannibalSoggoth oh I didn't know that
I realized that in HL2 too, i expected it to be chatter, when i heard somethimg like BOUNCER and a grenade landed near me
*I N E E D T H A T A S S*
*A N D I N E E D I T N O W*
*Hell, you are a creep*
You got that something that i need in my life, so give it to me, cos you got that.
Y O U R A S S I S H O T
@@MisterJohnDoe r/woosh, it's a stolen quote from gorgeous freeman
Stored as individual words? Well, that explains why they had so much static added, to hide part where they were stitching that many audio files together.
It allows more things to be said but also to be space efficient based on how many single words you'd be repeating in each sentence if you had recorded every line separately.
Even with all the pauses, it's impressive how seamless their dialogue is for a system like this, especially from a game from '98.
ThatGenericPyro [A RUclips Channel] Half life is ahead of its time as you can see from every video he made about it. If Half life was the last game ever made, it would have been the greatest and last video game ever
@@ThatGenericPyro it also gives a sense of radio distortion and static that makes it feels more seamless
I'm pretty sure the intercom voice works the same way
6:30 is my favorite. He says it so perfectly
*o h s h i t*
*_aW ShIt_*
*get down*
Oh, god!
*nO!*
What if you
Wanted to escape from Black Mesa
But HECU said
0:59
Sargent, I'm trying to sneak around. But my ass is heavy, so the clap if my cheeks keeps alerting the hostiles!
@@smokeyplane3285 goddamn i sneezed so hard XD
HECU squad: SIR THE DOOR TO SECTOR H IS TO HEAVY TO LIFT!
Commander: MY ASS IS HEAVY! NOW OPEN THAT DOOR!
2:16 "I farted...sir"
Lol that was a thick one
*N E G A T I V E*
2:10 uhh… roger that?
@@camera2178 *_u u u_*
Rogerdat?
i cant hear this any other way
oh yeah. my friends and i would make shit with these voice files back in the day, i even wrote an admin mod plugin similar to vox but for the grunt voice that would play it for the whole server, and also accepted other sound names
syntax worked something like: "checking my ass hole.... oh! god!, alien! in! my! ass! 'hc_attack1' 'bodysplat'"
it's been like 15 years but i remember those days well
I cant stop laughing thinking about the soldier version of that in my head
SuperAWaC
*T H E R E I S A N A L I E N I N M Y*
*A S S*
@@smellyclementineshorrifyin5973 *PORNHUB*
So you're saying he got alien in his ass and he just fucking dies?
Wtf haha
Human Grunts have to be my favorite NPCs ever, they always gave me some kind of goosebumps whenever I found one while playing HL1, just by the fact if there's one, there's a squad. Getting close to a corner and start hearing the heavy static sound in the distance was nerveracking. Also the fact of each one of them being able to survive three point-blank shots of a shotgun, and their accuracy was so cheap.
Combines in HL2 are just so... weak, easy to kill, calm, that it took out all the fear factor that Human Grunts had in HL1 that induce into a player of "oh shit, here they come."
How the hell did they loss the war against the Combines?
MysticRixel Human grunts are tough but fun. Combine feel weak, don't know how they won when they can't even use a shotgun well. BMS human grunts are fucking stupid, they are way too hard purely because of their aimbot like accuracy. Don't know how Combine won when they have terrible aim even on Hard, the Grunts look more trained for the situation in universe wise.
MysticRixel They lost because the Combine Soldiers in Half-Life 2 we’re not present yet, they probably fought Combine Hunters or something similar during the Seven Hour War.
maybe the combine send striders
Combine has more power. There are millions of combine soldiers, that means that they can fight a thouthants of human grunts
Gunships, Striders and Hunters with large amount could cause some really bad shit, physically and psychology.
Thank you for burning the phrase "My! Ass! Is! Heavy!" into my brain for over 4 years now.
A hecu soldier wanted me to remind you,
His ass, is still heavy. :)
Now we know why the grunts sound so disjointed in Half-Life. Because they only use one phrase at a time. Very interesting.
I prefer opfor grunts since they have more understandble voice
No tey dont, sometimes they use this system but there are different voice lines. This is justa good system to be abl to make different sentences, Just like hte announcnment system. The grunts sound so badass. No other shooter enemy comes close. I changed up CS with Hgrunt speech in the radio and for hitting players ive added them saying like "Oh medic" etc. Ofc used the death sounds as well and changed the MP5 in CS to sound like the HL one. It got sucha great sound.
One hour in Black Mesa: 1:52
Three hours in Black Mesa: 1:57
Seven hours in Black Mesa: 2:03
owo nice
freeman:its all the same
Pfffff, as if any of them survived three hours in Black Mesa
@@Sammie1053 Shepard moment
@@genericlegionaryrecruit7235 I shit thee not as I was typing that I thought "someone is going to reply to this and bring up Shepard aren't they"
It's kind of an unfair comparison, since their voices are distorted, and they're designed for that stiff, clear military walkie talkie type speech, but this sounds more convincing than text to speech today.
.
They pre-recorded individual words, too, rather than phonics (why microsoft sam makes heli noises if you go soisoisoi)
what comparison? are you stupid
@@noodlespark n o u
@@noodlespark I hope it's a joke.
5:55 When someone asks me what my favorite post apocalyptic rpg series is
lmao
*GO RECON !!!*
*MOVE END*
*FIRE IN THE HOLE*
*SQUAD WE'VE GOT HOSTILES*
*OH SHIET*
*SIR. I. HEAR. SOMETHING*
Pássaro Azul *Greetings*
*SQUAD! WE. GOT. FREEMAN!*
MY ASS!
_Static_
*SQUAD. STAY. ALERT.*
_Static_
...
...
...
_Static_
*NEGATIVE.*
_Static_
"My ass is...one hundred meters!"
Azfar90 - A2ZGames - 😂😂😂😂😂😂
long
"SQUAD. GET HEAVY." Oh come on what did TF2 Heavy do to them?
He stole their pooits.
Maybe they want to get TFC heavy?
Or TFQ Heav??
This was made Before TF2
Nom Nom no shit
Amazing how it doesn't sound too unnatural despite stringing together individual words. I mean, I know it helps that it's military radio chatter, but it's still impressive.
0:51 and you my friend just unknowingly created a new meme
6:49 the ending is perfect lmao
_[BZZT]_ This is some weird shit. _[BZZT]_
_[BZZT]_ Oh my god, your ass is hot. _[BZZT]_
_[BZZT]_ Hell, you are a creep. _[BZZT]_
_[BZZT]_ *I NEED THAT ASS!* _[BZZT]_
Jesus christ will the wonders buried in Half-Life's files ever run out?!
If Half-Life stuff is gone, just go after Half-Life 2, and then the leak.
Im a guy who likes to hang with friends, drink going out with girls etc..but i love to search and see game contect from games like half life
Half-life 2 is garbage
@@Replica_Films2000 no
@@fencino yes
SKWOD
GET
TO
COVER
Capt. Charleston: I tried to send thousands Marines to do this dirty work for terminating the alien incident, and now I have an insane scientist on the lose.
What’s your pfp from
So this is where Arma got their speech system from
AT SOLDIER IS HISTORY
UKNOWN RIFLEMAN. 300 METERS. SOUTHWEST.
_Location: Forest_
2, MOVE TO, THAT, TREE!
Adam Demeter WHERE ARE YOU? *bipbip*
0794803840584, over
WHERE ARE YOU?
0794803840584, over
WHER...
AT SOLDIER 300 METRES WEST
Someone should make a website that's functions like how he's using it - Enter text formatted like he's shown, and get the dialogue in your browser. It'd be really fun.
Maxwell Edison you can do it with the pa system in any goldsrc game (hl1 and it's expansions work) open the console and type "say (words here)" without quotes and it should try to say it if it has the words
!THANK YOU!
yeah there is one but using the word “dictionary” kinda makes it backwards so if you wanting to put in “alpha ass!” you would put in ass! alpha and when writing the words remember to write in lower case
6:55 should have been in gorgeous freeman
5:27 "We will take your ass!" ??
We will *kick* your ass
Kick*
0:43
*O N E H U N D R E D M E T E R S*
"GO RECON" and "RECON TEAM CHECK IN" are parmanently seared into my brain. Heard them all the time more than anything else.
You forgot: "Is that all you got?!" "You got nothing!" "I'm hit!" and "Aah! Medic!"
Those aren't using the sentence system, they are single wav files, and that's because they are part of the hgrunt dialogue from before the sentence system was implemented, you can find those same voice lines in the 0.52 alpha
5:35
@@crestfallenneet2167 also because they are talking out of the radio their voice would sound normal
“Squad be quiet”
“Negative”
Good old Freeman’s mind reference
It's honestly really impressive just how well the lines flow together. It's still a little janky and weird, but it honestly sounds more convincing than the assistant on my phone sometimes.
Simple but effective plot twist...Man i still remember the first time i encountered these soldiers. I was relieved that help had arrived and it was time to take out the aliens. Then they killed a scientist and it was instantly clear...All out war.
Why is this channel so underrated ffs
Cause he uploads rarely
And the videos are to the point and not clickbaity
It must have been absolutely *terrifying* to hear the staticky robotic voices of the soldiers through the crappy PC speakers everyone had in the late ‘90s and early 2000s.
I don't recall them being particularly bad by late 90s.
It sounded awesome. I loved when these guys showed up.
It's really interesting to compare this to the very similar system used in hl2, you can tell how it evolved from this more primitive one into hl2's system where the soldiers call out grid locations and bearings of the player, have names and will refer to each other by name when they're killed or injured etc. It's cool how the tech has evolved.
HL2 uses a very similar system. Not only is there a sentence for every other occasion, but you can actually find elements of cut story content in some of the sentences.
1:58 I feel like unless they knew where Gordon was going they should still be ready for him in Blue Shift and Decay.
6:02 GAWD DAMN.
(Vine Boom)
Anyone else wonder why they seem to avoid referring to non-human targets as "hostiles"?
Greenhourglass Becauase they are hostiles.
because it's less specific.
for you to hear what theyre shooting at
They aren't racist
Holy crap, I had literally no idea they had anything like this in the game. I was sure it was just a few prerecorded phrases. And if I understand correctly they modified the pitch per word to make the different combinations of the same samples sound remotely coherent. That's utterly amazing.
The amount of customization you can do with these lines alone is amazing. So much meme potential
*sets gernade down at own feet*
"FIRE IN THE HOLE"
*doesn't move*
Inside the grunt's head: "me smert"
again HECU soldier: *MY ASS IS HEAVY*
*Gibbing sound*
Hahaha
I love how robotic they sound, the sound is simply... *orgasmic*
I like spoons also
Whoever thought of this system is truly brilliant, and deserves an award or some special recognition.
THE. HUGE. ASS. AWARD
Its impressive how one of the hardest and most intimidating foes in this games are humans with guns
This is why Human Grunts were the best enemies in the Half-Life series.
You should do a video on Opposing Force Grunts next.
i checked it out opposing force is more or less a fully voiced remake of The Hgrunts which is pretty lame
real problem is they try too make them sound very human which is fine but no static at all is kinda lame in my opinion
I loved these speech sequences so much. They were so engaging and terrifying. Black Mesa is amazing but the grunt speech in that game was too vanilla. I really wish they would have kept this version of it or something very similar. (maybe someone could make a mod for it).
The original version doesn't sound like human,so that's why they change it.
But that’s what made it cool. You were fighting almost inhuman killing machines sent to silence you and your science team.
I always loved how unsettling they sounded with these weird stiched together sentences
YEY Grunts!
EDIT: There are also some quotes activated by scripts, also, after the player is killed the Hgrunt Commander (If there was any or if survived) Will come up to your body and dance... (Yes that spastic move is called victorydance) If there was no commander in the squad, a random grunt will do the same thing. Commanders also have an unique animation used only by the leader, it looks like hand signals.
EDIT 2: After quite a while of wondering, I've just now realized that the "victorydance" is also used to shoot anything on upper levels which explains why they always play the shooting animation while celebrating.
Soviet It looks more like they are spitting on dead Gordon's remains
The victorydance animation clearly looks like he's shooting the corpse.
Yes, but that's how it's called in the game files... Don't ask me, I didn't make HL1
Also other monsters like Alien Grunts have "victory dance" too, they go to enemy corpse and eat it, anims also called victory dance and have "fail" animation, when they can't reach body, also I agree what soldiers anim of victory dance looks like he shooting the body, probably valve planned do like they check body and finish off the wounded but they probably forget add firing effects, also they do that for killed monsters too, for example if grunts fight aliens and didn't see the player.
Another interesting thing with Opposing Force allied human grunts, they hostile to the security guards ans scientists, despite they all are allies to the player. And they made as another type of NPC, because game still have grunts from Half-Life which you can spawn with impulse 76 console command or if you launch Half-Life map in OpFor, and they still hostile to the player, some mods what made using OpFor .dll utilize that, they retexture them to make them distinct from ally soldiers and add them into maps as another type of enemy soldiers.
The Allied grunts are a completly new NPC they're enemies to the BM personnel since their orders haven't changed, it's like the sciencetists and security are allies to Freeman but enemies to Hgrunts and Agrunts. in multiple community made maps they both fight even to they're technically from the same unit, the black ops also are hostile with ally grunts but not with the original hgrunts. (You can also change the Agrunt model into the original Hgrunt model, it's somewhere on Gamebanana in skins section if you're intrested.)
6:09
Perfect timing
I think the robotic sound of their voices makes them sound more intimidating than if they were properly voiced characters.
one of the many reasons Black Mesa doesnt do it for me. Also the not creepy enough voice of the tram, the night club-esque ost etc.
These videos are always comfy to have in the background or on my second monitor whilst doing something else. Thank you.
6:15 the most calming soldier to throw a grenade
Is it just me or is Barney more badass cause he was able to kill tons of soldiers and aliens without any special armor
Lol, and also giving an beer to Gordon.
Freeman: Crowbar god
Barney: Pistol god
Adrian : MP5/M4 god
Krejgib He had the security guard armour and helmet.
just you
in blue shift barney doesnt go through nearly as hazardous areas as gordon or Shephard (ex heavily radiated/ extreme cold areas)
my favourites are: "fire team objective foxtrot niner.", "echo mission is go." and "uhh.. go tango sweep formation."
Foxtrot niner? F-9? Is it somehow related to Freeman?
And "Echo" mission i think means "Eliminate" mission
By request, here is my MyAnimeList profile:
myanimelist.net/profile/Slappy_Cromwell
I said I would do this in the comments section of my previous video, but seeing as that was three months ago now, I am making this the pinned comment on a completely unrelated video as penance for procrastinating for so long. I hope this act will atone for those I have wronged.
Just a note - The "charhing at enemy" speech requirement actualy requires the "monster" to move more than 40 meters.
Which means that a unit may use it when they have "moving to cover" schedule over the "moving the cover" one.
Hold on a second. Slappy Cromwell? As in Slappy Cromwell from Curse of the Monkey Island?
"WE!-WILL!-KICK!-YOUR!-ASS!"
Oh cool, didn't know you were into anime.
from where the hell your profile pic is?
The most manliest voice in the history of games
Kudos to the guy who put captions. The distortion effects make it really hard to understand the voicelines.
3 Reasons i don't hear this in my game:
1: Is they're throwing to much nades and they're exploding
2: Is that i keep shooting at them
3: Is that i Don't have the Game
If you're looking where to find this stuff in the game files, it's "Half-Life > valve > sound > hgrunt"
I recently played Half-Life: Source for the first time. Buzzed through it in about 6 hours. I think I know this game pretty well. And yet you keep finding new, bizarre stuff in there.
Nice video, by the way.
I used to agree with people that the HECU felt stronger than the Combine Soldiers, but I recently did a HL2 playthrough and that was definitely not the case.
The coast levels are pretty easy, sure, but that's just the tutorial for fighting Combine soldiers - open spaces with lots of places to maneuver.
The coast immediately transitions into Nova Prospekt, which is just hell for fighting Combine Soldiers. Corridors, catwalks, linear ways to approach positions - a ton of good places for Combine soldiers to attack.
The biggest thing is the shotgunners. You will shit your pants when you see these guys, they eat your health for breakfast. Not even just close-range, I've had these dicks kill me at medium range because they had some supporting fire which easily took a dump on my HP.
The main reason the HECU were difficult was because they were bullet sponges. They eat up your bullets like candy, then gun you down without mercy. Sure, there are definitely other reasons, but I think that's the biggest.
Overall, Combine soldiers benefit a lot from their positioning, while the HECU's difficulty mostly stems from their ability to take a fat dump on your arsenal. Obviously, HECU soldiers in good positioning will still benefit greatly, but they don't need to rely on it.
Now, I still do think that the Combine soldiers could use more health just like the HECU, but there's still a lot of difficulty in facing them. To be honest, I don't even wanna imagine what a Combine Elite would be like if the regular soldiers got a health buff similar to the HECU, considering the Elites have 20 more health than the regs.
HL2's human goons suffer from three things: they lack speed, they lack damage output, and they lack the sponginess of the HECU. It's been proven that the Combine AI in HL2 is quite complicated and rather good, but they lack the bite of the HECU.
@@g--stef4756 I agree with you. Combine soldiers are pretty slow compared to the HECU and they do little damage to the player, they literally do 3 damage damage to the player on normal. If the soldier speed was increased to closely match the HECU and the base damage for npc weapons was increased to 4-5 damage on normal, I believe they’d be more of a threat.
I have to admit seeing all the speeches made from only one word at time is pretty cool and leads to some pretty nice combo of words
"This makes boot camp look like Disneyland!"
*UHHHHH ROGER THAT*
5:27 W E W I L L T A K E Y O U R A $ $! XD
Amazing how elaborated the AI systems were in this game. The alien behaviour patterns are another example.
loved the way they talked, made the game more creepy
I'm gonna have so much fun sentence mixing them...
Legit fascinating, and it's amazing how well this held up.
So that's how the black hgrunts get their voices heavy, interesting!
I still love the "That is... Uhh... Affirmative.", Sven Co-op continued this sentence by adding "sir, over" in the end, and the "Squad, neutralize Freeman!" (Bogies, in Sven Co-op's case.), can't forget "We've got hostiles!" and "Squad, neutralize hostiles!".
Additional edit: Wow, I didn't know that they used "bogies" for alien lifeforms, and hostiles for human targets, in SC it seems like they say both, or I'm wrong.
And tha ending was quite funny.
I can see why they'd use both for players in Sven Co-Op as you can have alien looking player models in that. :P
Heh kind of
The fuck is a bogie?
@@istillcantbelieveitsnoteve5492 Aliens.
This is the perfect video at the most perfect time possible.
5:34
you got nothing
that i need
in my life
so
Give it to me cause you got that
5:32 That Headcrab over there just watching: holy fucking shit 0_0
Honestly given the flat and monotone nature of radio transmissions, the voice synthesis kinda blends in well.
>squad quiet down
>is the only one talking in comms
"Fire in the hole!" That line has given me PTSD.
"My! Ass! Is! Heavy!" ~ Human Grunt, 2017
I actually modded the sentences.txt file to replace every HG line in the game with that. I hate to be THAT GUY, but if you want to check it out, I uploaded a video of it on my channel.
Now that I've seen that video, I now know that making the only human grunt line 'my ass is heavy' is the only way to play Half-Life.
4:35 we got two boogies
I think it's really cool how a whole lot of their lines were reused and re-recorded for Opposing Force.
*Hey Marphy, you could make a video about the Grunts A.I, aswell as the Alien Grunts A.I, the Marines have a rank system, if i remember correctly, The Beret, Balaclava, and Heavy are Squad Leaders, always in groups of 2-4 grunts each, if one of the squad leaders die, grunts sepparate, either panic, or rush you in a "suicide manner" (because you are going to kill them anyway, depending on difficulty) and more!*
Overwatch Throring grenades:,
Razor-6, extractor is live!
Extractor away! Sharp-zone.
Razor 6, Flush! Sharp-zone.
6. 5. 4. 3. 2. 1. flash-flash-flash!
HECU:...
*Sees Grenade* Oh! Shit!
this seems like an interesting concept on paper, but in action, they honestly sound like they were voiced by a text-to-speech
Nah they were voiced by a dude
check the ****meters.wav files, he says it every time different.
4:02 Squad, we got Freeman!
Really interesting video! You should try and do the same video for the Civil Protection and Combine Soldiers in HL2 because a lot (if not all) of their lines are also stored as individual words/small sentences. Combine Overwatch and radio codes etc. have always interested me, I'd love to learn more 😊
I prefer half-life 1 over HL2
same
I agree.
Says you! I think it was awesome as all hell! 3 is the real dissapointment ;3
Misan tropo WHAT??
You know, the second game has the Source engine, making it near impossible to play on low PCs.
Now, the first one, has the Goldsource engine, which makes it WAY easier to play on low end PCs.
and tbh the shotgun needed a buff in dm :c
Awesome, great job as always Marphi. It's really cool from Valve that they added so many different words to the game. It would be nice if you did the same with combine, I think their communication is really interesting. Many people can't understand what they say including me so it would be nice if we had a good quality video for that, you're the guy to do that tbh.
These are some of the best and most recognizable enemies in gaming. So purposeful and properly fleshed out. They could have just given them the the squad lead, gunner and shotgun types and left them to relentlessly go after the player with no thought or regard for self preservation and it would have worked... but they do so much more then that.
Uzi Can Also Receive Dyanamic Processing Effects.
Uzi: Hundredmeters
Uzi: Hundredmeters (p180)
Uzi: Hundredmeters (p69)
6:25 *GRENADE!!!!!*
"What your favourite music genre?"
Me:
"My as is heavy!"
Pure art.
"They must be listening to the radio. I'm gonna change the channel."
really brings back memories. cool to see how it works.
legit one of the most memorable aspect of half life
Always kinda wondered why their speech was so stiff sounding. Now I get why, since their dialogue is just individual words stapled together.
Ngl I had no Idea that the “My Ass is heavy!” Line was actually a real line in the game until now.