"When the developers are bored they add stuff like this."

half life easter eggs
half life gabe newell room
#halflife #gabenewell #easteregg

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Technical explanation: At some point in Half-Life's development, it wasn't possible to spawn enemies dynamically during gameplay, so rooms like those were used to store them out of the way so they could be brought in later. In this case, it's used to store the houndeye that teleports on top of the crate at the bottom of the elevator. Presumably these maps were made before it was possible for entities to just be created by spawners directly, and they didn't think it was required to rework the maps to not use the rooms since it made no (visible) difference.
The reason the faces are there is because it's the texture "aaatrigger". This texture is special in that it's supposed to be only used for, well, trigger boxes (which cause something to happen when you touch them, obviously), and these boxes are always invisible. I think the face shows up in order to prevent you from getting the 'hall of mirrors' effect from seeing an area with no geometry, AKA 'outside' the level.

[@antoniovital4298]

And they chose Gabe's face for that texture cuz it funni

[@eee1200]

@@antoniovital4298 hehe funni

[@xx_mlguy_xx7345]

"🤓"

[@TheExperienceYT]

If the houndeye was just floating in space, it would cause a map leak and the map would be unplayable or the houndeye wouldnt be there

[@MRJakeyBro]

I was going to say that

[@TheUltimateLizard]

they're not bored, it's a room for the houndeye

[@ixcutamp8059]

Y the faces tho?

[@Rorriis]

@@ixcutamp8059 Uhhhhhhh, Gaben.

[@uglies7056]

@@ixcutamp8059 just a template

[@mfaizsyahmi]

@@ixcutamp8059 because it's usually only used to texture trigger boxes, obviously not meant to be seen, so if you're playtesting a map and you find a wall of gabens you knew you forgot to make that box a trigger box.

[@mfaizsyahmi]

Not that the devs consistently use this texture (called aaatrigger) consistently though. In fact all the triggers in this map use anything but aaatrigger.

[@Eyeling]

This has a use, this Gabe Newell texture designates an area is "out of bounds" and this box is used to store hound eyes.

[@Shea7TDM]

“No it’s just me, Gabe Newell”

[@Parky64]

The hound eye is safe within Gabe’s flesh room

[@legocreator768]

that can be taken a few ways

[@Hugal.]

bro tryna be the dying light 2 shorts channel

[@themrfives]

"That's i get for working at Microsoft."

[@Cat-uv7dy]

Microsoft?

[@themrfives]

@@Cat-uv7dy It's an old Gabe Newel quote.

[@Cat-uv7dy]

@@themrfives ah ok

[@slickcalf985]

That room is on every map. It's used for spawning entities.

[@abuchi2248]

Not every map, just maps that were made (presumably) before GoldSrc could handle spawning entities on the fly, and would need them pre-spawned out of bounds.

[@RobiePAX]

I find it funny how the whole comment section roasts the uploader for not understanding how the source engine works.

[@slickcalf985]

goldsrc

[@RobiePAX]

@@slickcalf985 true. My bad.

[@soundbreaker8174]

unrelated but the fact that i recognize everything in these videos proves how much i like birdwatching

[@ZoofyZoof]

When RUclipsrs are ignorant, they make videos like this

[@monahikosliekos]

He's not ignorant, a lot of people don't know that the hound eye is teleported from that room.

[@ZoofyZoof]

@@monahikosliekos That's literally what ignorance is: Not knowing something.

[@плеватьяказак]

That's a necessary part of trigger

[@TheDizzyRabbit]

That is npc storage also TO STOP A GABEN TAKE CONTROL AND PRESS A GABEN IN ADDITION

[@thenotsogood_gamer]

People who pirated copies of Half-Life back in the 90s were sentenced to the Gaben Room

[@lukapuka8320]

i though this was about the scientist inside a dumpster

[@tamaskarsai2072]

When you add something at around the start or middle of development than you forget about it.

[@matthewjones39]

You do understand that this isn’t an easter egg, right?

[@justampeg4file]

The texture is, but not the Easter egg in question.
The texture was I think on top of the silo door as an Easter egg.
Then again it could have been one of the military doors.

[@testicularmanslaughterer]

Gabe sanctuary

[@idkwhattoget]

that room has a purpose

[@King_G-dede]

Congrats!
You just found the FACE SPACE!

[@keegankrueger4038]

For some reason, the RUclips app sent me a notification to check out this video despite never interacting with this channel. I’m not annoyed, I’m just confused.

[@bothort]

Algorithms are absolutely on my side lmao

[@PETROBN4]

Я не успеваю просматривать видео на этом канале, так часто они выходят

[@Likon]

Mr. Valve room

[@Aemyl_]

It's an entity spawning room

[@Cat-uv7dy]

This would’ve been a better final boss than the Hl:OF boss

[@froxdoggaming3385]

the gaben room

[@samebrosame2626]

Feyza is so cute

[@Мирич-з4е]

Literally every HL1 fan knows this. Did you found out the Gaben room today?

[@vinnycrimson]

the goom

[@SteveAdmienn]

Squid dog

[@FdLek]

Squid dog

[@vinnycrimson]

yae

[@anjotubeJE]

900th subscriber, lesgoo baby

[@letronix6243]

gaben

[@AlgaeEater09]

Not an easter egg. It's a necessary part of the game used to spawn hound eyes.

[@gamescape7900]

Gay ben

[@noobnazik3968]

Just a reminder that its not on half life: source i checked it

[@basedlord]

GabeN

[@AlexanderJH]

Teleport Holder

[@nicolausteslaus]

is that Aurora Gayrealis?

[@megafan5195]

What are you doing in my coom basement

[@user-fq2mz4ho9f]

The gabe is just when dev were like hmm this place seems empty let's put gabe face as a texture
If not
. This would be an another room for enemy's from to be taken out of