Fun fact: the HECU had stronger air superiority over the Xen creatures. This is due to the fact of how slow Mantas were, they couldn’t keep up with the jets and couldn’t possibly destroy one. If this wasn’t a video game and rather just real life, most of the mantas would’ve been shot down already
I'm guessing it's for gameplay purposes,but not even the Gauss gun or the Gluon Gun were able to kill them,and those 2 were able to shoot down helicopters and destroy tanks
That’s not a fact. In opposing force we see the Mantas are capable of downing aircraft. At least the Ospreys. They very likely have a different tactic for jets. Also they do go fast, I can see them going fast in this video.
I disagree the Mantas don't need to refuel or rearm meaning they can stay in the actual combat zone indefinitely and keep hammering the marines with their lasers. They are also fast enough to evade attacks from the harriers, and can easily dispatch the ospreys. Also they can just teleport in from nowhere
Funny enough the mantas are in great disadvantage against jets. Mainly because they can only do Air to ground attacks, I didn't saw a single manta chasing a jet while playing.
@@ceu160193 What about the missiles? Harriers have Air-Air heat seekers, and mantas have engines which probably emit heat, and I doubt mantas have any form of countermeasure against missiles. Plus, if the Harriers failed, they could have easily called in F-15's and F-16's. The Air Force probably won this dogfight.
@@voxel8960 Manta can self-repair itself, as it's living organism. Harrier can not. As for rest - we never saw any visible engines on it, and we do not have data about it's radar signature either. Which, since it's not made of metal, can be difficult for aircraft's radar to lock on. With all of that, main option for jet pilot is to use cannon - with sufficiently high calibre and good piloting skills, manta will sustain enough damage to crash.
@@ceu160193 I doubt it could regenerate after an air-air missle hits. It will track to it's exhaust, and after the Exhaust is hit, the manta will simply plunge to the ground, unless it manages to limp away by flapping it's wings but then it would be a very easy target to kill
The best part are the ospreys flying away from the facility. In the OG half-life, I didnt even really notice that the HECU was gone, especially since you still fight that tank and some marines after the "forget about freeman" radio transmission. But here I was like "wait, they are ACTUALLY leaving?!". And part of the player of course wishes to be on board of those planes, finally getting out of here
It actually seems like the AirForce should've had almost no issue fighting Mantas. Their weapon appears to be purely Air to Ground as it fires as a beam straight down from it's belly. The only way it can be used on other aircraft is if it gets above.
its crazy to think how many men the HECU actually lost in these fights. It goes to show just how deadly this alien force was. And well I'm sure the orange crazy man with the crowbar also helped the aliens by destroying the HECUS best defensive positions lol
@@Oppen1945 The HECU was much stronger than the XEN forces. Gargantua's would be destroyed by tanks, clear air superiority, better tactics, better weaponry etc But the problem was that YOU don't have a front-line against those things like the soldiers in the hangar said. You can make a base, protected in each side but those aliens would teleport inside and wreak havoc. Infact I bet that the only reason they took down so many tanks is because of the ability that a few headcrabs getting teleported in it means death for the crew, you set up a infirmary for injured soldiers but those headcrabs just teleport in and murder the doctors! You set up a turret or MG against the door but those vorts just teleport behind! Like imagine being in their positions, the fortifications you set are fine / your squad is fine and you blink and a second later you are filled with aliens who show up with no prior warning except a zap.
They had zero prep time. Shepherd is the only only who got any thanks to the Gman's tampering. Everyone else was training that very morning. They thought it was another combat exercise. None of them even knew aliens existed before they were zapping them with lightning 😊
To be fair not only where they NOT expecting a fucking war against alien forces but the xen warriors practically had infinite resources and reinforcements since they teleport to their location they where at a huge disadvantage and if the HECU was prepared for a full on war they would have done A LOT better
@@norikaikakyoin7069 actually xen forced were pretty small, if you take gman's words seriously at the end. He claims that the army you see at the end (stay on the tram!) is pretty much the last of xen forces. If the military knew what was happening, they could've won. But they just had no idea and even if they've almost exhausted xen forces, pulling out seemed to be the only option. And then the combine came.
I want someone to make a tactical map of what we're seeing. Where are these jets going? What is the objective of the tank and the infantry we see waiting there? What are the major changes every hour in the HECU's plan? (We already know most of the major bits but still. We should make a full scale map of black mesa with all the HECU position first actually, will help us create a fictional plan from their commanders point of view.
Its obvious when you think of it. Where are those jets going? They aren't really going anywhere, they are probably just dog-fighting Manta-Rays or bombing places. The tank and infantry we see? They were clearly on a convoy to an EVAC zone most likely before they got ambushed by Manta-Rays and after by Freeman. Well we can't know Hour-By-Hour but we know that The Plans were like this First Orders -Go to Black Mesa for a Rescue & Cleaning mission-(After Resonance Cascade, Before We Got Hostiles) Second Orders-Situations messed up, terminate all black mesa personnel and clear the facility-(During We Got Hostiles) -Third Orders Setting up bases, fortifying locations, trying to get Freeman, clearing out the aliens- (After We Got Hostiles to Mid-Surface Tension) Fourth Orders-Realizing their bases are falling quickly due to teleporting aliens, most likely suply routes being destroyed, ambushes every second, everything going shit so they decide to secure areas they already have- (Mid-Late Surface Tension) -Falling back to minimize all losses and basically everything going in chaos and by this point all the USA is under chaos as shown by RADIO transmissions- (FORGET about freeman and after)
I think the plan change from open fire to every target you see, into a fighting retreat when the HECU was trying to escape the black mesa, the armoured and mechanized army was tasked to transport infantry and some fortifies to hold the XEN while other retreating
The objective of the soldiers there was probably to keep Freeman out of the Lambda Complex, using as much firepower as possible. I wouldn't be surprised if Gman "nudged" the Manta Ray to destroy the tank and infantry so that Freeman would have an easier time getting into the Lambda Complex
you once commented on a video about SCP-106's chase theme during the og Qurantine for most people. So many fucking people looking for you... you have no idea... Everyone thought you where dead. You have no idea how happy i am.
i woulda use a more dramatic soundtrack here, the scene of humanity fighting a loss battle, the american flag destroyed in the pole, jets giving it all...was heart breaking
Some nerds put some weird looking piece of glass in their fancy flashlight and now we got to fight some shit-faced aliens. But be warned boys, this is just a training, because the ones we fight are not very organised. The organised ones will come soon enough, when one of the nerds kills the thing that sends the stupid ones.
The Ospreys leaving their men behind, the Marines *scared* beyond belief. The USMC Harriers and Manta Rays Dogfighting as the sun goes down, signaling the end of humanity.
Half life was always a great game and it deserves its reputation, but while I always immersed in half life, I felt like I was *surviving* Black Mesa. Black Mesa Inbound through Anomalous Materials felt like I was going to work in a place far beyond the scope of what I could imagine, but still like I had a cozy place inside all of it. Unforeseen Consequences through We’ve got Hostiles felt like I was so close to experiencing that same feeling of normalcy, but it was just out of reach since the spaces still looked functional and well maintained aside from the blood, bullet holes, and bodies scattered around, but it still felt like maybe normality could come back to these places if it weren’t for military escalation. Blast Pit through Residue Processing felt like a realization that Black Mesa was so big that even the thousands of employees couldn’t keep this whole place maintained, and almost like all those well kept places were a front of what the rest of the facility was like. Questionable Ethics through Forget about Freeman felt like a constant tug of war between “maybe I’ll actually get out alive” and “my life could end in the next 10 seconds and depending on my luck I may even be unlucky enough to see what killed me. Lambda Core felt like Black Mesa bearing out its whole nature out to you. Giving you an understanding that you’ve seen so much but you haven’t even seen half of it yet. Xen through Interloper felt like it’s own entire story on its own. This world we’ve all been predisposed to think it was this ugly hell full of living war machines by Half Life, feels so alien yet so natural, and I’ve never seen another game like Black Mesa pull it off as well and so beautifully that I’ve cried multiple times stepping into the lush swamps and seeing this ecosystem so untouched and unseen by human eyes. Even Gonarch’s Lair with its grotesque creatures livening in the vast caverns, there’s still a distinct beauty to all of it. But all that changes the moment you step out into Interloper, with its unapologetically ugly grafting of flesh and metal lending itself to not only feel like you are climbing up an organism but climbing up a tumor or parasite on a dimension filled with beauty it has corrupted for its own sake. And finally, Nihilanth is the one moment that decides the fate of humanity and xenians, and what made Gordon Freeman the legend he is known for. Sometimes I wonder what turned people away from Black Mesa, what may be done to change their minds, and what if they’re right? But I think about these feelings. Not feelings of have for the game, but these feelings that Black Mesa has given me, and instead of feeling ashamed for liking something others may hate just as much, I get all the more proud because I know that those reactions I have for this game are my own. Although I do believe there are objective ways to define the quality of games by a combination of intent, attention to detail, quality control, and passion, all that really matters to anyone is their personal opinion, and if 2 people disagree then that’s what we’ll deal with.
I've actually been planning to make a fan game in a large open world map of Black Mesa. You start off as a faction of your choosing (scientist, security guard, or HECU later on in development). Once the clock reaches 9:47 AM random systems will be chosen to explode, the lights will go out, alarms will blare, and enemies will start spawning in the map. It will most likely either be 2D or isometric like Project Zomboid and you need to survive in the large open map with needing to eat food, drink water, and maybe find a place to sleep (it would only be 3 days until the nuke goes off however). My goal would be to simulate the map getting more and more destroyed dynamically as the military tries to fight the aliens, which is why I need it to be 2D or isometric because no computer around would be able to run this if it were 3D (and I'm not good at modeling and texture work). I'm still in the planning phase for this project, it's going to be at least another year before I have a development build to release for free.
@@Merudiana-the-local-demoness realistically, the nuke wouldn't do that much considering the facility was constructed from abandoned missile silos and that the blast would have been absorbed quite a bit by the surrounding rock and concrete and what not. you should make it so it's harder to escape instead.
They can't in hl1 because thé nihilanth order to xenians to fight humans because they steal ressources from xen scientist create teleporter too xen for ressources
Go ahead. It can only benefit the Half Life community :) I could record in 60fps but couldn't compile it in 60fps sadly. Now I can, but I'm not redoing those videos anytime soon.
The skyboxes in this game are designed flawlessly
Fun fact: the HECU had stronger air superiority over the Xen creatures. This is due to the fact of how slow Mantas were, they couldn’t keep up with the jets and couldn’t possibly destroy one. If this wasn’t a video game and rather just real life, most of the mantas would’ve been shot down already
I'm guessing it's for gameplay purposes,but not even the Gauss gun or the Gluon Gun were able to kill them,and those 2 were able to shoot down helicopters and destroy tanks
That’s not a fact. In opposing force we see the Mantas are capable of downing aircraft. At least the Ospreys. They very likely have a different tactic for jets. Also they do go fast, I can see them going fast in this video.
True in theory but they also have a nasty habit of teleporting in and out of Earth's air space at any given moment.
At the same time however, the aliens started spawning every second and spreading at that point. Could be a shit ton of mantas spawning from Xen.
I disagree the Mantas don't need to refuel or rearm meaning they can stay in the actual combat zone indefinitely and keep hammering the marines with their lasers. They are also fast enough to evade attacks from the harriers, and can easily dispatch the ospreys. Also they can just teleport in from nowhere
Funny enough the mantas are in great disadvantage against jets.
Mainly because they can only do Air to ground attacks, I didn't saw a single manta chasing a jet while playing.
Mantas are at a great number advantage though.
@@RestlessBogatyr And they seem to be more agile, jets would have hard time keeping one in sights.
@@ceu160193 What about the missiles? Harriers have Air-Air heat seekers, and mantas have engines which probably emit heat, and I doubt mantas have any form of countermeasure against missiles. Plus, if the Harriers failed, they could have easily called in F-15's and F-16's. The Air Force probably won this dogfight.
@@voxel8960 Manta can self-repair itself, as it's living organism. Harrier can not.
As for rest - we never saw any visible engines on it, and we do not have data about it's radar signature either. Which, since it's not made of metal, can be difficult for aircraft's radar to lock on.
With all of that, main option for jet pilot is to use cannon - with sufficiently high calibre and good piloting skills, manta will sustain enough damage to crash.
@@ceu160193 I doubt it could regenerate after an air-air missle hits. It will track to it's exhaust, and after the Exhaust is hit, the manta will simply plunge to the ground, unless it manages to limp away by flapping it's wings but then it would be a very easy target to kill
The alien crafts are one of my favoutite creatures from the games, this video is gold
Yep ,
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Mine were the HECU
The "alien crafts" are called manta rays
Mine was the vortigaunt
1:31 I feel bad for the Abrams it tried to move out the way
You can even listen to the crew panic, the Commander begging the Driver to back up.
Not easy to move a 62 ton vehicle quickly
@@mEmEzMaN... That's the problem, they're all dead anyway
@@mEmEzMaN... actually it is, I drove em for four years. They have A LOT of get up and go
@@shirghazaycowboys i mean they have turbine engines right?
The best part are the ospreys flying away from the facility. In the OG half-life, I didnt even really notice that the HECU was gone, especially since you still fight that tank and some marines after the "forget about freeman" radio transmission. But here I was like "wait, they are ACTUALLY leaving?!". And part of the player of course wishes to be on board of those planes, finally getting out of here
It actually seems like the AirForce should've had almost no issue fighting Mantas. Their weapon appears to be purely Air to Ground as it fires as a beam straight down from it's belly. The only way it can be used on other aircraft is if it gets above.
You should see Nuclearpotato's "Hierarchy Problem" bro.
its crazy to think how many men the HECU actually lost in these fights. It goes to show just how deadly this alien force was. And well I'm sure the orange crazy man with the crowbar also helped the aliens by destroying the HECUS best defensive positions lol
@@Oppen1945 The HECU was much stronger than the XEN forces. Gargantua's would be destroyed by tanks, clear air superiority, better tactics, better weaponry etc
But the problem was that YOU don't have a front-line against those things like the soldiers in the hangar said. You can make a base, protected in each side but those aliens would teleport inside and wreak havoc. Infact I bet that the only reason they took down so many tanks is because of the ability that a few headcrabs getting teleported in it means death for the crew, you set up a infirmary for injured soldiers but those headcrabs just teleport in and murder the doctors! You set up a turret or MG against the door but those vorts just teleport behind!
Like imagine being in their positions, the fortifications you set are fine / your squad is fine and you blink and a second later you are filled with aliens who show up with no prior warning except a zap.
They had zero prep time. Shepherd is the only only who got any thanks to the Gman's tampering.
Everyone else was training that very morning. They thought it was another combat exercise.
None of them even knew aliens existed before they were zapping them with lightning 😊
To be fair not only where they NOT expecting a fucking war against alien forces but the xen warriors practically had infinite resources and reinforcements since they teleport to their location they where at a huge disadvantage and if the HECU was prepared for a full on war they would have done A LOT better
@@norikaikakyoin7069 actually xen forced were pretty small, if you take gman's words seriously at the end.
He claims that the army you see at the end (stay on the tram!) is pretty much the last of xen forces.
If the military knew what was happening, they could've won. But they just had no idea and even if they've almost exhausted xen forces, pulling out seemed to be the only option.
And then the combine came.
I want someone to make a tactical map of what we're seeing. Where are these jets going? What is the objective of the tank and the infantry we see waiting there? What are the major changes every hour in the HECU's plan? (We already know most of the major bits but still.
We should make a full scale map of black mesa with all the HECU position first actually, will help us create a fictional plan from their commanders point of view.
Its obvious when you think of it.
Where are those jets going? They aren't really going anywhere, they are probably just dog-fighting Manta-Rays or bombing places.
The tank and infantry we see? They were clearly on a convoy to an EVAC zone most likely before they got ambushed by Manta-Rays and after by Freeman.
Well we can't know Hour-By-Hour but we know that The Plans were like this
First Orders -Go to Black Mesa for a Rescue & Cleaning mission-(After Resonance Cascade, Before We Got Hostiles)
Second Orders-Situations messed up, terminate all black mesa personnel and clear the facility-(During We Got Hostiles)
-Third Orders Setting up bases, fortifying locations, trying to get Freeman, clearing out the aliens- (After We Got Hostiles to Mid-Surface Tension)
Fourth Orders-Realizing their bases are falling quickly due to teleporting aliens, most likely suply routes being destroyed, ambushes every second, everything going shit so they decide to secure areas they already have- (Mid-Late Surface Tension)
-Falling back to minimize all losses and basically everything going in chaos and by this point all the USA is under chaos as shown by RADIO transmissions- (FORGET about freeman and after)
That's classified information
I think the plan change from open fire to every target you see, into a fighting retreat when the HECU was trying to escape the black mesa, the armoured and mechanized army was tasked to transport infantry and some fortifies to hold the XEN while other retreating
The objective of the soldiers there was probably to keep Freeman out of the Lambda Complex, using as much firepower as possible. I wouldn't be surprised if Gman "nudged" the Manta Ray to destroy the tank and infantry so that Freeman would have an easier time getting into the Lambda Complex
The last Sunset that Gordon sees before stepping to the unknown world of Xen. And all the fate of humanity depends on his journey.
The LAV Convoy Ambused By Mantan Sadly got Distracted by those Marines and Abrams. And got Covered By The Stones
Fantastic! i was trying to find a sequel of this.
thanks
holy shit your alive!
@@AgentStamos ?
you once commented on a video about SCP-106's chase theme during the og Qurantine for most people.
So many fucking people looking for you...
you have no idea...
Everyone thought you where dead.
You have no idea how happy i am.
@@AgentStamos oh uh sometimes YT doesn't notify you know? dang imma comment there anyways
i woulda use a more dramatic soundtrack here, the scene of humanity fighting a loss battle, the american flag destroyed in the pole, jets giving it all...was heart breaking
Some nerds put some weird looking piece of glass in their fancy flashlight and now we got to fight some shit-faced aliens. But be warned boys, this is just a training, because the ones we fight are not very organised. The organised ones will come soon enough, when one of the nerds kills the thing that sends the stupid ones.
nah bruh source has been evolving for like 15 years
Forget about freeman chapter be like when you are the spectator
Wow. That was one of the most dramatic Half Life videos I have ever seen. Beautiful!
The Ospreys leaving their men behind, the Marines *scared* beyond belief. The USMC Harriers and Manta Rays Dogfighting as the sun goes down, signaling the end of humanity.
This is near the Lambda complex-Lambda Core.
Usa:nukes black mesa the combine:hi there
Those flying things that destroyed that tank I called it flying stingrays get it because its flying sting rays
I don’t get it
@@sasasa1541 you know we have sting sting rays in real life and that flying thing in black kesa looks like sting rays that shoots rays
@@oreochild5652 they are called mantas
Ok this is epic!
Very nice, although the audio seems really really quiet.
Half life was always a great game and it deserves its reputation, but while I always immersed in half life, I felt like I was *surviving* Black Mesa.
Black Mesa Inbound through Anomalous Materials felt like I was going to work in a place far beyond the scope of what I could imagine, but still like I had a cozy place inside all of it.
Unforeseen Consequences through We’ve got Hostiles felt like I was so close to experiencing that same feeling of normalcy, but it was just out of reach since the spaces still looked functional and well maintained aside from the blood, bullet holes, and bodies scattered around, but it still felt like maybe normality could come back to these places if it weren’t for military escalation.
Blast Pit through Residue Processing felt like a realization that Black Mesa was so big that even the thousands of employees couldn’t keep this whole place maintained, and almost like all those well kept places were a front of what the rest of the facility was like.
Questionable Ethics through Forget about Freeman felt like a constant tug of war between “maybe I’ll actually get out alive” and “my life could end in the next 10 seconds and depending on my luck I may even be unlucky enough to see what killed me.
Lambda Core felt like Black Mesa bearing out its whole nature out to you. Giving you an understanding that you’ve seen so much but you haven’t even seen half of it yet.
Xen through Interloper felt like it’s own entire story on its own. This world we’ve all been predisposed to think it was this ugly hell full of living war machines by Half Life, feels so alien yet so natural, and I’ve never seen another game like Black Mesa pull it off as well and so beautifully that I’ve cried multiple times stepping into the lush swamps and seeing this ecosystem so untouched and unseen by human eyes. Even Gonarch’s Lair with its grotesque creatures livening in the vast caverns, there’s still a distinct beauty to all of it. But all that changes the moment you step out into Interloper, with its unapologetically ugly grafting of flesh and metal lending itself to not only feel like you are climbing up an organism but climbing up a tumor or parasite on a dimension filled with beauty it has corrupted for its own sake.
And finally, Nihilanth is the one moment that decides the fate of humanity and xenians, and what made Gordon Freeman the legend he is known for.
Sometimes I wonder what turned people away from Black Mesa, what may be done to change their minds, and what if they’re right? But I think about these feelings. Not feelings of have for the game, but these feelings that Black Mesa has given me, and instead of feeling ashamed for liking something others may hate just as much, I get all the more proud because I know that those reactions I have for this game are my own. Although I do believe there are objective ways to define the quality of games by a combination of intent, attention to detail, quality control, and passion, all that really matters to anyone is their personal opinion, and if 2 people disagree then that’s what we’ll deal with.
The best scene is the entry hall fight in Questionable Ethics
black mesa was so much more then half life.
The harriers are my favorites and a10s and the m1 Abrams and the soldiers and also corpal Shephard Adrian
Black Mesa looks so cool, I wish there was a pre-incident game.
I've actually been planning to make a fan game in a large open world map of Black Mesa. You start off as a faction of your choosing (scientist, security guard, or HECU later on in development). Once the clock reaches 9:47 AM random systems will be chosen to explode, the lights will go out, alarms will blare, and enemies will start spawning in the map. It will most likely either be 2D or isometric like Project Zomboid and you need to survive in the large open map with needing to eat food, drink water, and maybe find a place to sleep (it would only be 3 days until the nuke goes off however). My goal would be to simulate the map getting more and more destroyed dynamically as the military tries to fight the aliens, which is why I need it to be 2D or isometric because no computer around would be able to run this if it were 3D (and I'm not good at modeling and texture work).
I'm still in the planning phase for this project, it's going to be at least another year before I have a development build to release for free.
@@Merudiana-the-local-demoness sounds hype
@@Merudiana-the-local-demoness realistically, the nuke wouldn't do that much considering the facility was constructed from abandoned missile silos and that the blast would have been absorbed quite a bit by the surrounding rock and concrete and what not. you should make it so it's harder to escape instead.
@@Merudiana-the-local-demoness How is it? Aren't the idea is too ambitious?
@@Tommyknocker.They gave up probably :(
1:00 ..where is that in which part of the mission progress?
Surface Tension
@@easymoneygaming5801 no i meant where in surface tension ...any clue or direction of that particular location..so that i can find it easily?
@@asdbef3667 in surface tension, after the first battle with a tank (some minutes of gameplay after defeating the apache)
@@matyfenixcarmine oh thanks
Battle for Earth.
And both of those sides would lose to the CMB.
Welcome to Earth.
Humans vs Xenians
@@Tommyknocker. Marines vs Xenians
Then a couple days later the seven hour war came Earth vs Combine
Awesome. But damn, I wish to see 60 fps on ultra, I see only lower than 45 fps on lowest settings.
I have very powerful laptop
And trust me, it still some lagging on max graphics
@@dreamingsus9996 It may be because of the textures. If it's a laptop, then it's likely that it doesn't have an SSD.
Don't mess with Xen military forces
man this is epic
the Xenians and the humans should have cooperated to fight the Combine. maybe bring in Race X as well
play Half Life 2
Well, Vortigaunts help the Resistance during Half-Life 2, so we have that.
Probably would of still lost the fight, but maybe Last an extra hour at the very most
They can't in hl1 because thé nihilanth order to xenians to fight humans because they steal ressources from xen scientist create teleporter too xen for ressources
still wouldve gotten stomped
What killed cooper?
yeah, how did he die?
He accidentally ate a doughnut
Most likely he and his squad were killed by a manta.
@@Tommyknocker. if it was a xen aircraft than it'll have to leave a path of destruction from it's *Deadly Laser*
2 years late, but Cooper most likely died from blood loss. Gordon actually can hear him dying due to not having an IFAK to make a tourniquet.
Pretty Bland And Underthoughtout Frankly
Still Really Grand and Fairly Cool
0:00 Omaewa Mou Shindeiru
S P E A K N O R M A L
I made my own version of your older video that's in 60fps and 1080p. I was looking for your permission before uploading it.
Go ahead. It can only benefit the Half Life community :) I could record in 60fps but couldn't compile it in 60fps sadly. Now I can, but I'm not redoing those videos anytime soon.
@@targydu54 Thank you. I just posted it to my channel if you want to check it out.
Is the audio mean't to be that quiet?
The return
1:17 What _WAS_ that plane??
Harrier
Freaking awesome 2.0
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