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The Black Operations are a secret government unit sent out only into the most dangerous and imporant situations. In the early 2000s, The Resonance Cascade occured which led them to fight against Xenian creatures, the HECU and the personnel of Black Mesa.
How was the government connected to the Black Mesa Incident, what was the ultimate goal of this team, and just how dangerous were they? In this video, I explore the lore and story behind the Black Ops in Half-Life.
Timestamps
00:00 Introduction
00:47 Sponsorship (Raid: Shadow Legends)
03:11 Training (Before HL)
08:08 The Black Mesa Incident (HL)
12:05 The Black Operation (HL & OF)
15:37 Legacy
16:25 Behind The Scenes
18:39 Closing Thoughts
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Which Black Ops units do you prefer? Black Mesa or Half-Life?
black mesa
I don't know a single person that actually plays raid. I honestly believe it is a Chinese based money laundering scheme.
get that bag king
well black mesa has better graphics...
half-life, their tiddies jiggle.
Skyrionn was caught "examining" the female assassin suits and justified it by making 20-min long video
It's all a part of the job haha
Does seem like that, all of the assets from different half-life games mashed together, almost as if he were in a rush.
@@Skyrionn You've been caught in 4K.
How's it feel?
@@jaypea30 wrong but good 😎
@@jaypea30 Literal 4k. I feel like this video needs a part 2 somehow.
The female jumpsuits were totally made to 'allow them to be agile in combat.'
ah yes, and the jiggle physics are for momentum mitigation.
Yes, and for no other reason
jiggle physics
@@Skyrionn jiggle physics
Like culture people say “Nice butt”
impressive how they are "special forces" yet get killed by a nerd with a crowbar and their nuke disabled by a simple marine
tbf that nerd commited genocide
And that marine was technically special forces.
That nerd and marine were selected by G-man. They aren’t your average Joe.
my understanding of your standard HEV Scientist is a Black Mesa equal of MOS: 74D Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear Specialists (CBRN)
@@TY-PO you see. they were selected BECAUSE of what they did. They weren't THE CHOSEN ONES from the start. They MADE themselfs the CHOSEN ONES.
The female assassins definitely needed those skin tight jumpsuits for combat purposes. And only combat purposes no other reason at all
I couldn't figure out a way to add "jiggle physics" into the script 😂 😂
It does make sense lore-wise - thin, non-restrictive clothing allows you to have both protection and agility. But I agree. No other reason at all. Absolutely none.
to be fair, it appears to be made to not rustle and be as flexible as possible, also in hard difficulty in half life 1 they have some sort of stealth technology, so its likely some sort of active camo stealth suit
Tactical Distractions
@@rocitizen…
Gordon, Barney, Collete and Gina: oh great there’s ninjas
Adrian: I wasn’t expecting special forces… why are you aiming at me?
Well maybe if you dipshits could deal with some alien animals we would be somewhere else.
Adrian: "AH FRENDLY FIRES ON!"
@@doot7730 Marines: WE GOT YOU"RE SIX
Black Ops to Adrian: That's the point, Corporal.
bro the boob jiggle on the female assassins is astonashing( 6:19 ), 1998 half life was really ahead of its time.
Wayy ahead of its time
You are to _Half-Life_ what HiddenXperia is to _Halo._
You deserve so many more subscribers!
That is very high praise! I appreciate it
And Zeltic to Zelda. His content and voice is similar.
0:19 That zombie attacking the camera
I tried to avoid it haha
Do you think think would have gone differently if all these assets trying to erase evidence/witnesses/survivors actually worked together with the security and scientists??
We wouldn’t have a second game or a VR spin-off.
Nope combine were coming no matter what by then.
I thought this very same thing after playing half-life 1. It would make the most sense for them all to work together to and hold out while Freeman went to Zen.
But then I played Opposing Force and realized the HECU marines are all brainless jarheads besides Shepard.
Combine that with the age old phrase of “Just following orders.” To justify crimes against humanity and you start to see how much sense this makes for things to play out as they did.
Marines aren’t paid or trained to think, they’re paid and trained to kill.
And the black ops? First rule of covert ops is that you don’t ask questions outside of “where, when and how?” You ask “why?” You’re probably gonna be the next thing they “clean up.”
It’s a classic story of science got horribly wrong, panicked governments doing everything they can to contain and destroy evidence and then realizing too late that they’re beyond fucked and try the nuclear option.
@@undulycriticalobserver2510 yep exactly makes you wonder also what the first combine forces that invaded where? Since in hl2 they are mostly human converted soldiers.
@@TY-PO Only if you believe the combined forces would have saved Earth directly or indirectly.
I saw the female Combine Assassins from HL2's concept art, it made me think, "Oh, cool, I bet they'll be like the ninja female assassin black-ops!" I was really hoping for them to be included in HL2.
The Black-Ops female assassins speed, acrobatics, and guerilla tactics made them quite the opponents. They are fun to fight.
My jaw was dropped the whole time. My brother got the box set back when I was about 9 years old for P.C. and it was waaaaay over my head to keep track of everything back then. I had forgotten about those games at all and never came back to them. These videos are filling so many gaps in my knowledge of the lore. What a DARK decision to be made to cover something up. Amazing job with these vids. Very good chronology and clarity. I appreciate what you do!
Thanks for watching! I have so many more videos covering the lore too on other topics ☺
@@Skyrionn haha thats totally what this video was for... right?
I like the Black Ops as in they were as brutal and strong as suggested and even technically accomplished their mission in the end. Still managed to get themeselves to get filled with lead by a scientist and a grunt but they were formidable and I believe a good chunck of the surviving opeartives from Black Mesa and the 7 Hour War were assimilated into Combine units.
I think you kind of missed a big part of Shephard's arc, when he descends to the B.O's main staging area beneath the undergound garage in sector E. Many of them were still locked in combat with race X, and even more still, manned their posts despite one of their primary objectives completed.
This is a pretty big deal, since B.Os are considered superior to the H.E.C.U, and yet despite the odds, Shephard is able to fight his way through both the male, and female operatives on their chosen battle ground: a rather low-light environment, perfect for keeping them stealthy, thanks to their black jumpsuits; cramped and difficult to navigate through, again big advantage for the fast and nimble operatives who are very highly skilled in CQC, and finally, the storage area has a lot of industrial background noise, which further helps to conceal the BOs position, who are famously quiet, use silencers and even when injured still refuse to groan in pain.
All these factors considered, makes Adrian an absolute giga chad, and help to solidify him as a certified bad ass, just like Gordon, hence he earns the respect of the G Man in the end.
Shephard doesn’t seem like a normal soldier just like Gordon isn’t your normal theoretical physicist with a PHD from MIT.
@@ownage11445 Despite the gameplay of both games; they can't be anything more than a human being, Gordon's main reason for survival is the HEV while Shephard survived with his canonically overall less protective PCV but combined with his actual military experience, as well as both having access to highly experimental/weird weapons.
They're both a normal soldier and a normal scientist that has weapons experience respectively, but with wacky stuff with them.
Adrian really is Half Life Doomguy.
As they all say..
Why do we always have to clean up a mess the grunts can't handle?
Classic line
@@Skyrionn Legendary too
Sooner or later, the grunts will figure out.
Adrian Shepard:
I remember when I was still in First year highschool and having my first encounter with the female assassin, I thought the game was bugged because I can't see what shooting me, Even asked my dad to uninstall Half-Life because of it, then when I finally realize what shooting me, I spent an hour to "respectfully" inspect the female assassin.
I completely forgot they had chest physics until now.
😂 I felt I had showcase all aspects of the Black Ops.
@@Skyrionn If I remember correctly from another youtuber the german cut doesnt have chest physics.
@@NoahGooder the german cut didn't even have soldiers. Man they're boring.
@@CutMeSomeSlackTheVII true they replaced them with robots. which valve actually put in the effort to record separate lines for,
God why does Germany insist on being the most pathetic and boring country on Earth when it comes to video games.
Gordon: “Who are you?!?”
Assassin: “Name’s..... Fisher.”
Great games
Lmao
@@Skyrionn I am certainly inclined to agree.
honestly obsessed with the bg footage of the assassins. nyoom nyoom jump nyoom jump jump gun nyoom. god i love old video game animation
The female assassins are probably one of the most infuriating enemies to combat against with them constantly backflipping and chucking grenades everywhere, if Valve had decided to keep the crossbow as a part of there arsenal it would probably be absolute hell to deal with them, let alone one.
Still, despite their irritating AI I do wish they would've returned in the sequel as their Combine counterparts for various reasons but sadly that never came to be. Closet we got to an official appearance was in the HL2 Survivor arcade games multiplayer mode as a playable character....which was only Japanese exclusive for some reason.
Bro wants those jiggle physics bad
@@kyoseryt as some pink guy once said, "bring all my bitches back"
@@blackmesaenjoyer Dan schniderr
they're more painful in hard mode due to them cloaking while shooting
And i love the fact that Valve scraped the idea of CIA agents, because Black Ops look more cool, mysterious and stealthy.
Here's a theory to explore; What if Gordon didn't get sent into Xen to face the Nihilanth who was keeping a portal open to Earth from Xen, as what if the Nihilanth was the only thing preventing the Combine from taking over their world, which inevitably took to their notice and pursed Earth insteast after discovering Xen was taken over during the conflict. It could be quite possible the Nihilanth was also working with the Combine in taking over worlds as they were genetically modifying vortigaunts to be big massive brutes that were soldiers made for combat.
An expansion to play as a black ops operative and see the story from their perspective would have been awesome!
Go there kill everyone, await further instructions.
there's a half life mod called dark matter where you play as a Black Ops unit called Kovac.
but the mod is not released yet
Indeed
Also the Black Ops are really interesing
Im glad you didnt totally ruled out classic Half Life Black Ops as they where more iconic and challenging then the slightly more realistic black ops of Black Mesa game
It was one of those things where I felt it was important to showcase both of them ☺
Training alone wouldnt be enough, some genetic modification or drugs or both would be needed for them to run that fast and jump that high
Maybe that's where rhe Combine got the idea for the Overwatch spec ops.
5:11 I've never noticed there was much jiggle in the physics in HL1. I learned something new.
assasssins: *train for years in martial arts and use of silenced weapons*
gordon bunnyhopping with a crowbar: I'm gonna stop you right there
The Stalking would be very difficult to implement. Half Life AI (or AI in similar jumping-heavy FPS) is tied to nodes on flat ground, so every point there you have to jump acts as barricade for AI. In fact I don't remember any 3D-Game outsode the Descent-Franchise to have a stalking mechanic.
half life lore is so cool
It really is
Wait, 5:14, do they really have jiggle physics? :DDDDD
yup haha
Skyrionn will continue to be a lore legend. You have the best content for Half-Life on the planet.
This along with the hazardous environment combat unit video are my two favorite half life lore i’ve always been intrigued by the black ops and H.E.C.U marines but really the first half life generally has really struck me as the most interesting but the half life 2 lore is very interesting too that being said your videos are very well made and researched my hats off to you sir!
17:55 That s how the combine used the man hacks : imagine a head crab on one of those man hack soldiers head
Yeah
I never understood why they didn't just send these guys in with the regular grunts.
probably because black ops were very valuable considering those expensive as hell: boots, training, equipment and etc.
4:46 yes... training indeed
Black ops: given advance training. High tech gear. Best weapon given.
That random scientist with a crowbar: Cute.
even though freeman and Shepard killed nearly all of them their mission was a success thanks to the G man
Yeah. Mitchell was easly much stronger than Black Ops soldiers
Only Adam was more powerful than Mitch
@@burmistrzssrais4382HDTF isnt even canon
@@burmistrzssrais4382 Bro thinks HDTF is a half life game 💀
I prefer them being what they are, a secret Unit till the end of times.
Because C.I.A units looked kinda lame.
It was really interesting video. I always enjoy Half Life lore videos more than anything and would love to see more of it. I also cant wait to see your video you are working on.
16:06 Some Black Ops survived war - like Adam who was Black Ops sniper.
Is this a hunt down the freeman reference?
@@SourceSpaghetti Adam was great character
@@SourceSpaghetti yes
Hunt down the freemen isn’t canon.
You are so good at explaining Lore of me fav games
That's really kind of you to say! Thank you!
@@Skyrionn do you have vid abaut the boialce the apture boat wen yes can you send me a Link plis?
Specific weapons to complete the objectives *shows booba jiggle*
Ah another Skyrionn video, how excellent!
Hope you enjoyed it!
i really liked how you used both BM and HL1 stalkyard maps as a training facilities for black ops. And I would also like more footage from Black Mesa, it really looks more modern and interesting than the Half Life version.
I normally use Black Mesa in the videos now but I felt it was important to showcase Half-Life's Black Ops too. I hugely prefer BM's graphics too ☺
@@kakophonien6514 Why?
I actually feel the opposite about using Black Mesa footage for several reasons.
1. Just subjectively I think Half-Life looks a lot more stylistically interesting than Black Mesa and a lot of the redesigns are significant downgrades (the Nihilanth especially).
2. It's the actual canon version of the game. Marc Laidlaw's vision of Xen is ultimately Half-Life's alien Lovecraftian hellscape, not Black Mesa's lush biosphere realm (as is reflected in Alyx). A lot of the lore and writings about Xen are just incongruent with the Black Mesa interpretation.
3. It meshes with the expansions better as they're still only in GoldSource right now.
4. Creating a mental link with Half-Life 1 graphics and Half-Life 2 characters and concepts really helps streamline the series in a satisfying way and having the two art styles presented equally is a welcome addition. This was actually the first thing that drew me to this channel in the first place.
5. Half-Life is just more iconic than Black Mesa is and I doubt that will change anytime soon.
At the end of the day this is all subjective and it's really Skyrionn's choice what he wants to do with his videos.
the female assassins could've been part of the HECU and they were meant to be in the dark and stealthy but in opposing force gearbox created the black ops and made the assassins part of it and add male assassins
I would have loved to see male assassins
@@Skyrionn with or without the tight jumpsuit?
broo 💀
@@miningtornado without. It's a personal preference, you may disagree XD
This wasn't actually a retcon, Half-Life's female assassins are programmed to attack HECU Grunts and vice versa, it just never happens in game.
No shot the assassin's have jiggle physics in vanilla HL1, I'm dying 😂
So much jiggle
Fun fact: It isn't even real jiggle physics. It is manually animated jiggle, so someone had to carefully adjust how _they_ jiggle.
Yes I was dying for a video on these!
Hey Cody! I hope you enjoyed it
Yeah brilliant video, do you think you'll ever revisit Fable lore?
I'm hoping one day. We just need new information about the new Fable game.
Bro one of the black ops agent got pulse rifle from hla 2 somehow 5:32
Note: if the Black Ops team was complaining about having to clean up the HECU's mess __**again**__, that implies that it's happened before. Which brings up an unanswered question: how did G-Man come to discover Earth originally, and how did Black Mesa discover the crystals to be able to get to Xen at all in the first place?
They don’t specifically say HECU, they could’ve just been a backup force on several other regular missions.
You are now my favorite RUclipsr the black ops are the most interesting and has the most mistery unit
You should do the lore behind the science team, or the lore behind the security guards if you like
I remember seeing an interview with a HL dev (maybe a modder, can't remember) where they explained that one plan they had for the assassins was that they would sneak up behind you and plant a grenade on you before black flipping away. The idea was to deter the player from just rushing them
You should do a video as a spoof of what you do on the recent Half Life cat videos, they’re a trilogy now
I'll have to look into it
Gov't: "Send in our most elite assassins and black ops".
Gordon: "Ha ha, crowbar goes thump".
CLANGCLANGCLANGCLANG*splat*CLANGCLANGCLANG
@@whatzittooyah3244 THUMPTHUMPTHUMP *GIB* CLANG CLANG CLANG
Love to see a HL game from these guys' perspective
aint no way they even had jiggle physics bro💀💀
Wish Half Life 1 had an expansion like Opposing Force and Blue Shift where you play through a Black Ops Soldiers perspective.
The weird part is they were going to reuse the leather costumes in 2, eventually it got stolen by mgs4. And this was the only time Gman was “hands on” instead of getting others to do things.
I feel like there would be a sick opportunity for an offshoot game in the hl2 universe for a splinter cell conviction style character from the former black ops team
Sus at 4:47
First time seeing them around in HL, I didn't really know who are they and what happened. I managed to figure out they are another government org sent out to silence the Resonance Cascade but I had no idea they were also sent to Black Mesa in order to quite literally silence everyone in their path including other government officials on site. I kinda wish we would see more how Black Ops would fight against HECU members in Black Mesa in some sort of a huge battle where they literally use everything they have. You know the official "cleaning crew" screwed up on the operation when the government sent out unofficial "cleaning crew" to cover up not only what the first party was trying to do but also pretty much eliminate that failed party lol. I always Black Ops were some of the more interesting type of characters in HL universe and im happy to see a proper video on them.
Adam from Hunt down the Freeman was their best sniper.
I really enjoyed it's Dreamcast port!Apart from the long intro,it's a very good game/port!
can you do a video of the timeline of portal and half-life universe all in one video?
I may or may not be working on a huge project that fits that description
@@Skyrionn oooooh...
@@Skyrionn high chance it’s no
@@Skyrionn thank you for doing what I said
Another banger
Thanks!
11:14 the man really ran over that scientists body💀
5:30 yoooooo AR2 ;^)
I wish the male assassins were in the original game too, i liked their design.
6:19 JIGGLE PSYCHICS
"fast footsteps very stealthily"
also idk why night vision when most of these environmenys are visible.
Literally its a handycap
Hey Valve had to show off their mind bending and realistic physics somehow.
Honestly, I'm surprised the HECU was surprised the Black Ops showed up, the place went to shit, most members of the HECU left and it was getting progressively worse by the moment. Were they expecting the army to just give up?
Anyone else notice the jiggle physics on the female specs ops?
Literally everyone
Hay skyrionn here's a video idea make a lore video on sheckly and Griggs from hl2 e2? Their my favorite rebel's.
I could take a look in to them
It was never about Freeman damn you...
-Adam, the sniper
I've never see an Black Mesa black ops soldier, how did you do that?
Gmod
Adrian: “We weren’t expecting special forces.”
As opposed to finishing this meme, the Black Ops gunned down the poor Corporal.
Odd how we never got an official campaign with them.
I wish could have gotten a version of half life where you could play as the black ops from their prospective
Female Black Ops Assassin Supremacy 🙇♂️
Hmmm..I don't think Skyrionn was "Examining" The female clean up crew members suit.
I don't remember Gordon fighting any male black ops, & Calhoun didn't encounter any
they are the opposing force exclusive NPC
@@DeathScepter I knew that
Could you do a video on Odessa Cubbage?
Black Mesa incident in a nutshell:
Marines sent in
Politician sends CIA in to save their own ass
No shit
I was young when half life came out , I was convinced half life: counterstrike was the black ops expansion
Did you say trained to use night vision goggles?
5:29 Remember when they had the equipment of the combine.
Does Anyone know what is the soundtrack on 17:50 is ?
@Takanashi☣︎Zugaikøtsu oohs yeah thnx
I really like how the Black Ops add more variety to the original Half Life and Opposing Force. The female assassins were definitely super annoying to fight. One thing I like about the Black Ops is with an additional factions you’ll have combat encounters with multiple forces at play (in a way it makes me think of the Covenant vs Flood vs Sentinels portions of Halo CE. Luckily the Halos are now on Steam and they go on sale regularly. Don’t buy Infinite for a couple more years because it has barely any content and the multiplayer is free. At this point it simply is not worth the $60 price tag. The MCC on the other hand comes with a lot of content)
It’s really too bad that we didn’t get the Combine Assassins. HL2 was definitely a great game but it was pretty lacking as far as enemy and weapon variety goes. I really wish we would have gotten a lot of the stuff from the beta (the beta definitely had numerous problems and a fair amount needed to be cut, but Valve went too far causing HL2 to feel pretty barebones in some regards).
Do you think that you’ll make videos talking about what little lore we had for various beta locations, characters, and enemies? Or probably not?
Good luck on that big video you mentioned.
Government: We have highly advanced trained Special Ops units and assassins!
One nerd with a HEV suit and a Crowbar: Crowbar go bonk!
The real task here for both teams wasnt not to let civilians know of the Black Mesa research facility but not to let the combine to know of the humans an their planet
The Cleen Up Unit
6:18 yeah, totally made to be agile. Nothing else…
i see why you like these guys: *the jiggle physics,* and i like them also (iykyk)
They probably gave the combine a hard time
what is the big project you are working on
It involves both Half-Life and Portal. I'm hoping to upload it in a couple weeks!
Um
The jiggle making my mesa ,black
Maybe the combine elites consist of some of the black ops
yes
The odds of any of them surviving the invasion are pretty low.
Any new fable videos in plan?
I will return to Fable when we get some new info on the new game. It's still a core part of the channel. Just waiting for new info ☺
Before the combine came, Adrian made sure to show them just what a grunt can do by giving the Black Ops a Black Eye.