Fun fact: Russell originaly will be planed to be Lazlo, that guy that dies by the antlions in Half-Life 2, but Valve dicided that will be better if he was an original character
The finest minds of his generation would have been rejected from black mesa poor guy if he became a scientist in black mesa he'd die if he became a normal rebel he gets mauled by the antlions i mean see either way he will get killed in horrific ways
@@slenderobloxplayer5857 it's most likely that gordon's time at black mesa was greatly exaggerated (as told by russel in half life alyx) and the resistance members thought he was dead, but being dead was nothing compared to what he faced at the black mesa incident, even though gordon only took on a fraction of what was actually there
@@slenderobloxplayer5857 if I remember correctly some vort dialogue implies that they know that gordon can reload saves and that every file he abandons is a world that gets fucked
Fun fact: you don’t even need to cheat to see/kill the hidden Combine soldier, since it is possible to obtain a single grenade before reaching that point. If you throw it just right, the explosion will fling his body in front of the grate.
The rollermine inside the APC at 4:58 is an entity that controls the APC called a npc_apcdriver, it basically drives on a path and will shoot it's gun and/or rockets when it's told to.
@@myth0572 At one point when you revisit city-17, you are in the apartments where you first get chased by the CPs, when you get to the exit where the playground is, there's a TV in a collapsed hallway that plays the distorted trumpets and I believe it displays the G-man on the screen too. Anyway, you can pass by that hallway and the sound will always play but it's easy to ignore it since you can't hear it very well, which to me, makes it all the more creepy. Especially given the fact that you are completely alone in that whole building with that haunted playground just beyond those doors as you hear gunfire off in the distance. I'm just a pansy that gets creeped out by ambience however, so it's probably not very creepy to anybody else.
4:53 Fun Fact - actually, this hidden rollemine have big purpose - every Metropolice's Armored Car (that is supposed to shoot and drive) must have "npc_apcdriver" entitiy, that is bond with APC vehicle.That means that this rollermine is actually an NPC that controls the car, because "npc_apcdriver" uses rollermine's model
yes exactly. and this is also why the APC at 11:11 is driveable. APCs are in the vehicle objects class just like the jeep and the airboat. that is why they require a driver npc in the first place.
4:04 There is another one on the right side of the road where the road meets the hill just before the loading screen tunnel on the first map of Highway 17.
Prior to Nova Prospekt, when you are given the pheromones and your antliom squad in the cave, if you throw your pheropod and leave the antlions there, you can walk through the loading screen to Nova Prospekt and get more antlions. You can return to the cave and your previous pack will still be there, and the new pack will still be following you. You can throw your pheropods to keep the new pack there and repeat as much as you want and grow an army of antlions that will follow you throughout Nova Prospekt. You can do this with any portion of the chapter so long as you can get far enough away from the antlions to spawn in more.
the cheat for the gnome achievement. That shit is a rite of passage that turns a boy into a man, not something you just cheat your way through 'for the lols'
I've known about the bits with the soundtrack and wanted to make a video on it for years, never heard anyone else comment on it before. Here's a few other notable references and Easter eggs from the soundtrack: -A further note on the title 'CP Violation', since CP violation is a scientific term relating to broken C and P symmetry and is a double meaning for Civil Protection Violation, the name could also be referring to all the junk loaded in the canals breaking the symmetry. Funnily enough there's also another track that plays a little later in the same chapter and is called 'Broken Symmetry'. -'The Innsbruck Experiment' refers to Gordon's previous experience at the University of Innsbruck which is a school in Austria in real life. Innsbruck is famous for their physics department which studies quantum teleportation (recurring themes in Half-life 2). Judith Mossman and Gordon were both striving to get employed at Black Mesa for the same position. In Half-Life 2 Eli comments to Gordon that she would have taken Gordon's place and would have been in the test chamber on the day of the incident, however Black Mesa ultimately chose Gordon instead due to him having went to Innsbruck. -'Requiem for Ravenholm' plays as Gordon leaves Ravenholm. The word 'requiem' means 'a Mass for the dead' in the Catholic church, relating to Father Grigori who is a Catholic priest and the zombies. Father Grigori is also Italian and he gives Gordon a SPAS-12 shotgun. The SPAS-12 is a shotgun made by an Italian company called Franchi. To go a step further my guess is that Father Grigori is a Roman Catholic specifically. -'Probably Not a Problem' is a quote from Half-Life 1 where a scientist says that as Gordon is ready to insert the test sample into the anti-mass spectrometer. -'Combine Harvester' is a cut track and refers to the Combine as a combine harvester tractor - a big machine that threshes everything in its path, much like how the Combine have drained earth of many resources. - 'You're Not Supposed To Be Here' is a quote from the G - Man in Half-Life 2's cut hazard course. Half-Life 2 would have had a hazard course similar to Half-Life 1. The story was that the G-Man stuck Gordon in some sort of simulation during his stasis between Half-Life 1 and Half-Life to keep him mentally and physically sharp. When Gordon would try to escape the hazard course he would hear muffled voices (vague voices lol) about his decaying cognitive state and becoming a vegetable. Gordon would reach the end of a hallway with the G-Man and begin to enter a trance. The G- Man would say- "You're not supposed to be here. As a matter of fact, you're not. Get back where you belong and forget about all this. Until...we meet...again." -'Neutrino Trap' is a renamed song from Half-Life 1 originally called 'Hurricane Strings.' The renamed title is actually a really nerdy joke. A neutrino is a type of particle that can only be seen when in a body of water. When the song first played in Half-Life 1 Gordon was entering the freezer room from the office complex. Since the freezer room had ice and ice is frozen water, any neutrinos would have been trapped. -'Biozeminade Fragment' is a really old and obscure in-joke. Leading up to Half-Life 2's launch some Half-Life fans were either talking to each other or asking Valve if Half-Life 2 would have biozeminade fragments. Biozeminade fragments are completely made up, they don't exist so it was just troll joke. Marc Laidlaw who has gone on record of stating that he named most of if not all of the tracks in Half-Life 2, explained that he named that one track 'Biozeminade Fragment' as a joke in return, that Half-Life 2 actually does have a biozeminade fragment. -'Shadows Fore and Aft' is actually a remix of 'Lab Practicum' -'CP Violation' uses the track 'Nova Prospekt' as a sample -'Ravenholm Reprise' contains what sounds like Combine radio chatter. This is because Ravenholm was originally going to have Combine soldiers sweeping the area for Gordon. This can be shown in Half-Life 2's E3 2003 demo. -'Pulse Phase' is actually a section taken from 'Dark Energy' and slowed down -'Sand Traps' is a sample taken from sampling kit. When sped up it's actually a bunch of bamboo sticks being drummed and rattled
I love how some of the rebels are like "oh I want to take his stuff" and then most of them are like "no Dr Freeman don't go into the light we need you Don't leave us."
Another fact: In highway 17, when you are going to go down to the coast in the car, if you shoot with an rpg at the girl on the crane, she will change animation, every time you shoot her with the rpg
It works with all the explosive weapons. I’ve been trying to find out why this happens for a year now, but I thing it has something to do with an cycler entity.
3:00 by the way, you can do 'ent_setname' with anything and get the achievement, for example the plastic basket when you enter the facility. just anything with appropriate size is fine.
The distorted trumpets song is actually a stock sound effect from Cuckooland - Ghost in the Machine. So I doubt that it has any hidden voices that relate to Half Life
I did a whole HL2 EP2 playthrough with the gnome and skiped the fun strider fight just for the achivement just for this video showing me how to skip that hell
Triage at dawn is one of the most iconic music tracks for one of the most iconic and important PC games of all time. All kinds of emotions are evoked when you listen to it.
I found several haphazard textures in Highway 17, there’s one on the first map where if you stand next to the roadblocks, look to the right of the tunnel to a cliffside, you can see a small clip that is hard to unsee
At the bit where you fight your first gunship, if you kill the person who opens the gate and tells you to drive safely (you can smear him with the buggy's turbo), you'll get a Game Over for Failure to Preserve Mission-Critical Personnel. I wonder why this wasn't done in the Manhack intro room.
Actually, this would be a murder of crows, which is what people say because when a crow is gathered around a dead body, you know a murder happened. 10:14
10:44 Imagine a chase segment, when you drive a car as fast as possible to avoid a kilometer-long Citadel gib spiralling down from the skies. All while the other gibs land around, acting either as obstacles or ramps to jump over terrain and save split-seconds. Then the slab finally hits the ground causing an earthquake that gives you a final push, before the car rolls out of control and lands in a trench. You and Alyx climb out of the car, while still in that trench covering from a huge wave of tree-boulder-metal shrapnel. After that the dust settles, you and Alyx step out of the ditch and see a massive crater with what appears to be a giant tombstone sticking out. In the background, the detonated Citadel core now proceeds to create a superportal. Player graviguns the jalopy back on a driveable terrain, and Gordon & Alyx head towards a nearby communication point to contact "White Forest" and see if they survived that.
Fun fact: Russell originaly will be planed to be Lazlo, that guy that dies by the antlions in Half-Life 2, but Valve dicided that will be better if he was an original character
Lol image him being so cool in hla and then in hl2 just dies with no drama
Unfortunately they made him his own character.
Valve is stupid
@@crabsinyourshoes Same.
The finest minds of his generation would have been rejected from black mesa poor guy if he became a scientist in black mesa he'd die if he became a normal rebel he gets mauled by the antlions i mean see either way he will get killed in horrific ways
noclick: Also please ignore that ugly thing. And no, I'm not talking about the missing texture
Magnusson: *Pardon?*
lol
Lol
Lol
Enginear ga'ming
9:49 "he's done this before. he'll be okay."
that dialog made me think that the resistance members know that freeman can revive back in time to prevent his demise.
@@slenderobloxplayer5857 it's most likely that gordon's time at black mesa was greatly exaggerated (as told by russel in half life alyx) and the resistance members thought he was dead, but being dead was nothing compared to what he faced at the black mesa incident, even though gordon only took on a fraction of what was actually there
@@jockeyfield1954 oh
ok
@@slenderobloxplayer5857 if I remember correctly some vort dialogue implies that they know that gordon can reload saves and that every file he abandons is a world that gets fucked
1:18 gaben near to the 3
He should have skipped the 3rd one
its mean gabe never make the half life 3
*Amogus*
*sus*
Great eyes! I saw that and started giggling.
Fun fact: you don’t even need to cheat to see/kill the hidden Combine soldier, since it is possible to obtain a single grenade before reaching that point. If you throw it just right, the explosion will fling his body in front of the grate.
The rollermine inside the APC at 4:58 is an entity that controls the APC called a npc_apcdriver, it basically drives on a path and will shoot it's gun and/or rockets when it's told to.
Custom lore: The Roller mine is the core that gives power to the APC. It disappears because it explodes.
I thought npc_apcdriver was invisible
so thats whats in entropy zero 2, good to know
remind me of those rebel jeeps with scanners driving them in entropy zero 2
Lady in Gman theme: Gordon is dead
Gordon with limited lives: Well yes but No
Unlimited*
Distorted trumpet makes half life way creepier
Imagine if those trumpets were also on the HL2 beta
@@BraixenKartzem I think they were
Playing half life and the episodes I never heard it
@@myth0572 At one point when you revisit city-17, you are in the apartments where you first get chased by the CPs, when you get to the exit where the playground is, there's a TV in a collapsed hallway that plays the distorted trumpets and I believe it displays the G-man on the screen too.
Anyway, you can pass by that hallway and the sound will always play but it's easy to ignore it since you can't hear it very well, which to me, makes it all the more creepy. Especially given the fact that you are completely alone in that whole building with that haunted playground just beyond those doors as you hear gunfire off in the distance.
I'm just a pansy that gets creeped out by ambience however, so it's probably not very creepy to anybody else.
I've played through HL2 several times and I didn't know about any of these things. Thanks for the genuine effort you put into your videos.
:D
4:53 Fun Fact - actually, this hidden rollemine have big purpose - every Metropolice's Armored Car (that is supposed to shoot and drive) must have "npc_apcdriver" entitiy, that is bond with APC vehicle.That means that this rollermine is actually an NPC that controls the car, because "npc_apcdriver" uses rollermine's model
yes exactly. and this is also why the APC at 11:11 is driveable. APCs are in the vehicle objects class just like the jeep and the airboat. that is why they require a driver npc in the first place.
I was a big boy and got the full gnome achievement without cheating like a big boy B)
I did it twice. B)
Also the rare specimen from Black Mesa
Bitch?
B) Same
How?
I actually didn't know about being able to see Ravenholm from there. Pretty cool actually
1:55
The soldier: trying to get the bugbait's juice off of him so he won't get attacked
Noclick: haha dance
I will never understand how that was even remotely a secret. My first instinct was to hit them with the baits.
5:51
Team Fortress 2: Rocket jump and sticky jump
Half Life 2: Train jump
you can actually survive the train jump and the fall, but it's very hard
Bro same pfp
@@ftkingfish203 yeah
"we are tearing the rail road covering our tracks-"
*explodes*
4:04
There is another one on the right side of the road where the road meets the hill just before the loading screen tunnel on the first map of Highway 17.
What’s with the weird semi-transparent Gaben on number 3? 1:20
Number *3* and *Gabe Newell.* Get it?
@@fogfatigue4980 Holy crap
he can’t count that high, that’s why
@@dfprod. how many weapons can scout hold at one time?
@@jockeyfield1954 2+1
Congratulations on the 50k!
Yo
@@JacksonsOOF Yo
Didn't think you'd be in the video or commenting here, so hi!
@@tacticalsocialist8060 Haha... SURPRISE! :D
Oh hi rad
The reversed trumpets woman sounds like she’s saying issabelle
0:50 normal barrel also works, and its funnier
Prior to Nova Prospekt, when you are given the pheromones and your antliom squad in the cave, if you throw your pheropod and leave the antlions there, you can walk through the loading screen to Nova Prospekt and get more antlions. You can return to the cave and your previous pack will still be there, and the new pack will still be following you. You can throw your pheropods to keep the new pack there and repeat as much as you want and grow an army of antlions that will follow you throughout Nova Prospekt. You can do this with any portion of the chapter so long as you can get far enough away from the antlions to spawn in more.
Its still on premiere why would anyone dislike
Haters
Haters
the cheat for the gnome achievement. That shit is a rite of passage that turns a boy into a man, not something you just cheat your way through 'for the lols'
How the hell is your comment 2 hts ago
Because people are assholes, always something.
"he has done this before, he'll be okay."
*Gordon literally gets blow by a fucking grenades.*
5:28 This may be a cut feature for APCs to deploy rollermines.
10:30 - ok, the cidatel explosion is now my favorite thing about the series
I've known about the bits with the soundtrack and wanted to make a video on it for years, never heard anyone else comment on it before. Here's a few other notable references and Easter eggs from the soundtrack:
-A further note on the title 'CP Violation', since CP violation is a scientific term relating to broken C and P symmetry and is a double meaning for Civil Protection Violation, the name could also be referring to all the junk loaded in the canals breaking the symmetry. Funnily enough there's also another track that plays a little later in the same chapter and is called 'Broken Symmetry'.
-'The Innsbruck Experiment' refers to Gordon's previous experience at the University of Innsbruck which is a school in Austria in real life. Innsbruck is famous for their physics department which studies quantum teleportation (recurring themes in Half-life 2). Judith Mossman and Gordon were both striving to get employed at Black Mesa for the same position. In Half-Life 2 Eli comments to Gordon that she would have taken Gordon's place and would have been in the test chamber on the day of the incident, however Black Mesa ultimately chose Gordon instead due to him having went to Innsbruck.
-'Requiem for Ravenholm' plays as Gordon leaves Ravenholm. The word 'requiem' means 'a Mass for the dead' in the Catholic church, relating to Father Grigori who is a Catholic priest and the zombies. Father Grigori is also Italian and he gives Gordon a SPAS-12 shotgun. The SPAS-12 is a shotgun made by an Italian company called Franchi. To go a step further my guess is that Father Grigori is a Roman Catholic specifically.
-'Probably Not a Problem' is a quote from Half-Life 1 where a scientist says that as Gordon is ready to insert the test sample into the anti-mass spectrometer.
-'Combine Harvester' is a cut track and refers to the Combine as a combine harvester tractor - a big machine that threshes everything in its path, much like how the Combine have drained earth of many resources.
- 'You're Not Supposed To Be Here' is a quote from the G - Man in Half-Life 2's cut hazard course. Half-Life 2 would have had a hazard course similar to Half-Life 1. The story was that the G-Man stuck Gordon in some sort of simulation during his stasis between Half-Life 1 and Half-Life to keep him mentally and physically sharp. When Gordon would try to escape the hazard course he would hear muffled voices (vague voices lol) about his decaying cognitive state and becoming a vegetable. Gordon would reach the end of a hallway with the G-Man and begin to enter a trance. The G- Man would say- "You're not supposed to be here. As a matter of fact, you're not. Get back where you belong and forget about all this. Until...we meet...again."
-'Neutrino Trap' is a renamed song from Half-Life 1 originally called 'Hurricane Strings.' The renamed title is actually a really nerdy joke. A neutrino is a type of particle that can only be seen when in a body of water. When the song first played in Half-Life 1 Gordon was entering the freezer room from the office complex. Since the freezer room had ice and ice is frozen water, any neutrinos would have been trapped.
-'Biozeminade Fragment' is a really old and obscure in-joke. Leading up to Half-Life 2's launch some Half-Life fans were either talking to each other or asking Valve if Half-Life 2 would have biozeminade fragments. Biozeminade fragments are completely made up, they don't exist so it was just troll joke. Marc Laidlaw who has gone on record of stating that he named most of if not all of the tracks in Half-Life 2, explained that he named that one track 'Biozeminade Fragment' as a joke in return, that Half-Life 2 actually does have a biozeminade fragment.
-'Shadows Fore and Aft' is actually a remix of 'Lab Practicum'
-'CP Violation' uses the track 'Nova Prospekt' as a sample
-'Ravenholm Reprise' contains what sounds like Combine radio chatter. This is because Ravenholm was originally going to have Combine soldiers sweeping the area for Gordon. This can be shown in Half-Life 2's E3 2003 demo.
-'Pulse Phase' is actually a section taken from 'Dark Energy' and slowed down
-'Sand Traps' is a sample taken from sampling kit. When sped up it's actually a bunch of bamboo sticks being drummed and rattled
6:12 "Every one is dead. Gordon is dead. Grodon, can you hear me?".......I'm so shocked..
g r o d o n
*grodon*
g r o d o n
All I ask for rn is Chell to probably meet Gordon.
1:14 gaben by the “3” cause u kno why
Wow, a half life 2 facts video with ACTUAL unknown facts!
gordon: * dies *
rebel: d i b s
I love how some of the rebels are like "oh I want to take his stuff" and then most of them are like "no Dr Freeman don't go into the light we need you Don't leave us."
I have the gnome achievement but I've never finished hl2 ep2
oh that is another gnome achievement, when gaben sent the gnome to space
@@eleskeletitto4900 oh right. I thought it was odd.
Guy: *Jumps Down*
*meme of explosion
Sons of a Bitches, they finally did it
They made the crossover episode
😀
if you open turbo of car and crash to a rebel he will die but he will respawn near his dead body
Another fact:
In highway 17, when you are going to go down to the coast in the car, if you shoot with an rpg at the girl on the crane, she will change animation, every time you shoot her with the rpg
It works with all the explosive weapons.
I’ve been trying to find out why this happens for a year now, but I thing it has something to do with an cycler entity.
She's annoying af
9:35 “THE GORDON IS DEAD!!!!”
1:57 combine soldiers are made from people who likes to dance
Pretty sure the Combine aren't dancing, think they're trying to swat away the bug things around them
That rollermine isnt actually a rollermine, its called npc_apc_driver It makes the apc itself work, Look at it in hammer.
4:55 rollermine in the truck, what it gonna do?
3:15
me : no you cant just complete this achievement with writing only one command!!
Noclick : haha console go br br.
3:37 probably useful in mmod
3:00 by the way, you can do 'ent_setname' with anything and get the achievement, for example the plastic basket when you enter the facility. just anything with appropriate size is fine.
"The wrong man in the right place can't make any difference in the world."
I wonder how many hours do you have in Half-Life 2
200+ on Steam and at least 3000-4000 in total (didn't have the game on Steam before, couldn't afford buying stuff on Steam)
@@noclick You have my respect
@@noclick including mods?
The distorted trumpets song is actually a stock sound effect from Cuckooland - Ghost in the Machine. So I doubt that it has any hidden voices that relate to Half Life
9:50 Breaking the fourth wall, are we now?
10:54 those boots used too in Half Life Remake (Black Mesa). Assassins Using this boots
4:53 rollermine here is npc_driver
9:49
when i die for the 15th time in a row
11:37 I think valve planned to make a chapter where freeman drives APC
I did a whole HL2 EP2 playthrough with the gnome and skiped the fun strider fight just for the achivement just for this video showing me how to skip that hell
Beside number 3, there's a Gabe Newell head right beside it
9:36 in gmod sometimes when a resistance dies they will say one of those lines without Gordon Freeman
1:23 gaben face
I think the rooftop chase scene would have been a lot cooler of Gordon jumped down and drove away in a stolen APC
That Gabe tho 01:18!! xD
You can see GABEN's face by the 3 at fact 3
0:56 i accidentally did this when i was playing HL2VR and i was very confused
With number 7 there is a point of doing it if you play mmod, you can grab the gun and take it with you
Triage at dawn is one of the most iconic music tracks for one of the most iconic and important PC games of all time. All kinds of emotions are evoked when you listen to it.
virgin triage at dawn vs Chad slow light
0:54 lol
I found several haphazard textures in Highway 17, there’s one on the first map where if you stand next to the roadblocks, look to the right of the tunnel to a cliffside, you can see a small clip that is hard to unsee
Number 3 i never knew that you could see ravenholm from that part!
number 4 isn't a glitch it's a feature
I loove how he put a transparent Gaben's Head near the 3 Number lmfao.
1:48 its burning animation
At the bit where you fight your first gunship, if you kill the person who opens the gate and tells you to drive safely (you can smear him with the buggy's turbo), you'll get a Game Over for Failure to Preserve Mission-Critical Personnel. I wonder why this wasn't done in the Manhack intro room.
1:15 Something odd at the left up corner, you see it?
I like how number 3 had GabeN on the side.
Did anyone noticed the Gaben in the top left at 1:28 ?
yes
First song plays at the start of the video: wait a minute... 😂☢
Actually, this would be a murder of crows, which is what people say because when a crow is gathered around a dead body, you know a murder happened. 10:14
5:51 - This is how I jump on the balcony when I go home from college.)
I just noticed gaben hiding behind a specific *number* [HL3 comfirmed]
11. Behind one of the doors in the floor level, there's a TV showing a Gman picture. That TV is what's playing that music
1:31 lmao Gabe’s face on the number 3 part
Was not expecting a voiceover halfway through 😅
There’s a single metrocop with a lower quality model and textures than the rest for some reason.
Number 2 might be one of the funniest video game softlocks I’ve seen
Pretty sure valve put the roller mine in the apc to make it move
Congrats on 50,000 and really like the video!
YOOO JAPANESEBUSHBABY AT THE END YOOOOOOOOOOO
Everyone thinks fate is sealed when Gordon dies but there's that one guy who dibs on the suit
The combine soldier in the cannals is the only left over from hl2 beta
There's also commands that are supposed to give you the tau in certain maps
8:14 i thought he meant something else...
you can see gabe newwel's face in 3 (half life 3 joke I guess)
10:44
Imagine a chase segment, when you drive a car as fast as possible to avoid a kilometer-long Citadel gib spiralling down from the skies. All while the other gibs land around, acting either as obstacles or ramps to jump over terrain and save split-seconds.
Then the slab finally hits the ground causing an earthquake that gives you a final push, before the car rolls out of control and lands in a trench. You and Alyx climb out of the car, while still in that trench covering from a huge wave of tree-boulder-metal shrapnel.
After that the dust settles, you and Alyx step out of the ditch and see a massive crater with what appears to be a giant tombstone sticking out. In the background, the detonated Citadel core now proceeds to create a superportal.
Player graviguns the jalopy back on a driveable terrain, and Gordon & Alyx head towards a nearby communication point to contact "White Forest" and see if they survived that.
1:16 nice Gabe Newell you git there Mr. 3
10:54
The black opp assassins from half life one used this tech first because their model has it too
1:40 i already knew you could make soldiers dance lol
Same Like A Soldier Trying Makes Idea Of Rocket Jump
when gordon is dead, and one of the rebels says : spread the word
i think that is a reference to smile dog
because it also says "spread the word..."
3:07 now lamar has a friend on the ride
4:02 Literally unplayable
9:20 you can also prop-fly to skip this section. (and other sections)
u forgot about the insbrook experience track and eli's mentioning of it
Half life 2: source