@@KazyMatmanyep especially in a challenge like this To be honest you can play a singleplayer game however you want since its not ruining anyone else's experience
Gordon is just sprinting around Black Mesa, bleeding to death and a stiff breeze away from keeling over, and yet. Still does better than anyone else in that building at containing the Xen invasion. What a guy.
just goes to show how incompetent the HECU, Black Mesa Security, and even the Black Ops soldiers are at their jobs when some random MIT graduate with an orange suit and a crowbar just baps 'em
Fun Fact: in Surface Tension (or any chapter with an Icthyosaur and some room), you can get the Icthyosaur to swim up under you and take you to the surface. it will be locked in place for as long as you stand on it, and if you jump, the Icthyosaur raises a little. So by spamming the jump button, you can levitate.
I have steam version and the fish literally always get glitched when they try to attack me. Not sure how to explain it by their attack sound plays over and over and even if I stand still they don’t hit me. The heli in surface tension also always crashes itself before I can shoot it down
This is just the way I always play Half Life. I find health, I do something stupid to lose all but a couple hp, then spend an hour repeatedly retrying a section until I get the super specific way of getting through without damage, repeat.
I kinda do the opposite. Play super careful, save scum to make it through most sections without losing more than x health. Find a massive stockpile of shields and health 2 corridors down
Saw the the title and immediately thought "he'll never get passed the freezer section" and then did the guy spitting cereal meme when you actually completed this challenge. Great video, loved the Opposing Force music
Considering it still DAMAGES the player if they have more than 1 hitpoint, I'd say it's still not possible. This is more of a 1-HP run rather than a full on no-damage run.
No no no, it would actually be easier as he wouldn’t be told he was actively bleeding out and would also probably not even survive the anti mass spectrometer in the initial sequence. The HEV suit drained his health in order to get the nice music at the beginning and he never could patch his wounds.
He’s at risk even with that suit on. There was way too much activity, attacks in various ways from multiple parties, as well as so many environmental hazards in the facility that puts Freeman at risk of being severely injured and even dying, even with that God tier HEV suit on. Plus, he never wore a helmet the entire time from Sector C to Xen the whole game. Just the suit.
@TheTechCguy Granted, the helmet was possibly a little hard to see with glasses. Though I don't wear glasses and a black visor for my helmets. But that would beg the question.. Why do Gina's and Cross's suits not get helmet? But every other H.E.V user in Lambda get them? Perhaps Gordon, Gina, and Cross were at the least of dangerous tasks, and the ones at the Lambda Complex were more needed than those at Sector-C.
Imagine playing back in '99 with a dogshit trackball mouse and a fuzzy CRT monitor. The fact that they do as much damage as they do is a little bit psychotic
very interesting challenge run video, commentary isnt too overbearing with annoying attempts at humour, the music is just the right volume and the actual challenge is pretty neat.
@@JohnNash-lt1ny i know, but uploader started with 1 hp as his rule, and i didn't know that you don't die in the freezer like that. But i was thinking about a lot of other places in the video:D
@@MisuAlexandru1 fair enough. I can’t get past any combat section in this game without getting damaged so no hate from me. Every damn head crab in this game hits me once before it dies lol
For the fan room I’m pretty sure there’s a small death wall as a way to try and teach new players to turn off the power before trying to get the loot. But since the wall isn’t actually big enough it doesn’t 100% work
@@KazyMatman Just tested and yes, turning off the power turns off the fan. It doesn't even stop instantly - when you turn off the power it gradually slows to a halt, but you're only fast enough to see it if you noclip.
17:40 Looks like they really went to pieces after you rejected them. Thank you as always for taking on a challenge I was mildly curious about but knew would probably begin to boil me alive not long into starting it. I'm sure my number of deaths would have hypothetically doubled yours, and I would have probably just quit after the first few hundred.
3:35 HL1 has weird behavior when it comes to corpses and moving map geometry like fans or those platforms around the generator in Blast Pit. For some reason if you're inside the corpse's "hitbox" i guess, while something like that is moving, you get instakilled. Dunno _why_ though.
Maybe the damage gets "absorbed" by the entity and since your hitbox overlaps (in certain areas) with the corpse entity itself you both take damage since it tries to deal damage to the whole corpse hitbox Kinda like conducting electricity maybe?
Half-Life: Full Hardcore The gamemode you've been waiting for... - All new challenges - Extreme difficulty - Proceed with caution and save at every step
In ten years time there will be a SummoninSalt video titled "The history of Half-Life No Hit Speedrunning". And this historical achievement will be at the start of the video
20:03 Actually, I think that generator takes only ONE hit to break, it just doesn't kaboom immediately. If you listen, it starts doing the overload sound after the first shot but only explodes when the sound is finished, just like when you do it with the crowbar.
4:28 You can turn off the electricity here if you're observant enough to notice the light switch on the wall left of the entrance (You may already know this idk)
I'm pretty sure the first Half Life glitchless, deathless, damageless, and crowbar only run is the missing piece that's required to complete the ritual to summon Half Life 3 into existence.
To answer your question at 3:32, I'm about 90% positive that the fan is calculated as a sort of spinning kill/damage wall rather than it being it's actual model doing the damage, correct me if I'm wrong though.
"Just like the Vikings did it" ...with Glocks? ..actually, i'm not surprised, if the aliens gave them glocks, they basically would have been the hammer of god... ...*stargate conspiracy theory grows*...
The claw gun you get from the grunts is excellent at killing baby headcrabs and chipping away at enemies’ health from behind cover since the primary fire seeks out targets.
Dang man, you beat me to it! I had finished recording footage through Gonarch, but I lost the recordings. I was considering reattempting the challenge, but then I saw this video! Great job! This challenge is no joke!
Shutting the light switch in the water room in office complex will shut off the fan in the vents that kept killing you. Not sure if you knew this already. Also 9:28 "make it black into back mesa" made me laugh. Also, to your ending point, you absolutely CAN soft lock your game if you quick save at a really bad spot with low health. Like saving right as a headcrab attacks from behind, leaving you no time to avoid it when you load your save. You only proved that it's possible to not soft lock your game if you are careful with your quick saves, or are lucky enough for it not to cause a problem. However, just reloading the last autosave solves the issue, albeit costing up to an hour of game play, causing you to have to replay some sections.
@@galladegamerletsplays well yes of course. Not everyone thinks ahead like that though lol most people keep a single save slot and just overwrite it whenever they save the game. Always keep multiple saves if the game allows for it for this very reason
Once you fire the test rocket motor in Blast Pit you get the fire damage symbol but dont get damage at least when low health. I just learned this this year I think, although I've played the game since 1998, I used to try to tuck my self in the further most corner to protect my self before xD. I guess they made so that you would not get soft locked from progression and the fire damage indicator is just for immersion it seems.
On Hard difficulty, you BETTER know what you’re doing when attempting this challenge. As a Half Life longtimer and pro, I remember how hard just completing it was on Hard difficulty. On all three stories, Freeman to Shepherd. This requires awareness and professionalism up the wazoo here. Also, knowing what to do, what not to do, and all enemy spawn points in all chapters. Nostalgia.😱😎💯
Should've done this challenge on MMOD, it gives some weapons, including crowbar, a missing mouse 2 button alt fire, and for crowbar, alt fire is a stronger hit that one shots headcrabs
3:32 I believe the fans killbox is slightly to large I encountered this during a normal play through I do believe it's the fan because even during a normal play through I still die
@@rm_steele oh I'm sorry I don't use proper punctuation when making a comment on a video that I can't really prove and am just trying to provide a little insight into what might be happening so I'm sorry my lack of punctuation offends you but this is not a professional environment this is the RUclips comment section
@@Kateykat it's not an issue of professionalism lol, it's an issue of readability. if i cared about professionalism i wouldn't be passive aggressively telling you to stop rambling, and i wouldn't be on youtube
@@KazyMatman that training was the best in the world. it got every scientist to become better than the US military. (they just dont know how to pick up guns, dont have the guts to shoot, or didnt have access to any)
A lot of it is also possible only using the crowbar too. Sometimes the soldiers end up getting killed by their own grenades and you an just wait them out, like at 22:48. Is it possible to beat half-life using only the crowbar without taking any damage?
4:28 if memory serves me right you can actually press e and move the table to slide it closer to you, I didn't figure it out till randomly trying it one day, lol.
commenting before a watch but i am looking forward to the Freezer Room EDIT: Ohhhh interesting... the rules of the run (having 1 hp) makes the Freezer Room possible, since it cant kill. but if we were starting at 100 and just resetting every time we took damage, it wouldnt have worked in that instance. cool!
![[WORLD RECORD] Half-Life in 25:57 scriptless Speedrun](/img/1.gif)
_Finally kills headcrab he died to several times._
_Immediately saves._
Same, bro.
Nothing wrong with save scumming
@@KazyMatmanyep especially in a challenge like this
To be honest you can play a singleplayer game however you want since its not ruining anyone else's experience
Gordon is just sprinting around Black Mesa, bleeding to death and a stiff breeze away from keeling over, and yet. Still does better than anyone else in that building at containing the Xen invasion. What a guy.
just goes to show how incompetent the HECU, Black Mesa Security, and even the Black Ops soldiers are at their jobs when some random MIT graduate with an orange suit and a crowbar just baps 'em
@@Maxim_Moldovo Black ops did fufill their mission (nuking Black Mesa)
@hart418 yeah, but only because G-Man undid Shepard's work
True the nuclear bomb wouldn’t have detonated because Shepard disarmed it, only for the G-Man to swap to the terrorist team and re-arm it.
@@bxrrislayy on god, that man switching teams when the one he bet money on is winning too hard and his friends accuse him of cheating
To be honest, that's pretty realistic to how many times an average person would die, had they been thrown to Black Mesa.
That's true
An average person dies one time! XD
@@fostena no idea what you're talking about. as of right now, the average person hasn't died even once
@@brightblackhole2442 well that's a way to think about it 😄
@@brightblackhole2442I wouldn't say so... 8 billion living and 108 billion dead
Fun Fact: in Surface Tension (or any chapter with an Icthyosaur and some room), you can get the Icthyosaur to swim up under you and take you to the surface. it will be locked in place for as long as you stand on it, and if you jump, the Icthyosaur raises a little. So by spamming the jump button, you can levitate.
I have steam version and the fish literally always get glitched when they try to attack me. Not sure how to explain it by their attack sound plays over and over and even if I stand still they don’t hit me. The heli in surface tension also always crashes itself before I can shoot it down
half life if HECU was aiming for the head
half life if the protagonist wasn't superhuman for gameplay's sake
@@LJay205Kid named “the HEV suit”
true lol
@@3DFella Idk what's more sad - your comment or 9 people who liked it
@@fantastikboom1094 but he's right...
Thats the most realistic halflife playthrough ever
It would be neat to see an edited-together shot of the whole run. The Flawless Take.
I also wanted to see a spliced run
Yeeees! Segmented no-damage run!
I literally looked on ytb for a "half life no damage Speedrun"
This is just the way I always play Half Life. I find health, I do something stupid to lose all but a couple hp, then spend an hour repeatedly retrying a section until I get the super specific way of getting through without damage, repeat.
I kinda do the opposite. Play super careful, save scum to make it through most sections without losing more than x health. Find a massive stockpile of shields and health 2 corridors down
Saw the the title and immediately thought "he'll never get passed the freezer section" and then did the guy spitting cereal meme when you actually completed this challenge. Great video, loved the Opposing Force music
Considering it still DAMAGES the player if they have more than 1 hitpoint, I'd say it's still not possible. This is more of a 1-HP run rather than a full on no-damage run.
@@jessegd6306 It only damages armor
did the spitting cereal meme on several sections but definitely including the freezer
I loved the black into back mesa HLVRAI reference XD
Reference
If Gordon Did not use the HEV suit This will happen..
No no no, it would actually be easier as he wouldn’t be told he was actively bleeding out and would also probably not even survive the anti mass spectrometer in the initial sequence. The HEV suit drained his health in order to get the nice music at the beginning and he never could patch his wounds.
@@bxrrislayy True
He’s at risk even with that suit on. There was way too much activity, attacks in various ways from multiple parties, as well as so many environmental hazards in the facility that puts Freeman at risk of being severely injured and even dying, even with that God tier HEV suit on. Plus, he never wore a helmet the entire time from Sector C to Xen the whole game. Just the suit.
@TheTechCguy Granted, the helmet was possibly a little hard to see with glasses. Though I don't wear glasses and a black visor for my helmets.
But that would beg the question..
Why do Gina's and Cross's suits not get helmet? But every other H.E.V user in Lambda get them?
Perhaps Gordon, Gina, and Cross were at the least of dangerous tasks, and the ones at the Lambda Complex were more needed than those at Sector-C.
Headcrabs. “Kinda annoying” he says, there the bane of your existence. They’re annoying even when you’ve got 100% health.
Imagine playing back in '99 with a dogshit trackball mouse and a fuzzy CRT monitor. The fact that they do as much damage as they do is a little bit psychotic
I KNEW that yay sound effect would play once you hit 1000 deaths. I KNEW IT!
very interesting challenge run video, commentary isnt too overbearing with annoying attempts at humour, the music is just the right volume and the actual challenge is pretty neat.
Thanks!
This
"Black into Back Mesa" caught me off guard! Nice reference, my fellow scientist!
so many moments that I thought they were impossible not to get damage. Great video!
Thanks you!
Freezer is impossible to not get damaged
@@JohnNash-lt1ny i know, but uploader started with 1 hp as his rule, and i didn't know that you don't die in the freezer like that. But i was thinking about a lot of other places in the video:D
@@MisuAlexandru1 Do you lose health if you are above 1?
@@MisuAlexandru1 fair enough. I can’t get past any combat section in this game without getting damaged so no hate from me. Every damn head crab in this game hits me once before it dies lol
i have the impression half-life is named like that because you can't get to play the game to the end with more than 50 hp
For the fan room I’m pretty sure there’s a small death wall as a way to try and teach new players to turn off the power before trying to get the loot. But since the wall isn’t actually big enough it doesn’t 100% work
Wait, does turning off the power turn the fan off too. It makes sense but I always go to the fan first.
@@KazyMatman Just tested and yes, turning off the power turns off the fan. It doesn't even stop instantly - when you turn off the power it gradually slows to a halt, but you're only fast enough to see it if you noclip.
I loved the multiple fighting death's with that one failed jump death with no explanation, then back to even more combat deaths, 10/10 video
Thank you!
17:40 Looks like they really went to pieces after you rejected them.
Thank you as always for taking on a challenge I was mildly curious about but knew would probably begin to boil me alive not long into starting it. I'm sure my number of deaths would have hypothetically doubled yours, and I would have probably just quit after the first few hundred.
Had only watched from you the crowbar only run around the time it came out, recently re-watched it along with the crouch run, and boom new vid.
I see HL played in 800*600 mode and with old models = i see a man of culture
3:35 HL1 has weird behavior when it comes to corpses and moving map geometry like fans or those platforms around the generator in Blast Pit. For some reason if you're inside the corpse's "hitbox" i guess, while something like that is moving, you get instakilled. Dunno _why_ though.
Maybe the damage gets "absorbed" by the entity and since your hitbox overlaps (in certain areas) with the corpse entity itself you both take damage since it tries to deal damage to the whole corpse hitbox
Kinda like conducting electricity maybe?
man the time taken to edit the heal values to avoid semantics and the added death counter reaslly adds to this video.
definite sub
another banger video kazy
9:23 the reference is immaculate
Half-Life: Full Hardcore
The gamemode you've been waiting for...
- All new challenges
- Extreme difficulty
- Proceed with caution and save at every step
the immediate save after killing that headcrab 🤣
im so good at the gam- *dies several times without knowing how to pass the green tentacles creatures nonstop*
you absolute madlad!
major props for trying this!
Thank you!
Ok at the 3ish minute mark. I have never seen a bullsquid hit that shot. Holy shit
Save Scums became Save Necessities.
Very underrated channel, keep it up and the views will come eventually. 👍
Thank you!
In ten years time there will be a SummoninSalt video titled "The history of Half-Life No Hit Speedrunning". And this historical achievement will be at the start of the video
13:29 what kind of looney toons ahh grenade was that💀
I love the irony of a no damage run starting with you throwing yourself off a ledge repeatedly.
13:31 The way he simply stood there like "Oh, shit I'm gonna die" was hilarious to me
Half-Life if Gordon forgot the HEV suit in the locker room
29:33 "You don't look as if you have any trouble killing."
You're goddamn right.
20:03
Actually, I think that generator takes only ONE hit to break, it just doesn't kaboom immediately. If you listen, it starts doing the overload sound after the first shot but only explodes when the sound is finished, just like when you do it with the crowbar.
4:28 You can turn off the electricity here if you're observant enough to notice the light switch on the wall left of the entrance (You may already know this idk)
''without taking damage'' proceeds to take damage the entirety of the run but still keeps going anyway
I'm pretty sure the first Half Life glitchless, deathless, damageless, and crowbar only run is the missing piece that's required to complete the ritual to summon Half Life 3 into existence.
Half-life if Gordon Didn't wear the suit
"I can jump on the pipe to avoid the acid" that is what your supposed to do.
Half life 1 without plot armor
This is what my first playthrough of Half-Life was like. Constantly low on health, always making quicksaves.
To answer your question at 3:32, I'm about 90% positive that the fan is calculated as a sort of spinning kill/damage wall rather than it being it's actual model doing the damage, correct me if I'm wrong though.
9:24 "Make it black into back mesa" lol
This makes pistol starting plutonia looks easy
For the record, the fan room in Office Complex will almost always kill you unless you flip that main breaker in the lounge with the barnacles.
Turning off the guiding laser on the rocket launcher would make it easier to fight non-helicopters, like the tanks and the Gonarch.
(5:10)
You sure did pal, you sure did.
Gordon Freeman if he wasn't the main character:
The grind might not have been fun, but the video sure was!
Thank you!
"Just like the Vikings did it"
...with Glocks? ..actually, i'm not surprised, if the aliens gave them glocks, they basically would have been the hammer of god...
...*stargate conspiracy theory grows*...
Some cuts are plain hilarious. Subbed.
The claw gun you get from the grunts is excellent at killing baby headcrabs and chipping away at enemies’ health from behind cover since the primary fire seeks out targets.
As well as destroying the Nihilanths attacks
Dang man, you beat me to it! I had finished recording footage through Gonarch, but I lost the recordings. I was considering reattempting the challenge, but then I saw this video! Great job! This challenge is no joke!
You should still do it! (If you have the patience to do it all over again)
Half Life but Gordon forgot to put the HEV suit on.
16:00 on this episode of "Ow my balls!"
13:54 what a "in your face" moment
We actually don't know if Gordon has weapons training, as he is American and considering our culture I imagine he wasn't unfamiliar
According to the lore he has done multiple HEV hazard courses where he got his weapon training. 🤷🏼♂️
Shutting the light switch in the water room in office complex will shut off the fan in the vents that kept killing you. Not sure if you knew this already. Also 9:28 "make it black into back mesa" made me laugh. Also, to your ending point, you absolutely CAN soft lock your game if you quick save at a really bad spot with low health. Like saving right as a headcrab attacks from behind, leaving you no time to avoid it when you load your save. You only proved that it's possible to not soft lock your game if you are careful with your quick saves, or are lucky enough for it not to cause a problem. However, just reloading the last autosave solves the issue, albeit costing up to an hour of game play, causing you to have to replay some sections.
Quicksaving right before you die is the worst
would it be possible to load an earlier save right before you die to them?
@@galladegamerletsplays well yes of course. Not everyone thinks ahead like that though lol most people keep a single save slot and just overwrite it whenever they save the game. Always keep multiple saves if the game allows for it for this very reason
half life if gordon didn't put on his hazard suit
Once you fire the test rocket motor in Blast Pit you get the fire damage symbol but dont get damage at least when low health. I just learned this this year I think, although I've played the game since 1998, I used to try to tuck my self in the further most corner to protect my self before xD. I guess they made so that you would not get soft locked from progression and the fire damage indicator is just for immersion it seems.
half life, but gordon is recovering from his morphine addiction
"What if Gordon forgot to put on the HEV suit?"
9:07 I got stuck at this part for sooooo long when I played on hard mode. I could not figure out how to kill them all so I had to just run past them.
On Hard difficulty, you BETTER know what you’re doing when attempting this challenge. As a Half Life longtimer and pro, I remember how hard just completing it was on Hard difficulty. On all three stories, Freeman to Shepherd. This requires awareness and professionalism up the wazoo here. Also, knowing what to do, what not to do, and all enemy spawn points in all chapters. Nostalgia.😱😎💯
damn i didn't know you were so underrated this content is golden and amazing bro ❤
Thanks so much!
Now instead of Half-Life, it's "Realistic Life"
20:02 - actually the generator breaks in just one hit. There is just a few seconds long scripted scene before it explodes.
alternative title:Half life but your a scientist without an hev suit
Looks like a lot of pain
I came here to see how to avoid taking damage to the falling pipe lol
P.S. oh my GOD the snipers are the single worst thing in this game
Glad I could help!
the voiceover is just peak lol
Nice run bro. Discovered your channel not too long ago but loving the vids man. Have a good day 👍🏻
Half life if gordon forgot the hev suit
Should've done this challenge on MMOD, it gives some weapons, including crowbar, a missing mouse 2 button alt fire, and for crowbar, alt fire is a stronger hit that one shots headcrabs
Before watching the video i already know that alien controllers in interloper and end of lambda core would be a nightmare
Birdperson plays 1hp Half Life challenge.
I wonder if you can do the same in Black Mesa? Might be fun to compare the challenge between the two
One day
22:28 If You take the Hazard Course as canon event then this scientist does have some gun training
3:32 I believe the fans killbox is slightly to large I encountered this during a normal play through I do believe it's the fan because even during a normal play through I still die
,..,,.
@@rm_steele....?
@@Kateykat it's some punctuation you can use free of charge
@@rm_steele oh I'm sorry I don't use proper punctuation when making a comment on a video that I can't really prove and am just trying to provide a little insight into what might be happening so I'm sorry my lack of punctuation offends you but this is not a professional environment this is the RUclips comment section
@@Kateykat it's not an issue of professionalism lol, it's an issue of readability. if i cared about professionalism i wouldn't be passive aggressively telling you to stop rambling, and i wouldn't be on youtube
Underated asf
22:27 nuh uh. he got like a minute of training in the black mesa hazard course
True. How could I be so foolish!?
@@KazyMatman that training was the best in the world. it got every scientist to become better than the US military. (they just dont know how to pick up guns, dont have the guts to shoot, or didnt have access to any)
about 250 hours of half life and i had no idea about this random room with the turret at 5:20
We need to see the entire run without the deaths just save compilation. I hope one day someone can do it without a death.
the gonarch fight is actually what made me never even complete the original half life
Really? It's not that bad in a casual run.
@@KazyMatman I don't know, it just really didn't vibe with me, maybe I'll give it another shot
half life but you dont have your HEV suit
This is just how the game feels for me (I am nearly constantly at
A lot of it is also possible only using the crowbar too. Sometimes the soldiers end up getting killed by their own grenades and you an just wait them out, like at 22:48. Is it possible to beat half-life using only the crowbar without taking any damage?
I want to do a crowbar only run but I don't have the patience to combine challenges. Lol
I would love to see a split run of all the good attempts and see how would look a complete no damage run.
Anyone knows the music used on fragment 37:00 - 37:30?
4:28 if memory serves me right you can actually press e and move the table to slide it closer to you, I didn't figure it out till randomly trying it one day, lol.
9:24 HLVRAI JOKE!!!
Really enjoyed watching this, have you tried opposing force with the same challenge goal???
Not yet but it's on my list!
LOOK GORDON A HLVRAI REFERANCE! (9:24)
commenting before a watch but i am looking forward to the Freezer Room
EDIT: Ohhhh interesting... the rules of the run (having 1 hp) makes the Freezer Room possible, since it cant kill. but if we were starting at 100 and just resetting every time we took damage, it wouldnt have worked in that instance. cool!
I guess Valve coded it so you can't die and softlock there.