I do like that HLA depicted Striders as a bit more mobile, in that they dig their feet into buildings to climb things. Makes em a bit cooler and scarier.
Imagine just chilling in bed and your housemate (since let's be real, it'd be a lot of communal living in city 17) just gets skewered through the fucking wall, and his broken body gets dragged outside as the synthetic beast pulls its leg out of your apartment to spontaneously devalue someone else's flat.
@@FormaldeHyena Strider: Accidentally impales my room mate while climbing the building. Me: "I told him he should move his bed away from the wall, but he didn't listen."
@@DayDay-d3v Which mean their Commanders are freakin dumb, Or I guess Playing Tactics Because Human Tech cant Stand againts Strider's Spamming tactics SPAM STRIDER AND LEAVE 1000 OF THEM IN EARTH
Dr. Breen: I have negotiated with an alien force known as the Combine to spare humanity from total annihilation while also making me the supreme leader of Earth. Also Dr. Breen: This story about a lungfish will get my citizens to stop rebelling.
You kind of get the feeling that Breen thinks he's talking to people along in a room with them, and not to people engaged in battle out on the field. The very instinct he decries in a earlier speech would make people deaf to his pleas in this one. Maybe he's hoping to catch people during a lull in the battle or something. This video does a good job to illustrate how out of touch he seems compared to the situation of those on the ground.
This is exceptional work. You perfectly encompassed the feeling of City 17 devoured by war. I also loved your use of the more advanced strider movement seen in Alyx!
@@sagittarius9298 Yes and no. Valve isn't. The same modders who did Update are, but its not on Source 2. Its on the CSGO version of Source 1 and likely isn't going to be that visually different than the base game. Mostly just improved lighting and effects, and most importantly, Steam Workshop support.
I love the last part where when the strider dies you can hear all of the resistance members cheering like it is a great victory. When in reality, that one strider is one of trillions across all of the combines controlled planets.
always loved the tone of this section of hl2. dr. breen explaining his cold immoral logic over speakers while the combine just murder everyone. it perfectly encapsulates the horror aspect of the game.
valve has all the ressources to make it happen but yea... we all know why that won't work. I love and hate valve... but I guess the valve we have right now is still much better than seeing them turn into EA.
@@Mr_Dizzles to be honest, valve said that they want half life games to be innovative and as cool as a remaster would be I don't think it would be something that fits that description, but hopefully the new half life 2 remaster by the people who did half life 2 update will be good
one of the scariest backround sounds you can hear in hl2 is what sounds like hundreds of people shouting and fighting, then a massive amount of gunfire followed by utter silence. i think about it alot.
Man, you've done it again. The HL:A version of Striders are so much more menacing and intimidating than the original HL2 depiction. I love how they made them able to actually climb buildings. Not to mention how much more powerful their weaponry looks now in this. You're by far the best hl2 S2FM animator out there, please don't stop making these! They're absolute masterpieces.
the strider in HLA is basically looks the same as the one in half life 2, just remodeled to modern standard and textures, but yes done to do different things then what was limited in 2004
I'm still gutted they changed the noise of the Strider's autocannon. It had such a unique sound in HL2 but now it just sounds like a generic machine gun
What is Breen supposed to do? According to "Epistle 3", the combine is so incomprehensibly more powerful than humanity which is evident because they literally have a dyson sphere giving them energy (and probably one of many). They defeated and put the entire world's military might into submission in only 7 hours. He has no choice but to make deals with the combine.
@@Galorchs In reality there is something left in City 17 after the meltdown, some buildings stand up most of them are in the outscares of the city, but the downtown is completly gone
You can see in HL2:E2 (the ledge bit near the train) that there is still an extensive urban jungle remaining in the ruins. However, good luck getting there without some serious protective gear. Not even your HEV suit is gonna protect you from all the radiation.
Striders have ALWAYS been my favorite half life creature. Something about the three legs and robotic alien design are just so iconic and they’re a great functional piece of combat equipment!
I really love all the extra stuff happening. Soldiers moving on the bridge, dropships all around and of course the Strider moving along and fighting. Plus I love the bonus of a Resistance Member firing on a damaged Strider. It's really amazing on how much you made happen without moving past that 1 camera shot and angle. Same reason I loved your video on Kleiners speech.
@@TheParryGod Regardless, it's very satisfying to utilize the assets Valve has offered into expanding the game's universe and lore. Looking forward to see more with what you can create with S2FM!
When source 2 eventually becomes more open and available for devs to work on, I hope a team of professionals does a crowbar collective and remaster or remake Half-life 2, even if they don't do the episodes, just the idea of source 2 ravenholm, or source 2 nova prospekt is chilling
Extremely good. I always wanted light, simple software that had scenes like this being simulated in the background, with lots of variations but low intensity of activity, kinda like a Demoscene/wallpaper hybrid. This is really good and inspiring!
I have never seen the Combine so accurately and terrifyingly depicted. You really know how to make a horrifying backdrop to show the Overwatch as they truely are, a brutally efficient and oppressive hyper-technologically advanced military force. Great animation!!
I absolutely love these sudden uploads not only they are perfectly tunes perfectly presented but they spectacularly capture the whole dread and hoplessness theme The whole city is decimated and yet breen continues to spell nonsense
After my dad showed me the half life series my favorite character out of all the series was the strider and I love seeing people use the strider in unique ways like how you did here. I also love how you put the detail of it looking around the rest of the area before continuing on it's path. Keep up the good work and I will make sure to show my dad your content aswell
As much as I regret not getting to have the HL2 Beta, the retail version still has one of the most original visual world styles I've ever seen. This is such a breath of fresh air to see it again in such detail. My eyes had gotten used to the original source engine so it's nice to see it again like it's the first time.
"as if such terms were shameful." He says as the alien he is "Collaborating" with is shelling a building. I love that you basically told how disconnected Breen was from the reality in 5 seconds.
These videos really remind me of the hl2 opening screen backgrounds! Awesome work:) Really hoping that valve some day decides to to do something with the week time gap of the uprising, it is a very interesting setting. (maybe the citadel project but that’s just wistful thinking lol)
That was so satisfying to see that strider get taken down and everyone cheering. I love these environments you create! It looks like a proper adaptation of hl2 in a modern game engine, and every movement in the scene tells a story.
That's so cool that the clearly injured Strider looked like it was struggling to stay standing and limping before it got taken down. This is seriously awesome, dude.
The camera angle with the city reminds me of the street combat segment of the level "eviction" from Call of duty World at War (specifically how they showed a segment of that in the main menu)
If you could remake all those backgrounds from Half-life 2, and be able to expand them with more content, more drawing distance, more atmosphere, more oppression and invasion by the combine with it's technologies, more alive by humans and aliens, it will be a dream come true for now.
Everything in this is absolutely stunning to watch, I have no idea how animating stuff this nicely works. I gotta learn how to animate in SFM (S2FM is a bit out of my reach right now), stuff like this is so cool!
"Are all the accomplishments of humanity fated to be nothing more than a layer of plastic shards, thinly strewn across the fossil bed, sandwiched between the Burgess shale and an aeon's worth of mud?" Someone get that speechwriter an Oscar.
That is extremely detailed. Honestly one of the best works of art I have ever seen so far on the half life 2 universe! Proud you used the source2FM to good use. Maybe this will inspire others to make great pieces like it. Also I just wanna point out that camera placement could not have been more perfect. It shows off the scale of those striders and that massive looming tower of doom in the background. 10/10 (This should be a desktop background, possibly a poster to hang on a wall)
I wasn't paying attention fully to the scenery, When I saw the combine on the right side with the flashing red light I thought I just got jumpscared by Dead-pool
I love this so much!! It just shows how much terror and attention to detail you have! One thing that I would like to make this even more amazing would maybe if you took the music out and left in the chatter of breen and all the sound effects. It would really add to the atmosphere of the war
When you take the lines of breen's speeches into account I can see how he isn't completely the bad guy since he's hoping that the transhuman forces might give the combine a reason to keep humanity alive
I feel bad for the striders, something about them makes me feel like they would have been gentle creatures if not for the Combine. They sound so sad when they die which is a very good contrast against how frightening and dangerous they are
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I do like that HLA depicted Striders as a bit more mobile, in that they dig their feet into buildings to climb things. Makes em a bit cooler and scarier.
Agreed!
Would be scarier if they could jump. Just imagine one landing right on top of you. Seeing those legs, I bet they can.
Imagine just chilling in bed and your housemate (since let's be real, it'd be a lot of communal living in city 17) just gets skewered through the fucking wall, and his broken body gets dragged outside as the synthetic beast pulls its leg out of your apartment to spontaneously devalue someone else's flat.
@@FormaldeHyena agreedd
@@FormaldeHyena Strider: Accidentally impales my room mate while climbing the building.
Me: "I told him he should move his bed away from the wall, but he didn't listen."
That strider had more character development than anyone in hunt down the freeman
facts xD
in what way
In every way
Character development?
I love how the hl community just shits on HDTF at any chance lol
Man, the Striders really tore the hell out of this place
That's a perfect reason why the Combine used them in the Seven-Hour-War
@@DayDay-d3v Which mean their Commanders are freakin dumb, Or I guess Playing Tactics Because Human Tech cant Stand againts Strider's Spamming tactics
SPAM STRIDER AND LEAVE 1000 OF THEM IN EARTH
And Strider Cannon Equal to Tank Destroyer's Gun
It would appear that nobody above me got the reference
@@HoppingSkipper beand
I LOVE the fast, stabbing motion of the legs on the strider! Really does the way that they walk justice.
X2
Always been one of my favourite aspects of Half Life.
Dr. Breen: I have negotiated with an alien force known as the Combine to spare humanity from total annihilation while also making me the supreme leader of Earth.
Also Dr. Breen: This story about a lungfish will get my citizens to stop rebelling.
You kind of get the feeling that Breen thinks he's talking to people along in a room with them, and not to people engaged in battle out on the field. The very instinct he decries in a earlier speech would make people deaf to his pleas in this one.
Maybe he's hoping to catch people during a lull in the battle or something. This video does a good job to illustrate how out of touch he seems compared to the situation of those on the ground.
Breen just really likes palaeontology and wanted an excuse to talk about it
This is exceptional work. You perfectly encompassed the feeling of City 17 devoured by war. I also loved your use of the more advanced strider movement seen in Alyx!
This makes me want a Source 2 remake of HL2 even more than I already did.
Hello there fellow Transhumanist.
@@eternal7912 they are gonna remaster the game and make a new graphical version soon
@@sagittarius9298 Yes and no. Valve isn't. The same modders who did Update are, but its not on Source 2. Its on the CSGO version of Source 1 and likely isn't going to be that visually different than the base game. Mostly just improved lighting and effects, and most importantly, Steam Workshop support.
I love the last part where when the strider dies you can hear all of the resistance members cheering like it is a great victory. When in reality, that one strider is one of trillions across all of the combines controlled planets.
yup, the horror that they put amongst the resistance is quite disruptive
To me it feels almost sad, the strider is an enslaved species of the combine and it sounds more like it's in pain when it dies
Meh it's became thousand on earth when the resistance already shut the super portal in ep2
@@fuzzijuice8852 honestly it's the same with the humans in civil protection since they also got brainwashed and forced to do the Combine's bidding
Taking them down at all is already difficult, so it's sort of an achievement
always loved the tone of this section of hl2. dr. breen explaining his cold immoral logic over speakers while the combine just murder everyone. it perfectly encapsulates the horror aspect of the game.
Imagine a half life 2 remaster that looked like this...
better yet, imagine a half life 3 that looked like this
valve has all the ressources to make it happen but yea... we all know why that won't work. I love and hate valve... but I guess the valve we have right now is still much better than seeing them turn into EA.
@@Mr_Dizzles to be honest, valve said that they want half life games to be innovative and as cool as a remaster would be I don't think it would be something that fits that description, but hopefully the new half life 2 remaster by the people who did half life 2 update will be good
A remake then
TheParryGod is working on a fan made Source 2 VR remake of HL2 called Project 17.
one of the scariest backround sounds you can hear in hl2 is what sounds like hundreds of people shouting and fighting, then a massive amount of gunfire followed by utter silence. i think about it alot.
Me too
i think the sound file is called streetwar_riot02.wav or something along those lines but yeah i get what you mean hl2's ambience is incredible
Man, you've done it again. The HL:A version of Striders are so much more menacing and intimidating than the original HL2 depiction. I love how they made them able to actually climb buildings. Not to mention how much more powerful their weaponry looks now in this.
You're by far the best hl2 S2FM animator out there, please don't stop making these! They're absolute masterpieces.
yes
the strider in HLA is basically looks the same as the one in half life 2, just remodeled to modern standard and textures, but yes done to do different things then what was limited in 2004
yeah them climbing buildings makes em harder to hit
I'm still gutted they changed the noise of the Strider's autocannon. It had such a unique sound in HL2 but now it just sounds like a generic machine gun
They made construction strider climb buildings, we don't know if normal striders will do that
I fucking love you. You get my combine obsession JUST RIGHT. You know what if feels like.
Glory to our benefactors
Long live the Universal Union
Hello fellow transhumanists!
Long Live the Universal Union.
@@TheParryGod All hail -Combine- *Universal Union*
0:47 I love how the strider naturally knocks the lamp pole away as it walks, it just makes sense
Love or hate him, he’s spittin mad facts right now
The Universal Union truly is the only way forward for Humanity.
What is Breen supposed to do? According to "Epistle 3", the combine is so incomprehensibly more powerful than humanity which is evident because they literally have a dyson sphere giving them energy (and probably one of many). They defeated and put the entire world's military might into submission in only 7 hours. He has no choice but to make deals with the combine.
@@caketakeshh That's not canon
@@vic_t0r260 the combine defeating humanity in 7 hours is canon
I'd like to be a metrocop. Fuck rebels they don't know what they want. Combine power!
I've always loved Battle-Ruined City 17. I would love to see more of it in future installments of Half-Life.
Returning to the nuked City 17
There would be nothing left of city 17 after the meltdown
@@Galorchs In reality there is something left in City 17 after the meltdown, some buildings stand up most of them are in the outscares of the city, but the downtown is completly gone
@@marklems5894 Outskirts sure, but yeah everything in it would be completely gone
You can see in HL2:E2 (the ledge bit near the train) that there is still an extensive urban jungle remaining in the ruins.
However, good luck getting there without some serious protective gear. Not even your HEV suit is gonna protect you from all the radiation.
Striders have ALWAYS been my favorite half life creature. Something about the three legs and robotic alien design are just so iconic and they’re a great functional piece of combat equipment!
I love how you can see the Resistance slowy winning when the strider finally gets taken down and Dr. Breen's speech malfunctions
The vibes are strong with this one.
Yeesh, this brings back old memories.
I haven't seen your name in years.
I really love all the extra stuff happening. Soldiers moving on the bridge, dropships all around and of course the Strider moving along and fighting. Plus I love the bonus of a Resistance Member firing on a damaged Strider.
It's really amazing on how much you made happen without moving past that 1 camera shot and angle. Same reason I loved your video on Kleiners speech.
Never seen striders animated so well. Amazing job :D
All that credit goes to Valve. I just stitch the animations together ;)
@@TheParryGod That's fine but *valve didn't add that screen shake when the strider walked over the camera*
@@TheParryGod Regardless, it's very satisfying to utilize the assets Valve has offered into expanding the game's universe and lore. Looking forward to see more with what you can create with S2FM!
Man the strider walking like a wall spider is one nightmarish scene, great job on the animation
Good God, the warp cannon sounds like a warp cannon in this
"Oh my God... Striders really tore the hell out of this place..."
When source 2 eventually becomes more open and available for devs to work on, I hope a team of professionals does a crowbar collective and remaster or remake Half-life 2, even if they don't do the episodes, just the idea of source 2 ravenholm, or source 2 nova prospekt is chilling
it’d be awesome to have that on top of all the other cool fan projects being made in Source *1*
well there probally will be even if only a level look at black mesa
Hell, even with the current Source engine you could probably make some major overhauls to Half-Life 2
I love that the strider can shoot into windows like that now. Makes it so much more threatening. Great work!
Extremely good. I always wanted light, simple software that had scenes like this being simulated in the background, with lots of variations but low intensity of activity, kinda like a Demoscene/wallpaper hybrid. This is really good and inspiring!
Would make a nice wallpaper engine wallpaper
that shouting after they killed the strider with a rocket, was just... awesome, awesome feeling
i want half life 3 so much gabe
Now, I really want a Half-Life 2 Remake looking like THIS in VR.
Now THAT would be EPIC.
Why not just HL3?
Main character: S T R I D E R
+Zakke ok a lot of combat Striders
Half-Life: World of Striders
STTTRRRIIIDER!!!!
Even the little projects look amazing especially with all the little details put in
I love your content, it's one of those things that keep me interested in this case in half life
I have never seen the Combine so accurately and terrifyingly depicted. You really know how to make a horrifying backdrop to show the Overwatch as they truely are, a brutally efficient and oppressive hyper-technologically advanced military force. Great animation!!
I absolutely love these sudden uploads not only they are perfectly tunes perfectly presented but they spectacularly capture the whole dread and hoplessness theme
The whole city is decimated and yet breen continues to spell nonsense
After my dad showed me the half life series my favorite character out of all the series was the strider and I love seeing people use the strider in unique ways like how you did here. I also love how you put the detail of it looking around the rest of the area before continuing on it's path. Keep up the good work and I will make sure to show my dad your content aswell
As much as I regret not getting to have the HL2 Beta, the retail version still has one of the most original visual world styles I've ever seen. This is such a breath of fresh air to see it again in such detail. My eyes had gotten used to the original source engine so it's nice to see it again like it's the first time.
"as if such terms were shameful."
He says as the alien he is "Collaborating" with is shelling a building.
I love that you basically told how disconnected Breen was from the reality in 5 seconds.
I love this speech in particular. Now, with your marvelous animation, I can love even more!
Dr. Breen is one of the best written villains I've ever seen, and I love every speech
These videos really remind me of the hl2 opening screen backgrounds! Awesome work:) Really hoping that valve some day decides to to do something with the week time gap of the uprising, it is a very interesting setting.
(maybe the citadel project but that’s just wistful thinking lol)
That was so satisfying to see that strider get taken down and everyone cheering. I love these environments you create! It looks like a proper adaptation of hl2 in a modern game engine, and every movement in the scene tells a story.
man this is just awesome
Wow, wow, wow. The level of extreme detail, the sounds. This is some next level Half-Life content, the best I've ever seen on RUclips...period.
the striders in source 2 are just phenomenal, really just striders in general i love seeing animations with them
Such powerful animation and sound work. You blew it out the water. Gave me the shivers.
The dust from every action looks so cool and real. Overall this is top notch.
Beautiful. Looks like an official remaster.
Brought back the feeling of when the strider reactivated in HLA, phenomenal work as always.
Another fine addition to my D&D campaign...
Man, you keep Half-Life alive, these are sooo good I can't get enough of it
That's so cool that the clearly injured Strider looked like it was struggling to stay standing and limping before it got taken down. This is seriously awesome, dude.
Its a mess out there.
This close to the citadel, they've turned the streets over to striders.
The camera angle with the city reminds me of the street combat segment of the level "eviction" from Call of duty World at War (specifically how they showed a segment of that in the main menu)
My god, everything from the clouds surrounding the citadel to the way the strider's beam cannon throws up dust when it fires, triple A+ my dude.
Looks pretty damn good, nice work!
It looks... awesome man... I like it
It looks so beautiful!
If you could remake all those backgrounds from Half-life 2, and be able to expand them with more content, more drawing distance, more atmosphere, more oppression and invasion by the combine with it's technologies, more alive by humans and aliens, it will be a dream come true for now.
I like how the strider goes from climbing a building to shooting to getting blown up
This is damn cool, really amazing work
Everything in this is absolutely stunning to watch, I have no idea how animating stuff this nicely works. I gotta learn how to animate in SFM (S2FM is a bit out of my reach right now), stuff like this is so cool!
Your ability to tell a deep story visually sets you apart. Love it.
"Are all the accomplishments of humanity fated to be nothing more than a layer of plastic shards, thinly strewn across the fossil bed, sandwiched between the Burgess shale and an aeon's worth of mud?"
Someone get that speechwriter an Oscar.
The animation is so well made, I love the ambient helicopters and dropships that fly in the sky above the cam! Great work!
Man your content is just awesome, thank you for sharing this beauty! Already can't wait for the next one :D
Man, this channel is awosome and talented, please don't stop making videos.
Gorgeous work.
Once again I felt the full range of emotions associated with this dark universe. Спасибо за твои труды!
The best part about these speech videos is the look of the everyday life. Like these happenings are a routine during these battles.
This is MINDBLOWING! The work in setting up the ambiance is 👀👌
Thanks!
Nagyon jól el lett találva a hangulat! Sokan átesnek a ló túloldalára mikor Half Life animációról van szó.
That is extremely detailed. Honestly one of the best works of art I have ever seen so far on the half life 2 universe! Proud you used the source2FM to good use. Maybe this will inspire others to make great pieces like it. Also I just wanna point out that camera placement could not have been more perfect. It shows off the scale of those striders and that massive looming tower of doom in the background. 10/10 (This should be a desktop background, possibly a poster to hang on a wall)
Fantastic work!
Really great work
Excellent work as always, I love the Strider clearing out the building vertically!
Edit: I commented before the cannon blast, that was amazing
I wasn't paying attention fully to the scenery, When I saw the combine on the right side with the flashing red light I thought I just got jumpscared by Dead-pool
Feels like one of those background maps in HL2 but for an official remastered version. Very nice 👍
God tier work!!!
A looping version of this for Wallpaper Engine would be frickin amazing, my God
Dude this is so well made, fantastic job man, you earned a sub.
Wow! Just wow! This is godly! Every detail! It's like real fotage found in streets... You need to work at valve at this point. Breathtaking
WOW, this is really great! :O
I looooove HL2 and your work in these videos is a worthy tribute. ❤️
Duuuuuudee, this is really awsome ! Congratulations and thanks !
I love this so much!! It just shows how much terror and attention to detail you have! One thing that I would like to make this even more amazing would maybe if you took the music out and left in the chatter of breen and all the sound effects. It would really add to the atmosphere of the war
I feel like this could be a menu screen for a remastered Half Life 2. Great work!
The Half-Life universe will never die, and I will love it forever. Thanks a lot for your amazing work!
I can only imagine what a proper battle or machinima will look like with your talent
GOD I JUST GOT TO YOUR ACCOUNT YOU ENCOMPASS THE COMBINE PERFECTLY AAAAA
I love the background noise. The bombs, the screaming, the distant gunfire. UGH. I love it.
When you take the lines of breen's speeches into account I can see how he isn't completely the bad guy since he's hoping that the transhuman forces might give the combine a reason to keep humanity alive
Simply amazing. This is cinema-level quality.
BEST BRO THIS IS FIREEEE!!!!OMGGG NICE
This is incredible
Poor Strider at the end.
Hey, at least the Resistance learns a score
I feel bad for the striders, something about them makes me feel like they would have been gentle creatures if not for the Combine. They sound so sad when they die which is a very good contrast against how frightening and dangerous they are
@@drpompo I think striders and other synths were scrapped projects from other planets or species that got augmented Into robotic creatures.
This is amazing. Great work.
Just pumping out the bangers!
holy shit i love the presentation on this and your dr. kleiner video
Holy shit, this is beautiful
Very well made!! I love the atmospherics :)
Your stuff just absolutely ROCKS
Awesome!