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Is the episode supposed to be without any sound? Other youtube vids I'm getting sound with. E: Nevermind, I somehow fuckin' hit the button to mute that particular tab
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I got a slight jumpscare from the mannequins tumbling out of the closet, hah.
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Maple Leaf posted:
Aw man, that message on the whiteboard is just... It just got to me.
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I've said it before, but I still really love the aesthetic of the Combine's weird mix of harsh, blocky but thin metal technology along with gross body-horror biomechanics. Also, I think the inhabitant of that one bedroom may have been a Vortiguant - the ticks on the wall measured off eight sections of whatever time it's supposed to represent.
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Man... The fact that the Combine soldiers CAN talk normally, but choose not to in gunfights is vaguely annoying. Earlier it made them seen that they were under some kind of compulsion or indoctrination. Now it just makes them seem like bumbling stormtroopers.
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In Half-Life 2, Alyx runs around with a burst-fire pistol that you never normally get, but you can use it by typing "give alyxgun" from the console. And now we have its official backstory, too.
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It seems like the Combine refer to Alyx as "infected" at times? "Proceeding on infected." Is there a reason for that?
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tadashi posted:It seems like the Combine refer to Alyx as "infected" at times? I don't know about this game, but in vanilla hl2, the language of combine enforcers is all in metaphor of criminal=disease and murdering them=treatment
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Yup. actual zombies get 'necrotics' and headcrabs and barnacles are 'parasitics'. When they do kill you or clear any hostiles to them they can say 'sector sterile' so yeah, infected means human resistance. The combine jargon has expanded a little from HL2.
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ikanreed posted:I don't know about this game, but in vanilla hl2, the language of combine enforcers is all in metaphor of criminal=disease and murdering them=treatment
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Olive Branch posted:So, basically cops and right-wing views on crime? Oh absolutely! Also, it's interesting - there have been no poison headcrab zombies in this game, have there? They were a thing there in HL2. Yet, of all enemies, I would have thought them to be nearly perfect for this game.
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Samovar posted:Oh absolutely! There's a point in one episode where ML identifies one variant of headcrab as poisonous. He's just very good at not getting hit by anything other than his own grenades and the occasional electric dog.
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no they mean poison headcrab zombies from HL2, the ones where theyre a walking colony of poisonous headcrabs and the zombie body yeets them at you. I guess the lightning dog zombie counts as the variant for this one.
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tadashi posted:There's a point in one episode where ML identifies one variant of headcrab as poisonous. He's just very good at not getting hit by anything other than his own grenades and the occasional electric dog. We all gotta make our own fun somehow
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 Sorry for missing a day! Our schedules got misaligned a bit.
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Well, that's ominous.
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I'm sure everything is going to be just fine. Also, that little bit with the two soldiers checking out the strider was pretty drat funny.
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Overwatch sounded real upset there for an AI voice
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I'm guessing, there's something big that comes after the video stops in 32 but that was just a good place to split the videos?
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I try to keep my videos roughly around 20 minutes long and yeah, that was just the best place to cut them.
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 I hope you enjoyed the LP! Happy holidays!
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It's a Christmas miracle! ...I do hope they have something more cooking up, especially after a cliffhanger like that. Edit: I do like how the ending with the energy balls harkens back to the end of HL2 at the citadel. Samovar fucked around with this message at 15:04 on Dec 24, 2022 |
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Thanks again for having me along for the ride, Maple Leaf! The gameplay for VR was slick and the story engrossing given the final reveal. I don't think we'll ever get a Half-Life 3 the way we were promised, but this is a good spin-off and shows the writers and developers cared about the franchise!
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Thank you for showing off this game. It's been a fascinating journey (culminating in changing the ending of Half-Life 2: Episode 2, but only to a different cliffhanger ending).
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Samovar posted:It's a Christmas miracle!
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They're gonna release HL Alyx 2 and then HL 5
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Also the technique you were talking about in the beginning is vegetas technique warning: raw 90s anime flashing lightsXander77 posted:Hell yeah. Time to get pumped for Half Life 3! GabeN will be buried with the only copy. Rigged Death Trap fucked around with this message at 20:51 on Dec 24, 2022 |
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RIP Steven. Lost to a tractor beam but never forgotten. 
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Been following in full lurk mode, just want to say thanks for a great lp!
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LP very good, here's hoping it's not another 10 years before the next Half-Life.
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