10 Strangest Areas in Games Never Meant to Be Found - Part II 

Probably just a dated ceiling cat meme.

If I Ever Create A Game, It Will Have Tons Of Easter Eggs/Out Of Bounds Just For You!

Pause at 7:43 See the numbers. Say “noice”.

0:45 what a trick

I can't wait for people to discover the hidden refund Easter egg in fallout 76

In CM we used to run the out of bounds as part of the dungeon and then when someone mentioned this bit, I can confirm it's a thing. We thought it was another boss area since that was one of the faster dungeons. I wonder if it still is open or finished with the new expansion.

The Mordhau one was the best one. The lute is badass

Yeah mr.Freeman you’re not supposed to be here!

The Boot was a Port Key.

Originally in the beta phase of Half Life 2, the children were supposed to be child slaves forced to make Cremators(One of the most badass cut npcs imo) Also I don't remember if the beta had the suppressor fields or not. But it was originally gonna be much darker and creepier

What about the Easter egg party in Halo reach? Some people discovered it exploring a lot of buildings, because there's a hidden botton in one of them

That's why, if you aren't sure if you'll have the cash prize that comes to mind, you make the prize vague in advertising. Just tell the player base that they'll win "a prize" not that you'll give them 1 million dollars. It sounds shitty, but it's a way of future-proofing without getting backlash for not paying out the amount promised. If someone wins the contest, you can either give them a prize in way of merchandise or give them a cash prize that is reasonable for your company.

You know what would be cool? Talking about hidden stuff in game boxes, instruction manuals, etc.

About the CS:S Boot Room: Many mapmakers will hide secret rooms with strange objects or pictures out of bounds to act as a sort of "watermark". That way if the map is republished by another person, the original creator can prove that they made the map by revealing the watermark room that others were unaware of. You can find thousands of examples of this in third-party GMod maps.

Fun fact! The mirror effect in bayonetta is what happens if the skybox is missing textures... I think, i only know this because it happens commonly in gmod

7:40 OH C'MON. That's obvoiusly a meme! 420 Blaze it. 69 sex position. the 20 in 420 is also a reference to rule 20 of the Internet, which is that Rule 71 is very important! Then of course, 34 as in rule 34.

The shoe belongs to your character and is sleeping. It wakes up when you shoot it, realizes it should be on your foot, and teleports there so you don't buy a new pair instead.

2:25 The Bayonetta 2 room, while out of bounds, is a common occurrence in games. It's a black void because there is no skybox, and the graphics glitch out because the refresh rate is zero.

The cat is an old meme known as "Ceiling Cat".

~9:00 I actually got more of the text. I did this by slowing the video down before you got to the door with the G-Man. Once I did that, I started to slow down the video even more but trying to go frame-by-frame by just rapidly pressing the pause button(or in the case, the space bar). Was kinda difficult to read due to the graphics being quite shoddy, but hope this helps. under observation. Galvanic activation with seve~ ~cidence of seizure and muscular catatonia, recoi~ titration of 30 ml sample. sustained alpha activit~ ~reeman, Gordon: increased activity in neural iso~ no response. Subject to availability and urgency ~. unknown vector at this time. Requirements of ~eyond current threshold for amgydalic suppressi~ ~ark energy remnants in the simulation until basal~ ~f evaluation despite objections of caretakers give 1st line: cut word could possibly be "severe", which would fit in with the rest of the passage which sounds a awful lot like a medical or clinical diagnosis. 3rd line: cut word are likely "activity"; "titration" might be the actual word in the sentence, or it could be a word that ends in "~titration". 4th line: cut word is obviously Freeman; "iso" could be related to anything 7th line: cut words are obviously -"and"- and "suppression" (incorrect assumption on "~nd", now it can be re-classed as being "beyond" Theory: The Combine are creating a serum meant to suppress the amygdala, most likely in a brainwashing attempt. They are either using Gordon as a test subjects, as might be the case with the word "simulation", or Gordon is interfering with their work. PS: They can't spell since they swapped the "g" and "y" in amygdala....... Just to clarify, I am writing things as they wrote it... PS2: I actually got a picture as well if anyone want to try their hand at reading this.... imgur.com/zMIl2Y7 EDIT: Added in more lines that I was able to get...

The reason for the severity of punishment for fallout 76 dev room is because people were selling the stuff for real money.

That half-life thing is so creepy lmao

5:00 CS maps are known for hidden little easter eggs out of bounds. Wooden giraffes, hidden messages,... You could fill a whole video with them

My immediate thought for the boot room is the 1997 movie Cube. In each cubed room, the first thing they do is toss a single boot into the room to see if it is trapped.

11:28 I love how when the character die. He just T-Pose

For the fallout 76 dev room, I think the reason beth went so hard on the bans is because people were taking hidden/incomplete items from there, duplicating them, and selling for real cash. It also required some kind of third party cheats to access, not just a clipping glitch or something, so accessing it by itself was banworthy

I love that you find the Easter eggs and secrets that other people don't cover, it makes your videos really stand out, great work please keep making awesome videos!

"Help me, I've been lewded by, Rule, 34" thus said the box

So the GW2 room faces is actually a character called Cadacus, and this area was eventually used in a living story mission. Looks like they had that area in the game for awhile since that was a boss room.

I lost years of my life to Guild Wars 2, and I have only a few, fragmented memories of it. Any time I think about the game, I experience an incredibly eerie sensation. I have no idea why this game that I sunk SO MUCH time into has all but evaporated from memory.

That's Ceiling Cat, obviously. He's watching you.

6:29 "fallout 76 sucks, but oddheader still rules" damn right Edit: thank you guys for liking this comment it was unexpected to be honest.

The bayonata “easter egg” is just the screen not getting rid of the frames, if you go on gmod and fly out of a map some times it does that

Back when i used to make maps for people on CS source, some people asked me to make rooms like that for people who were cheating, we called them ban rooms or "boot" rooms, where you would teleport and trap them in those rooms instead of kicking them out of the servers

lmao legend of Zelda sound clip in God of War 3 demo that's too weird

If you run real fast into the corner of your room, do you go out of bounds? Edit: I can confirm this was patched

Most excellent work Sir!!! Kudos!!! BTW Have you ever mentioned Shadow of the Collussus yet? Theres entire channels dedicated to all the stuff never meant to be found in that game!

The bayonetta 2 one is just a lack of a skybox behind the door

Man: **Plays something when someone goes out of bounds** oddheader: Is that despacito? Man: *D I E S*

The words on the boxes at 9:10 read: “Gordon: increased activity inse. Subject to availability arn vector at this time. Requirement threshold for amgydalicy remnants in the simulationon despite objects of carel”

9:10 - uhm.. a fully voiced scene with pretty cool effects. Too good for unfinished content in early 2000. I think it's a PR move, a pretty cool one though

A sequel to the first video of yours I saw and instantly loved all your content? Sign me UP! Er, threequel.

We already know that you fart in elevators, you've been telling us after every video.

that half-life one was scary. if I accidentally had discovered that, I would have quit the game and not go back.

"If you are prone to epilepsy, you might want to skip this part." While showing it...

Love the research you put in behind every ester egg such as quotes from the developer. Keep it up!

hello (sorry for bad english)

The boot room could very well just be a developer in-joke.

8:24 your remember correctly,in fact there being no children became a major plot point because the combine made a device that disabled your ability to have kids.

We need even more videos like that! 😍

Now I really wanna know what that Zelda sound effect was doing in God of War of all games!

hey bethesda, do you think your game's _worth_ writing an essay to get unbanned? do you really see such desperation in your userbase to keep playing your game? clowns

3:10 For those who don't know this is like an 'out of bounds-out of bounds' area where you are outside the sky box and it looks like it has been removed and everything you do will leave countless after images. Like crazy amounts as you see in this video

I could be wrong but the boot on CS:S could just be a marker for the origin point of the map

In Half-Life 2, there were initial concepts of having child workers, but lore made after the beta leak got rid of this.

Did he really not get the Counter strike room? “No clipping in counter strike gets you the boot” It’s an Easter egg meant to remind players not to cheat. Duh.

How many of us stopped video to see Shiva statue in God Mode?

The CS room is a throw back to the original CS mod of Half Life. A lot of map makes used to put weird hidden rooms you could only see in spectators mode after you were dead in a match as a signature of sorts.

Witch Twist itself is not an exploit. It's an intended move that you can purchase at Rodin's bar, the Gates of Hell. I'm not sure if the fact that you can chain them together to gain infinite height is a glitch or not, as most playable areas have ceilings in place to prevent you from going too high, as if the developers expected players to get that high. The trippy room is a result of the room that loads, I believe, either when you change the gravity of the room or when you defeat the miniboss who appears halfway up the climb NOT loading due to neither criteria having been met. The result is an empty void that never refreshes, meaning whatever you do will be stuck on screen.

Why do I keep on watching Oddheader videos at 1am and feeling mildly fearful of playing any video games the next day?

Ok 7:27 are we just gonna let the subtle 69 420 slip by?

Oh huh, that weird face chamber in Guild Wars 2 shows up the Living World Season 3 episode "Head Of The Snake", as part of a boss fight! Or at least something mechanically similar to it (Including the walls spinning now and again)

Heh 6 4 9 2 0 7 1

Top 10 Softlocks in gaming

Can you figure out the weird battlefield 3 stabby ghost? On I believe the last story mission when you are downstairs in a mansion something triggers I believe an off black and white model to run in and shank you. I seem to remember it focusing on the face after it had done it and that it went non first person as they were doing so? I'm sure I had it trigger a few times by standing still, but I've seen no mention online and given that I haven't played for about 5 years not overly clear on it. Just that it was odd

7:20 “69 420?” COINCIDENCE? I THINK NOT!

4:30 that is a test room for where you get sent if you cheat. Hence the boot

I feel like the sequel to this video will only have comments about "Area 51". Lucky this video was uploaded before the trend lol

The Bayonetta "Hall of mirrors" effect is a common occurence for out of bounds areas in some games. For most games there's a colour buffer (or sometimes 2 or 3) that stores all of the colour data of every pixel on the screen. This buffer is used for every frame, and everytime something is drawn to the screen, it's drawn over whataver was in the buffer before it. To avoid the image from the previous scene being shown, some games will clear this buffer every frame by filling it with a single colour, usually the sky colour. However this isn't necessary for scenes that use a sky box or are set indoors as usually every pixel will be written over anyway. Because this area is out of bounds, there's no walls ceiling or floor that's been modeled so nothing's being drawn, and the image from the last frame is being shown instead.

Hey, will you do a Spartan Total Warrior out of bounds? Is a great game with many details on the background to be discovered.

Legitimately one of the few youtubers that will make me stop what I'm doing when you upload. Great vid.

Mordhau is booming thanks to the option to have the mighty weapon. The Lute

7:32 Help me and the number 34? Sounds like the developers are sick of a certain nsfw rule.

7:43 yeah nothings calls out my name better then “69 420”

Thank you oddheader for a new video! You are the best!

Dude! I'm friends with Josh Foreman, and as soon as I heard you mention Guild Wars 2, I was going to ask him if he knew about it, looks like he beat me to it. Btw Josh has a youtube were he does tons of art/sculpting stuff that's definitely worth a look if you're into that stuff, super talented guy.

The CS:S room is probably a place the devs put all the logic/lighting entities in so they could easily be found later, and put the boot there cause why not. I make maps for L4D2 and this is what I do.

Truly appreciate the "If you are prone to epilepsy, you might wanna skip this part". Concern for the viewers. Two thumbs up

3:07 how it feels to chew 5 gum *Stimulate your senses.*

You should cover the mysterious pyramid outside of the Death Star map in the original Battlefront 2.

10:49 looks like the cave from the newest god of war game

2:40 *PTSD flashbacks to Smash 4.*

I've had ffxv for a while now and I never even considered the fact that Shiva could be fully modeled in the train mission. I bet the person who was tasked with placing her there had a field day 😂 definitely the most 'revealing' character

"What I assume is the inside of Jerry Garcia's mind." Is that a Gex reference?

3:00 that's just what happens when you leave a game-rendering entirely without a skybox.

Valve is basically Rareware 2.0 if you didn't already know.

Great video! The fact that they're not so frequent makes them such a treat! It really speaks volumes about the work you put into them, and not recycling stuff from previous videos.

Well the God of War 3 demo was a demo, they wanted to put more content but ran out of time.

4:37 You just found Valve's Ban-Hammer. 'Das Boot' Id imagine it has to do with their V.A.C. (Valve Anti-Cheat)

Play 8:50 at x0.25 speed and pause at the right time to get a better look at the red guy when he says “..this spot in particular”

That last one was especially interesting, that's truly something for a loading trigger to disappear and an entirely unused level appears (with the Zelda theme, for some reason)

the box thing says 69 420 34 (as in rule 34), so its probably just a meme box

God of War.....Journey further into the depths of the mist. 🤔🤨🎇 I'm calling it, "The Depths Mist of the undeath" 👍

By this, and after further reconsideration, I've concluded that game developers would like to troll us all from now on.

99% of your audience probably has no idea who Jerry Garcia is, props for that reference

7:27 420 69 "I see, you're a man of culture as well"

5:03 the boot room It's possible that it's a watermark like some people have mentioned, but it's also possible that it's there for the default cubemap for the level, for when the nearest one would generate weird effects, putting a range limit on it, and because it's inside with only modest lighting, the reflections will look dull rather than overly shiny which can be a problem if the default isn't defined (will result in using skybox lighting, which can be overly shiny in dark areas)

Quality uploads every single time. Please don’t change ❤️

Whenever Oddheader uploads, it’s like getting an early Christmas present. That’s how quality his vids are.

Yoooooo finally. Haha. Has anyone slowed that Half Life footage down enough to read each message or equation that shows up??