Half-Life 2 - Nova Prospekt Overwatch Broadcasts and Radio Chatter 

That man is a spy!

@@Yusuke_Denton I've had it up to here with you, boy! *T e x a s S t y l e*

Im german

@@wommyu I'm sorry.

@@Yusuke_Denton That spy is a double agent!

You play as Wallace Breen and have to try and keep the advisors happy so they don't exterminate humanity, while trying to keep the number of human rights violations and warcrimes a low as possible?

@Terraria Heaven Half Life technically already is a political game.

@@PedanticPig It would be 150 hours of paper work, endless graphs, board meetings, centralized city planning (meaning more paperwork along with calculations and talking to contractors), voting on bills, getting status reports, talking to other politicians about their precincts' performance, public speaking to appeal to the masses, and avoiding an assassination attempt at the very end of the game. There would be no physical combat, just the combat of stimulating your mind in a dystopian political adventure. Who said office work wasn't fun? -_-

They prevented him to have any contact with the Guard, the Overwatch acknowledges what the Vorts are able to do with Guards.

I don't get why they bother keeping prisoners instead of just execution? Is it for interrogation

Lilian Lamp timestamp?

@@chucanoris7548 4:35

S7R1DER thanks

It just goes to show how much the Combine fear the Antlions. They're a ruthless and terrifying force now controlled by an intellect.

EchO Imagine hearing that two out of your three worst nightmares just suddenly became one. *If you’re able to live, you won’t be sleeping soundly*

I never realized on how confused the combine was, goes to show on how they can keep their composure and professionalism in the heat of battle.

Transhumans can get confused????

@@woopyinator021 I mean sure, they're just humans with tactical fighting skills put into their brains and metal legs

@@woopyinator021 keep in mind that their emotions weren’t wiped, it was the occasional memory wipes that cause them to act such a way. You can see that their emotions still kick in, such as fear, when you throw a grenade into a window of a combine sniper, he might shout out 'shit!' out of fear

@@aquatic4760 Or when they are burning.

I think it's partly a newspeak reference but also a way to show an the combine's incomplete grasp of human languages. Like how their motto is "secure, coagulate, clamp".

@@TehFlaminFuzz I don't think that's their motto. It's more like general guidelines for the soldiers how to execute their mission.

"Secure coagulate and clamp" was just basically "if you get shot suck it up and keep fighting, if we lose and find you alive you're going 'off world'

@@John_Smith_Dumfugg Yeah that is exactly what I meant.

@@TehFlaminFuzz they are using medical terms, as if fighting with disease.

Kind of reminds you of the modern left, doesnt it? Unless talking about white males.

@@GreedAndSelfishness not the right, no sire, no birtherism, no states right's, no pro life here, no dog whistles what so ever on the right! Just like Jeezas™ intended! (just don't mistake him with the hippy, love thy neighbour impostor illegal immigrant from middle-east)

@@GreedAndSelfishness Good one

@@GreedAndSelfishness Someone finally said it

shut up you fat righties, have sex and become MAN, the actually state of the right is more disgusting than the left.

Maybe he is not a transhuman

Combine Grunts stutter sometimes in HLA

@@lunathecrusader they're less modified

@@woopyinator021 commanders are not entirely brain washed, so they can have some emotions and independent thought for battle, just like the clones from star wars, commanders have personalities and aren't like the average soldier

@@seamuspink9098 wrong

It's a shame the game goes against all this details and ensures you see them as mindless target practice. The map design lends them little chance to flank or manuever, forcing the AI to merely sit idle in cover and shoot at you, making them "look" mindless. The game never applies enough pressure on the player to make it tempting to hear the radio chatter to predict your enemy's movement, you just push foward and strike them down.

@@icecold1805 Agreed. The AI is extremely advanced in squads but the maps made were never capable of showing these features.

@Stale Bagelz Their fear. You can hear their stuttering and when they encounter an Antlion Guard.

@@geeworm Indeed. I am honestly not so sure if the AI is really that good, haven't seen any analysis of it, but it's clear that even if it was really smart, the maps never lend to help the AI look smart, just as mere target practice, as I said before.

@@icecold1805 You should watch Marph's videos. They explain the AI and some others too.

Meanwhile, Gordon himself is just like: "Man, I'm lucky the resistence developed these Antlion pheromones just in time. Otherwise, I'd be SO dead right now."

@@TheSorrel The vortigaunts have used them for ages

Fun Fact: The Combine forces Gordon fights in the game are defeated only because they are actually humans, if they were real Combine Soldiers like the ones in the 7 Hour War Gordon would have not been able to defeat them.

@@TheSorrel The Resistance didint make them, they just extract them from Antlion Guards. Pay attention to the game.

@@Destro65 They developed them as a weapon.

timestamp?

@@tonny8881 1:40

Too bad that leader nine died tho...

@@infernohellfire6806 unfortunately :( I think leader 9 was the one commanding the unit in the flare lit tunnel from the corner. Nice profile pic btw

Thanks

When Overwatch says "Please" shit is going on

Yeah 'desperation' is a stinky perfume though..... She's gonna be saying more than please before they deactivate and hit her 'off switch'......

:)

Stop it Freeman-san, please!

@@-Melancholy- Spank me Freeman-san, pleaaase!

glad someone else thought the same. figured a kind of nod at one of the most popular invasions in history.

That was my favorite part Its like being in a war xD

sending the antlions on a banzai charge

and its more wide open than nova prospekt, so you can actually walk instead of getting stuck on the 5 antlions all standing right on you

littlesnowflakepunk The Universal Union is just that. One body, one soul, one will. Notice how the Overwatch acknowledges you as “Individual” in the early parts of the game. It’s meant to be demoralizing because you’re not with the program.

unvaccinated

@@gustav4351 what

@@gustav4351 my dog is going crazy, stop blowing on that thing

@@michaspi I always thought referring to you as 'individual' was because you weren't registered as a part of the combine and were therefore independent (anyone else pick up a 647e?), unlike all other members of humanity who were present for the surrender of earth such as the resistance

but Combine soldiers don't feel fear, their emotions have been removed, I think

@@shpho Nope, they have their memories "wiped" occasionally and they're basically brainwashed with propaganda. Still humans with a lot of cyborg replacements.

ever heard of the Battle of Stalingrad?

I would think, that they don't feel such emotions, because their brains got modified.

@@shpho they have it, trow a grenade to em, and they running away

softy8088 Fun fact all the reasons you don’t see any prisoners in the cells is cuz as you arrived they fucking executed them to prevent them from helping and contacting Freeman

@@cj-3810 That makes sense, I was wondering why it had no prisoners.

They derived that from the U.S. Air Force, ironically... I remember watching the first Desert Storm on CNN and some general would mention "servicing the target" during a press briefing and it took me a few days to realize "servicing" = "bombing the hell out of it"

Dont forget "verdicts"

Go deservice yourself

"Stabilization Teams = Any transhuman unit" So should I call every trans person stabilization team?

Boomer = Gunship

@@kettujabamiesukkeliukko Have trans people ascended beyond their humanity? Surely not. I hope not.

You forgot one: Bouncer = Grenade

Unvaccinated

Which in the end leads to the place being overrun

​@@JM-mg4el I mean... Who knew that Gordon Freeman accessed pheropodes

4:43 leader 12 is the exact opposite. Both confusion and genuine concern can be heard in his voice, maybe even a hint of fear if they didn't just accept they will probably die.

It sounds almost like relief to me, especially after "Ground units: Failure to contain will result in permanent off-world relocation" I played this game when I was too young, I was just shooting the bad guys, didn't realise how much depth the was to this. Need to give it another go.

i think he is more mad and scared than smugged

@@MechanicCompetence Same... I remember hearing all the chatter but I could barely make it out. I thought it was just random barks of flavor text like most games. That it actually progresses with the story and doesn't repeat kind of blows my mind. Half Life 2 was always one of those games I found something new every time I played it. And I haven't played it in over a decade and just found another! :P

@BulletKingIsHere Definately the vibe I got from it. "This guy has shot his way through hundreds, possibly thousands of our men and slipped through our fingers repeatedly. We've finally got him cornered and just need to tighten the noose." Alas for Combine Squad leader... it wasn't Freeman who was trapped with them, but they who were trapped with Freeman.

Impulse of Impulse Rifle sounds so cool

HEEEEEEEEEPOWWDAQUUUU BOOOMPOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO DAKKA DAKKA DAKKA BAM SHOOKSHEEK BAM SHOOKSHEEK BAAM SHOOKSHEEK CLEEKCLONK CLEEKCLONK CLEEKCLONK SHOOKSHEEK

@@Bananappleboy I laughed much more to that than I should've.

@@literallynobody.989 DEEDEEDEEDEEDAUQ KLOBOPPLEEM DEEDEEDEEDEEDEEDEEDEEDAUQ BAM DAKKA DAKKA DAKKA HEEEEEEPOWWWWDAQUUU BOOOOOOMPOOOOOOOOOOOO CONTACT CONFIRMED YAUWEE BOOOOM DARRAGH

dat meens yer dakka doing good

Those dead vorts (and maybe corpses of citizens) are what happend after she announced to deservice the political prisoners So that you(the player) won't be able to get any help or talk to someone/something about some intel on the combine or other people in the prison

@@infernohellfire6806 I never picked up on that. I just thought they were cruel to the prisoner's. I hope details like this are implemented in half life alyx

@@infernohellfire6806 you know you can say "Gordon" by saving time right? not saying "The Player"

@@slookipos8907 why bother

@@slookipos8907 It's a couple letters dude, this isn't a speedrun

7:10

_pls report status thank you_

Be reasonable to say that any combine that survived that attack didn't get demoted or punished, but understandably it basically boiled down too "Satan has bug army, we are so fucked"

@@Uniformtree000 Any combine that survived the attack was probably sent to the Combine Overworld as punishment. We know that the conditions there are terrible for humans, and the Overwatch Voice was threatening offworld relocation.

@@16caldwellj95 Considering Nova Prospekt straight up exploded after all this, maybe there weren't too many survivors...

Leader Twelve confused why Freeman is controling the Antlions lol.

RIP Judge 3. killed by freeman while trying to guard the control room.

He is the one free man

The reason we won't get a 3rd game is because it would never meet expectations and people would be pissed. That would really cripple valve, half life 3 bombs. We are our own enemy

@@commanderbeepo8066 Don't break my heart like that. I applaud the game if the story line and attention to detail are the largest focus, rather than heavy focus on theatrics. While people love RPGs or open world games, I personally wouldn't mind if it remained another FPS or third person shooter game.

Gendo Ikari so you’re saying that if hl3 drops, nobody wins??? Dark

And I thought I'd never see the day...

Y'all got it lucky. I was like 9 and threw a fit when i died

"Ok boomer, sterilize Anti-citizen Freeman"

Savage Nine holding at Code Boomer

The ambush in the prison courtyard is pretty enormous. It’s, what, 20-30 armed soldiers plus two gunships? The idea that one man could survive it is laughable. At this point they mustn’t fully understand that Freeman has control off the antlions.

Both do their intended atmosphere very well imo. In Ravenholm, you've just escaped the Combine and have arrived in a town decimated by their handiwork. It's dark and filled with the echoes of zombies, with no traces of anyone left alive save for the mad Father Grigori. You feel lost, clinging onto survival as you hope to make it through. Nova Prospekt on the other hand, acts as the turning point in the game. Until this time, you have spent the whole game running away from the Combine, who appear in almost total control of the planet. But this time, you are now bringing the fight to them, and they are losing badly. The Antlions, previously a massive nuisance, are now your loyal minions that you use to tear through one of the most infamous strongholds of the Combine. Secondly, you have a similar feeling of being alone. Except this time you do have companionship in the form of your Antlions, but they are not people. The Combine are certainly not welcome companyeithet. You are one man fighting alone yet tearing through the Combine, and for once THEY are the ones scrambling to survive as they continually throw soldiers and traps your way to kill you, only to constantly retreat and try again as you and your Antlion force are too much for them. I agree Nova Prospekt does it better, and it's my favorite portion of the game bar none. And atmospherically, it's awesome.

JCD Gameanater I agree.

Besides the fact you can hear light crying and human screams in ravenholm.

Something about the bunker radios just...creeps me out. It sounds either like a warped radio tuning,children screaming,or some alien insectoid chittering with the sound effects on the comm chatter...

6:55 Nova Prospekt atmosphere in a nutshell.

Glad you've enjoyed this stuff. What radio codes would they be, ones in the Combine soldier chatter vid or something else?

@@RescoeZ If i remember right combine soldiers have some codes like metrocops do. Dont know how many of them but the topic seems interesting. Something like this video would be great ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-izCizwEWshM.html

@@combineproductions9461 Most of the codes they use are in the ingame soldier chatter video, I'm not aware of them using any codes like the metrocops, unless you mean phrases such as "necrotics".

@@RescoeZ Hm, yea i just checked audio files and you were right no codes. Maybe do a video about soldiers contacting overwatch? like when they do it. Or citadel sounds like eddie said. Also sorry if you may not understand me im not an english speaker

@@combineproductions9461 I understand you perfectly :-) I have considered making a Combine soldier ambience video or something, might be a little while before that happens though.

RescoeZ Good Video man! And using G-Mod explains why the blood on some screenshots looked like TF2 blood.

Awesome work

I think those subtitles are accurate. If in doubt, the sound files have the text embedded directly into them, which you can read if you open them with something like Notepad++

The hunter's are meant to be the Chopper hunter, that was removed from Nova Prospect as the player already had enough to deal with (gunships) in particular. That is as much as i can tell you.

Still had a hard time didnt you

that's what i like about the soldiers, anything that is like radio codes and updates they know off by heart but the humanity to form their own sentences has faded so much tha they struggle to complete non sanctioned sentences

@@mrsubject1 he is also a bit surprised because an human is able to control the antlions (that's why someone asks him to repeat because that's a bit unbelievable )

@@mrsubject1 He's trying to think of a way to say "Holy shit satan himself is controlling the bugs" without getting a permanent offworld reassignment.

@@snowball2052 exactly lmao G

the dispatch says "please" due to how bad the situation is in nova prospekt. She still says it without emotion.

Overwatch ( also dispatch ) are AI

@@MoonLightFML The exact nature of Combine 'AI' is dubious in itself; with HL:Alyx we see that the Combine's use of repurposed organics goes as deep as their computers (containing a Zen creature mashed together with what looks like a terrestrial rat, in that game). We don't even know what the "Combine" really are, with the Advisors being the closest thing we've seen to a 'true form' and even that is pure speculation. One of the strengths of Half-Life is that, for as much worldbuilding and information as there is, we ultimately end up actually *knowing* very little for certain.

@@HellbirdIV Advisors themselves were enslaved by whoever there is at the head of the Alliance.

it's because at this point she already knows that the soldiers left are already dead or agonizing

it's because at this point she already knows that the soldiers left are already dead or agonizing

You need to get a new profile pic. JC Denton has become one of the most trendiest ones on RU-vid.

@@Harbinger28567 ok

Doesn't play in the video unfortunately. *What a shame.*

Damn it I can’t unhear it now

antlions are kinda fragile, so ig it wouldnt work much (cant believe im responding to a old comment)

Sure from this context it's creepy....but then put it in the context of the game. Freeman(you) is dumped in the middle of a massive city and is watched and monitored every moment from then on and they CAN'T stop him. I don't know about you but it makes me feel like a demigod whenever I replay half life 2

@@matthewminchillo543 yeah true

@@matthewminchillo543 pretty sure theyre scared of the freeman because they know hes coming after them tbh

@@megafro6999 "Oh fuck oh shit Freeman is here shitshitshitshit HE'S GOT A GRENADE!"

@@chaosinc.382 most likely: "OH NO THATS FREEMAN, LETS HIDE! He is doing Accelerated Backward Hop at 308MPH! Oh he haves a Crowbar!

Right, you can't help but imply a form of condescending dialogue here directed at the overwatch troops, yet it certainly couldn't be the case since the voice is just a personality-void machine. It's a nice type of irony.

I think the "Please" is thrown in partially as a threat for perceived insubordination. Similar to how a parent would chastise a child by saying, "don't make me xxxx". All the units are dead, but to the AI they're just breaking protocol by not responding to her inquiries.

it's because at this point she already knows that the soldiers left are already dead or agonizing

KLAMP

offworld

They're demoralizing codenames for the resistance. I think it may be a mind game seeing how soldiers are saying it out loud..

I think it's more that we don't really hear the scripted dialogue for the Overwatch soldiers outside of Nova Prospekt -- just unit barks in combat. Presumably if we'd heard radio chatter during the uprising levels they'd have sounded a bit like the stuff here: "Anticitizen One reinfection confirmed at district twelve CP" type of deal

Having the Overwatch announcements echo through this place as alarms blare in the backround would be awesome

Dew it.

KingMetalMario Not now, I’m taking programming and other computer lessons soon, along with audio design so soon

Already made, it's on modDB

Albert Pavlas Yay, less work for me :>

Those "bugs" are massive beasts, now consider you turn off ALL restrictions keeping thousands of them from flooding that prison. Combine didn't stand a chance against biotic waves, hence the need for thumpers to begin with.

There were dead vorts in part of the map, i dont remember which sector

well he knows he failed dispatch and he knows that he may be sent to "permanent off world assigment" . Also half of his comrades died fighting in an ovverun by antlions prison

Indeed. They're still self aware. He doesn't want to go off world, clearly.

“Offworld reassignment for me :(“

You're welcome :-)

Poor overwatch they are forced to draw manga

Damn the overwatch made manga?