INTERLOPER: Half-Life 2's Greatest Unsolved Mystery 

PlayStation 2 games I always thought held secrets that only a programmer would know..

Subscribed. I love this sort of Investigating you ALWAYS find something in games but I always wonder if a smarty could hide some secret nobody would know.. ❤ 🍺 🐨 🇦🇺

14:03 if the commands stopped working do you think the box is waiting for a specific secret command to then continue to a secret ??? Sorry I wish I knew how to do this to... ???

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Amazed that someone else has memories of GM Tower. Those were the days.

What map are you referring to?

Same question

@@arthurs3691 seems cool

​@@arthurs3691 I'm still very mad at myself I didn't bought garry's mod and played Gmod Tower. I only remember it from youtube videos, those were the days.

I suggest u also if u like this type of videos "WoW's darkest sectret"

yeah, a command that randomly generates a demo sounds like something they would absolutely do

I did believe it until the sfm parts

@@ramenconsumer Honestly, I believed it even with the janky SFM portions. It's such a VALVe thing to do, put a lot of effort into something that no one would find anyways.

Do you guys remember the Portal ARG? This is absolutely something of the caliber Valve is capable of doing if you ignore the "it randomly stopped working" and "not solved 20 years later" parts. I mean, is the idea of a command that randomly generates demos and on a small percentage chance plays an SFM animation really much more complicated than "the radios in the game each play a unique encoded message when brought to a specific point of the map"?

100% a scout thing to do

it's like he's going "two of them??? what's this bullshit???"

@@quoththeraven_ "Un-freakin-believable!!"

@@jmode1479 *heavy turns around* “Oh this ain’t good-“

" *AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA* "@@EvetheFurry

bro its 2fort

are you serious?

Same. 100% knew one of them would be closer when he looked at them again but it still gave me a jump.

actually quite funny to me

It was a bit funny to me, but that doesn't take away from the general creepiness of it overall...

Normal day in 2fort

The way Scout looked back and raised his hand like "You have got to be kiddin' me" was great too.

Reminds me a lot of Pootis Engage

he is searching for the anEmay Thighs

I thought this was something real I had somehow missed in my obcessive tf2/half life days, the first "type 5" video really made me go "Wait why is it almost like VR?" then the TF2 clip made me check the comments to see what I had found, now I'm kinda sad its fake.

Honestly, at first glance I noticed the vr like movement on the cs:s one and tf2 It felt super wrong since that kind of animation/movement just wasn't a thing before vr got into the world of gaming. It would have been way different. I don't own any vr gear, but i've watched plenty of videos, and you don't need to watch a lot to notice how similar the movement is. Felt pretty real, but yea.. that put me off too much. Besides Heavy A-posing lmao

Me personally, all immersion broke with the "VR" demo from CS:S. Everything up to that point I could've bought as an overlooked mystery of Half-Life 2 and the Source engine, but at that point I could no longer believe that the Half-Life and Source community at large just apparently forgot about all this without documenting it anywhere beyond a single fansite, or that anything of what I was seeing was anything but scripted fiction. EDIT: Like I'm not necessarily going to harp on live bodytracking support like that not being a thing then or now in the engine. My problem is like, if you're someone who's interested in the inner workings of Source engine games and trivia (e.g. if you're someone who goes on wikiwalks on the Combine Overwiki, the TF2 wiki and elsewhere), what would you rate as the odds that this video would be the first documentation of all this beyond a single fansite's forums? Probably not very good, I'd wager.

oh this is fake? of course

i was wondering how did Valve aquired the VR technology to make that demo?

How did they even be in vr

@@MyEarsHurts in a very weird way it could be gmod

@@FenneUwU there is a mod...

@@spacebolt8686 yes,thats what i said.

@@FenneUwU Might be bonelabs/bone works too as the arm movement looks like something out of the bone games

that wasn't VR???

it is VR, likely testing the index

@@Nullevoy at the end of the video it says source filmmaker

@@Nullevoy it’s not real

guys, guys, he probably did use SFM and just did motion capture

... why'd you think the command was real... It was most likely an alias command, And even then source can't generate random maps.

@@Pixxeell___ it was a cool video, atmospheric and well done I was more invested in the whole mystery and atmosphere rather than the specifics like the console commands

@@TheKiloMight 1. "Get" Is not a valid command, and never will be. 2. The devs would definitely not done this, this is way to specific.

@@TheKiloMight Cool idea, but if you obsess into the source engine too much, then it's just feels stupid.

@@Pixxeell___ well there’s nothing wrong for us normal people (I did notice the whole “randomly generated map thing” and thought “wow that’s not how source works” and the Gmod VR stuff kinda ruined my immersion but I still think it was well made)

Man this is something I believed in 2022 til I read the comments. 😂 Was genuinely confused as to how the pov had such a VR feel to it, now I feel like an idiot.

@@Hatouchu Well, the fact that Halloween is in a couple of days could also be a hint

Yeah...only in 2010...totally didn't think this was actually real. Ha. Who would ever think that right?...right?

until the first css vr bit i was really wondering if it was real myself

I still believe that its possible to revive Aeris....

"i initially couldn't tell if this was a real thing or not, but once it showed a motion captured clip the spark blew out. amazingly well done!" 🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓

@@roclops i sucked your mom big time

@@roclops ??

@@vivious_ he's a friend

yeah the the vr really took out the immersion but still very good

Same lmao. I was not expecting the Heavy to turn around.

i hate that i actually jumped when i got to that part LMAO

so this is how you do it, huh

Valve already made an arg, to signal the upcoming release of Half Life 2

Technically they did it, with Portal and the radios which lead to an announcement of Portal 2

They also did a whole ARG leading up to the Mann vs Machine update in TF2

Valve has made multiple ARGs already and they’re really good at it, they need to make another one at this point

They made a arg before HL2 but as it was going on valve lost interest and the third puzzle(ironic) never dropped the only rewards fabs got were some high quality art

Vid incoming?

wild radiator hazard spotted (found footage)

@@bouribou4073 wild bouribou spotted

@@springytaco7587wild springytaco spotted

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@@darkon4442 Mennyié gec

@@Bsodman Olcsóért

@@darkon4442 Fasza

I checked out the channel and was like "wait a minute" knew it was made up when I tried searching for it, great experience and amazing work done by him

its not vr

@@tux1468 your moms vr

That's what I was thinking too, but SPOOKYCOAST was circa 2005. VR literally wasn't even a pipedream for people who were recording HL2 gameplay with Fraps, of all things. Neither was AI, which was my other thought. Someone had to hand-key all the animation, and they did it in a way that we future-internet-users would think is VR. I'm not sure what it is, but It's definitely wierd.

@@noahtekulve2684 loaded up the map and models in gmod lol , then cut it so it looked like it was just the normal game

It's literally just mocap from first person. Mocappping was first invented in 1915, it's technology that's a century old at this point.

honestly the vr bits added authenticity for me It felt like something valve was playing with at the time. I wasn't sure if it was a creepy pasta or a strange dev feature for most of it.

@@lukelcs8934 for me it was just testing, not sure why the files remained in the game tho, but the spooky tf2 vr vid could be a test combined with some devs having fun

@@benjapizarro981 Just making sure, you know this was actually made by the video uploader right? It's not actually real (tho tbh there's no reason it couldn't be)

i believed it at first because i don't know much about hl2, but the vr part instantly broke the illusion, vr like that just wouldn't happen then.

VR breaks the immersion and the last monster part pretty much destroys what immersion was left, still very cool video

That neir mod a couple months ago came rather close

another close one with finding out L was actually real.

Yeah, ever since the Freezer fell off and got solved, we've been missing that niche. Still terrifying, though.

@@physical_insanity what are you guys talking about?

I mean it's not really for this generation if the mystery is from 2005

nice orofile pic

smells like a hero of time in here

Same, i started questioning it after he showed the alternate unbrella man texture in hammers texture browser, i browsed that thing waay to much when making maps lol

чел.... уже 4 часть вышла давно...

The sinister console command response at 4 minutes was what took me out personally.

wasnt sfm, it was probably gmod vr

@@vivious_ still, the illumination looks really different from the game

i thought the umbrella guy looked more like Doug Rattman from portal

@@funkywasit he didn't exist yet and Umbrella man doesn't match either of his designs (pre and post incident).

yeah, exactly. the VR sections completely ruined the experience for me. i was just starting to believe this was real then the VR started and it immediately became a kinda boring creepypasta.

... You guys are no fun. :/ I mean, it doesn't really have to be immersive to me. It just has to be interesting.

Actually, now that I think more on it, I get what you mean. I still think it's really cool, and adds to it more than it hurts it, but it does certainly hurt it somewhat. (Though, it certainly ain't boring.)

I was convinced until the VR parts too, but still immersed. And watching the VR parts at first I was just genuinely shocked, it took me a few seconds to realize how it’s not possible. Which either proves that this really is that well-made, or I’m just a bit gullible but still, I think even if those clips weren’t VR, we’d still wise up to it during the spooky tf2 one, that’s when the creepy arg elements get more obvious. And it had to start showing those spooky clips or else it’d just be a fake documentary. Horror has to get the right mix of scares and build-up, and this nailed it in my opinion

@@jimjohn1740 whats even cooler is that VR actually is possible in source and that VR has been modded into it, Garrys mod VR being a prime example.

Lmao

slow brain

what is it

Vr testing?

@@marklouiwgi1914 It's a hoax

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THIS AINT REAL???

@@jawadmuni3447 nah 😔🚬 got me in the first 98% not gonna lie

@@NoVIcE_Source I fell extremely fooled

i have a habit of looking into the comment section so did you seriously have to say this

yeah me too

Thanks for saving me 17 minutes, well-made or not, fake stuff does not interest me.

@@Providence.. it isnt fake tho, it is an arg, story telling through videos with clues hidden around

@@jarate8076 fuck man

@Will Hey, just because alot of args are unoriginal and overused, doesn't mean it actually applies to anything, this one moved it to a different part instead of being "random things appearing in the game" so chill the hell down.

@Will ... So it wasn't interesting as a good piece of fiction to you? You're just gonna skip over that? I mean, if it isn't your taste, that's fine. But there's no need to bash it for being fictional. That's like playing Mario and being upset that it isn't educational. It just comes off as unnecessarily rude.

@Will Alrighty then.

Could generally be motion capture tests, as they'd be used heavily in Valve's cinematics from then on, like TF2's Meet The Team series

This most def is an arg, but valve being the innovative bunch that they are, would DEFINITLY do VR tests around 2005 - 2009.

Sadly it’s not real. But it is one of the greatest ARGs I’ve seen in a long time. Thought it was real up until the tf2 portions. It does say at the end it was made is source film maker

Gmod, Gmod VR tool, and one pootis.

it’s indeed fake, it’s part of a series he’s working on called “SKY//BOX”

combine

Dude Its like the umbrella man controls everything

They took your advice it seems.

Most of the stuff in here wouldnt work tho.

why haven't you played it yet.

@@di_amon no money : (

@@ItsVance It's literally less than $5 dollars on sales.

hey guys i played half life 2 :D

@@ItsVance nice!

What's up with that create_hairball thing? I never heard of it.

I looked it up. "CreateHairball is a console command that was probably made for stress-testing ropes. It spawns many groups (balls) of ropes, and spins them around in random directions and speeds. A few seconds after spawning, the hairballs will fly off in random directions."

btw its not an animation its gmod vr

Well comparing it to the jerma kidnap scene in heavy engage 2 then its something he already made

Yep

Mfw I am in the enemy Intel and they are all looking for me

Yea

I feel like less would be more in this kind of video. Just that image of the citizen models floating around in that grainy house was so much creepier than when their eyes started glowing in a goofy Herobrine type fashion.