The best way to ruin a great game - Half-Life 2: Overcharged. 

Edit: Just to be clear I do honestly think overcharged has some good ideas and a LOT effort put into it but I really do think it's a perfect example of "just because you can doesn't mean you should" and feature creep. If this mod added half the amount of stuff with twice the amount of polish I'd probably have quite liked it. Also this video bought to you by me accidentally turning off my compressor which means the audio sounds a bit shit. Sorry about that. Also also it turns out youtube compression murders the scene 2:40. Sorry about that as well.

This mod is the equivalent of liking candy so much that you put 20 different candy bars into a bowl and melt them together in the microwave to eat as a meal

I can't believe nobody in chat told him you can kick while driving the boat to fly around.

Man, that one scientist from Half-Life 1 was right all this time... "Don't let it overcharge!"

Fun fact: The cockroach AI is part of a pulled scenario from Half Life 1. The original intention was for Black Mesa to become ran down, overrun with bugs and vegetation, as a result of the cascade. However, they didn't have a good reason why an entire facility would suddenly be overran by nature in a desert in a single day. The cockroach is all that remains of this idea, simply because it was the most plausible thing of it. Cockroaches also swarm to gibs! (and Bull Squid can be distracted with gibs too)

i love that they upgraded the HEV suit from mark 5 to mark 6 just so that they could add a weather forecast. clearly that's the one thing gordon needed to fight the combine

I genuinely don't think I've ever been more shocked by a Half Life 2 mod than when he went into the water and somehow ended up in Lost Coast.

i love the idea of gordon walking into the ocean and floating offshore and into lost coast for NO REASON as a part of the retail game

Could you just imagine Alyx's perspective of waking up Gordon Freeman and then the moment you turn your back he books it straight to a window and jumps

imagine being breen and seeing one of your old employees randomly appear in your office aggressively doing the can-can

I think the image of Gordon Freeman doing a flying crane kick into a houndeye while duel wielding the pistols is truly what Valve meant by "Run, Think, Shoot, Live" advertising for hl1

I think the feature that drives me up the wall the most is that they thought it wouldn't be really annoying to add collision to every corpse so you have to awkwardly jump over them

I’m kinda surprised they didn’t let you dual wield the crowbar and wrench and kick both legs at the same time as swinging both weapons tbh, lol.

I have to applaud the dev team for creating the most ambitious goals and then failing to achieve all of them.

So lore wise this is just the alternate universe where Gordon decided to learn martial arts so he could use his thunder thighs to kill anyone and anything with naught but a kick. Excellent mod 10/10.

I laughed so hard when it teleported you to Lost Coast; it seems they made a trigger around the beach to make it look like if you go too far into the ocean, you end up in Lost Coast... Just brilliant.

Jolly: *complains about the useless night vision in the daytime sections* Also Jolly: *complains the nighttime/tunnel sections are too dark to see*

POV : You're a highly trained urban response unit, The last thing you see is a man running at you with akimbo glocks before wildly crane kicking you into another dimension.

We should have listened to that scientist that told us not to overcharge it

"Adding more NPCs, weapons, and complicated additional gameplay features into the game would definitely make the mod x10 more better than SMod!" - The developer after smoking 50 cracks

This feels like when you install 5 pages worth of addons in gmod and then try to play through the hl2 campaign

34:39 I feel like that door opening on the wrong axis twice and phasing into a wall is the perfect encapsulation of this mod.

My favourite part is how the devs basically responded with "cope about it" to the criticism about the mod. Truly a passionate and well intentioned mod team.

So glad the modders added back the cut enemies from the beta like the iconic ERROR.

This thing really does prove one of the reasons Valve decided to reduce the amount of weapons you have available, and why enemy placement really matters, and bugfixing, and a hundred other stuff

Every Combine APC in vanilla Half-Life 2 is "locked" so you can't get in them. This is because they still are enterable (Valve planned on having the player use one at some point but that idea was scrapped) but entering them is so broken that it results in you being unable to leave the vehicle or even drive it.

This mod is Smod for a new generation, it's stupid, buggy, completely undermines the careful game design Valve had in mind for the game, but it also has this childish innocence to how it was made where you can tell whoever was the project lead was just like "wouldnt it be cool if our mod had THIS thing" and never considered if that would make the game better or worse and I kinda respect it for that even if the end result was a mess

The image of Gordon Freeman just hopping around on one leg constantly side-kicking while rapidly hot-swapping between twenty identical weapons is honestly more terrifying than his usual 'mute psychopath with a crowbar' meme persona

Fun Fact: When you get stuck in the vehicle at 54:00, that's actually just a thing that happens in regular Half Life: 2. The difference is that the vehicle is normally locked

Imagine being a combine soldier and all you see is man standing on one leg, kicking and swinging his gun coming for you at mach 100

I love how you go into the binds to make your shotgun automatic and you promptly forget to do so.

I love how they added lost coast as an easter egg, but entirely failed to account for the fact the player wouldn't have their car afterwards. This shit is great.

Everything in this is just so perfect, from the surprise lost coast transition to losing the car to the needless smudge on the crossbow scope, it’s a masterpiece

54:35 Those funny colored windows are supposed to be area portals, it’s basically a thing you put in Source maps (usually on windows or doors) to optimize maps and make the game only see and process what’s in that area portal's view. I’m guessing they never tried to turn them into normal brushes that with these kind of textures would not be visible and only do the function they are supposed to.

I like to think that all those camera drones managed to get a single frame of Gordon's boot before being destroyed

Jolly: "wow, night vision. What a useless idea that has no need here" Also jolly: "god it's so dark, I can't see a thing. Really wish I could see in the dark somehow"

I was honestly a little surprised the portal gun wasn't a weapon in this mod

22:40 "Imagine if your crack team of elite operatives got killed at the front door." "No, not *at* the front door, *by* the front door"

They took the term "throw it at the wall till it sticks" but instead of just throwing a few strands they yeeted the entire pot and not only got spaghetti everywhere, but busted a hole in the wall with the pot. Can't wait for part two.

54:34 Fun fact: Those blue textures are actually tool brushes. They are used to help the map function and aren't suppose to be visible in the final render. Either the devs broke something there, or they just wanted the windows of that particular house to be painted blue with some letters for extra detail. If it's the latter, then it's a rather suave look for what is an otherwise rather unimpressive abandoned building sitting somewhere on the coast of Eastern Europe. Edit: I just noticed it on other buildings on Highway 17, and this time not even all of the windows are painted. Truly some bold architecture for the modern era.

34:34 this is giving me major "The Raphael Parable" vibes. The player can choose to play the game however they want, explore whatever emotionally driven story they want to, set the kick damage insanely high.

The fact that it transitioned to Lost Coast because(?) he went into the water is actually fucking hilarious.

I can't tell if Jolly is being sarcastic or genuinely amused by some of the added content in this mod. Either way, this was a fun watch.

45:39 Honestly I was expecting to see Gordon dual wield automatic rocket launchers at this point, and I wouldn't have batted an eye.

54:35 Area portals are used to occlude parts of the map when the player is far away, helping to reduce the load when rendering. Somehow they managed to destroy the area portal, but it still has its texture applied to its faces.

You know, I see *exactly* why the Combine soldiers were sliding down the stairs at around the 53 minute mark. The modder didn't set up the stairs to be a slope, but individual steps instead... like we're back in the late 90s with mapping.

You know, I just had a thought. You know what this mod needs? Quadruple wielded pistols! You hold the third and fourth pistols with your feet. When you triple wield you can't kick and move more slowly, when you quadruple wield you can't move at all. Possibly add in quintuple wield if you want to get creative on how Gordon manages to shoot the thing.

The worst part is, at some points you can see some good shine through in this mod. At the beginning seeing a citizen being decimated by that Cremator was actually pretty awesome. And being able to overcharge the gravity gun with suit energy is also a neat concept. Sucks that the mod mostly actually plays like a bad Mario Maker level. Edit: I also like how they implemented back things like the Hydra that were literally removed in the first place because they weren't fun. Why would you implement something back that isn't fun. Who decided what went into this mod. (because of the edit i have lost the heart but it was worth it)

34:42 Messing up literally just a door is borderline impressive.

Please give us a part 2! edit: holy shit when the bulimic fish wiggled around at the end, the flashlight's cone followed its head. I'm not sure if I should be impressed by that tiny detail, or baffled that they decided that the flashlight is somehow attached to it

I love the visual image of Combine soldiers running in terror from Gordon Freeman hopping after them on one foot while reloading two pistols and doing the can-can.

The vent at 13:50 is actually the same in vanilla hl2, for some reason when you break the cover the entire vent expands. With the mod the vent is already expanded and the cover is where its supposed to be

34:40 HOW do you make your mod so broken that the door physics just gain sentience and runs away into the wall. This is literally the first time I've seen something like this that just happened on its own.

owning the Half Life 2 art book (raising the bar) and seeing half the artbooks creations come to life in a mod felt surreal like I was watching a beta test that had to be polished quickly for a demo test, the Charger and Hydra had me gasp because I've always wanted to see them in a HL game

This is like playing someone else's "immersive 1000+ mods" Skyrim modpack without reading a modlist. And, yeah, we Russians looooooove modding. Edit: 34:23 I faqing died from sensory overload. Thank you, Jolly.

25:20 Father Grigori's crabwalk is simultaneously the most hilarious and the most disturbing thing I've seen in anything Half-Life

After seeing how this mod plays, as well as how the Dev Team responds to criticism, I have come to the conclusion that the driving force behind this entire mod is Tommy Wiseau

That's the first ever realistic dual wielding reload I've ever seen. Every other game just goes with the below the camera reload to hand wave it. That was sick!

Fun fact, if you confront the devs about how horrendously buggy and cluttered their mod is; their default defense is “You have so many options to choose from.” More doesn’t always mean better. The more you add, the more work you need to put in to ensure the additions actually work with the rest of the game. Another fun fact, some of the options don’t even work, or are extremely buggy. I don’t know how long ago this was streamed, and if any patches were released, but I remember turning off “bullet tracers” will cause bullets to appear as a missing texture until you enable it again. So yes, the evidence of little-to-no playtesting is clear as day. Edit: This video goes into detail about why this mod is awful, I recommend giving it a watch. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-rliZA9z1xME.html Edit 2: Some people seem to be defending the mod, saying that they “just wanted to add a bunch of crazy stuff.” Fair…. counter point, gmod already does that. You can literally boot up hl2 in gmod (or any map in gmod) and have pretty much the exact same experience (especially when you enable *many* mods). Also, most of Gmod’s workshop actually *works* compared to this mod. It’s fine if you have fun with this mod, but understand that the devs should have playtested and ensured that it actually worked. Apparently the mod has also been taken down, whether this means they’ll fix it and put it back up, or simply abandon it, is unknown.

18:16 I need a compilation of the Charmander mouth opening with jolly making the popping sound with his mouth.

Fun fact: those teal colored windows are called “area portals”. They are often used in windows and doorways, they usually black out the area covered by the portal from a distance. Typically they are supposed to be compiled as a func_areaportal. Here, they weren’t, therefore why you can see them.

There's something very pleasing about how *The Australian Guy* turns into Crash Bandicoot whenever he freaks out.

This mod is definition of "More does not equal fun." I would say they did tried and put effort into it but... It's not good.

This escalates so gradually from "nothing seems to have changed at all" to utter insanity, with such perfect pacing to when each new ridiculous thing-both intentional and unintentional-is introduced, it's hard to believe this isn't just a brilliant parody. A troll fic (e.g. _My Immortal_ and the like) in mod form, if you will. Like, take those ERROR model soldiers for example. They show up after you've already been fighting those particular enemies for hours, and stick around just long enough to remain funny before going back to normal. (Not to mention, it's the sort of thing that would be caught in testing if they played through the game even once.)

This mod is like trying to challenge manslaughter charges in court by saying "Actually, it was COMPLETELY planned, thank you very much, and I ALSO killed 12 other people in the process that aren't detailed in the charges!"

It feels more like a GMOD map one would create for themselves after having installed 500+ addons to have fun than a full HL2 mod.

Jolly going to Lost Coast was like one of those secrets in games that makes no sense with how you have to find them. Also I would like to know how exactly they fucked up so badly that they made the Area Portal texture visible.

Jolly's impression of the mod can be plotted as a sine wave: from "this is shit, how do they even released that" to "YEAAAH, BABY, THAT'S WHAT I WAS BEEN WAITING FOR"

Jolly: *just because I can kill them doesn't mean I should* British man: *appears* Jolly: *_concentrate maximum firepower!_*

I know it's a lot of editing, but please tell me we'll see HL2E1 of this. I nearly died watching Alyx's make-believe minivan rollercoaster ride live.

I now have to imagine Gordon entering the water, then proceeding to just aimlessly drift and float staring at the sky, arriving at the Lost Coast, fucking shit up, going back into the water, drifting and floating to repeat the process.

The completely unintentional comedic timing of this mod and anything Jolly says is beyond words

This is the Half Life modding equivalent of TempleOS. A brilliantly ambitious and endearingly unhinged project made by a genuine schizophrenic

This looks like someone played the HL2 campaign in Gmod and thought to themselves “you know what this game needs? EVERYTHING!”

3:55 The moment you realize the mod didn't change the buildings, that's just default Half Life 2.

This mod feels like a standard 600+ addon GMod playthrough, it even includes all the jankyness!

Jolly, I'd just like to say thank you for existing. You're the creator of some very comfy content that makes me happy when I'm sad.

God i really hope the rest of this mod will get its own video too, i really didnt want this insanity to end!

it says so much that not only does this game have a kick button. but a melee button and also 3 different melee weapons. its like the devs saw some games have kicks and melee buttons and didnt once realize why no other game had both bc they serve the same purpose

41:22 The best rendition of the movie "Dude, where's my car?!"

I laughed so fucking hard at the combine yeeting themselves down the stairs that I went from having a headache to a migraine, thank you Jolly 😂

The pistol in Half Life 2 is based on a Heckler and Koch USP chambered in 9mm Parabellum. The other pistol introduced here at 13:08 is a Beretta M9 chambered in 9mm Parabellum. And yet despite essentially being the same damn thing, the Beretta is treated like some sort of super pistol. An upgrade to the USP. Classic video game thing right there.

Fun fact! Gabe has played this mod and said in a recent interview that this is objectively the best way to play any video game ever

35:35 flamethrower? More like framethrower am I right?

I have a strong suspicion that the Combine Assassin at 22:41 tried to do some jump at Jolly or something but ended up killing herself doing so

This is truly the experience that Valve intended when making Half-Life 2.

I'm starting to think that the dev team didn't understand why some enemies didn't make a return in Half Life 2. Because seeing them jammed into this game feels jarring and doesn't make any sense from both a lore and game play standpoint

Overcharged is like someone trying to play Half Life in Garry's Mod but they have a bunch of mods installed

i love that advanced options menu. only slightly ironically. it's beautiful. i want to make something like it.

Imagine the horror a combine soldier or metro cop feel when they see a man, with an HEV suit giving a weather forecast, aggressively bunny hop, kick, swing weapon, lean, and fire a weapon towards them.

wait... he made the pfp change 3 hours ago... why does the character not... how... h... how did he add it to this video?????

Jolly going to the settings to set his shotgun to automatic and instead getting distracted with the fact he can swing his gun and use bullet time is peak Jolly

i've said it before and i'll said again, the most unique thing about this mod is that it's bug-personalized

The first time I played Half Life 2 I did the entire airboat level on foot cause I somehow missed the boat. The thing is, the game will let you do this all the way up till the last puzzle of the level where you have to lock a see sawing ramp and jump off it at airboat speeds to finish the level. So I spent a very long time thinking the game was terribly paced due to how long this level was on foot just to get stumped at the last puzzle before quitting. When I tried again I found the airboat and realized what was wrong lol.

Just want to say that the absolute funniest and most hilarious part of this is when Lost Coast just appears. I'm a Lost Coast Certified Enjoyer, and the fact that they just... smacked it into this mod? Is just so insane. Like wow, it's just. There!

39:14 The part where it changed to Lost Coast just killed me 😂

40:53 The "we'll celebrate this victory with a feast" actually goes with the music

Oh God not this. I remember playing this on my POS laptop when it came out. Somehow, the mod corrupted my laptop and fucking bricked it.

10:00 I love how this Implies that you’re just running around hopping on one leg

Entering the water being the trigger for you getting teleported to Lost Cost is fucking hilarious.