As the sniper says in one of the radio dialogues when the commander asks if he's sure it's Freeman: "Well he looks like an orange ice pop so"

One of the funniest and realistic line I ever heard.

It is a suit design for maximum visibility in the workplace, like a fully-enclosed hi-visibility vest lol.

@@vinesauceobscurities literally doesn't match with combat.

It's a suit built for civilian safety. Civilian safety gear is made to be as visible as possible. Bright orange isn't too found in nature, hence why you see such vests, helmets, and even traffic cones.

I think the fact it lasted seven hours should give you enough of an idea, especially since literally the entire world fought and couldn't even last HALF a day.

​@@soupcangaming662 At least it wasn't the German invasion of Denmark. They lasted 6 hours.

@@babufacio_____wczesniejvin2847 We do not talk about that damned game.

@@soupcangaming662denmark couldn’t even last a quarter of the day when Germany invaded

@@testingsomething6859 HDTF is my favourite half life and I have more than 200h in game

it’s like a dude playing a shooter and plays against new players and gets mad because theirs no challenge but when a pro comes in, he still gets mad,

Guards: "D:"

hecu are complaining about everything

yeah it feels like they aren't picking the best of the best, they picked the most blood thirsty and obedient killers they could get.

@@Yourlocalwordrobe i would complain that im committing war crimes. Would you?

You never saw the marines in the original bombing themselves I will admit I just prefer the original over black mesa no clue why I just do.

A hell of a lot easier to take out civvies and untrained security then to try and go up against a bunch of aliens

​@@cornellblok9543 United States military just blatantly killing unarmed combatants is retarded in nature.

Then there's Gordon Freeman.

If only the HECU help the scientist instead of exterminating them then the invasion might not have been that bad especially since Freeman is on their side

That's a neat detail

@@AletheiaBasin Most intelligent marine.

​@@Horny_Fruit_Fliesneed more crayons

I think that's because you Westerners have a stable tradition of choosing any big organization's motto in Latin

@@maximmayoroff4479It's a very influential language despite being dead

That... actually makes some sense. Way more than “No one fought back! Boring!” impression this dialogue always gave me.

And then he gets what he wishes and loses his life

"I've killed twelve, dumbass scientists"

It's not a war crime, it's straight up crime.

I wouldn't call it a war crime, it's not a war. It's a government clean up of government personnel. Government tried to cover up what happened at black mesa, any nation would, but it got out of control really fast.

@@overkill-q they didn’t even want to kill the scientist. A lot of them didn’t want to but they were forced to.

@@overkill-q Killing civilians - order or not - is a crime no matter how you look at it. That particular soldier deserved his fate. May headcrab hump his brain for all eternity.

@@overkill-q another thing. Let's assume HECU is based off real-world marine corps. Therefore all rules and laws apply. Is marine forced to join a mission or is it voluntary decision?

@@adler830 they are special forces too, Hazardous Environment combat unit.

​@@adler830 these aren't regular marines. They deal with biohazards and non natural things, so the rules of the average marine wouldn't necessarily apply to HECU as well

Yeah, the soldier almost sounds like he's mad they didn't fight him and win.

​@@2PRO_4U_2NO Not win mind you, no one likes being dead. Just that they fight back to justify killing them. How can you say you are doing the right thing when fighting unnarmed combatants?

I was wondering if someone else pointed that out.

He thought they were sent to kill the evil scientists who were trying to end the world and intentionally caused the resonance cascade.

“ what- “ “ I don’t know I just wanted to say something unhinged “ “ Alrig- HOLY FUCK IS THAT GORDON FREE- “

Whats a corpsman?

​@@BlueRecRoomit's the same as medic, only for marines.

@@karelpapousek6495 thank you

Thinking about how HECU was likely prepared, they probably thought they were some sort of CBRN unit, stationed in the area by black mesa for it’s potential as a training ground of some sort. They thought they’d be fighting human opponents in a potentially contaminated environment. Nothing would prepare them for the aliens they’d face. No doubt they’d be unsettled once they entered the facility, both having to kill civilians and face hostile beings. By the time of surface tension, the Nihilanth had begun pushing its invasion, the Xen aliens began breaching out of the facility and began causing Chaos behind the HECU lines. You can hear the HECU mentioning that there’s no frontline with the aliens, as they just kept teleporting in all around their positions. Panic was starting to set in, and the ground forces were eventually left on their own as the Air Force was trying to contain the threat with interception and bombing

​@@BlueRecRoom a Corpsman is basically a medic from the US Navy. Corpsman are attached to Marines due to them having no specific medical personnel themselves.

Did somebody say boom?

Mikee wrote most of it I believe

Yes

Only minor complaint I have is them saying "repeat" on radio

@@smittymcsmitface2242 i mean hl2 did that to with a citizen on a radio saying "gordon freeman has returned i repeat gordon freeman has returned"

@Brucewillis235 eh I'd give that a pass, I doubt many of the rebels have military training by that time, plus not like they have artillery, mortar, or any of that nonsense

How do you know their ranks? I'm genuinely interested.

@@karelpapousek6495 when ever Echo is used with a number and a letter from the NATO phonetic alphabet in that order it means that an individual soldier and not a squad or fire team designation is talking on the radio. Echo in this instance stands for enlisted man I.E not an officer. The number they say is their rank which can go from 1 to 9 where 1 is the lowest rank being a private to 9 being a sergeant major/1st sergeant/master gunnery sergeant. The NATO phonetic letter used after their number is supposed to represent the first letter of their last name (sometimes it can be their first name if you have more then one person in the squad who has the same rank and also has the same first letter of their last name). To identify officers it's basically the same except you replace Echo with Oscar then the number and then the NATO phonetic letter. These work over all in every U.S military branch for radio call outs.

@@evanpeacock6103 wicked! I just learned something new today

@@evanpeacock6103 So that's why officer's callsign was Oscar 2 Papa. Thank you for taking your time and explaining the matter in such detail.

@@karelpapousek6495 Yes the officer was a 1st lieutenant in this case. It should also be noted that when dealing with warrant officers the Oscar will be replaced with Whiskey. These designations were designed to communicate with enlisted and officers across branches in the event of a combined conflict where units from different branches were fighting along side each other. All branches have different names for the same ranks and you can't be expected to know them all and they can be confusing in the heat of battle. For instance let's say a navy captain is giving an order and coordinating with Marines on the ground. He is from a different branch and so captain means a different rank to the Marines. He wouldn't go on the radio and identify himself by saying he is a captain because their could be a high ranking officer on the ground for the Marines let's say for example a major. Now in the navy a captain is the equivalent of a colonel in the marines, so to get rid of all the confusion of who the commanding officer is in that situation the navy captain would say on the radio that he is an Oscar 6. The major on the ground hearing his order now knows that he is dealing with someone two ranks above him instead of someone one rank below him. This is just one example of many where this is used and it helps simplify command structure in battle.

I thought so too on my first play through, but the wiki and subtitles for the game say otherwise

@@patrickfitz6343 Was that explosion on 7:20 a coincidence or was it the thing that took the guy out?

@@DearestMother probably the latter, which would make the game non-canon. If the former though, then it could be canon.

Now I'm imaging a marine with his eyes gouged out by some abomination bleeding out and trying to find his medkit

IFAK*'s gone

Hope a bullsquid eat their faces :D

Were you there during the 7 hour war also?

that was a dumb line. every branch uses latin for their motto. kind of an anti-military thing from the developer ngl.

​@@alexmurray7031Dumb take.

​@@John.McMillanno I agree with him, it's pretty juvenile and demeaning to portray soldiers as barely literate brutes

What's funny is that if I remember from Sexy Nutella (maybe), their initial conversation is carried on should you remain underwater, like "Holy shit, we actually killed him! Hell yeah!" or that sorta thing. Neat detail.

@@bababooey5402 idk while i was in hammer editor i spent like a hour of browsing through the hecu voicelines trying to find a good one for my map,there wasn't a voice line like that.

@@MaxwellE985Might’ve been a removed voiceline that Nutella modded back in. Their playthrough has a couple mods that either readds cut content or patches stuff.

Its coming on the black mesa workshop, atleast i think it is (They are making blue shift and i think ive seen stuff about opposing force flying around)

Or could wait for Operation Black Mesa by Tripmines Studios.. Which probably going to take a long time.

@@Applesauce006 Are they still working on that? I haven't heard a single peep from them besides some music they released. I think it was Crocodile Tears or maybe that was a different studio.

@@Zackarco Yes, they still worked on OBM and GD, as Tripmine rarely posted teasers for the games.

I'm just worried that the Greaseman might throw a fit and put a stop to it. He totally would.

Shepard's squad didn't even get their proper orders. The Marines were called in to contain something they were NOT prepared for by people who didn't know what the hell was going on.

Tbh the Marines though it is just "rescue" mission and likely shock to learn that they aren't gonna rescue anyone but to clean house.

And from trying to coverup a facility working with alien specimens, they would later realize they were the now on the frontline of a full on alien invasion. An invasion that had no frontline, unknowable size of the enemy’s strength, and the demoralizing alien horrors weaponized against them. You had just gone in, hearing about friendly aircraft being shot down by unknown assailants, and entering this area-51 esque facility. You are told you have to kill the terrified civilians, some of whom are some of the worlds brightest minds, while facing monstrosities in the dark corridors that materialize out of thin air in bright green flashes. Then, you notice these creatures are starting to become organized, and greater in number. Soon your topside control zones are now under threat, and alien mantra rays are reducing your convoys to dust

Yeah, remembering their violations to the human rights help you cope with that

​@@Supperdude9because their Osprey got downed before their CO could give them any orders

he hittin that "hot milk" pose 😳😳

​@@SendirianAjahot milk 🥛😳

What makes it worse is that if the HECU could have cooperated with the Black Mesa staff they would have stood a better chance.

@@dislikebutton5149 Isn't it cannon that g-man is somehow resposible for the military to target personnel, for the sake of annihilation in the 7 hour war?

Technically this is not a whole army. This is more like "SWAT" or "FBI". HECU - Hazardous Environment Combat Unit. In fact, the saddest thing is that when the soldiers of HECU failed, special assassins "black operatives" were sent to the black mesa, so that they would have already cleared the base of everyone. And from the soldiers who didn't manage to get out but also from the remaining scientists.

@@Appolo15966 It all depends on what games in the Half-Life franchise you consider Canon. In Opposing Force, Adrian's diary states that G-Man had been talking to the HECU higher-ups prior to them being sent on the Black Mesa mission, which is a pretty big nod that G-Man had at least some part in the conflict at Black Mesa. But, since some people don't consider any of the HL expansions canon, it's more or less just a matter of perspective

It certainly didn't help that the HECU were armed primarily with submachine guns, and while we don't see the entirety of the black Mesa facility, the HECU reasonably can't be more than a brigade sized formation. Not a lot of heavy weapons you can send along with soldiers in V22's

Arma 2 or Arma 3?

I’m pretty sure this is when the hecu started air striking/firing mortars/carpet bombing on black mesa and the soldier in the comms happens to be right in it

@@zorastevanovicthis is black mesa a remake of half life. This isn’t from any of the bohemian interactive games

@@user-safetygate24 I think he was asking about the OP's pfp

@@khaosproductio there isn’t much indication that they were talking about the profile pic, but there is always a chance for that to be the case.

The guy is crazily talented

@@patrickfitz6343 Indeed he is. Sent him an email once acknowledging his work and he said that it was nice that his work was being appreciated, even all the way here in the Philippines (And if you notice the heart on the original comment is gone, I apparently misspelled "HECU" and corrected it so yeah xD)

Tsarouhas? is he of greek descent?

Dude is also the voice of a No More Room In Hell character, both teams in Insurgency 2014, and "Cleric" the minigun support pilot in Insurgency Sandstorm. Not to mention a dev of both Insurgency games to boot.

​@@icy3-1 wait. He's Filipino?

GOD I would have LOVED more HECU conversations!

something even more terrifying is that there wasn't even a front as per the dialogue of the entering soldiers in surface tension "there's no front line with these things!" What the hell do you do against an enemy that can reposition any asset instantaneously to anywhere on the battlefield? how in the bloody hell do you fight that? At any time you can be encircled or flanked by an enemy force, at any time your unit could get ambushed by enemies that just appeared in front of you and you could easily end up like echo-3. Your enemy could just teleport into your HQ and kill all your commanding staff, even air asset could just be teleported behind enemy aircraft or on top of a prime bombing target. they didn't even need the numbers honestly with such an insane tactical advantage. And that's without considering the fact that you're fighting an enemy that has neither moral nor logistic to be concerned with.

Have you ever looked up the cut VOX lines for the original Half-Life? There were a lot of lines written for most chapters in the game but the majority of them were left on the cutting room floor. The lines for Blast Pit, Power Up, On A Rail, and Questionable Ethics shed a bit more light on whats going on and string together and overarching narrative in the game. The lines for Questionable Ethics (some play, some don't) and Office Complex are good as well.

I'll be honest, black mesa paints the militarys fight with xen completely diferently then the original half life. With the original half life depicting the military standing somewhat of a chance dealing blows left and right to the alien forces but gettting outnumbered, here they aren't winning in any way possible

To add onto that, it helps paint the Black Mesa incident in the most accurate way possible: a tragic mess. You have scientists and security guards cut off from one another trying to survive against parasitic headcrabs (some of which have latched on to their former colleagues' heads and turned them into a meat mech) and the HECU trying to cover up the incident until they themselves were being torn apart about by the forces of Xen. Crowbar COllective did a great job in humanizing the marines and, ultimately, helped players to understand just how screwed everything was during the events of Black Mesa.

to be fair, you can still consider black mesa as head-canon since there is no official canon according to Laidlaw.

@@andrewtruax2830 that’s nice. That I shall

Did they change something in the lore? I dont remember anything which would push it out of official one

@@restoreleader lore wise, black mesa changed very little, it’s the still the same plot. However, they made some more connections to HL2 (adding more character dialogue and interaction to Eli and Kliener), refined parts of the game that otherwise were lacking in HL1, such as revamping the presentation of Xen, humanizing the HECU, and overall far stronger environmental story telling across the entirety of the game.

@@Armin2012 Ok thats true, connecting those scientists was probably from their initiative and xen... well i wasnt able to figure any mind control shenanigans back then, im not sure if it was explained in the base half-life

I M203'd them.

I tried doing it with a grenade first playthrough but didn't realize that they could be cooked. Got an achievement while also killing both of the HECU marines

I always liked that bit for how surprising and menacing it was. I like how one minute you fear and feel betrayed by these guys and want to pay them back for massacring your coworkers, then the next you might feel a little bad for them, and then you hate them again, ect...

@@Raycloud Yep. There's also the field hospital before the gargantua in Surface Tension with headcrabs and the guy on the radio calling for a corpsman.

@@lionocyborg6030and in Power Up, where you can find a small makeshift medical station with an HECU zombie, IV drip still attached to his arm. The story tells itself.

That ‘It’s Latin/Foreigners’ conversation sounds more marine-esque anyways lol

Or Joss Whedon villains…

That scene was one of my favorite bits in the game. It’s also the main reason I made this whole video because I realized that no one had posted that scene (Or any HECU scenes for that matter) to UKposts.

That's my favorite scene too. When I saw it the first time in my playthrough, I was really hit with how utterly panicked they were, and how chaotic and horrifying the situation really was

Watch it in slow motion and it hurts less. (The two actually turn into gibs right as the box moves before it gets close.)

Hell yeah, the gargantua are fucked. I forget, did black mesa include the scene where the gargantua shoves an SUV into a marine against a wall?

@@lizardizzle No, sadly not. Or atleast i havent seen that. Hate that Crowbar cut so many small details as such

I saw somebody playing blueshift but its not finished. Looks great tho. But I wanna see the gas mask wearing badass known as Adrian Shephard.

@@davidgreener7419 I think we all do. Guess they're saving the best for last.

Are those mods for Black Mesa or Black Mesa style remakes for Blue Shift and Opposing Force ?

@@plaguedoctorjamespainshe6009 I think it's going to be Black Mesa style remakes for those games.

Some of them didn't like taking down civvies. It's one thing to take down a, well, an opposing force that's pointing a gun at you. It's another thing to be ordered to do cleanup by executing civvies. They just weren't prepared to have aliens annoyingly teleporting all over the place. Places they cleared would get restocked with hostiles. That's a logistical nightmare. It was bad for Freeman who was taking the alternate smaller routes. Can you imagine the sheer number of teleportation in the bigger areas where the marines were? And each of these aliens had their own abilities, which they, like Freeman, would have to figure out on the fly how to deal with.

@@Supperdude9if the xen invasion of BM never got too bad and the combine didn’t invade (just for the sake of this argument), how exactly would the top brass silence an entire unit of marines that had witnessed so much death and despair and execution of civilians? Would the survivors all be logged on a black book and taken to Guantanamo or would they just deem them clinically insane?

@@JessiContingenC ...That info would have gotten out. They'd have tried to contain it. I mean, teleporting aliens that are killing everyone? It's a nightmare scenario. Just that notion alone would cause a panic in the world, because with teleportation like that, nowhere is safe. There would have been an effort to contain the news. Just... it was a bad situation.

@@Supperdude9 Exactly and as depicted and shown in half life usually just a few marines were able to take a way bigger numbers of xen troops, so if anything that's just impressive. I think the numbers of xen was the reason of the military having to pull out

@@abhikergaming7783 It's the lack of the front line. That's how standard human military tactics work. As I've said in a previous post, you establish the front line, you secure areas, slowly work your way while covering each other, clearing threats. Setting up areas where you can move up ammo, supplies, and move back wounded/fatigued fighters. If you can't have that, you have a logistical nightmare and bad situations. They aren't trained for that. You're trained to clear areas. You're trained to cover each other. You're trained to move up, cover fire, and overwhelm your opponent with decisive tactics. And if you get overwhelmed yourself, you have that front line that you cleared to retreat to. Look at bad situations where military teams got surrounded. Only a few exceptions survived such situations. Bastogne was only survived because the Germans didn't attack with their full force. Alesia was survived because they unconventionally built fortifications around the city they had under siege in the first place. The Black Mesa incident was a military nightmare. Ultimately, their only decision was the nuke at the end of Opposing Force. And even that didn't end the invasion.

"Yeah that's for trying to guilt trip me! Sure, 'the Big Bad Freeman'. Of course, YOU guys didn't start SHIT!"

Gordon: NO U.

Gordon: Is a remote bomb an acceptable payment ?

Hehe I've removed the 69

Don't you mean Hazardous Environmental storytelling, lol.

nice pfp, man of culture.

Bro. That must been a dark time for you.

You are right, that’s when the radio operator asks “be advised target freeman may be in your sector”. My main goal with this video was to cover all the in-game conversations between the marines. Less focus was put on the radio transmissions because I feel there are already tons of videos covering them. So any transmissions I added was more of a tacked on thing. But thank you for letting me know.

@@patrickfitz6343 Yeah gotcha - wasn’t sure if it was worth pointing out or not, but decided to because I think you do have every other radio transmission in here anyway as well as the chitchats

lol I don't

I’m only human after all

I love the hecu

The HECU Soldier I locked inside the bathroom watching as the fucking vortigaunt which suddenly appeared grab a sex toy:

HECU DID NOTHING WRONG 10,000,000,000 DEAD BLACK MESA FACILITY PERSONNEL

I remember that, I think they changed the lines because having two marines talk about “wrangling up lady scientists” came off as too creepy. I like the new lines honestly, they are more comedic.

Shame they changed it, would have made me feel even less bad about killing them.

@@patrickfitz6343 Just to add on my previous comment about the combine and revel fight. What I actually meant was you could have a normal looking combines with their original in-game model AND another with custom models on the same map with cheats only, without the need of a map editor. If you like I do have a tutorial on how to do it: ukposts.info/have/v-deo/bnalnWuehIB-t6s.html

@@patrickfitz6343 They’re wasting their time anyway. If they REAALLY wanted to get their rocks off, then they should remember that you get what you get and you don’t throw a fit.

Damn may these war criminals rest in piss 😔

40 LiKes but 0 COmMEnTs LeMme fix ThAt

I'll be honest I listened to every radio station and conversation the military had with one another (talking about the original half life). For me the perspective of the military was very important, and I was kinda on there side, I understood why they did what they did so I always felt bad killing them

"Ok, you're gonna need to find another pack and get a tourniquet out of it." *No response* "Are you still there?" *No response* "Echo 3 Joliet, can you hear me?" That's when you know when he's gone.

He said “My I.F.A.K’s gone… I’m uh..-“

So what you’re saying is… human. The devs/writers wanted to portray the HECU as people, rather than “generic military” Dude-bros.

I was under the impression that his whole leg was gone, hence the total lack of IFAK, delirium and quick blood loss

@@kal558 That is horrifying

There's even an HECU marine zombie with an IV still strapped to his arm

@@ajc0072yeah in Power Up. Poor fella was probably being treated on by their doc and had no idea they were done for

All right*

@@jaidendeprez1842 I don’t care….

​@@TheExperienceYT based

The original HECU felt like robots to me, these guys felt like actual humans

Yes bro 😢

The HECU losing to aliens after killing civilian workers all morning is the definition of fuck around and find out.

I'd like to mention a few thing: the scientists caused this whole mess, knowing about Xen for what seems to be years and not telling anyone about it. And the military was just trying to protect the people, and rightfully considered the scientists as horrible people for you know CAUSING THIS WHOLE MESS

Couldn’t agree more

There is a mod that overhauls the chapters in Black Mesa and for Surface Tension and Forget About Freeman I recall that it adds at least two non-hostile Marines.

@@Raycloud do you remember the mod name?

The closest you could get is just killing the Xen creatures and run past the HECU guys as much as possible.

They seem to prioritize aliens over you, at least as long as you don't shoot them first If they think there are still enemy aliens nearby they won't attack you, at least from my experience

With all due respect, the reboot MWs mostly sucked when it came to story telling. I agree regardless, though, loved the HECU humanization in this game

@@whg_brianferguson this comment was made long before even the MWIII announcement Wtf did they do to the everything?

@@XtreemAlan word

Modern COD be like:

Most likely dead, just like what you see after coming out of the building following the hallway ambush in Questionable ethics: dead scientists and security guards gathered near some corners and wall in the parking lot, most likely executed by HECU after interrogation

Did they realize he can't speak 💀

@@GravityGurus102 Ehhh no, freeman can talk, he just doesnt talk much as hinted by the fact we can make people go places or follow us. We just cant hear freeman unless he gets hurt somehow.

​@@apyr34556can he? Not once i heard Gordon speak ingame

@@sabianv2009in lore he speaks we just can’t hear him

Get your weird ass outta here

Looking for attention?

BACK UP BACK THE FU-

"Who ordered this damn operation, anyway?" No, seriously, who?

Ugh... No. G-man closed it shortly after the tramsmission "to Cooper", at the very end of Surface Tension

Thank you!

HECU don't wear pants? are they stupid?

Shiit... that's fucked up.

That would make sense for the amount of blood loss

Nope urban camo used in places like these