8 minutes ago on a 4 month old video? I wonder if youtube bumped this in the algorithm because of the new pinned comment.

@@denalischopp Nah, it was already doing that. No clue.

Where did you find the earlier version of HLA ending?

For the counterargument regarding the zoom, point to the widely-accepted notion of imagery (such as the HUD) being projected by the suit onto his glasses. If his HUD is being projected onto his glasses, there's no reason the suit couldn't also capture what Gordon is looking at, project it as imagery onto his glasses, and then magnify that imagery. It's also possible he wears specially-designed glasses that were issued by Black Mesa and interface with the HEV suit, which would not only explain those same things but _also_ explain why he's managed to hold onto the same pair of glasses from the start of HL1 to the end of Episode 2 (as confirmed by Half-Life: Alyx). The idea of a retractable helmet really makes no sense at all to me, imo. Unless the HEV suit is made of nanotechnology like Iron Man's suit in Infinity War (which would be ridiculous), nothing about the helmet's design suggests it's retractable. Gordon having a helmet that he takes on and off to see his HUD and protect him also doesn't really make any sense considering his HUD never disappears during the course of the games. For the counterargument that Gordon uses his helmet to breathe underwater, point out the fact that a helmet would contain enough air to last for at least a few good minutes, yet he drowns just about as quickly as somebody with no gear at all. Also point to the fact that the suit doesn't tell Gordon that his suit is running out of air, but rather that the blood oxygen levels are dropping (this implies that, rather than feeding him air, it provides him with oxygen by way of directly oxygenating his blood using the same technology it uses to inject morphine and healing agents). For the counterargument that Gordon's suit would be flooded with all the toxic waste he swims in, point out that the interior lining of the suit's neck is likely airtight. Also point out that Gordon could likely swim in toxic sewage without too much worry, as his suit can filter out toxins to at least some significant extent. This can be seen in HL2 whenever poison headcrabs bite him, as the suit will audibly detect the neurotoxins and begin fully reversing their effects. On a semi-related note, the likely reason why Gordon can survive deadly radiation without a helmet is that his suit dampens radiation to a sizable extent. It is a "hazardous environment suit," after all. As a final note, you can point out that Gordon gets swiftly knocked out by the HECU at one point during HL1, and the only way that the grunts could've realistically pulled that off is by bonking him over the head. That wouldn't have exactly worked if he was wearing a protective helmet. If you see this comment and end up using any of these explanations in the video, you don't have to credit me in any way, shape, or form. Most of these ideas have been out there for many years.

1:26 I think there was a time at the beginning of half life 2 when a headcrab latched onto a civilian behing a fence I don't remember when exactly but it was in the level with toxic water

*Gordon doesnt need to hear all this he is a HIGHLY* *TRAINED* *PROFESSIONAL*

Oh so the entire alien race is taking over the earth along with an army that only needs 7 hours to destroy the earth’s government? Dont worry i got a H I G H L Y T R A I N E D P R O F E S S I O N A L

Gordon with a crowbar:

"Profesionals have standards"

@@ceptemzorpus correction *Gordon doesn’t need to hear all this he’s a highly trained professional*

He could have a visor that can be polarized and unpolarized at will, or when exposed to large amounts of UV radiation and the like. Halo did this with the ODSTs, so their faces could be seen, even with their helmet's on. It is a good way of getting the best of both worlds. If I was making the canon for the Half-Life franchise, this is what I would do.

Maybe he put a sticker on his armor that says "Gordan"

my theory is he just carries it and only puts it on when dealing with radioactive substances

I mean, in Half life 2 he's like the only person known for wearing that suit hahaha, so everyone would know who he is regardless. In HL1, there were lots of other scientists with the suits, but as the time passes on, he was the only one that survived and people found out who he is

Well I mean, helmet on or off, you’re gonna recognize a mute in black and orange power armor

Well I mean, there's a pretty buff and badass antagonist in metal gear who wears prescription glasses. He's also a senator.

as someone who wears glasses, i think gordon and kleiner are pretty based.

@@wall4818 my new head cannon is that both freeman and Armstrong are brother that took "brains and bronze" to entirely different level

I need to use some of those too. I am becoming blinder each day.

@@dimsum3329 its brains and BRAWN, not brains and bronze

Yeah exactly what I was thinking

Its not the same suit between HL1 and HL2

​@@DanteKG. while true, the Mark V is heavily inspired by the IV just with minor upgrades for more maneuverability.

I remember seeing a comic that depicts those events as you describe them, with the helmet being worn in the test chamber but getting damaged after the resonance cascade.

bonus: what if Gordon put a new helmet back on in the lambda lab before the xen portal. even if you don't need to bring oxygen into xen, I feel it would useful to obtain.

Stalkers are decidedly NOT fine but whether it's caused by radiation in a weird dark energy generator, being brutally disfigured, or they're just having a bad day, whose to say

@@Templarfreak I don't think their state is because of the radiation but I do think the combine doesn't give a shit whether they "expire" and will just make new ones since they'll jump at any opportunity to kill or completely fuck up a human. So I personally think they are damaged by the radiation (but that's not why they look like that obviously).

They are humans afterall, but heavily modified

"You can't have lung cancer if you don't have lungs" -Any smoker fish, but stalkers can also relate

Hey, you don't know how they feel...

Or even better, quicksave

And gman

Cuz it's badass

he got shot in the face by combines, yet his glasses didn't even move

Basically gman

That’s what I’m thinking

or the suit connects to his brain via the spinal cord and manipulates his brain into displaying the hud

​@@HACKER-ct6hdor he's just hallucinating from all of this "fighting against every extraterrestrial horror man has ever devised" kinda thing

@@irradiance_ no

@@HACKER-ct6hd well okay then

Ok, this is perfect

this is the only reasonable on why he can get away with not wearing an helmet

AND MORPHINE

Or AR contact lenses, or The HUD is litterally just on his glasses

@@UNSCPILOT The HUD is just some stickers he has on his glasses and he just halucinates the numbers changing.

@@elizataylor1726 well, with all the weird stuff he got exposed to even before the resonance cascade, I wouldn't be shocked if he was hallucinating a bit XD

He's gonna get cancer, wear a fedora and cook xenian crystals

@@Zapy__ yeah, I can see freeman and white being either cousins or in laws

It's why G-Man had to keep him in stasis, Gordon has less than two months left to live.

oh, that's sad

Gman can move Gordon through time, but he can't cure cancer, that's just too much

Although HL:Alyx does take a more realistic approach. It was definitely like that for gameplay reasons in HL1, 2 and the episodes because it was Source and Goldsource, but the VR of Alyx does a better job showing of what a headcrab is actually like. There's more struggle involved, but it honestly doesn't even look like they can really even grapple with your head very well (at least in the clip shown), and are only able to jump more at your chest. Gordon's chest is also covered in a thick (and presumably slippery) metal armor, meaning headcrabs not being able to attack your head very well in most of the games is amplified by it.

Yeah, and you are Gordon Freeman with a helmet on, so it wouldn't make sense to get killed that easily

In universe they are probably much more like the headcrabs from Boneworks. Once they jump at you and grab you, you have a limited amount of time to rip em off before you die

Also, why would the combine use the crabs in shellings to take down settlements when they arent that much of a threat

Face huggers in alien isolation

The hud could be a hologram at the the collar of the suit that moves with him or something

It would have been cool if they did give him some personality tho. Not so much in your face, but something to have at least about the character you are playing

Or just the HUD does not exist and is instead just a representation of the suits voice lines for the player

@@Pacman009 holy crap that actually works. i was out here trying to think of the hud, but yeah i think this is the best option. gordon could've worn the helmet in the test chamber, helmet be damaged after the resonance cascade and abandoned, hologram hud activated. then maybe he grabbed a new helmet in the lambda lab before leaving for xen for just protection purposes and not oxygen.

@@OuinstonIchkleau well J don’t think people understand this: he doesn’t need the helmet in the chamber since the chamber is not radioactive and the cascade was not meant to happen

@@atari-7corners96 top voted comment was 6 months ago, this one was 5 months ago Also, I detest the notion that comments can be "stolen". It's far more likely that multiple people made the same joke in their heads, independantly.

Mans covered wars, ya know.

@@Her_Imperious_Condescension How do you know he didn't steal it? If it was a top comment, wouldn't he have seen it? Not saying he did it. But most likely he did.

@@TheBloodyBros why does it matter man, it's a line of text

Ah yes, because a professional can survive a missle launcher

Exactly what I was thinking. It just makes the most sense.

I had an idea of a mod that would 'add' the helmet, the helmet would help with protection against hazards, and would decrease damage against headcrabs and hits on the head, it also would decrease visibility and have a loud breathing sound to it, so it's more of a toggle.

Pretty sure the Black Mesa remaster of HL1 does this.

@@floppaquest4916 it doesnt :(

I think this is true

And yet you won't get any damage from being an inch from it...

that could mean that its heavily corrosive, but not as much radioactive

But no seems to disconnect therefore again no helmet.

Good video always so entertaining and informative

@@Pacman009but you are wrong lol so therfore retractable helemet

@@PulspitUeuhe ah yes because the third person model totally has a chance to change to the helmet randomly

@@Pacman009 ah yes because mark laidlaw the co writer said he had a helmetS

This is correct. The MIT-trained character of Gordon absolutely wears a helmet in-game, regardless of how he is portrayed in game or promotional art.

agreed 100% ^

In canon, He probably takes off the helmet sometimes. He's using it in battles and radioactive stuff but when he's not fighting he takes off.

Canonical Gordon must wear a helmet as everytime you go underwater the suit uses auxiliary power to let you have a supply of oxygen.

@@coinflipburp1565 That's kind of insulting to valve honestly, they dont just put mechanics into their games without thinking them through lol obviously they put a ton of thought into the mechanics of the HEV suit and how it interacts with he world. Theres even prerelease models of Gordon holding his helmet, that proves that he does have one and is wearing it. From what I can see online they originally had a mechanic where you could take off and put on the helmet but since the game was in first person only they scrapped it.

Yeah, radiation sickness is no joke

Gordon probably has cancer now

Nah the suit is made out of lead, he is fine. Until he gets lead poisoning.

@@pauldeddens5349 The suit is, but his head isn't. No helmet

well canonically gordon didnt swim in the toxic waste because canonically he doesnt suck like first time players

He also has high tech earbuds. And he is a main character bruh of course he survives.

none of the combat ingame is canon, in hla he has minimal wounds so its safe to assume he avoided most encounters.

@@caiseric > in hla he has minimal wounds bro the HEV suit is in tatters

@@Freezorgium its got one large gash and 2 pulse round burns

He can also take high-explosive anti-tank munitions to the chest or have a grenade blow up 2 metres from him

@@Subcinerar [>: ( ]

MORPHINE ADMINISTERED

(gets hit by headcrab whIle hiding from combine) MINOR LACERATIONS DETECTED

A whole squad of HECU chasing him and he's hiding behind some crates. *Headcrab noises * *Gunshot sound effect * *MORPHINE. ADMINESTERED.*

*Coughcough* ear buds *coughcough*

Ahh i see you are also here from door monster

wtf

Thank you for making me feel old because I got that reference

Can somebody explain, please?

@@Jobsih the quote is from a half life skit by door monster

damn, i theorized that the suit would somehow connect to gordons body and make him see the HUD with all the info and shit

How does he breathe under water then? And what protects his head from bullet in the face :)

@@Ravenwest19 First of all, he doesn’t breathe underwater. He has limited oxygen, AKA: he holds his breath. Secondly, as for how he tanks bullets to the face, that’s just game logic. Unless you’re playing Superhot, it wouldn’t be fun to die to a single bullet in every gunfight.

@@Eldrich09 and when you get bullet in head, it spends armor points if the suit

And the in game way is the voice messages

Bro right?!

This video was major let down. He has no idea what hes talking about and should stick with call of duty

Why has nobody mentioned the fact you can fucking ZOOOM! Does Freeman have Eagle eyes

@@rockhound3.14 zoom because it’s a game

@@rockhound3.14 you can zoom but you cant shoot

The healing pools in xen could also have a great effect curing him.

@@RadekCrazy1 as well as the health chargers and medkits

He was also completely aware of the headcrab attacking him.

Except Gordon doesn’t have a mouse to scroll.

@@matthewjones39 I mean yeah, but its a way to show what weapons are available in your inventory.

@@c0ntriL And how would Gordon see it?

@@matthewjones39 the heads up display in the helmet.

@@c0ntriL The video proved that Gordon doesn’t wear a helmet.

I was thinking about the same thing

That's my theory as well.

Considering the design (and of course the purpose) of the HEV suit, this is very likely the case.

Likely, though I take it less a mechanically collapsing, multi-component helmet and more a rapidly expanding/contracting airbag, a-la the Gas Mask in Death Stranding or the Hovding.

this reminds me who would win in a fight, isaac or gordon?

EXACTLY. I have worked with scientists and they want everything to be exactly after the book. Gordon would have never been let in the chamber without a helmet.

maybe he lost the helmet in the chamber

Not even the secrecy of Black Mesa can keep OSHA guidelines away.

I mean yeah, it's a game logic.

to be honest if black mesa was going by the book the "Anti-Mass Spectrometer" would have shut down, i do think gordon owns or owned a helmet but he just doesnt wear cause he's a dumbass

@@hueghh3775 the Security gaurd's helmets may probably have some holographic hud that is projected infront of their face. Or there is some surgical implant in theyre eyes

@@hueghh3775 what I meant is a hologram being projected near their face

Hud in Blue Shift are non canon

@@GabeNewellFromOuterSpace so its just barney imagining things?

@@poweringaccounttermination4026 just like counter strike the hud aren't canon. It just for player too see their ammo and health

Yep but the gearbox games might not count, so I tried to find other points as well.

Gina and Colette

@CuckooCoins FidgetSpinner She probably is cross after the Black Mesa Incident.

Head crabs seem kind of clumsy if you ask me

Yeah because you can just have your arms up and they can't do anything

You can still drown in hl.

>Word of God says that he wears “schödinger’s helmet” And where does it say this?

@@dutch_asocialite Half Life wiki and Quora.

@@PelinalWhitestrake36 I can work the wiki well enough, but I'll need a little direction to the quora article.

My theory is that the helmet pops out of the HEV suit, so it can be activated or deactivated.

zoom glasses

Rad-Away

@@sirmount2636 more like Rad-X

@@sirmount2636 rad X

Poor Cave Johnson... couldn't get a break and even died ot moon dust cancer!

@@-innutendo-9712 “Why not both?”

I solved that in my headcannon by just assuming Barney is hallucinating it.

Barney hallucinating the hud would be a funny solution. Maybe he can tap in the vortessence just a tiny bit? He's voiced by GMan after all.

The hud in hl1 totally could be a hologram that is conveniently right in his face

No, no, Barney just has that much control over his own body that he can quantify his health like that

godamit i just made a comment with the same points and then saw this one

To be fair, A, B, and C only appear in the fan made black mesa. D is real though.

@@radium6962 point B the HECU Grunt Zombie is in Opposing Force Edit: The Zombie Security guard is also in Opposing Force

@@OverTheTaco. We can argue that OP4 isnt canon, even if i see it as such, but i think ignoring op4 for something like this works well for an objective tone.

Headcrabs are clearly one of the primary ways of dealing with human rebels. Sure, regular headcrabs are weak, but still fairly mobile. The Combine have modified the headcrabs to produce the fast - very agile, able to climb walls and roofs - and poisonous - tanky and seemingly "breeds" off the host - variants. I mean they have a whole system of shelling enemy positions with headcrab capsules. Headcrabs take over hosts and zombify the population, rendering these places uninhabitable. Everything we witness in HL2 - the destruction of the railway outposts in Route Kanal, the aftermath of Ravenholm's shelling, the capsule launcher in Lost Coast, as well as shellings during the Uprising in Anticitizen One/Follow Freeman, supports the fact that headcrabs are effective in combat.

I think the HEV zombies had no helm since the suit things have no where to store one so the scientists had no helmets to use in a emergency

I was hoping someone would point out that scene from Route Kanal.

We don't see the headcrab jump the guy in route kanal that doesn't count

@@sourpusstv7984 he was still alive though, proving that they do, in fact, aim for a head

@@saxshton I already know that headcrabs aim for the head

@@sourpusstv7984 yes, so you just proved my point

@Alex Luca You can't really compare the HEV suit and spartan armour, different franchises have different logic

Supposedly the hev suit has morphine and antidote supplies for broken limbs and poisons, so maybe it heals gordon's stem cells form radiation by pumping the green shit from medical bays through him?

@@eintorpid9101 Good point, the Black Mesa Green Goo (tm) heals literally anything and everything

@@eintorpid9101 That seems to highly advanced tbh considering they're just discovering teleportation

@Alex Luca I like to think of the hev suit health as a kind of over shield, like in halo. This shield protects him from gunfire and radiation more effectively than the suit alone. When the hev suit health drops to 0, this shield is no longer available, and therefore Gordon’s head is susceptible to radiation. The suit still protects him partially from gunfire at this point though.

Probably because the devs didn't think of it during the designing. The reasons for it don't really matter when he's been shown to not wear it.

"Oh great. Now someone's stolen my helmet! This day just keeps getting better." --Ross Scott

Nice pfp

Personal headcanon is that he lost it in the test chamber, and the hud is again just gameplay decisions, could explain why it’s not shown in game or art

Well the suit didn't have a helmet with it when you first get it, it's nowhere near the suit in the beginning of the game.

you pfp is worse

@@misterredintong Your English is worse.

@@winicjusz8827 huh?

Gordon :D

Yes. But stop shooting the D-Class when they give you a gun

I mean, maybe there is something in his suit that captures these transmission, and sends them to him? Remember, his suit audio is independent of the military audio

That's what I was thinking, almost everyone in ravenholm has been infected with headcrabs, the only ones left is father gregori, and whoever is screaming in the backround somtimes.

And literally every headcrab zombie in the games

they just got skill issue'd man

Yeah to me thats the biggest mistake of this video. I always thought it was weird Gordon couldn't really hold his breath long after the suit ran out if power, but if hes wearing a sealed helmet with no oxygen tank then it makes sense he could only breath as long as the suit has auxiliary power.

Or, as someone else pointed out, he just finished a major battle and wasn't expecting the Advisors to be there. So why not take off the helmet? It's probably a bit stuffy to keep on constantly.

@@BenoHourglass Yeah. Gas masks and the like are pretty handy for the whole 'not dying' thing. But they're anything but comfortable.

He avoids citing OF or BS because of their vague canonicity which I respect a lot, but then proceeds to cite a cut, non-canon scene as his ultimate proof...

Well yes, but Ravenholm was only a bunch of farmers and priests. Gordon has training and the HEV, he will obviously survive more than Ravenholm's population

@LimeAngel Yes, and with the firearm training, he knows how to deal with risky stuff through shooting. And again, the HEV suit is the most advanced armor on Earth, definitely most of Gordon's feats are thanks to the suit

@LimeAngel Wtf are you talking about, Gordon had expensive weapons and hazard survival training. Have you even played the game?

@@PhartingFeeting sadly, only gman donated barney would've donated but he wasted all his money on beer, the resistance have no way of making any money, kleiner's the one using the money from the page to make a cure for cancer, and shepherd could care less

If he is not maybe we are. I have been waiting forever for a next real installment of the half life series...

Considering we never see the rest of his HL1 arsenal again, this is how I interpreted it aswell

is there ionizing radiation without radiation?

@@kiffy00 not as far as I know.

@@josephhatfield6237 exactly xd

Well even then, he never got one because Kliener didn't add one for the Mk. V and something unknown happened to the one on the Mk. IV.

HLVRAI

Freeman's mind

@@Espartanica No.

@@itsmant3 Yes.

@@saturn21207 HLVRAI.

was gonna say...

sooooo are we still gonna ignore the headcrab zombies ooorrr...

@@MrSuperstargamer what about them? We never see a zombie victim when it got turned into one, we just see them after a headcrab getting them

@@CourierSiix What does it matter if you see it or not? The point is that there's proof that headcrabs can be extremely dangerous if anyone there is caught off-guard, even some combine soldiers got turned into zombies. It's ridiculous of PurpleColonel to argue that Gordon doesn't need this because they "aren't that much of a threat". I mean, wouldn't seeing his fellow scientist co-workers and countless civilians and others who have even been armed to death only encourage gordon to wear a helmet or explain how he survived? And using in-game damage is kind of a stupid excuse just to highlight his argument. Not to mention how he apparently fails to comprehend radiation poisoning but I won't get into that like others.

@@CourierSiix potted plant

yeah this is the same thing I was thinking when I heard that voice line

When he says it could "be anything like high tech pockets" that's exactly what he means. Do you think your helmeted Gordon carries all of his weapons in his big muscular arms.

@@flareonguy7922 No but you’d probably need a display so you can pick out what you want from those high tech pockets. For that, you need a heads up display, and for that, you need a helmet.

@@AuroraAustralis_ Honestly who gives a shit? I think Gordon is helmetless and you think he has a helmet. You'll never convince me that he has a helmet, and I'll never convince you that he doesn't have one. Trying to explain the HEV suit is like trying to explain how valve weapons work. "The HL2 SMG has a grenade launcher on it! It is just invisible!" kind of stuff.

maybe he has strong magnets everywhere on the suit which he could stick weapons onto, and the weapon selection simply turns off the electromagnet for the specific weapon.

Given how many combine bullets and damage he can tank, plus with the suit needing power, I’m assuming the latter is true.

@@Zelousmarineinspace Or he wears a helmet

its like that scene from the end of the first Halo where Master Chief takes his helmet off but they never actually made a helmetless model of him, so its just another helmet spawning in his hand and clipping through the one he already has on.

But the Mark V never had a helmet also

@@ChaseMC215 the mark V is more sci-fi so my theory is: he have a retractable helmet or he have a invisible shield in their head

The mark 2 had a helmet but that model is old as dirt

And then the last one gets countered with "The helmets appears when activated"

I'm sure it really useful for a scientifist to have ammunition display on his glasses On my smart glasses, i can see the health of each party of body and select them for attack :)

yup, i agree

Well, actually it would be extremely easy to program such a thing in, though excessive. Source-am programmer

@@nuclearsummer7796 Why bother to complicate an NPC that is just added there to clear some stuff up.

@@alphenex8974 they have ai for a cockroach so....

King Kong and kinda Far Cry 2 want words.

I looked into that, and it comes from one impossible to verify post on stack exchange, which was a reply to another post. That account was created the same day, and the only evidence that he is who he says he is is that Chuck is listed as the designer on the Half-Life wiki. That account hasn't made a single post since, and Chuck had long left valve when that post was made. I don't really believe it.

@@PurpleColonel Oh, ok then. On question though- Can you explain the zoom function? I thought about maybe binoculars attached to his arm, or maybe it's just a non canon gameplay element. In the end I just decided he wears a helmet and takes it off when talking to other people (like in the end of Episode 2) and that they draw him in promo art without one just so he's recognizable.

@@prismaux5168 I think that's just non canon. Nobody ever mentions it, never necessary. In the beta, Gordon had binoculars as a separate item so I'm guessing it's a holdover from that. It is pretty odd though, I honestly forgot about it while I was making this.

@@PurpleColonel Everything HUD-related can be easily explained as the suit projecting imagery onto Gordon's glasses.

@@The_Butt_Cracker Except the fact that when you're underwater Gordons suit uses auxiliary power to presumably filter or generate oxygen to breath and when it runs out of power Gordon suffocates.

My theory is his helmet only comes out when necessary like during radiation, combat, underwater, etc

i think its because the suit constantly injects morphine into gordon causing him to ascend to being a god

This is a good argument but somebody having a different opinion doesn’t mean they are trying to get on your nerves.

@@anomalocarislover7254 the narrator does have a smugness to their voice tho lol

I especially love that moment, where he talks about HUD, gives his point about health/ammo being a representation of suit voice lines (plausible) but then "weapon selection system" comes up, he acknowledges its existence... And says "we'll just ignore it" or somesuch. That's... not a convincing argument. If anything, most points were mental gymnastics.

Isn't it "Defensive weapon **selection** system"?

The game still says "ammunition depleted"