Source flashlight: 😅 Gold Source flashlight: 💀

S.T.A.L.K.E.R's flashlight is one of those instances where using the flashlight is a liability more than an aid simply because the enemies will see it and proceed to shoot at the giant ball of light in the dark. Of course the enemies that use them almost never turn off their flashlights so it goes both ways.

4:08 i think what you wanted to say is 'dark and gritty'

Fleshlight > Video game Flashlight

Half life is worse of them all.

In DooM 3 you can also use ur flashlight as a meleeweapon, knocking zombies over

6:21 everyone does that at least once when they are a child Lamwarp

Watching a LamWarp video without subtitles feels cursed

Before I played Half-Life, (the original not the "remaster") I always thought the flashlight was normal like in Half-Life 2, but nope, I was like, "Da fuk? How can they not make a proper flashlight?" lol

Growing up we had this massive hand-held beam-searchlight. Thing had a motorcycle battery in it. We'd shine it at an island a quarter-mile away and see it perfectly illuminated. Loved that thing. Also, the searchlight in Unreal was awesome.

Sometimes a flashlight feels more like a gamma/brightness slider than a gameplay feature. I also hate automatic flashlights when you're in dark and it just blows everything up by how bright it gets (yes I'm talking about you far cry 5)

Fun Fact: Night Vision Goggles actually can't/won't/don't ever work in any sort of complete darkness, such as inside a cave/cavern or a mine. This is because NVGs work by amplifying or stimulating and highlighting environments or areas that are just slightly lit up in very low light. This is why the NVGs in Half-Life Opposing Force doesn't make a whole lot of sense, since soldiers also carry and use flashlights, binoculars, emergency flares, and sometimes even portable or mobile handheld lamps or lanterns, plus quite a whole lot more as well, and not just NVGs alone.

I don't remember if Alan Wake's flashlight sucked or not but I do love the concept of actually using it in combat while also illuminates bigger and is stronger based on the flashlight you have.

In a couple of years, when our sons and daughters be studying videogame development in college, this will definitely be thesis material. Great video man, as always.

Halo: Anniversary is a perfect example of why aesthetics are just as important as graphical fidelity.

4:13 no one tell Noodle

Half-life (first one) has the best flashlight in all of gaming. It's so realistic, I love it.

Now make a video about fleshlights.

in HL2 there also is one section where you wait for the elevator and the lights are out, and you have to fight off hordes of enemies in pitch black, and your flashlight is battery-powered so you have to conserve power deciding when to use it. there are also flares you can turn on to temporarily light up areas

i thought the video was gonna be about how video game flashbacks suck until i saw the thumbnail lol. thanks for the new vid, i thought you were on some 20-year stasis like gordon.

The flashlight attachments in shooters always interest me the most. For example, the other day I replayed Battlefield 3 on the PS3, no it doesn't hold up as well I remembered but the flashlight was something I never noticed before in the game. It's somewhat small, and I don't think you can turn it off and on, but it's got a pretty cool effect and can be useful for some darker missions, where it's usually already turned on. It also functions as a beacon to show where enemies or allies are, as when you look in the direction of an NPC with the flashlight turned on on their gun, the light will beam into your eyes, showing you there's someone in front of you. Many shooters do this, especially with snipers to help players find these well-hidden enemies. GTA 5 is another interesting beast in this topic, the flashlight it uses is much brighter and larger.. depending on how you use it. For example, many guns have a flashlight accessory you can buy, some with varying sizes, however there's also a straight-up full flashlight you can buy as a melee in GTA Online. The flashlight accessories on the guns are usually okay, but the aren't perfect, they are pretty dim and don't have a massive radius, and they also aren't persistent, meaning the second you stop aiming with the gun they turn off (unless you install a few mods like I have). The fully fledged flashlight melee is much better though, having a bigger radius, being brighter, though keeping the weird non-persistent problem.

When Dead By Daylight back in the day had really bad tutorial, I first thought flashlights were used to see better in dark places at cost of being seen quicker by the killer, but when survivor treated flashlight as if it was holding a gun, slowing down dramatically and set up in almost a combat stance… something was wrong. Also the duration of the flashlight… then I discovered flashlights are actually used to BLIND the killer (that’d explain why I was the main target in my first match with a flashlight).

I wish you had touched on the "flashlight" in Outer Wilds: Echoes of the Eye DLC since that too is interesting!

Doom 3's flashlight being its own "weapon" was a design choice, you were choosing between vision and your weapon in the dark areas, some of the games encounters are balanced around that, forcing you to hot swap and using sound to help figure out where enemies are approaching from. Some areas in the BFG edition don't hit because there's nothing to fear when your light is always on.

I remember when I was a kid I analyzed how the flashlight in Luigi's Mansion 1 worked, I thought it was pretty good and realistic

I fw your videos heavy bro. Just found you been watching all night

When I first played Half-Life, I thought the flashlight was broken

Have i came to a point where the most anticipated video I'm waiting for are LamWarp's ? Sure does keep going bro.

The issue of the doom 3 change wasn’t fully the flashlight. Swapping to a weapon gave some extra suspense sure but the remake made the whole game brighter and have more ammo so you can’t JUST have the new flashlight change

My biggest gripe with video game flashlights is honestly just how they seem to have basically no range at all, comically so. You can be a soldier using what's probably meant to be a high grade flashlight but as soon as the light travels more than 5 meters, the photons seemingly just vanish into the void. At least games with lanterns light up the general area around you instead of just a cone ahead. It's not even a realism issue for me, I just hate how game designers seem allergic to giving you a flashlight that isn't complete garbage.

Lamwarp release different type of video and it's about flashlight from each games. Awesome

The torch shown in the thumbnail is actually one I have irl lol

I forgot LamWarp does exist until I saw the video

I wish Doom 3 would have let you use the flashlight alongside the pistol (The marine holds both of them with one hand too lol). That way the pistol isn't immediately discarded after the next weapon but making them annoying to use. Alternatively, _some_ of the weapons could have a flashlight attached (maybe as an upgrade later in the game) but the thing is that you still have to consider the seconds you can't see because of the recoil or the reloading.

Doom 3's flashlight works because there's a combination of things going for it - the swap is fast enough, every enemy attack creates ambient light so you can see where to shoot anyway, most enemies also have some kind of elements that highlight them in the dark (red visors for zsecs, glowing eyes for zombies, etc), many map areas have some kind of ambient light, firing your weapon lights up the area in front of you as well. Plus it's immersive to pull out your flashlight, scan the area, memorize enemy positions and then fire away. But why must it be a vintage heavy ass flashlight instead of a shoulder mounted one? Well, have you seen the state of the base? Nothing works on it properly, they cut the budget so hard your armor barely protects you anyway, and you want working lights, oh you silly... But seriously, the moment you try to "fix" stuff you think are wrong with Doom 3, the game kinda starts falling apart. A lot of things are in it the way they are for a good reason.

It only good when on gmod horror maps with nothing inside because it dark and you pull out flashlight then get jumpscare my loud ass tf2 buff men

If horror games had a good modern flashlight, the enemies would be running from you.

You forgot to mention Half Life 2's flashlight is connected to your oxygen and sprint bar, so the underwater sections in Route Kanal where you need to see underwater makes it run out incredibly fast and the same can go for anytime you're sprinting with the flashlight on so again it runs out too fast. Honestly sucks. Only time i've had fun using a Flashlight in a game would be SCP Blackout, your flashlight is used as a way to see aswell as a weapon but it has batteries you need to collect so you need to balance it out which makes it quite engaging as you need to choose when the right moment to use the alt fire or keep some batteries to help see better, you can also upgrade it to make it use less power. Also with DOOM 3 bonking the enemies with the flashlight was satisfying too.

Finally, Lamwarp post a video about flashlight

The Last Of Us flashlight is I think a good example. The game is a lot of times dark so you need the flashlight very often especially if you are trying to find things like ammo or extra secret things the game has. It also does its job as a flashlight.

It's funny how games that take place in the future don't have super bright flashlights. I mean, today we can have super bright flashlights that have insane lumen counts.(like as bright as car headlights)

Doom 3's flashlight being changed from item to shoulder mount turns it into a completely different game. Instead of having to choose between more visibility and firepower, now you always just get both. The original flashlight forced you to make a difficult choice, which gave the game more depth. The BFG Edition flashlight removes that and lets you focus more on shooting. Now you know the arguments on both sides.

Doom 3 did it in an interesting way where you have to choose between using a flashlight and weapon

The greatest flashlight analysis I have ever seen

This one is compelety different compared to your other videos and a nice change.

Half-Life’s flashlight is like summoning a ball of light above the place youre looking at

6:11 FINALLY, SOMEONE SAID IT! I swear, these small flashlights start to give me a lot of headeaches (literally) because I have to keep focusing in that small circle and it starts to hurt a bit. L4D also has the same problem imo, honestly, Valve doesn't know how to make flashlights lmao. And we don't talk about GoldSrc flashlights....

The reason why Doom 3 BFG Edition's flashlight got a lot of hate by the community because in the OG Doom 3, the flashlight was to show the lighting capabilities of the ID Tech 4 engine and it was also part of the game since Doom 3 is much slower-paced, darker and scarier compared to old Doom games 😎

They don't suck, they're just shy.

Interesting video, the first half life's flashlight is bad, but I rather have that one than the opposing force night googles 😅

My friend: Why are you watching a guy's yapping session about flashlights? Me: Hear me out. The dude has a point.

The flashlight being useless in the Halo CE remaster is actually canon because Master Chief and other Spartan-IIs have heavily augmented eyes so they can see in the dark. I actually prefer the remastered graphics despite growing up with the originals on the old Xbox, maybe because I already played Half-LIfe around the same time I played Halo CE and so Halo CE's graphics were never very impressive to me. Then obviously HL2 and Doom 3 came along and took its lunch money. Speaking of Doom 3, I do think the hand held flashlight was kind of a neat idea for the time, but I also agree that it didn't fit perfectly well with the way Doom 3 ends up playing after the first 2-3 levels, so the BFG edition basically added the famous 'Duct-tape mod' as default for the better.

Lamwarp realised he has a channel :

Fallout 4 does a “lantern light” style in first person

Reminds me of the Atari game With Flashlight that has a stickman *i haven't finished the video -_-*

thank you lamwarp for the new amazing video!!! 😉

I am a game developer and feel like I have fixed the dilemma with flashlights in my game. You are still allowed to see in the dark like a human being. However once the killer starts chasing you he will disappear and won't be seen unless if you have your flashlight on him. Just a way to make it realistic but still scary.

I've been waiting for this video.

I real life, You can see your Surroundings with the Flashlight. (Kinda) But with Games like Half-Life and others, It's just a White circle with Pitch black around it. Plus, they can drain power easily, You have to literally find Batteries around the base to recharge or use it again. Also In early 3D games (Like ROBLOX in 2008 or so.) the Flashlight tool in horror games, Is just a big Cone on a flashlight Model, But now they have a Gear for the flashlight which is (a bit) better. But the Half-Life's series flashlights really suck. In Half-Life 2: Episode One, There is the 3rd of 4th Level that you have to go through a Parking garage, While it's dark.. I hated that level because the Flashlight kept on draining and I have to wait in the dark for it to go up. Every time Alyx is with you, when the flashlight stopped she commented about the flashlight saying "Kliner should really fix the flashlight." But he didn't fix it just like Barney never gave us that Beer. Thank god Opposing force stick with the Night Vision goggles than a Flashlight because Gearbox had a problem with the Normal flashlight while making the game. EDIT: Jeez, I am just talking too much about a Damn flashlight in games.

since i play doom 3, i use the flashlight as a whacking tool. after that, it was no longer since Doom Trilogy (2 2D Doom games and Doom 3) was released.

A flashlight i kinda liked and hated was the one in amnesia the bunker in which you are trapped on a WW1 bunker with a fucking Monster who is a stalker enemy who react to sound and if you don't have ammo to gain time or not manage to run in the safe room you are fucked this game have a generator mecanic in which you need fuel to turn it on temporarily and this will turn on devices you need for objectives and light to reduce the chance to met the monster but he still react to sounds and the flashlight you use work with a wire you need to pull it to use it to gain visibility and more time to use it but you take the risk that the monster will come for you so you have to complete objectives as fast as you can without drawing to much attention so you don't end up in the dark with a more active bunker beast

i Deadass have the flashlight from the thumbnail

In Raising the bar: Redux they made the flashlight battery last indefinitely, and I believe that's genius

I've been waiting for you...

You know what else is suck??? Lampwarp doesnt talk about valve or hl anymore...

For me the worst flashlight is in "the Forest" game It has a massive dark spot in the middle of it It run on battery When you turn on your flashlight, the game is darken due to the flashlight brightness

It's always funny to me when flashlights in games just suck away ungodly amounts of energy and drain batteries within minutes. Even Gordon Freeman's HEV suit somehow can't keep its battery alive for 3 full minutes. Meanwhile, I can leave my phone flashlight on overnight by accident and it'll be fine the next morning. I get it, games aren't about realism, but they are about gameplay. In a horror game, I can get behind that. How it benefits Half Life's gameplay to have to wait for 5-10 seconds every once in a while is lost on me.

I hate how doom 3's flashlight is off center. I always point mine where I look irl.

i think in horror games instead of running out of battery completely the flashlight would just get really dark and flicker a lot so you'd at LEAST not get essentially soft locked in the dark

If you think about flashlights sometimes in horror games makes it a bit nerve wracking when everything around is pitch black it creates suspense to the player knowing something is lurking in the dark can make it a unpleasant experience

Hey Lam. Love what you do in this channel. I have a question. Have you ever considered playing half-life mods again? I found your channel through your Zombie mod and loved every other mod video you made. I think many people do think the same as me and I think it would be neat.

I like to watch your videos while eating

I agree. At least in games with raytracing they look right. But like even if you don't have raytracing, just increase ambient (diffuse) lighting indoors if the player is using a flashlight.

I find the flashlight in It Steals overpowered, because the light coming from the flashlight isn’t actually coming from the flashlight. But rather from the camera. When you run, the character quickly swings their arms up and down. In most games, this would be a liability because the light would be moving constantly. But in it steals, this doesn’t happen because of the light emitting from your flashlight actually emitting from the player camera. This feature is useful because it makes running much easier, + the flashlight’s range is decent. And the running cycle looks silly and cute

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Now this is Game Journalism

Next video about fleshlights

Half life's flash light is a crime against technolgy

I thought ready or not was interesting in that in the graphic settings, you can enable light bounce. This helps light up massively but can also impact performance :/ I'm also not sure how it determines how light bounce works, since in some custom maps I worked on for it, light would bounce no problem. Others surfaces wouldn't and my material set up is the same. But that's probably more on me and the game technically has no official mod support or SDKs even if the devs acknowledge modding.

Can't speak for all of the games. But some older ones have a small flashlight cuz the flashlight texture and/or the intended(at the time) playing resolution are pretty small(cuz back then less pixels)

So i was watching the Silent Hill 2 remake gameplay showcase and thinking about the flashlight... I think they did it good (as far as we saw at least for now)

Blood 2 flashlight comes to mind... 🔦

Maybe from the point of game design it's bad to have a clear cutout of light in a circle without it lighting surroundings, but I used flashlights in the dark room or outside at night enough times to say that this is how flashlights work IMO. Its just a small circle and nothing around it. And range of the flashlight depends on how strong it is, so it's completely up to a dev of a game to decide it

Hello. This video is interesting *i haven’t finished it yet* . Now I’m going to eat breakfast.

Doom 3 community dislikes the BFG edition because they think that the original flashlight is a core part of the game, where you make a choice of being able to see or to fight. Since lighting and shadows are a big part of the game, that means you can only really see your enemy when it attacks you, because they cast a light, like imps fireballs, or Undead marines shooting at you. Half the hoster of enemies in the game don't have a projectile, they are melee only. The only problem I can understand they have with BFG edition is the double the ammo pick-ups, when it was never a problem, and when porting the game they kinda screwed the lights and the game as a result is uglier and brighter, ruining the atmosphere.

Lovely video

6:44 Those same people who bring up the "realism" argument completely forgets that the flashlight can be held realistically but oriented to the center lmao 😂

You sound, more... happy i this video *Is everything alright XD*

Estoy seguro de que mucho de este vídeo viene por los malos recuerdos de la linterna de Half Life. Nada como ver 4 píxeles iluminados frente a ti y sentir como el rendimiento baja de forma palpable al encenderla.

Crysis had a great flashlights because they are optional and could be attached on guns and removed by the player when needed.

> makes a video about bad flashlights in games > puts in the thumbnail the photo of a cheap cruddy Meco flashlight often rebranded and resold by scammers at OUTRAGEOUS prices The flashaholic community sees what you did here, friend. 😜

6:40 Doom 3 is the only game I've played where I like that, which makes sense, since the game was designed around the "separate flashlight" gimmick 6:45 Being off-center is lame, yes. But it's part of the aesthetic and I got used to it back in 2004

8:14 I literally lay down like this rn

No Menation of Descent 2 (from 1996) ? The Headlight uses your Energy (ammo to most Weapons), copetes with Flares and - most importantly - does give away your postion if your cloaking device.

Slender: *and i took that personally*

If you have a flashlight, then you're most likely in a survival/horror game. So the flashlight needs to suck in order to add tension.

somebody probably already said this but HL2's flashlight is really bad imo because its for some reason connected to your stamina. that obviously means that if you have your flashlight on when running then your stamina is gonna drain faster and vice versa. this was been addressed in HL2EP2 but i have no idea why they thought this made sense in the HL2 and EP1

Dear Lamwarp, I hope this message grabs your attention because I am seriously peeved. I'm a die-hard fan of your KZfaq channel, especially your content on games like Half-Life. Your videos are like crack to me-I can't get enough! But here's the deal breaker: the recent disappearance of captions. What? You got me all hyped up, glued to my screen, and now you pull this stunt? It's not cool. I'm not just speaking for myself here. There are folks who rely on those captions, you know? People who want to enjoy your content silently, or those who have trouble hearing. By axing the captions, you're shutting them out. Yeah, I get it, adding captions might take more time and effort. But come on, it's worth it! It's not just about being inclusive (which is super important, by the way), but it's also about making your content accessible to a wider audience. And don't even get me started on how it helps with SEO. You're shooting yourself in the foot by ditching captions. More accessibility means more views, more engagement, more everything! So here's the bottom line: Bring. Back. The. Captions. Like, yesterday. You owe it to your viewers, your fans, and heck, even to yourself. Don't let this be the thing that tarnishes your awesome channel. I'm counting on you to make it right.

By having light go through the retina, then the photo receptors (in the back there) will turn the (different wavelengths) into ....???? Trying to decipher the "How the eye works" part, It's good though ngl.

You should do a video on "The Coffin of Andy and Leyley" It's a psychological horror game about a codependent relationship between siblings and u think you could enjoy it