anyone see that weird grafitti in ravenholm? its in the beginning part in the dark alley part, very creepy if you ask me. is this a glitch or what?? and when you walk up to it theres a weird noise, is this a gman?

In the alley in the intro? what alley, the dark one or the one with a light in it? I checked both and didnt see anything

srry I dont know how to upload a screenshot but start chapter "we dont go to ravenholm" and instead of going straight go right to the stairs past the body and headcrab canister and look in dark corner with flashlight, there's a really creepy gman graffiti there. why would they put it in such a creepy dark place?

oh yeah that one, it's nothing special, this is just another default graffiti like in the rest of the game. you can see this exact one everywhere, it's not special

plus they hid lots of weird graffitis like the combine evolution on the coast levels with the combine outpost, this one is probably just randomly thrown in, judging by how they put it inside the floor lol.

is it gman? idk maybe, but I think gman art shouldn't count as an actual gman sighting, then we'd have 5 million gmans in the game which would defeat the purpose :P

dude it's basically the same image lol we're really gonna be analyzing every pixel in the game if we keep getting threads like this

Not true Kody, we've basically already uncovered the entire game at this point, we've been examining it even well before it released

but this graffiti being unique is interesting, I'm loading up levels and seeing if it's being used anywhere else but haven't found it yet. very strange too how it's clipping in the floor like an afterthought, I'm still betting on this being an oversight rather than a deliberate gman sighting. 

very creepy 0.o just another reason to never play ravenholm again

can we just get a mapper to confirm if there's special map logic there or not??? 

Ravenholm isn't really that creepy, especially when you know where all the jump scares are... no idea why so many of you guys are so scared of some headcrab zombies in the dark XD

it's called atmosphere, and knowing that the level that your playing in was once a place where people lived normal lives... and now it's a run down shanty of sorts

its just such a creepy setting with so many little stories spruced in that make it feel very real...

dude... realism like an FPS level XDDD

nobody lives in a video game level dude they were designed for you and I to play them and have fun, not for spooky ghost graffiti and pondering the swing sets. if that's what you want try the game Myst, Half-Life probably just aint for you XD

I decided to dive a little deeper and I noticed that there actually is a full texture, it's just glitchy on the bottom. WTF 0_0

are u sure the texture is broken and not your disc/install?

200% sure. my friend has the same error on his end too, totally different PC and game files. Maybe this was supposed to be a gman sighting but got broken before release.

ur literally analyzing the pixels as I predicted lol nothing to see here guys. go home gordon freeman ur drunk

What you're seeing there is a mipmap error, some textures in HL2 have it, it's an engine limitation. 

I think this must have been a beta holdover or something because it literally only appears on town 01. I checked it for game logic or triggers but there's nothing here, so it's a weird texture at best, HL2 has plenty of these

BUT THE PIXELS JMAN! THE PIXELS!!!!

but how can it be a coincidence with the strange sounds when you stand in front of it? the whole reason I even looked at it in the first place was because it made a sound that was like a scientist voice saying "oh little one, what now" or somethiong?

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OK WTF????

big WTF here guys. first off, sorry for the necro. second; turns out OP was really onto something here, not even kidding. this isn't a joke

so I was searching through the graffiti textures because I was making a level for my mod when I noticed that there was only one umbrella man graffiti in my files, which was weird because I remembered searching for the dark variant last year because of this thread

but I eventually found the file on an old machine of mine, and holy smokes it actually exists, it's called decalgraffiti308b. thing is I wrote it off as being a mipmap error but the actual file itself is corrupt for some reason

out of curiosity I dove into it with a hex editor to see if it's some kind of steam server error or something but I found there's a freakin' ASCII message embedded inside the image that says

"FOR J.J

CONSOLE: INTERLOPER

>>"UNKNOWN COMMAND: INTERLOPE

CONSOLE: GET S.INTERLOPE.PULL:27015"

this is why decalgraffiti038b is all glitchy on the bottom

Sounds unbelievable enough right? well for the hell of it I decided to type these into console just like this and it actually did something. like, it actually worked

seriously try it yourself it's super weird, it makes your screen flash and then sends you back to the main menu

A little early for april fools? also did u really need to necro this thread or could you have just made a new post in spam for the joke :P just sayin, we should be discussin the game in these parts

Because OP was right and I thought he deserved to hear me tell him I was wrong. I can make a new thread if needed

but I'm super perplexed by this... I'm typing the "get s.interlope.pull:27015" over and over and it's sending me to different maps every time I paste it. I can't control the game at all when it happens

ur REALLY trying to tell me these are legitimate commands? because they aren't, that's not how commands in source work, dude

ur gonna make people waste valuable time opening the game just to see it was all a ruse XDD

WTFFFFF 

I just typed this in and watched a cutscene of barney flailing around. it was super creepy. WTF WAS THAT

0.0 Ok, that settles it, I'm never playing ravenholm EVER again

pffft Ok, fine, I'm going to launch the game right now and if this doesn't work you guys are gonna be recieving some VERY colorful emails :)

WHAT THE HELL ok it actually works this is huge. The interlope command doesn't seem to do anything but the get command does. wtf kind of easter egg is this???

wtf it actually works. 

OMG I JUST DID IT AND BARNEY CAME OUT OF MY SCREEN AND DRANK ALL MY MILK

u guys are so gullible, why did you have to dig up some poor random thread for your dumb joke

Wow I haven't checked here in a while but thanks for letting me know this developed

what even is this? Is this actual gman lore or is this a glitch?

Then y is it playing cutscenes that aren't in the game like a barney death scene???

XDDDD judith mossman why are u talking about dying barney

every time I type in the commands I get different results... and they don't seem to repeat. Iv probably typed it a hundred times now and its all super random

this is for sure interesting but I think its time to burst your bubbles abt whats really happening here

I talked to my modding friend and he told me that this was a tool for testing the game to make sure it can load maps without crashing... back from the early early days of developing the source engine. he also told me goldsource has the same tool

its just a debug and testing tool like the sphere gun, its pretty neat though but every game on source has it not just hl2

not tru, I jus tried it in VTMB and it didnt do anything

VTMB isn't a real source game...

yes it is

yes VTMB is source, but this only happens in half life 2, its related to the gman easter egg

then where's Gman xP???

we need to solve the mystery first, then we probably unlock a new level with gman

Ok, WTF WTF

I typed it in some more and the game started playing itself on the coast level. Except it was just doing stuff randomly like the game is haunted. WTFFFF

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ok now ur just messing with us

WTF WAS THAT GMAN????

Woah, I think that tops misty lol that's crazy

WHAT HOW DID YOU MAKE THAT

lol the filename "spookycoast" what an understatement

What the hell this is insanity...

could this be spirits? no joke guys, this looks like a haunted game or something... some nerd who died playing CS and is now haunting the source engine

XD are u guys like playing a weird new mod or something wtf is this

can someone explain to me what u guys mean by "type"? 

to answer your question, we consider there's 5 types of demos being generated

TYPE 1 is the demos where the character flips out and spins around wildly for a second or two. these are the most common, about 80% of them are like this

TYPE 2 is when the characters get stuck in the walls (like the one above) they are longer than type 1 but a bit more uncommon

TYPE 3 is the random gameplay demos where the character runs around and shoots randomly. they are very long 

TYPE 4 are the regular gameplay demos, probably testing or debugging that was in the game to begin with or demos built in to showcase the game. these ones are the most normal

TYPE 5 are the weird first person ones that look like they're from the eyes of an NPC but during a creepy cutscene. we think the cutscenes are randomly generated hence why they seem so weird

0.o can't believe u guys are still going at this. I seriously don't understand anything ur talking about

did u guys ever figure out where these are coming from?

Last theory fell apart so we really have no idea lol

no we don't know yet

also Jman nice find, tho it makes me think we'll probably never get a demo as crazy as spookycoast and misty... this takes wayyy to long

yeah, I'm still sticking to my guns that this is somehow related to how they trained half-life 2's AI to react to all sorts of situations (like how combine soldiers learn how to fight headcrabs and fast zombies and gordon)

I wonder if there is somehow we can get it to make a demo in a custom scenario, or if this is related to some leaked test maps?

it's possible, my theory is that I think it's supposed to be loading some kind of diagnostic map (like css and soundtest) but since they're long gone it's loading these instead?

in fairness we only have like 7 of these tops, there could be only a dozen or so cutscene demos meant to test things in game

maybe... but considering how well datamined this game is, these things would be found somewhere, unless they literally hard coded these cutscenes pixel by pixel lol

I don't buy that theory, could explain type 1-3, type 4 and 5 are more weird and hard to explain with a simple code

and ur credentials for saying this are...?

have you ever even coded in your life to say such a sentence?

I was literally among the first people to deconstruct the engine code and get it working after the leak lol.I know a "thing or two" abt source, and this is nowhere to be found in any leak content. If this is an intended feature it was 100% added sometime after the game came out

but how is that possible if this works on hl2x?

wait this works on hl2x????? since when

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lol wat even is this thread

old thread abt a glitch or something from ages ago, stop bumping it pls

did anyone ever figure out what was causing this glitch???