What Actually Happened During the Seven Hour War
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- An Half-Life Universe Event Called Seven Hour War Explained in an Animated Documentary Video.
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I can’t belive president keemstar surrendered so quickly….
it's sad, spineless leadership doomed us all.
It was an anathema for him
In his defense, the Combine probably captured and threated to Shadman'd his daughter.
i never voted for that guy
he's always been a wuss, not surprising
something that makes this even better is that defcon 1 mean military response in 6 hours, the WHOLE WAR lasted seven, before we could even react properly we were already losing
So the equivalent to breaking into a dudes house and fighting him before he could even brush his teeth
losing? yep, it's always losing, but really matter as hell? all matter for G-man plot, government fool, combined scum and etc etc, that all matters.
@@ClownAcad3my more like, fighting him while he's brushing his teeth and taking a shit, because earth hand their hands full with the portal storms already.
@@julienvalley28And not only that, but you're fighting the poor guy in full plate armor.
@@corvidcoraxand not only that, you have the quad M134
Plottwist: This is a secret Valve account slowly teasing for Half Life 3
If it really is then I’m gonna cry 😢😢😢😢
That seems possible
Mf gonna show us the time portal on the borealus.
_You might be on to something_
Bet
I find it satisfyingly fitting that Kleiner does the narration for this video as in my mind he's the only person qualified and smart enough to actually explain the events leading up to and after the Combine's invasion.
I like to think he’s giving Gordon a bedtime story. :D
I'm curious if this is actually Kleiner's VA or AI.
@@concept5631It's AI
@@aidansroadams5328 oof
@@aidansroadams5328 :(
I also doubt they would've conquered Earth by grausally making their way across individual continents. More likely they appeared in multiple areas of the globe simultaneously, paralysing our response
yeah they carried out a multinational assault on land from several fronts on several continents and attacked military bases such as air bases and naval ports, communication and command centers strategically to further weaken the military forces on land that were no longer in a good situation because they besides to face the xen aliens they still had to maintain order in their countries due to riots, attacks against government forces and that they were carrying out insurrections because of the lack of resources such as food, water, fuel, electricity etc etc and the narrator of the video forgot about the volunteer militias in South and North America (mainly in the USA) and the combine attacks can also be a political move according to the map from the newspaper "the times" portal storms are concentrated in North America (mainly in the USA), Europe and Asia (mainly Russia and China) and the strongest military powers at the time were the USA, Russia, China, India, United Kingdom, France, Japan and South Korea the main targets of the combines would be the USA (mainly) and Russia if the combines defeating these two powers would discourage the rest of the world to fight and surrender easily and I don't think that the governments of the earth using nuclear weapons would only make the situation worse environment and cause more damage to humanity and would probably make the combines more aggressive and brutal and would have no chance of negotiation
@@federalinvestigationbureau5814 Honestly? Russia was a joke
I think this fits in lore more than anything. If you can beat NATO - that's a great way to demoralize the rest of the world. Since if NATO doesn't stand a chance - who does?
You gotta remember that this wasn't today's pathetic Russian actions against Ukraine - this was 2004 Russia - much weaker, meanwhile NATO was at the peak of it's global power.
@@gae_wead_dad_6914yeah you're half right Russia was still recovering but even so they have considerable military power and there was China, India, Pakistan, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Saddam's Iraq, Japan, South Korea, Philippines, Egypt , joy, Morocco, South Africa, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Venezuela, Peru, Mexico, Poland, Switzerland, Sweden, Finland, Indonesia as military powers, even if considerable, and NATO is still supported by the USA, so the USA falls equally in the video other countries in the alliance would not have enough human and material resources to slow down the advance of the combines and the seven hour war took place on January 2, 2001 not 2004
same. this video feels like itd scale out across a day atleast, but from just how much time and effort itd take to mobilize such an extensive response, as well as the portal storms & xen aliens already stretching supply lines and forces thin. id say that the seven hour war looked more like 3 hours of solid resistance, til eventually ammo, manpower, and supplies were depleted. and the other 4 was just a slaughter while breen figures out a way to negotiate the surrender
@@gae_wead_dad_6914 Defeating russia would be largely a symbolic move. If you get off the english internet then half the world still very much believe (keyword: believe) russia is as or even more powerful than the ussr. And they do have many defense agreement as well as being the 2nd biggest arm exporters at the time the game released. It's a good political move for the combine.
I'm gonna put this on a cd and send it to a far away relative with the note "I'm giving you a chance to prepare. You have limited time left."
That's evil fam
hell yeah dude hahahA
"Prepare for unforseen consequences." 😂
We are getting strapped for no reason with this one 💯💯💯
the thing is, most people think that it's the combine soldiers (combine soldiers are human synths) who invaded earth. but it was actually the synths, like the gunship, dropship, hunter, or strider. its not like the combine invaded earth before, they just recently discovered earth during the portal storms. and the combine overwatch was issued after the occupation of earth
the combine probably also had some powerful synths in the overworld that we never got to fight in hl2
Overwatch is canon in the Team half portal cinematic universe
You can actually see a lot of the reserve synths in the Citadel at the end of Half-Life 2
Honestly the best representation of this i can find is the game Terra Invicta, but more realistic. If you want to see if you stand a chance against an Alien invasion IRL - do it there
@@gae_wead_dad_6914Terra Invicta is goated
There are other humanoid creatures in the multiverse though: see vortigaunts (don't know how to spell) and whatever g-man is and probably many we haven't seen.
it is the advisors actually
The map of NATO countries shown in the video shows countries that weren't part of the alliance by the time of the events in Half-Life.
And its about an alien invasion, I don't think realism was a goal
and they also refer to the us separately from nato constantly lol
@@felixfeder7106Terrible script.
@@BayAreaPolice ok…i didn’t make it
@@felixfeder7106 Your Reading Comprehension is bad.
IRL it would be like:
- NATO holds meeting after meeting, gets totally wrecked without even starting a fight
- UN makes an attempt at coordinated resistance, resolution is vetoed by some random country because of anti alien violence activists
Nah, there is no way. Activists wouldn't be able to appear in under 7 hours, especially considering that social medias didn't exist yet.
Half life if it took place in 2024
Would be a mess, that is for sure. And the alien invaders been really quick and with weapon far more technological advanced than ours. The writing was in the wall already.
it would make sense if it were a zombie apocalypse but it wouldn't be like that imagine an alien invasion (in fact two including xens and the destructive meteorological events that occurred after the black mesa incident) In a situation like this, most countries would give a big "fuck y0u" if any country member of the security council vetoed resolutions (which I highly doubt since the country that vetoed it is suffering the same consequences as the black mesa incident, just like the rest of the world then it would be stupid to veto something) the same thing would be with NATO the leaders of the member countries would hold a meeting but they would also activate article 5 because aliens are a danger not only for the alliance but for the whole world and humanity and if they held mass meetings it would be to find strategies against aliens and anti-vi0lence activists against aliens would be a minority even if the events took place in 2024 and the activists would be ignored by the majority of the population and by governments and they would be arrested or k!lled by both governments and the population, so even if it were in real life it would be the same as what I described here
Likely, but I also think that armies have hypothetical contingency plans available for scenarios like this. Maybe not exactly like this, but I like to believe that hiding capabilities is the key to surviving as a modern military force nowadays (when viewable capabilities can be so easily shared and compared thru the internet)
Bro cooked harder than the microwave back at Black Mesa!
same
"STOP F*CKING WITH THE MICROWAVE"
@@SniperFallen06look who I found.
@@richthofen255 Hello there
it's ai generated
What I learned from this video is that the Combine had advanced technology.
Can't argue with that
don't forget about the vast army
But in game they get killed by an orange dude with a crowbar
@Josephin0 the ones that gordon kills are just humans working for the combines, it's not their real army from the seven hour wars and the only reason that gordon is able to fight the combines is because of his allies like g-man and the famous, armor script because if you don't have Gordon you don't have half life
Who will win?
The entirety of military arsenal on Earth.
Or
One crowbar man
if it were realistic, neither of them, gordon would have died in the first minutes of the black mesa incident because he was close to the machine that caused the incident and if the scientists were up there in the room there with the armored glass, they easily died, imagine gordon who was close to the machine and the portal created, now talking about gordon against the combines he doesn't have the slightest chance if he and his allies (mainly g-man) were having difficulties facing the combines such as civil "protection" and the overwatch who are basically humans working for them) imagine if they were earth invasion combine troops 💀☠️ and as one of Freeman's colleagues said "it's going to be the seven hour war again but this time we won't last 7 minutes" Freeman alone doesn't tank the combines (cp and overwatch) imagine the troops that invaded the earth, let's talk the facts If half life were realistic, Freeman would not have survived the beginning of the incident and if he did, he would not have lasted more than a few minutes against the aliens and the military
@@federalinvestigationbureau5814 true but you have also have to note that if it was realistic there would be more armed personel in black mesa with better guns then a simple handgun and a lot better training to be somewhat like HECU
he didn't fight all the way with the crowbar though
Bro literally humiliated a multigalaxy empire's military.
@@federalinvestigationbureau5814 I wouldn't call G-Man an ally, Gordon is just useful to him for some reasons. It is possible that his employers are actually just other species that want to destroy the Combine which is while also being beneficiary for humanity may or may not be a priority of them (helping humanity I mean). Or they could just work with combine and they use the human resistance as a way to get a better deal out of combine or something.
To be fair though New York was still under human control at the end of the war
Even a multidimensional empire is avoiding dumpsters it seems
the rats held them off
They were already aliens. GET IT?
How long way New York still under human control for tho?
Never heard anything in regards to this.
7 hours? how did the UN and NATO do so much in this time? doesn't make any sense.
I understand the UN because it has Egypt, Joy, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Russia, China, Iran, Iraq, Pakistan, India, South and North Korea, Kazakhstan, Japan, Taiwan among others, and NATO? (yes I know that NATO is the most powerful military alliance in history, in fact if NATO enters the war in Ukraine the war ends and Russia falls or the third world war with nuclear holocaust happens) but if you consider that the USA fell the same in the video (the USA supports the alliance in both troops and money) and considering that several countries were not yet in NATO at the time of the Seven Hours War, such as Poland, Sweden and Finland, makes the alliance vulnerable to the combines (considering that the USA fell) and the remaining members of the alliance would fall later
Probably out of desperation, they were literally fighting for humanity's survival
@@anomalocaris7436 desperation doesn't mean you can bend reality and have reactions this fast. it genuinely would be impossible for them to mobilise the way they do in this video.
@@nucleja maybe they did bend reality, anomalous stuff exists in the HL universe in the hands of governments like the BM facility
It was written and narrated by an AI.
I don't really understand why the combine has a frontline, in my mind the seven hour war would have been the greatest paradrop in the history of the planet. it was 7 hours because combine troops and armor were teleported or airdropped on mass directly onto into relevant military and civilian infrastructure and within 7 hours most targeted positions were taken and humanity surrendered.
if they did have a frontline like in this video they'd need to move from Gibraltar to Moscow in less than 7 hours. Technology can be as advanced as you want but even an flight from those 2 positions takes 13 hours ignoring all the taking of land needed, I couldn't imagine that working surely they'd just appear everywhere all at once instead of marching over an area.
from France to Moscow even is 2,800km div 7 hours gives you an average speed for combine forces moving between those 2 points of 400kph
Agreed, this video makes it feel like the it was more like the 7 Week War or something.
Probably paradropped since the combine struggles with inter-planet teleportation
@@bornstellar7468Thats is a more realistic time frame. The combines army isn’t fast enough to take over earth in 7 hours.
Yeah, none of this makes sense. The UN does not work like this, and the UN didn't enjoy blind faith when HL2 was written. The kill radius of a nuclear weapon is not going to act different to the kill radius of a conventional bomb with equivalent blast power either. Not to mention that there's no reason for them to move from left to right on our Mercator projection.
I guess that they carried out diversion attacks at all strategic locations while keeping some sort of a frontline to consolidate control
the thing that sucks about this is that the seven hour war happened somewhere around 2000-2010 but the NATO map shows Sweden and Finland which joined NATO in 2023 and 2024
This is fanfiction anyways with 0 lore accuracy
@amongusus47825 neinfeld's videos have a much better fanfic than this, he covered the black mesa incident and its consequences for the world well (and in his videos the combines attacked on several fronts unlike this video)
@@federalinvestigationbureau5814 still shit, lore accurate citadels landed on every major city
@@amongusus47825 Was it whole citadels though? In HL: Alyx they were building one in City 17.
@@Abdoulaye1995 "There was an illusion of safety, for a time. And then the Citadels appeared. It happened in a split second, all over the world. A chunk would disappear from the center of a city, to be replaced an instant later by one of these... headquarters for the Combine. Invasion Central." Eli Vance
Doing the math, I found something astonishing.
The total land surface area on earth is 57.51 million miles squared, or 148.95 million km squared.
If the war truly lasted seven hours, then the Combine would have had to have conquered 8,215,714 square miles every hour, 136,928 square miles every minute, and 2282 square miles every second. (In kilometers, 21,278,601, 354,641, and 5910 respectively.)
For reference, the Combine would be conquering almost a Montana a minute (About the same as a Germany) and a Connecticut every 2 seconds (a Kosovo every 4 seconds)
You'd think with all that power the Combine would be able to crush a single person, but no.
The crowbar never dies.
It's possible that Seven Hour War is not literal but indicates how was lost from the first hours.
To be fair, the combine we see in half life 2 is NOT the combine 20 years ago, as in. What you are seeing just in HL2 is a small garrison mostly of conscripted humans, and not any home world soldiers. Another comment I saw also brought up the point that there were no actual fronts in the 7 hour war, because it wasn’t a conventional war. My best idea of an example would be the Russian invasion of Crimea, the difference here is that it’s bigger, there’s portals that just allow the enemy to appear almost anywhere on earth, and humans barely have an army to fight with.
G Man Is literally a multiversal god
When I saw the well documented format of the Black Mesa incident, I couldn't wait to see your take on the 7 hours war!
Needless to say. Hyped.
BRO COOKING
Bro's cooking out. A Good head crab.
headcrab with a side of health juice
(or whatever it’s called i forgor 💀)
@@mochiidabrochiihealth vial
Cooking, sure, if you want, but it's not French cuisine.
I'm going to be honest; this is great. Still left with a few questions, though. Also, I find it hilarious that the combine decided to occupy France but not Britain.
They also invaded the UK and the map of UK is blank it must be because most if not all of the British population was eradicated and because the former UK became a quarantine zone the situation is the same in Japan
@@federalinvestigationbureau5814 Where did you get that info? I mean it's part of the lore of the game?
It was a glorious day when Our Benefactors swept away the corrupt old ways of our world
Also is that a Kleiner AI voice?
kleiner is cooking
very likely, combine is misspronounced and the pacing feels robotic, as well as the voice staying put in one tone throughout (unless it's a really good impression with a misstep on indications and some other misc shit)
@@blem4103 Another indication of AI voice is usually when it ends sentences in a tone that interrupts abruptly, like it forgot the sentence was supposed to end there. Happens multiple times in this case.
I like how the UN did the most major action against the combine.
The only universe where they actually help.
i mean if the entire humanity is threatened
I think something to note is that as we've learned from the newspapers in HL:A the Seven Hour War wasn't really a vast conflict.
By the time the Combine had showed up Earth had already been devastated by portal storms, Xen lifeforms invading, and warring between humans and vortigaunts.
When the Combine showed up in earnest there really wasn't much to takeover. It was a wasteland with some major cities already abandoned.
The "war" was really just the remnants of the human forces engaging the Combine for a few hours before Dr. Breen and the UN ordered a ceasefire for negotiations.
POV you're watching this video in a VHS attached to a old TV and you hear radio starter and knocking
There are a few things here that bother me. Firstly, Half Life takes place sometime between 1999 and 2003 and the map and everything seems to be based on 2010 or later, which doesn't make sense when you consider the official lore. Yugoslavia, which was only dissolved in 2006, is not listed and the NATO map is also wrong because Romania, Bulgaria, Lithuania, Estonia, Latvia, Slovakia and Slovenia did not join NATO until 2004. As far as the Seven Hour War is concerned, there were no clearly defined fronts because the Combine came through all the portal storms at the same time, overwhelming the human forces. This isn't meant to be hate, by the way, your video is an interesting interpretation of the Half Life universe, keep it up. If anyone sees this comment and agrees with me, that's great and if someone doesn't agree with me, that's great too, I just thought it had to be said.
Unless valve provides A look at what happen in the 7 hour war this is the closet we can imagine now it went.
The map is set from sometime in between April 1, 2009 and July 9, 2011. It can be no earlier than 2009, since that is the year Albania and Croatia joined NATO. It can also be no later than July 9, 2011 because South Sudan is not an independent country marked on the map.
I don't know why I took the time to figure that out, but I did.
Fair enough, man
yeah, it seemed weird how the invasion started at the left of the map and went all the way right as if the pacific ocean didn't exist
Why does it feel as if it was written and narrated by an AI?
Because it was
it was. Its GPT4o
Because you don't have a brain that's why
@@flintglockwoodno it wasn't,it was only the voice
Utter slop
the fact that almost 7 BILLION PEOPLE COULDNT STOP THE INVASION BUT ONE MAN, AND THE ONE AND ONLY, GORDON FREEMAN CAN STOP THE COMBIE WITH ONE HAND... IS JUST INSANE
Because those are the same humans that got beaten
Given the chaos and confusion going on there's zero chance the UN has all these meetings and musters millions of troops with mere hours left for a final stand in East Asia like that. This does seem more like a 7 day or 7 week war rather than the total stomp the canonical 7 hour war should be.
Realistically though, they wouldn't keep just "One Zone" up.
At least some settlements in the Americas, Africa, and definitely in Japan and further in Asia would have had some form of colony or urban centre capable of holding the suddenly halted population of earth. The Combine would also spread and relocate these citizens around in these cities in order to prevent dissidence. Have a plan? Too late, you're already being relocated. Got Friends? Make new ones.
". The Combine would also spread and relocate these citizens around in these cities in order to prevent dissidence. Have a plan? Too late, you're already being relocated. Got Friends? Make new ones."
they do this in the game, they keep moving people through different cities to keep them in check, thats why breen's first speech starts with "you've chosen or been chosen to relocate to one of our finest remaining urban centers"
They do relocate the citizens often. There are also other Cities, not just City 17.
We also have a map in one of the games that shows the entirety of North America as crossed off, seemingly meaning it is uninhabitable or inaccesable.
What I am implying is in regards to the proposed map in the video. Whilst there's the possibility that the majority of areas are inhabitable, I still wouldn't be capable of believing that multiple continents, of massive sizes, cannot have at least house a form of urban centre with a small military presence of the Combine.
Whilst it is implied that America is uninhabitable through the map, it would not be 100% uninhabitable. A reminder that the US and North America are extremely massive, so there'd still be at least one or two cities still up in the U.S alone, one in Canada, and one in Mexico.
+ You wouldn't be able to hold populations of what can be estimated between 100 - 450 Million or something less than a billion, in a handful of cities (This is the registered population, remember that others would've survived, but stayed away from the Combine and the Universal Union)
This war lasted seven hours, not seven weeks - because that's how long everything shown in this film would have lasted.
bro sound like the sciecent from half life that says "hello freeman
It's an AI voice of Kleiner, so it is.
@@angelquefirestar”Look, Gordon, I’ve suddenly become a soulless AI voice!”
1:30 Inaccurate NATO map,
11:08 Inaccurate Combine Governance Map
Great video regardless. Keep up the good work!
I want to like this, but the writing is really strange. The tenses are almost always wrong - suddenly switching between near past and present - and there was no explanation for how the storms related to the Combine.
Same, sometimes it keeps repeating sentences too, like at 8:03
EDF comms during those 7 hours must have been a mess. Squad leaders musth have been yelling stuff like "3 legged squd...crab looking thing 300 meters North FIRE"
is it just me or he sounds like dr kleiner
He really does sound like Kleiner
Sounds like an ai voice of Kleiner applied on top of an existing voice model, probably elevenlabs or something similar. It’s why it’s a clear voice that sounds pretty similar, but slips into slightly different accents off and on, as the model underneath the Kleiner voice doesn’t stay consistent with each generation. Pretty decent all things considered
@@Humancatpost or he hired a voice actor who can impersonate dr kleiner voice.
@@humanbeing418 It's IA. it only changes the mood when the sentence ends (AKA, another parameter has been implemented)
The Seven Hours War was a multinational assault on several different fronts on all continents, it didn't just start in the USA (even though the portal storms are located more in North America) the combines carried out an assault on multiple different fronts, mainly against the greatest military powers of the time that were already weak due to the fighting against the xen aliens and maintain order in their respective countries against riots and insurrections against governments due to the lack of resources such as food, water, fuel and electricity and the attack by the combines the headquarters of the united nations was probably to eliminate leaders of several countries and when the war started the combines attacked military bases, ports and airports and command and communication centers and global communication between countries was difficult and the un did not use nuclear weapons because it would be stupid because there were allied troops and civilians together, if they used nuclear weapons it would worsen the environmental situation and would kill more people and it would also make the combines more aggressive and brutal, decreasing the chance of negotiating peace with them and probably the majority of the population world, if not all humanity would be extinct and voluntary militias already existed even before the seven hour war and the black mesa incident occurred on December 5, 2000 and the seven hour war on January 2, 2001 and the world would not have 7 billion and a few million people but 6 billion and a few million so the video casualty rate doesn't make any sense
"they used nuclear weapons it would worsen the environmental situation and would kill more people and it would also make the Combine more aggressive and brutal, decreasing the chance of negotiating peace with them and probably the majority of the population world"
But didn't the Combine saw a potential in humanity and that humans have the technology the Combine needed local teleportation, which is the reason why they allowed people to work at Black Mesa East so they could get it.
I tell my brother that the combine we fight in game is just a auxiliary , that we haven't really faced any actual combine forces
Yeah the forces on earth are just occupational forces, effectively a babysitter squad
1:19 it's wrong map of NATO. During time of Half Life 1 Finland and Sweden weren't parts of NATO
and Poland and several countries as well
I don't think alot of thought was put in this video as this video and the prior video was made with AI (the script & voice)
The visuals are good and all but like, the writing is so lazy.
@@Miyavz that and this whole video makes no sense from a lore standpoint lol, we know legit zero about the seven hour war
@@viper5801 Mf probably went to chat gpt and wrote
"What happened during half life 2's seven hour war"
This video is legit an answer chat gpt would give
Bro sounds like a black mesa scientist 💀
It's an AI Dr. Kleiner voice
Fuck the Combine. Give us Half Life 3 and let us take Earth back.
Amazing video, I would like the old voice back though.
Same, I much prefer the creators voice over the AI.
You two complain too much
@@bluenightfury4365how do we know that voice isn't AI either?
@@bluenightfury4365 that voice is AI aswell lol
so is the script.
This is why I love Half-Life. It's pretty rare to see any depictions of humanity in such a totally desperate condition, with all the efforts to protect humanity being completely futile. It's awesome how fucked up it is.
Exactly what I was saying. Humanity puts up futile struggles in the face of an alien threat because of our fighting spirit.
Indomitable human spirit facing advanced alien technologies (it has no chance)
Just wait about 20 years, a theoretical physicist with a crowbar will save us.
I love how the UN still tries to be humanitarian despite the entire world being invaded by an extraterrestrial threat
I love that it sounds like Dr. Kleiner is narrating this, like he's explaining to the resistance or something.
No way Dr.Kleiner!???
OH MY GOD WE'RE DOOMED!
@@uncannycato ah- _explodes (tripmine)_
But then one man, one 'Freeman' came back to aid humanity once more.
bro sounds like kliner💀💀💀💀💀
(It's AI)
Honestly the most terrifying thing of all of those is how extremely earth's ecosystem changed. It just broke into a creepy mess. This is the only universe where Earth still exists, but it's been transformed so much it's just no longer Earth really.
This was just amazing. Wow.
As by style of the video, i liked more the first video with the real voice, but even this one is really great
the first voice was ai as well but i agree that this one just sounds alot worse
Please don’t use this Kleiner AI voice. It sounds bad and not human. Bring back the old voice.
I dont know what you're talking about, its incredibly life like
It doesn’t sound bad, but I agree about using the old voice.
@@Gordon-Freeman-Gaming Yeah, the old voice was good
@@steppecist2928 You can plainly hear it after the first few minutes, his old voice was great and professional.
Right, it made the video quality feel significantly worse than the last one.
North korean citizens would live better lives under the combine
You joking right? The Combine rules is even worse
The combine bombs several cities from orbit
"The combine's actions were perceived as hostile and aggressive" YOU THINK??? 💀
What happened in the 7 hour war? The 7 hour war
Take a shot every time you hear "portal storms".
AI voice felt lifeless. I would prefer your voice, BUT Other than that it was a *masterpiece*
But the prevous voice was also AI
agreed
the ai voice was doctor kleiner
The previous Ai voice was better and this doesn't sound like kleiner it's a annoying nasily voice
Lifeless is your comment plus stop yapping
Great video! My only problem is that the war described would have taken a couple of days minimum. Lore wide, the Seven Hour War took... 7 seven hours, there was no grand alliance, no grand battles, the Combine teleported everywhere at the same time with overwhelming force (imagine 3:1 ratio with technology that humans can only dream of). And humanity surrendered before it could try to make a last stand, with Dr. Breen only having authority to surrender because he was the first to figure out how to contact the Combine.
The existential dread of Half-life 2 comes to the conclusion that the Resistance can only close off Teleportations to Earth, never defeat the Combine conventionally.
this is fantastic, my only hope is that you use your own voice in future videos, its nice from what i heard in yr previous video
combine in half life:im weak and most of my speical troops can die to rocket launchers used by untrained rebels, meanwhile the combine chads in the 7 hour war be like ah yes my military is very advanced definetly strong enough to take like every single major area on earth in just a few hours.
Combine we saw in Half-Life were just occupation forces by the time Freeman returns from stasis Earth is being occupied for 20 years and their army is back on overworld or conquering some different planets in different universes. Also Earth was weakened by portal storms and most cities already were destroyed by their energy and Xen wildlife.
1:31 sweden and finalnd wasnt in nato in 2001, they joined in 2023 and 2024
prolly joined nato during the portal storms
I can imagine Adrian Shepherd coming back for the 7 hour war after black mesa
Wait, you sound like Dr.Kleiner.
Omg!
i think its an ai voice
@@wumbr6467and it sounds kind of bad too I preferred the one used in the last video
@@AdminHouse same here
WE'RE DOOMED!
Anyone in the army reserve understands how ludicrous a 7 hour notice for mobilization is
4:13 🤓👆: In Half Life 2 it is mentioned that the main weakness of the combine is their lack of mobility options, the can travel trough dimensions, but once on the location, they need conventional methods to travel, hence this statement is note lore accurate
Whole humanity: losing in seven hours
A scientist in an orange suit: haha, citadel goes boom
I would say it's a great video, i really like HL lore vids with maps. However, something about that scrpit feels off, the way things are phrased and all that - it sounds like the whole thing is written by AI. That and the voice is weird too, like that's AI generated too.
Maybe im just being "paranoid" with the amount of AI content recently, so i hope im wrong about this - if thats the case, keep up the good work.
No, it's for sure AI.
I want a game where you play as a group of about 10 people fighting to survive in the 7 hour war. Each person who dies in your group limits the number of respawns you have as when your character dies, you take over another of your group. The goal, stay alive and keep your people alive until earth ultimately looses the 7 hour war.
Nice idea
I was thinking of a call of duty type campaign game where you play as a soldier fighting through war torn cities full of striders and other non-human combine forces to save the world, but ultimately failing
Indonesia still holds fast even after all of that invasion.
They were under the UN and the UN surrendered that's why, so Indonesia was still occupied, though without any violence
@@SerialDesignationBRUH69 naah, i know my people, they wouldn't surrender easily
@@briantarigan7685 then why did they surrender with the UN in the video?
@@briantarigan7685chill bruv. It's a video games.
@@anggastapratama2370 i'm chill i'm chill
I imagine considering the Combine would have captured multiple civilizations/planets/species worth of soldiers, its not surprising they'd have outnumbered and outgunned humans in such short order, especially when the portals could fast-track them to any location already suffering the effects of Xen species invasions and portal storm damage
Video by AI, script by AI, damn it's shite.
We got Dr. Kleiner teaching us about the 7 hour war before gta 6😭
Something that has been bothering me is the formation of those Portals.
We went from Black Mesa Incident resolving itself to, poof, portals across the world. It feels like they are two separated and independant events with no progression toward each others.
You are led to believe that portals came out as soon as the Black Mesa mess ended. Out of nowhere. That is bothering me.
There were no portal storms across the globe before the Nihilanth's death.
Before the rocket launch in Black Mesa, the connection between Earth and Xen was two-way, and mostly random. After the launch, it became a limited invasion in the area of New Mexico, since the connection became one-way, with the Xen side being kept open by the Nihilanth, then he realized that humans were about to find out how to close the connection, thus Nihilanth started the more violent part of the invasion.
BM scientists thought that killing the powerful being that kept open the connection from Xen (Nihilanth) would have resolved the incident once and for all, but they were wrong, since Nihilanth's death caused a chain reaction that made the connection between Earth and Xen unstable, thus causing the portal storms.
Hope it clears things up.
@@imnbah Thank you. I wish such information was stated somewhere. Maybe I didn't look that deep. Ahwell.
@@shapeswitch_mood7221 It seems the G-man alien entity was trying to save Nihilanth from being captured and his precise teleportation tech exploited by the Combine, allowing him and his organization to move from Xen to Earth, but this plan backfired and Nih got killed by Gordon, thus opening a rift between Earth and Xen. This event in turn led the Combine to find its way into Xen, since it's from where our boy Nih was fighting against them for god knows how long, but since he was dead and his slave/synth subjects were fleeing to Earth, the Combine followed trough... and found us. Unforseen consequences, indeed. It seems like it was all about G-man's side not allowing the Combine to obtain precise local teleportation tech, whatever it takes, Earth is just a pawn to Them.
The crew on the ISS seeing earth being invaded-OH COME ON
Good take. But I would change a thing - most likely, Combines hit all regions of the planet simultaneously. That would perfectly explain the 7 hour mark - with such attacks, there would be no united fronts, just separate pockets of resistance that would inevitably fall shortly after the first shots.
Besides, the way you shown East Asia being hit the last after Earth forces was largely depleted and fighting likely lessened, would suggest East Asia as location for Cities. Instead, HL2 take place in Eastern Europe, which was supposedly hit among the first, when Earth still had much of their forces to strike back. Logically, that area would be more devastated than East Asia.
But of course, it would leave no place for valiant last stand to make video about. So, all in all, great video/
oh my gosh, i thought this was about the 6 day war and i got SO confused when he started talking about aliens
This is gpt4o... Also the editing could be made by AI too, but unsure
Ok, the Lemmino soundtrack is actually perfect for this video
Keep in mind the troops the combine were using were synth soldiers like the super soldiers and other various elite-level enemies, those troops are nothing but heavily armed war machines, humans stood absolutely no chance against this empire that literally invades galaxies.
In reality, the Combine conquers universes.
I hate that AI voice so much, but the animation was good
Weird how none of the nuclear powers used their ICBM's, not that it would've made a difference.
war ended too early
Horrible video, rewrote what happened making up a whole new extremely unrealistic scenario, used AI trash, completely ignored anything that happened between cascade and combine showing up.
Overall a horrible video and it damages the lore of the events.
how the fuck does a random fan fiction damage the lore of the events?!?!?!? also, we dont know what happened during the seven hour war, your pulling this information out of your ass
Please make a video about how humans MIGHT have POSSIBLY been able to push back/Hold against the combine
please stop using AI voice, they are great videos otherwise
A world where the UN actually does something for once.
not a bad video but AI Kleiner ruins it
Hell, I'll voice act for you, just please don't use that inhuman crap, this video went from a solid 8.5/10 to a 3/10 from how much the AI mispronounces words
i think the kleiner voice is actually a good addition to the video, it makes sense that kleiner would know all of this and document this stuff
@@peterpumpkineater6979 I get that but the fact that the voice is AI generated ruins it for me, you can hear it make mistakes that no human would
also the whole thing of using AI to to imitate someone is kinda scummy
Eh it didn't really bother me
Scummy? Sounds like you haven't heard the song Fistful of Meth. AI generated content can be gold sometimes.
7:38 at this point the combine probably realized that the UN had a significant amount of manpower left and started bringing out stuff like dark matter weaponry
Combine cant teleport (in short distances).
Fun fact: did you know that the seven hour war is a war between three groups of allies and invaders they are....... combines,aliens and humans. All though if three of them are fighting others have to deploy troops or anything or we can just use country full power by just no solder but tanks.
I just realized that the ai voice is Dr. Kleiner.
even after the seven-hour war, trinidad and tobago survives
Video idea : What did the world think about what happend in Aperture
All that just for some nerd with a crowbar to overthrow them in under a week
I love how half way thru the video, Kleiner turns British lmfao
it's crazy that some guy in power armor can take down a entire army
Given the Combine's mastery of portal technology, I tend to headcanon that this was how they dealt with the use of nuclear weapons against them: by creating short-lived portals that would shunt an incoming missile into a realm that they didn't care about.
Awesome idea for a CZcams channel imo. Informative videos set in the half life universe done by Dr Kleiner is genuinely a really cool idea. One thing that bothers me though is the ai voice. It's pretty obvious this is just an ai model of Dr Kleiners voice in half life 2, specifically when he uses the word combine not as a name but as the word like combination. It would be awesome if y'all had a voice actor do to this thing like the one for the Black Mesa remake. Either way I really like this.
A little nitpick I do have is how you use the current nato map even though half life is set in 1998 so we the former eastern block nations and half of Scandinavia shouldn’t be shown but we could also assume they expanded much faster as its si-fi after all
the first half life is from 1998 but the events of the game are somewhere in the 2000s (for me and others December 5, 2000) and the seven hour war took place on January 2, 2001 but yeah you're right, it You cannot use the current NATO map to demonstrate the alliance's response as Poland, Sweden and Finland were not members of the organization at the time
The Combine would most likely attack multiple continents at once. There probably wouldn't be any time to communicate or even ability to communicate with other nations fast enough to even come up with any kind of plan. Also, military forces would've been weakened and already stretched due to the portal storms and newly arrived alien wildlife (although how weakened would depend on how long it was between the Black Mesa Incident and the Combine invasion, along with how bad the portal storms were). Then there's the fact that the Combine could've had a lot of synths we don't see in-game deployed during the war as well.
So it sounds like this version is one where the Combine started a unified offensive in the Americas and pushed East, where then humanity held out for seven hours throughout Russia and Asia.
Many others are arguing that the Combine would've teleported in everywhere, across the globe, and the fighting everywhere literally lasted only seven hours.
I'm not a HL lore expert, but I like the idea of both. Great video!