EDIT: so, June 16th came and ACT 3 was attempted: we went through the first map and had a blast, but right off the bat we had major technical issues. Really strange lighting/shadow issues and lag, so many issues that had never presented themselves until the night of the show. HL2 in gmod VR with all of the additional things we've designed and added is an extreme technical challenge and for the first time, it failed on us. Loading into the second map, a cast member was disconnected, and for some reason they became unable to connect no matter what, something that only would've been solvable if I shut my modem down and rebooted it. which... i'm streaming and hosting the server, so that wasn't really an option. On top of that, our build of VRmod started having even MORE issues that it just became impossible to justify continuing that night. ACT 3 would've ended in the middle of Ravenholm and pacing would've been strange and awkward, if we even could've gotten our crew member onto the server. So, we had to postpone :( was a major bummer. I don't have a date yet for when the rest of ACT 3 will take place, but we're going to take some time to resolve some of the issues and hopefully have a better visual experience for y'all and a more stable production environment for ourselves. I'm gonna try and preserve the original performance of Darnold's Lab, it's gonna be a pain in the ass but my idea is to edit down the footage to what it would be like in the YT edit, and then re-shoot used scenes *only visually*, lip-syncing and maintaining the original audio while doing my best to recreate the visuals of what was going on as accurately as I can. we'll see if i can pull that off in a way i'm satisfied with

hello! Slightly later than planned, but here it is! for my record though its not that late 😛 as mentioned at the end of the video, ACT 3 will be streamed on Tuesday, June 16th, @ 8pm EST!


ACT 2 was recorded a week later than originally planned because a number of us simultaneously got very sick. we were STILL sick during this but toughed it out to make sure things kept rolling - so we integrated it into the 'plot' a little bit. Apologies for coughing sounds if you hate that kinda thing. Also, I tried a slightly different approach with audio balancing for this episode, mixing is by far the aspect of editing I struggle with getting perfect the most, feedback is appreciated. THANKS and can't wait to see you in Ravenholm next month 😶‍🌫

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Clicked off when Stain died forever. Face it, HL2VRAI is ruined.

i like how stain is just as much of a wildcard as Benry was but hes actually a nice guy

gordon showing immediate disgust with the idea of alvin and the chipmunks and then immediately sleepily revealing he knows a ridiculous amount about it down to the actors is a new all timer for me. there's lore there. chipmunk lore

i cant wait  for stain to unlock his "mad dog of the sewer' style in the final act and get his iconic jacket

I like that the Latin that Father spoke was actually a correct translation.  Something along the lines of "Die so that I can open the great door for the airboat."

The RTVS crew really were made to be npcs and a man just trying to stay sane while surrounded by the chaos of everything going catastrophically wrong in the world

If you noticed Christopher is acting more evil on this act, that's because he is even more dehydrated, like humans on real life

I lost it completly when Stain just broke Grigori's subtitles 😂

I love this. I love how the sequel is pioneering multiple new artistic ways for violent overstimulation - the Hunger Suit, the Overwatch voice, and now everybody in RTVS at once having contagious diseases. Can't wait for the new meta in Act 3, where the next addition to the cast will be seven IRL firefighters attempting to inform Wayne/Gordon that his house is burning down thanks to him forgetting his Papa John's in the oven.

i love that Christopher and Gordon just angrily cough at each other. I like to think that Baaulp and Wayne blame each other for getting a really bad chest infection for a month when they went to go see Takanaka

I like how Wayne is slowly earning Xar's respect

The running gag of Stain hitting the death pose was my favorite part of the stream, and it's even funnier to see it punctuated with the Metal Gear edit almost every time it happens.

I love that the second Stain does the sad walk emote Gordon immediately folds

I like how Wayne was really surprised when any shit happened in HLVRAI, but when in HLVRAI 2 literally half of his team died and somehow returned he didnt even batch an eye. He just accepted that this world is fucking crazy.

I love how Gordon was in so much psychological distress over Stain feeding time he completely missed Addi getting shot to death

Stain is called "Stain" because he leaves every one of his enemies as a stain on the floor with his powerful breakdance combat skills.

I will forever envy this group’s ability to turn the most uninteresting locations, IE the steam pipe room with 3 barnacles, into the most chaotic, memorable locations possible

I remember someone commenting in a livestream reupload that Stain was an archetypal Disney Princess. He’s been stuck in a small world all his life, until a band of misfits comes by and frees him from his captivity. He struggles to adjust to the outside world, fumbling at the simplest of hurdles, yet he finds this new world beautiful. I hope we see Princess Stain some day