Half Life 2’s Most Frustrating Achievement — Transcript
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- 0:00Players were driven insane by one of
- 0:01gaming's most frustrating achievements.
- 0:03In Half-Life 2: Episode Two, players had
- 0:05to carry a garden gnome from near the
- 0:07beginning of the game to a rocket near
- 0:08the end. The challenge began as a
- 0:10developer joke called crate baby, where
- 0:12the team tried carrying a doll through
- 0:13levels during testing. The problem was
- 0:15keeping the gnome with them. It
- 0:17constantly fell out of vehicles, flew
- 0:18across the map, or disappeared because
- 0:20of physics bugs. Many players resorted
- 0:22to throwing it ahead, chasing after it,
- 0:24and repeating the process through
- 0:25enemies and explosions. After protecting
- 0:27it for almost the entire game, they
- 0:28could finally launch it into space. Or
- 0:30they could use cheats to spawn it near
- 0:32the end.
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