Followers Uncover Half-Life 2 Corpse Has Precise Lifeless Human’s Face

For those who’ve performed Half-Life 2 or Supply engine mods, you’ve possible seen the in-game mannequin “Corpse01.mdl.” The burnt corpse seems a number of instances in Half-Life 2’s sewers and different components of the sport, and modders usually used it in fan tasks. All is effectively, sure? Effectively, it was till lately, when followers observed that the sport’s creepy-looking corpse has the face of an precise useless man on it.

Launched in 2004, PC shooter Half-Life 2 was the extremely anticipated follow-up to Valve’s first sport, Half-Life. Upon launch, it was extensively praised by critics and gamers. However whereas it got here out to large acclaim, there was a time when Half-Life 2 wasn’t such a certain wager, as its improvement course of was messy and protracted. Valve scrapped totally different variations, lower total sections, and lightened up the sport’s supposed darker, grittier tone significantly for the ultimate retail launch. Nonetheless, some leftovers of this darker model stay within the last sport, together with Corpse01.mdl. Enjoying the sport as a child, the physique all the time seemed hyper-realistic and creeped me out every time I stumbled upon it. Now, we all know why.

Valve’s macabre texture-cribbing was found fully accidentally (h/t The Gamer). About two weeks in the past on the r/eyeblech subreddit, somebody posted graphic pictures of useless our bodies they claimed have been from a medical forensic textbook. (Whereas I’ve personally verified the pictures posted are actual and on the market, I gained’t be linking to them. A little bit Googlin’ will lead you to them in the event you actually wish to see them.)

Within the feedback on that publish, somebody identified that one of many pictures displaying a burned corpse seemed an identical to the Corpse01 mannequin from Half-Life 2. One other publish picked up the thread and other people shortly started evaluating the pictures to the artwork within the sport. Positive sufficient, they give the impression of being an identical. The one change seems to be that Valve copied the correct eye of the corpse onto the left. That’s it although. The complete face of that mannequin is seemingly a useless dude’s face. Yikes.

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Then, three days in the past, gaming YouTuber Richter Time beyond regulation uploaded a brief and concise video detailing the historical past of the corpse and its connection to the picture, and this appeared to take the story totally mainstream, with folks tweeting about it and sharing it extra extensively on-line. As you may anticipate, plenty of Half-Life followers have been freaked out to study that they’ve been an actual corpse for the previous twenty years. One modder has already created a brand new mannequin to exchange the previous one for people who really feel uncomfortable leaving the unique useless face in Half-Life 2.

Kotaku has reached out to Valve in regards to the corpse to confirm its origins and to ask if the corporate has any plans to alter it with a future patch.

Personally, I’m undecided it is a factor that must be in a online game. It appears to me prefer it is likely to be time to take away this mannequin and substitute it with a picture of something however an precise burned human corpse.