Half-Life: Opposing Force

***Half-Life: Opposing Force***, is a 1999 first-person shooter game, and is the twenty third game to be played on Butt Spectrum Club. The playthrough started on June 30th, 2022 and ended on September 23rd, that same year. Half-Life: Opposing Force is the second entree in the ***Half-Life Series*** and is an expansion for the game ***Half-Life*** and was followed up by ***Half-Life: Blue Shift***.

## Game Info

Half-Life: Opposing Force is a 1999 first-person shooter game developed by Gearbox Software and was published by Sierra Studios for Microsoft Windows. In 2013 the game was released for OS X and Linux.

In 1999 a group of modders made a mod for Half-Life titled Sven Co-op which allowed players to playthrough Half-Life and it's two expansion packs Half-Life: Opposing Force and Half-Life: Blue Shift cooperatively.

The game the player taking control of Adrian Shephard, a soldier for the HECU sent in to deal with the Black Mesa situation, however when he gets there, his aircraft is shot down. Shephard must traverse a warzone with the HECU fighting against the Xen invasion, alongside a new army named Race X.

## Playthrough

The playthrough has ***Algernon*** and ***GhostinGhostout*** playing cooperatively with the use of the Sven Co-op mod, where the two work together to survive the warzone Black Mesa has become. The two roleplayed as Sgt. Pee Pee Poo Poo, a tough grizzled soldier, who won't accept his homosexuality due to his conservative beliefs, and Chives his private, whom he has romantic feelings.

## Plot

Opposing Force opens with Shephard riding on a V-22 Osprey with his squad. His squad discuss their deployment, somewhat irritated that they have not been told what they are being deployed for. However, as they are nearing their Landing Zone at Black Mesa, airborne alien creatures attack the Osprey formation, causing Shephard's Osprey to crash land. Shephard regains consciousness in a Black Mesa medical bay, tended to by the science team, learning that the Marines are being steadily beaten by the alien forces from Xen and orders have come through to pull out. Consequently, Shephard departs to reach an extraction point and escapes the facility. However, Shephard is prevented from reaching the extraction point by the enigmatic G-Man (Michael Shapiro), forcing the evacuation craft to leave without him.

Other Marines who have also been left behind team up with Shephard and attempt to reach another extraction point near Black Mesa's Lambda Complex, but en route they come under attack from black operations units seeking to thoroughly contain the situation and eliminate all survivors. Shephard makes it to the Lambda Complex alive, and briefly sees Gordon Freeman as the latter teleports to Xen in the final stages of Half-Life. To escape the teleportation chamber, Shephard is forced to enter a separate portal, briefly taking him to Xen before depositing him in an entirely different area of the facility. The facility is now heavily damaged, and it soon becomes clear that a new alien race, Race X, has exploited the situation to mount a localized invasion, attacking both human and Xen forces in Black Mesa indiscriminately. Fighting between the black operations units and Race X quickly intensifies.

Shephard soon encounters more stranded Marine units in the wreckage of Black Mesa, and attempts to reach an unknown exit route, encountering heavy resistance from race X and black operations units. A surviving Black Mesa security guard reveals to Shephard that the black operators intend to detonate a tactical nuclear weapon in the base, thereby totally sealing it off and killing everything in it. After successfully neutralizing the guarding black operations unit, Shephard disarms the device and proceeds to a nearby storage facility, intent on escape. however, the G-Man rearms the device as Shephard departs. The storage facility has become a thick battleground between Race X and the black operations units, and although Shephard manages to evade them, he is informed by another security guard that something very large is coming through an alien portal blocking the exit path.

At the portal, Shephard discovers a gene worm, a massive creature facilitating the Race X invasion. Shephard is able to sufficiently wound the creature enough to force it back through the wormhole, but just afterwards he is teleported onto an Osprey by the G-Man. As the G-Man congratulates Shephard on his accomplishments, the nuclear device detonates in the background, destroying Black Mesa. The game closes with G-Man detaining Shephard someplace where he can tell no one of what he has seen and cannot be harmed, pending further evaluation.

## Episodes

1. TAKE COVER!!!
2. This Halo Right?
3. Sgt. Pee Pee Poo Poo is Gay
4. To Xen We Go
5. What does THIS gun do?
6. Nobody Expects the Second Voltigore
7. Gottem
8. Gamer Gack

## Characters

* Sgt. Pee Pee Poo Poo
* Chives

## Trivia

* Half-Life: Opposing Force is the twenty third game to be played on the channel
* Half-Life: Opposing Force is the eleventh game to be completed on the channel
* The hosts playing are Algernon and GhostinGhostout
* The Bois are playing a modded version called Sven Co-op, which allows the first three Half-Life games (Half-Life, Half-Life: Blue Shift, and Half-Life: Opposing Force) to be played multiplayer
* It has been confirmed that the playthrough of Half-Life: Opposing Force takes place in the "Adventures of Kracky and Astolfo" Universe.