![]() What I just said may sound like some B-Plot for a spyflick, but as far as I can tell, it's the truth. Within this little prank was a plot which saw the theft of gamemodes and the complete collapse of several prominent communities during a massive DoS/DDoS campaign between said communities. It was a simple prank which put the Facemap/Texture of GMan on player's screens, and played some scary noises while making you look deranged. The way you got the Scary GMan Virus, was by a server which had mimicked the playercount and name of your favorite server, and before you fully connected and figured out the ruse, it double backed and sent you towards your actual destination.įor most people, this is where the Scary GMan started and ended. My friends, you have just been infected with the Scary GMan Virus. If this wasn't enough to cause you a bit of a panic, you also come to the realization that you are spamming messages in chat, and all of them are nonsensical or reference a person named "Chrissasler" As you are trying to figure out WTF is going on, you suddenly start hearing the attack noise of Fast Zombies but it's pitched up. He doesn't have eyes, and his face is stretched. It's a picture of GMan's face from Half Life 2. You probably didn't even really notice it, but when you finally connect to your favorite server you are greeted with a jumpscare. Just before you complete the connection though, you see the connection bar reset and send you back to "Connecting to Server" and going through the whole process of downloading files. You download some new lua files, and nothing seems out of the ordinary. Said server is fairly popular and because of that you don't bother with looking at your favorite tab, you simply go into the browser and find the server by its name and join it. I'm not the best at setting scenes, but I want all of you to imagine you are opening GMod's serverbrowser, and are getting ready to play your favorite server. ![]() Part of me wonders, looking back on it, if any of us truly knew how things were going to turn out. As said previously, it was an absolutely beautiful time.Īll of this content was coming out around the end of 2008, and by the start of 2009, it seemed like the sky was the limit. We had RTS gamemodes like Sassilization, combat gamemodes like Naval Play and Build2Survive, or if you wanted a proto-Rust you would have Winter Survival or GMStranded. Wanted something new and strange? Christ. Interested in RP? This was the time when DarkRP was starting to go mainstream and TNB started opening its HL2RP server in earnest. If you were a builder, you would be shocked to hear this was the time when Wiremod started getting it's more useful features like Expression 1. The last six months of 2008 had brought upon the community a tidal wave of new user-created content. Despite not having Toybox, Steam Workshop, or any of the now common luxuries we take for granted, hell TortoiseSVN was still the "mainstay" way of downloading addons outside of and FPSBanana(Gamebanana), the game was in a creative bloom. This period of time in Garry's Mod was what I could only describe as something absolutely beautiful. That said, in the process of talking with old friends and piecing together the whole story of Scary GMan, I have come to a conclusion which I feel many will also come too after reading this: Scary GMan was merely an ill omen of the true horrors that happened in 2009. ![]() My memory of the event in question are not exactly hazy, but it's definitely a lot cloudier then per say my memories of more fond events like the Fish War of Fearless RP. In order to start unraveling the history of Scary GMan, I wish to state that at the time of this post, it has been roughly ~14 years since all of this went down. As someone who has been around Garry's Mod since about 2005, I'm going try my best to give a recollection of what Scary GMan was, and more importantly, how it effected Garry's Mod as a whole. More specifically, I'm talking about the all to commonly talked about Scary GMan Virus of 2009. The new texture is a photobash/digital drawing made from Kleiner and Doctor Breen's faces.With the rise and interest in horror based around the Source engine, and more specifically Garry's Mod, I have been seeing a lot of people talking about a "virus" that occurred in the early years of the game. Inspired by Richter Overtime's video "The burnt corpse from GMod is a real body" where he explains that the model from Half Life 2 " corpse01.mdl" 's textures are made from a real dead body, this retexture mod completely removes the original texture's references to the dead man. This mod retextures both the player and ragdoll variants of this model.
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