I never knew Zombines lost their heads!

[morgs]

I blew up a couple of zombines today and discovered for the first time that they actually lost their heads!

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[Planetary]

Old.


News.

 

[Cheomesh]

Yes. Their heads are full of mechanical crap. The headcrabs interface with their CNS directly.

 

[morgs]

Hehe, that's cool.

 

[DEATH eVADER]

Its a shame that humonoid characters don't gib when shot with a well placed RPG

 

[Cheomesh]

To be honest, deaths in games have become more and more clean as the years have dragged on. I remember playing Soldier of Fortune, with guts spilling and blood squirting, and HL1 with gibs for splody doom, and hell even early RTS games where blowing up a guy or crushing them resulted in smears of blood and doom.

Now...heh. Rag doll ftl.

 

[morgs]

let's not forget TF2 has gibbing!

 

[Qonfused]

To be honest, deaths in games have become more and more clean as the years have dragged on. I remember playing Soldier of Fortune, with guts spilling and blood squirting, and HL1 with gibs for splody doom, and hell even early RTS games where blowing up a guy or crushing them resulted in smears of blood and doom.

Now...heh. Rag doll ftl.

I'm actually tired of those kind of games. It's a cheap novelty to boast extreme gore. It's old and tiring. Valve did a fine job with the gore (I'd rather call it blood than gore considering it's not gore at all) (in HL2, CSS, DODS, etc.) with just a small splat of blood on the part shot and some on the wall. Overly bloody games will most likely turn me off if that it all they're offering. FEAR, while more bloody than HL2, controlled the blood good and had great game play to boot. If there are decapitations/dismemberment in a game, it better be detailed for me to accept it.

 

[xvillanx]

Unreal Tournament 2004 , that was the best gore ive ever seen.

 

[Apocalypse89]

I wonder if the people who say that HL2 has no gore realise that zombies have internal organs visibly hanging out of their torsos. IMO that's 100 times more gory than a bunch of pixelated bones and meat chunks.

 

[sunderz]

I think the amount of gore in HL2 was pretty minimal, a few bloodstained walls and half a torso?

 

[leib10]

I think that the minimal gore is a good thing. Too much gore is cheap.

Although if they keep the new blood spatter in Episode Two, I am not going to be a fan of it either. Personally I see nothing wrong with the old way of doing things.

 

[Narvi]

It's cheap to watch rebels bounce after you RPG them into a wall.

A little bit of gore never hurt anybody.

 

[leib10]

It's also to show off the physics.

 

[Cheomesh]

Eh, when I say gore, I mean I'd like to blow off limbs with the right amount of force. Like in FEAR, only not so...poorly done.

 

[Kevin]

You mean like every bodypart has a certain amount of damage, it can take, and if that line is crossed, the bodypart will detach from the rest of the body? With loads of blood.

And on topic: I have FINALLY seen the zombines head!
But nobody still has a clue, why the combine don't have they're heads left.

I came up with a theory though.
If you look at a stripped soldier model in Gmod for example, you'll see that he has 2 little holes in his head. Maybe the combine have surgically removed the skull or something and everything, besides the brain, to keep the soldier active? SO the headcrab could've just drank the insides, like it was a bottle of juice?
And if you look at the pic, theres not much there, that should be found in that area,besides the blood.

So maybe thats the skin of the head? Like the head was drained empty of everything?

Though that would leave some questions.
1. If they removed the skull, why would they leave the jaw?
2. How did the headcrab remove the helmet anyway?


Yea, so thats my idea.

 

[Planetary]

My big question is why zombines never drop unexploded grenades when killed, or why the troop train we first see them on only has pistol and shotgun ammo!

 

[Cheomesh]

You mean like every bodypart has a certain amount of damage, it can take, and if that line is crossed, the bodypart will detach from the rest of the body? With loads of blood.

And on topic: I have FINALLY seen the zombines head!
But nobody still has a clue, why the combine don't have they're heads left.

I came up with a theory though.
If you look at a stripped soldier model in Gmod for example, you'll see that he has 2 little holes in his head. Maybe the combine have surgically removed the skull or something and everything, besides the brain, to keep the soldier active? SO the headcrab could've just drank the insides, like it was a bottle of juice?
And if you look at the pic, theres not much there, that should be found in that area,besides the blood.

So maybe thats the skin of the head? Like the head was drained empty of everything?

Though that would leave some questions.
1. If they removed the skull, why would they leave the jaw?
2. How did the headcrab remove the helmet anyway?


Yea, so thats my idea.

Their skulls contain a lot of mechanical devices. These interfere with the headcrabs ability to couple directly with the brain. To get around this, they bit the head off, and interface with the CNS directly.

 

[heer0]

I guess once the headcrab leaps on the head they inject some sort of neural paralizing venom through series of teeth, that renders the victim defenceless, otherwise i have no idea what would prevent the victim to struggle and free itself.

1. They left a part of the jaw to be able to stick to something, or maybe you killed them with still mouthfull. :E
2. I think after they poison the victim they start the process of slowly dijesting it's head with some sort of a biological acid that can even melt helmets. So they can reach the central cerebral tissue (through the electronics in our case with zombines).

Overall, they seem to be an extremely adaptive creatures.

 

[Planetary]

I think they just reject the helmet materials once zombified, maybe letting those part fall off, leaving the lower part of the head only? Wonder what happens when the other kinds of headcrabs latch on...

 

[morgs]

It's also to show off the physics.

When the game came out, everyone loved watching people fly away when they blew up, but these days physics like that are the norm really.

The thing I love about Team Fortress is that it uses gibbing.

 

[Narvi]

I guess once the headcrab leaps on the head they inject some sort of neural paralizing venom through series of teeth, that renders the victim defenceless, otherwise i have no idea what would prevent the victim to struggle and free itself.

They do. The beaks are just barbed.

Headcrabs are stronger than they look.

 

[Azner]

Acctually, the headcrabs would cut your throat to prevent you from breathing(Notice the sharp fangs below the beak?), and then inject your remaining body with poison from the beak

 

[Narvi]

Acctually, the headcrabs would cut your throat to prevent you from breathing(Notice the sharp fangs below the beak?), and then inject your remaining body with poison from the beak

...Nope. Those claws are just to stabilize their grip.

 

[Cheomesh]

Yeah why would you poison the body you're about to control?

I'm still iffy on multiple headcrab types as it is.