Insane theory time (because I'd like to contribute to this hilariously wacky thread): Gordon Freeman, Barney Calhoun, and Adrian Shephard... are the same man.
So here's how it goes: When the original Gordon Freeman was first transported to Xen, the slightly-buggy human-created portal spawned...
Mossman talks a bit about the differences between the portal technologies (Black Mesa East, near the beginning). The humans use Xen "as an interdimensional slingshot", so they can construct portal entrances and exits within the same universe and travel quickly between them.
The Combine can't...
My speculation at the moment is that The Passing could be structured like Hard Rain, the car runs out of gas and the survivors make for a nearby fuel dump highlighted on local signage. They meet the original four survivors along the way, stuff happens, and they return to the car with additional...
Ya, cause crit pipes and stickies flying everywhere aren't good enough for the Demo the way it is.
Look how easy that was turned around (and then some!).
So recently I've been makin' a compilation campaign of No Mercy-Crash Course-Death Toll, because I can. Encountered lots of problems and errors along the way, but I got rid of most of the big ones.
This one that just cropped is huge, however, especially because I can't test for it on my own...
Did I know that fluoride was poisonous in large quantities? Of course, it's fairly common knowledge. It's also common knowledge that the benefits far outweigh the risks. You're not the first quack to suggest that it's killing us all from the inside out or weakening our collective will, and you...
Don't know if you got my PM, so I'm leaving this here.
I'm not much of a sycophant, I hate most politicians and have no love for the "big" parties. So don't get the impression I'm someone who gleefully praises the governments of the first world at every opportunity. Democracy is good, but...
You confuse the actions of the old and the new Orders. It's the Old Guard that tramples your freedoms and spreads fear. They themselves are the victims of fear, they fear this New World Order, because it threatens to erode their corrupt and illicit power. It's why the NWO doesn't exist in the...
As a representative of the NWO, I have to ask you tao, what do you have against us? It's plainly clear that we're everywhere, but is that a bad thing? What you fail to grasp is that we're all people, we're not merely shadowy billionaires who have secret clubs and meetings. It's not about the...
Assuming the Defibrillator works on dead corpses (which is what the achievement makes it sound like), the corpses will probably be serverside for playability reasons. Can't have three players not knowing where their dead friend exactly is, eh? :P
Spawning the revived survivor as incapped...
So I was thinking about how the Defibrillator would work, mainly in graphical and a gameplay balance senses. Assuming for a moment that it can be used more than once:
Would the game progress like this?
Player A Dies -> Player B switches to Defibrillator -> Player B gives him a jolt ->...
Anyone familiar with the SDK that might know what's going on with this? I don't think it's the fog controller's far z plane cutoff setting, because I can noclip into roughly the same spot and the building doesn't clip like that. It always clips in this manner when the helicopter is pulling away...
My speculative theory is that Dead Center doesn't have any Tier 2 weapons in it at all, just pistols, T1s and melee weapons. All four survivors are carrying melee weapons in the poster, and the tagline directly references a melee weapon. From a pacing standpoint, it would make sense to feature...