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Just for fun I drove my buggy into the sea with Antlions in hot pursuit. Though they scratched and clawed to the end, they drowned themselves in chest high water. But! Take heed,, do not swim further out to sea,,, I found the ocean is populated with hundreds of little electric eel, alien larvae, the little buggers we first encountered in HL1!
 
Apparently the sky above the ocean is too.. .I was in noclip mode and they ate me alive 15 feet above the ocean surface
 
DeSetuede said:
Apparently the sky above the ocean is too.. .I was in noclip mode and they ate me alive 15 feet above the ocean surface
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Well, duh. They can jump high.

Think! :afro:
 
I hated them in HL1, and I'll probably hate them in HL2 too.
That's good, because that's make it easier to kill them :)

Are they like they were in the last game, or are there any changes in look, behaviour, damage?
 
In HL2 they're only used as part of the 'death zones'. If you go to far out at sea they attack you and then it's curtains.
 
You can't kill them. They basically function as an extra-annoying invisible barrier - swim out into water 10ft or deeper and a swarm of unkillable leeches appears to eat you alive.

I agree, in HL1 it was extremely satisfying to drain a room and then walk around squishing leeches with the crowbar.
 
I found it extremely amusing to get a horde of antlions to chase me than dive in the water and watch them all drown. Its the simple things in life.
 
i never noticed that but i just took a look at them.

they are DEFINATELY used with updated graphics, you can even see their little teeth.

the thing which makes me sad about finding them there is one simple fact:

if those guys are everywhere in the water + the big fish at the beginning = the oceans are as screwed as the land.

so even IF mankind is able to regain earth...what then? eat grilled headcrabs and let the kids swim in the leech infested oceans?
IF there will be kids...
 
Klyka said:
i never noticed that but i just took a look at them.

they are DEFINATELY used with updated graphics, you can even see their little teeth.

the thing which makes me sad about finding them there is one simple fact:

if those guys are everywhere in the water + the big fish at the beginning = the oceans are as screwed as the land.

so even IF mankind is able to regain earth...what then? eat grilled headcrabs and let the kids swim in the leech infested oceans?
IF there will be kids...
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My thoughts too, upon seeing these. It does kind of make you pause for a minute, and realize that you had a part in unleashing a permanent change upon the world, and that no matter what you do, some things will probably NEVER go back to normal. I think many people missed a lot of the implied happenings, and then whined about Half Life 2 has no story -- It has an excellent story, it was just not forced at you, you had to go find it.
 
The changes to Earth don't have to be permanant. Once the combine are gone, and the portals are gone. That means no more alians teleporting to earth. You can always get rid of the head crabs and antlions and whatever else with an army or special weapon or traps and what not. Even having them all teleport back to where they came from is a possibitly.
 
The changes to Earth don't have to be permanant. Once the combine are gone, and the portals are gone. That means no more alians teleporting to earth. You can always get rid of the head crabs and antlions and whatever else with an army or special weapon or traps and what not.
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It's called reproduction.
Even having them all teleport back to where they came from is a possibitly.
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Not...really..
 
All you have to do is pour the ocean through cheesecloth and than burn whats in the pile. Problem solved
 
To be viewed in order:

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:cheese:

Man, they were so stupid. One would jump over immediately after I threw, but the rest of the pack woul wait behind. Then like one more would try and fly but still fail.

Good, wholesome fun.
 
Ah, come on, Kangy. How dare you prey on these creature's sexual urges.

Shame on you.


:naughty:
 
Ooh, bummer. I posted the wrong image for the last one.

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MiccyNarc said:
It's called reproduction.

Not...really..
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Except that the headcrabs in HL2 seem to not have as fast a lifecycle as those in HL1/OP4. In OP4, you encountered Gonome type zombies within 24 hours of the resonance cascade itself; in HL2, Ravenholm, which we might assume to have been infested with headcrabs for considerably longer than a day, features a population entirely consisting of "normal" zombies.
Clearly, the Combine genetically modified the headcrabs they use as population suppressants, in order to prevent plagues of them causing unwanted disruption... (or maybe Valve doesn't consider the Gearbox produced OP4 to be canonical on the developmental sequence of the headcrab ;) )
 
Klyka said:
i never noticed that but i just took a look at them.

they are DEFINATELY used with updated graphics, you can even see their little teeth.

the thing which makes me sad about finding them there is one simple fact:

if those guys are everywhere in the water + the big fish at the beginning = the oceans are as screwed as the land.

so even IF mankind is able to regain earth...what then? eat grilled headcrabs and let the kids swim in the leech infested oceans?
IF there will be kids...
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That's definitely my thoughts as well, and it's really quite sad. All the normal earth species are dead and gone now, except for a select few [cockroaches, crows, etc]. They will never grow back - they are all extinct, if not irretriveable as a species. Our oceans are dead, replaced by an alien population, our lands are dead and barren, filled with antlions and zombies. What the hell are we going to do, even if we win?

It really adds weight to the idea that

The combine want to take over earth and make it another planet for them to populate/control

[Maybe that wasn't spoiler worthy, but I'm just being careful.]
 
Perhaps, if all the people like Kliener, Eli and Mossman survive, they'll put the remnants of humanity into slow teleport for 1000's of years and wait for the Earth to repopulate with the old species that survived in very small pockets, and the atmosphere and climate to return to normal.
 
Kangy said:
Perhaps, if all the people like Kliener, Eli and Mossman survive, they'll put the remnants of humanity into slow teleport for 1000's of years and wait for the Earth to repopulate with the old species that survived in very small pockets, and the atmosphere and climate to return to normal.
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Spoiler tags, bro. You just hit the jackpot.
EDIT: Kangy, start a thread about it. That's an excellent thought you have here.
 
How do we fix that leech problem you say?

Easy, us americans can just use our nukes and blow the crap out of them and evaporate the water with them!

:D hehe

Well except for us Wisconsinites have nothing... Just cheese and drunks.

I remember though that Gabe said the icythosaurus (sp?) was gonna be out at sea to get ya if you want out to far... plans changed (man it woulda been scary seeing that thing swim straight for your sorry ass)

in the beginning, when you were teleporting, didn't an icythosaurus swim straight at you? I remember in the teleport you teleported away right before he got you... Didn't recognize it though...
 
eediot said:
That's definitely my thoughts as well, and it's really quite sad. All the normal earth species are dead and gone now, except for a select few [cockroaches, crows, etc]. They will never grow back - they are all extinct, if not irretriveable as a species. Our oceans are dead, replaced by an alien population, our lands are dead and barren, filled with antlions and zombies. What the hell are we going to do, even if we win?

It really adds weight to the idea that

The combine want to take over earth and make it another planet for them to populate/control

[Maybe that wasn't spoiler worthy, but I'm just being careful.]
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the thing with the combine is certainly a good point.

but since i bought and played HL2 for the first time their is one big, even gigantic questionmark inside my head:

"if you want to get a new planet to suit your environment you have to terraform it. if you terraform it, the normal inhabitants of this planet will probably die. so if they are going to die anyway, WHY this gigantic propaganda machine? WHY do they need police to suppress the (exact quote) 'remnants of an almost extinct species'? they invaded and conquered earth in SEVEN HOURS! and now they take years upon years to build a fascistic 'government' and leave the humans in controlled areas to use them for 'something'"

it's just illogical. they could have killed off the entire race or just transformed the population in the last 10 years.
 
It wouldn't be that hard to kill of the Ant Lions. They live on the beach and the Combine had drained the Oceans. Maybe melt some ice caps and raise the water level back.

Now that doesn't help any with the leaches though.
 
Simple solution is to engineer a virus that targets and kills leeches.
 
The only reason I can think of to keep humanity alive is to do their dirty work.. although by this point it seems to be more of a hassle than it is worth.

Of course, nothing is conclusive. Just another question that will hopefully be answered soon. :)
 
Think man! How many resistance members have already said they're gonna mate? The Earth is gonna be FLOODED with rugrats!
 
it was funny the first time i was at the coastline and decided to drive the buggy into the water and see the antlions follow and drown in the water :E
they were squimming and the works! :O
 
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