Half-Life 2 funny thing (no cheats)

[funlover1700]

Hey guys,
I just found something funny with the Half-Life 2's gunships, the 2nd or 3rd one you face (the gunship you face after exiting the Combine-controlled sea pier), you cross the broken bridge by a dirt ramp, and you attempt to shoot down the gunship at the wreckage area, the gunship lands at the wreckage area where all the wrecked cars are at. Here's an image:


(sorry if i posted this in the wrong forum, i apologize)

 

[Escaep]

That is funny.

 

[MJ12]

A jolly good joke, Fun Lover of the Seventeen-Hundreds.

 

[Ren.182]

I'm pretty sure it's designed to fall and land in that area when it dies. Sorry to burst your bubble!

Also, this is pretty old stuff, but if it's your first time playing then I envy you, I wish I could play HL through again for the first time, so exciting. Might have been better posting this up in the Half Life forums at the top as this isn't really art.

Anyway, welcome to the forums.

 

[ríomhaire]

Yeah it has special code so that if it dies and it is able to crash land at the cars it will intentionally aim at them. Otherwise it will just explode.

 

[Hectic Glenn]

Hey, yeah this can happen and has happened to many people...the trick being to shoot the gunship when it is low to the road so it just drops or slides intact onto the floor. You will also see it happen in Episode 1 when you're in that house which get shot to pieces...the gunship will land come to rest on top of it.

Also this was first demonstrated way before HL2 even came out on the original bink videos....ahhh memories. You can watch 'Coastline' here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6oQ1sXfVdBc

Gunship goes down 2:45 onwards.​

 

[hakojo]

Funnily enough, that happened to me for the first time just the other day. I tried to push it over the cliff with the gravity gun, but the guard rail got in the way.

 

[funlover1700]

Whoa, hold it guys here, If i shoot that gunship down before I jumped over that broken bridge, it would blow to pieces in mid-air, but I discovered this, IF you attempt to shoot it down where the bunch of wrecked cars are at (where there is a white van with a rocket supply crate) it'll land at the wrecked cars area.
@ hakojo, the guard rails are meant to stop cars (ex. the buggy car you're riding) from falling off the cliff.
The gunship is heavy enough that it is really hard to move it with the Zero Point Energy Field Manipulator (otherwise known as the Gravity gun)

I also had a funny part where I was driving the buggy car over the broken bridge with the gunship firing the hell out of me, and while I was jumping, that gunship was low enough that my buggy car hit the gunship, surprisingly, the car went through the gunship without taking damage neither from the car nor to the gunship, sorry if I couldn't show a picture of that incident in HL2

 

[funlover1700]

I'm pretty sure it's designed to fall and land in that area when it dies. Sorry to burst your bubble!

Also, this is pretty old stuff, but if it's your first time playing then I envy you, I wish I could play HL through again for the first time, so exciting. Might have been better posting this up in the Half Life forums at the top as this isn't really art.

Anyway, welcome to the forums.

Ren.182 It is not my first time playing this, I only played this about 4 days ago and recently finished it 2 times

 

[Ren.182]

Ahh, I assumed it was your first time.

And the gunship will aim for the cars when it dies around that area, any other area it will just blow up like you found it