Have these always existed?

[cojawfee]

I've been replaying Halflife 2 and I just finished up the suppressor part. I make my way through the square down into that tunnel with the one combine at the end, and the strider that busts through after you get farther down. I'm running for the parking garage and I see and hear a light flashing. I thought it was a scanner, but I turned around at saw this. After grabbing with the grav gun, a little yellow eye comes out and looks around.

I never saw this in my first run through, and the Prima guide says nothing about it. I haven't gotten past here yet, but in that little area there are several of them. Constantly flashing at me. I assume that the Strider releases them to track me, but how could I have missed them before?

Am I just a moron and they have always been in and I never noticed them?

 

[MorganFreeman911]

Hmm, that looks like the concept art version of the scanner...

 

[Hectic Glenn]

No it doesn't...it's a shield scanner found through many places near the end of the game, including the citadel I believe. They drop the hoppers.

Check enemies section on this site:

 

[ranmafan]

hm, that's new. Never really paid attention to the scanners' appearance. They're all batteries to me...

Well, now I'm going to have to take a closer look this time!

 

[cojawfee]

Scanner Type II is a lot larger than what I saw. There is no way these can carry hoppers. While that image proves that these have been in the game the whole time, that picture is not a scanner type two. Based on what I've seen in the game, as well as the bestiary in the guide.

 

[Jintor]

Ur, no. That's a scanner type two. Or... at least I think it is...

Bring it out into the light and let's take a looksie.

 

[Que-Ever]

I think there are the ones that are white and look like little balls, then the bigger ones with big ol claw things on the bottom, and they are the ones that carry scanners.

 

[bbson john]

That's strange. I don't mean that the scanner is strange, but it is so strange that you didn't spot it at the first run-through.

 

[xombine]

That's strange. I don't mean that the scanner is strange, but it is so strange that you didn't spot it at the first run-through.

yeah I agree, I noticed them right away, always gleefully smashing them into the wall with the grav gun. :cheese:

 

[Baratos]

It says they have a machine gun. But I have never seen anything that looks like a gun on them. WTF?

 

[Azner]

You know, Their "gun"

 

[bbson john]

Read twice. It says gum.

 

[xhaan]

They are both Scanner II (or Shield Scanners)
It unfolds itself and uses a hook to carry the hoppers, so it does look bigger when carrying hoppers.

They were supposed to have a machine gun but that part was cut from the game.

I don't know if in the game mechanics the hopper carriers and the ones you actually fight are the same entity, but they are intended to be the same type of scanner even if there are "two types" in the game, if there are in fact two separate ones it would probably be due to technical limitations of the game.

 

[zleppelin]

how come I never saw that scanner before? Maybe it was added to the game after some update?

 

[Atomic_Piggy]

Despite what the offcial guide states, I have never found one with a machine gun even on hard. Odd.

 

[xhaan]

Despite what the offcial guide states, I have never found one with a machine gun even on hard. Odd.

They were supposed to have a machine gun but that part was cut from the game.

 

[Hectic Glenn]

Yeah I've always wondered why people don't read the entire thread, considering you stated that much earlier. I encountered shield scanners in the first 3 days of playing HL2 from release day, they've always been there I assure you. Some of you guys only played follow freeman & anti-citizen once it seems.

 

[CrazyJeepDriver]

Ive sen that eye come out before, but only when I've sucked the Scanners up with the Gravity Gun.

 

[Puzzlemaker]

I noticed them my first time through.

 

[ríomhaire]

Sheild scanners have a brighter flashlight, deploy hopper mines and act as scouts for striders.

 

[Asknoone]

They look very awesome if you catch them when they are dropping the mines.

 

[MorganFreeman911]

Yeah I've always wondered why people don't read the entire thread, considering you stated that much earlier. I encountered shield scanners in the first 3 days of playing HL2 from release day, they've always been there I assure you. Some of you guys only played follow freeman & anti-citizen once it seems.

Yea, I only played those levels once. I mainly Play Our Benefactors and Dark Energy, for that

*SPOILER FOR THOSE WHO HAVN'T BEAT IT*

Super Gravity Gun

 

[cojawfee]

That's strange. I don't mean that the scanner is strange, but it is so strange that you didn't spot it at the first run-through.

I knew about Scanner Type II, I just never realized they rolled up until I loaded up Anticitizen one and got a good look at them after they dropped the hoppers,

 

[Ridge]

Isnt that the Strider scanner? Supposed to notify nearby Striders of your presence and where you are...

 

[Baratos]

Isnt that the Strider scanner? Supposed to notify nearby Striders of your presence and where you are...

Yeah--arguably the deadliest enemy in the game. Seriously, at the point in Follow Freeman where you enter the tunnel a Strider bursts out of, one scanner always catches me hiding at the door you entered through. The Strider always runs back to where you are hiding, and proceeds to beat you into the ground. There are no hiding spots, no ammo caches--I am forced to restart every time.

And that is why scanners scare me.

 

[Jintor]

I bunny-hop under its legs and into the building. ><