HL2 rocked, but...

[Therumblefish]

I've got one small complaint about the game. When you are first given the gravity gun, Alyx says that it was designed for carrying hazardous materials but they mainly use it for heavy lifting. I totally was expecting to be able to launch cars and stuff, but the biggest things it canlift are empty crates and small furniture like dressers and matresses.

No washing machines, none of the big green lockers, no people or aliens, and of course no cars. When I got the dark energy gravity gun I got excited again cause I thought maybe no I'd get a chance to launch some big stuff, but nope. It was cool that I could now grab people, but I still wanted to launch big things.

I realize the reasons they didn't design it this way. If you could launch cars and people through the hole game you'd never have to actually fight anyone and could go around launching everything that attacked you out into the stratosphere. But what I do wish they'd have done was make it so after you beat all the levels on difficult the dark energy version of the gravity gun would always be available in your inventory no matter what chapter you played.

 

[Solver]

The big green lockers are liftable, IIRC. Not the really big ones, but the medium ones. People or aliens are a different thing, the gun doesn't work on organic matter, small or big.

 

[Hectic Glenn]

You can cheat to have the dark energy gun in all chapters, its been done many times, you think we wouldn't have done it?

load up the level where the script runs to get the dark energy grav gun, then changelevel to another map, using the console. (search the forums for the exact commands)

Rumblefish was another members name, he was cool, but he left without warning, no connection at all by any chance?

 

[MiccyNarc]

It would be nice to be able to lift heavy objects with the grav gun.

 

[Beerdude26]

It would be nice to be able to lift heavy objects with the grav gun.

physcannon_maxmass X (Default: 250)
EDIT: 1000 will be enough for most cars. Above 1000 will also give you the ability to pick up the buggy. This will crash the game.
physcannon_tracelength X (dunno default, this variable defines from how far you can take objects)
Need sv_cheats 1 though
There are a few others but I'm too lazy to look for them

 

[Therumblefish]

This will crash the game.

Haha.

Thanks for the info everyone. I know it's lame of me, but I think it should work on organic matter. I'm not physicist, but I'm pretty sure gravity and inertia apply to EVERYTHING.

And no, I have no relation to the other RumbleFish. I've been using this name everywhere since like 97 or 98 and have seen a few people who have started using it. But then again I got it from an obscure song title, so maybe those other people just have good taste in music.

 

[RabidJester]

Haha.

Thanks for the info everyone. I know it's lame of me, but I think it should work on organic matter. I'm not physicist, but I'm pretty sure gravity and inertia apply to EVERYTHING.

And no, I have no relation to the other RumbleFish. I've been using this name everywhere since like 97 or 98 and have seen a few people who have started using it. But then again I got it from an obscure song title, so maybe those other people just have good taste in music.

Or taste in books.

 

[Solver]

That's because the "gravity gun" doesn't really manipulate gravity itself, it manipulates zero-point energy.

 

[Beerdude26]

That's because the "gravity gun" doesn't really manipulate gravity itself, it manipulates zero-point energy.

Ask Clarky_003 if you want to know more, he and Angry Lawyer are the HL2.net physicists

 

[Rizzo]

I have read Rumble Fish. I think its good, about some gang member. Nice book. And theres a cheat comand to just spawn the blue gravity gun, like anyother wepon. Dont remember what and i dont remember all the _ and such.

 

[Therumblefish]

^That's awesome

 

[jerkasaur]

isn't that the office map from cs:s?

 

[Drackard]

Yeah it is and also

But what I do wish they'd have done was make it so after you beat all the levels on difficult the dark energy version of the gravity gun would always be available in your inventory no matter what chapter you played.

That would make the game a bit too much console like imo.

 

[Steven]

^That's awesome

http://gmanwonderful.ytmnd.com/

Play Garrys mod you can lift up everything.

 

[Elusid]

Ok so you guys really think that lockers and wooden crates arn't heavy! Geez I mean seriously. Go down to your local grocery store and try lifting just a wooden moving flat! I think that that would be defined as "heavy lifting" Becides you can still right click and move the cars and stuff you just can't pick it up.

 

[jerkasaur]

Play Garrys mod you can lift up everything.

O'RLY?

 

[crashdummyracer]

now this is funny..



*hardiharhar..

 

[UltimaApocalypse]

O'RLY?

Ya Rly.


I think you should at least be able tp pick up headcrabs....

 

[PriNcE oF SpAcE]

you can kill them with the gravity guns primary fire...isn't that enough?

 

[Drackard]

Some people are so demanding :dozey: