Mark V Hazardous Environment Suit DOES NOT WORK! HELP!

Wait, wait, I thought the Mark V project was headed by Dr Kleiner, who specifically wanted that kind of multi-functionality built into the suit? I mean, by the time R&D finally rolled around for the Mark V, the entire bloody world was a 'hazardous environment', so the whole thing was probably going to end up as a military PCV anyway.
 
I have to step in and voice my support for the Mark V model. While the Mark IV model is definitely a tried-and-true piece of technology, it was not designed with combat in mind and it shows.

Apart from the aforementioned electronic tracking devices embedded in the suit, installed to monitor a scientist's health but also allowing tracking of the user by hostile forces, it's modular nature makes retrieval of corpses quite hard, if not impossible, as they tend to literally fall apart when sufficent force is applied. Anyone who had to scrape off a scientist after a failed experiment will agree.

The Mark V additionally has none of the tracking devices embedded in Mk. IV and includes a flexible folding helmet with zoom function in addition to enhanced combat ability.
 
It really really depends.

You see Mark V brings in a natural environment also known as "Able Gaming Suit". Mark V is cheaper due to the fact that it's systems are lesser to Mark VI, however it is still more capable than the XBox 360 that the Combines use and the PS 3 that the Rebels use.

You see, Mark V's system is already good enough to run Half Life 2 and all the other episodes, but it cannot run systems with terrific graphics but crappy gameplay (Crysis). So as result, one would use Mark VI instead.

However, Xbox 360/ Halo fans are used by Combines due to it's already built in nature. It's laggy interface and gameplay is simply a result of overusing the Xbox360 system, in other words, Combines cannot play any 360 games without lagging as of now.

Therefore, in my humble opinion, all gaming consoles must shift to Marks. Why? If a Mark V is already better than the Xbox 360 and the PS3, imagine what Mark VI can come up with.

Basically all I'm trying to say is, don't drop the soap Halo Fans.
 
imagine what Mark VI can come up with.
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Basically all I'm trying to say is, don't drop the soap Halo Fans.
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It's at times like these I always feel a bit guilty about not properly educating myself about the capabilities of these various platforms - it's been a long time since I was up to date in any meaningful way. But I can vouch for the III as a reliable old bastard that's served me well for years, whose functions I've always been happy with and whose foibles I have come to love. I know I'd find it difficult to get used to a new regime and I regret that somewhat. I feel like a luddite or an old man.

Good genital arrangements too.
Darkside55 said:
Or made to compete with military projects...

*tinfoil hat*
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Man abso****inglutely.
 
flamingdts said:
It really really depends.

You see Mark V brings in a natural environment also known as "Able Gaming Suit". Mark V is cheaper due to the fact that it's systems are lesser to Mark VI, however it is still more capable than the XBox 360 that the Combines use and the PS 3 that the Rebels use.

You see, Mark V's system is already good enough to run Half Life 2 and all the other episodes, but it cannot run systems with terrific graphics but crappy gameplay (Crysis). So as result, one would use Mark VI instead.

However, Xbox 360/ Halo fans are used by Combines due to it's already built in nature. It's laggy interface and gameplay is simply a result of overusing the Xbox360 system, in other words, Combines cannot play any 360 games without lagging as of now.

Therefore, in my humble opinion, all gaming consoles must shift to Marks. Why? If a Mark V is already better than the Xbox 360 and the PS3, imagine what Mark VI can come up with.

Basically all I'm trying to say is, don't drop the soap Halo Fans.
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Are you mad? These things aren't for entertainment. It's about safety. Safety in a hazardous environment.

To imply that the HEV suit is some kind of entertainment system is seriously disrespectful to the hundreds of scientists who are out there labouring every day, as well as the Dev team behind the HEV series.

We're not, of course, counting that lost shipment which was supposedly rerouted to Valve.
 
Guys, look, The HEV suit is simply a tool. Though Gordon Freeman has successfully turned his HEV into a war machine, others that have tried the same feat have ended up dead, so either he's getting lucky, or he is naturally skilled in combat, and I think we all know which of those is the real reason.

Really, to imply that the government could use these things when they just turn into a brick when they run out of battery power is absurd. In a war zone, if a soldier is under fire, and takes more than 3 hits, his suit will more than likely have to reboot, turning him into a statue, and thereby giving the enemy a chance to take the suit and remodel it's technology for their own use. It's just a silly idea altogether.

And I really don't care what Aperture does. The only 2 things they can successfully make other than Shower Curtain rings is a Genetic Life-form and Disk Operating System, and that useless Portal Gun. Really, how is that useful when a portal can only be opened on an absolutely flat tile, made of a special alloy that I already deemed to useless to know the name? not to mention that if your portal just so happens to be in a bad spot, you could seriously hurt yourself by, oh, say, falling to your death...

Yet, aperture paved the way again by stealing Black Mesa's design for the leg bracers to stop your fall from killing you... as long as it's at a minimum of 36 feet... How useless. A Mark II can take a longer fall than that.
 
Sulkdodds said:
But I can vouch for the III as a reliable old bastard that's served me well for years, whose functions I've always been happy with and whose foibles I have come to love. I know I'd find it difficult to get used to a new regime and I regret that somewhat. I feel like a luddite or an old man.
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Nah, it's all about locality. Short of building your own Xen Relay and looting Mark IVs from the borderworld, it's near impossible to actually loot anything better than a Mark III in Europe. The few Mark IVs that Black Mesa HEV imported here were snapped up in the early days, and the International Black Market doesn't exactly offer Super Saver Delivery on later (actually decent) prototype Mark Vs. The nearer the core of the resistance you get, the more likely you are to see a Mark IV in service, but Mark Vs seem to be reserved for the tinkerings of scatterball scientists. In the US, I dare say every man woman and child has an HEV V, but here, we make do with what we've got. A workshop full of Mark IIIs and one damned stiff upper lip.
Sulkdodds said:
Good genital arrangements too.Man abso****inglutely.
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No point in surviving the end of life as we know it to have your baby makers shot off in a firefight with scavengers, shriviled-up by an out of control-reactor or smeared against the cold hard steel of the suit designed to protect them! The future of humanity is in your pants guys and girls, look after it!
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We're not, of course, counting that lost shipment which was supposedly rerouted to Valve.
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What do the developers of the Quiver series want with HEV suits? It's almost like they knew this shit was going to happen... alien invasion, secret research facilities, other universes. Even those stupid Bull-Chickens look suspiciously like Bullsquids... Those games play more like documentaries than genre breaking FPS games nowadays...

Sure HEV is all about utility, but I must admit to having a DS emulator installed on the HUD of one of my work suits. Not pixel perfect emulation (a friend made it in his spare time), but it's only for a quick round of Puyo Puyo, or a stealthy stage of Super Princess Peach. Don't tell my boss though :p

The software is apparently quite modable on most HEV suits... there's this popular rumour that some guy got XBox 360 software to work on his by using the waste disposal as a processor core. The disposal overheated while he was in it, killing him and giving an entirely new meaning to the term 'Red Ring of Death'.
 
I'm kinda confused here, you lot are arguing about a non-existing suit that is just made up in an awesome game?
I don't see the point of this arguement, unless the suit is real or something, but I haven't heard about it :S
 
Sp00nFaCe said:
I'm kinda confused here, you lot are arguing about a non-existing suit that is just made up in an awesome game?
I don't see the point of this arguement, unless the suit is real or something, but I haven't heard about it :S
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We do this every once in a while... We're just ****in off, having a bit of fun with a thread before it gets locked.
 
It doesn't come with, it's just easily to add one with the right tools. Get it right.
 
What I'm really interested in is how newer models of the suit will fare against competitors. There's this fledgling company called CEC that's been making waves in their production of hazardous environment suits.

They're using nanite technology, and I don't know how that's going to go, but it seems like they've got something here.
 
I feel disappointed about only having found this discussion. For me, I'm afraid it's the Mark IV. True, it is not built for combat but it is far more modular than the Mark V. Having the option to attach an air resevoir or jump-jet (long-jump module, whatever) or an extra battery pack is always very useful if you know that you're going to be facing a specific situation.

The Mark V just tries too hard to be a jack of all trades. Yes, it does have the sprint feature, yes, it does process breathable oxygen from water and yes, the flashlight does have more bloom, but the fact is that adding in all these nice features has made all of them useless because they all run off the same auxilary power supply, which lasts all of ten seconds because the designers couldn't fit the power pack in after they added in all this crap.

If I want to go diving with the Mark IV I strap on the SCUBA module and I can stay down for up to an hour and a half. In the Mark V my natural ability to hold my breath is augmented, a little, by the suit, but not enough for me to actually explore any sort of underwater cavern. It is this kind of crap that makes this suit useless for anything more than killing. Though that it probably what it was designed for seeing as most of those fools thought that the solution to preventing the deaths volunteers to the boarderworld was to send them in with bigger guns.

Perhaps these faults could have been worked out had the testing not been interupted by the resonance cascade. As we know the prototype suit was being tested on the very day that walking disaster area arrived in Black Mesa.
 
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