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Actually headcrabs can reproduce. Remember the big testicle thing with 3 legs, the gonarch? It spat out baby headcrabs. I think that headcrabs eventually grow up into that if they don't die.

Also the zombiefication part is probably just a process for their benefit. Unless they are leaping, the headcrabs move really slow. Making zombies allows them to have more size, control of their surroundings,and makes them harder to kill. Also remember what a pain the opfor super zombies were?
 
maby headcrabs slowly eat away thier host and turn into a gonarch?
 
I think there is no big story behind the headcrabs, they were just made to be scary and enoying :)
 
Mitoboy, the great unintelligent teacher.

Headcrabs... kill one, look at its insides. Wow, those are some nasty teeth. I wouldn't be surprised if that was not for the decapitation of a host. Wow, those are digestive track or wires of some sort that are somehow staying inside that little round body.

Headcrabs quickly deoform there host to suit their needs. They use the hole in the chest to feed. (But, I have yet to hear of a species to be able to carry out such a task in under a few hours.)

Headcrabs are not something to think about as an intelligent creature.
They operate purely on instinct.

They find a host to survive longer, they feed on flesh to keep some part of a function running. (possibly to feed whatever is growing in those green parts on the arm and back?)

However Big Momma is a mystry to me. But then you run into the thought, "Wait a second, these are complex beings, so they must reproduce sexualy. But that means that there must be more Gonarches(sp?) out there."

Or this could all just be a game?

Don't ant lions remind you of Big Momma?
 
Originally posted by Flyingdebris
Actually headcrabs can reproduce. Remember the big testicle thing with 3 legs, the gonarch?
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the gonarch had 4 legs, lol. anyway headcrabs are just a ripoff of facehuggers from aliens. they worked really well as scary little crawly parisite things and marc laidlaw was like "WE need scary little crawly parisite things!" and then headcrabs were born.
 
oh right, dammit i must've gotten all the images of the hl2 strider consfusing all my memories of the hl1 gonarch.

Well anyway if these things were capable of reproduction i'd say it would be asexual as the gonarch kept churning out baby headcrabs like nobody's business and i didn't see any daddy.

It only seems to make sense that the gonarch is a grown up headcrab, the standard headcrab to be juveniles, and the tiny pink ones to be new borns. The host period in which it zombieficates is its best chance of gaining nutrition and increasing its chance for survival.
 
Yeah but the whole chest cavity thing was just pulled out of "The Thing"

I think face crabs as more of seeds then as any kind of smart creature.

As for a face crab growing into a gonarch.... No ****ing way, the size difference is imense, not to mention they have different anatomy.
 
These are headcrabs, not facehuggers. They don't mess around :D
 
I have a feeling we're going to find out the results of a fully-formed headcrabbed-human in Half-Life 2, and it ain't gonna be pretty...
 
i wonder if facecrabs get it on to barry white...

probably not but it's funny.... flash movie animation, anyone??? hahahah

about the no-heads thing, maybe the headcrab just takes the head with it when it detaches....?

yay! quick reply! (to speed up teh spamming :E)

-Phision
 
maybe the crab does the same as the brain bugs from starship troopers
like a hole in the skull to the brains
but i personnaly think the bug eats the front of the face and enters trough the mouth\nose hole to control the victim
 
If you look in opfor, right at the beginning when that scientist gets attacked by that supposedly dead zombie, you can see an xray with a human skull still under the headcrab.
 
Originally posted by nw909
If you look in opfor, right at the beginning when that scientist gets attacked by that supposedly dead zombie, you can see an xray with a human skull still under the headcrab.
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I love that bit :D
 
I made a thread about this a while ago...
The head crab prolly starts out as an egg, and the egg is carried by the mother/father or something :p
The Egg hatches, and this cuuute little transparent headcrab is born, the headcrab grows, but they need to feed someway, so they find a host that suit their needs, they start out as the classical HL zombie, and evolves later to The Op4 superzombie, what happens after that, and how do they find a host on Xen?
Do they eat Xen'ians to?
That whould be kickass zombies ;)
 
Originally posted by Mr.Magnetichead
Yeah but the whole chest cavity thing was just pulled out of "The Thing"

I think face crabs as more of seeds then as any kind of smart creature.

As for a face crab growing into a gonarch.... No ****ing way, the size difference is imense, not to mention they have different anatomy.
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he chaneged his gun, haha poor bastard.
 
Well lets see gonarchs have to come from somewhere, they look like giant bloated headcrabs, and they spit out baby headcrabs. I'm pretty sure its very implied that gonarchs are grown up head crabs.

As for the size difference.

A baby octopus is tiny tiny tiny, they eventually grow up to fairly large sizes. Size difference doesn't matter. Lots of animals in RL start out very small, no reason to doubt that a headcrab couldn't eventually mature into a gonarch.
 
Originally posted by Gorgon
Only joking with you dud. :cheese:

Anyways DAM he/she got no head, this Head Sucker is really a cannibal.
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This may be the least intelligent post in the history of the world.
 
Originally posted by Gorgon
he chaneged his gun, haha poor bastard.
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English please do you speak it!?

edited by mmw

dont try and bypass teh swear filter please...
 
Originally posted by Gorgon
Asshole
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Im not gonna rgue, bicker or flame you mate ok.

Im not gonna risk my membership because of you.

I think its best of I just add you to my ignore list.

So its officialy dropped. :)
 
I got another one word post for Gorgon - Banned.
 
*Cheering from all the forum members of Half-Life2.net
 
<singing>Ding-dong the witch is dead!</singing>

Regarding "purpose" for the headcrabs- The #1 thing all creatures possess? Instinct for survival. Doesn't matter if they have a purpose in your sense of the word. The word pestilence comes to mind. Remember, in HL1 the headcrabs killed you first and took you as host. Their purpose was to use you as nourishment and as a vehicle to protect themselves better.
 
So i don't have to deal with gorgon, his critisms, his horrible grammer, and that stupid retarded midnight club 2 avater? SWEET!

You know one thing i'd really like to see in hl2 is the updated gonarch, oh sure the striders do a damn fine job of filling in the role for a spideresque death machine, but that spideresque death machine does not look like a giant testicle, which was what made the gonarchs so funny to look at.

Come on, who didn't laugh the first time they saw a gonarch or at least think "what the hell?"
 
I can vouch for the "What the hell?" thing...

As for the life-cycle of the head crab, what we know of it,
headcrab -> zombie -> lvl 2 zombie -> ?

is only based on if the head crab goes after a human host. We never saw any evidence that they attacked Xen lifeforms, but it is entirely possible. Hence there is the large possibility that there are completely other life cycles to the head crab other then the one from Half-Life 1. One possibly leading to the Gonarch, or maybe some other forms that we just didn't run into in HL1.

As for them reproducing, it is entirely possible that the Nihilanth just creates Gonarchs as head crab factories, then lets them loose on other worlds to feed on the enemy world's creatures. Like someone said, sending in a bunch of Headcrabs would work well as a first wave. While it is possible that the headcrabs eventually evolve into Gonarchs, it would require a very large host to have that much energy/material to evolve into that. The only ones I can think of in the game that would provide that much material would be the Nihilanth, a Gargantua, tentacles, and the Vortigores and Final Boss from Op4. That would explain why there are very few Gonarchs, and you only run into them on Xen. Perhaps if headcrabs gained enough hosts and were able to start joining together they could gain enough material, but that doesn't seem likely, so most likely, the gonarch is manufactured, and not a natural occurance.
 
has anyone heard of, DING, the sauropod!? Hrm, basicly, a sauropod is a dinosaur with the really long necks. Anyway, I find it entirely possible for a headcrab to turn into a big momma, and hl2 proved that they could leave their hosts body, so they would, in theory, be able to get enough material to become a big momma. Now, the reason I mentioned the sauropod is because, they hatch from an egg that you can hold in your hand and eventually grow into something gargantuan, weighing tens of tons, and gaining an insane amount of size in a matter of months.
 
i wouldn't mind seeing the head still attached to the body when parasite has been on a host.. may be they might add it in? not a big problem though if they don't.
 
i just (re)started op force. right toward the beginning, theres a zombie soldier on the floor. The scientist says, "These crabs are quite amazing. They can completely taqke over the nervous sytem of the host in a matter of [hours?] ^(Im paraphrasing i don't have a save right before). Just imagine what the next stage of mutation is."

Anyway. fairly timely there. seems to indicate that they can control the host body without any need for existing brain matter...

doesn't explain why they had heads in HL1 and don't in HL2, but oh well. maybe HL2's headcrabs have passed the stage of requiring the host body to survive and now can hop back off to defend itself (taking the semi-disolved skull and such with it).

-Phision
 
Those big zombies in OpFor were TERRIBLE. They defeated the ntire ethos of zombies being slow and a little bit rubbish (but in a good way, if you see what I mean). And they were really, really BUILT.
And to cap it all off they could throw bits of themselves at you. No. No that is NOT good enemy design. Although the zombie-fied marines were excellent!
 
hmm...

so thats what DOG is....
a cyborg Dog, still had flesh etc (Like the Borg) and a head crab attached to it, made it REALLY mean, but had no control over the basic moter functions...

result, one big arse nasty looking thing that eats zombies for breakfast. :)
 
Originally posted by A2597
hmm...

so thats what DOG is....
a cyborg Dog, still had flesh etc (Like the Borg) and a head crab attached to it, made it REALLY mean, but had no control over the basic moter functions...

result, one big arse nasty looking thing that eats zombies for breakfast. :)
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Uh... what?
 
The OpFor zombies weren't that hard, just one good swing with the wrench, and hello gibs! I personally think the wrench was way overpowered, I killed 3/4 of the aliens with that, including shocktroopers.
 
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