No Gluon gun?

[Brian Damage]

Wicked, that makes a lot of sense... high mass makes for a lot of damage, it's electrically charged, so it can be fired from a particle cannon, and it's unstable, which could account for the overcharging damage (too many of the little buggers are produced and the decay causes you to get hit by a burst of beta radiation or something).

 

[h00dlum]

WTF Gluon gun? I always taught it was called Egon gun..it says that in my console when i kill someone..

edit: weird now it says Gluon gun in my steam HL. I can almost swear that it has always been called Egon gun in my old HL before steam

edit2:
Gluon Gun (Egon Gun): <--<---<---- I guess its called both?
Max Amount of Ammo: 100
Max Amount of Damage Primary Mode:heavy
Max Amount of Damage Secondary Mode: none
Primary Mode: fires a blue swirly beam that kills the enemy within a second or two.
Secondary Mode: when held down as primary mode is firing, produces a fake beam that does no damage and uses no ammo.
Rate of Fire Primary Mode: no rate
Rate of Fire Secondary Mode: no rate

 

[Brian Damage]

Never new it had that fake secondary before...

I think I'll chase my sister around the map with it switched to fake in our LAN game tonight...

 

[Alientank]

Not to raise the dead here but I guess we didn't get the gun. Too bad, oh well, hopefully it's implemented in a deathmatch. It would have been nice if it was in there somehow, maybe the gluon on the airboat and the tau on the buggy.

 

[JohnnyBeverage]

In deathmatch the gluon gun is a no skill gun. In my opinion it shouldnt be included in deathmatch ever again.

 

[Alientank]

Gluon gun is not THAT unfair. The beam lags a bit so if you are facing a target that is moving around it can be hard to hit them.

 

[Sanius]

well, at the end of half-life 1, g-man talks about confiscating your weapons, since they were "goverment property". i've never played half-life 2 yet, so can anyone tell me how the tau cannon gets on the buggy? does it come with it? Or does dr. kliener make one and put it on? whichever one, put it in spoiler tags. I don't mind if you do

 

[oldagerocker]

And 70-80% of us older member's threads are just crap posts to raise our post count

speak for yourself

Whoops...

So to be on topic, yep the Gluon gun shouldnt have been in mp, it was pretty devastating in snarkpit though and a spawn point was above it :dozey: but hey... its all fun.

 

[Brian Damage]

well, at the end of half-life 1, g-man talks about confiscating your weapons, since they were "goverment property". i've never played half-life 2 yet, so can anyone tell me how the tau cannon gets on the buggy? does it come with it? Or does dr. kliener make one and put it on? whichever one, put it in spoiler tags. I don't mind if you do

It was probably Eli who made it, not Kleiner, apparently he's the more engineering-oriented of the pair.

 

[NiteX]

Why do people keep calling the Tau Cannon a Guass gun? Its not a F&%$ing! Guass gun its a god damn Tau Cannon thats why its named that!

 

[Brian Damage]

"Tau Cannon" and "Gauss Gun" are alternate names for the same gun. The same way that "Vortigaunt" and "Alien Slave" were alternate names for the same creature. Ditto "Gonarch" and "Big Momma".

 

[G-Uni7]

I always thought it was called the 'EGon'.

 

[Brian Damage]

No, the Egon/Gluon Gun is the one that has a backpack attatchment and fires the blue swirly stream.

 

[Ownzed]

No, the Egon/Gluon Gun is the one that has a backpack attatchment and fires the blue swirly stream.

Yeah, that's it.

 

[Shadow][]

Guass/Tau: bouncy laser one
Gluon/Egon: spiral laser of death

the tau cannon is attached to the car though

 

[Thadius Dean]

what does Gauss and Egon mean? Tau and Gluon make sense...
and i still favor the Gauss over the Gluon, nothing like charging it up, jumping and firing it against a wall to propell yourself across the map

 

[Brian Damage]

A real-world gauss gun is one that uses a magnetic pulse generated by a solenoid to move a projectile along.

"Egon", I'd assume, comes from the general resemblance of the Egon Gun to one of the Ghostbusters' Proton Packs, one of the Ghostbusters being named Egon.

 

[Thadius Dean]

holy crap the gauss gun is real???
gotta get me one on of those

 

[Brian Damage]

Except it's massively inefficient, currently fires magnetic slugs instead of a particle beam, and would probably weigh... well, more than you'd want to lug around.

 

[luketabor]

yeah...a railgun.

 

[Brian Damage]

Nope. Gauss guns are different.

Railguns charge a slug and use the interaction between the magnetic fields generated by the rails and the electrical field generated by the current flow through the slug to accelerate it.

Gauss guns merely utilise the tendency of an object with a magnetic affinity to be attracted towards the centerpoint of the magnetic field generated by a solenoid.

 

[BabyHeadCrab]

The Egon was too Phallic, so it was removed. Not but really I think the secondary on the I-Rifle makes up for it.