Orange Box website launched

[Polaris]

Antlion Worker is amazing! Now they looks more like real antlions or termite workers.

 

[ríomhaire]

Yeah, the first thing I thought when I saw it was a termite. The second thing was a female ant (they're the ones with wings, right?). Maybe these are the female antlions?

 

[bigburpco]

Speaking of portal, has anyone looked at this website?
http://aperturescience.com/

Oldddddd.

 

[function9]

I haven't seen this mentioned but I apologize if it has. Does anyone know if the Orange Box HL2 and Ep1 will include the same Source updates that Ep2 has?

 

[Omnomnick]

NICE SITE!!! Very niuce indeed

 

[Planetary]

Yeah, the first thing I thought when I saw it was a termite. The second thing was a female ant (they're the ones with wings, right?). Maybe these are the female antlions?

They're aliens, I don't think we can make such judgements on them, I'm of the opinion that they're all of one sex, "male", except maybe the queen the breeding female. We'll see.

 

[Silarn]

Actually, if you take most hive-based insects into account, the large majority are female, but only a small portion are generally fertile (young queens). The only males are the 'drones' that pretty much only exist to mate. All the workers and soldiers are female. They're genetically identical to the queen, but differences in the development process determine what they become - somewhat like how every cell in your body contains the same DNA yet develops specific proteins to specialize in a specific task. Mind you this isn't an Earth creature so it's possible that things are different, but it probably works that way for a reason. (Regulating the population so the hive doesn't overcrowd itself.)

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Anybody have an idea what those little spiky things are in the TF2 screenshot? The demo's stickybombs? They looks different from how I remember them.

 

[Oppressor]

someone please make a wallpaper of that bug..

There probably isnt any high res version of that worker on the net yet ;(

 

[numinis]

ok, the website is up... but I wanna know if I could buy the games seperately in a store because I cant buy online and I dont wanna pay for hl2/episode 1 again. anyone know if they'll sell them seperatly?

 

[scotland1]

Nope, you would have to buy them online or the orange box.

 

[numinis]

darnit