Strange area in Black Mesa East

[CommandoSR]

Has anybody noticed this before? If you noclip and go to the area next to the elevator, there is a citizen with incomplete texture (texture streching and no eyes). And at the end of the tunnel there is a lone Vortigaunt. When you go back to the entry scanner, the Vortigaunt and the citizen switch positions away from the player's view (elevator side). The citizen walks around the end of the tunnel, occassionally floating on an invisible object.

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[2Fast4U]

That's David Blane easter egg, it was discovered a long time ago.

 

[Shodan]

Thats not strange, its just an area for a scene while you're going down in the elevator.

 

[ríomhaire]

No it's not strange and it's not a David Blain easter egg. It's simply a low-polly model to save machine performance.

 

[2Fast4U]

But the guy IS David Blane. They could just make a low poly version of a random citizen, but they made a new skin and all so that must be some kind of an easter egg. Oh whatever...

 

[CommandoSR]

For me the head texture looks exactly like the pre-release version of citizen rebel head texture.

 

[ECUnlimited]

Wow, thats interesting.

I should no clip levels more often. You end up finding interesting stuff.

 

[Megalomaniac]

Wow, thats interesting.

I should no clip levels more often. You end up finding interesting stuff.

No you dont...trust me...thats about the extent of it...
some random places you can't get to but its not all that great.

 

[Salad22]

you used no clip right?

 

[Asknoone]

you used no clip right?

No, he walked through a solid gate.

Has anybody noticed this before? If you noclip and go to the area next to the elevator

 

[BrimStone04]

noclip is fun to mess around, during the into scene when u get off the train and breen starts his speech, i no cliped and found his torso levitating in a room and it was talking. so i did my magic and gave myself a shotgun and shot his face, needless to say, the speech stopped.

 

[Adabiviak]

I found a huge white square that said Reflectivity 47% (or some other percent) during a noclip vacation. I found that very odd - the square was as big as a city.

 

[RabidMonkey]

That's the bottom of a few 2D skybox images.

As for the breen torso, well, it's especially for the c17 breen screens - Why bother rendering 2000 extra leg polys when you won't see them. And the way cameras like that are setup, he just goes in a seperate room. Different brushes will also appear in front of him at times, as well (The green C17 posters for example) to give the illusion of an intermission during the broadcast.

There's nothing really 'odd' about any of these, they're simply developer measures taken to ensure additional optimization or part of some entity setup.

 

[AJ Rimmer]

That's the bottom of a few 2D skybox images.

As for the breen torso, well, it's especially for the c17 breen screens - Why bother rendering 2000 extra leg polys when you won't see them. And the way cameras like that are setup, he just goes in a seperate room. Different brushes will also appear in front of him at times, as well (The green C17 posters for example) to give the illusion of an intermission during the broadcast.

There's nothing really 'odd' about any of these, they're simply developer measures taken to ensure additional optimization or part of some entity setup.

Yes but why does he have legs in some speeches and not in others?

 

[wilka91]

Has anybody noticed this before? If you noclip and go to the area next to the elevator, there is a citizen with incomplete texture (texture streching and no eyes). And at the end of the tunnel there is a lone Vortigaunt. When you go back to the entry scanner, the Vortigaunt and the citizen switch positions away from the player's view (elevator side). The citizen walks around the end of the tunnel, occassionally floating on an invisible object.

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I posted the same thing 1 year ago.

 

[Asknoone]

I posted the same thing 1 year ago.

No you didn't. Its November 6th. HL2 was released November 16th.

 

[Sulkdodds]

It is David Blaine because he levitates!

 

[kirovman]

That's the no-eyes guy, right?

He freaks me out. No wonder he's locked behind a fence.