Strider weaponeffect

[flupke]

Yello

If this has been posted already, flame me

Just wondering, the weapon that gordon holds in one of the E3 2004 movies (some sort of rocket launcher). When you shoot with that gun at an enemy, the enemy glows (blue) & 'flies' in slow motion. When a strider shoots, you get the same effect (glowing + flying in slow motion).

Care for an explanation?

 

[DevgruSeal]

I don't know what you are talking about when you say, "Gordon's (some sort of rocket launcher) and when you shoot it at an enemy they glow blue, and flies in slow motion..."

I do know what your talking about with the strider's bluish warp.

I think its some sort of weapon where it can warp the air pressure, using your own air as a weapon against you, making sort of an explosion...

Thats only my guess though..

 

[FISKER_Q]

That might explain that zoom effect thingy.

 

[DevgruSeal]

Yeah, to me it looked like a catapult...

 

[flupke]

well eh.. You know the scene where gordon drives the buggy on the coastline, and two of those nasty little balls attach themselves to the buggies wheeles? then he drives further and comes at a house with some combines. then he goes up to the second floor (in that house) en he uses that rocket launcher. then he goes downstairs again & opens the front door. two combines are outside and he shoots them with that rocket launcher. they have a lightblue glow then, and somehow hover above the ground....

 

[Citizen 1150421]

it is speculated that the strider cannon and the I-Rifle (that rocketlauncher you all think it is) could be similar weapons..

 

[ManiacB]

Maybe he killed a strider before that (not shown) and took it's weapon....
That'll be cool!

 

[Cyber$nake]

Im pretty sure they are based around each other- they have the exact same effects

 

[guise]

u goto love the distorted warp effect caused when the strider charges up the beam

 

[el Chi]

it is speculated that the strider cannon and the I-Rifle (that rocketlauncher you all think it is) could be similar weapons..

Yep. I also heard speculation that it has up to four different kinds of ammo? It's definitely the same model as the one that set that Combine on fire in the e3 2003 Tunnels video. I forget what other types of ammo had been suggested.

 

[NeonSpyder]

im pretty sure that the I rifle is only a placeholder model. but i dont know.... its confusing

 

[el Chi]

What makes you say that? It doesn't look like a placeholder to me - far too polished. Unless you know something from the leak, in which case I don't want to know.

EDIT: Thank you lans (below), for that info. Definitely sounds "bad-ass"

 

[lans]

Yep. I also heard speculation that it has up to four different kinds of ammo? It's definitely the same model as the one that set that Combine on fire in the e3 2003 Tunnels video. I forget what other types of ammo had been suggested.

I've heard that the I-rifle is bad ass, primary fire is the flare gun to put people on fire and secondary is disentigrate/vapourize.

 

[GorgeousOrifice]

At the very least the weapon bends reality -- it affects the path of light, which means it's either a ridiculously strong gravity point source (unlikely, since it would suck in everything around for millions of miles) or it "pulls/folds" spacetime such that light rays have a hard time escaping from it. Since the weapon's discharge vaporizes targets, what it might do is just blast apart the space the target is in.

I can't wait to zap a Strider with one of those.

 

[NeonSpyder]

i meant that it was a placeholder for one of the vids, uhm... i meant that it prolly has only one effect (or as lans pointed out a secondary fire! ) i had heard that was prolly a place holder for some other gun in the tunnels video or something.

and i havn't played/seen the leak, and i plan on never ever ever learning anything from it

 

[Maui]

At the very least the weapon bends reality -- it affects the path of light, which means it's either a ridiculously strong gravity point source (unlikely, since it would suck in everything around for millions of miles) or it "pulls/folds" spacetime such that light rays have a hard time escaping from it. Since the weapon's discharge vaporizes targets, what it might do is just blast apart the space the target is in.

Or it could be producing a lot of heat and superheating the air around it. The different density (hot air is less dense) causes the light to refract. Kinda like the little waves you can see coming off the ground on a parking lot on a hot day. Just a thought.

 

[Epsi]

I prefer the explanation of the Strider creating some kind of spacial distortion. I think the effect is too uniform for it to be explained by a heating of the air.

Although it's really fast and hard to see, I think the Strider's weapon fires a ball with the same kind of refractive effect, but more jumbled. I think this is some kind of spacial distortion, which naturally would tear up anything it came into contact with. But I don't have a clue.

 

[Nightmare]

Heating the air would creat a wave effect, the effect would also move up instead of spreading out in such a tidy circle.