The Hydra

[GJaaGular]

After looking through the weapons available in Halflife2...uh what the hell do we have that can hurt the hydra...unless there is some kind of enviromental device such as a live wire or something...
just pondering...any thoughts while we wait on spitcodfry?

 

[x84D80Yx]

we dont know what the hydra(in detail) is, so how can we know what can/cannot hurt it?

and why the hell is everybody waiting for the spitcodfry guy?
not like he will bring back some breathtaking information

maybe a picture or two but i doubt much more than that.

 

[hl2_mods]

Ooohhh good question.

 

[ray_MAN]

I think it will be a lot like the Strider and Gargantua in HL1. You can't kill it directly or you will either have to run.

 

[Chris D]

Yeah, it's just another one of those things that isn't really worth speculating on as we don't know enough about the game yet. Which is great

 

[tedge]

Maybe he's just tragically misunderstood.

Could be a friend.

 

[Anthraxxx]

Maybe the Gluon gun return, or maybe you have to use the environment around you...for instance you shoot out a rafter that's got lights on it and it falls down and electrocutes the hydra...

 

[GJaaGular]

kinda like if head crabs an zombies will attack combine troops huh

 

[LoneDeranger]

liquid hydragen

 

[tedge]

Sacrifice alyx while you scarper

 

[Agent4054]

What would Indiana Jones do?

 

[trantjd]

WWIJD!

 

[AcousticToad]

Perhaps Indy would whip it (but maybe he will save that for Alyx) or drop a large boulder onto it.

I dunno tho, if its made outta water then freezing it or using some type of napalm could do it? But if you throw something midway on it and split it, maybe it creates two seperate enemies...that would suck firing a rocket at it then

 

[trantjd]

Originally posted by AcousticToad
Perhaps Indy would whip it (but maybe he will save that for Alyx) or drop a large boulder onto it.

I dunno tho, if its made outta water then freezing it or using some type of napalm could do it? But if you throw something midway on it and split it, maybe it creates two seperate enemies...that would suck firing a rocket at it then

Hmmm, would a whip have much affect on something that's pretty much just a big, living, electric/bioluminescent whip? ...that stabs people? Hmmm, I think it'd turn into the HL2 equivalent of bull riding!

 

[TechnoHippyChic]

Does anybody know if Hydra is the "official" name for it? I had seen the screenshots for a while and then all of a sudden everyone was calling it that... Anybody have a source?

 

[Cikala]

You can actually kill the gargantua in Xen if you have enough grenades, charges, and rockets.

 

[G-Man]

looks like the replacement for the tentacle from hl1

 

[Typhon]

yeah, cause it did have a finite health, the electric generator just sends out one hell of a charge...