Thought of something cool - Manipulator stuff!!!

[Guest]

Oh wow, I just thought about something I really want to do... you know, there could be lots of other cool things you can do with manipulators and friends.... wow!!!

Here is a senerio I would like to try.

In multiplayer in the city, you could use the manipulator to lift up a friend, and set him on a roof top/ Or if your on the roof, you could lift up a friend, and have him join you...

You could use this to save people too!!! if you see your friend is about to die, you could use the manipulator to quickly grab them and get them out of the way, or in the game, save alyx like this.

You could grab weapons from a distance, I see a level where you have to get items with the manipulator like that, cool huh?

 

[Toadman]

I dont think you can manipulate those kinds of things.. but good to hear a topic on something other than the delay

 

[Aknot]

Thinking it will only work with "inanimate" objects. A dead body ok live body not ok. So I guess if you want your dead friend next to you on top of the building.......whatever floats your boat...

 

[Guest]

lol, sick.... never mind.

I think this would be a hack im looking forward to, i can see people making some hacks for things like this.

Im gonna enjoy those while they last, I hope anyway... that hackers do something like this... somehow....

 

[Kwyjiboman]

What about the tech video where the guy picks a dead man and let him fly around the room ???

 

[Aknot]

Originally posted by Kwyjiboman
What about the tech video where the guy picks a dead man and let him fly around the room ???

A dead body is considered inanimate. Meaning it can not move on its own. It would throw of the equalibrium of the device.

 

[Nutwhack]

One thing I was wondering after I watch the video was does the manipulator have a limit to its power? I mean, I'm sure it does, but wouldn't it be cool? Instead of throwing around cardboard boxes and metal drums, you throw around cars and huge collumns of cement.

Yeah, the manipulator looks like it could be the coolest weapon in the game.

 

[SLH]

I want to know what would happen if you grabbed onto something moving (e.g. a lift). Would it drag you around?

 

[Guest]

lol, cool, didnt think about that... probably.

 

[Guest]

or you could grab on to a wire... and move around above danger.... well, some danger...

 

[Aknot]

Originally posted by Nutwhack
One thing I was wondering after I watch the video was does the manipulator have a limit to its power? I mean, I'm sure it does, but wouldn't it be cool? Instead of throwing around cardboard boxes and metal drums, you throw around cars and huge collumns of cement.

Yeah, the manipulator looks like it could be the coolest weapon in the game.

My "take":

It takes "X" amount of energy to lift "X" amount of weight for "X" amount of time "X" amount high. So where as the energy it takes to lift one car 2 feet off the ground you could send 50 barrels flying throuhg the air. The weapon probably has a "set" power/energy limit.

 

[commando]

it could be done "BY MODDING" and it would be a funny cool idea nice one man :cheers:.

 

[Guest]

I think i look forward to playing with manipulator more than HL2, rofl.

 

[Baal]

Originally posted by exoeight
lol, sick.... never mind.

I think this would be a hack im looking forward to, i can see people making some hacks for things like this.

Im gonna enjoy those while they last, I hope anyway... that hackers do something like this... somehow....

hacker, HL2 won't be like HL1 for the easyness of coding OGC and other hacks, retard.

 

[Maxi]

Wow this is like the first on-topic disscussion in weeks! i congratulate you!

Aaand to add to the topic:

I think that would be really cool, i also hope that you could throw stuff at flying nades with the manip

 

[SLH]

Originally posted by Baal
hacker, HL2 won't be like HL1 for the easyness of coding OGC and other hacks, retard.

I think exoeight knew it's not easy (although Gabe has said coders that made mods for HL will be 'comfortable' with HL2).

Regardless, that language isn't needed really.


On Topic: I want to see manipulator only mods/fights!!

 

[||Diablo||]

good idea in all, but then all ud see is flying bodies and no real tactics, maybe there could be a ranking system of a class system... get s certain amount of kills , u get special skills,

 

[Guest]

maybe the fight would be in a destroyable city, with super hero lvl powers in that manipulator, and you can tear chunks out of the building and throw it at people. =)

 

[SLH]

Originally posted by ||Diablo||
good idea in all, but then all ud see is flying bodies and no real tactics, maybe there could be a ranking system of a class system... get s certain amount of kills , u get special skills,

If players were only allowed to pick up inanimate objects i think it could work.

BTW, the super-hero idea sounds like it could be very cool.

 

[Poindexter]

Pluck projectiles (bullets/grenades....) out of the air??? Hmmmm, well maybe not bullets.

--Poindexter

 

[Flyingdebris]

i think it would be extra cool if you could have an extra setting activated on the manipulator, repel. What i mean is using the manipulator lke the tau cannon was used boost wise.

So lets say i just threw a barrel at some guy in multi and got him super pissed, for a quick getaway i press a toggle button on my keyboard run up to a wall, aim the manipulator at the ground and levitate myself off the ground for a short while, enough to reach the ledge.

could also be used to keep flying letters, furniture, and boxes away from you if you aim the repeller at the projectiles in question.

ok would be a pretty stupid idea

another thing that might be less stupid..."Don't cross the streams" remember that line from ghost busters? well apply it to the manipulator, don't cross manipulation fields or something involving lots of special effects happens. Possibly both guns explode, the item both manipulators may have been trying to pick up explodes in a spectcular fashion, create a weird vortex effect, killing both people. something badass like that.

 

[||Diablo||]

Originally posted by exoeight
maybe the fight would be in a destroyable city, with super hero lvl powers in that manipulator, and you can tear chunks out of the building and throw it at people. =)

lmao that rox....imagine it..see thro walls and there is a camper wimpin out in the corner...take your manipluter rip off the wall and kick his ass ..lmao i like that

 

[eQUIV]

They should come up with a gun that's a shark... and it shoots fricken lazersbeams!

[/dr evil voice]

 

[Guest]

Wow, i like that reflective idea, you could do some cool things... like run up to a wall, shoot yourself away, over the person chasing you, and shoot them from behind. some fast-action matrix stunt.

 

[ChiZm]

well the manipulator will not be in the game, only the grav gun.

 

[Guest]

same thing.

 

[Sulkdodds]

Er..same thing. isn't it? What I want to do is A. bash parked cars against the legs of Striders. B. Pluck rockets and grenades out of the air. C. Lay mines in mp then fire them at people. D. In mp, use it to extend my nading range.

 

[Guest]

can you imagine a mod where a group of ppl are camping and pwning, then someone with this thing take a grenade and slowly/stealthy plants grenades in their hiding place without them knowing, lol.

Its going to add a lot of stealthy elements to the game.

 

[ChiZm]

in the valve info thread (or somewhere else), ive read that the manipulator (blue beam), was just in the tech demo for viewing physics, the grav gun and the manipulator is NOT the same gun, just similar ones

 

[Shodan]

Two ideas.
1. pick up G-man dunk him in water.

2.I dont know much about the disemberment physics but imagine if you could pick up a severed limb with the manipulator and twat someone in the face with it!

 

[Guest]

well, either way, im sure it will be available in mods/cheats. =)

 

[ChiZm]

yea, but it will not be an official weapon

 

[Guest]

one of them will be, that was said so.

Either way, both will be fun. =)

 

[[RDH]Ast]

How about this:

One guy is the manipulator He spawns in a vantage point with a manipulator(fully upgraded version)and has lots of stuff to throw at people + 200 armor.The rest of them fight each other and respawn to random positions.If the manipulator is killed than nobody can respawn and the last man standing wins.

It's sth like a last man standing but you have to pick the right time to kill the manipulator without getting killed and then manage to kill the rest of them to win.

How do you like it?

 

[||Diablo||]

Originally posted by [RDH]Ast
Microsoft Multimedia Keyboard
Microsoft Multimedia Optical Mouse

why did u put your mouse and keyboard in your sig

 

[Guest]

mines better.

Logitech MX500 Mouse
Logitech Elite Keyboard.

and my AMD 1700 is @ 2.3ghz, =P

 

[[RDH]Ast]

:bounce:

 

[Guest]

Originally posted by [RDH]Ast
How about this:

One guy is the manipulator He spawns in a vantage point with a manipulator(fully upgraded version)and has lots of stuff to throw at people + 200 armor.The rest of them fight each other and respawn to random positions.If the manipulator is killed than nobody can respawn and the last man standing wins.

It's sth like a last man standing but you have to pick the right time to kill the manipulator without getting killed and then manage to kill the rest of them to win.

How do you like it?

Sounds like a good game mode

 

[[RDH]Ast]

I haven't overclocked it yet

 

[Guest]

thats impossible, AMD 1700 is 1.45ghz stock.... isnt it?