welding!

[Koshi]

is there a welder in the game? i heard a while ago that u can weld crap to ur car and like use it to beef it up....if so what is the name of the modle?

 

[red_LED]

Strangely this rings a bell, being able to beef up your car. I havent experienced anything like that in the game though.

 

[Kommie]

They took that out

 

[BabyHeadCrab]

somebody mod it, hurry I say

 

[ChronosWing]

Valve did say it was being put in the SDK so it won't be hard to make a quick mod so you can use it in single player.

 

[diabloroker]

welding was done with the grav gun ... it was in the leak

 

[ChronosWing]

well no it wasn't. Because the welder in the leak could only pick up things and weld them, it was unable to shoot things across the room.

 

[Kommie]

There was a welder and a grav gun.. i think

 

[luketabor]

it was called the manipulator gun. it had a beam that picked things up (including ragdolls) and the alt fire shot blobs that glued things together. there was a site explaining a whole mess of stuff from the leak and it showed a picture of a robot some guy made out of barrels.

 

[Jesus Lincoln]

yeah, the blue stream you saw at E3 and the normal grav gun, sec fire on the e3 gun fired globs of weld, put a glob on a wall, another at a barrel, stick the barrel to the wall, wait for the beam to turn red, blazmo

 

[luketabor]

i can't wait for a mod...imagine sticking a turret up near the ceiling with the manipulator

 

[Reaperman]

:-( i wanna weild panels to the buggy, making it a tank! ant lion armor!

 

[Jesus Lincoln]

I made a demo in the leak (long since deleted) where i loaded a fan made map that was huge and flat. I took a matress and covered it with sticky launcher shells (the sticky launcher was a little glob of goo that you fire and set off like the sachel) and i mean COVERED, until i couldnt see any more matress texture, just the pink globs of boom. once i started recording i set it off, they all explode in order, so they FLY EVERYWHERE! Its amazing, they fly up down, left and right REALLY fast.



I did the same with a large string of barrels that i welded together, after i blew them up, they came back and swooped me off my feet and killed me

I wish i still had those demos...

 

[Moto]

:-( i wanna weild panels to the buggy, making it a tank! ant lion armor!

In the leak, the buggy had a very small amount of weld points. For example, the metal roll cage on the top was too small to weld anything to, the weld blobs wouldn't adhere to it. But, there were weld points on both bumpers and under the fenders.

I made a tail for the buggy out of barrels once. I welded 2 barrels togther and welded them to the back of the buggy. Then I jumped on it and it had a trampoline-like effect. The barrels actually flexed at the weld points and bounced you into the air. It was really impressive and makes me wonder why it was taken out.

I even made a Romanesque Arch out of like 7 barrels and when I jumped on the top barrely, the whole structure would flex like suspension. It was really awesome. And to un-do the welds (all of them) you would just hit the reload key and everything would fall to the ground. Good times.

 

[Jesus Lincoln]

I did the same trampoline thing on the e3_techtest map or whatever its called, i would weld 4-5 barrels and no clip with god, and drop on them *BROIIING*

 

[T.H.C.138]

I thought that the welder/blue beam weapon was the "physgun"? and the "physcannon" is what we have in the game now as the gravity gun..

or so I thought,maybe I am wrong about that..it has been about a year since I messed with that "build" of the game

 

[Clavius]

I guess Valve took it out because the effect on the gamedesign was too great. Ofcourse you could make an amazing 'puzzle' where you build a bridge or something, but you could do that basically everywhere, getting into places that you arent supposed to get in.

In a liniair game like hl2 its important that the player has certain restrictions to his freedom, to 'lead' him though all the orchestrated events. Allowing the player to build all kinds of a-team vehicles makes it much harder to balance everything right.