What is Race-x

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renhaa

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HI can enyone tell me what race-x in HL is ??
I have searched in several hours on the internet without luck.
Is Race-x a combine experiment og just some story speculation.
I haven´t completed hl1, so it is probaly therefore i dont know. but can enyone tell me enyway. thanks.

Sorry for my bad englich
 
Race-X were the big bad alien's from Opposing-Force, that's all i know
 
Okay thanks, enyone have eny pictures?
And who is Race-x where do they come from. is they from xen or combine or an entierly diffrent race? and what role have they in the game?
 
different, you play against them in op4.
 
They are not actually associated with the storyline, gearbox made them as new enemies and we most likley won't be seeing them in the future :)
 
Well, the general concensus is that they're a completely independant race with no affiliations with Xen or the Combine, but with the Black Mesa Incident, they seemed to have noticed a load of portal energy stuff. Therefore, they decided to gate in and try and make the most of the situation. The problem is likely exasserbated by the fact that Black Mesa scientists had captured a number of their young to experiment on.

-Angry Lawyer
 
Okay thanks
No one have a picture of them ??
op4 what is that. Oposing force 4 ?? :-s i dont understand
Again sorry for my bad englich
 
Opposing force was an expansion to half-life. It's nickname is OP4. But that is not to say there are 4 of them ;)
 
racex.jpg

shocktroopers.jpg

http://www.halflife***/images/review/opfor/classes/voltigore.jpg

-Angry Lawyer
 
renhaa said:
Okay thanks, enyone have eny pictures?
And who is Race-x where do they come from. is they from xen or combine or an entierly diffrent race? and what role have they in the game?
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I have Half-Life Alien Encyclopedia , but its made for czech fans...but it contain all aliens from Race-X (named as a Rasa-X)...
 
ooh Oposing "4orce" OP4 Now i get it.
Thanks for the pictures Angry Lawyer

And polaris, it look's like a very interesting site but i dont understand a single word. what languege is it on? But thanks enyway
 
I think they are a race that had recently collonised Xen before the BM incedent that Nihilanth never noticed/cared about.
 
Renhaa, the site is written in Czech. It'd make sense considering Polaris is from the Czech Republic. Which also reminds me I've gotta visit Prague one day soon.

I'm leaning towards that they'd not colonized Xen, but know how to beam through it innately, therefore coming into contact with the Xenians at various points. It'd be a shaky idea, but it could even explain why Xen has such a large standing army when they've (in my opinion) never met the Combine - they've gotta fight off the portal hoppers from wherever Race X comes from.

-Angry Lawyer
 
I think Xen and Race-X were kind of like mortal enemies. That would explain why each has a big army. When Xen invaded earth, and then lost Nihalith, Race-X sensed it, and came in to once and for all stomp out the Xenians.

Polaris, do you have an english translation of that page?
 
It's a possibility, but I'd avoid saying they're sworn enemies. Race X didn't seem to have much of an army, they just knew how to make the most of an oppertunity.

-Angry Lawyer
 
ríomhaire said:
I think they are a race that had recently collonised Xen before the BM incedent that Nihilanth never noticed/cared about.
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That's the general idea, although no-one really knows the extent of the conflict between them and Nihilanth.

Also, Angry, I'd warrant that Race-X had a superior army, given that they had a rather good understanding of tactics. And I think they were at least equal as far as numbers go.
 
Please, call me Lawyer. But, they could have a superiour army, but I'd doubt it in numbers. But then again, it's impossible to say - we don't get a look at their mass production.
All I know is that Race X will administer a smackdown in my mod :p

-Angry Lawyer
 
Well, look at Race-X weaponry. Shock Roaches, which did huge damage, against bugs that had a hard time penetrating wooden doors. Although the Gargantua was the only thing that Xen really held of Race-X's head. I mean, Race-X had freakin rocket launchers. :) And we never went to thier homeworld, which would have been cool, so we don't know anything about them. But I think that gamewise, they will be discarded from HL3, due to the fact that they are just to hard to get into the story.
 
Yeah, but there's no hiding from those thornets. Shock roaches need aiming and accuracy. A hive-hand can hit an organic thing from around a corner!

I still think Xenian Grunts are one of the most efficiently-designed units. They're pretty much rock solid, AND they're the Xenian standard!

-Angry Lawyer
 
Hey, just because I said Race-X is more proficient doesn't mean I think they would win. :p (Plus the grunts look alot cooler.) They are just 2 different armys of an alien race.
 
Dag said:
They are just 2 different armys of an alien race.
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Two different armies of different alien races.

Besides, I very much doubt that the Xenians showed off their heaviest of things in the Black Mesa incident. Loads of extra weaponry was concepted for the Grunts, to make them more versatile. Spore launchers, chainsaw things. Cool stuff in general.

-Angry Lawyer
 
I always thought they were two seperate forces that clashed due to their innate dimension-tranversing abilities. That is, I don't see Race-X heralding from or even invading Xen (at least not directly), but a Xen-like neighbouring dimension, from where they got wind of the Black Mesa incident and popped in...

Xenians = massed hordes and Race-X = organised, militaristic race? Or vice versa? Personally (despite the incredible toughness of Shock Troopers, their basic unit) I thought they were evenly matched, albeit with slightly differing specialities.
 
Angry Lawyer said:
Two different armies of different alien races.

Besides, I very much doubt that the Xenians showed off their heaviest of things in the Black Mesa incident. Loads of extra weaponry was concepted for the Grunts, to make them more versatile. Spore launchers, chainsaw things. Cool stuff in general.

-Angry Lawyer
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This is true. During the Lambda chapter, or maybe its Forget About Freeman, when you use the tank to blow the door, right as you step out, the alien grunts have set up that big laser cannon. Maybe that could be the bringing out of the big guns?
 
I'd say that the Xenians are a lot more stoic and introvert than warlike. It seemed to me that they were just defending themselves, a little like Switzerland. But more vengeful.

-Angry Lawyer
 
If they were just "defending themselves" though, I don't think they would have the technology to mass produce soldiers.
 
Ah, but with that logic you could argue that every nation on this Earth only fields an army in the interests of agression, never self-defence ;)

I'm under the impression they expected attacks- but whether from Race-X or an entirely different entity is anyone's guess- and thus they set their society up as they did. Far more Vortigaunts than there were grunts, I gather... then again, for all I know they upped their grunt production programme to target us specifically because of our shennanigans.
 
Edcrab said:
Far more Vortigaunts than there were grunts, I gather...
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Yeah, but somebody's gotta look after the factory, and I don't think Controllers would get their hands dirty.

-Angry Lawyer
 
Edcrab said:
Far more Vortigaunts than there were grunts, I gather... then again, for all I know they upped their grunt production programme to target us specifically because of our shennanigans.
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Far more Vortigaunts than living Grunts maybe, but the including those still in tubes? No way, those things were like twinkies, indestructible and mass-produced.
 
Wait, Xen laser cannon!
Race-X rocket launchers!
Why don't I remember those?
Pics?
 
There was only one Nihilanth-team stationary laser turret, placed right outside of the room where you could take over control of the tank gun in HL1.

Race-X shocktrooper babies act like rocket launchers, but they don't really count because the troopers never would've used them in combat.
 
The Shocktroopers simply regurgitate the spores and throw them as grenades. No need to use their young as a weapon.

Yeah, there was a Xenian gun turret at one point. Fired off a rather powerful purple laser.

-Angry Lawyer
 
I think the Spore launcher is not real Shock trooper baby - it looks like different organism...
 
Angry Lawyer said:
Yeah, there was a Xenian gun turret at one point. Fired off a rather powerful purple laser.

-Angry Lawyer
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Sorry, blue laser, also blue ray gun is at final battle in OpFor but it look like gun developed by humans and its really effective against Gene worm :)
 
Polaris said:
I think the Spore launcher is not real Shock trooper baby - it looks like different organism...
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It is:
They both spit spores (that have become explosive after being in their stomaches)
They do look a bit similar
The model name is 'babyshocktrooper'
 
But you never see the Regular shock troopers use the Babies the same way Adrian does. How come? It would just about triple, or more, the range of the explosive spores. I mean, cmon, the shock troopers have enough arms. :)
 
because they're their f**king children you evil bastard!
 
Hey, if they have slaves, why not use children to fight too?
 
I'm pretty sure race x is going to have 0 impact on any future HL storylines.

We should stop trying to work them into our theories and just forget all about them.
 
Thats why HL3 is going to feature an all out invasion of Race-X!
 
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