Recent content by r2000

Once again, realism with guns would suck. Honestly after 12 hours, a shotgun is gonna weigh a lot. How canyone carry that many guns? Its all impossible. Even the aiming and recoil are unrealistic, especially for someone like Freeman. ITS JUST A GAME>

Well lets look at Raising the Bar and the promo material. The Combine have weapons taht defeated Earth's best in 7 hours. The Combine crushed earth's military, and then left some of their powerful tech like the striders and gunships as backup. To control the planet, they adapted designs like the...

I'm not gonna sort throught eh myriad of posts but as for poision zombies. Its obvious that besides the zombification the zombies posion their victims. Well what does poision do? It cuts off oxygen causing skin to turn purple. Skin swells and becomes necrotic. Hence the wierid breathing and look...

So does anyone have the details on what happens to be a stalker? All Raising the Bar ntoed was the saline solution and hobbling plus conditioning. But were they nerually enhanced? Or anything on that order. I mean there is similarities iwht the Strogg. The strogg however haphazardly put...

Are you talkin about the one on the ground by the bridge thats flipped? Cause I figured the driver probably lost control. We never really saw teh off road abilities of the Combine APC's unfortunately.

Does anyone have a feeling that the gun we take out in the lost coast level was shelling Ravenholm? Not saying that Lost Coast is canon or anything. Rather I'm saying that in the game we'd have disabled the gun before reaching Ravenholm. And Ravenholm was still destroyed in the end however.

At least we arent Halo 2 fans playing the same deathmatches over and over ad infinitum.

Lol. I think the machine is set up that you and other players fight until the combine overwhelm you.

Did you add in a combine elite? Run the sim with one. Ten to 1 rebels will lose. Those guys bring an obscene amount of firepower to bear.

Valve is just doing what Rockstar did. Expanding operations in 2 directions. Valve originally was going to do that, but didn't have the manpower to do such a thing.

Maybe they'll make Prospero.

There will be an ending and closure to the series, because it wouldn't be like Valve to not have an ending. Technically, the combine and the plot of hl2 is so out of the ordinary that its remarkable that it meshed as smoothly as it did. I think the series will end eventually, because you can...

Agreed. The Resonance Cascade had to be a giant becaon across the dimensions.

I think they dominate more than 1 dimension, but they're homeworld exists in only 1 dimension.

Thats true. At the same time, your far tougher in HL2 on hard, then you were on normal in HL1. In hl1 it was very easy to die, because you had weak health and shields. Not so in HL2. Thats why the AI seems stupider.