Being more 'creative' with headcrabs

[Black Mesa corp]

I don't know if this subject has popped up before, but anyway...

What if headcrabs could be picked up with the gravity gun and shoved on enemy combine, and other enemies for peculiar and wondrously pleasing effects. It would be a great way to interact with headcrabs, other than just avoid > kill them.


What do you all think of the idea?

 

[Sam]

Yeah, it always annoyed me how you could only blast them with it, and that didn't even do much damage.

 

[Studmoninco]

Try this.

Change to the level in the citadel when your gravity gun gets "upgraded" then change back to the beginning of the game and use the console to give yourself the upgraded gravity gun.

 

[Shift]

Although you have forgotten the fact that once the headcrap is picked up, it dies...

 

[ríomhaire]

That would take rediculous amounts of effort for nothing but a cheap visual gag that would stop being funny after the third time.

 

[Crushenator 500]

That would take rediculous amounts of effort for nothing but a cheap visual gag that would stop being funny after the third time.

well how about some sort of chemical gun that makes them act like snarks, turning on anything nearby?

you could even make it have a secondary fire that shoots larger rounds that can infect combine and zombies and make them go mental, attacking everything around

just because you dont like the original idea doesn't mean that's all that can be done

 

[Black Mesa corp]

That would take rediculous amounts of effort for nothing but a cheap visual gag that would stop being funny after the third time.

Not if you played with the idea.

Perhaps make it so you get an item that enables you to do it once every so often. That way you'd be more surprised when you get the item and it wouldn't become repetitive.

As well as that, you could make scenarios where it would be most useful like chucking some crabs down a chimney into a combine station to watch all the combine battle it out with headcrabs.

 

[Shifty]

As well as that, you could make scenarios where it would be most useful like chucking some crabs down a chimney into a combine station to watch all the combine battle it out with headcrabs.

That's what gmod is for

 

[CyberPitz]

If headcrabs gave rimjobs...oh yeah, I'd be all over that..

But if I got RimFire afterwords, I'd be pissed.

 

[Jintor]

Being able to grab them and chuck'em at Combine as distractions would prove pretty funky. A bit like hitting them with pherapods, but more deadly.

 

[bigburpco]

Best still; soldiers retreat as you throw (with your hands, duh) a headcrab at 'em.

So if you're getting owned by soldiers, just throw a headcrab at them and then flee.

 

[Black Mesa corp]

I'd like to shove a headcrab on the tentacles of a barnacle, and see it attempt to eat it, but become overpowered by the headcrab and the barnacle turned into a mix between the two. A headbarn

 

[Asknoone]

D:

 

[SpotEnemyBoats]

Its a better than throwing a grenade.

 

[ríomhaire]

well how about some sort of chemical gun that makes them act like snarks, turning on anything nearby?

As well as that, you could make scenarios where it would be most useful like chucking some crabs down a chimney into a combine station to watch all the combine battle it out with headcrabs.

Or they could just bring back snarks.

And the chemical gun is just crazy, you could too easily infect yourself or squadmates, it'd be one of the most dangerous weapons to use ever.

 

[Ennui]

gravity gun kills organics that are caught in the zero-point energy field; thusly the original thread idea is not compatible with hl2 canon at the moment

 

[Black Mesa corp]

Or they could just bring back snarks.

And the chemical gun is just crazy, you could too easily infect yourself or squadmates, it'd be one of the most dangerous weapons to use ever.

I can't change your mind can I?

 

[Higlac]

go make a swep

 

[Studmoninco]

Although you have forgotten the fact that once the headcrap is picked up, it dies...

Actually I haven't. I was just stating how to in the default premises of the game.