Headcrabs and humans

My theory : Headcrabs are Combine living weapon created on Xen. They parasiting only on humans. Gonarch is some sort of biological factory.
 
NÜk said:
I agree with your headcrab lifecycle theory Jandor, but you left out a vital early phase for normal headcrabs:

Headcrab latches onto host.
Headcrab mutates host into Mawman.
Mawman goes out of it's way to find a white shirt.
Mawman goes on massive feasting spree.
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The white shirt is because they are all resistance.
 
White lab coats?
In city 17? I never got this.
Half-life sure, there were scientists everywhere. Oppsing Force even saw security and soldier types. But so many years hence, to see a place populated by regular civilians filled with science zombies...
 
ríomhaire said:
The white shirt is because they are all resistance.
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But only a few resistance wear white shirts, most of the non soldier ones remain in their Combine issue suits, plus there are bound to be plenty of normal citizens who'll get caught by the headcrab infestations outside Ravenholm (like the zombies in the sewers in Water Hazard). It'd definately make more sense if, assuming Valve could only afford one zombie model, the zombies all wore Combine standard civvies; in fact there's a mod which does just that. But meh, I'm just being nit-picky now and arguing for the sake of it.

I also have a theory about the zombie mutation process, in that I don't believe the chest cavity is actually a mutation at all. I think that once the zombie really needs to feed, and realises it can't use it's mouth, it goes nuts and uses it's freshly grown claws to tear it's own torso open, so it can reach it's digestive system. Certainly more believable to me.
 
NÜk said:
But only a few resistance wear white shirts, most of the non soldier ones remain in their Combine issue suits, plus there are bound to be plenty of normal citizens who'll get caught by the headcrab infestations outside Ravenholm (like the zombies in the sewers in Water Hazard). It'd definately make more sense if, assuming Valve could only afford one zombie model, the zombies all wore Combine standard civvies; in fact there's a mod which does just that. But meh, I'm just being nit-picky now and arguing for the sake of it.

I also have a theory about the zombie mutation process, in that I don't believe the chest cavity is actually a mutation at all. I think that once the zombie really needs to feed, and realises it can't use it's mouth, it goes nuts and uses it's freshly grown claws to tear it's own torso open, so it can reach it's digestive system. Certainly more believable to me.
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What about the teeth?
 
the chest cavity is simply how the zombies feed. you see them in hl1 picking at dead bodies and placing bits of flesh in the chest cavity.
 
Cons Himself said:
please forgive me ignorance, but whats a gonome?
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Gonome is zombie (mawman) in advanced stadium of mutation. He produces toxic blood or chemical. Play Opposing Force !!!
 
ríomhaire said:
What about the teeth?
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On close inspection in Model Viewer, they're definately just the broken ends of ribs. They did look more like teeth in HL1, but in my view HL2 supersedes HL1 as a canon source where they conflict.
 
The larger ones in Opposing Force has jaws on these, suggesting that the rib ends turn into teeth eventually.
 
So the hole they rip eventually mutates into what is effectively a mouth... That sounds reasonable.
 
That's a theory that would fly with me just for its gruesomeness factor, except for the fact that I seem to recall the sides of the "mouth" pulsating or going through a mastication animation of some sort, like it's something that the zombie can control. That plus the uniformity of the gash on all the zombies.

It also fits with the kind of sideways mouth idea seen on most other Xen life. Except now, thanks to the recent email from Laidlaw, the idea of there being a "xenian" category of creature has been fairly trashed.

EDIT - missed this:

So the hole they rip eventually mutates into what is effectively a mouth... That sounds reasonable.
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Yeah that fits in better.
 
lets just call them the nihilanth race from now on.

and i did play OF and se the gonome. didnt know that was his name is all.
 
I was thinking in the original HL, they didn't just choose the scientists for the original Zombies randomly. Notice their white lab coats and the headcrabs' white bodies? They're not both white for no reason they're supposed to mirror each other just like the freakishly long red limbs that both crabs and Zombies. The gaping hole in the chest would pulsate and in Op 4 the gonomes had them even bigger and would bite and spit. Not notice how the "fangs" on the crabs protrude like they're arms and where the arms end up on a zombie.

What I'm coming to here is that the Zombies aren't just a bigger host but a bigger version of the headcrab. Possibly over time the Gonome might be able to attach itself on something bigger and infest it. (Like an elephant) And the Gonarch on Xen might've been just a zombified huge Xen creature.
 
DoctorWeeTodd said:
I was thinking in the original HL, they didn't just choose the scientists for the original Zombies randomly. Notice their white lab coats and the headcrabs' white bodies? They're not both white for no reason they're supposed to mirror each other just like the freakishly long red limbs that both crabs and Zombies. The gaping hole in the chest would pulsate and in Op 4 the gonomes had them even bigger and would bite and spit. Not notice how the "fangs" on the crabs protrude like they're arms and where the arms end up on a zombie.

What I'm coming to here is that the Zombies aren't just a bigger host but a bigger version of the headcrab. Possibly over time the Gonome might be able to attach itself on something bigger and infest it. (Like an elephant) And the Gonarch on Xen might've been just a zombified huge Xen creature.
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That's one of the strangested headcrab theories yet...
 
i think that head crabs are cannable angry short people who dont like regular arms and they run on all 4s.

offtopic:also 100th post woohoo
 
offtopic: I think you are very very retarded.

DoctorWeeTodd's idea's are intriguing, yet, Im going to stick with my theory :) .
 
Perhaps the vorts co-evolved with the head crabs - and now are immune to head crabs attacks / zombification... a possible use of the electrical attack? like a contact-stun-gun?
 
I'ts actually quite likely that Headcrabs and Vortigaunts evolved on seperate worlds, considering the cryptic things Laidlaw said in his e-mail to Riomhaire. Who knows - maybe the reason you don't see headcrabbed Vortigaunts is because the headcrabs evolved to feed on humanoid creatures with a similar biological makeup to us on their own world.

-Angry Lawyer
 
Damnit, I dont care if it makes sense or not, I want headcrabbed Vortigaunts. ;)
 
I want a headcrabbed Riomhaire! :P That'll teach you Vortigaunts for uprising!

-Angry Lawyer
 
Angry Lawyer said:
I want a headcrabbed Riomhaire! :P That'll teach you Vortigaunts for uprising!

-Angry Lawyer
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I'm hang you up again!
 
i think you guys are just reading a bit too much into what is a clever gameplay device mixed with some alien movie influences. nothing more nothing less.
 
Yeah, we are. But I have nothing better to do with my time - it destresses me from coding.

-Angry Lawyer
 
I bet the head crab kills the mawman then scans it's brain and gets all the infomaiton it can get to crontroll the new body. With this it gets other bits of IQ like talking, throwing things, but not coretly sence its new to humans.
 
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