HL2 Explosives question.

[LandStander]

My Half-Life 2 is on the 360 so I don't have the means of searching the console or whatever it is that you PC guys do, but I was wondering if the damage from different explosives are uniform or if each one has a specific radius and force. To me it seems like the grenades from the MP-7 do the most damage usually killing all enemies anywhere near the impact area. The regular grenade seems like it kills only those who are directly on top or slightly to the side of the impact area but damages other units. The barrels (when launched by the GG) seem to only kill the one struck by it or enemies standing shoulder to shoulder with him. The gas cans seem to be the weakest with the smallest blast radius out of any other explosive.
So are there different levels of damage and area for the different explosives or am I seeing things?

 

[giant384]

eh it should be exact. grenades in real life can only do some much damage to you unless you arent right on top of it.

 

[Link]

There is different damage, and different sized areas of effect. Explosive barrels explosions are quite weak, the reason they always kill the npc you hit is because you do normal "impact" damage, the same as if you had chucked a regular barrel at them.

I don't know the figures, but my experience tells me that your right about mp-7 'nades being more powerfull than frags.

 

[Cavalry]

in a damage list
MP7 Nades
RPG
Barrels
nades
other explosives (tiny, short little containers from Ravenholm?)

 

[Surrogate]

It's quite strange that the grenades does not do higher damage to the surrounding area - they're sadly quite useless. Grenades used in reality is often frag grenades, and they tend to disable living organism very far from the explosion.

Discussed this some mates, why grenades on movies tend to explode with a lot of fire, giving the illusion that the explosion is the killer. We thought it may be because it looks prettier, and its a lot easier to watch than people getting ripped apart as can be seen in Saving Private Ryan for example. (Legs and arms get severed, guts spills out everywhere etc. - which is pretty true to life)

Explosive barrels should either kill by igniting and burning an opponent, or kill by the force of the explosion. But it would make sense that the radius is low, as there's little fragmentation - unless someone gets one of those barrel parts shot through them (Then again, there's alot of metal parts thats gonna start flying - simple pipebombs made for new years eve has killed people by fragmentation for example, and theres a lot less metal in those)

 

[AJ Rimmer]

Discussed this some mates, why grenades on movies tend to explode with a lot of fire, giving the illusion that the explosion is the killer. We thought it may be because it looks prettier, and its a lot easier to watch than people getting ripped apart as can be seen in Saving Private Ryan for example. (Legs and arms get severed, guts spills out everywhere etc. - which is pretty true to life

Probably that, but also cause a real grenade detonating wouldn't be very easy to convey, visually. I'm not sure what that would look like, but I'm guessing alot of people in the theatres would go "What happened? Why did that guy get a chunk of his head blown off all of a sudden?"
A fireball is easy to understand = something just 'sploded.

 

[kineaesth]

Probably that, but also cause a real grenade detonating wouldn't be very easy to convey, visually. I'm not sure what that would look like, but I'm guessing alot of people in the theatres would go "What happened? Why did that guy get a chunk of his head blown off all of a sudden?"
A fireball is easy to understand = something just 'sploded.

Yes, but it annoys me in, for example, Sin City, when the grenade thrown by the awesome Irish dude lands right next to Clive Owen's character Dwight, and it's just flame, no shrapnel or nothing.

 

[LandStander]

A grenade in real life quakes the surrounding ground around it almost like a mini shock wave. In the middle is a very small explosion and a smoke cloud.

 

[Iron_cube]

RPG is the strongest one.

Explosive barrel is the same as the regular frag nade.