How do you think...

[Quek]

How do the headcrabs duplicate? My theory is, that when a headcrab jumps on a person, it fertilizez that person, and a new headcrab gets out through that persons' stomach(if you look at a zombie from close, its stomach is ripped off.

 

[kupocake]

How do the headcrabs duplicate? My theory is, that when a headcrab jumps on a person, it fertilizez that person, and a new headcrab gets out through that persons' stomach(if you look at a zombie from close, its stomach is ripped off.

Possible. I think Fox would want their property rights stamped on the gamebox though.

 

[FireCrack]

Gonarch

 

[Quek]

Gonarch

what means 'gonarch"

 

[kupocake]

what means 'gonarch"

He's referring to the "Big Momma" headcrab from HL1. You know, the gigantic scrotum beast from Xen that shoots out little baby headcrabs. That thing is how Headcrabs are made.

 

[Duncan]

Possible. I think Fox would want their property rights stamped on the gamebox though.

Or Dan O''Bannon

/scurries to read DVD box

...or Ronald Shusett

 

[sfc_hoot]

Headcrabs are created by the Gonarch, I don't think they can breed amongst theirselves (so only the Gonarch can create them). Since Freeman killed the Gonarch, this means that there will be a huge lack of headcrabs on Xen. Of course, there might be other Gonarches, but they would be extremely rare, as very few headcrabs ever reach the Gonarch stage (Raising the Bar).

The headcrabs on Earth are being used as biological weapons by the Combine to destroy major resistance points (e.g. Ravenholm). The Combine would somehow have to mass-produce/replicate the headcrabs they have, since I don't think they have a farmyard full of enslaved Gonarches under their command.

 

[Bing_Oh]

I seem to recall a pic of a development map that showed a Combine headcrab breeding facility where they had the "sac" from a gonarch. While the idea never made the final game, that doesn't rule out the possibility...

 

[Pai-Mei]

...since I don't think they have a farmyard full of enslaved Gonarches under their command.

If they did, I think that airlifting a single Gonarch into Ravenholm woulda done the trick. You know... I'd like to see Gonarch vs. Dog. I'm sure Dog would win, but I'd like to see it happen.

 

[Asknoone]

I seem to recall a pic of a development map that showed a Combine headcrab breeding facility where they had the "sac" from a gonarch. While the idea never made the final game, that doesn't rule out the possibility...

Indeed, it was going to be used. Although i have never seen the map, only the gonarch sac...any link?

 

[THE MiNT]

The headcrabs on Earth are being used as biological weapons by the Combine to destroy major resistance points (e.g. Ravenholm). The Combine would somehow have to mass-produce/replicate the headcrabs they have, since I don't think they have a farmyard full of enslaved Gonarches under their command.

It cant be made by Gonarches as there comblete diffrent from normal haedcrabs ie Normal Zombies evolve into Gnomes and the 2 other crabs r combine exberiments. So i think there cloned like the soldiers, striders and those big flying bug things

They wouldnt use Gonarchs in battle as there 2 hard to kill

 

[Pai-Mei]

It cant be made by Gonarches as there comblete diffrent from normal haedcrabs ie Normal Zombies evolve into Gnomes

Heh... so THAT's where these guys came from

I think the word you're looking for, THE MINT, is GONOME.

I think most people will simply flame you for even TRYING to bring in Opposing Force evidence into the rest of the Half-Life saga.

Although you bring up a valid point... why don't the Ravenholm Zombies evolve into Gonomes?

You'll find that most people around here (myself included) do not accept Opposing Force or Blue Shift to be true Half-Life story, as it was Gearbox who developed it, not Valve. And I think the fact that there are no Gonome's in Ravenholm simply pushes this point even further.

They wouldnt use Gonarchs in battle as there 2 hard to kill.

Yeah, not to mention that I think the loyalty of a Gonarch would be "shaky" at best.

 

[FireCrack]

^well, gergori's mad rampage could be a reason for no gonomes.

anyways, even though it says very few headcrabs evolve into gonarchs there are millions of headcrabs. This is on the same scale of "Verry few bees are queens"


And another reason for lack of gonomes could be that the combine headcrabs are poisened to die out after a while.

 

[sfc_hoot]

It cant be made by Gonarches as there comblete diffrent from normal haedcrabs ie Normal Zombies evolve into Gnomes and the 2 other crabs r combine exberiments. So i think there cloned like the soldiers, striders and those big flying bug things

You're missing the point. I was joking when I mentioned the whole Combine-Gonarch-Farm thing. If you played HL1, you'd see that Headcrabs come from the Gonarch, so the headcrabs that the Combine shoot out must be replicated from other headcrabs. Don't know about the fast and poison ones though, and there are no Gonomes, as they're a Gearbox creation. Read my post above again. I've explained my headcrab theory there, and please do something about your grammar. Try breaking your posts up into sentences for starters.

They wouldnt use Gonarchs in battle as there 2 hard to kill.

Yeah, and during the 7 Hours War, the Combine wouldn't send in any Striders either, because they'd be too hard to kill. Instead, they'll attack Earth with the Three Little Pigs.

 

[Planeforger]

Indeed, it was going to be used. Although i have never seen the map, only the gonarch sac...any link?

I think i remember this map from the Final Hours of Half-Life 2 on Gamespot.

Yeah, and during the 7 Hours War, the Combine wouldn't send in any Striders either, because they'd be too hard to kill. Instead, they'll attack Earth with the Three Little Pigs.

He means that Gonarchs are to hard for the Combine to kill; they wouldn't be able to control Gonarchs, and if the Gonarchs turned on them they could do a lot of damage.

 

[sfc_hoot]

He means that Gonarchs are to hard for the Combine to kill; they wouldn't be able to control Gonarchs, and if the Gonarchs turned on them they could do a lot of damage.

By "they", I think he's referring to the Combine. So "The Combine wouldn't use Gonarchs in battle as they're too hard to kill." That to me sounds like the Combine would be refusing to use the Gonarches because their enemies (e.g. Resistance) would have a hell of a time killing them (which is a good thing for the Combine). Guess you could see it your way too. Semantics.

EDIT: How do you pronounce Gonarch anyway? Is it Gonarch (as in chameleon) or Gonarch (as in church).

 

[CREMATOR666]

Actually, didn't we killed her already in HL1? :hmph:

 

[Pai-Mei]

How do you pronounce Gonarch anyway? Is it Gonarch (as in chameleon) or Gonarch (as in church).

I always thought it was pronounced

gahn-ark

 

[Great Grizzly]

Actually, didn't we killed her already in HL1? :hmph:

Theres many more big mamas

 

[Asknoone]

Gone - Ark

Thats how i pronounce it.

 

[ríomhaire]

I looked up gon-arch in www.dictionary.com
GON:
1) A figure having a specified kind or number of angles (NO)
2) Sexual; reproductive (BINGO)
ARCH:
1) A curve (NO)
2) Ruler; leader; chief; principal (BINGO)
So gonarch means a reproducing ruler (or a curve with a specified number of angles)

 

[FireCrack]

Funny thing is that the curve one works from a polymodel point of view. Curves in 3d have a specified number of angles (becasue a perfectly somooth curve cant be made)

 

[sfc_hoot]

Nice find, ríomhaire. :thumbs: Looks like Valve actually put effort into the naming of their creatures.

Anyway, back to the pronounciation. I'd pronounce it: "go-nark".

 

[bboymatty]

id like to know how the original gonarch came into exsistence, maybe u have to fertilize a headcrab or something? lol

headcrab porn, awesome!