hunter opening scene

[soulslicer]

just a small thread on how you would like the hunter opening scene to be:

this is my idea:

you and alyx stop your car as you meet an old abandened house in the middle of the forest. then, you explore, meeting a couple of zombies here and there and u go to a basement where there is a top window with a view of the ground lvl. then, a single hunter takes a look from there and u see more. they surround the house ect.ect.ect.

something like this:

 

[Rapstah]

Pointless thread.

 

[PimpinPenguin]

I don't know cause in Episode 1 they said they like to introduce new enemies in a calm environment suddenly having loads of them surround you does not sound right.

 

[Slug Advisor]

You get a sneek peek out of a building of some sort.
Then you see threee hunters and a strider blow away a rebel base and you'll have to fight them.

 

[Planetary]

Let's look at hopw other new enemies were introduced.

Soldiers?

Fighting zombies just outside ravenholm.

Sniper? Shooting zombies.

Antlion?

Seen from the big dock where you get the buggy.

Turrets?

Shooting at antlions, during 1st part of Nova Prospekt (The empty" bit)

Hoppers?

Well you get the picture....

 

[ríomhaire]

You'll probably first see hunters when you spy on a Combine convoy of troops.

 

[DarK3630]

Yea, no. You'll see them fight something else first before they surround you immediately...

 

[leib10]

Yea, no. You'll see them fight something else first before they surround you immediately...

That's the way Valve introduces new enemies. Rarely do you have to fight one when first encountering it (exceptions are the poison headcrab, poison zombie, and fast zombie).

 

[Asknoone]

That's the way Valve introduces new enemies. Rarely do you have to fight one when first encountering it (exceptions are the poison headcrab, poison zombie, and fast zombie).

You see the Fast Zombie before that, I'm sure. Running across the roof?

 

[AJ Rimmer]

You see the Fast Zombie before that, I'm sure. Running across the roof?

I'm sure there are some fast zombies on the burning spikes you see before you meet Father Grigori. Not alive ones... well, not moving ones.

 

[Silarn]

There are definitely a few glimpses of the fast zombies prior to fighting them. Technically you can say that for the poison zombies as well. The first time you see one is when you are slowly descending in that elevator. You still have to fight it, but at least you're given a little time to wonder.

But yeah. While Elites 'shot' at you (not to mention I'm pretty sure you glimpsed them at least once beforehand) in the combine portal at Nova Prospekt, this still counts as an introduction in my book since they can't actually hurt you.

One particular thing that does come to mind is the Antlion soldier/myrmidon. I mean, you kinda have the sense that SOMETHING is coming. It's a big open area with a number of crates and explosive barrels, after all, but you don't get to actually see it till you jump down and it starts charging at your shiny, orange posterior.

I suppose Valve didn't consider the headcrab variants important enough to preemptively introduce...

 

[Loke]

I'm sure there are some fast zombies on the burning spikes you see before you meet Father Grigori. Not alive ones... well, not moving ones.

Right before you climb up to the small shack, before the introduction to Ravenholm, and right after the door that Dog helped you through isn't there a dead fast zombie, without a headcrab on its face, lying there? At least that's the first time that I can remember when you see it.

EDIT: And WTFBBQ? For how long have you been a moderator AJ? Didn't notice. :|

 

[AJ Rimmer]

Right before you climb up to the small shack, before the introduction to Ravenholm, and right after the door that Dog helped you through isn't there a dead fast zombie, without a headcrab on its face, lying there? At least that's the first time that I can remember when you see it.

EDIT: And WTFBBQ? For how long have you been a moderator AJ? Didn't notice. :|

Oh yes that's true, in the bottom of the elevator shaft there is one. I think it's a torso only even.

And about a day.

 

[soulslicer]

as you climb the ladder in the very first ravenholm lvl after switching off the current to ladder, you slowly see a fast zombie walking by. amazing. all the way up on the rooftops.

 

[leib10]

You see the Fast Zombie before that, I'm sure. Running across the roof?

IIRC the first glimpse you had of a live fast zombie was the one running across the roof, and then a few seconds later one charges down at you from the rooftops and across that walkway. You might've seen a dead one (like at the bottom of the elevator shaft thing before you entered Ravenholm proper), but I'm pretty sure you see a live one and then have to fight it just a few seconds later.

I know for sure you don't get to see the poison headcrab and poison zombie from a distance before you have to fight them.

 

[Asknoone]

IIRC the first glimpse you had of a live fast zombie was the one running across the roof, and then a few seconds later one charges down at you from the rooftops and across that walkway. You might've seen a dead one (like at the bottom of the elevator shaft thing before you entered Ravenholm proper), but I'm pretty sure you see a live one and then have to fight it just a few seconds later.

Nah, you definitely see one in the first Ravenholm map. I remember from like, the very first time I played. I don't know where, but I remember it was somewhere near a Grigori encounter.

 

[leib10]

Maybe you're right. I remember Grigori shooting a Fast Headcrab above my head and it plopping down to my level, but I personally don't remember any Fast Zombies. Maybe I just never noticed them if they are there.

 

[soulslicer]

climb up that LADDER, and you see a fast zombie WALKING BY on the rooftops

 

[Asknoone]

And we're full of bullshit how?

 

[Silarn]

All things I mentioned while being as unspecific as possible...

 

[soulslicer]

edited, no i am full of bullshit, did not see the post there talking abt this..shit..