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I don't know how to do the 'spoiler' highlight box, so i'll warn you all now - Do NOT read this if you haven't seen the screenshots, and do NOT read this if you don't want a certain surprise slightly spoiled for you.
Thank you, now i will continue...



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In the graveyard pic, i've seen people reffering to that creature as some kind of mystery monster... but i've figured out what it is! (I hope i'm the first, i don't want this post to look dumb :E )

The weird leaping monster is a headcrabbed corpse!

Take a look, it's little legs are crossed over at the front, and it's definately a corpse... check out the bones and rotting flesh =) And not to mention the fact that it's in a graveyard :rolling:

Pretty freaky eh? They don't give up, the little suckers!
 
Nice work dude. It never occurred to me but it makes perfect sense!
:bounce:
 
[sarcasm]What a great analysis of a high res picture, it's sooo very hard to see eh? [/sarcasm]

:P

But yeah, it's a headcrab on a corpse, pretty obvious. Looks cool though, and creepy.
 
I thought it was obvious.

I do find it quite strange how the headcrab can bind with and control dead flesh (not that theres even much of it left), maybe they can reanimate it?
 
There will be some people here that no exactly what it is. Please remember our rules on beta discussion.

I added the spoiler tags for you Plug.

You just need to type
like that then when you're finished type it again but [/ spoiler] (without the space)
 
You ain't the first, though well done. Check the last few posts in the speculation thread "New Headcrab species"...

I guess that, for the crabs in question, parasitising a corpse is the equivalent of settling for a clapped-out Yugo, instead of getting something new with a shiny exterior...
 
Wow, very nice find dude, that diddn't occour to me at all! looked like one of those shooting alien things in HL1 right before you teleported to Xen.
 
Chris_D, thoose spiecies is not in the beta version of HL2. :-)
 
May be it was so obvious that nobody bothered to start a new discussion, but then again someone has to... ;)
 
If this is the next stage of mutation, I wonder if we'll find out what the further stages are... even the final ones, possibly.
 
Headcrabs jumping off bodies and reanimation is cool and all, but I want to see realt-ime, unscripted Heabcrabbing of humans. I know it's a little much to ask, but it would be soooo cool! :D
 
Abom said:
If this is the next stage of mutation, I wonder if we'll find out what the further stages are... even the final ones, possibly.
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I doubt it though, the scene is in a graveyard after all.
Hopefully we will get to see the various stages of mutation.
I don't know if the mutation stages will coinide with Op For, but the...Hmmm...forgot it's name.

Anyway, it was that damn big Zombie. Started with a G.
 
GhostValkyrie said:
I doubt it though, the scene is in a graveyard after all.
Hopefully we will get to see the various stages of mutation. I
I don't know if the games stages will coinide with Op For, but the...Hmmm...forgot it's name.

Anyway, it was that damn big Zombie. Started with a G.
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Gonome or something.
 
I'm just thinking that they're a further stage of mutation because of the way they appear to move. We've seen that the first stage creates a slow, lumbering monster, but these are fast and jumpy... like they've evolved to do it.
 
Abom said:
Gonome or something.
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Yes, that's right.
Hmmm...I thought it was something like that, but didn't think it would be so simplistic. Looking back, Gearbox is dumb for naming it that. Might as well have called it a gnome.
 
Sounds better than "Fast Zombie" or "Damn Big Zombie"...

Actually... "Damn Big Zombie" does have a certain ring to it...
 
Lmfao!

Hmmmm... have we struck something?

I certainly know that my cousins become somewhat like zombies when watching that particular show...

Gotta love the "Half an hour happens over three days" vibe, though...
 
Abom said:
I'm just thinking that they're a further stage of mutation because of the way they appear to move. We've seen that the first stage creates a slow, lumbering monster, but these are fast and jumpy... like they've evolved to do it.
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thats what ive been thinking. of course, they probably just attached onto a corpse, but if thats the case wouldnt you expect them to have some sort of trade off for having an inferior body? these ones look like theyll be more dangerous than a normal zombie.
 
kaf11 said:
thats what ive been thinking. of course, they probably just attached onto a corpse, but if thats the case wouldnt you expect them to have some sort of trade off for having an inferior body? these ones look like theyll be more dangerous than a normal zombie.
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Yeah, my thoughts as well - surely 'alive' hosts would run, jump etc. as opposed to corpses. Maybe it's something to do with control of the brain, that someone alive may still try to fight the headcrab's control over them, but a dead person has their brain on total offer, no resistance against using it at all.

Perhaps.
 
or maybe its a different species of headcrab (probbally already mentioned hehe)
 
They're probably aware on some level that they have less to lose and more to gain. Headcrab recklessness?

Plus they'd weigh less, I guess...
 
as I stated in the "new zombie" thread

I believe the headcrab may use the host as fuel (obviously) but only need the framework of the human body (skeletal structure) so that it can reach its next level of mutation.

who says the muscles etc on that new zombie werent "grown" by the headcrab...
take a little closer look... they dont really look human.
 
Things that are decrepit and decaying usually don't look that human, anyway...
 
Most of the time its the brain that stops a body working when you die...so if the headcrab takes over the basic functions of that...such as movement then it would be alright. Although im not sure how they would move very fast without blood moving around the body (Hence why the slow moving zombie is a good one)
 
Yes. They take over their host's nervous systems, controlling the body like a puppet... then mutating it...
 
Yes, it takes control of it's victim's body/nervous system.

*edit* bah he got to it first.
 
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