Old Enemies, New Abilities?

[alan8325]

With enemies from Half-Life returning, what new abilities if any, do you think they will have in Half-Life 2?

Personally, I think most enemies will have the ability to throw physics objects at you, with very large enemies able to throw larger objects. For example, the Gargantua will probably throw cars and other large objects. Also, the Garg will probably have improved flame effects to be more like real flame throwers with the ability to set things on fire.

It was said by some Valve employee that NPC's can now climb ladders, crouch, and jump. Hopefully this applies to enemies too that will be able to follow you anywhere you go.

 

[Rocketman9mm]

the zombies and headcrabs are back. and the headcrabs will be able to detach from the zombies if they die in a certain way from the vids they've released.

 

[TheRedqueen]

There isn't a garg.

 

[W4E]

There isn't a garg.

How do you know?

 

[Brian Damage]

There are Vortigaunts, so the way I see it, there's every chance that we'll see Controllers, Grunts and even a Garg or two at some point. The Garg was one of the coolest enemies from the original game, I'm sure VALVe wouldn't miss letting us see one, at least, even if we don't get to interact with it...

 

[Mechagodzilla]

I dunno if the garg is back. They were more like Nihilanth's allies. I'd guess they went down with the ship.

The zombies are the only HL1 enemy we've seen in action in HL2, and they have a lot of new abilities.
The headcrabs jumping off the bodies was mentioned, and also the zombies have the ability to survive being cut in half and they can kick and/or toss barrels at things.

The vortigaunt has been shown too, but only very briefly. One thing I noticed was that thier leg structure has been changed quite a bit. They might be able to run faster or jump now. And there's that blue beam, but no-one knows if it was being generated by the vortigaunt or by the machine it was in front of.

 

[C-O-N-Spiracy]

What were those chick assassins all in black that were really fast and shot at you with suppressed pistols? were they part of the military or why were they in there?
just a Q'...

 

[Mechagodzilla]

They were part of the black ops team that was sent in to over up the events at black mesa.
Basically, their job was to kill everything, including the marines.

They probably work for the US government. I'm about 95% sure of that.

 

[Asknoone]

Well Lombardi said the vortigaunts are a major ally, i cant wait to kick ass with former enemies!

 

[halflifeguy]

wut is a garg? wut part in hl is it from?

 

[Brian Damage]

The Gargs are the big blue creatures with the flamethrower arms and seismic-wave stomp.

 

[eber]

gabe newell said that half of the half-life1 aliens will be back. there were 14 diffrent alien types in hl1. half of that is 7, now look which aliens are already confirmed to come back: vortigaunt, barncle, headcrab, zombie, bullsquid, ichtyosaur. now 1 isnt confirmed by now, but im pretty sure it will be the houndeye !

 

[chimpmunk]

or nihilianth...

 

[we11er]

lol yeah nihilanth THE RETURN!