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I was looking at the zombie screenshots and I had to think.

Anyone remember the zombies in OpFo? You had your normal former Scientist zombies, you had some zombies dressed like the Special Forces, and then you had the occasional almost super-zombie that was a Spec Forces guy that could shoot acid at you and charge at you.

Theory on that was the headcrab had more time to "convert" the host into a better zombie.

Think they'll do that again?
 
Maybe. I don't think so, there seems to be only one type of zombie.
 
Well yeah there's already that super zombie that pounces on you in traptown or ravenholm (can't remember which bink). I'm sure there will be a few variants :)

Edit: This guy!
 
Pauly said:
Maybe. I don't think so, there seems to be only one type of zombie.
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man how the hell would you know... how the hell would anyone know?
 
I think there'll be more than one type. That would be quite boring if they all looked exactly the same ;)
 
Yeah first time I seen that zombie in OpFor I crapped my pants. :(
 
CB | Para said:
Well yeah there's already that super zombie that pounces on you in traptown or ravenholm (can't remember which bink). I'm sure there will be a few variants :)

Edit: This guy!
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yep, they are dogs with headcrab :D
 
Octavian said:
I was looking at the zombie screenshots and I had to think.

Anyone remember the zombies in OpFo? You had your normal former Scientist zombies, you had some zombies dressed like the Special Forces, and then you had the occasional almost super-zombie that was a Spec Forces guy that could shoot acid at you and charge at you.

Theory on that was the headcrab had more time to "convert" the host into a better zombie.

Think they'll do that again?
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There should be several variants of zombies, other than the fast zombies. It would probably be safe to expect zombie rebels, zombie metrocops, and zombie soldiers.

What would happen if a Strider gets headcrabbed?
:eek:
 
Opforce was great. Mp to, cant believe it died :/
 
well striders are supposbly not living creatures, but organic vehicles or something. also, i dnt think those are dog zombies becuase they have hands and feet like normal humans do. it wuld b cool if headcrabs could attach itself 2 any animal big enough though, imagine a level in hl2 in a headcrab infested zoo where all tha animals have been converted 2 zombie form! that wuld b sick
 
Well more types of headcrabs leads to more types of zombies.

There will be a variety of different clothings for each zombie. (More realistic and cool)

Those screams sound all too real. But they kick!
 
I wonder if you will see ppl transform from normal person into zombie.
Now that would be sweet! :)
 
So far we've seen screenshots of two sorts of crab
(and a slightly unofficial video of at least one more)
and two sorts of zombie to correspond to each of those crabs.

The normal crabs seem to mutate people into Mawmen, also known as zombies, and then, if OP4 is anything to go by, they further mutate their hosts into Gonomes. We don't know any further than that...

The new type we see in the "fast zombie" screenshot is a slimmer yellower crab with a rounder body, which looks to me to have hijacked a corpse somehow (a human corpse, dogs don't have hands). Some people have been calling this one the "Deadcrab"...
 
Some_God said:
A Strider is a machine... :|
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I think it's a biomech. But that doesn't matter seeing as its nerval system would probably be too alien for the headcrab to take control of it.
 
Well, that PCGameplay mag said they were, but I've never seen a dog with hands or humanoid legs before... in real life, anyway.

And I dunno about the nervous system being to "alien", Rimmer... the headcrabs must have been able to parisitize something on their homeworld, before they met humans... so they'd have to be pretty good at adapting to different nervous systems.

I reckon the bigger problem for a headcrab would be figuring out where the hell the Strider keeps its brain...
 
Brian Damage said:
Well, that PCGameplay mag said they were, but I've never seen a dog with hands or humanoid legs before... in real life, anyway.

And I dunno about the nervous system being to "alien", Rimmer... the headcrabs must have been able to parisitize something on their homeworld, before they met humans... so they'd have to be pretty good at adapting to different nervous systems.

I reckon the bigger problem for a headcrab would be figuring out where the hell the Strider keeps its brain...
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Yes but they never had to enslave something with mechanical parts in it before. Supposedly the Strider's brain would be partly artificial which would make it incompatible.
 
rimmer ur insight into the working of the heacrab is quite fascinating :D
 
ukfluke said:
rimmer ur insight into the working of the heacrab is quite fascinating :D
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Well you know, having one attached to your head really helps...



I mean uhm... Uhhhhhhhhhhh... brains...
 
Remember the zombies in hl had strange long hands and fingers - not the human ones but alien ones. So perhaps this happened to the dogs, if they are in fact dogs?
 
Rimmer: Well, if it was an artificial additon to the Strider's brain, it'd probably be under the control of the original organic part. If, however, it's naturally grown circuitry, the headcrab could have difficulty.

we11er: Maybe, but I reckon that'd make it difficult for them to move that fast, and their ribcages also look more like humans than dogs. We're also talking about a different kind of headcrab here, so we don't know what effect it has on the body (which seems to already be at least partially dead).
 
And the fact that you meet them in a Graveyard is probably meant to be clue.
 
Guys remember how IGN mentioned the flying headcrab? I assume it would make a flying zombie too?
 
Kouler said:
Guys remember how IGN mentioned the flying headcrab? I assume it would make a flying zombie too?
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"Look up there! In the sky! It's a bird! It's an airplane!
No! It's a zo- Arggh! Uehh! Ahhh! Help! Oh dear god help me! Get that claw out of my throat! Ahhhhh!!!"
 
I dunno what the flying headcrab would look like... they all look too dumpy to have given rise to a flying variety...

Could IGN have mistaken the manhacks for a fluttery, flying headcrab? I remember a couple of people mistaking them for insects, waaay back...
 
Perhaps they are named zombie dogs because their gait is similar to a dog's. They are about human size.
 
Grey Fox said:
Here you can read about the life of a headcrab and how they muted an all http://website.lineone.net/~wingerden/xenlife.htm
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I don't agree with the part about tentacles at all.

The tentacles in Half-Life were meant to be part of a larger creature. The scientist says "Destroy the damn thing before it grows any larger". This means it was one creature. It was hiding under the sand (in Surface Tension) or hiding underneath a Xen platform (in Interloper).

EDIT: And the headcrab thing is likely to be wrong. A zombie becomes a Gonarch eventually? I doubt it. Gonarches have more in common with unattached headcrabs than Zombies.
 
Feath said:
I don't agree with the part about tentacles at all.

The tentacles in Half-Life were meant to be part of a larger creature. The scientist says "Destroy the damn thing before it grows any larger". This means it was one creature. It was hiding under the sand (in Surface Tension) or hiding underneath a Xen platform (in Interloper).

EDIT: And the headcrab thing is likely to be wrong. A zombie becomes a Gonarch eventually? I doubt it. Gonarches have more in common with unattached headcrabs than Zombies.
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You know, I always thought the rocket test lab was one of the more carefully planned creatures, it is obviously a plant, it grows larger, longer etc, it has roots that go through the ground, into water and there it gets nutrients from its dead victims. Also, there was radiation spillage but I don't know about that, maybe that's why it was able to attach itself there without many nutrients to start with.
 
The_Monkey said:
There were Security Guard-zombies too.
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Yeah, they were bold, fat and ate donuts. ;)
barney.jpg
 
AJ Rimmer said:
You know, I always thought the rocket test lab was one of the more carefully planned creatures, it is obviously a plant, it grows larger, longer etc, it has roots that go through the ground, into water and there it gets nutrients from its dead victims. Also, there was radiation spillage but I don't know about that, maybe that's why it was able to attach itself there without many nutrients to start with.
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What roots?
 
Feath said:
What roots?
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Roots which plants have, I suppose the whole darn thing except the head could be called a root but I'm assuming it's got some way of absorbing nurishment, presumably from underneath where it seemed to take that scientist and where all the dead Barney's were. Where you first got the magnum remember?
 
AJ Rimmer said:
Roots which plants have, I suppose the whole darn thing except the head could be called a root but I'm assuming it's got some way of absorbing nurishment, presumably from underneath where it seemed to take that scientist and where all the dead Barney's were. Where you first got the magnum remember?
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I said that I thought they were part of a larger creature, and it took the scientist to where its mouth is.
 
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