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As you know some new games(not released yet) are implementing new standards in physics, such as rigid body physics, soft bodies, clothes physics(no more overlapping/disappearing).
In short the games will recognize the fact that bodies have skeletons, and act accordingly, so to avoid rubber-like bodies that are currently in HL2.