Strider Battlefield Video Comparison

[Lobster]

Hi - for those of you who downloaded the big ass fileplanet video, you will know the strider video appears twice but in 2 different play throughs, although the scene is essentialy the same piece of action, the ai physics gameplay etc all work out differently.

In the first movie the strider comes right up to the small group of resistance at the start and uses its rear leg independently to kick a car wreck and send it flying, it then does the same with an APC sending it crashing down in front of gordon, he then manages to take two strider blasts under the pillars before dying.

In the second movie the resistance manage to get a few rocket hits on the strider and it doesnt come as close as before, and gordon uses the car wreck for cover , with the door flying about under the gunfire, he then makes it through the pillars as a low walking strider goes past, and later dies in a muddy ditch.

Just from 2 short movies of the same thing its easy to see how different the gameplay is gonna be each time and for each person.

 

[Apos]

Just from 2 short movies of the same thing its easy to see how different the gameplay is gonna be each time and for each person.

Yeah, except, apparently, you're gonna get your arse kicked no matter what.

 

[Lobster]

lol More ways to die, More reasons to live, at least it will pose a challenge!

 

[hinson]

Invincible striders?

 

[A.I.]

Invincible striders?

Gordon, run for your life!!! :E

 

[fuzzy_aus]

Yeah, they can sure take a beating. Maybe we need to physics kill them....star wars style, get some rope around those legs

 

[Dead-Inside]

Yeah, they can sure take a beating. Maybe we need to physics kill them....star wars style, get some rope around those legs

My idea was that you'd use the Manipulator on his legs to simply pull them to the side, thus the creature would collapse. Ropes would work too

I don't think you'd be able to beat one for a very long time in the game, they're probably supposed to be "The invinsible enemy -- Run" until a certain point in the game, no doubt.

 

[aohus]

yeah the 2 different strider scenarios seem cool. but i think the best scene was when he was in that hover craft

 

[jonnyapps]

I anticipate hours and hours of 'running and hiding' from striders but goddamit if i can't wait for the moment when i pick up the 'anti-goddam-strider' gun

 

[fuzzy_aus]

I remember in a very old IGN preview with VALVe about HL2(like when the game was first announced) they said that the strider got taken down with a few shotty hits to the stomach.