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anti-tank mines that jump up and explode.
Well, I actually liked the fight, and perhaps it did make it more interesting than just blasting them with rockets. It was just something to talk about, really. :naughty:
New flashlight. New shotgun troops. Valve seem to be getting fond of this.It blew my mind to know that VALVe opted for a plothole for gameplay purposes.
The rocket doesn't make sense. It has no maneuvering jets or flaps. How does it maneuver so well?
Residual dark-energyness.Oh...how come in HL2 the grav gun didn't instantly smash crates with the primary fire but in the expansions they do?
The rocket doesn't make sense. It has no maneuvering jets or flaps. How does it maneuver so well?
bouncing-betty mines ftw
Ask the G-Man.
Just for the sake of discussion.
So he invents this thing, which we have to assume uses considerable resources, with no clear way to propel it? What's more, it's apparently useless against anything but striders? It doesn't occur to anyone that they might be better served making a modified RPG?
They can't exploit any of the striders weaknesses? Yes they are wicked cool but they are slow, easy targets on spindly legs. Dig pits. Mine the area. Turrets. They've got the tech to build a helicopter, how many would it take? 2? Striders have no defense against an airborne attack.
Instead the fate of the world hinges on launching mines with the gravity gun (only one exists, good thing Gordan showed up!) and instead of even having a proximity fuse or something the mines MUST BE SHOT afterwards!!
Of course, when you're dealing with the combine, you don't have to be smart. Despite beating all of humanity in mere days, they do not grasp the concept of bombing, or missiles, or massed assault.
Joe (Combine soldier, former human): You wanted to see me, Exalted Ones?
Advisor: Yes. We see you humans have large amounts of these big rocket looking things. What are they?
Joe: Uh, rockets.
Advisor: Hmm. These over here are marked as 'nuclear'. Do they explode?
Joe: Uh, affirmative. They would easily wipe out, say, a rebel base. Or a city.
Advisor: Hmm. Dismissed.
Advisor 2: Did you understand anything he said?
Advisor: No, I just heard staticky radio sqwaking.
Advisor 2: We should have asked that Breen guy.
Advisor: Oh well. We'll just load them up with headcrabs like the others.
I think you do not understand the gravity and the urgency of the situation-
By losing the Citadel, the combine were in many way screwed- It is possible they had a whole array of super mega death beams of mass destruction, all rendered unusable by the destruction of the core in city 17.
Also, remember that at the beginning of the game ALyx talks about the impossibility of launching the rocket when the combine was intact.
And the rebels didn't know the combine were attacking white forest until too late. The magnusson device was a project far from completion, maybe it was merely an idea he toyed with in his spare time- not something created with the express intent of guarding his rocket from an army of striders.
So, you must understand that both faction were desperate, and improvising. The combine were cut off from their own homeworld and with their whole city 17 power grid system turned off. The rebels didn't know what the **** until the strider showed up.
If it wasn't for the coincidence of Gordon (and his g-gun) being there just at the right moment, humanity would have been screwed.
The rocket doesn't make sense. It has no maneuvering jets or flaps. How does it maneuver so well?
Other things that doesn't make sense:
A Magnade doesn't detonate on impact when hitting a Strider, yet it does when it hits anything else.
The Hunters defuse the threat of the strider-buster by shooting their high velocity, super sharp exploding fletchettes at them to gently guide the highly volatile object down.
The Magnusson device is Bullsh*t it its best.
And second, do you honestly think you could just make a helicopter out of scraps? No, you can't. Its a similiar scenario to assuming you could build a super-computer out of rocks.
Does that helicopter look like a junkheap? No, it looks fresh from the factory.
Are you retarded? That russian Model is ancient, even in our age of discovery. You have to be idiotic to see that as "fresh out of the factory". Just look at the rust developing out of the front wind-sheild, and the rotor! They probably used a scrapped chassis and then modified it's exterior a little and basicly Re-invented the internal parts. Trust me, the resistance is extreamly resourceful and clever. I mean seriously, just have a glance at Dog: A growing child made that in times of little resource and hardship? An ordinary foot-soldeir probably knows the fundementals of quantum-mehcnics and could probably construct a super-computer out of common house-hold appliances.
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