), then to the Gonarch from there...by some means. I'm pretty sure those things aren't maturing Gonarchs.Hah, you are suggesting that those big plants are turning into Gonarchs? Well we know the Gonarch gives birth to baby headcrabs, which mature into the normal ones, find a host - zombie, then turn into the big powerful running zombies (i wish i could remember their name
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anyone seen that xen fauna in hl1 that looks like a large headcrab stretching out its legs into the ground? I know headcrab/gonarch growth has been discussed before, but this wasnt mentioned. so anyway, I was thinking could this fauna be a headcrab growing into a gonarch? I'll get a screeny tomorrow and edit this post with it, I'm tired right now.
It's actually a flora, not a fauna.anyone seen that xen fauna in hl1 that looks like a large headcrab stretching out its legs into the ground? I know headcrab/gonarch growth has been discussed before, but this wasnt mentioned. so anyway, I was thinking could this fauna be a headcrab growing into a gonarch? I'll get a screeny tomorrow and edit this post with it, I'm tired right now.
Anything is a viable host for a headcrab. Anything with a nervous system. On Xen, vortigaunts are probably their main prey.
Yes, OpFor is considered canon. Are you asking how a gonome could survive on Xen? They'd survive quite a bit easier than a zombie would.
Other than that, don't know if there are any other catalysts involved...things like a certain area, certain temperature, a hibernation period...any of those or more factors could play a hand in it. I will say though that the mutation wouldn't (or rather, can't) go from gonome go from gonarch. There's at least one step between, and I'd say as many as four. The jump from gonome to gonarch is too great; a lot of physical changes have to occur before it gets to the final stage.I'm gonna say bacteria. The sound the pools make and the glowing light radiating from them make them seem mystical, but it's probably more something along the lines of bacteria cleaning out your wounds and accelerating your body's own healing (because I don't think they'd be stitching up your wounds themselves
). They might be like maggots, in a sense, which only feed off dead, rotted flesh; the bacteria might feed off of injuries and that sort of thing, if only because it'd be a bit silly to suggest there are pools of bacteria healing you out of kindness.It's actually a flora, not a fauna.
These are part of the plant life on Xen, maybe the only natural things to grow there (as all fauna was "imported" from other worlds). I've always called these trees "breathers," because of the large hole at the top of them that looks like its taking in air, or "lychees," because they look like a skinned lychee fruit. These plants are like a very large fungus. Although they have four stalks that look like legs, and their top looks similar in texture and color to a headcrab, it's just a coincidence. Gonarchs mutate from hosted headcrabs.
Anything is a viable host for a headcrab.[/B] Anything with a nervous system. On Xen, vortigaunts are probably their main prey.
Yes, OpFor is considered canon. Are you asking how a gonome could survive on Xen? They'd survive quite a bit easier than a zombie would.
) and as said by many before, Gearbox stuff should be taken with a pinch of salt (and besides, the do attack eachother in HL2, what stopped then attacking eachother before? Where headcrabs all controlled by Nihilanth ). It is so incredibly unlikly that headcrabs could have evolved the ability to take a host without ever having taken a host that if you asked God himself to give you the odds he wouldn't be able to figure them out with the help of Einstien, Newton and Aristotle. They must have some natural prey and the most likly candidate is Vortigaunts.
Headcrabs must be able to infest something else. You don't evolve a parasitic relationship with another organism when you've never seem that thing before. It just couldn't happen. And Vortigaunts are quite humanoid.
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